Here is the next part. At first, I thought that I could do this episode in two chapters, but when I started writing I realised that nope, it will have to be three chapters.
Last chance for any name suggests for Jondy's teddy.
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Chapter 26.
Episode 13 (Route 666).
For the next few hours the twins introduced Jondy to the wonders of television, or more specifically the programs on the television. It was important to educate Jondy so that she could blend in with everyone...or at least that's the line they will give to dad and uncle Sam if they catch them watching telly past bedtime.
…Even though they never actually go to sleep if they are left in the motel by themselves. Sure, they'll get ready for bed and lay in the bed, but they won't sleep until uncle Sam and dad get back.
So, soon after uncle Sam and dad had left, the twins had pulled her to the bed, turned on the telly and flicked through the shows until they landed on one of the most important and best shows in the world… Scooby-Doo.
That talking dog is awesome.
This was one of the first programs they had ever seen. Dad had introduced it to them a few days after they bumped into each other, because he said it was a classic that every child should watch, and it quickly became one of their favourites, along with Looney Toons.
Most mornings the boys will be sat watching either show quietly while waiting for either uncle Sam or dad to wake up. Usually when dad wakes up first, he'll join them, also getting engrossed in the episode, because 'Scooby-Doo is awesome' is his defence…and something about Daphne being hot.
Anyway, Jondy had started off confused by the whole thing, but after a couple of episodes she got captivated in it.
In fact, the transgenic children are so stuck into the television that they missed the sound of the Impala pulling into the motel parking lot.
They didn't however miss the sound of knocking at the door.
"It me" Sam's voice comes from behind the door.
"Me who?" Alec asks, walking over to the door.
"You know exactly who I am Alec" they could all hear the eyeroll.
Alec unlocks the door and lets Sam in, "I think we should have some kind of password, so we know who's on the other side of the door".
"You have super senses. You know if it's me or your dad at the door before we've reached the door" Sam places a box of pie on the table, "and if its not me or your dad, then you know not to answer it".
"But still, having a password for the door is cool. It's like we're spies" Alec grins.
Sam shakes his head with a grin on his face.
"You're back later then you should have been…and where's dad?" Ben asks.
"Uh…he's talking to Cassie some more" Sam says as casually as he could but knows he failed when he get's three raised eyebrows looking at him. Time to distract, "I figured you lot would still be up past your bedtime-".
"It's important to educate Jondy on things that normal children watch so that she can blend in with everyone" Alec defends.
"Yes, this talking dog has been very educational" Jondy nods in agreement.
"-so, I got some pie to snack on, then it'll be bed" Sam finishes.
"And dad will be back by the time we go to bed" Ben looks at Sam.
It was time like these that Sam was really reminded that these boys are his brothers clones, because that look that Ben was giving him was exactly one that Dean would give. It was the 'don't-bullshit-me' 'I-can-tell-if-you-lie-to-me' 'just-try-it' face.
"I don't know, they may be talking for a while. Plus, he'll have to walk back…he may have to just spend the night there. A house that big will have a spare room".
"Or Cassie can drive dad back…or dad can call you and you can pick him up".
"It'll probably be easier for him to stay there" Sam opens the pie box up, trying not to look at the child.
"But dad's stuff is here so, it's easier for him to come back" Ben insists.
"Let's just eat the pie" Sam says.
Up until that point Alec had been about to take a mouthful of pie, happy to let his brother handle the situation of their dad not being here… However, now Sam was trying way to hard to distract them and it made Alec pause.
…the pie…uncle Sam was using one of their favourite food to try and distract them.
"You're diverting and distracting" Jondy states, "and not very well".
Alec narrows his eyes and drops the forkful of pie, "why is dad not coming back?"
"I said he might not come back, it depends how long it takes him to talk to Cassie" Sam knew he was screwed now both boys had turned on him.
"No, you got the pie to distract us, because you already knew dad wasn't coming back" Alec crosses his arms.
"Besides, if dad was talking to Cassie about the hunt, then why aren't you there to?" Ben also folds his arms.
Sam groans, even Jondy had her arms folded and was staring at him. If Dean doesn't sort things out with Cassie and get laid…he will honestly kill him.
"Okay, you know that your dad and Cassie know each other. That they had dated" Sam sighs.
"Ahh, yes. Thank you for reminding us of that grossness" Alec nods, "continue".
"Well, that's what they are talking about" he hopes anyway, "they are going to sort out their feelings for each other".
Alec beings fake vomiting and Ben frowns, "but dad doesn't do 'chick-flick' moments, unless it's me or Alec. Even then he doesn't do feelings all that much because he's dad".
