The story takes place right after the season 10 finale, after Dean killed Death, the Mark of Cain was removed and Darkness was released into the world. I mentioned before, new characters will be added and thrown in the story and I will bring back several former characters from the show in the upcoming future.

Chapter 48 Catching Up

As they all sat down, they listened carefully to Jody's story about recent events.

"It all started a week ago, when we got a call about a man who butchered his entire family with an ax. When the police arrived at the house, they saw a gruesome sight, there was blood everywhere the man's wife was mutilated so badly and her arms were actually hacked off and she was nearly decapitated. Then they found his two teenage kids, the cops told me the sight has given them the shivers for days. Anyway, they found the man in the backyard. His face was pale almost white as ghost his eyes were bloodshot and he didn't even seem human. I mean he was almost animal like, as he growled at my deputies, the cops drew up their guns ordering him to stop but he wouldn't listen and just lunged for them with that bloody ax in his hands they later told me and they didn't have choice but to fire and he was killed instantly" Jody said with a slight sad look on his face.

"And this just kept happening ever since, people becoming like deranged homicidal killers?" asked Sam.

Jody nodded her head.

"Yes, the following day there was this young couple who started attacking people in the park so ravagely. The girl even bit a man's ear off literally and then the guy killed an old man with his bare hands, police were forced to kill them both when they attacked them and they had the same symptoms as the guy, it was so similar and out of nowhere more people suffering from the same symptoms started attacking and killing folks. In fact, it happened again yesterday after I called you I got a call that another guy went crazy went started banging on his next door neighbor's house and the couple called the police. He had knife in his hand and had charged at them and they were forced to fire. When they got to his house it was a gruesome sight that haunted one of the police officers as they found his dog nearly ripped to shreds" Jody explained.

Both Sam and Dean have horrific looks after hearing that just having the thoughts of that grossed them out.

"And you can't figure out what causing these random people to become like this?" asked Sam.

Jody shook her head.

"No, its like some kind of epidemic going effecting some of these folks of all ages, men women, young and old even children have been infected it has gotten quite bigger and people and animals have been killed as result" she explained.

"Did any of these random people have anything in common?" asked Dean.

"Not anything I can think of right now Dean, but I'm getting so worried on how big this will become, what's causing these people to be infected and who will be infected next, me or the girls?" said Jody really looking concerned.

"Don't worry Jody, we will get to the bottom of this" said Dean.

Jody just smiled in relief and satisfaction that her friends were here to help.

"Yeah, like I said this sounds just out of the movie 'The Crazies' people are just turning to savage killers just like that, I bet there is some kind of virus making people become like this too, I just hope they don't bring in the troops to start blasting people they fear are infected and the government covering up all up like in the movie" said Claire.

"Enough Claire, nothing like that is going to happen, anyway we do have to figure this out fast" said Jody.

"Well, you told me on the phone about one of your deputies becoming infected by this thing" said Sam.

"Yeah, Deputy Jake Horan, he went crazy and started violently attacking the other deputies bit one deputy nearly biting off his finger and smashing one deputies head on the ground repeatedly until another had to knock him out and that guy now as fractured skull. We had put him in separate holding cell" Jody said.

"Wow, I have to ask do any of the people who are attacked get infected too?" asked Dean.

"No as a matter fact, at first I would assume they would but I don't know why maybe watching too many scary movies, but that apparently doesn't cause them to turn" she said.

Both Sam and Dean looked quite intrigued by this factor and were in deep thought until Sam broke the silence. "Well, I think the first thing we should do is investigate some of the homes of the people who turning starting with the deputy and this last guy" he told her.

"Fine, but first I think you two should just relax you come a long way and I think it's a good time to catch up" said Jody.

"Yeah, just a good old reunion and get together, telling each other stories eating popcorn" said Claire quite sarcastically.

"Knock it off Claire" Jody turned to Claire with a grin on her face.

Claire just gave a look as if to say "whatever".

"Hey, I'm game, I got tons of stories to tell about Claire getting trouble because she thought the weird janitor at school was werewolf and basically started stalking him, or the time Alex was caught with a joint and got suspended" said Krissy while Claire and Alex just glared at her warningly.

"Hey that will do Krissy" said Jody.

