Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 21 of See You Again. After dealing with a nest of vampires and being reunited with John and Andi deciding to stay. John decides to show them what he really has been doing for the year that he has been gone and during the time that he had Andi with him when he had her in Jericho for that short amount of time. But when someone starts killing off friends of the Winchesters things begin to get a little rough. Without further ado Chapter 21.

Chapter 21

Trip to Iowa

John had brought out all of his paperwork that he had been doing for the past year ever since he had taken off in Jericho. He sat silently at the desk the Colt sitting in front of him. Sam leaned up against the counter, Dean paced in the room with his arms crossed trying to grasp the idea that their father had been gone, and Andi sitting there with her hands laced together and lips pursed trying to get the idea through her mind that John left her in Jericho for this reason. That he thought that it wasn't safe for her to be with him.

"So this is it. This is everything I know. Look, our whole lives we been searching for this demon right? Not a trace, just… nothing. Until about a year ago. For the first time I picked up a trail." John explained to them.

"And that's when you took off and took Andi along with you for the ride." Dean said in realization.

John nodded his head. "Yeah. That's right. The demon must have come out of hiding, or hibernation."

"Alright so what's this trail you found?"

"It starts in Arizona, then New Jersey."

Andi pursed her lips together. She hadn't known that John was on the demon's trail when she had met up with him. "That's where you called me from." Andi said in realization. "Made me come there to meet you."

John nodded his head. "Then California. Houses burned down to the ground. It's going after families, just like it went after us."

"Families with infants?" Sam asked looking at his father with a look of worry etched across his face.

"Yeah. The night of the kid's six-month birthday." John confirmed.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Andi asked in confusion. She didn't know the story of what had happened the boys were younger. She never really asked because she had a feeling that it was not a good thing to ask. But whatever it was… it had to do with the children turning six months old?

"I was six months old that night?" Sam asked softly looking at his father with a worried look.

"Exactly six months." John said with a nod of his head.

"So basically, this demon is going after these kids for some reason. The same way it came for me? So Mom's death… Jessica. It's all because of me?" Sam asked softly feeling a bit helpless.

"We don't know that Sam." Dean said looking at his brother not liking how his brother was thinking.

"Oh really? Cause I'd say we're pretty damn sure Dean."

"For the last time, what happened to them was not your fault." Dean said looking at his brother getting frustrated at Sam.

"Right. It's not my fault, but it's my problem!" Sam shouted looking at Dean.

"No it's not your problem it's our problem!"

John stood up looking at his two sons. "Okay. That's enough."

Both of the brothers took a breath and calmed down.

"So why's he doing it. What does he want?" Sam asked softly.

"Look I wish I had the answers, I do. I've always been one step behind it. Look, I've never gotten there in time to save…" John looked down, unhappy with the way things had turned out.

"Alright, so how do we find it, before it hits again." Dean asked pursing his lips together.

"There's signs. It took me a while to see the pattern,but it's there in the days before these fires signs crops in an area. Cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical storms. And then I went back and checked… and…"

"These things happened in Lawrence."

John nodded his head. "A week before your mother died. And in Palo Alto… before Jessica. And these signs, they're starting again."

"Where?" Sam asked softly looking at his father.

"Salvation Iowa."

"Sounds like we need to get on the road now." Andi said as she got off of the couch. "And not waste anymore time talking."

SPNSPN

Andi pursed her lips unsure of what to think of what had been going on. All of this seemed surreal. After all she hadn't heard the story of what had happened to Sam and Dean's mother or how John had gotten into hunting and now she had felt sad for how the three of them gotten into hunting. They weren't a hunting family. Not like her father's side of the family, the Pierces who were well known for hunting and mostly had been killed off except for her cousin, who was working somewhere in the country.

John's truck pulled over quickly and the Impala pulled right over and the four hunters got out quickly. The three younger hunters looked at him in confusion.

"God damn it!" John yelled in anger.

"What is it?" Dean asked in concern that something had gone wrong just by how their father was reacting.

"Son of a bitch."

"What is it!"

"I just got a call from Caleb."

"Is he okay?" Dean asked his voice growing in concern. Caleb was a hunting buddy of theirs and of course it was a concern of theirs because it was one of their friends.

"He's fine. Jim Murphy's dead."

"Pastor Jim? How?" Sam asked in shock.

Andi gasped in surprise. There had been a few times that her father had dropped her off at Pastor Jim's before when he had gone on hunts with her mother. This was shocking news to her as well.

