Dean was still asleep when his phone rang. Sam answered it as quickly as he could. He didn't want Dean to wake up; he needed to sleep after what the djinn did to him.
"Yeah."
"Sam? Where are you boys?" Bobby's gruff voice greeted him.
"We're in Illinois…why?" Sam answered hesitantly.
"I went to one of your Dad's old lock ups and I found a file that I hadn't ever known about. Apparently your Dad kept tabs on this place called Manticore because they made a clone of Dean."
"What!" Sam looked over at Dean and paled with this information. He didn't want to wake Dean up, but he knew this was something his brother needed to know about. "Hold on," Sam said quickly as he walked over to Dean and shook his shoulder.
"Wha-" Dean grumbled into his pillow.
"Bobby's on the phone…he says you have a clone…" That managed to get Dean's attention and he sat up and reached for the phone. Sam gave it up and Dean put it on speaker.
"Hey Bobby, what's this about a clone?" Dean jumped right into it.
"I found a file of your Dad's on a clone of you. The file is on this kid…X5-494 is his designation. It looks like they were trainin' them to be some kind of super-soldier. He's got Dean's DNA and it looks like cat DNA mixed together. You wouldn't believe what this kid can do…" Bobby sounded almost sick with the information.
"What do you mean?" Sam breathed.
"He's an assassin and a damn good one at that. His last mission was to infect 'Eyes Only', whatever the hell that means, but it doesn't say if he completed the mission or not. I don't know if your Dad has more hidden somewhere else, or if that really was his last mission."
"Why didn't Dad ever tell us?" Dean muttered and Sam knew he was just thinking out loud.
"How did Dad even find out about this kid?" Sam asked louder.
"He was friends with this guy Lydecker who was in charge of the X5's. I don't know how he got the file though…but I guarantee he's the reason they had Dean's DNA," Bobby stated.
"Where is this kid?" Dean suddenly asked.
"Don't you idjits watch the news!?"
"We've been pretty busy Bobby," Sam said quietly; he couldn't stop seeing Dean strung up with his life slowly draining from him.
"There was some hostage situation at this messenger place in Seattle, Jam Pony or some nonsense, well anyway a bunch of these transgenics were involved…I don't know if he was there or not, but that's your best bet," Bobby answered.
Sam looked over at Dean and he nodded, they were going to Washington.
"I don't want you boys running out there and getting yourselves killed. I'm serious, this kid's dangerous," Bobby tried to warn, but Sam knew they were going whether the kid was dangerous or not.
"Bobby, we'll be careful," Sam promised.
"We just want to talk to the kid," Dean said with a smirk.
"I'm tellin' ya, I don't want you boys doing anything stupid, but call me when you find him." Sam smiled; he knew Bobby was just as curious as they were.
"Thanks Bobby," Dean said and then he hung up the phone.
Sam watched Dean closely to try and figure out what was going on through his head. When someone walked around wearing your face killing people, it was definitely personal.
"Dean, Bobby's right, we need to be careful. It sounds like this kid could easily kill us," Sam pleaded.
"I know. I just want to talk to the kid, find out what his story is. Who knows what happened at Manticore…" Dean stated.
"I just want you to be careful…I know this is personal."
