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All I Really Wanted: Chapter 3
'Ok, so remind me again why we're going after this guy again? I thought we were trying to figure out how to get all of you back to your own time?' John demanded tiredly. Dean had to smother a grin. He knew his dad was freaked out. Heck he had been freaked out, when he and Sam were discussing the possibility of how they were going to fix this whole mess they hadn't really considered this as a solution.
Why had they all been sent here here together in 1996 to his father, thirteen year old little brother and his seventeen year old self? He hadn't known what the outcome was going to be this. The only ones who had known were the ones who had orchestrated the whole deal and were known dead. And truth be told he had no idea how Michael and Lucifer's minds worked.
Deanna sat on one bed with her daughter next to her, while Sammy was snuggled up on the other side. He figured he was trying absorb as much love and warmth as he possibly could. Because even though Mary and Deanna knew that they died before this point in time, neither seemed all that inclined to stop it. Not that they wanted to die and leave their family behind but they had figured out the whole time paradox thing most likely wouldn't allow for their pre-ressurection.
So Sammy stuck to the two like white on rice. Samuel he hadn't taken to so much. He had whispered to Dean that Samuel and Dad were just alike which had caused him to laugh out loud. Later on when he, Sam, John, and Samuel had been pouring over books trying to find a clue he had shared what Sammy had told him. The looks on their faces was priceless and they had immediatley both started to vehementally deny this accusation. Dean just shook his head in wonderment and was starting to Sammy's point.
Mary was leaning against her mother and the head board and looked just like he remembered her form when he was sent back in time the first time. He hadn't told her about that yet, wanted to make sure that what he and Sam were doing was the right thing to do in order to hopefully prevent all of the dark crap in their lives from ever occuring. And she didn't need that burden.
It frustrated the others to no end that he and Sam were keeping their mouths shut about the future seeing as they were the furthest along. They would grumble and complain, but noticed that Dad wouldn't give any major information away to Samuel, and Mary would barely even look at him.
Except now he could see Mary studying his Dad out of the coner of her eye while they awaited to hear his answer. He just knew that she was trying to see the man she left back in her time and was trying to compare it to the gruff, weathered man of now. He had done the same thing when he went to the past and saw her for the first time as well. It was disconcerting seeing a loved one that was supposed to be so familiar to you in a completely different light. Almost alien in their ways but at the same time possessing a quality that was so them that it was impossible to ignore the fact that it was indeed your lover, family member or friend.
Dean believed that the reason Mary was refusing to talk to John since they...re-met...was because he had done the one thing that she had never wanted. Raised her childrent to be hunters. Samuel and Deanna didn't know that she was going to try to get out when she eventually married John so they weren't surprised the family business was continued. They jsut picked up on her hostility towards John and had tried to keep them seperated for the most part. This frustrated his Dad to no end and was making everyone else a little stressed out.
'Yo! Older less attractive version of me.' Dean blinked and noticed that his younger self was snapping his fingers in front of his face. 'You done spacing out yet, and want to tell us why we need this guy killed so badly?'
Dean took a deep breath and sighed, looking across the room at Sam whose hazel eyes were full of guilt and worry. He didn't like this plan anymore than Dean did, but what choice did they have?
'Well, his name is James Collin Novak.'
TBC...
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