When the pounding started, John leapt to his feet and approached the little arsenal Erin had provided. He took two guns and look how they were charged. Salt bullets. Sam approached the bed more slowly, and look at it all.

"What will happen if the Demon decides to possess the whole plant? Or the whole hospital, for all that matters?"

Erin turned around and looked at him.

"Won't happen"

"How do you know?"

"Because you weakened him. When you shot him" she threw a sympathetic look at John "you may not have killed him, but you weakened. He's in no state to possess anyone, and it can just control few of his minions right now. I would say right now he's putting all his resources in those two pounding the door."

Sam seemed to meditate and finally agreed. Meanwhile, voices could be heard outside the door. It looked like the medical staff wasn't taking very kindly the shouting and hitting. Sounds of fight could be heard a few minutes after.

"Cool. Let them take care of those two"

John looked at Erin

"Let them take care? And then what?"

"And then we'll have to get the hell outta here. Once the Demon realizes his plan has failed, will let those two people alone and possess another two. So we need to flee as soon as possible"

She looked at Sam.

"How are you?"

"Fine, I'm fine, but Dean cannot leave the hospital… he just awoke after 3 days! And dad still needs the antibiotics, he could get the leg infected and…"

Sam shut up when he realized the pounding of the door had stopped. Erin cautiously opened it up and could see the worried faces of two Doctors and some other staff. One of the Doctor got into the room not a second after Sam had hidden all the weapons.

"We are so sorry about what has just happened. We don't know what got into those two nurses, but let me assure you…"

Sam did his best not to smirk. They may not know what had got into the nurses, but he knew only too well. Nonetheless, all amusing thought flew when John stood to the doctor.

"I won't allow my sons to stay in a Hospital like this one, where crazy nurses are running around. Tell me what would have happened if one of them had got a hold on either of my sons?"

The Doctor tried to calm John down to no avail. Sam look the argument. He knew this was the perfect excuse to get them off the hospital, but it'd be still be nice if he could believe his father's words, believe that he was really upset for the peril his sons were, but sadly, he knew all of that was a façade. He shook a little his head. That wasn't also true. Since they had been admitted into the hospital, his father had done nothing but first distribute all his time between being with Sam or visiting Dean when he still was in the ICU, or, when Dean had finally been relocated to his room, spent all day with them, talking to Sam, making sure Dean was as comfortable as possible…

Sam and Dean had been injured during hunting trips more than once or twice, and sure, when his father was around, he made sure they would get well, but it was the first time he had seen John so attentive. At first, Sam thought finally John had got scared to death he was going to loose any of them. Then it came the speech.

It happened the first day Dean had been brought to his room. John had smoothed his hair and moved to sit on Sam's bed. Sam had sworn silently that if his father did so much as mention the next step on the hunt, he'd slap the man. He wasn't prepared for what came instead…

"I'm so sorry son"

Sam looked up at him surprised. Sorry for what? Surely his father knew neither him nor Dean when he woke up, would blame him for what happened. But John continued before Sam could reply

"If I had been stronger, if I had been cautious, I would have been able to prevent it. You were right all along. Going alone to meet Meg, was a stupid mistake now your brother and you are paying"

Hearing again his father admitting he had committed a mistake would have aroused an amused retort from Sam, but given the situation, he just shook his head.

"Dad, there was nothing else you could do. If we had all gone, that family in Salvation would now be suffering what we went through, and if you hadn't gone, who would have been the next one Meg would have killed? Joshua? Mike? We knew the risks, dad."

John just stared at the floor.

"I failed"

"So did we" Sam was quick on the reply "We couldn't kill that son of a bitch and as a result he possessed you. So you see, we all have something to be blamed for"

John looked at Sam and finally smiled a little. "Your brother is right. You can be the most stubborn human being in the world"

Sam smirked

"You know what they say. Takes one to know another…"

"… I want them out. I'll check them out myself, and that's my final word on the matter" Sam was brought to reality with John's harsh words. The Doctor tried to protest, but reconsidered after John treated him with one of his patented marine looks.

"I'll give the order to have all the papers ready in half an hour, but it will be against medical advice, Mr. Adams" with that, the Doctor left the room, and John sighed before turning to Sam. "Sammy, get dressed. I need you to find supplies for you and Dean. Anything you can manage, gauzes, antibiotics, painkillers, all you can get"

"I'll go get your release papers. There's some clothes for you in the bag too."

John nodded at Erin who left the room, leaving the three Winchesters alone. Sam started dressing, sparing some glances at his father, who moved again to Dean's bed.

"Let's get you on the move, kiddo. We're so out of here." Sam was surprised that even knowing his father was not a hundred percent all right, he still managed to maneuver Dean easily, taking off the hospital gown and gently helping Dean into a white t-shirt.

"D.. dad?"

"Yeah. Don't worry, everything will be fine"

Sam smiled, because even though he knew that, while they had the Colt and the Demon was alive they were in great danger, he believed his father's words. Looking one last time to his family, he finished dressing up and when to find all the medical supplies they would need…

tbc

A/N: Once again, sorry for the delay (I seem to always be apologizing for the same thing here!). I know this chapter is not particularly filled up with action, but I felt the need to show that John had actually talked to Sam about what had happened. I love John's character (which doesn't mean there aren't times I would slap him in the head for some of the things he does and says), and I think he really loves his sons more than anything in the world, so I wanted to let it be known here. As always, reviews are very welcome people! ;)