"I need your help," Bryan replied, swallowing.

Meredith could tell from the look on his face that asking for help wasn't easy for him. She had a hunch about what Bryan needed help with, but she hoped it wouldn't be true, for the Gallagher family's sake.

"With what?" Meredith asked. Dean gave his wife a tight squeeze as he held her to him.

"Something's come up. I don't know much about the demon problem you've been dealing with, but I think it may be the same thing," Bryan answered. Meredith and Dean exchanged glances, both worried for their own separate reasons.

"What, you've got a revenge seeking demon on your ass like we do?" Dean asked, making light of the situation in the way only he could make it seem almost appropriate.

"Join the club. You're a little late on that train," Meredith said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Mer," Dean scolded, gently. He knew that she didn't agree with the Gallagher's parenting style but the both of them understood it.

"Look, we tried to ignore it but-," Bryan started.

"You can't ignore something like that, Bryan! This has been of issue for a while now and you're just now getting involved? I just-, I don't get it, okay? I'm sorry," Meredith huffed.

Bryan nodded slowly, "You're right."

"Yeah, I am! Wait, what?" Meredith asked back. She hadn't expected him to cave that easily.

"Yes. You are. When you warned us about something, we should've listened. Now we're getting these calls… and every now and then it feels like someone's watching us," Bryan explained.

Dean took in a deep breath, "And you need our help finding out who it is?"

Bryan shook his head, "No. I know who it is. I need your helping tracking it."

"What about your kids?" Meredith asked, softly.

"They don't have to know. Kitty and I talked about it and we decided that it'd be best if only one of us come over and ask for help. That way, we can take this thing out and make it discreet as possible. We've kept it from them all their lives. There's no reason to change now," Bryan answered. Meredith just stared at him, accepting his answer, still with a judgmental look on her face. "Look, I know I'm asking a lot of you but I wouldn't be asking if I wasn't serious."

Meredith examined the desperate look on Bryan's face before sighing, "Yeah, okay. We'll help."

"Thank you. I just want to get rid of the problem so that we can get back to-," Bryan started.

"Normal," Dean interjected.

"Yes. That," Bryan said, shortly.

Dean nodded, "We understand."

"Should I come over tomorrow? We'll discuss details?" Bryan suggested.

Meredith laughed, "Hah! No. Come inside. We'll work it out now. Oh, and I hope you still take your coffee black." Dean and Bryan exchanged glances.

"She's still quite a pistol, isn't she?" Bryan chuckled.

"More than you know," Dean replied.

"Come on, boys. We have a whole lot of work to do now," Meredith encouraged, turning around and pushing the door open, letting both Dean and Bryan into the house. She closed the door behind Bryan, locking it, and double checking the outside just to make sure nothing was out there.

~Flashback~

"Yeah, I'll take a shot of vodka, thanks," a man said, coming right up next to me while Meredith sat at the bar, patiently awaiting her husband's arrival. It had been her idea that she arrive at the bar early while her husband showered up from their day's work on the job they were working. Sam had decided to stay back at the motel and the two men had been courteous enough to let her shower first. So here she was, sitting at a bar, in a roadhouse, looking smokin' in her skinny jeans, and reading a book while waiting for Dean.

"Anything for you, Miss?" the bartender asked, shooting her a flirtatious and sweet smile. She chuckled at his use of the word 'miss'. She rubbed a finger over her wedding ring, making sure that it hadn't fallen off or something.

"I'll take another shot of this, thanks," she answered. He nodded, taking my shot glass and pouring my drink first.

The man sitting next to her raised an eyebrow when he saw her choice of liquor, "Jack Daniels?"

"Yep," Meredith answered.

"Not many women I know can take hard liquor like that," he remarked.

"Uh huh," Meredith sounded, hoping to not interest him at all.

"Here you go: one shot of vodka and one shot of Jack," the bartender said, placing their shot glasses down in front of them.

"Can you put this on my-," Meredith started.

"Allow me," the man interjected. Meredith raised an eyebrow, shooting the man a funny look. The bartender instead, just nodded and went on with his bartending duties.

"I'm married, you know," Meredith said to the man.

"I noticed. The ring?" the man said back. Meredith opened my mouth to say something but the next thing he said shocked her even more. "It's okay. I am too." He held up his left hand, showing her the ring on his finger.

"So what? You just run around buying married women drinks?" Meredith asked back, skeptically.

"Yeah," Bryan shrugged. "By the way, the job you're working? It's the father, not the driver. Harry Glass framed the driver and then murdered him so those bones your burned tonight, aren't going to do anything."

Meredith looked over at the man, her eyes widened and body tense, "Who the hell are you?"

"Bryan Gallagher," the man replied, jovial, relaxed, and extremely entertained. "My wife and I are working the same job as you and your husband."

"I don't believe you," Meredith shot back, remaining at a distance, and on guard.

"Why not?" Bryan asked back.