"Yeah, I know, but sometimes you just have to talk your feelings out" Sam shrugs, this was so not a conversation he wants to have. This should be Dean's job.
"He can talk his feelings out with us instead of her. She's the one who's been making dad act all weird this whole hunt, so really he should limit the amount he interacts with her".
"Well that's why he has to talk to Cassie. To make everything less weird-".
"That's fine, but why isn't dad coming back here?" Alec asks.
Sam sighs, "because it could be a very long…talk".
"They can talk over the phone" Ben challenges.
"This sort of talk needs to be face to face".
"They aren't going to be kissing are they!" Alec suddenly panics, "cuz that's gross and dad will get cooties".
Hopefully he should be doing a lot more then kissing or Sam will be pissed that he had to deal with this for nothing, "I'm sure that they will just be talking. It'll just be a long talk".
"So long that he can't come back" Ben raises an eyebrow.
"Yes".
"They should have talked earlier today so that he would be back".
"Yeah, well unfortunately that's just the way things have gone" Sam prays that's the final word on the matter, even though both twins have pointed looks, raised eyebrows and crossed arms.
The room is silent for a moment and Sam's worried the boys are gearing up for round two.
"What kind of pie is it?" Jondy asks with a tilt of her head, feeling that the situation of where Dean is, had been solved…at least enough for her anyway.
Sam was finally drifting off to sleep in his bed with the three little transgenic's tuck into Dean's bed. It had been a long night.
First, his pie distraction hadn't worked, the only one who ate anything was Jondy. Sam, himself, could only eat a couple of mouthfuls because he had two little eyes silently burning holes into the back of his head. Then all three children got ready for bed quietly. Too quietly for Sam's liking. It was un-nerving to have Alec so silent. He even got into bed without a fuss, which honestly was a little worrying. He tried to get the kid to perk up a little by telling him that it looked like he was right about the ghost truck and filling them in on everything else he and Dean had found out…but nope. They just nodded and kept silent.
Now though, the lights are off and everyone is in bed. He can hear the boys moving around in the bed, rolling over. Neither child sounds like they can get comfy, and Sam has a pretty good idea of why that is.
"Uncle Sam" a small voice reaches out from the darkness. Sam's not quite sure which boy it is though.
Sighing to himself, he opens his duvet, "come on", and in a flash to little boys are in his bed and curled up on either side of him.
Jondy stayed snuggled up in Dean's bed, cuddled up with her teddy, happy that Ben and Alec had left because they kept kicking her with all their unnecessary moving in the bed.
While Ben and Alec fell asleep quickly enough, Sam was wondering just how the hell Dean slept with these two boys either side of him at night, because they felt like little heaters. Somehow though, he eventual drifted off.
Due to a bit of a freak weather storm, even though it was only June, there is snow on the ground. This was the second time that the boys have seen snow since running from Manticore. The first time it snowed, they had been a bit apprehensive about it because their previous experience involved running bare foot in the snow with soldiers shooting at them. However, Dean had showed them just how much fun snow could be.
At the moment though, the twins couldn't careless about the snow on the ground. Their dad wasn't there to play in it with them. Plus, they couldn't even play at the moment if they wanted to because the Mayor had to go and get himself killed. Just like Alec said he would because he said those stupid last words that soon-to-be dead people always say in films.
So right now, the twins and Jondy are sitting patiently in the back off the Impala that is parked a little bit away from the crime scene while Sam talks to some cops.
As Dean hadn't returned to the motel that morning the twins were in a foul mood, which didn't get any better when Sam had told them to wait in the car.
Logically they knew they had to wait in the car, but they didn't care at the moment. They miss their dad.
Alec is keeping watch for Dean out one side of the Impala, while Ben is on the other. Jondy is sat in the middle playing with some of Alec's army men.
"There he is!" Ben exclaims, pressing himself up against the glass of the window.
Alec and Jondy move themselves so that the can watch as Dean treads through the snow towards Sam. The group of kittens use their heighten hearing to listen in on the conversation since Sam didn't park the Impala far enough for them to be out of hearing range.
"He's with me" Sam says to the cop, who nods and walks away. They can't see either brothers face as Sam turns to Dean, "where were you last night? You didn't make it back to the hotel".
"Well..."
"I'm guessing you guys worked things out?... No, you better have worked things out because I didn't deal with Ben and Alec's interrogation and silent treatment for nothing. Also, how do you sleep with them every night? They're like little heaters that don't turn off".
"They slept with you?"
