Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 10 and part 4 of Salvation. This will be the chapter where John leave the three young hunters to go and deal with a demon. What possibly could happen? Will things be an easy ride for them working together without John giving them much to go on? And what's this third update in a day? Now I have to mark that on the calendar. This is the first time that I have updated a story within a day. Three times is a milestone for me. Perhaps it is because of how long my chapters are that makes it easier to post them in record time. I dunno. Without further ado Chapter 10.

Chapter 10

Parting of the Ways

Sam's phone began to ring. She answered it. "Hello?"

"Sam." A woman's voice rang out on the other end.

"Who's this?"

"Think real hard it will come to you."

"Meg."

The two other men turned their heads sharply at the name.

"Last time I saw you, you fell out a window." Sam said in not such a kind way.

"Yeah, no thanks to you. That really hurt my feelings by the way."

"Just your feelings? That was a seven-story drop."

"Lemme speak to your dad."

Sam looked at his father. "My dad. I don't know where my dad is."

"It's time for the grown ups to talk Sam, let me speak to him now."

Sam hesitated and handed the phone over to his dad.

Aeron looked at the three men. What the hell? Who was this Meg girl? Perhaps she would be able to get some kind of answer soon. It drove her insane not knowing things that could be very important.

"This is John." John said swallowing the lump in his throat. "I'm here." He gripped the phone tighter in his hand. "Caleb?"

Sam and Dean became more alert in what was going on.

Aeron stood up from where she was sitting. She knew that name as well. Something was wrong. Very very wrong.

"You listen to me. He's got nothing to do with anything. You let him go." John closed his eyes. "I don't know what you're talking about." John's eyes widened. "Caleb. Caleb!"

Aeron's hands went to her mouth. Another hunter dead. Why?

"I'm gonna kill you, you know that?"

Sam and Dean went to their father's side. They were trying to get a good listen if they could on what the conversation was all about.

Aeron sunk onto the couch running her hands through her hair messing it up into a very spiky bedhead style or the sex hair Dean would call it.

"Okay." John said softly. He closed his eyes and swallowed the lump in his throat. "I said okay, I'll bring you the Colt."

Aeron's head shot up and she looked at John with wide eyes. What the hell? Give the colt up?

"It's gonna take me about a days drive to get there." John closed his eyes. "That's impossible. I can't get there in time and I can't just carry a gun on the plane." John hung up the phone. He looked down at his hands.

"So you think Meg is a demon?" Sam asked his dad.

John ran his hands through his hair. "Either that, or she's possessed by one. It doesn't really matter."

"What do we do?" Dean asked his father.

"I'm going to Lincoln."

Aeron shot up from her seat. "What? John you know what that means." She said narrowing her eyes at him.

"It doesn't look like we have a choice, Ron." John said looking at her. "If I don't go, a lot of people die, our friends die."

Aeron looked away from him. Now that was true. She couldn't be one of the people getting in John's way. She could only hope that he had a plan in his mind.

"Dad, the demon is coming tonight. For Monica and her family. That gun is all we got, you can't just hand it over." Sam said looking at his father.

"Who said anything about handing it over?" John asked looking over at his youngest son. "Look, besides us and a couple of vampires no one really seen the gun, no one knows what it looks like."

"He does have a point." Aeron said looking over at the gun that was sitting in the room on the table.

"So what, you're just going to pick up a ringer at a pawn shop?" Dean asked slipping his hands into his pockets of his jacket he wore.

"Antique store." John said to Dean.

"You're going to hand Meg a fake gun and hope she doesn't notice?"

"Look as long as it's close, she shouldn't be able to tell the difference."

"Yeah but for how long? What happens when she figures it out?" Dean questioned growing more concerned.

"I just… I just need to buy a few hours, that's all." John said swallowing the lump in his throat.

"You mean for Dean, Aeron, and me. You want us to stay here, and kill this demon by ourselves?"

"No Sam. I want to stop losing people we love. I want you to go to school, I want Dean to have a home. I want…" John swallowed the lump in his throat. "I want Mary alive. It's just… I just want this to be over."

"And you have every right for wanting it over." Aeron said looking at him.

John looked at Aeron. "And I know your grandfather would want you to become what you wanted to be."

Aeron looked at him. "John you don't know what I want. No one does. I am a hunter. And it is my choice to hunt." She narrowed her eyes.

"You should become a teacher like you had planned."

"And I take it you told your boys too?" She demanded harshly.

Sam and Dean looked at her in shock. Granted yes she had every reason to be upset. Perhaps it was something that she didn't want told to anybody.

"You had no right John. Those days will never be. I will never go to school. I will never be a teacher. I was born into a line of hunters. My family is dead. I am the last of the Elkins line. I am going down swinging. Not even you are going to change my mind." She went to the door and opened it and slammed it behind her. She ran her hands through her hair frustrated. John had no right to tell Sam and Dean about her wanting to be a teacher. Those days were long gone and they weren't coming back. She felt tears stinging her eyes. She was a hunter forever. She would never be able to that. She would never be able to have a normal life. Never ever again. Not when hunting was her life now.

Sam came out and saw Aeron standing out there looking clearly upset with what his father had told him and Dean.

Aeron turned and saw Sam. She shook her head. "What do you want Sam?"

"You alright?"

"No, what would give you that idea?"

"Look I'm sorry that my dad told us."

"There's nothing for you to be sorry about Sam." She shook her head. "But he had no right to mention something that I'll never be ever." She ran her hand through her hair one final time. "We got work to do."

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Sam, John, and Aeron were standing at the back of John's truck checking the weapons over.

"Ron…" John said looking at her.

"Save it John. It's the past. But I will give this one warning." She said looking at him. "The next time that you say something that I don't want someone to know I will make good on my threat. I will shoot you with rock salt."

John knew that would be very much true. She would make good on that threat.

The Impala pulled up and Dean got out of it.

"You get it?" John asked his eldest son.

Dean pulled out a brown paper bag out of his pocket and handed it over to his father.

John pulled the antique gun out of the paper bag.

"You know this is a trap don't you? That's why Meg wants you to come alone?" Dean asked softly sticking his hands in his pockets.

"I can handle her. I got a whole arsenal loaded. Holy Water, Mandaic, amulets…."

"Dad…"

"What?"

"Promise me something."

"What's that?"

"This thing goes south just… get the hell out. Don't get yourself killed alright, you're no good to us dead."

"Same goes for you." John paused for a few seconds. "Alright listen to me. They made the bullets special for this colt. There's only four of them left. Without them this gun is useless. You make every shot count."

"Yes, sir." Sam said softly.

"Been waiting a long time for this fight. Now it's here I"m not gonna be in it. It's up to you boys now. It's your fight, you finish this. You finish what I started. With the help of Ron. Understand." John handed Dean the colt.

"We'll see you soon dad."

"I'll see you later." John got into his truck and leaves.

Aeron let out a soft sigh. She looked at the two boys. "Shall we?"

Sam and Dean looked at her. The both of them nodded their heads.

The three of them got into Dean's car. This was their chance to end everything.

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This is the end of Chapter 10. I hope that you enjoyed it. Please let me know what you think of it. What will happen in the next chapter? I can't wait to show you guys what is to come. I can say Episode 22 and Chapter 12-15 will be doozies that is for sure. I hope that you will continue following and reading and I will update soon. Until next time.