Dean walked down from Lydia's room and walked into the living room where Amanda was sitting with a bottle of beer in her hand flipping through some home magazine, when he walked in the room she looked up and offered him a chair and then a beer as well when he accepted she got up and grabbed a cold one from the fridge and popped the top and handed it over to him then sat down again.
Amanda: "so how was the Tuck in, did she make sure you checked every where so she was safe?" Amanda asked amusedly.
DEAN: "Dean smirked and then shook her head; yes your going to have shit load of salt to vacuum up tomorrow." he chuckled, the grin on his mouth widened at the look on Amanda's face of exasperation
AMANDA: "It really took the whole container of salt to supernaturally ward her bed room?" she quired
DEAN: "Yep that's how it's done all windows and doors lined with salt, it keeps the nasties deterred."
amanda huffed in resignation that she was just going to have to deal with the mess it would be a stress cleaning project she thought, because that what Amanda does she cleans when she is stressed and the tomorrow's edition was running her stress level since these murders were part of her Expose and she was trying to fine tune it with the matieral that Dean and John had found at the old water mill and her sources at the Coroners office and informed her that the blood was linked to at leas 2 of the 6 victims so they knew where at Least two of the Women were held.
AMANDA: "So what do you think about our girl?"
DEAN: "Well, first off she's adorable I guess we both contributed to that, she's so smart and independent, she has her routine down, I guess that your job offers quite the stable home life huh 9-5 and what have you."
AMANDA: "No actually, she's just had this routine for just a little while now, It's because of my job actually when my stories come like this I am actually gone more then I am home one of the reasons why she has a nanny and I haven't taken and enrolled her into Mitsfields is because I don't have stable hours I come and go when events happen and witnesses to interview you wouldn't think that the mid sized town we live in has much to report but we have quite the seedy underbelly here so she has learned to adapt and because of the nature of my work she's learned that my word is law, obedience leads to power over yourself then it leads to self-freedom she shows me I can trust her she gets more opportunities for the things she likes, and well she's just naturally been a very well behaved child never one to complain or argue if you explain the reasons for things if she understands the reasons why she has no problem with the situation."
Dean had noticed how obedient that little Lydi was and for a 6 year old that was quite the achievment
he was taught from an early age that if obedience wasn't hindered to then that lead to pain and anguish mostly because it involved keeping sammy safe and not getting killed, you obeyed the rules so you wouldn't die!.
DEAN: "well she really is a great Kid, I'd like to keep in touch with her even after I leave even if its just a letter or a post card maybe a picture every once in a while." he stated
AMANDA: "Well, I think that would be a good Idea, and Honestly I don't think that she would have any less, obviously she would like more but with what you do... it may not always work out but your most welcome if you find yourself near by or passing through to come and see her." she offered with a small smile
DEAN: "Dean grinned.Yeah, I think that would be perfect, I think I could swing that." he said knocking back the rest of his beer then getting up to head out and back to the Motel when she stopped him at the door.
AMANDA: "well I'm headed over to mitsfields tomorrow to talk to the enrolment coordinator and the teachers of each of the kids to see what kind of interactions they had leading up to the disappearance of the Victims you and your father are more then welcome to come it will help you with your investigation." she offered Dean nodded.

Dean:"Yeah that's a good Idea, I'll let you know ok!" then he left and went back to the Motel and informed John of what Amanda had offered and John had agreed to go along and question the Faculty and staff at Mitsfields then Dean had told him all about his Time with Lydia the things she liked, the fact that she could rival him with her love of Pie and classic cars, the fact that he had read to her from the Grimm Fairy tails which were like a kids guide to hunting the supernatural the details were fairly accurate on how to dispel monsters in the stories; he told John how she trusted him automatically after he had simply confirmed that he was her father and trusted his every word that is was truth.
