It had been weeks since those God-awful days in Harmony.
Sam still did not talk to her much.
He was not angry he just was not happy they had almost lost Dean after all.
Dean was healing physically but mentally not so much. Axel had called to say that things had quieted down him and Sarah had put the word out that it was some weird copycat killer.
She was thankful for that more than she could ever express.
He had also said that it was best they not show there faces anytime soon.
Especially Dean.
He did after all look strikingly like Tommy.
That was the reason when she got the phone call from Sarah she did not to tell any one about it.
She had hoped to never see that place again.
Deep down she knew it was not over for her.
Jo, Sarah, Axel and herself had been the only survivors. Ghosts of the past haunted them.
So, she was not surprised at all when Sara asked for her help.
"What are you doing?" Bobby asked from her doorway.
"What does it look like?" She heard his frustrated growl.
"Look I have to go I'm meeting up with Jo we have some unfinished business to take care of." She said looking up at him.
She knows he can see the fear in her eyes.
Hell, she can feel it in her bones. But, she needs to do this.
"Ryce you just had your stitches removed." he said glaring at her from under his battered trucker hat. Everything he said was true.
"Don't do this at the least take the boys with you." He pleads.
His dark eyes shined he knew just as well as she did that she had to do this.
"No Uncle Bobby I need to do this without them. They can't help me on this one." No one can she added silently.
"Tell them I had something I needed to do just don't tell them what it is I'm doing."She said zipping up her duffle.
"What about your son?" He ground out.
"I'm half of the mom he need's right now because of this shit! I can't move on until it's done." She bit out.
"Yeah guess you do." He said grudgingly.
"Be careful out there baby doll we need you here." He said quietly as she hugged him to her.
"I will I promise. Look, I just wanted you to know that I love you. You have been more of a father to me than Jake Charleston ever was. And I love you more for it." She whispered as the tears stung her eyes.
She left him standing there.
And, she prayed to God that she would come home in one piece.
Sam had been demanding that she tell him what went down all those years ago.
So, she had more than one reason to come home safely. She relaxed a little when she felt the cool leather interior of her black '65 mustang.
"So it's you and me on the road again baby." She mumbled moving her hands over the steering wheel. She smiled big and wide when her baby roared to life. She was glad that Dean had badgered Sam into taking J.B. on a simple salt and burn.
She would be long gone before they ever thought of coming back to Bobby's.
Pulling out of the salvage yard she turned up the radio as Metallica's Wherever I May Roam came out of the speakers she sang along.
Her head bobbed as she sang in tune with the song. Feeling a lightness that she hadn't felt in so long.
This song should be the hunter's anthem. It kinda was in away. At least that is how she always felt.
She would meet up with Jo in Kentucky help her and Ellen with a salt and burn.
Then she and Jo could head off to Harmony to face down their demons. Well more like ghosts.
She felt her phone vibrate fishing it out of her pocket she looked at the caller id.
Sighing she flipped it open.
"What's up Bobby? They are well that's fast. Eh, what can I say tell them something anything? What do you want me to say I don't want them back in that town! And I defiantly don't want my son there." She glared out the windshield knowing he couldn't see it but not caring.
"Bobby you know what Dean is going through what he did when he was possessed not by one ghost but two for Christ sake! I want to spare them both. Look I gotta go I'm coming up to the state line." She sighed loudly. "Yeah I know I will, I heard that Bobby," She laughed he was always calling her and those Winchester boys that. "Well excuse me if this idjit has good hearing. Love you to I will call when I meet up with Jo and Ellen. No Ellen's not coming she knows about as much as you do. Yeah well we like to keep it that way."
She pursed her lips to keep from yelling at him.
He was only trying to protect her.
"Okay bye, yes I said I would didn't I."
She said hanging up. Geez mother hen much. She thought throwing the phone into the passenger seat.
Turning the radio back up she lost herself in the music as she drove down the road.
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Short beginning yes but there's more to come.
As they say something wicked this way blows.