"I'll believe in Casper the friendly ghost when I actually find a hunter that's actually willing to work with other hunters – let alone give them information on a job," Meredith replied, suspiciously.

Bryan shrugged simply, "My wife and are different than the rest. We don't get the whole 'this is my job. Stay out of it' mindset. You know, you're going to have to shake my hand at some point."

Meredith knew she didn't have to, but something told her that he was telling the truth. She slowly extended her hand out to him, "Meredith Winchester."

Just then, there were footsteps behind us, "Hi, honey. Sorry, I'm late, but I wanted to make sure our suspicions were right before we burned any bones."

"Kitty, this is Meredith Winchester," Bryan introduced, as his wife sat down at the bar next to her husband.

"Winchester, huh? How's John doing these days?" Kitty asked back.

Thank God Dean wasn't here, "He's uh, he died a few years ago, actually."

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Kitty said.

"Thanks," I said back.

"Looks like you're making friends," I heard a voice whisper in my ear as I felt an arm slip around my waist. I practically jumped as Dean's arm went around my waist.

"Jesus, you scared me!" I hissed, quietly.

"You're jumpy tonight," Dean noticed.

"Uh huh. You're just like a ninja!" I chuckled, letting my heartbeat drop back to its normal pulse as I sighed with relief.

"Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?" Dean asked.

"Oh, they're not my-," I started, but then I looked over at Kitty and Bryan. Although I knew it wasn't wise to trust them, there was something telling me that it might be okay. Of course, we'd be cautious, but it didn't hurt for now, right? "Dean, this is Bryan and Kitty Gallagher. They're hunters… like us."

"What, like Casper the friendly ghost?" Dean asked.

"She said the same thing," Bryan chuckled.

"Bryan and Kitty are working the same job as us," I said, cautiously. Dean shot me a funny look and shot him a look that said, 'just go with me on this one, okay?'. Dean sighed.

"Yeah, okay. What?" Dean asked

~End Flashback~

Victoria and Tyler, all bundled up in their winter clothing, walked up the porch steps to the Gallagher residence.

"I'm freezing. Would you think it was so 'girl-scout' of me if we made hot cocoa?" Victoria asked, rubbing her hands together.

"Not at-," Tyler started to say before he stopped, staring at something over Victoria's head. Victoria turned around, confused, and saw her mom and Tyler's dad on their front porch. Mr. Gallagher had been at the house every night since a few days ago. Victoria didn't find it at all strange because she knew that they were working on tracking a demon, but she knew for Tyler, it must seem really weird.

"Why don't we just head inside? It's so cold out here," Victoria said, trying to distract Tyler.

"Sure," he replied, distantly.

"Oh, and we could watch that movie you wanted to watch. You know the Coen brothers film we rented the other day for today?" Victoria suggested. She and Tyler had been spending a lot of time with their friends and this Friday, the wanted to do something, just the two of them.

Tyler faked a smile which Victoria saw right through, before saying, "That sounds great. Why don't we head inside?"

"Okay," Victoria replied. She knew her distractions weren't working but she went along with him. The two of them went inside the house, made some popcorn and hot chocolate, in almost pure silence before heading to the living room to watch the movie. Victoria held the DVD box in her hand as she opened the DVD player to put the movie in. The disk place opened but she stopped, turning around to look at Tyler.

"Is everything okay?" she asked, examining the pensive look on his face.

"Do you think my dad and your mom are having an affair?" he asked.

"What? No!" Victoria exclaimed, her eyes widening.

"I'm serious. He's always over there. He has been since Wednesday," Tyler began.

"Yeah, with my very jealous, very over protective father. You think he's over protective of me? You should see him with my mother," Victoria said, trying to brush it off. She honestly didn't know what to say to Tyler.

"Well then explain to me why he's over there all the time. I mean, you're there, right? What've they been doing?" Tyler exclaimed, irritated.

Victoria sighed, "They're just-." She didn't know what to say to him but then something came to mind. "Well, my mom is co-sponsoring the entrepreneur club at our school, and so mom thought it'd be a good idea for your dad to come talk. They've- they've been putting together something for the club. I don't really know though. I'm not around them much to see but it's apparently some big presentation. They're not having an affair, Tyler."

Tyler sighed with relief, a smile spreading across his face, "Why didn't you just tell me about it in the first place?"

"There's that smile I love," Victoria said, kissing him once.

"Victoria," he chuckled, pulling away.

"What?" she asked, innocently.

"Don't change the subject, okay?" he asked, softly.

Victoria shrugged, avoiding Tyler's glance, "I don't know. I didn't think our parents spending this much time would bother you. I guess I should've said something." She hated lying to Tyler like this but she didn't know what else to tell him. That was the first thing that came to mind. It was the only logical thing she could think of.

Tyler shook his head, "It's okay. I didn't think it'd bother me this much either. I just… I don't know. It was just weird the amount of time he was over there. It must be some presentation, huh?"