"Well what about you getting in trouble during your first week at school for punching out that girl Nicki during lunch outside" said Alex.

"Hey, she deserved it, she was such a bitch messing with me talking smack about my parents and she was bullying some other girls at school too" Krissy fired back.

"Hey I said enough of this" said Jody in her firm mother tone.

The girls shut up again afterwards. Sam and Dean just sat there looking quite awkward of the drama between the girls and Jody just gave them a "see what I have to deal with" look. They all started continued to catch up to what each was doing although Sam and Dean didn't mention the parts of killing death, or the Stynes, Charlie and unleashing Darkness by removing the Mark of Cain from Dean. But they did tell them about their time in a parallel world which fascinated the girls.

Krissy and Claire gave the brothers details about their lives since coming to live with Jody while Alex didn't say much not feeling as close to the brothers as they did. Dean was really impressed by how well they were all fitting in and came to see that Jody and the girls became like a family in way as it made him think about Bobby and how he was like a father figure to him and Sam just like Jody as become like a mother figure to the girls.

Both of the brothers noticed the unique personalities among the girls with Krissy more of the tough acting tomboy, Claire the outcast and rebel was a hunter-in training and didn't seem to care about things most teenagers cared about and still kept her angel sword that Dean gave her. Alex seemed to be doing most things teenage girls or teenagers in general are doing such as shopping, jewelry, boys, sneaking out to hang with other kids and smoke a joint or other wild and crazy stuff teenagers like to do and just trying to be normal.

Dean just felt more proud that he sent both Krissy and Claire to Jody's to live. Claire had suffered a lot losing both a father and then a mother who she thought abandoned her and though she wants to be a hunter like them at least she is trying to do something constructive and not waste her life. As for Krissy, he had sent her to Jody's just one month before he and Sam sent Claire and she finally has the home she needs.

Dean had always occasionally questioned if he did the right thing when he left Krissy in Conway Springs, Kansas on her own with the two other kids Aidan and Josephine to live together rather than send her to her aunt like he planned to. He had told her she wasn't a kid anymore but still he sometimes wondered if he acted too hastily as she may not be a little kid anymore but she wasn't a full grown adult either despite going through things the average teenage girl never went through and was much more mature and tougher than most girls her age because of it. Besides, Garth did check up on them now and then like he asked him that was before he became a werewolf and married the werewolf chick living among their werewolf community.

Everything seemed to be going fine for them at least for while until a teacher at their school found out about their living arrangement and tipped off the child welfare department who came and got Aidan and Krissy since they were underage. Then the three of them then ran away and made it as far to another city until CCTV footage showed where they were and the police caught them and Josephine got arrested since she was legally aged.

Aidan's Uncle and Aunt were finally notified and they came to get him as they had been wondering what happened to their nephew and his family as they couldn't get in contact with them courtesy to their "guardian" Victor. They took him back to California with them and Krissy was heartbroken to lose someone she really cared about. Krissy's Aunt Grace from Cincinnati was also notified to claim her and not wanting to live with her aunt that she barely knew, she ran away again before her aunt arrived, tracked down Josephine to say goodbye before she took off on her own as she wasn't going to ask Josephine to join her that time out of fear of getting her in trouble.

But Josephine managed talk her into going to live with her aunt instead of running away since she didn't want her to be all alone and Krissy listened and headed back. The trio were over and Krissy was devastated that she lost her circle of friends who were like a family to her. Besides, she hated living with her Aunt Grace who wasn't really nice or loving towards her and couldn't resist reminding Krissy how she was stuck with her and giving her a roof over shoulder and how she ought to be grateful and made her feel more like obligation than someone she really wanted there.

Her aunt also treated her like servant, making her do almost all the housework to earn her keep and although Krissy could tolerate doing some household chores it seemed her aunt was just using her for free labor as she had Krissy do almost everything around house and addition to going to school and doing her homework. School wasn't that much better as she hardly had any friends since she couldn't relate to them at all and the closest friend she had was a goth girl named Harlowe who came from an abusive home and hated her life as much as Krissy did.

