At the park…

Dean was walking back to his car, when he noticed Ben sitting sadly on a park bench. Frowning he walked over to him.

"Hey, Ben."

"Hey." Ben looked up at him, still frowning, "You were at my party."

"Yeah." Dean nodded with a smile, "Yeah, I'm Dean." He took a seat next to him, "Everything okay? Something wrong?" Ben shrugged, looking down and Dean noticed that Ben was holding an empty case and then looked out at the field and then saw a group of four boys playing with a Gameboy, "Is that your game they're playing with?"

Ben frowned sadly, "Ryan Humphrey borrowed it, and now he won't give it back."

"Well, you want me to go-"

"No!" Ben hurriedly grabbed his arm so he wouldn't get up, "Don't go over there! Only bitches send a grown-up.

Deans eyebrows raised at that and he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, "You're not wrong."

"And I am not a bitch."

Dean smiled before turning back to the group of kids, "Is that Humphrey?" He motioned, "The one that needs to lay off the burgers?" Ben nodded with a slight smile as something came to Dean's mind, "Hm."

Later on…

Ben walked the park to the group of boys, they are all bigger than he, but he confidently cleared his throat loudly. When they didn't react he looked back at Dean who gave him a thumb's up.

Ben cleared his throat again, louder this time, "Ryan." All of the kids looked up, "I'd like my game back, please."

"Fine." Ryan taunted, "Take it back."

The other boys laughed loudly at that. Ben looked nervously at the other kids, sighed, and then turned as if to leave.

"See?" Ryan grinned, "Told you guys he was a-"

Ryan was cut off as Ben turned back suddenly and kicked him hard between the legs. Ryan crumpled to the ground, and Ben took the game back. Dean looked around, smirking, as Ben ran back to the bench grinning right at him.

He smiled widely, "Dude, that was awesome!"

"Benjamin. Isaac. Braeden!" Lisa, who caught the end of the exchange, stormed over, "What's gotten into you?"

"He stole my game."

"So you kick him? Since when is-" She broke off when she saw Dean still grinning and whirled on him, "Did you tell my son to beat up that kid?"

"What?" Dean shrugged, "Somebody had to teach him how to kick the bully in the nads."

"Who asked you to teach him anything?"

"Just relax."

Lisa grabbed him by the arm and pulled him away from the bench so Ben wouldn't hear him, "What are you even still doing here? We had one weekend together a million years ago. You don't know me, and you have no business with my son."

She stalked over to Ben and grabbed him to walk off, "Lisa."

"Just leave us alone."

She and Ben began to leave, but Ben pulled out of her grip and ran back to give Dean an impulsive, tight hug.

"Ben!"

He hugged Dean, much to the hunters surprise, "Thanks."

Dean smiled down at him and patted his back. Ben ran back to Lisa and they left as Dean watched them speculatively, until he noticed three children with creepy stares watching closely. In unison, the three of them turned from watching Lisa and Ben to watching Dean, alerting him.

In Dana's car that night…

Dana strapped Katie into her car seat, which was made difficult by the fact that Katie kept touching and petting her.

"I love you most in the whole wide world, Mommy."

"Um, me too, sweetie. Come on, hold still."

After strapping her in she sat in the driver's seat and checked the rear view mirror. Sitting where her daughter was supposed to be was a monster with a large sucking mouth. With a gasp, she turned around, but Katie was back to normal.

"What's wrong, Mommy?"

"Nothing, sweetie." Her entire body shook as she turned back around, "Nothing."

"Are we going for ice cream now?"

"Yeah, we're going for ice cream."

Dana shakily pulled out of the driveway and cried as she drove to the edge of a lake. Nearing hysterics, she put the car in neutral, got out, and watched as the car rolled in. Katie turned and watched Dana cry as she went down.

As Dana returned to Jax's house, she slammed and locked the door behind her as she prepared the phone to call Angel, still bawling. When she turned around she dropped the phone with a terrified gasp upon seeing Katie standing in a puddle of water in the kitchen, dripping wet.

"Hi, Mommy. Can I have the ice cream now?"

Katie smiled winsomely as Dana gaped in horror.

Back at Dean and Sam's motel room…

Sam sat at his computer, doing research as Dean entered the room. He looked supremely weirded out.

"Something's wrong with the kids in this town."

"You're telling me." Sam looked up from a website on Changeling Lore, "So, what do you know about changelings?"

"Evil monster babies?"

"They aren't always babies."

"Kids." Dean realized, "Creepy, stare at you like you're lunch, kids?"

"Yeah." Sam nodded and then motioned to a layout of the neighborhood, "There's one at every victim's house."

Angel walked in as she talked on her cell, "Just promise me you won't go home until I call you, okay? This is important."

"Ang, what's going on? This is my sister and niece we're talking about. You gotta give me more than that."

"Look, I know you're worried. I get it, believe me, I do, but this is my job, Jax. You gotta trust me. They're gonna be fine, I promise." She sighed, "You have to trust me though."