"Well you weren't there, and they couldn't get to sleep. I think they're just used to sleeping next to someone…or more specially sleeping with you in the room at the very least. It was a new thing for them" Sam shrugs, "but seriously, heaters. The pair off them".
"I think I'm just used to their heat by now… They interrogated you?"
"Yeah, they were not happy with you not coming back to the motel. They wouldn't let up, not even when I tried distracting Alec with pie".
"Alec didn't eat pie?"
"Nope".
"What did you tell them?"
"First I said that you were talking to Cassie about the hunt-".
"They're to smart to go for that" Dean shakes his head.
"Yeah, I figured that out when Ben pulled of one of your don't bullshit me looks. In the end I just told them the truth. You went to Cassie's to talk about your feelings" Sam pauses before snorting, "Alec was so worried that you would start kissing instead of talking, leading you to get-".
"Cooties. Yeah. Genetically empowered super soldiers with high IQ's and they think cooties is a thing".
"I just said that you would stick with just talking. The talk of what you and Cassie actually got up to, is not my job and I wasn't about to tell him that you did a lot more then kissing when he can't even handle the kissing" Sam shakes his head, "It's at moments like those I wonder how they can be your clones".
"Hey, it'll come with age…then again…I think I'd rather them believe in cooties till they're twenty-five" Dean nods his head, as though agreeing with himself.
Ben and Alec share looks with each other. Frankly neither of them wanted to know what more the kissing meant. They both shudder with the thought of something worse then kissing.
…Plus, their dad now had cooties, so they can't hug or touch him for the next few hours till all the cooties are gone, because cooties are a real thing. The boys at the park from all those months ago, had told them so.
"Right anyway, what happened?" Dean asks.
"Every bone crushed. Internal organs turned to pudding. The cops are all stumped, it's like something ran him over" Sam explains.
"Something like a truck?"
"Yep".
"Tracks?"
"Nope" Sam shakes his head.
"What was the Mayor doing here anyway?"
"He owned the property. Bought it a few weeks ago".
"But he's white, he doesn't fit the pattern".
"Killings didn't happen up on the road. That doesn't fit either" Sam shrugs.
"We need some more info to try and figure this out" Dean says, and they start heading towards the Impala, "I'll go back to the newspaper, see if there's any links with the killing's back in the 60's with what's going on now. You can check out for any information and links down at the courthouse".
"Right and you wanting to do your research at the newspaper has nothing to do with Cassie?" Sam smirks.
"Shut up…and give me back my keys".
Sam rolls his eyes, smirk still present on his face, and throws over the keys as they reach the Impala. Climbing in, Dean turns around and grins at the children in the back.
"Hey kittens, miss me last night?"
He's hit with two raised eyebrows and unamused looks with arms crossed, followed with the silent treatment.
Sam scoffs, "now you're getting what I got".
"Shut up bitch".
"Jerk".
Dean start the engine and drives off down the road. Barely a minute passed before the silence breaks into an awkward atmosphere thanks to Jondy.
"So, what is more than kissing?" she asks innocently.
Dean almost swerves in shock before quickly gaining his composure, "what?"
"Well back at the crime scene Sam said that you and Cassie did more than just kissing. What's that?"
Dean glares at Sam, "really? You forgot to park further away so they couldn't hear".
"Oh, like you remembered their enhanced hearing back there" Sam says sarcastically.
"You haven't answered the question father" Alec say's tightly.
Dean raises an eyebrow, "father? Really?"
"Is that why you didn't come back to the motel? Because you were… 'more than kissing' with Cassie when you were supposed to be just talking" Ben tries not to sound resentful.
"We-".
Alec interrupts Dean, "now you have cooties. Which, yes. They are a real thing".
"I-".
Ben interrupts Dean next, "we were worried about you… You didn't even call us. Anything could have happened to you and we wouldn't have known".
"Hold up. When did you two become the parents and me the child" Dean says rhetorically, "I am a grown up, and I don't need your permission to go out. Okay yes, I should have called you to let you know I was fine, but I'm the parent and you're the children. I don't need the all clear from you two".
Sam just sits back and tries to hold back his sniggering.
"Okay, you are right. Cooties are real. However, you can't get them after you turn twenty-five" Dean tells Alec, "and yes, I was…'more than…kissing' Cassie", Dean bites out awkwardly, "but again that's something that you can't do till your twenty-five, so we won't go into details about it now".
Alec and Ben share a look and a small, quick nod, before Alec opens his mouth, "we are both still mad at you for not coming back or calling us".
"I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you".
