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Chapter four
"Sam!" Dean called out. He was on the verge of panic. They had found and killed the Wendigo and still there was no sign of Sam.
"Look maybe we-." Jo had started to say but Dean cut her off.
"We are not leaving here without him," He said in a tone that stopped her in her tracks. She watched as he closed his eyes and she could see him trying to compose himself.
"Dean," Cass said softly. "I don't feel him down here. Perhaps we should try another way."
'Where could he have gone?' Jo wondered to herself. Her brow pulled together as she tried to make sense of things. Jess must be feeling the way her father was. "What if we switched?" Jo said out loud.
Dean and Cass looked at her with questioning expressions. "What?" Dean asked after a moment.
"What if I came back to this time, while he went forward to my time?" She clarified.
Dean made his 'great' look, as he took a deep breath in and let it out slowly. "Okay, I like this less and less every minute."
"She could have a point though. The only question is why?" Cass said. Dean looked at him as he looked at her. "Do you have any relations to the brothers?" Cass asked.
Crap. How was she supposed to answer that? Should she tell them the truth? Probably not. Couldn't that cause some kind of ripple effect that could ruin everything? "Yeah," She replied quickly. "I meet you guys through my dad. You guys become pretty close actually."
"Okay," Cass said before Dean could respond. "Look we should get to the bunker and regroup."
Dean seemed to think for a moment then sighed. "Fine, but we figure this crap out tomorrow." He looked at Jo. "And if I find out you are a threat in any way." He said not needing to go on.
Jo nodded. "Understood." She said not being able to stop the smile. She had heard this tone many time before. Usually not with those words but still.
"What are you smiling at?" He asked her breaking through her thoughts.
"Oh, nothing." She said shaking her head. "I guess you just are a lot like future you." She laughed at herself. "Which makes sense." She added. Wow she was totally going to blow this. She cleared her throat as she composed herself. "Right so we need to go to the bat cave." She said walking past them.
"The what?" Dean asked as Cass said. "Wrong way."
"It's what we called the bunker growing up." She smiled to herself. "It's what we still call it."
"I knew your dad enough to let him into the bunker?" Dean asked her like he didn't believe her.
She nodded. "Yeah both my dad and my cousins. You guys were real close." Jo smiled at Cass. "Even with you."
"This just gets better and better." Dean said sarcastically. "Well it is good to know that the bunker is still there in 2040." Dean said pointing over his shoulder. "The exit is this way."
"I just don't understand." Jess said the next day. They had gone back to the cave that morning and not only was there no sign of Jo or Cass, there was also no Wendigo.
"Is it possible Jo took care of it?" Sam asked.
Jess looked out the window of the car. "No, if she had she would have called me. She knows I would worry."
Sam sighed as he drove. "What if she went back to my time?" He said suddenly.
"Like you guys switched?" Jess asked looking over at him. "I guess it's possible. But that doesn't explain were Cass went or what happened to the wendigo. Unless it wasn't one. We were unsure it actually was one."
"Wait," Sam said interrupting her. "Your friend is Cass? Like Castiel?"
"U-um," Jess stuttered as she tried to think something up. "Yeah, see I know you. Well I know future you anyway. My dad is a friend of your dad so."
"Oh," Sam said. "Why didn't you mention it before?" He wanted to know.
"I guess I thought it would be weird to just blurt out. "Hi I am Jess. By the way I know you in the future." Jess said with a laugh.
"Yeah you're right." Sam said joining in.
"So Cass went missing and you two are trying to save him. Where are Dean and I?" Sam asked catching her off guard.
She looked away sadly. Out of the corner of her eye she could see him glancing at her. "What?" He asked her.
"You can't help Cass because." her voice broke causing her to pause.
"We're dead." Sam said in a tone that surprised her. She looked at him and was surprised to see that the news didn't seem to bother him.
"You don't seem upset, or surprised for that matter." Jess said.
Sam took a minute to answer. "I guess when you grow up in this life you accept the fact that you will most likely die young." He paused for a moment. "How long have you been a hunter?"
"For a little over a year" Jess answered. "My cousin has been one for almost three"
"She older?" Sam asked.
Jess laughed a little. "No actually I am. Only by like three hours but it should have been more. She was born preemie."
"Hmm." Sam said." So did her father know us too?"
