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Jamie awoke to see Dean sleeping next to her. While she had a fun time with Bobby she had still missed Dean. Jamie decided to snuggle into Dean's chest still not wanting to meet the day just yet.
"Hey you're up," Dean said putting his arms around her. "Did you have a fun time with bobby?"
"Yeah, he gave me some books and everything," Jamie said beginning to get up so she could show Dean the books she had gotten.
"Hey you're not going anywhere," Dean said pulling Jamie closer to himself began tickling her
"Dean, stop," Jamie said laughing trying to get out of Dean's hold. Dean continued to tickle Jamie as her laughs got louder and louder. After a few more moments of tickling Jamie Dean finally let her go. The two sat there still laughing for a few minutes happy to be in each other's company. Dean had missed Jamie and worried about her every second he was away from her.
"Ready for your first hunt," Dean asked looking over at Jamie. Sam had already found another hunt and Dean really didn't want to be apart from Jamie any more than he had already been.
"Seriously! Let's go!" Jamie said bolting up.
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A few hours later the Winchesters where on the road again but this time with Jamie. Sam had tried to convince Dean that Jamie wasn't ready but there was no convincing Dean once he had his mind set on something.
"So where's the case?"
"Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin. Last week Sophie Carlton, eighteen, walks into the lake, doesn't walk out. Authorities dragged the water; nothing. Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manitoc drowning this year. None of the other bodies were found either. They had a funeral two days ago," Dean explained; he had found the case in newspaper a few days ago.
"A funeral?" Sam questioned
"Yeah, it's weird, they buried an empty coffin. For, uh, closure or whatever," dean said.
"Closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them," Sam snapped
"Something you want to say to me?" Dean asked
"The trail for Dad. It's getting colder every day," Sam explained
"Exactly. So what are we supposed to do?" Dean said his voice rising.
"I don't know. Something. Anything." Sam begged
"You know what? I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think I wanna find Dad as much as you do?" Dean said practically yelling now.
"Yeah, I know you do, it's just you just found out you have a daughter and..." Sam started
"You know what yeah I just found out I have a daughter but we have no leads on dad right now so we're gonna kill everything bad here and there until we find him and you know what Jamie's one of the best things that's happened to me so if you have a problem you better learn to live with it," Dean fumed.
After a few moments of silence Jamie finally broke the silence by saying
"So, Lake Manitoc" bringing everyone back to the case.
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A few hours later they had finally arrived at Lake Manitoc. The car ride had been in almost complete silence. Sam and Dean where still mad at each other and Jamie was too timid to say anything. They pulled up to Will Carlton's house, the victim's brother.
Dean began to get out of the car when Dean noticed Jamie was still sitting in the back of the car. "Hey Jamie your coming this time," Dean called to her. Jamie excitedly got out of the car, happy to be coming for the first time. They found Will Carlton sitting out on the dock looking out at the water. "Will Carlton?" Dean asked as he approached the man.
"Yeah, that's right," not looking away from the water
"I'm Agent Ford. This is Agent Hamill," Dean said holding up his fake ID. "We're with the US Wildlife Service,". Will finally turned around to look at the agents surprised to see a kid with them.
"You're telling me that this kid is an agent?" Will asked doubtfully.
"Bring your kid to work day," Dean said lying with ease. "Can we ask you a few questions about your sister, sir?"
"She was about a hundred yards out," Will said quietly, his voice full of pain "That's where she got dragged down,"
"And you're sure she didn't just drown?" Dean questioned wanting to make sure this was their type of case.
"Yeah. She was a varsity swimmer," Will answered "She practically grew up in that lake. She was as safe out there as in her own bathtub,"
"So no splashing? No signs of distress?" Sam asked
"No, that's what I'm telling you," Will said.
"Did you see any shadows in the water? Maybe some dark shape breach the surface?" Sam asked wondering if it was some sort of water monster.
"No. Again, she was really far out there," Will explained.
"You ever see any strange tracks by the shoreline?" Dean asked.
"No, never. Why? Why, what do you think's out there?" Will asked starting to get alarmed at the agents' strange questions.
"We'll let you know as soon as we do," Dean said begging to head back to the car.
"What about your father?" Sam asked "Can we talk to him?"
"Look, if you don't mind, I mean...he didn't see anything and he's kind of been through a lot," Will said looking at his father farther down the dock.
"We understand," Sam said heading back towards the car leaving only Jamie standing by Will. "I'm sorry," Jamie said looking up at Will with sorrow filled eyes. Jamie turned back to the impala and ran to catch up with Dean and Sam. Jamie knew the pain Will was going through form the loss of his sister since she was feeling the same pain from the loss of her mother.
Dean shot Jamie a look as they got into the impala wondering what Jamie had said to Will however his unasked question was never answered. They decided to head to the police station to question some of the local authorities.
"Now, I'm sorry, but why does the Wildlife Service care about an accidental drowning?" The Sheriff, Jake Devins had answered after the Winchesters had introduced themselves as agents and asked about Sophie Carlton's drowning.
"You sure it's accidental? Will Carlton saw something grab his sister," Sam asked ignoring the sheriff's question.