Alec huffs, "we'll see".
Ben bites his lips. They knew that their dad had told Cassie about the supernatural when he shouldn't have… He trusts his dad, but what if…he told Cassie the truth about them. He seems to lose his sense around her, which Ben didn't like. If their dad wasn't focused he could get hurt. Ben didn't think that he would tell Cassie…but then again, he wasn't supposed to have told her about the monsters in the night.
"Dad…" Ben calls.
Dean sense the change in Ben. The boy's gone from mad to worried, "what's up Squirt?"
"You…you didn't tell Cassie the truth about… Alec and me? Did you?"
"What's there to tell? She already knows the truth…you two are my boys end of story".
"So, you didn't tell her how we were…created?"
"No, she doesn't know the details. Cassie only knows the important bit, that you're mine".
Ben grins and Alec sighs with a smile threatening to appear, "okay, fine…we're a little less mad at you".
Dean grins back, happy that the situation had been defused.
After dropping Sam off, Dean had gone to the newspaper with the three transgenics in toe, because Ben and Alec insisted on going with him, clearly not wanting him to be alone with Cassie again.
…this could be a problem for the future. He's found that women seem more interested in him since he had the boys, and that is always good… However, if the boys are going to be…possessive and clingy, this could be a problem. One he's going to have to try and put a stop to.
He loves his boys…but he's a twenty-seven-year-old man…he's got needs.
"Here" Cassie hands over a mug of tea.
Ben giggles to himself, knowing Dean hates tea.
"Thanks" Dean tries not to grimace at the sight of the tea, "so, I'm trying to find some link between those killings back in the '60s and what's going on now. There wasn't a lot about it in the paper".
"Not surprising. Probably minimal policework too. Back then equal justice under the law wasn't too literal around here".
"Well, that's not right" Jondy frowns.
"That's just the way it was back then sweetie" Cassie sighs.
Dean's phone rings, he sees it's Sam and puts it on speaker, "yeah".
"Ok, the courthouse records show that Mr and Mrs Mayor bought an abandoned property. The previous owner was the Dorian family for, like, 150 years".
"Dorian?"
"Yeah".
Dean turns to Cassie, "didn't you say the Dorian family used to own this paper?"
Cassie nods "along with everything else around here. Real pillars of the town".
"Right, right" Dean clicks a few links on the computer, before humming, "that's interesting".
"What?" Sam asks.
"This Cyrus Dorian. He vanished in April of '63. The case was investigated but never solved. It was right around the time the string of murders was going on back then".
"Well I pulled a bunch of papers up on the Dorian place, it must have been in bad shape when the Mayor bought".
"Why do you think that?" Ben asks.
"The first thing he did was bulldoze the place".
"Mayor Todd knocked down the Dorian place?" Dean asks Cassie.
"It was a big deal. One of the oldest houses left. He made the front page".
"You got a date?" Dean asks Sam.
"Uh… The 3rd of last month".
Dean clicks around on the computer a bit more before reading some text, "Mayor Todd bulldozed the Dorian family home on the 3rd. The first killing was the very next day".
"Coincidence? I think not" Alec shakes his head.
"So… the ghost is connected to the Dorian family?" Jondy asks.
"Looks like it" Dean nods as he prints out the articles he'd found.
"Great, we're a step closer to finishing this hunt" Ben grins.
Sam hands Cassie a cup of tea to try and help calm her, while Dean sits next to her on the couch. Ben is squeezed on next to Dean with Jondy sat next to him on the arm of the chair. Mrs Robinson is sat on one of the chairs opposite and Sam sits in the other chair with Alec standing next to him, but leaning against the side of it.
After leaving the newspaper and picking up Sam, the group had gone to a diner to have some food before returning back to the motel to put all the information together and figure out the next move. Only a couple of hours into it, Dean's phone had rung with Cassie on the other end of it because the ghost truck had appeared at her house. So, of course the five of them, Dean leading the pack, headed straight down to the house.
Which is where they all are now, sat in the Robinson's lounge.
The cup in Cassie's hand rattles, due to her shakiness, "maybe you could throw a couple of shots in that".
"You didn't see who was driving the truck" Sam asks.
"It seemed to be no one. Everything was moving so fast. And then it was just gone. Why didn't it kill us?"
"Whoever was controlling the truck wants you afraid first" Dean explains.
"And that's why some horror movies don't have higher body counts, because the killers mess around just scaring people for most of the movie, wasting what could have been killing time" Alec rolls his eyes.
Sam turns to Dean with one of his bitchfaces, "you actually let them watch horror movies".
