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THE ROAD SO FAR...
The past two weeks had been absolute hell for the Winchester family.
On November 2, 1983, beloved wife and mother, Mary Winchester, had been killed, or rather, murdered—as her husband John would claim. Murdered by who or what he didn't know, but he was adamant that the fire was no accident. The official police report said that Mary died as a result of an electrical fault that triggered the fire. But John knew the truth—or at least part of it, even if no one else believed him: he had seen his wife burn alive on the ceiling of the nursery of his six-month-old son, put there by some unknown entity—her stomach eviscerated, staining her white nightgown scarlet. The second story of their home and half of their belongings had burned along with her, not that the loss of their personal belongings was of any consequence to John after losing his wife so suddenly and disturbingly.
During the fallout, when John was so grief-stricken he could barely function, he and his two sons, Sam and Dean, had stayed with his business partner Mike and his wife, Kate. Like everyone else, Mike thought that John was crazy when he told him what he saw the night that Mary died. Mike had told him he needed help, to go see a psychiatrist—but John refused; he knew what he had seen. He'd never went to any shrink after his tour in Vietnam, and he sure as hell wasn't going to now. He ended up selling his share of the garage to Mike, using the money to buy his small family some security—in the form of his own small armory of artillery.
Having refused to see a shrink, John sought the counsel of a different kind of specialist: a local psychic by the name of Missouri Mosely—the real thing. Having left his boys with Mary's best friend Julie, John had went to see Missouri, looking for answers. He had reluctantly returned with Missouri to the ruins of his home, where she was able to sense that something had been there, something truly evil—something that had killed Mary.
John returned to Missouri again, desperate for more answers. This time, a blood sacrifice had been required on his part. Missouri had held John's hands as they had a joint vision—where they saw, among other things, a wall with the words "WE'RE COMING FOR THE CHILDREN" written in blood.
John couldn't remember anything between seeing the writing on the wall and finding Sammy and Dean safe, practically crying with relief as he gathered his boys up in his arms. But Julie—something had ripped her to shreds. John knew they couldn't stay in Lawrence anymore. That same day, he packed up the boys and the meager possessions of their former life into the Impala and left Kansas, with no intention of ever looking back. There was nothing for them there anymore; it had stopped being home the moment they lost Mary. He doubted anywhere would ever feel like home again. Not without his wife. His Mary.
Still on his quest for the truth, John was now following a lead given to him by Fletcher Gable, a hunter he had met through Missouri. Fletcher had advised him to keep a journal and write down everything he learned about what was really out there in the dark, especially if he didn't want his sons to become orphans. John had shown Fletcher a large, curved tooth with strange engravings carved into it, which he had found in Julie's body. Fletcher had said he recognized the symbols from some cemetery gates in Eureka, California. So that's where John and the boys were headed. But when it was clear that Sammy and Dean couldn't handle another minute in the car, John had pulled into the first motel they saw with the vacancy sign lit up to find them some beds for the night.
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TBC
AN: Just a little opening chapter to get some of the exposition out of the way in the manner that the show does, so just imagine all of that in a cool clip show set to classic rock ;D
All the events here came straight from the first entry in John Winchester's Journal. I don't know how many fans have read it and are familiar with John's back story, but I find it both tragic and fascinating at the same time. Definitely worth a look into!
I've already finished writing this story (I never post WIP's for fears of updating one chapter but never finishing and leaving people hanging) so I'm posting it all in one go :)