CHAPTER 3
Everyone had finished their breakfasts and Faith was back in the kitchen removing her apron and grabbing her book bag for school. Through the glass in the swinging door she watched Dean remain sitting in the booth quietly talking to his Dad and brother. Their daughter was no longer with them and now resided at the counter with ED, Ralph, and Bob. Her Aunt and Uncle had gone outside and she was pretty sure there was a heated argument going on somewhere out of eyesight of the window. How could she had been so stupid and not tell Dean last night? All she had to do was say 'I work at Claire's. Please don't show up there until I think this over', but no. Now her Aunt and Uncle knew Dean was in town and with the two women who just left being the biggest gossips everyone in town would soon know. That's what she got for being a single teenage mom in small town America.
Watching the three Winchester's she had a hard time believing what she remembered about John. He had taken Dean out of her life and remembered the heated argument him and her father had gotten in to, but he had been nothing but nice to her since their phone call last night. Had the man just changed or was she not remembering things correctly? Not that it mattered. The three of them would be moved on by the end of the week. Why did the thought of that hurt her so much?
She didn't know Dean anymore. He had changed at least in looks so much since he was thirteen and it was all in a good way. Before he had been cute and now…wow. She could come up with a lot of words to describe how he looked now, but none of them paid true justice to just how gorgeous he had become. Faith made a frustrating sound. She was thinking like a pathetic teenager. That's what got her in this mess in the first place!
Dean leaned forward on his elbows and kept his voice low as he talked to his father across the table. "I spend a little time with the Sheriff and maybe I can find out some stuff about the case."
John shook his head. "I don't like you being alone with him."
Dean smirked. "Don't worry. I won't let him con me into a shotgun wedding."
"Why would he do that?" Sam was still playing catch up and it didn't help that the older two Winchesters wouldn't tell him anything. "I'm not a kid. If something's going on with Dean I need to know."
"Your right." John handed Sam some money. "Go pay the check."
Sam rolled his eyes and stormed away from the booth.
"I'm going to drop Sam off at the library to do some research on the town. Just don't do anything to tip off the Sheriff." John got out of the booth.
"What em I? An amateur?"
His Dad didn't respond and after Sam paid the two of them left. Dean watched them get into his Dad's pick up and drive off. Faith's Aunt and Uncle returned to the diner and the Aunt picked up Faith's daughter from the stole she sat on. "Faith, we need to be going." The tone of her voice was not a good one and the look Dean saw her give him would send a normal boy his age running. Luckily he wasn't any normal teenager and responded back with a cocky smirk.
Faith walked out of the kitchen and caught the smirk Dean had given her Aunt. The things that boy did to her… Damn it! "I'm ready." She looked at Dean. "I'll talk to you later." Her Aunt grabbed her arm gently and pulled her out of the diner.
Dean narrowed his eyes slightly.
"You can leave your car here. I'll drop you off later." The Sheriff paid his bill and left.
"Bye, Dean." ED said from the counter.
"Later, guys." Dean got out of the booth and followed the Sheriff. Dean got in the passenger seat of the cruiser and buckled his seat belt without waiting for the Sheriff to tell him. This was the first time he had ever ridden in the front seat of one these. He instantly knew the backseat would be funner. It's easier to annoy the cops when you're sitting behind them.
The Sheriff started the car and pulled into traffic. "You're not running off with my nieces."
Dean looked at him. "Don't plan on it. I'm not here to cause trouble. I don't even want Faith to tell her I'm her Dad. It wouldn't be fair to her since I'm leaving in a weeks time."
"What are you here for than?"
"Just passing through. We move around a lot." Dean knew the cover story he planned on using. It was the same one they told Faith years ago, but he just didn't feel like saying all of it.
The Sheriff watched Dean out of the corner of his eye. "I know a couple of places that are hiring right now. The works just for a short time, so it works with the way your Dad up and moves with no notice."
"Thanks. I'll talk to my Dad about it."
The man nodded. "The first job is construction at the High School. Speaking of which when did you graduate?"
"Got my GED last year."
"Do you have any work experience?" Dean looked like he could do hard work, but with what Faith had said about his job being to take care of his younger brother he wasn't sure.
"Garage, salvage yard, construction, was a mall security guard once, Uuuuhhh." Dean silently ran all his various jobs that were legal through his head. "Worked in a mine, video store clerk, stock room at a grocery store…"
"Okay I think I got it." The Sheriff said, interrupting the teenager. "If works not the problem than why do you move a lot?"
Time to pull a lie out of his ass. "Ever since my Moms death my Dads been moving us around. He wants to settle down, but I think he just can't because of what happened."
The Sheriff nodded. "I can't stop you from seeing Faith or Kat, but if you hurt them I will have every cop in the United States looking for you."
"Got it." Dean wanted to get the subject changed and knew this would be a good time to bring up the murders. "I heard on the news about the disappearances recently. Think the families were just skipping the rent?"
"That's a possibility. Were still looking in to it."
"Sheriff." A voice said from the radio. "I'm out at the Lavan place. I think you need to get out here."
The Sheriff responded. "I'll be right there." He turned the car around. "Want me to drop you off back at your car or is it okay if we just head out there?"
"It sounded important. You better just head there."
The sheriff car headed outside of town.