"No" Dean says way to quickly, "…maybe a couple, but only the crappy ones that aren't really that scary".
"Let's face it, Freddy could have killed more people had he not messed around with scaring them first and just got straight to killing" Alec shrugs.
"Who's Freddy?" Jondy tilts her head to the side slightly.
"Whoa, I did not let them watch that one" Dean defends himself when Sam's bitchface hardens, he looks at Alec, "when the hell did you watch 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'?"
"Ages ago" Ben pipes up, "it was after a hunt, so you were worn out and asleep," he turns to Jondy, "Freddy is a character in a horror movie".
"We weren't so tired, so instead of waking you up because we were board, we decided to watch some telly", Alec says, "that was one of the things that happened to be on".
Dean groans and closes his eyes for a second. This was not the time or place for this, "we will discuss this later".
Both boy's pout and frown at their dad, while Jondy's eyebrows cross in confusion. She'll have to watch this movie with this 'Freddy' character at some point.
Sam sighs before turning to Cassie's mother, "Mrs Robinson, Cassie said that your husband saw the truck before he died".
Cassie watch her mother almost pale, "mom?"
"…Oh… Martin was under a lot of stress. You can't be sure about what he was seeing".
"Well after tonight I think we can be reasonably sure he was seeing a truck" Dean wants to scoff at the mother, "what happened tonight, you and Cassie are marked. Ok? Your daughter could die. So, if you know something now would be a really good time to tell us about it".
"Dean…" Cassie looks at him.
"Yes. Yes, he said he saw a truck" Mrs Robinson sighs sadly.
"Did he know who it belonged to?" Sam asks.
"He thought he did".
"And who was that?"
Mrs Robinson gets more visibly upset, "Cyrus. A man named Cyrus".
"What are the odds" Alec mutters.
Sam and Dean look at each other, before Dean grabs the articles that he had printed out earlier, from his bag and shows them to Mrs Robinson.
"Is this Cyrus?"
"Cyrus Dorian died more than 40 years ago".
"How do you know he died, Mrs Robinson? The paper's said he went missing. How do you know he died?" Dean questions softly.
Mrs Robinson frowns, "…we were all very young. I dated Cyrus while, I was also seeing Martin…in secret of course. Inter-racial couples didn't go over too well back then. When I broke it off with Cyrus and when he found out about Martin, I don't know, he, changed. His hatred. His hatred was frightening".
"The murders" Sam states.
"…There were rumours. People of colour disappearing into some kind of a truck. Nothing was ever done", Mrs Robinson sniffles, "Martin and I… Martin and I, we were going to be, uh, married in that little church near here, but last minute we decided to elope as we didn't want the attention".
"And Cyrus?"
Mrs Robinson sobs, "the day we set for the wedding, was the day someone set fire to the church. There was a children's choir practising in there. They all died".
After a short minute of silence, Ben asks softly, "did the attacks stop after that?"
"No", she chokes out more sobs, "there was one more. One night that truck came for Martin. Cyrus beat him something terrible. But Martin, you see, Martin got loose. And he started hitting Cyrus and he just kept hitting him and hitting him".
"Why didn't you call the cops?" Dean sighs.
"Equal justice under the law wasn't too literal around here" Jondy recites, remembering what Cassie had said earlier that day.
Mrs Robinson nods her head, tears rolling down her face, "this was forty years ago. He called on his friends, Clayton Soames and Jimmy Anderson, and they put Cyrus' body into the truck and they rolled it into the swamp at the end of his land and all three of them kept that secret for all of these years".
"And now all three are gone" Sam looks over to Dean.
"And so is Mayor Todd-" Dean begins.
"I'm pretty sure he's dead because of horror movie rules" Alec puts that out there.
Ben rolls his eyes, "Alec, shut up".
"Just saying".
"Well don't" Dean looks at the boy before turning back to Cassie's mother, "now he said that you of all people would know that he's not a racist. Why would he say that?"
"He was a good man. He was a young deputy back then investigating Cyrus' disappearance. Once he figured out what Martin and the others had done he…he did nothing, because he also knew what Cyrus had done" Mrs Robinson explains.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Cassie looks at her mother, shock written on her face.
"I thought I was protecting them… And now there's no one left to protect".
"Yes, there is" Dean looks at Cassie.
"If this was a horror movie, this would be when the screen cuts to black or the next scene for dramatic affect" Alec murmurs.
"Shut up with the movie comparisons" Ben groans.
So, next chapter will be that last one for this episode, and then the next chapter or two will be with Bobby!
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