"Yeah, he did. You guys met on a hunt." Jess lied.
"What got you started in the life? I mean if you have only been hunting for two and a half years I assume your father didn't take you with him when he hunted.
"That would be correct. He grew up in the life and he didn't want us to be stuck in it. Although hunting was slow up till a few years ago."
"Yeah it's slow back in my time too. It's eerie." Sam said then waited for her to answer the rest of his question.
"My dad and uncle died on a hunt." She paused as she tried to hold back the tears but try as she might a tear slid down her cheek. She wiped it away and really wished she could hug him. She knew he had no clue who she was but he was still her father. "Anyway Jo started the moment we turned eighteen. She left home and we didn't see her for a year." Jess ended with a sigh.
"I'm sorry for your loss." Sam said wishing there was something less cliché he could say.
Jess swallowed as she thought back to the moment life changed forever.
It had been just another Friday night with the family. She was doing homework at the kitchen table when the phone had rung. She could see her mom answer it from where she sat, but she could not hear the conversation.
After a few minutes She had come into the kitchen followed by Jo. "Was that dad?" Jess had asked. He and uncle Dean should have been home hours ago.
"It was Cass. He needs me for a while. I need you two to watch the kids." Her mom had answered in hushed tones.
"Aunt Emma is something wrong?" Jo asked.
"No, I will be back as soon as I can." She said giving them both a smile.
"You know they won't sleep till Dad and Uncle Sam get home." Jo said.
"I know. Just put on a movie and they might fall asleep on their own." She said before leaving from the kitchen door.
"Where's mommy going?" Mary asked Jess.
"She had to run an errand." Jess replied lifting her seven-year-old sister on to her lap.
"At this time of night?" Nine-year-old John asked.
Jo hugged her brother. "Why don't I put on a movie for you guys?" She asked them.
"Oh I wanna watch Harry Potter!" Mary said excitedly. She had watched that movie for the first time two weeks ago and had loved the classic sense.
Jo looked at John, who shrugged and said, "That sounds good to me."
Two hours later Jess and Jo knew something was wrong. There was no word from Their dads and no word from Emma. Cass called once to check in, but that was all. At this point Mary and John were also getting worried so Jess and Jo turned on music and had the kids coloring, while they cleaned the kitchen. They sang and danced to the music to keep the kids laughing. Every now and again the two would share worried glances as more and more time past.
Out of the corner of the corner of her eye she saw Cass appear and he motioned that they needed to talk. "Hey guys. Jess and I are going to clean the upstairs bathroom. You stay here okay?" She said, taking Jo's hand and leading her out of the kitchen and into her room where Cass was.
The moment they had seen Cass' face Jo squeezed Jess' hand. He looked away for a moment then looked back. "Your fathers. They are-missing."
Jo seemed to take a sigh of relief. "I thought you were going to tell us they were dead."
Cass looked down. "He is." Jess said, her voice breaking on 'is'.
"But he just said they are missing." Jo said looking from Jess to Cass. "Right?"
"We can't find evidence of their demise. But I can't sense them anywhere. No one can." Cass said softly.
"But, there's hope right? I mean we can't just give up." Jo said, her voice getting higher as she spoke.
"I haven't given up on the search." Cass looked away. He couldn't stand to see them hurt. "But I can't give you false hope. They are most likely gone." A tear fell down his cheek.
Jess closed her eyes. How could this be happening? "Is there anything?" She asked already knowing the answer.
"No." Cass said unable to hide the hurt from his voice.
Jess nodded. "Okay, Mom? Does she?"
"Yes, I called her away so I could tell her." He looked down again.
"No, no, no, no, no, no." Jo said pulling her hand away from Jess' "No." She said for the last time. "They can't be. This can't be."
"Jo," Jess said going to her and retaking her hand. Jo looked to Jess horrified. "The last thing." Was all Jo could say before she was taken over by the tears. Jess was unable to keep from crying herself as she hugged Jo close.
"You okay?" Sam asked pulling Jess from her thoughts. Jess looked over at him and realized she was crying.
"Yeah," She said as she wiped away the tears. Yeah I'm just thinking." She shook her head.
"Anyway if you are here now, and she is there then we need to figure out why? Also, if what Jo and I suspected to be a Wendigo isn't then what is it and where did it and Cass go?"
"I guess we will just have to figure that out." Sam replied.
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