Mary kept driving, not letting herself think too much about the whole thing. She stopped twice, once for gas and for the bathroom for them, and another time for lunch. They stopped at a small diner and Mary kept Dean on her lap the entire time, feeding him and taking small bites of her own meal.
She didn't have even a resemblance of an appetite but she had to eat. Dean was quiet, thank heaven for small mercies, but he kept looking at her for some sort of guidance, a clue of what she was feeling and how to react.
She managed to smile each time at him, pulling him close to her and just holding onto him. She tucked him under her chin and took a deep breath, sipping her water and nibbling at her salad.
She still hated salads.
Then they got back onto the road and kept driving. Once she entered Nebraska, she had checked and rechecked the maps to make sure they were going the right way, she finally spoke to Dean about Ellen.
"We're just going to visit a friend of mommy's." she told him, getting his attention from a small book he had been trying to read to her. "Her name is Ellen and she has a boyfriend, his name is Bill."
"Ellen. Bill." Dean repeated, reaching to grab his stuffed kitty once more. "Why?"
"Because we need to see them and after that we're gonna go somewhere else." Mary told him. "We're moving for a bit. We're gonna live somewhere else."
Dean blinked at her, his little brow furrowed. "Is daddy gonna come?" he asked. "Or meemaw, pawpaw?"
Mary swallowed hard to try to dislodge the lump in her throat. "I don't know." she said honestly. She didn't want to lie but at the same time she didn't want to get his hopes up. "But for now, it's just gonna be you and me."
"Me and mama." Dean repeated, hugging his kitty close to him. "Mama? Why did we gotta go?"
Mary tightened her grip on the steering wheel, trying to figure out the best way to tell him, or what to even tell him, how to explain all of this. "We had to go because," she took a deep breath. "Cause the people that daddy always goes back to? You remember him leaving and that he was going away? They wanted to take you too."
She could see Dean hold his kitty even closer to himself at that. "Me too?" he asked, his voice cracking. "Why?"
"Cause you're a special boy, cause you're daddy's boy." Mary told him. "So they wanted to take you so that they could have you and daddy."
Dean rubbed at his eyes at that, a small whimpering sound escaping him. "I don't wanna go to them." he mumbled.
Mary brought them to the side of the road, parking half on the gravel side and parked the car, turning so that she could reach out for him. Dean undid his harness in his car-seat and climbed the rest of the way over, all but falling into her arms and curling into her.
"I know." she whispered, rocking him back and forth. "I don't want you to go to them either. So that's why we left. It's why we're going somewhere else so that you and Sammy don't have to go to them."
Dean whimpered, burying his head in her chest. "But daddy…wants me to?"
"I don't know, he's a part of it and his daddy is a part of it." Mary said, omitting a part of it. She had a feeling that John had wanted Dean to become a Letter more than he was letting on but she didn't want to tell Dean that. "But I didn't want you to become a part of it."
"I don't wanna." Dean mumbled, clinging to her. "Is daddy gonna come with us? Doesn't he love us?"
"He loves us." Mary quickly assured him. "He does, and as soon as we move completely I'm going to let him know. But then he has to choose to leave the group and come to live with us instead."
"He's gotta." Dean mumbled. "He's gotta come with us."
At that, Mary didn't have an answer. She just rocked him back and forth, staring out the window and rubbing his back.
When Dean finally managed to calm down and she opened a bottle of water for him to drink from and clean his face, she kissed the top of his head and carefully put him back into the backseats so he could hasten himself in again.
"Alright, lets keep going." she said as she got them onto the road and back towards Ellens.
Driving past the fields and towns she managed to finally reach a large almost house, it was where Ellen and Bill had moved to, getting it on a steal according to her, and the first floor was completely open while the second floor had the bedrooms for them.
She had no idea what they were planning to do with the first floor, maybe a game room or something.
Parking outside she took a deep breath and looked back at Dean. "Ready baby?" she asked him softly.
Dean just held his kitty closer to him, gently chewing on its ear.
"Right." Mary said with a nod as she got out of the car and went to the backseat to take him out gently. Dean allowed her to move him and held him close, his hand coming up to grip at her shirt.
"They're nice, they're really nice." she comforted him as she locked the car and went up to the house. She shifted Dean to one arm and brought the other up, half knocking half banging on the door.
Mary stepped back to look around for a moment before the door opened.
Ellen stared at her, eyebrow raised. Despite drowning in, most likely her boyfriends, over-shirt she was still a presence to be reckoned with. When her eyes went to Dean who was half cowering in her arms her face softened.
"Hey there Campbells," Ellen said, stepping to the side to give them room to enter. "Welcome to the future Roadhouse."
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