"Okay, alright, i trust you." He also let out a heavy sigh, "Just be careful."

"I will. I'll call you when it's safe." Hanging up she turned to her brothers hurriedly, "Alright, i'm pretty sure i know what we're dealing with here."

As Dean prepared a kerosene torch he interjected, "Changelings."

"Yeah." She frowned in disappointment, "I see you two are ahead of me."

"Yeah." Sam smirked at her but continued explaining as she came to sit next to him, "So, Changelings can perfectly mimic children. According to lore, they climb in the window, snatch the kid."

"Yeah and there were these marks at two of the kids houses that looked like blood." Angel frowned, "Not a good sign."

"Y'know, there were marks on the windowsill at one of the kid's houses. Looked to me like blood."

Dean looked back, "The changeling grabs a kid, assumes its form, joins the happy fam just for kicks?"

"Not for kicks, smart ass." Angel corrected, "They feed on the moms which leaves these odd bruises on their necks. It takes a few weeks to drain them before the mom dies. Dana had one on her neck when I dropped in on her which is how I knew what we were dealing with."

"She okay?"

"For the most part." Angel sighed, "I caught her sprinting down the street. Said she drove her car into the lake but the Changeling survived. She's pretty hysterical but i put her in my room. She should be safe while we finish this up."

"Geeze." Dean frowned, "If they're all about the moms then what's with the dad and the babysitter?"

Sam explained, "Seems like anyone who gets between the Changeling and its food source ends up dead."

Dean held up the torch,"And fire's the only way to waste them?" Sam and Angel both nodded, "Great. We'll just bust in, drag the kids out, torch them on the front lawn. That'll play great with the neighbors." With a sigh he put the torch in his bag, "What about the real ones? What happens to them?"

"Usually stashed underground somewhere." Angel answered, "So, if we got here quick enough they might still be alive."

"How do you know so much about these things?"

"Dad and I worked a case when I was thirteen." She shrugged, "We need to start looking, like, yesterday. I don't know how long they keep them alive."

"So…" Dean's eyes became grim, "Any kid in the neighborhood is vulnerable?"

"Yep."

"We gotta make a stop. I want to check on someone."

"Dean, if the real kids are still alive, we don't have time. We-"

"We have to."

At Lisa's house…

Dean rang the doorbell, and Lisa opened the door looking bewildered.

"Dean? What are y-"

"I was thinking…" Dean quickly interjected as he took out his wallet, "Ben's birthday. I didn't even bring him a present."

She narrowed her eyes, "That's okay."

"No, no, I feel terrible, so, uh…" He handed her a credit card, "Here. Take a long weekend, just the two of you, on me."

"What?"

"Yeah, I hear Six Flags is great this time of year. Go now. Avoid the traffic."

"'Siegfried Houdini.'" She read the card before narrowing her eyes at him again, "Whose card is this?"

"Mine." At her skeptical look he waved her off, "Never mind. It'll work. I promise."

She handed it back immediately, "You should leave."

"Lisa…"

"Mommy…" Ben frowned as he came down the stairs, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, Ben." Dean smiled at him, "It's cool."

Ben didn't acknowledge him, instead speaking tonelessly to Lisa, "Make him go away, mommy."

Dean's face dropped in realization as Lisa turned back towards him, "You heard him. Get out."

"Lisa…" Dean tensed, "I don't think that's a good idea."

She raised her voice at him before slamming the door in his face, "Get out!"

Dean watched Lisa and Ben from outside the house for a moment. Lisa was reading a book while Ben sat with an open book on his lap as he stared at her. Dean noticed a damp red mark on a couple of window frames before running back to Sam and Angel who were waiting in the Impala.

"They took Ben. He's changed."

"What?" Angel tensed, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." He hurriedly slid into the driver's seat, "I checked his windowsill."

Sam frowned, "Blood?"

"I don't think it is blood, and I think I know where the kids are."

Dean pulled the impala up next to a large mound of dirt outside one of the semi-finished homes. It had a Cicero Realty For Sale sign in the front.

Sam picked some dirt up and inspected it on his fingers, "Red dirt." He scoffed, "That's what was on the window."

"You take the front." Dean instructed, "Angel and I will go around."

Inside, the three of them wandered about with flashlights. A noise alerts Angel and Dean from the basement and the two of them go to inspect. They were met with a series of cages, each containing the abducted kids. On one corner, Angel ran when she saw Katie, Jax's niece.

"Katie?" She managed a small smile for the frightened little girl, "It's okay. I'm a friend of your Moms and Uncles. We're here to help you, sweetie."

"Ben…" Dean instantly found Ben as well, "Ben… it's okay. We're gonna get you out of here, alright?"

With Sam…

Suddenly, the redheaded woman who was ogling Dean at Bens party entered the house and saw Sam sneaking around.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Sam tensed when he saw her monster-like reflection in a pane of glass.