"Yeah," Victoria replied, nodding her head. There was an awkward silence before Victoria knew that if there was even more silence, she'd confess. "So do you want to watch this movie or what?"

"Yeah. We have been waiting all week," Tyler replied.

"Uh huh," Victoria answered, quickly turning around and putting the movie. She took a deep breath, before closing the disc compartment on the DVD player.

"Get it together. You're doing the right thing,"she thought to herself.

"You done?" Jude asked.

"Yeah, thanks," Anna replied, as Jude picked up her empty plate off of the table, bringing it over to the kitchen area of the apartment. Jude put the dishes in the sink and began to run water over the dirty dishes. "You know, there's this crazy new invention called a dish washer. All the cool kids are using it these days."

Jude chuckled, "What if I told you I was an old fashioned guy?"

"Well, I'd tell you that I have a thing for old fashioned guys," Anna said back, seductively.

Jude smirked, "You're going to make it impossible for me to do these dishes, aren't you?"

"Uh huh. I already feel bad enough that you're doing my housekeeping," Anna replied.

Just then, Jude's cell phone started ringing, "I'm sorry. Hold on. It's my Mom."

"Yeah?"

"Hey, honey. Do you have the time?" Meredith asked.

"Uh, I guess yeah. What's up?" Jude asked back.

"I've got a job for you. Found another demon and I think it's making its move soon," Meredith replied.

"Oh okay," Jude said. "Hey, Mom, can I call you back? I'm kind of in the middle of something."

"Yeah," Meredith answered.

"It'll be about thirty minutes. Talk to you later, Mom," Jude said.

"Okay. Love you. Bye," Meredith said back, before hanging up the phone.

"What's up?" Anna asked, a concerned look on her face as she saw how worried Jude was.

"My mom's got a case for me. I'm going to have to head out soon," Jude replied.

"Is everything okay?" Anna asked.

Jude nodded, "Yeah, it'll be fine once I take care of it."

"No, I mean with you. Is everything okay with you? This is the third one you've been out on these past two weeks," Anna replied.

Jude sighed, "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm sorry to ruin our plans like this again. I promise I'll make it up to you. How about tomorrow night? We could go out and have a totally demon free evening together."

"Don't worry, babe. It's okay," Anna comforted.

Jude nodded, but he knew it wasn't okay. He was starting to get really sick of having to either reschedule plans with Anna, or put life on hold just so he could go out on hunts. He couldn't imagine how Anna was feeling with all this, especially because he had been so absent lately, but he was so grateful that so far, she had been so understanding and gracious with it all. When he started college, he had left all of that behind – or at least he had said that he would. Once you think you're out, they pull you right back in, huh?

"Hey, kiddo," Dean said, as Victoria got home later that night.

"Hey," Victoria replied.

"You have fun at Tyler's?" Dean asked, trying hard not to sound too curious.

"Yeah," Victoria replied, simply. "Hey, Dad?"

"Yeah?" Dean asked back.

"So Tyler asked me why his dad's been over here so often this week," Victoria started.

"What'd you say?" Dean asked.

"I avoided the truth and made up some story," Victoria answered.

"That's my girl!" Dean cheered.

Victoria smiled weakly, "I hate lying to him, Dad. But I can't tell him the truth…"

Dean, realizing how bothered by having to lie to her boyfriend Victoria was, gave her a small, comforting squeeze on her shoulder, "I know, kiddo. It's hard."

"I'm going to go upstairs and shower. I'll see you later," Victoria said, beginning to go.

"Okay," Dean accepted. He wanted to be able to tell Victoria something, but he didn't know what to say.

"Oh, and by the way, tell mom that she's now co-sponsoring the entrepreneur club," Victoria said.

"What?" Dean asked.

"It's your cover story. Tyler thought that Mom and Mr. Gallagher were having an affair," Victoria explained.

"What?" Dean exclaimed, his eyes widening.

"That was my reaction too, Dad," Victoria chuckled, before heading upstairs.

Just then, there was a knock on the door and Dean answered it, revealing a tired looking Bryan Gallagher.

"Honey, who's at the-, Bryan," Meredith said, coming up next to Dean.

"I found the demon. He's in Denver," Bryan said back. Both Meredith and Dean could tell that he had had little sleep and was running on pure adrenaline.

"Alright, pack a bag. We'll go tomorrow morning," Dean said.

"No. I think I need to do this one on my own," Bryan said back. "Thank you so much. See? I always said we'd make a good team."

Author's Note: Happy 4th of July, all! Please, please, please review! I love to know what you guys are thinking about the story and I'm in need of inspiration. I honestly can't get my ideas for the sequel out of my head. Yes, there is possibly going to be a sequel - and by possibly, I mean there really will be. I'm too in love with these characters and have way too many ideas for there not to be one. Let me know what you think.
Thank you to Deangirl93 and an annonymous user for reviewing the last chapter. I know it was a bit of a filler chapter. Sorry about that!