Chapter 10-Young Guns

The VW van pulled into the long, gravel drivway, dust flying behind it as it headed towards the ranch. Adrian slightly growled at the sight of the landscape in front of him. He was getting sick and tired of all the sand and driness that came with deserts. If he was in charge, he would've taken the kid to the islands. Not desert islands, but maybe someplace like the Caribbean or Cancoon.

"We're here boss." Adrian said. Bill, who had set silently in the back since he instructed the boys to put sunglasses on, stood as the van came to a stop. He looked down at Sam, who was safely asleep on the floor. He pushed open the doors of the van and stepped out into the sunlight. From all the jobs he had done in the desert, he was going to look like a tan Martian from the short story Dark They Were and Golden Eyed. He looked at Jacob, Adrian, and Joe, who unfolded themselves from the van.

"Stay." He said. The three listened. "I'm gonna bring Barb and Dan out here to get him. You may need to help them though. Not as young as they use to be." The three stood in front of the hot van while Bill approached the house.

The sun beat down on the dark wood house. It belonged to Daniel Carson and Barbra O' Neil. Dan and Barb. They had never married and sometimes, that was better for the world. If Dan ever married Barb, Bill would kill him, and vice-versa. They were the best of friends...and they were all three bounty hunters. It was almost like if there was some school for bounty hunters and they all went there. Which is why you can say that they are really, really lucky that Barb wouldn't actually marry them unless the other was dead.

Bill took the stairs and stood in front of the heavy door. He looked at himself in the glass door, making sure his eyes were his normal color, then knocked on the door. An older woman with lots of curves and waves of gold hair opened the door. Her make-up caked face widened in suprise as she saw Bill. He smiled at her, shyly running his fingers through his short, graying hair.

"My, my, my, look what the cat dragged in." Barbra O' Neil said.

"Barb, baby." Bill said, wrapping his arm around Barb's waist and pecking her gently on the nose. "Dan home?"

"When is he not?" Barb asked. "I swear, the man must think I'm one of those Desperate Housewives or something. Come on in Billy." Barb led Bill into the house. Bill laughed, remembering that to her, he was Billy the Kid. He shut the door behind them, leaving Joe, Jacob, and Adrian out in the hot sun. Strangely, the heat didn't bug them. Mainly since it was cool down here, but it was still warm.

"Well, speak of the devil." Dan said as he stood from his chair and greeted Bill. He had aged quite a bit since Bill had last seen him. "How ya been cowboy?"

"Actually, I got something out in the van that may interest the two of you. It's my newest bounty."

"Wow!" Barb said. "Billy the Kid's still in the game."

"Yep." Bill said. "I need the two of you to hold him up here for awhile. I know that Barb still makes her good 'ol fashion Forget-Me-Yes serum and I need you to give that to him."

"What's so speical about the person?" Dan asked.

"Oh, trust me," Bill said with a twinkle in his eye. Not a hint of black. "He's going to be a very important person someday."

Bill led Dan and Barb out to the van, where the guys were still standing in front of the van. Bill glanced at them, noticing that none of them had taken off their glasses. He was thinking about how much he owed them when they got out of the middle of the desert. Barb was sizing them up and wasn't even bothering to hide it from Dan and Bill, who were beginning to get extremly pissed off.

"And now, behold!" Bill said as he opened the side door to reveal a handcuffed, gagged, and blindfolded Sam. "Sammy Winchester."

"Winchester?" Barb asked. "Like the rifle?"

"Yes." Adrian answered. "Like the rifle." He had actually asked that very same question when he first started working for "Bill Bowen Industries" and found out who their first hunt was for.

"Oh." Barb said. "Who hired you?"

"Now Barb, you know our rule." Bill said.

"You didn't get involved with the government, did you?" Dan asked.

"No. I'm not stupid enough to get mixed up with the fuckin' government. I know what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald after they had him shoot Kennedy."

"How many times do I have to tell you..." Dan started to yell, but Barb shushed him. They knew that Bill had a promblem with conspirices. They just left him alone when it came to them. "I mean, why can't you watch the kid?" Dan had noticed the fact that Sam was much, much younger than them.

"He has a brother." Bill said. "If his brother finds me, then the deal is off and I lsoe my payout." Adrian's ears perked up. He didn't remember during the torture and pain the demon mentioning anything about a bounty. That's when he realized that Bill's demon side was showing. Demons lie.

"Fine." Dan agreed. "We'll take him and earse his memory. But what you want us to do with him when his memory's gone and he's awake."

"Set him free. Send him to Rosewell. I don't care. Just make sure he has no memory of anything." Bill waited for a minute, then he handed Barb a set of dog tags that he had around his neck. "This is his new identity." She looked, imagining that it'd say Logan or Wolverine, but she was a comic book geek. Instead, it said Dean Cobain.

"I guess you're leaving again." Barb said sadly. Bill smiled at her and totally ignored Dan, who was struggleing with Joe to get Sam out of the van.

"I have some business that I need to attend to." Bill said. "I'll be back soon. I'm just not sure when." He gently kissed her forehead. Joe and Dan had safely got Sam and placed him on the ground. Dan looked down at Sam, then up at Bill.

"We got a nice spot in the basement that hasn't been used since about '94." He said. "We can put him in there until he get enough of Barb's serum."

"Thank you guys." Bill said. "Adrian, Joe, Jacob, back in the van. I'll drive because I know where we're going." The three henchmen climbed back into the van. Adrian got shotgun, Joe and Jacob got the seatless back. Bill climbed into the drivers side and waved to Barb and Dan before he back the van out of the driveway and drove down the deserted highway.

"Come on." Dan said as he grabbed Sam's ankles. Barb grabbed his wrists. "Let's get this boy into the basement before he wakes up and we gotta put him back to sleep."