"His throat was slashed. He bled out. Caleb said they found traces of sulfur at Jim's place." John explained to them.

"A demon." Dean said his brows furrowing in confusion.

John nodded his head.

"The demon?"

"I don't know. Could be he just got careless, he slipped up. Maybe the demon knows we're getting close."

"What do we do?"

"Now we act like every second counts. There's two hospitals and health centers in this county. We split up, cover more ground. I want records. I want list of every infant that's going to be six months old in the next week."

"Dad that could be dozens of kids. How do we know which one's the right one?" Sam asked looking at him with worry.

"We check em all that's how. You got any better ideas?" He asked looking at Sam.

"No sir." Sam said shaking his head.

John nodded his head and they decided to turn and head back to their vehicles. John stopped and leaned on the bed of his truck.

Dean turned back as he opened the door of the Impala. "Dad?" He asked in concern.

"Yeah. It's Jim. You know, I can't…." He swallowed the lump in his throat as his face hardened. "This ends now. I'm ending it. I don't care what it takes."

The four of them got into their vehicles.

SPNSPN

Andi was thankful that she had gone with Sam to the Salvation Medical Center to get the information that they needed. Sam had one of his visions while he had been flipping through his notebook and had almost fallen to the ground if it wasn't for her to hold him up. Thankful he was able to get them to where the vision had shown him to.

Sam pursed his lips together as he pulled out the map again and another vision flashed before his eyes. When it was over he realized that they were standing in front of the house. Sam turned his head seeing a woman pushing a stroller and holding an umbrella. He began to walk up the sidewalk. "Hi." He said with a smile.

Andi quickly followed him knowing that Sam was going to be a good person and help her out.

"Here, let me hold that for you. You look like you don't need that anymore."

"Oh, thanks." The woman said with a smile as she closed her umbrella as Sam held her stroller so it wouldn't roll away and he peered inside.

"She's gorgeous. Is she yours?" Sam asked curiously looking at the woman.

"Yeah."

"Oh wow, hi." He cooed at the baby.

Andi chuckled lightly. "He's not always like this."

"Oh sorry, I'm rude." He said realizing what he had done. "I'm Sam and this is Andi." He offered her a smile. "We just moved in in up the block." He wrapped his arm around Andi hoping that she wouldn't hit him for doing that.

Andi looked up at him with a loving gaze making it look good.

"Hi. I'm Monica. This is Rosie."

"Rosie? Hi Rosie." Sam said looking down at the little girl.

"So, welcome to the neighbourhood." Monica said with a smile.

"Thanks. She's such a good baby." Sam said smiling at Rosie again.

"I know, I mean she… she never cries. She just stares at everybody. Sometimes she looks at you and I swear it's… it's like she's reading your mind."

"What about you Monica? Have you lived here long?" Andi asked curiously.

"My husband and I, we bought our place just before Rosie was born." Monica explained to the two of them with a bright smile.

"And how old's Rosie?" Sam asked curiously.

"She's six months old today. She's big right? Growing like a weed."

Andi pursed her lips together.

"Yeah." Sam said distractedly. "Monica…"

"Yeah?"

"Just ahhh, just take care of yourself okay?"

"Yeah, you too Sam and Andi. We'll see you around." Monica turned to her house as a station wagon turned into the driveway honking. "There's daddy."

Andi looked up at Sam concerned. "Sam?" Her brows furrowed in worry. "Sam?"

Sam looked down at her in concern. "We have to stop this." He said softly. "Rosie's next."

Andi nodded her head. "Let's get back to Dean and John and tell them."

SPNSPN

Sam sat at the table rubbing his temples as Andi looked over at him with her lips pursed together from her spot on the couch while John and Dean sat on the ends of the bed looking at Sam.

"A vision." John said flatly looking at his youngest son. He couldn't believe what he was hearing from Sam.

"Yes. I saw the demon burning a woman on the ceiling." Sam said slowly and painfully rubbing his temples.

"And you think this is going to happen to this woman you met because…"

"Because these things happen exactly the way I see them."

"It started as nightmares. Then it started happening while he was awake." Dean said as he got up crossing the room and going behind his little brother to go and get another cup of coffee.

Sam winced again. "Yeah." Sam nodded his head. "It's like the closer I get to anything to do with the demon the stronger the visions get."

"Alright. When were you going to tell me about this?" John asked getting slightly agitated looking at his sons.

His sons looked at him.

