Author's Note: This is my first story on here. Let me know what you think of the start I've made, and please review so I know how I'm doing. Also, any plot suggestions going forward would be great too. I have a few ideas though, so stick around for the rest of the story, as some very interesting things will happen to many of the characters.

Chapter 1: Profiling Spike

Dean had done his research, and just knew that he could trust Spike. Not that Dean had ever met Spike - he didn't even know much about him. Still, he trusted him - which is one of one of several interesting character traits he had, such as the instinct to run towards danger, not away from it. But not this time. He told himself that he had to get out and look after himself. Having run away from home and not being sure what to say to his father, whom he'd been estranged from for years, he needed a surefire way that would allow him to hang out for a while and work out what to say as well as the confidence to see him again after all these years.

Over the last two or three weeks, Dean had become seriously worried about his situation at home. At the beginning of the year, Dean was considering adopting his stepfather's surname and forgetting about his birth father completely. He thought that it would be for the best, considering that his father was an alcoholic and ruined the best part of his childhood. But now, things were changing fast. The same thing was happening to his stepfather and he had of course seen the consequences before. His stepfather lost his job, started drinking, started drinking a little bit more and had now got to the point where he was threatening to hurt Dean and his mother every time he got home from the pub. He knew full well where this could lead.

Dean ran away because he was scared that he was letting his mother down by leaving her there with that man, and didn't want to face her. He promised himself that he would get his mother out of danger, and his stepfather help. But he thought about the rule about oxygen masks on airplanes. Look after yourself first, before assisting those around you. He used this to reconcile his guilt, realising that he needed to make sure he was safe first before he could help them. He also knew he was being a little selfish, because he wanted to get out and be safe himself. So now, Dean was headed to Toronto, armed with a plane ticket and information on Team One of the SRU, which his father was now the Sargeant on. Dean figured that he had turned his life around since they last met. In fact, he was counting on this.

Wanting to be a cop when he grew up meant that Dean had done a lot of research on what being a police officer meant. He knew what the job involved, and wanted to do it anyway. One of the things he learnt from his research on the SRU in particular is the way that they profile subjects - how they try and learn about what their motivations are in order to understand what they will respond to during a negotiation. He'd looked at as much about Spike as he could find on the SRU website, as well as emailing Wordy who was a SRU officer whom he'd known before he left Toronto. Spike was the bomb tech. He had to be incredibly calm during the most tense situations imaginable. He also seemed to be the friendliest and most easy going of the Team. Plus, he didn't have three girls like Wordy did, and he'd just gotten a place of his own.

Dean wanted somewhere to go after he got to Toronto - and he thought that tracking down Spike was a good option. He'd explain that he was Sargeant Parker's son, and get him to help him talk to his father, or something. Too much time had passed, too much had changed and Dean didn't feel comfortable going straight to his father. If Spike told him to get lost, then he'd have to find another way. But for now, this was good.