The good news just kept on coming.

"Radiator is rusted in, I can't get to it to fix it and I can't move it to get to the hole. Worst part is that the inside is all ruined, it's not holding anything and a patch isn't going to work." Bobby told her. "You're going to need a new radiator."

Mary stared at him as she processed the words, slowly moving to bury her face in his hands. "Don't suppose you can order a rush job."

"Could, but it'll still take at least three days." Bobby told her. "My opinion? Wait the three days and get a new radiator."

Mary looked at the area around them, eyes lingering on the vast amount of cars around them. "And you can't just get a radiator from one of these cars and replace it with mine?"

"Each one is different to the car model it's for, I don't have your model here." Bobby said. "Mary it's just three days."

"It's three days that we don't have." Mary said, running her fingers through her hair. "What's my other options?"

"You can buy a different car, I can't sell any to you but I know the man in charge of the used cars in town, he'll get you a good deal but it'll still be a lot of money." Bobby said. "Or if you know where you want to go you can get a train or plane ticket."

Mary swallowed hard and looked to where Dean was sitting among his stuffed kitty, book, and a small blanket. She tried to imagine getting through a train or plane with all their belongings and weapons without raising suspicion.

It didn't paint a pretty picture for her or for Dean.

She tried to figure out her money situation, she needed the check that Ellen had given her for Canada to get an apartment and live off until she could get another job, maybe longer depending on the baby. She was on her own for money and her savings didn't entitle her to be able to get a car, used or not.

She didn't have any other choice, even a rented car wasn't a good idea, she didn't want to leave some sort of trace and all her fake ids were back at her apartment because her parents and John knew every single fake name she used. She was going to have to wait for a radiator.

"Alright, point us in the direction of the nearest motel and order the radiator. Stat." Mary said with a sigh, rubbing at her eyes and standing up. Her hand went to her stomach and rubbed at it as well, hoping that the baby was okay.

"You don't need a motel, you and the kid can stay here." Bobby said quietly, staring at the ground. "If you want to. At least to save on some money."

Her pride wavered but if she had learned something in the past fourish years of being a mom, she needed to swallow her pride at times and do what was best for Dean and the baby.

"Alright." Mary agreed quietly. "Thank you."

Bobby nodded, muttering something about placing the order for the radiator. He turned to leave, hesitating for a moment. "There's a guest room upstairs, third door to the right. You two can stay in there for now."

"Thank-" Mary started to say only for Bobby to go into the other room without waiting for her to finish. "-you."

Sighing Mary went to get Dean from his place in the backseat where he had been patiently waiting for her to get him from his book. He looked up at her, holding his arms out so that she could pick him up. Hoisting him up he curled into her chest, small fists curling into her shirt.

"We going?" he asked her, playing with the buttons of her flannel.

"Not yet, car is broken so we gotta wait." Mary told him, bringing him back into the house. "Bobby is a car doctor so he's gonna take care of it and then we'll go."

Dean's eyes were wide at that, looking around in wonder at the other cars. "Car doctor." he whispered. "I wanna be a car doctor."

"Maybe you will be." Mary said, kissing the top of his head. "So we gotta be here for a couple of days while he fixes the car, alright?"

Dean nodded at that, transfixed at what he was seeing. "Car doctor." he whispered once more, curling back into her.

She'd come back for their things a bit later, right now she just wanted to hold onto her son for a bit and try to think things through now that there was this bump.

Maybe there was a library in town she could go to and find some phone books for Canada, start calling around to see if there were any jobs she could apply to.

Bobby's phone rang and between the second and third ring he answered, "Singer Salvage." he greeted, frowning at the voice on the other end of the line. "Afternoon Mr. Campbell."

Mary froze at that, slowly turning to look at him. Dean looked up at her as well, possibly from hearing her heart skip a beat at the mention of her dad's name.

"This is the second time you've called, is everything alright?" Bobby asked. Dimly she could hear her dad's voice, and that made her chest tighten at the sound, but she couldn't make out what he was saying.

Bobby listened to whatever her dad was saying, looking over at her for a long moment, a guarded look in his eyes.

"It's like I said before, I haven't seen her since we had lunch that one time." Bobby told him, and slowly Mary breathed out, feeling the knot inside of her loosen slightly. "But I'll keep an eye out and if I hear or see something I'll let you know."

Mary glanced at the watch on her wrist, counting off the hours since she had left. Ten hours give or take and already her parents were contacting people, of all people they contacted Bobby who they knew she'd only met once. She was sure that they had already called Ellen too, she had no fear that the other woman would cover for her, probably with a few choice words she couldn't use in front of Dean.

She wondered how long it would be until they bit the bullet and contacted the police. As hunters they only went to the police when it was the last thing they had with no other choice.

She heard Bobby hang the phone up and she could feel his eyes on her, questioning and curious.

"Just get the radiator here as soon as possible." she told him before going upstairs to the room he had mentioned.

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