"We didn't know what it meant." Dean told their father.

"Alright, something like this starts happening to your brother, you pick up the phone and you call me."

Dean dropped the coffee jug and the cup back on the counter in anger and moved back towards his father in anger.

"Bull shite." Andi snapped causing Dean to stop in his tracks halfway across the room causing him to look at her with wide eyes. "I have a feeling Dean called you from Lawrence. Sam called you when Dean was dying. Getting you on the phone John." Andi scoffed rolling her eyes. "We have a better bloody chance in winning the bloody lottery than getting a hold of your bloody arse." Andi got up from the couch.

"You're right." John said looking at her with narrowed eyes. "I don't like your tone missy."

"Tough." She said putting her hands in her pockets. "Suck it up buttercup. You should've never left me behind in Jericho alone for that time without a word leaving your sons to find me."

"Look guys, visions or no visions, fact is, we know the demon is coming tonight." Sam said looking at the three of them getting tired of the arguing between them. "And this family's going to go through the same hell we went through."

"No they're not. No one is, ever again." John said shaking his head. He wasn't about to allow that to happen again. Not to another family.

Sam's phone began to ring. Sam pulled it out of his pocket. "Hello?" His brows furrowed together in confusion. "Who is this?" He looked at his father, brother and best friend that was in the room. "Meg."

John, Dean, and Andi looked at Sam.

"Last time I saw you, you fell out of a window." Sam scoffed when he heard her reply. "Just your feeling? That was a seven-story drop." He looked at his father. "My Dad. I don't know where my Dad is." He hesitated then handed the phone to John.

"This is John." John pursed his lips together as he listened to Meg on the phone. "Caleb?"

Sam and Dean reacted going onto alert when they heard the name Caleb. That was one of their hunting friends.

Andi pursed her lips together knowing that this was bad. Was Meg hunting down the Winchesters friends and killing them to make them come out?

"You listen to me. He's got nothing to do with anything. You let him go." John said gruffly into the phone. He was ordering Meg to release Caleb. "I don't know what you're talking about." John's eyes went wide when he heard Caleb choking on his own blood. "Caleb. Caleb!" He gripped onto Sam's phone tightly in his hand as he listened to what Meg was telling him. "I'm gonna kill you, you know that." He remained silent as Sam, Dean and Andi stood close by. "Okay."

Andi's eyes went wide when she heard him say okay.

"I said okay, I'll bring you the colt."

Andi looked at Sam and Dean with a look of worry.

"It's gonna take me about a day's drive to get there." John explained to Meg hoping that she would allow him that. "That's impossible. I can't get there in time and I can't just carry a gun on the plane."

SPNSPN

"So you think Meg is a demon?" Sam asked looking at his father.

"Either that, or she's possessed by one. It doesn't really matter." John explained to them.

"What do we do?" Dean asked looking at John, wondering what the plan was that he was coming up in his mind.

"I'm going to Lincoln."

"What?"

"Are you insane John?" Andi asked her eyes going wide.

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

"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 pursing his lips together. He couldn't believe what his father was thinking. This plan wasn't a good one. It was a suicide mission.

"Who said anything about handing it over. Look, besides us and a couple of vampires no one else really seen the gun, no one knows what it looks like." John explained to them.

"So what, you're just going to pick up a ringer at a pawn shop?" Dean asked in confusion looking at his father like he had gone insane.

"Antique store." John corrected his eldest son.

"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?"

"I just… I just need to buy a few hours, that's all."

"You mean for Dean, Andi and me. You want us to stay here, and kill this demon by ourselves?" Sam said looking at his father.

"No Sam. I want to stop losing people we love. I want you to go back to school, I want Dean to have a home. I want Andi to go back home. I want… I want Mary alive. It's just… I just want this to be over."

Andi bit her lower lip when John said that he wanted her to go home. She really didn't want to go home. Not in the least bit, but she couldn't tell John that. He would automatically start asking her why she didn't want to go home and she didn't want to get into an argument with him on that.

SPNSPN

Andi stayed with Sam and John at the back of John's truck checking the weapons over on a muddy back road. Her pink lips were pursed in a thin line.

Dean pulled the Impala up behind the truck and got out. He walked up to them.

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

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

John pulled out an antique gun looking at it.

"You know this is a trap don't you? That's why Meg wants you to come alone?" Dean said looking at his father.

"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." He looked at the three of them. "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 with a nod of his head knowing that his father's orders counted.