JOHN: "Kids have a way of making us feel equally like we can do no wrong but also make us feel like we are constantly making the biggest mistakes ever in raising them all we can do is our best and when we feel like we aren't living up to our own or their expectations is just keep our heads down and plow through and hopefully the end result will come out to be something better then we ever expected."John stated Honestly. Dean accepted that he had witnessed his father trying his best with Sammy but taking into account of Sammy making his own decisions it wasn't hard to see how john felt like he was a failure, heck dean wasn't Sammy's parent and he often times felt like he had failed in keeping the family together, after their chat while cleaning their guns and their research they had decided that they were looking for a Vetala so that meant silver knife to the heart and a twist to insure death, then they went to sleep so they could be ready for tomorrow.
******Next day******
after Breakfast to which John was introduced to his Granddaughter, to which he was delighted to know that she was a big fan of the Beatles music just like Mary had been and he found her quite charming and very respectful and polite doing as she was told when she was told with no fuss mostly the only fuss she did put up was that she wanted to sit in-between John and Dean so she could be with her two favorite new guys, but after John explained the complexity of elbow room she was quite happy to sit across from them with a smile entertaining them with 6 year old antics of forking her whipped cream into fangs below the dotted blueberry smile on her pancakes. then with that completed Dean and Amanda Dropped Little Liddy off at the Nannies home so the Nannie could meet Dean then they met John Back at mitsfields to start their investigations; once there they each separated and divided up the teachers and the staff between John and Dean while Amanda talked to all of them not really having the same questions they guy's did about the victims John had discovered that with each of the victims they all had Parent supervisor conferences with the admittance coordinator to go over the needs of the children if the adult buddies of the older kids were having the desired effect and that the younger kids were completing the milestones that the center had set forth like learning to play well with other children using their gross and motor skills, these meeting were usually accompanied by the admittance coordinator and the teacher involved with the student and the parent and coincidentally those meetings had always been on the day of the victims disappearance, they local officers had never looked further into the background of the attending coordinator or the teachers because they each had an alibi which was each other. After interviewing them John and Dean left to do research on each of the teachers and staff while Amanda went back to her office to wright up what she had for her article saying goodbye to each other, they just didn't know that it would be the last time that they would see Amanda and Dean's life was going to change again and even more then it already had. (dum, dum, dummmmm!) While at the library looking into the backgrounds of each of the teachers there didn't seem to be any thing odd about them most of them had lived in the town their whole lives and hardly made it past the state lines usually going to the local collages or to the Ivy leagues like Purdue or Notre Dame then making their way back to the small town life except for Mr. Weston the Admitting Coordinator who was imported from out east to fill the position when Mitsfields first opened which curiously timed right with the opening of the care center. They continued looking into Mr. Weston things just kept adding up against him there were other places that women went missing in the Area where he was around but he always Had an alibi so nothing was ever looked into further it listed in the town property records that he paid rent on a small home in town and he owned property out towards where the mill was which he was renovating over the last year it was close to library closing time and Dean and John headed towards the Diner for dinner once done with that they headed back to the motel to load up the Car it was about 8:30 when dean got a phone call.
DEAN: "Hello?"
VOICE ON THE PHON: "Is this Dean Winchester?"
DEAN: "yeah, I'm Dean Winchester, who's this?"
VOICE ON THE PHONE: " This is missy Daniels, Lydia's nanny."
DEAN: "Oh yeah I remember, is everything ok?"
MISSY DANIELS: "Uh, no I don't think so..." she pauses for a second " Well Amanda hasn't Picked up Lydia yet and she's usually not this late most times unless she call's but she hasn't called yet and I've tried her cell and home phone number and left messages with her secretary and I haven't received any calls yet and I just getting a little worried, and Lydia is getting a bit anxious to get back home, I wondered if you had heard from her or know where she might be?"
Dean was worried after what Missy had informed him and looked over to his father with a anxiously
DEAN: "Uh Missy would you mind if Lydia stayed the night there, I'll come by and drop off some clothes and Pajamas for her my partner and I are going to go out and see if we can find her ok?"
MISSY DANIELS: "Yes that would be fine, we will be waiting for you."