"Like what?" Jake asked. Jake then got up and they followed him into his office. "Here, sit, please. There are no indigenous carnivores in that lake," Jake explained. "There's nothing even big enough to pull down a person, unless it was the Loch Ness Monster,"
"Yeah," Dean said laughing "Right,"
"Will Carlton was traumatized, and sometimes the mind plays tricks. Still," Jake said sitting down "We dragged that entire lake. We even ran a sonar sweep, just to be sure, and there was nothing down there,"
"That's weird, though, I mean, that's, that's the third missing body this year," Dean asked pressing the sheriff hoping to get some useful information.
"I know. These are people from my town. These are people I care about," Jake snapped back at Dean.
"I know," Dean answered.
"Anyway..." Jake said sighing "All this...it won't be a problem much longer,".
"What do you mean?" Dean asked
"Well, the dam, of course," Jake said surprised that wildlife services didn't know about it.
"Of course, the dam. It's, uh, it sprung a leak," Dean guessed.
"It's falling apart, and the feds won't give us the grant to repair it, so they've opened the spillway. In another six months, there won't be much of a lake. There won't be much of a town, either. But as Federal Wildlife, you already knew that," Jake said accusingly.
"Exactly," Dean muttered right before a young woman tapped on the door. "Sorry, am I interrupting?" She asked as Sam and Dean stood up. "I can come back later," She tried again.
"Gentlemen, this is my daughter," Jake introduced the lady.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Dean," Dean shaking the women's hand obviously already flirting.
"Andrea Barr. Hi and you are" Andrea said introducing herself then looking at Jamie.
"Jamie, Dean's daughter," Jamie answered shyly.
"They're from the Wildlife Service. About the lake." Jake said "Oh," Andrea said as a boy about Jamie's age walked in around Andrea.
"Oh, hey there. What's your name?" Dean asked tried to be polite. Lucas continued to walk around not answering Dean's question as Andrea followed the boy.
"His name is Lucas," Jake said answering for the boy. Andrea was currently giving him some crayons to play with.
"Is he okay?" Jamie asked looking at the silent boy.
"My grandson's been through a lot. We all have," Jake said quietly. He then stood up and goes to the office door "Well, if there's anything else I can do for you, please let me know," As they left his office.
"Thanks. You know, now that you mentioned it, could you point us in the direction of a reasonably priced motel?" Dean asked Andrea
"Lakefront Motel. Go around the corner. It's about two blocks south," Andrea answered
"Two—would you mind showing us?" Dean asked wanting to have more time with her.
"You want me to walk you two blocks?" Andrea asked laughing
"Not if it's any trouble," Dean asked smiling again.
"I'm headed that way anyway," Andrea said then turned to Jake and said "I'll be back to pick up Lucas at three," finally turning to Lucas she says "We'll go to the park, okay, sweetie? Kissing him on the head. Jamie's heart hurts as she watches Lucas interact with his mom making her miss her mom even more.
"Thanks again," Sam calls out to Luke as the head out to the street. Sam and Jamie instantly walk a good distance behind Andrea and Dean giving them space. Jamie found Dean's antics annoying it seemed like he was much more interested in flirting with Andrea than he ever was talking with Jamie.
"So, cute kid," Dean said as they cross the street.
"Thanks," Andrea says simply
"Kids are the best, huh?" Dean says. Andrea ignores him and they continue walking until they stop in front of a building that says Lakefront Motel
"There it is. Like I said, two blocks." Andrea says .
"Thanks," Sam says as him and Jamie go to get a room in the lobby.
"Must be hard, with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line," Andrea says towards Dean as she begins to walk away. "Enjoy your stay!" She calls over her shoulder.
"'Kids are the best'?" Sam asked laughing as Dean meets up with Sam and Jamie.
"I love kids," Dean said throwing his arm around Jamie.
"Could have fooled me," Jamie said shrugging of Dean's arm then stocking out of the office.
"What did I do this time!" Dean asked turning to Sam as the followed Jamie.
"Flirting with women in front of your daughter might not be the best idea Dean," Sam said patting Dean on the shoulder
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It had been a few hours since they had arrived at the motel. Jamie was currently reading one of the books Bobby had given her; she hadn't talked to Dean since she told him off and she didn't plan to anytime soon. Even though her mom and Dean had never really been together she still always thought that Dean had loved her mom and if circumstances where different they would be married. Dean flirting with Andrea was just a harsh view of reality for Jamie.
Sam was currently researching on his laptop hoping to find out more information on the case while Dean was going through his clothes.
"So there are three drowning victims this year," Sam said finally breaking the long lasting silence.
"Any before that?" Dean asked looking up from his clothes.
"Uh, yeah," Sam said while switching browser windows. "Six more spread out over the past thirty-five years. Those bodies were never recovered either. If there is something out there, it's picking up its pace,"
"So, what, we got a lake monster on a binge?" Dean asked
"This whole lake monster theory, it, it just bugs me," Sam said as Dean came over to read over Sam's shoulder.
"Why?" Jamie asked looking up from her book.
"Loch Ness, uh, Lake Champlain, there are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts, but here, almost nothing," Sam started "Whatever it is out there, no one's living to talk about it," scrolling through the comments section of the article.
