Chapter 28

I rolled and pulled my gun out. I got a couple shots off at her, but didn't actually hit her cause I was trying to stand back up at the same time. There's also the fun fact that dead chicks can move pretty fast. Dean and James started screaming my name as soon as they heard the first shot. I told them I was fine and to take care of dad.

The dead chick rushed at me again and this time a drilled her 4 times. She stopped dead in her tracks and looked at me like I was nuts. I fired one more round and hit her right between the eyes. She stared at me for another second, then she dropped her shovel and ran off. I was still standing there wondering why the dead chick was carrying around a shovel when Dean ran up next to me.

He asked me if I was hurt and I shook my head no. I walked over, picked up the shovel, and then headed back to the wall. I headed up the rope with Dean close behind me. James made some crack about Batman and Robin, but I wasn't listening. I was still baffled by the shovel thing.

We got back to the vehicles without a problem. Dean and James helped dad into my Jeep and then James got in the back. Dean and Sam got into the Impala and we drove back to the motel. On the way there James and I found out that dad had only been at the bottom of that cliff for 2 days. He was looking for the Kymorii in the dark and just walked right off it.

Dad didn't wanna go to the hospital, so I took care of his injuries as best as I could. It was a good thing I had a couple jump bags in my Jeep. I took him into mine and James' room to patch him up. I sent the guys out to get me some Plaster of Paris and some extra gauze so I could make a cast for his wrist. I wasn't sure they could get what I needed; I mostly just wanted them out of the way so I could do my job.

Neither of us said a word while I helped him take his shirts off and taped up his ribs. After I popped his shoulder back into place, I was securing a couple ice packs to his shoulder with an ace bandage when he asked me how I was doing at school. I told him I was fine. He asked me about James and I told him that I'd met him at school and we'd been dating for a couple months. He asked me if James treated me good and I told him that was none of his business.

He started to say something about my life being his business cause he was my father and I cut him off. I told him he gave up the right to call himself that the day he left Laura and me at Caleb's which his why I had started calling him John instead of dad. He mumbled something about Lawrence and I told him I knew all about what had happened there. I filled him in on my and Laura's visit to mom's Uncle Tim. He just listened while I probed his wrist with my fingers to find the broken bones and set them.

Dad didn't say another word to me until I finished setting his wrist. He asked me if I wanted to know why he'd left us at Caleb's and I told him no. I was curious, but my brain said there was no excuse good enough for giving us up a second time. I wrapped his wrist with a couple ace bandages and then made him put on a sling until the guys got back with the plaster if they could find it. Dad whispered a quiet thank you to me and then didn't say another word until the guys got back.

Dad was sitting on the bed watching TV and I was staring very hard at the shovel when they got back. I was concentrating so hard on it that I didn't even notice they were back. James came up and put his hand on my shoulder. I didn't even hear what he said, but he startled me and I grabbed his wrist and flipped him onto the floor. I was on top of him when I realized who he was and he just grabbed the back of my head and pulled me into a nice long kiss.

When we got up off the floor I could tell by the looks on dad's and Dean's faces that they really didn't like James kissing me like that. I knew he was going to get a stern talking to from Dean later. James made some comment about knowing better than to do that to me by now that made Sam and me laugh. Hearing Sam laugh reminded me of Laura and I got a little sad. I shook it off and went to work on dad's cast.

Sam went into the other room to do his homework while James and Dean played poker. When I finished the cast, we collected Sam and went out to get something to eat. It was kinda nice to just hang out with my dad, boyfriend, and brothers. We sat in the little café until closing time and then went back to the motel.

The pain killers I had given dad were starting to wear off by the time we got back. He didn't say anything, but Dean noticed and said something to me. I gave him 1 more pain killer and a sleeping pill and then sent him into mine and James' room to sleep. The rest of us stayed up chatting until sunrise. Sam wanted to know all about life in college so James and I answered all his questions.

When dad woke up in the morning, he found us all crashed out in Sam and Dean's room. James and I were in one bed, Sam was on the other, and Dean was lying on a sleeping bag between the 2 beds. I woke up when the door closed and saw him standing there watching us. I asked him if there was something wrong and he said no. I wiggled out of James' arms and walked back into the other room with him, leaving the connecting doors open. I told him I needed to check his ribs and his shoulder so he sat on the bed.

It only took a few minutes to check him out. He started going over the research again and asked if we had found anything new. I told him that James and Sam figured we were dealing with a Kymorii and that we had found a witness to one of her abductions. I told him about how the witness thought he recognized the girl as some one who was killed here in Bishop. He asked what I thought the next move should be so I told him that I thought we needed more info on the girl and her death.

He said he would handle that and I should go back to bed for a few more hours. I didn't argue, I just climbed into the bed as he was walking out of the motel. Just before the door closed, he came back in and asked me about the shovel. I told him the Kymorii had tried to hit me with it a couple times. He asked why I had brought it back with us and I told him that I just had the feeling there was something important about it.

He nodded and then told me to get some sleep. I watched him walk out of the room and then snuggled down into the blankets. I was just about to fall asleep when Dean came into the room. He asked me where dad was and I told him. He said ok and then lay down next to me on top of the blankets. We were both back to sleep a few seconds later.