Dean told John that Amanda was missing and that they needed to stop by and grab some clothes for Lydia and drop them off so they can go look for Amanda Fearing that because she had been looking into the murders that she might have been Taken by the Vetala because of how close they had been getting and she definitely fit the profile to the T except for the exception that their little Lydia didn't attend mitsfields. Dean and John drove to Amanda's house and dean picked the lock on the door seeing as he didn't have house keys he ran up to Lydia's room and went to her closet and grabbed a shirt and pants and went to her dresser and got two pair's of pajama's and underwear and socks and stuffed them in her tote bag and then grabbed her stuffy that he knew that she slept with and her tooth brush and hair brush from the bathroom and ran down stairs then jumped into the Impala then headed to Missy Daniels house; once their John and Dean hopped out of the Car and ran up the walk and knocked on the door, Missy opened it up and led them into the lounge where Lydia was sitting on the floor trying to color in a coloring book.
Lydia heard foot steps and looked up from her coloring book and saw Daddy and Grandpa John she got up and raced over to them, dean scooped her up in his arms and held her for just a moment then pulled her away.
LYDIA: "Daddy, where's mommy? she hasn't called us yet."
DEAN: "I don't know baby girl, but me and Grandpa John are going to go look for her and try our best to find her ok."
He didn't promise that he'd bring Amanda back to many years of experience told him that you could never give some one the guarantee that their family members would come back alive and safe and since Lydia knew about what was going on and knew that she would only except absolute truth from him he had no choice but to be honest.
"Lydia"he whispered in her ear so that missy wouldn't hear, "you are going to stay here tonight, while me and Grandpa john look for mommy, I need to know your safe so I can put all my focus on finding her ok."
LYDIA: "Yes, daddy I'll stay here safe with missy, so you can get the bad thing that took mommy." she said in Dean's ear she knew that hunting monsters was to be kept a secret and that she would have to lie about what her daddy and Grandpa John did so they could do their jobs she normally hated lying and liars but she also knew there were time that you just had to but with her family she would only and always expect absolute truth.
Dean Hugged her once more and then placed her on the ground and made his way to the door john following him out
LYDIA: "Grandpa Wait" she Called and rushed after him, running because he had such a long stride, John turned and looked at her questioningly she pulled on his jacket indicating that she wanted him to crouch down to her, and so he did.
LYDIA: "Grandpa please, please be careful, try to find mommy, and please try to keep Daddy safe ok, I love you." with that she hugged him and stepped back to hold missy's hand and watched and he nodded his conformation that he would do what she asked and then walked out the door leaving her behind. John and Dean drove to Amanda's office it was closed seeing that it was about 10:00 pm they picked the lock and walked back to her office and started searching for anything that would indicate where she might have gone to Dean was busy rifling through the scrunched up paper in the waste basket, thank goodness they got here before the Night cleaning crew cam there was nothing in there except drafts and rewrites of Amanda's Articles and lunch receipts, John looked at her desk Calendar and saw that she had an interview scheduled with Mr. Weston at 6:00 tonight . (Old Water Mill) John called Dean over to take a look at the Calendar.
JOHN: "You know what . means?" Dean thought for a minute "May be the Old Water Mill, or at Least the Property Weston own's down by the Water Mill."
John concluded the Sam, well there were two locations that they needed to check they tailed it back to Baby and drove out to the Water Mill Time was not on their side she had already been missing since 6:00 and the Water Mill was already 45 Minutes driving the speed limit of 40 but since they were in a hurry they Sped down the road and cut the time in half to 22 minutes they parked a quarter mile away from the Mill and the Property just happened to be across the river and Up a Mile more so the hiked through the woods so that they had the cover of the trees and the undergrowth to muffle their footsteps it was a Windy night as well so their smell and Breath were covered as well hope fully the wind would continue to hit them from the front so their natural Oder would waft off of them and away from sensitive Noses.

Dean Crept up to the Closest window and peered in He couldn't see Amanda any where in the wide open area there wasn't much of a loft area but they needed to sweep the area John Directed the both of them silently using his military hand gestures directing Dean to where He wanted him to search Dean went to the loft while John Swept the main floors searching be hind all doors and Corners when they were satisfied 15 Minutes Later that Amanda in deed was not here, they again walked out the door and headed across the river and double timed it the Mile to the Weston property went they got there Dean noticed Amanda's car and silently touched his Dad's arm and Pointed to his eyes and they over to her Car indicating that if her car was here they she must be where her car is. John nodded and then Pointed to him self indicating that he would be moving to the Back to check if there were any side exits that they would need to barricade to that they could control the area then he held out five fingers indicating that Dean and john would enter the front and back of the house together in 5 minutes so they could cut off either escape route, Dean nodded his understanding and crouched his way to the front of the house; he stopped and climbed under the car and cut the car alarm so it wouldn't sound when he went to check the doors to make sure they were locked and that Amanda wasn't in the car or the trunk of the car either.