For a while she kept in contact with Aidan through their iphones and social media like Facebook. Aidan seemed to have it better with his uncle, aunt and his two male cousins who all seemed nice from what he told her and lived in nice big house with an outdoor swimming pool and made him feel quite welcomed. Still, he complained how much he missed her and how his life there was quite boring, his new family were boring and he couldn't relate to any of them, and how he hated the private school that they sent him to which annoyed her as he had no idea how much good he had it. Aidan told her he wanted to run away from California and find her so they could run off together just the two of them against the world.

Krissy was flattered but not wanting him to mess up his good life, she lied to him about meeting another boy at school and how they got close and it just happened. This seemed to hurt Aidan quite much but she told him to stay with his new family, not to throw his life away but just move on. Aidan didn't contact her again afterwards and she hated that she broke his heart and knew she still missed him very much but she believed he was better off at least his family treated him good compared to her Aunt Grace.

Her life got worse over time as she and her Aunt Grace continued to butt heads and then her friend Harlowe committed suicide and her aunt didn't even offer her any compassion despite the fact that this hurt her deeply and she felt more alone. The week Krissy turned eighteen, she finally packed her things and up and left after having another huge fight with her bitchy aunt. She just couldn't take being there anymore so she managed to travel back to Conway Springs, Kansas to find Josephine wanting to live with her now that she was legal. When she finally found Josephine, she was in for quite a surprise as Josephine had since had a baby girl and was now staying with her boyfriend Scott, the father of her baby.

She did allow Krissy to crash with them in their small two bedroom apartment where she slept on the couch and helped Josephine with the chores and the baby while Scott worked overtime at his job coming home late after dinner. Josephine was looking for a job so Scott didn't have to work so late anymore and find a nice daycare for their baby. Krissy knew that she was in the way and couldn't live with them forever so after two weeks of staying there, she finally called Dean as he had given her his number just in case she needed his help anytime.

Dean drove down to fetch her and had it set up for her to stay with Jody whom he called begging for her to take Krissy in as a favor he even implied it would be good for Alex to have another girl there she could relate to until Jody reluctantly agreed. He bought Krissy a train ticket and gave her enough money for bus fare, cab fares, motel and food and someting extra leftover and drove her to the train station and she was off. Although, at first there was some tension between her and Alex, they started to get along better and when Claire came to live with them, the family seemed complete. The girls seem to have their girl dramas and occasionally make snarky comments toward one another but their banters and arguments seem like something between sisters and they all have a lot in common with their family backgrounds which seemed to have actually bonded them and they all look up to Jody like a mother.

About an hour later, the guys finally prepared to leave and said their goodbye for now promising to return for dinner as Jody insisted they have dinner with them. They then headed to a cheap motel too relax and process about all that they heard. Later that evening both of then returned to Jody's house for a nice dinner. They were greeted with a nice table set for them and home-cooked of chicken, rice and green beans with grape juice for drinks. Sam and Dean actually enjoyed the meal while the girls kept chatting with each other while gulping their food whether it was making more snarky comments to each other or talking about what's happening since the Darkness or complaining how overprotective Jody is now or just about anything they could think off just like typical sisters.

Jody just tried to play referee in between their banter while Sam and Dean just sat quiet eating their food amused by the "girl drama". After dinner was over the girls cleaned up while Jody talked more with Sam and Dean before they headed out again.

"Tomorrow we will investigate this deputy's house and we would like the names some of the others that turned into these crazy killers and get their address so we can search their homes" Dean told her.

"I will be right on that and guys thanks again" said Jody.

"Hey we will get to the bottom of this just like we always do" said Dean.

Jody then gave them each a little hug and the girls came out to say their goodbyes.

"Hey good luck you guys if you need an extra hand we can be quite useful and ask and search around" said Claire.

"No way, I don't want any of you girls involved" Jody said firmly.

"But we can help we are not some dumb little kids" said Krissy.

Dean saw Jody's disapproving look on her face and turned to the girls.

"That's okay, we got this covered just listen to Jody, anyway we better be heading off now" said Dean.

He bumped fists with Krissy and gave Claire a little pat on the shoulder and nodded towards Alex as he and Sam said their goodbyes and left the house. Back in their car Sam and Dean kept discussing the matter.

"I'm telling you Sammy, this is huge one, just hope we can help Jody figure what's turning folks into "The Walking Dead' before this spreads any further" Dean told Sam.

"Me too" said Sam as the drove into the dark sky.