So it has been a long time since I was last on Fanfiction, but I am back and ready to complete these stories.

Chapter 7

A motel in Illinois 2016

Dean was sat propped up on one of the dull, probably disease riddled, motel beds with his laptop on his legs. He was typing rapidly with slightly shaky hands and only paused in his motions to take a brief drink of milk. His face morphed into a frown as he tried again to crack the near impossible code on his screen. Someone was trying very hard to keep the VA systems inaccessible for Gillette Wyoming.

Normally a VA hospital wouldn't interest the Winchesters; however this one in particular didn't appear to be all that it seemed. Dean had come across an article regarding some unusual substances being dumped into a lake near Seattle, and decided to look further into it whilst bored and hurt. He checked on Google maps to see what was near the lake to and discovered the massive compound that claimed to be a VA hospital. He found it strange that it was in the middle of nowhere, that he pulled up its records only to hit a brick wall.

Which brought him to this moment, finally he had cracked the code and his tense muscles loosened up as he was now able to scan the system freely and undetected. He rolled his shoulders and took a long gulp of milk before skimming through all the pages. There were many complicated formulas and diagrams that were easily related to stem cell research, but somehow Dean knew that it was something different.

That was when he found it. Dean let out a small gasp and ran his fingers through his short blonde hair. "Found him!"

He let himself into the files that were named 'Donald Lydecker – X5 Project Behavioural Notes', and practically soaked up every word that was written on the screen. He discovered that whatever this X5 project was, it had started the same year he and Ben had been born. There were no names used in the notes only a number for each child mentioned. There was a notice about two of the children being infused with the animal DNA after their birth rather than in the womb. X5-492 and X5-493. Dean's brain was running a mile a minute as he read on:

'X5-492 Failed to reach minimum requirements for continuation of this project. He has been terminated. His identical twin X5-493's DNA seemed to have combined with the new strands of DNA more readily and has been taken in to be monitored and trained with the rest of the X5's.'

"Ben" It was barely a whisper, but suddenly it seemed a whole lot louder in the silent room. Dean could hear his own blood pumping through his veins and he desperately needed to get out of the confining room. He practically leapt from the bed and ran for the door, breathing heavily, scrambling for fresh air.

He was sent sprawling to the floor as the door opened and was pushed open, revealing a very tired looking John Winchester – Sam's dirty exhausted face popped up behind John. "Dean? What's going on?" John proceeded to make his way into the room to collapse on the other bed, whilst Sam helped Dean up and waited for the answer to his question. "Did you have another seizure?" Sam's face changed completely to show his concern.

"I found him." It was short and to the point but Dean wouldn't have managed to explain it any other way. John was immediately upright on the bed, listening to see what else Dean had to say. All traces of exhaustion gone from his and Sam's face. John walked over to his eldest –present- son and shook his shoulders, earning a low groan from Dean who was already on the verge of collapsing without his dad shaking him. "Dean! Where? "

"Gillette, Wyoming." John set off in a whirlwind of packing as did Sam. Dean had already been packed up due to his own OCD so he went back to the laptop, over his near panic attack, and read through more notes as he waited. He read about an escape that happened in 2009, Lydecker didn't specify who had escaped - only that a certain group of X5's had been separated into different units after their numbers dwindled.

There was a few video files attached to his notes about a male X5, number not specified so it could have been Ben. Dean turned the volume low so as not to alert Sam and John to the sound but loud enough for Dean to hear, and played the first video. There was a small body strapped down to a large metal table, there was a scientist looking woman injected something into the tiny figure and a man Dean easily identified as Lydecker watching from a distance. A laser was being pointed into one of the 'subjects' eyes and they looked to be in a great deal of pain. Dean zoomed the video to get a look at the poor child's face, and froze as he realised it was Ben.

The video was dated as the evening after the big escape, and Ben was being questioned on the whereabouts of his fellow team members. After a few more minutes of watching with increasing horror at the torture of Ben, Dean shut off his laptop and shouted at his dad to hurry with the packing.