When the five minute time limit was over Dean Picked the lock to the Front door and opened it silently and stepped through closing it quietly the home was small there was an entry way then the living room a kitchen off to the side and then the back room, Dean mad it through the entry way and peeked around the corner and Saw Amanda tied to a chair Gagged and whimpering while Mr. Weston stood in front of her running a finger down her cheek, Dean tightened his Jaw and remained there until Dean saw Johns slight movements from the back room and knew that he was in place to enter when Dean distracted Mr. Weston from Amanda dean drew in a breath and stepped out of the entry way to the main room and held up his silver knife defensively.
DEAN: "Hey Dick weed, you want to eat some one, choose pray that will fight back."
Mr. Weston turned around to see who was speaking to him and saw the State police officer.
MR WESTON: "Well I have to hand it to you my escapades normally aren't discovered by the Local Law, I have to ask how did the State find me when the locals had no clue?"
Dean saw his father enter from the back and make his way slowly towards the Vetala, Dean knew he had to keep it distracted.
Dean: " Well for one you're sloppy, two you have an M.O. Cute blond hair, blue eyed, single moms, three the problem is because your so Damn hungry the numbers are hard not to miss and that because of what you are you have to move constantly its like a wash rinse repeat deal and since I've been killing things like you since I was a kid I know how to pick up the trail."

John was just about to Amanda when he stepped and a board creaked which caused Mr. Weston to fling him self around to catch John and shove him back to the wall and then turn just as dean had made it with in arms distance and got him self thrown to the floor Mr. Weston went behind Amanda grasping the side of her head and bend it to one side to expose the neck while the other hand stabilized her shoulder keeping her in place John was back up and at Weston's back and dean scrambled up again and was at his front Weston was trapped it was a matter of time before one of them would lung forward to kill him so he did the only thing left to him he bit and ripped at Amanda's throat and then flung her aside and ran towards dean barreling through him and out the front door with John on his trail Dean scrambled over to Amanda and through off his jacket and took off his Flannel shirt and held it to her Gaping wound.
DEAN:"Hey, hey Amanda you have to keep your eyes open, stay with me ok, keep your eyes open and look at me ok." Dean had pressure on her neck but the blood just seeped through the shirt, she kept her eyes on dean they were wide and terrified yet oddly focused on him, determined to look at him to see him, she was gurgling and gasping for breath.
AMANDA: "DEAN! TELL Lydia, OBEY MOMMY AND BE BRAVE" she said as she gurgled "KEEP HER SAFE... FOR ME! PLEASE." she struggled getting these last words out
DEAN: "I promise, I'll keep her safe, I promise." He said and she nodded knowing he would keep his word and continued to gasp and gurgle for a moment longer she then expired her last breath and died. John came in a while later noticing dean standing with his shoulder's hunched and head lowered in obvious grief for Amanda there was such a large pool of blood on the floor soaking her hair and her clothes that were touching the floor when John walked again Dean didn't seem to sense john's nearness so john called to him
John: "Dean!, DEAN! "John placed his hand on Deans shoulder jolting him out of the haze his son seemed to be trapped in " we gotta call this in son." he said
DEAN
Dean turned to John "did you Gank him, he's dead right tell me he's dead."John nodded in affirmation and dean closed his eyes relaxing a bit "Good, I didn't know what I was gonna tell Lydia if the thing that killed her mom got away."
John: "what are we going to do about Lydia? she doesn't have anybody but us for family."
Dean looked at his father and said, "We do what you did with me and Sam, she's my daughter she stay's with us." Dean said it was the only time that his tone took on a finality with his father usually it was what ever John say's goes, but not this time Lydia was his daughter she would remain with him weather John approved or not.