"Wait, Barr, Christopher Barr. Where have I heard that name before?" Dean says pointing out one of the comments.
"Christopher Barr, the victim in May," Sam said opening a new page to show a picture of a police officer with Lucas. "Oh. Christopher Barr was Andrea's husband, Lucas's father. Apparently he took Lucas out swimming. Lucas was on a floating wooden platform when Chris drowned. Two hours before the kid got rescued,"
"Maybe we have an eyewitness after all," Sam said
"No wonder that kid was so freaked out. Watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over," Dean said shooting a glance at Jamie. She seemed to be handling her mother's death pretty well but then again she was just like him; she kept her feelings bottled up until one day she snapped.
"Guess we better find Lucas," Dean said grabbing the keys to the impala as Sam and Jamie filled out the door. Dean still hadn't talked to Jamie about the whole flirting with Andrea thing but right now that would have to wait since they had a case to solve.
They finally ended up at the park where they saw Andrea sitting on a bench watching Lucas color and play with toy soldiers. "Can we join you?" Sam said getting Andrea's attention.
"I'm here with my son," Andrea says.
"Oh. Mind if Jamie and I say hi?" Dean asks walking over to Lucas with Jamie following.
"How's it going?" Dean said kneeling next to Lucas who's coloring.
"Oh, I used to love these things," Dean said picking up one of the toy soldiers as he imitates gun and explosions hoping to get Lucas's attention.
"So crayons is more your thing? That's cool. Chicks dig artists," Dean tries again. Lucas kept on coloring ignoring Dean's antics.
"Hey sorry for bothering you, Jamie let's go," Dean calls to Jamie as he realizes Lucas is never going to talk to him. Dean stops when he realizes that Jamie isn't following her only to find her coloring alongside Lucas.
"Hey Lucas," Jamie said shyly as she began coloring a picture. "Sorry about my dad he can be really stupid sometimes," Jamie continued.
"I just wanted to say I'm sorry and I know what you're going through. I just lost my mom a few weeks ago, I can't remember much from the crash but I still have this vivid memory of my mom whispering 'Jamie,' as she tried to get out. Then a heard her yelp in pain followed by complete silence," Jamie said as a few tears fell from her eyes. Little did she know that Dean was only a few yards away hearing every word.
"Anyway," Jamie said whipping away the tears "All I just wanted to say I'm sorry and maybe you don't think anyone will listen to you or believe you but I will and I promise Dean, Sam and I will do everything we can to bring justice to whatever did this to your dad," Jamie said then stood up.
"Here," Jamie said handing Lucas her drawing, "It's a picture of my new family: Dean, my uncle, and me. I drew Dean and Sam wearing capes because there just like superheroes they can protect you from anything… Anyways I'll see you around Lucas" She said then turned to walk back to Dean and Sam.
"Lucas hasn't said a word, not even to me. Not since his dad's accident," Andrea was telling Dean and Sam as Jamie walked up.
"Yeah, we heard. Sorry," Dean said while shooting Jamie a glance. He knew he was going to have to talk to Jamie about what she told Lucas.
"What are the doctors saying?" Sam asked,
"That it's a kind of post-traumatic stress." Andrea said sadly.
"That can't be easy. For either of you," Sam said.
"We moved in with my dad. He helps out a lot. It's just...when I think about what Lucas went through, what he saw..." Andrea said her voice drifting off.
"Kids are strong. You'd be surprised what they can deal with," Dean said shooting Jamie another look
"You know, he used to have such life. He was hard to keep up with, to tell you the truth. Now he just sits there. Drawing those pictures, playing with those army men. I just wish…" Andrea said watching Lucas as he walked up to Join them.
"Hey sweetie," Andrea said smiling at her son.
Lucas looked at Jamie than handed her a picture. "Thanks, Lucas," Jamie says looking at the picture surprised to see it's a picture of the Carlton house.
Shortly after Lucas walked back to his toys and Sam, Dean and Jamie decided it was time to leave. Jamie still hadn't said a word to Dean about the flirting incident or what she had told Lucas.
"So, I heard what you said to Lucas," Dean said finally when they arrived at the impala in the park's parking lot. Jamie looked anywhere but Dean trying to ignore the problem at hand.
"Look Jay, I'm sorry I didn't know that you went through that I should of talked to you about it earlier I just wasn't sure if you were ready. And I'm sorry about the whole Andrea thing," Dean said.
Jamie finally looked at Dean surprised he had said all that seeing that Dean was never one to apologize. "Really?" She asked.
"Of course, you'll always be my number one girl," Dean said pulling Jamie into a hug, even though Dean hated chick-flick moments it still felt good to have all that past them and have his daughter in his arms.
Hey guys hope you enjoyed the chapter. Once again I am very sorry for the long wait for this update. I'm starting the next one right now so expect that so.
PLEASE READ! Also I'm thinking of skipping all the way to faith, episode 12 for two reasons one I'm really trying to get to as many seasons as possible and two something big happens later in season one for Jamie and I really want to get to the point fast so let me know if y'all cool with that or if there is any chapters you really want me to hit
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