"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 and Andi. It's your fight, you finish it. You finish what I started. Understand." John handed Dean the Colt.

"We'll see you soon Dad." Sam said clearing his throat.

"I'll see you later." John said as he got into the truck leaving three of them behind.

"Later." Dean said softly.

Andi pursed her lips together into a thin line. This was the hardest thing that they were going to have to do separating from John again after reuniting with John.

SPNSPN

The three of them sat in the car in silence watching through the window as Monica and her husband ate dinner.

Sam pursed his lips together coming up with an idea in his mind. "Maybe we could tell it was a gas leak. Maybe get them out of the house for a few hours?" Sam questioned looking over at his brother with his brows furrowed together.

Andi scoffed from the backseat.

"Yeah and how many times has that actually worked for us?" Dean asked looking at Sam.

"Yeah." Sam began to think some more. "We could always tell them the truth."

Dean looked at Sam for a long moment with one eyebrow raised.

"Nah!" They said together.

Andi shook her head.

"I know. I know. I just… with what's coming for these folks…" Sam said letting out a soft sigh.

The three of them looked back at the house.

"I wonder how Dad's doing." Sam said swallowing the lump in his throat.

"I'd feel a lot better if we were there backing him up."

"I'd feel a lot better if he were here backing us up."

"Boys…" Andi said softly. "He'll be fine… and we'll be fine." Andi said softly, she could only hope that she was right on this. She didn't want them worrying about their father. She knew that John could handle himself. She also knew that they could handle themselves and she could hope that they would finish what John Winchester had started.

SPNSPN

Sam pursed his lips together as he looked at the house. "This is weird."

"What?" Dean asked looking at his brother, his brows furrowed in confusion.

"After all of these years we're finally here. It doesn't seem real."

Andi bit her lip. She didn't want to put her two sense in at all, after all it was a moment for them. It was a war for them to finish and she was along for the ride. She just wished that before John had left that he would have given her the answer of who had killed her father. It would have given her some peace of mind instead of wondering… always wondering for the past eleven years who had killed her father.

"We just gotta keep our heads and do our job, like always."

"Yeah, but this isn't like always." Sam said swallowing the lump that formed in his throat.

"True." Dean said realizing what Sam was trying to point out.

"Dean… ah… I wanna thank you."

"For what?" Dean asked in confusion.

"For everything. You've always had my back you know? You too Andi. Even when I couldn't count on anyone I could always count on you two. And ah… I don't know I just wanted to let you know. Just in case."

"Whoa whoa whoa, are you kidding me?" Dean snapped at his little brother.

"What?"

"I have to agree with Dean on this one." Andi said with a firm nod on her head.

"Don't say just in case something happens to you. I don't wanna hear that freaking speech man. Nobody's dying tonight. Not us, not that family, nobody. Except that demon. That evil son of a bitch ain't getting any older than tonight, you understand me."

"He's right Sam. Don't ever talk like that again. If you do, I'm gonna Gibb's slap you." Andi said crossing her arms giving him a look.

SPNSPN

Dean held his phone to his ear praying that his father would answer his call. It was after midnight so it should have been finished. "Dad's not answering."

"Maybe Meg was late? Maybe cell reception's bad." Sam said looking at his brother thinking of the possible reasons of why John wouldn't be answering the phone.

"Yeah well." Dean hung up his cell phone pursing his lips together letting out a soft breath still not liking the idea of what his father had done.

The radio began to start chattering with static.

"Dean wait. Listen." Sam rolled the dial on the radio hearing more static come and go.

Andi pursed her lips together into a thin line as the wind began to pick up outside. She looked out the window and saw the lights in the house flicker. "Well… that tells me that something is going on."

"It's coming." Sam confirming he knew what was going on.

The three of them got out of the car fairly quickly.

SPNSPN

Dean used his card to slide the lock on the front door open and the three of them entered the home silently.

Sam entered the lounge first followed by Andi.

Dean was confronted by Monica's husband swinging a bat missing Dean's head and smashing a lamp causing Andi to jump.

"Get out of my house!"

Dean quickly closed in on Charlie and grappled with him grabbing the bat.

"Get out of my house!"

"Please please. Mr. Holden please." Sam said trying to calm him down.

Dean took control of the fight with Charlie and swung him against the wall and held the bat against his throat.

"Dean." Andi said in shock coming quickly to where the older Winchester was.

