John had decided to go to the Sheriff station first before the Coroners office to gather the names of the women and addresses and to question the officers on their evidence and crime scens
JOHN: "Excuse us my name is officer Hedley and this is my partner officer Washington, we would like to speak to the Sheriff please."
The desk Clerk notified the sheriff of the presence of the state officers and lead them to his office
Sheriff: "I'm not sure what you fella's think that you'll be able to find that me and my officers haven't we really have exhausted all avenues of the search. he said tiredly Dean and John could tell that this case was taking it's toll on him not being able to find any leads."
JOHN: "we were sent over from the state department to assist on these murder cases now we know its a local matter we aren't here to step on toes or take credit we just want to lend an extra pair of eyes and feet to do leg work a set of fresh eyes on the case might be just the thing to pull some leads sheriff."
the sheriff rubbed his face with both hands trying to rub some life back into it and nodded he pushed the button for the desk clerk and asked him to make copies of all the case files they thanked the sheriff and went back to the hotel and started looking over the information there wasn't much there that Amanda hadn't already told them except for interviews of friends and families and co-workers which all stated that they were friendly people dedicated to their jobs had rolls in the community and were just Midwest apple pie American people but Dean and John knew that they had to do follow up questioning so they split up the list three each and Dean "grabbed" a car while John took the Impala and off they went to interview the friends and family and co workers
Dean walked up to Miss Petersons home and knocked on the door, what it said in her file was that she was a single mother she had no family that lived in town she had two children a boy Jacob age 10 and a girl Adaline age 5 when he knocked on the door it was opened by an elderly woman probably in her mid 60's
DEAN: "Hello my name is officer Washington I'm with the state police I am here lending a hand to the sheriff with regards to your daughters murder and I was wondering if you have time to answer some questions."
MRS PETERSON: "Oh, of course officer washing ton won't you come in please."
DEAN: "Thank you."
Dean followed Mrs. Peterson into the sitting room he looked around everything was nice and well organized there were family photos hanging on the wall they looked happy its to bad that now their family was falling apart he could sympathize with them his mother was taken from them along time ago too when he was just a bit younger then Adaline and with being a girl she would probably be a bit more devastated
DEAN: "Mrs. Peterson is there anything you can tell me about your daughters last couple of days that might help us understand why she might have been targeted?"
MRS PETERSON: "Well I'm not sure I can be of much help I don't live in town actually I live in the next town over so I'm not aware usually of what Abigale day to day routine was but we were close we talked on the phone mostly every day we with her being a single mother and all she worked at the local library and the head librarian she was always so involved with the community and such she was on the town fortifying committee the town historic society she was very involved."
DEAN: "yes mam, do you know if she was seeing anybody?"
MRS PETERSON: "Oh, no she wasn't in a current relationship. she hasn't dated much either since her husband past 2 years ago from cancer it's just been her and the kids."
DEAN: "did she mention any friendships or working relationships that were strained in any way?"
MRS PETERSON: "No, no but she did mention that she felt like she was being followed, you know the feeling you get at the back of your neck she was sure that she was just being paranoid but she said it always seemed to happen when she was picking up the kids from Mitsfields she said that something just felt off."
DEAN: "Did she happen to say if she felt that way around a particular person or teacher?"
MRS PETERSON: "No just a general feeling of not being comfortable you know"
DEAN: "Yes, well thank you for your time Mrs. Peterson, I'll walk my self out."
Dean left and continued on his way to the other two victims family friends and Co-workers and all the interviews pretty much went about the same way as Mrs Peterson Happy involved and felt like they were being followed the last couple days before they were abducted dean went to meet up back at the hotel with John and they exchanged notes comparing them and they were just about the same so they decided that the next option would be to go to the coroners office the next day and see what they could find on the bodies.
in the meantime John brought food back from the local diner in town and they ate in silence
DEAN: "Hey dad, can I ask you a question?"
