Chapter 28

Madeline just couldn't stay still, she was the pacing around the conference room like a caged animal. Bad thing the FBI was already here, and apparently, it was a good team. Good, her kids were with her again, trying to build a fort using chairs a table and legal pad paper. Not surprisingly, they only got a mess done. Bad, the boys hadn't texted her yet. She had put the phone she used to talk to them on vibrate, and hid it in her sock. They said that when they managed to kill the shifter they would text. They had given her instructions as what to say about them. But they were still in DC. And it was driving her mad.

Sometimes she felt that the whole reason for her existence was to put others in danger. Especially Sam and Dean. Every mess she found herself in, they seemed to be the ones to clean up.

Some family she was.

Then she felt her phone vibrating.

She stopped pacing and sat on the floor, the table blocking her from the view of the camera. She took the phone out and read the message. It was from Sam.

Found its hiding place, but it wasnt there. It knows you're in the motel with us. Probably that you're in NCIS too. Working on getting you to a safer place. Be ready. S

She read the message two times before deleting it and putting the phone back on her sock.

' What are those two planning? ' She thought. ' I hope they're not stupid enough to get close to here. '

She just sat on the floor, waiting for something to happen. For the boys to call her.

She wondered if they had Bobby in on what was going on. She knew that whatever would happen, was going to happen faster than the older hunter could get here. But she didn't like the idea of leaving him in the dark. Especially since the navy feds knew that she was connected to him. She had said that Bobby only knew the boys through her, not being close to them. But she wouldn't bet anything in them believing her.

She observed her kids playing, thinking about how this situation was going to change things between them and their grandfather. She wanted them to have a grandfather. She remembered how much she loved her grandmother, how much she had learned from her. It's a kind of connection that she couldn't give them.

Now, with Tim finding out about Sam and Dean, her relationship with him would never be the same. Tim was a man of science, he wouldn't believe her if she told her the truth. And she wouldn't put him face to face with a monster, to convince him, the danger wasn't worth it. She might have to move away, taking her kids away from him.

It was a shame really.

But the boys were worth it. They were her family first, and she and the kids have a connection to them that ran deeper than it did with Tim and his family.

She sighed and leaned against the wall.

She hoped they would come up with a plan soon.