A Few Months Later

Dean stood in the doorway watching as John tried to use gestures to get Matt to understand whatever he was saying. He could feel the anger boiling up in him again, almost five months and John didn't even bother to try and learn how to use sign language. It seemed he'd rather avoid the boy. The first time Dean had ever heard Matt use his voice was when he was crying about Dad hating him. Of course neither Adam or Matt had known he was listening, but hearing that little strained voice asking if his dad hated him, made Dean want to cry.

"Dean. Good you're here you can finish Matt's lessons." John jumped from the table motioning Dean to take his seat.

"Hi. You okay?"

"Fine."

Despite what he signed, Dean knew Matt was far from fine. His shoulders were slouched and his head was resting on his hands.

"When's Adam coming back?"

"Soon. In about an hour I'm gonna go pick him up,"

Matt packed away his math sheets. It was routine, John or Dean would go and find out if the school had a deaf teacher, if the school didn't Matt would stay home and Dean would teach him. Something that Adam brought up was wrong, that he should stay home with Matt, but John was adamant about Adam finishing High School.

"You gonna come with?"

"Yes."

Matt never passed out on being with Adam. Dean had gotten much better at signing but Adam was the only person he felt comfortable using his voice with.

"What are the two of you saying?" John asks.

"I'm just telling him when I'm picking up Adam."

Matt's eyes quickly looked up at John's before darting down.

"What happened?" asks Dean his gentle hands tilting Adam's face to get a better look at the puffy red spot already forming over Adam's right eye.

"It's nothing!" he pushed Dean's hands away and running to the car.

"Adam wait come on,"

"I fell okay?" he says.

"Now that's a bunch of bull. Now why don't you tell me the truth before Dad makes you tell him the truth!" grabbing Adam's arm he asked, "did someone do this to you?"

"Maybe. Does it really matter? In like a week we'll be outta here just like we always are."

"Adam you can't just let people punch you! Tell me who it is?"

"What are you gonna beat him up for me? That's real classy sending in my older brother to go beat up a ninth grader and what would you have liked me to do when the kid's nearly three times my size? Can we please just go home?" he pushed past Dean into the car.

"Hold up. Adam I'm gonna teach you how to fight…..I know Dad's holding off on you because of Matt,"

"What's that suppose to mean? Just because he can't hear he's useless? Because that's what Matt thinks Dad thinks"

"Hunting's dangerous as it is, but bringing a deaf child into hunting? And Matt's a kid and so are you,"

"Dean do you think Dad will bring him on a hunt? He knows we're not normal, Matt's smart he picks up on our cues….,"

"I don't know what Dad's gonna do about him,"

"You still haven't told them?" Jess asks.

"They wouldn't understand anyway,"

Jess shook her head at him.

"You are smart and funny and kind. I'm pretty sure you can make them understand,"

"Things are pretty rough between my dad and me anyways. Let's just not talk about my family okay?"

Sam sips on his drink. It marked a full year tonight since the fight, since he had last talked to Dad or Dean. It worried him sometimes that one of them would be dead and he wouldn't know about it.

"So what do you think about coming home with me this weekend? To meet my parents? I'm pretty sure my mom would love you, she loves a tall dark man. It always amazes me that she married a blonde average height male. But yeah,"

He smiled at her rambling, and signed back that he'd love to.

"Just beware my dad likes to talk about golf a lot and if he says he's a pro at it he's lying. Just kind of nod and go with it,"

Jess. He was pretty sure that she was the one. She was kind, sweet and believed there was good in everyone. She was so pure and innocent.

A/N: I'm trying to add Sam into it as much as I can….do you guys want me to just skip to the Pilot? Or write a bit more? About the time before the pilot?