Nother big thanks to SciFiNutTX for playing beta for me. And thanks to everyone reading and reviewing.

Chapter 4

Katie grabbed her laptop and headed out the door. John followed her. She looked at the phone for a second and then sat down in the grass with her back to the booth. A few minutes later she told John they were all set. John looked at her one last time, giving her a silent plea. Katie just pointed at the phone behind her and told him to start dialing.

"Sam, is that you?" John said into the phone.

Katie was surprised that Sam had answered Dean's phone.

"I'm fine."

"Sammy I'm alright. What about you and Dean?"

"Sorry kiddo, I-I can't tell you that."

"Look, I know this is hard for you to understand, but you're just gonna have to trust me on this."

"Yeah, it's a demon Sam."

Katie listened intently to her father's words. She could just imagine the looks on her brothers' faces when Sam answered the phone. She was hoping that this wouldn't cause a fight between her brothers, but somehow knew that it would.

"I do. Listen Sammy, I uh, I also know what happened to your girlfriend. I'm so sorry. I would've done anything to protect you from that."

"Yeah, I think I'm finally closing in on it."

Katie noticed the change in the tone of John's voice. He was switching from dad mode to hunter mode now.

"You can't, you can't be any part of it."

"Listen Sammy, that's why I'm calling. You and your brother, you gotta stop looking for me. Alright, now I need you to write down theses names."

John was in complete hunter mode now. Sam was gonna get mad and Katie knew it.

"Look, we don't have time for this. This is bigger than you think, they're everywhere. Even us talking right now. It's, it's not safe."

"I've given you an order. Now you stop following me and you do your job, you understand me? Now take down these names."

Katie knew almost before John said his name that Dean had taken the phone from Sam at that point.

"Dean, I can't tell you that. You and your brother are to stop looking for me this instant. That's an order."

Katie could hear Dean's response of "Yes sir" almost as if he were standing right in front of her. Dean never questioned dad's orders. Not even when they were dumb, like she thought this one was.

"Good, now I need you to write down these names."

Katie stopped listening after that. She waited for John to finish his phone call and then reset the phone system back to the way it was. When she stood up, John was still in the booth starting at the phone.

"John." Katie said. "John, snap out of it."

"What, what's up?" John asked.

"Come on old man, we got work to do."

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Katie tossed John the keys to his truck and then went and got into her usual place on the passenger side. John looked from her to the phone and then followed her example. It had felt so good to talk to his sons again. He had nearly told them everything because deep down he was hoping they would find him. He hadn't realized how much he missed them, Sam especially, until he'd heard their voices. None of that mattered now, Katie was right, they had work to do.

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He drove them to a house on Jeffie Russel Circle. Two days before there had been a fire at that house. The mother and 8-year-old son had been killed, leaving the father and a 6-month-old boy the only survivors. The top floor of the house was nearly completely destroyed because the remoteness of the house had made it harder for the fire department to get to.

Katie got out and went into the house while John poked around outside. There were traces of sulfur everywhere and the EMF was through the roof. She searched every room of the house, but there were no clues as to where the demons next target was so she went back outside to find her dad. When she got out there, the truck was gone. She called out for John in the off chance that a couple of punk kids had taken it, but there was no answer. She headed for the spot where the truck had been parked and lying in the dust of the dirt road was her laptop. She also found a large amount of sulfur in the area that hadn't been there when they got out of the truck. John must have tossed the computer out before who ever, or what ever, grabbed him could drive away. At least now she had a way to track the truck.

"Hmm, " she said to herself, "I guess the old man did know about the GPS tracking device I hid on his truck."