"Kevin! Don't you dare run into the veil, being dead is not an excuse for this behaviour young man!" screamed Linda Tran.
After her son was killed by Gadriel almost one year ago, being held hostage by the King of Hell and being saved by two men who had both been to hell, getting used to a life living with a ghost for a son was not out of the ordinary. However, she was not going to deal with his attitude under any circumstances.
"Mom, I am a grown man, you cannot tell me what I can and cannot do! I was a Prophet of the Lord for crying out loud!" a voice from behind Linda shouted.
Linda spun around to see her son Kevin shimmer into this world, looking pale and unearthly. She felt a pang of sadness as she remembered her son as a bright boy with hopes and dreams and a solid place at one of America's top Universities. All that was gone now.
She unconsciously raised her hand to the ring around her neck. The ring that was the thing keeping her son from disappearing from her. Not that he had anywhere to go, now that heaven was shut off and the war for ruling hell was going on below them. She closed her eyes briefly and sighed,
"Listen. I have been without you for long enough, and possibly not much longer if those two boys get heaven open for business again." she said.
"What makes you think I'll go to Heaven?" he asked.
She raised her eyebrows at him in disbelief,
"You think Crowley would dare take you, knowing we've got the Winchesters protecting us?"
"You never know with that son of a-"
Kevin was cut off mid sentence as the sound of phone ringing echoed through the house towards them. Just like that Kevin disappeared into a haze and reappeared not 5 seconds later with the still ringing phone in his hand, holding it out to his mother.
"Looks like those Winchesters made a mess again." Kevin said slyly with a half smile.
Linda felt a surge of excitement through her body and dropped her hand away from the ring around her neck and snatched the phone from her dead son's hand. She brushed through his hand slightly, to which Kevin sniggered. She was used to that now. She hit the answer button with force and turned away from her son,
"Hello, Jodie?"
"No, it's Krissy, Jodie is...a little indisposed at the moment." a voice said.
Linda's voice darkened,
"What do you mean 'indisposed'?"
With perfect timing, a crash could be heard down the line and a shout of victory, at least she hoped it was victory, that was unmistakably Jodie's.
"Oh, scrap that, she's coming." Krissy said. Linda let out a sigh of relief.
The sound of a phone being passed around echoed down the line, when a recognisable voice came through the phone. The voice was recognisable, but different. No one's quite the same after experiencing the endless tragedies that Sheriff Jodie Mills has had to experience. No one's experienced tragedy like Jodie Mills, full stop.
"Linda. Yeah, we have a situation up here. Did you hear about the monster families in Chicago? Of course you have, everyone has. Well it appears we've got some pretenders here in Sioux Falls, granted it's not Chicago but to quote the vamp I just ganked, 'We've all got to start somewhere'." a breathless Jodie Mills laughed.
"You're sounding more and more like the boys everyday, you know that Jodie?" Linda laughed in response.
"Is that a bad thing? They're damn good hunters, and hey, it might help to get into the mindset, you never know."
It had been 6 months since Jodie had joined forces with Linda to, as they put it 'Clean up the Winchester's messes' and 4 months since Krissy had run to Sioux Falls looking for the Winchester's for help and found Jodie instead.
"So, I'm assuming you've taken out all the vamps? Otherwise you wouldn't sound so calm." Linda said.
"Of course! What do you take me for? A pretender? Yeah, normally I wouldn't ring for something like this, I know you want to spend time with your son" Jodie said.
Linda heard a crack in her voice when she said 'Your son'. Losing her son the way Jodie did is enough to make anyone's voice crack. She decided to let it go.
"No, no that's fine. What's up?" Linda replied, trying to sound too excited. In all honesty Linda had been picking up the phone a lot recently, begging for it to ring. She needed to get out of the house. She loved her son, but sometimes even looking at him almost brought her to tears.
"Well, we need Kevin really." Jodie said carefully.
"What? Why?" Linda said protectively and in disbelief.
"Well, turns out we have a family here in Sioux Falls that Chicago doesn't have."
"What is it?" Linda asked, knowing very well what was coming next,
"Ghosts." Jodie replied.