Special thanks to SciFiNutTX and laceym as usual and thanks to everyone reading and reviewing. Ezraduke: hope this answers that question you asked me earlier. I kept things from John's point of view for "Faith" cause I wanted to show what he may have been going through while Dean was hurt.
Chapter 11
John watched Racheal walk out of the room and then heard her stomp up the back stairs and slam the door to her room. The one thing he hated more than anything was people telling him how he should handle his children, but this was different. Racheal had been raised almost exactly the same as Katie. They both went through the horrors of the foster care system and both had been left with Caleb. Racheal had become a sister to his girls and vice versa. Racheal Singer was the only person on the planet that knew exactly how Katie felt about things because she had lived most of it with her.
He sat there quietly for a few minutes, staring at the bottle Racheal had left behind. The more he stared at it, the more he became convinced that something very bad had happened to one or both of his sons. He also knew there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it given his current situation. Katie was gone and she had hidden his phone, so he had no way of finding out either. He decided the only thing he could do was bury himself in the bottle and pray for Mary to protect their children again.
John woke up the next morning with a killer hang over. His breakfast was on the table in front of him and Racheal was nowhere to be seen. He just shrugged and ate his breakfast. He had just set the plate back on the table when Racheal came in the front door. She was carrying bags from the store in town. He was about to say something to her when she shot him a dirty look and then walked into the kitchen to put the groceries away. He heard his phone start to ring again and had just decided to ignore it when Racheal came out and dropped it into his lap.
"It's Sam calling." Racheal said, and then she walked back into the kitchen
John stared at his phone for a second and was about to answer it when it stopped ringing. He waited a few minutes and then checked all the missed calls. There were seven total and all of them were from people listed in his journal. He started to listen to his messages and all his fellow hunters had the same thing to say.
"Call Sam, something bad has happened to Dean."
When he finally got to Sam's message, his heart tried to leave his chest.
"Uh, hey dad it's Sam. Uh, Dean's sick and the doctor's say that there's nothing they can do, but uh hey, they don't know the things that we do right? So, uh, don't worry cause I'm gonna do what ever it takes to get him better. Uh anyway, I just thought you'd wanna know. Bye."
John stared blankly at his phone. The desperation and fear in his youngest son's voice completely crushed him, then the anger took over. His oldest son was dying and his daughter had deliberately tried to keep him from finding out. He immediately dialed Katie's number, but it rang over to voice mail. That only made him angrier, so he dialed again and still got her voicemail. On his third try he heard the phone pick up and Katie's voice talking to some one else.
"You sure you can make it down the hall?"
"I'll be fine." That was Dean's voice, "You just answer the phone and come into the room when you're done. I need to warn Sam that you're here anyway."
"He already knew I was coming. He called me a few hours after you did." Katie said.
"He called you, not the other way around? Guess you're growing on him Katie girl."
John was thinking that Dean sounded pretty good for a dying man when Katie finally started talking into her phone.
"I see I need to teach Racheal how to hide things from you better."
"What the hell happened to my son?" John demanded.
"The short version is that he electrocuted himself and had a massive heart attack. The damage to his heart is extremely severe and the docs gave him maybe a month to live. Is that what you wanted to hear?" Katie snapped back.
John dropped his phone. He could hear Katie calling his name, but it didn't register. Racheal had come in when she heard the phone hit the floor and immediately ran to pick it up.
"Grace, no it's Racheal. He's fine, I think. What's going on?"
Racheal listened to her friend for a few minutes and then turned to John.
"John, you need to talk to your daughter right now."
John nodded to Racheal and then took the phone from her hand.
"Katie, please tell me that was a very bad joke." John pleaded with his daughter.
"I'm sorry John. I didn't mean to say it like that." Katie replied.
"So, what's the plan?" John had slipped into hunter mode to keep from breaking down completely.
"I'm gonna check in with Sam and see if he's come up with anything. If he hasn't, then I'm bringing both of them back to Kila with me so we can work on the problem together. Caleb has called in the whole crew to work on this. He's gonna be fine John, I promise. I'll call you back in a couple of hours."
John didn't have time to respond because Katie hung up her phone. He thought about calling her back, but changed his mind. It sounded like Katie had everything under control. The only thing John could do was sit and wait for his daughter to call him back. It took him a few minutes to realize that Racheal sat down on the couch next to him.
"He's gonna be fine." John said quietly, "Katie promised he would be."
"Then I know he will be. Grace never makes a promise she can't keep." Racheal said.
"Why do you do that?" John asked.
"Do what?"
"Why do you call her Grace?"
"She told us about 2 days after you left her at Caleb's that the only people allowed to call her Katie were Dean and Laura. As far as anyone one else was concerned her name was Grace Reynolds. She didn't want anyone to know she was your daughter because she was ashamed of you, I think."
"Do you know where she got that name?" John asked.
"Nope, she and Daisy never told me that little piece of information" Racheal replied.
"Well, 'Reynolds' was their mother's maiden name. 'Daisy' came from a birthmark that Laura had on the back of her left shoulder. 'Grace' is short for Graceful, from when Katie was learning how to walk and she kept falling down. Dean gave them those nicknames."
They didn't say anything else to each other until Katie called a few hours later. The phone call was pretty short. All Katie told them was that Sam had found a solution and they were headed for Nebraska. She couldn't really give any details cause Sam was keeping them to himself. She said she'd call back as soon as Dean was better.