JOHN: "Hmm?"he answered with his mouth full of food
DEAN: "After mom died how come you didn't drop us off with mom's family it was probably harder to do the job when we were younger having to traps us across the country why not put us some where and do the hunting thing alone?"

He asked truthfully dean wouldn't have wanted it any other way the thought of loosing his dad just after he lost his mom would have destroyed him but that didn't mean he wasn't curious. and when he looked at john he seemed to know what he was asking
JOHN: "Well you were my boys and after loosing your mom, I just couldn't loose you two either, you and Sammy were the ones that kept the rest of my sanity intact something to keep living for and keep fighting for now that I knew what was really out there in the dark I couldn't leave you because I knew the safest place for you was right next to me If I could see you I knew you were safe that's the main reason me and Sammy had such a big fight 2 months ago it wasn't that I didn't want college for him it just that I became so controlling over everything around me that's when he left that control I flipped and he flipped right along with me but I know he doesn't understand that he's not a parent yet and there is no way you can understand it until you become one to be responsible for a life, yeah you practically raised Sammy but you weren't solely responsible for him and it just isn't the same until you are."
Dean thought about that it was true he wasn't solely responsible for Sam he had taken a lot of the responsibility but not all of it, he loved his brother but it wasn't a fathers love that was unconditional
dean could love and hate Sammy's decisions with equal measure but for dad it was either way Sammy was loved and taken care of and to know that having both him and Sam around even if it wasn't the safest being that they held their father together that was something that John Winchester didn't tell them because as Dean put it they were chick flick moments and they were non essential.
JOHN: "so what brought this on?"
Dean wasn't sure that he wanted to tell John that he was a father or that John was a Grandpa, but knowing john and knowing himself he couldn't lie to him either it just wasn't in him he was the good soldier the good son and always the obedient one
DEAN: "Uh, Amanda told me that we have a kid, apparently the condom I used didn't work and now I'm a father."
JOHN: "And what is she expecting you to do now that you know?" he questioned
DEAN: "Well,"he rubbed his neck "she said she doesn't expect me to do anything, she obviously knows what we do and knows that its not exactly the safe and well our situation isn't like yours was the kid has a home things in her life but she offered for me to meet the kid and talk with the kid so I can at least meet the person that is half of my self she said that if anything the kid deserves to know who she came from that no ones better off not knowing their parent."
John could sense the struggle that dean was having trying to decide knowing that if he met the kid he couldn't ever un meet it and that from then on it would always be apart of his thoughts wondering what it was doing whether it was safe, wondering that when he left if it would have been happier not knowing it's father because he couldn't be around the way it needed. John had, had that same struggle two years after Mary's death when he was on a solo hunt he met a woman and she ended up pregnant and he now has a third son that Sam and Dean didn't know about yes he would drop in every now and then but it wasn't the same as it is with Dean and was with Sam but then again he wouldn't trade knowing Adam for the world because Adam was a Winchester and that meant he was family even if Dean and Sam didn't know it.
DEAN: "What do you think I should do dad?"
JOHN: "I think that if you don't meet your kid you'll regret it the rest of your life, and that right there will make sure that your life will end because of the misery will eat and eat at you because of the what If's even if it's just once ever in your whole life it better to be brave and do what's hard then be a coward and run away" yes he was being an opposition to him self because he'd run away from Adam and he'd run away from Sam but he also wanted better for his oldest boy who'd already given up so much of his life so if he could give him this he would and he would be a proud father and a proud grandfather as well even if he never said it.
Dean thought about that and he knew his dad was right he'd never be able to squash the curiosity if he didn't suck it up and be a man about it and meet the kid so now the decision was made he was going to meet his kid and there would be no going back dean would be a father wether he was involved or not.

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ok so I wanted to explain why I kept using the terms kid and it in this chapter and if you haven't already guessed it's because she's only been introduced in picture form and for dean it's still just an idea of fatherhood and it hasn't become real yet so once he meets her the idea becomes a solid fact,