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Chapter 5

Katie opened her laptop to start the program and saw the low battery warning. She decided it would be better to just shut it off and hoof it back to the motel as fast as possible. A dead laptop was not going to help her find her dad and besides all the weapons, save the 2 9mm's she kept in a holster on her back, had been in the truck.

Halfway back to the motel she suddenly decided she needed help. She thought about calling her brothers, but they were busy and John didn't want them involved with this particular hunt. Instead, she dialed Racheal Singer's #.

"Hello" a somewhat sleepy voice said.

"Racheal, it's Grace."
"Hey, what's up sis?"

"I need your help. John Winchester was just taken by a demon, truck and all."
"John Winchester, as in your DAD, John Winchester." Racheal said in a rather surprised voice.

"No, John Winchester that invented the Winchester rifle. Can you help me get him back, or are you busy?"

"I just finished a job in Macon, Georgia. Where are you?"

"I'm in Juliete."

"Cool, see you in about 15 minutes."

"Hey Rache, make sure you call your dad and Caleb so they know where your going. Me being rogue on Caleb is bad enough."

"Sure Grace, and I'll tell Caleb your still alive while I'm at it."

"Thanks Racheal, see you soon."

Katie hung up her phone and jogged the rest of the way back to the motel. She got there just as Racheal pulled up in her '77 Camero. Katie was too out of breath to say anything so she just pointed to her room and tossed Racheal the key. They walked into the room and Katie plugged in her laptop so it could charge and so she could turn on the tracking program. She had just gotten her breath back enough to tell Racheal what had happened when her cellphone rang. Katie looked at the caller ID and immediately answered it.

"Sam, what's wrong? Is Dean ok?" Katie tried, but couldn't hide the concern in her voice.

"Yeah, he's fine." Sam replied, "Did dad call you earlier today?"

"No, why what's going on?" Katie had already guessed, but had to pretend she didn't know what had happened.

" Well, dad called Dean's cell from a pay phone in Sacramento to tell us to stop looking for him and send us on a job in Indiana."

"Ok, so why are you calling me? I know there has to be something wrong or you wouldn't be talking to me right now."

"Well, Dean and I got into a fight because I wanted to go to California to find dad and he wanted to follow dad's orders."
"Son of a bitch. It was just an argument right, there weren't any actual punches thrown?"

"No punches, I promise, but right now I'm in the middle of nowhere Indiana and Dean is headed for Burkitsville."

"Wait just a damn minute. You're telling me he left you in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. What the hell, Sam?"

"I told him to. I was wondering if you could come pick me up and help me look for dad in California?"

"Sam, I'm sorry. I'm in the middle of a job with Racheal right now and I can't just leave her alone, her dad would kill me. I can however, send a friend of mine to get you."

Katie took a quick look at her computer screen and then continued. She tried to ignore the puzzled expression on Racheal's face.

"Jade and her brother Max are in Indianapolis. Where are you exactly?"

"I'm on a 2 lane highway headed toward Salem." Sam answers.

"Ok, I want you to go to the bus stop when you get to Salem. I'll have Max and Jade pick you up from there and bring you to me in Georgia. By the time you get here, Racheal and I should have this job cleared up and then you and I can head for California. Will that work for you?"

"Not really, dad could be gone by then. I'll just catch the first bus to Sacramento and you can meet me there when you can."

"Ok, but Sam."

"Yeah."

"Be careful. Dean would never forgive himself if something happened to you."

"I will. See you back in Cali."

Katie hung up the phone and started pacing the room. She thought about calling Dean, but decided it would be better if he called her. She needed to get to work on finding John anyway.

"Damnit, damnit, damnit. I knew this was gonna happen I just knew it." Katie yelled.

"Woh, what's wrong sis?" Racheal asked.

"I made John call the boys so they knew he was ok. Sam and Dean got into an argument because of it. Now Dean's working a job alone and Sam is on his way to look for John in California."

"I thought John was here in Georgia with you."

"He is, or was till a demon grabbed him. I hacked into the phone company and rerouted the call so Dean's caller ID said it was from a payphone in Cali, instead of the one right outside. John doesn't want the boys to find us. Course he doesn't want me with him either, I just didn't give him a choice."

"So what do you want to do here?"

"We gotta find John. If anything happens to him, it would kill Dean. Sam should be ok until I can pick him up and Dean's worked cases alone before so he should be ok too."

"So how do we find your dad?"

"I hid a GPS tracer on his truck. Hopefully they didn't take him far away from it."

"Is that how you knew Max and Jade were in Indianapolis?"

"Yahtzee."

"Now I know why Caleb always called you first if he was looking for one of us. You really are a sneaky little witch. So where's John's truck?"

"Parked on Clark Drive in Macedonia, 170 miles north of us."

"Well, let's clean this room out and get going."

They loaded John and Katie's duffels into the Camero and then wiped all the prints from the room. Fifteen minutes later they were on the road, breaking speed limits to get to John before the demon could do too much damage to him. Katie refused to believe that her father was already dead. John Winchester was just too pig headed and stubborn to die that easily.