Chapter 35

"You better hurry up and leave before the paramedics get here." Bobby advises the brothers.

"What are you gonna tell them?" Dean asks.

"You think you're the ones that invented lying to the cops?" He jokes. "I'll figure something out... Here, take this..." He hands Sam the 'Key of Salomon' book. "You might need it..."

"Thanks, Bobby... Thanks for everything." The youngest hugging him.

"Be careful, all right?" Dean tells the old guy.

"You get back your Dad and my Becky... Just let me know that she's okay when you find her..."

"You don't wanna to see her?..."

"I think it's more her avoiding me... But, tell her that I understand now..." Bobby sadly comes.

"I will..." Dean's patting his shoulder.

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"We don't even know where to look or what to find there..." Sam asks once sitting in the car.

"We'll think of something on the way..." Dean just answers, putting on the radio.

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A few blocks from Jefferson City town centre, they park the Impala on a side road following the river.

Sam is reading the book Bobby gave him, taking notes; while Dean is preparing their gears.

"You've been quiet..." Sam says.

"Just getting ready..." Dean mumbles.

"I'm sure she's fine, Dean."

"Who?"

"Stop pretending you don't understand!" Dean stays silent, continuing to ruffle in the trunk.

Suddenly, turning another page of the book, Sam freezes and focuses on a drawing. He takes a white pencil and starts to duplicate it in a corner of the trunk.

"Hey! What are you doing to my car?" His brothers bursts out.

"I'm drawing one of those devil's traps... So, Demons won't get through it or inside it..."

"So?"

"So, we have a place to hide the Colt while we go get Dad..."

"What are you talking about?... We're bringing it with us!"

"Can't do that, Dean... We only got three bullets left... We can't just use them on any Demon... I want THE Demon!"

"No, we have it to save Dad, Sam!"

"Do you know how pissed he would be if we used all the bullets?"

"I don't care what Dad wants!... Since when do you care what he wants, huh?" Dean yells.

"We wanna kill this Demon! And I though you too... They are expecting us to bring it. They get it and they will kill us all. That Colt is our only leverage and you know it!... We cannot have the gun with us, Dean..."

"Fine!" Dean finally resigned.

"I'm Serious, man..."

"I said 'fine', Sammy!" He throws the Colt inside the trunk and Sam finishes his drawings.

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They leave the car, after being sure it was totally locked and Demon sealed and walk towards the city.

All of a sudden, Dean's phone rings. He looks at the number who called and doesn't recognise it. "Who is this?"

"Dean... Dean... It's Eli..." The line is very bad, full of interferences.

"Eli?... Where the hell are you?"

"I don't... much time... You know how many... had to walk to... stupid pay phone!... Whatever... I'm in Jeffers... City, Missouri..." The line is slowly fading away.

"Eli!... We're in Jefferson too... Where are you?"

"Meet me at the... Cafe's on Main..."

"What Cafe?... Say again..."

"Joe's... It's Joe's on Main..."

"Do you know where Dad is?"

"Come to... know... fast..."

"What? Eli?... Joe's Cafe on Main... We're heading there now!" He hears the occupied tone, the line just died. "Let's go!" He says with finally a little smile on his face, which made Sam smile too.

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Arriving in Main Street, they easily spot Joe's Cafe, with his huge frontage representing a funny dog drinking a huge mug of coffee. They enter the place, looking left and right. Eli seems not to be there yet. They sit in the back, Dean facing the entrance door, his leg trembling nervously.

"We'll have to check if she's not possessed..." Sam comes slowly.

"Yeah! I tough of that." The waitress arrives to take their order. "Coffee, black, please... And a glass of water..."

"Coffee for me too… Thank you..." Sam adds.

She quickly serves the two men; smiling in a coquettish way to Dean, that surprisingly doesn't notice. He empties half of the glass of water in the plant pot next to them and replaces it by holy water from a flack he gets out of his jacket.

Eli finally enters the place and sits next to Sam. "Guys, you cannot imagine how happy I am to see you... This was a hell of a trip all along!"

"Here, have some water... You want me to order something else for you?" Dean says, holding the glass out to her.

"Yeah! I'm starving... Didn't eat since we left you guys in Salvation!..." She takes it and drinks avidly from it, the two brothers staring at her. Nothing happens. "What? Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Hum... We thought you were... You know... No news and all..." Sam shyly tries.

"I had to ditch my phone to trace them... Everything went so fast... Not really time to make sophisticated plans..." Dean looks at her with a question mark on his face. "But first things first... Can we order something to go?... Like a cheeseburger and fries?... Think I earn that!"

"Is Dad still alive?" Dean couldn't wait any more.

"I think so... They brought him here alive at least..."

"So, you know where he is?"

"Yes... But, it's going to be complicated... They keep him in an apartment complex, three blocks away from here, called the Sunrise..."

"Let's check on it right now..." Dean says already paying their orders.