Turns out, Sioux Falls did in fact have a good library. The even better side was that it was connected to the town's college so they even had more card catalogs than a normal one would.

She borrowed a car from Bobby and went into town, taking Dean with her. She loaded up on children's books and a few phone-books for her. They sat at a table together and he giggled when she winked at him.

It almost felt like when she had done research with her mom when she had been a kid, role reversal right now, but at least nothing here was about the supernatural.

They worked together, with her writing in her notebook and Dean working on his reading abilities. The end result was three pages of phone numbers that she could call about potential jobs. They would all be temporary, or hopefully understanding about her pregnancy, but it was a start somewhere.

Staring down at her notes Mary took a deep breath, tapping her pen against the table as she thought. Even though they were on this road, every step she took just made it all the more real that they were in fact doing this. That the two, three, of them were running away from everything they knew.

It almost felt like she could still turn around and go back to Lawrence, like she could go home and tell everyone that she had just gone out with Dean for the day.

She looked at Dean, who was squinting at his own book as he tried to mouth the words, and felt her heart twist at the sight of him.

God she wished she knew what to exactly do. She wished to know if what she was doing was the right thing. If this what was best for Dean and Sammy.

Shaking her head she pushed her books away from her getting Deans attention on her.

"Mama?" he called out to her questioningly.

Mary just smiled at him, reaching out to stroke his hair. "You want to go eat lunch baby?" she asked, trying to figure out what they were going to do for lunch. She saw a McDonald's in town and also a diner, but Dean would be happier with the former.

Dean nodded, holding his book out. "Mama can we take this too?" he asked her.

The real answer was no, they didn't have a library card and even if they did she most likely wasn't going to remember to return them. She looked around them and took the book, sliding it into her bag. She held her finger to her lips and Dean grinned at her as she gathered her own notes as well.

"C'mon sweetie, let's get something to eat." she said, getting out of her seat and picking him up. They left the library and she paused at the massive rainstorm that had suddenly appeared.

"Well...that escalated quickly." she said, staring at the wall of rain that was coming down. She looked across the street to where the car was parked and then down at Dean who looked back at her.

Taking a deep breath she moved to take her jacket off and did her best to cover the both of them with it, and ran as best as she could to the car, fumbling with the keys before getting the both of them into the driver's seat.

Dean rubbed at his face at the spare drops that had managed to get on his face. "Wet." he mumbled. Mary smiled and turned the heat on, using her jacket to dry off whatever landed on him.

"We'll go through the drive through." she said to herself as she helped Dean put the seat-belt on as best as he could. She hadn't taken the car seat from her car so for the time being all he used was the seat-belt and she drove carefully.

She drove them to the McDonald's and got the both of them a meal, hesitating a moment before getting Bobby a meal too and not just to smell a hamburger in lieu of her salad. Dean was cheered up by the promise of chicken nuggets.

By the time they got the food through the window, the rain started to come down even harder, making her windshield wipers completely almost useless.

"Where the hell did this storm come from, is this normal for the north?" she muttered under her breath as she got back onto the road, driving as slowly as she could and dared to.

After what seemed like an eternity they finally managed to reach Singer's Salvage and she grabbed the bag with the food and everything else, helping Dean climb over so that she could carry him.

Just as she was about to try to run she saw a dark figure coming to the car and she unlocked the door, letting Bobby cover her with the umbrella in his hand as he reached for her and helped her out. He held onto her and the umbrella as they ran into the house as fast as they could.

Mary let out a deep breath as they finally came into the house, going into the kitchen so that she could unload the food out. "Is this normal, this kind of weather?"

"At least once a year, you just came into the bad end of it." Bobby said, shaking the umbrella to get rid of the water on it. "Roads are flooded out-state and the rains not gonna let up for at least two days."

Mary closed her eyes, already not liking where this is going. "So that means that…"

"The radiator isn't gonna come for at least a week now." Bobby said. "So, you're gonna wait a lot longer to get out of here."

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