"I got it Andi." Dean said sharply to her. "Be quiet." He looked at Charlie. "And listen We're trying to help you."

"Charlie? Is everything okay?" Monica said from upstairs.

"Monica get the baby!" Charlie yelled to his wife.

"Don't go into the nursery!" Sam yelled at the same time.

"You stay away from her!" Charlie said trying to get away from Dean.

Dean backhanded him knocking him out.

"Dean!" Andi said in shock. "Sam get Monica."

Sam nodded his head running up the stairs.

Andi looked at Dean. "I'll get him out of here. Go and help your brother."

"You sure?"

"Yes." Andi said as she grabbed a hold of Charlie. "Go and help Sam." She began to drag Charlie out of the home.

SPNSPN

Charlie shoved Andi away from him when Sam came out of the house with Monica who were both coughing.

"You get away from my family." Charlie said snarling.

"No Charlie don't. They saved us."

Dean ran out joining them holding Rosie close to his chest.

"I mean they saved us." Monica said as she began to cry. She took Rosie from Dean.

Charlie wrapped his arms around both of them.

Monica looked at the three of them. "Thank you."

The three hunters looked at the house that was burning. They saw the demon was silhouetted in the burning nursery standing still.

Sam went to head back inside having a death wish. "It's still in there!"

Dean grabbed a hold of his arm. "Sam. Sam, no."

Sam struggled against Dean.

Andi grabbed his other arm.

"Dean, Andi let me go, it's still in there."

"No. It's burning to the ground, it's suicide."

"I don't care."

"We do."

They both looked up as the flames raised and the demon disappeared.

SPNSPN

Dean paced back and forth with his phone to his ear.

Sam sat on the bed with his lips pursed rubbing the knot that was on the back of his head from where Andi had hit him.

Andi had a makeshift ice pack on her hand from hitting Sam from his idiotic move that he was going to make.

"Come on Dad, answer your phone damn it." He hung up the phone and looked at Andi and Sam. "Something's wrong."

Sam stared at the wall giving the wall a look.

"You hear me? Something's wrong."

"If you had just let me go in there, I could've ended it all."

"Sam, the only thing you would have ended was your life." Dean snapped looking at his brother giving him a look.

"You don't know that." Sam said giving his brother a look.

Dean moved toward the bed. "So what, you're just willing to sacrifice yourself, is that it?"

Sam stood up getting off of the bed. "Yeah. Yeah you're damn right I am."

"Well that's not going to happen, not as long as I'm around."

"What the hell are you talking about Dean, we've been searching for this demon our whole lives. It's the only thing we've ever cared about."

"Sam I wanna waste it. I do. Okay? But it's not worth dying over." Dean said shaking his head.

"What?"

"I mean it. If hunting this demon means getting yourself killed then I hope we never find the damn thing."

"That thing killed Jess. That thing killed Mom."

Andi let out a soft breath rubbing her temples.

"You said yourself once, that no matter what we do, they're gone, and they're never coming back."

Sam grabbed a hold of Dean and shoved him against the wall making it raddle. "Don't you say that, not you! Not after all this don't you say that."

"Sam look. The three of us… that's all we have… and it's all I have. Sometimes I feel like I'm barely holding it together man… and without you or dad…" Dean said quietly and he looked at Andi. "Or even that Andi…"

"Dad…" Sam said upset realizing that he wasn't there. He released Dean turning and walking across the room.

Dean stood where he was taking deep breaths.

"He should have called by now. Try him again." As a few tears built up in Sam's eyes.

Dean dialed his father's number again.

Andi shook her head. "You done now?" Andi asked softly. "Done throwing a fit?"

Sam looked at his best friend wiping the tears away that had fallen from his eyes before. He didn't answer her question. He knew not to, because he knew it was a question that wasn't meant to be answered.

"Good." She said with a nod of her head. "Because we got other things to worry about. The demon we can worry about another day. Your dad is someone we got to worry about."

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This is the end of chapter 21. Please leave a review and let me know what you guys think. I do apologize that this one is a bit shorter than the other ones, but I think that it is probably better this way to have it a bit shorter. One chapter left guys and that will be the end of this story. *gasp* Never thought that I would make it this far with this one and would get so many reviews and so many people liking Andi so far. What did you guys think of Andi fighting with John again? Who do you guys think John should attack when Yellow Eyes is inside of him? Should he still attack Dean or will he turn the tables and attack Andi? Please let me know in a review. I hope to have the final chapter out soon. Until next time guys.