Chapter 26

Next morning I had to work a shift at the hospital so Dean spent the day at the frat house with James. I still don't really know what they did all day, but I'm pretty sure Dean was teaching James a few lessons. Dean wanted to make sure that James was aware of what would happen if he hurt me. At least he wasn't trying to completely scare James off like he did the guys in Kila.

Later that night we got together with a bunch of friends. There were guys from the frat house and a bunch of girls from the nursing school. I think Dean really enjoyed the student nurses. He was hitting on all of them. He even had the guys charmed so they weren't jealous.

Dean stayed at school with me for a week. He probably would have stayed longer, but Sam called. We were at a party and Dean had handed me his phone so he wouldn't lose it. I thought it was dad calling because I had never told Dean about him calling that first night.

I answered the phone prepared to fight with dad and instead got a slightly panicked voice asking where his brother was. I told Sam o calm down, that Dean was fine, just a little busy. Sam asked who I was and I gave him my cover name. He said he remembered me from the job we worked together a few years before. I just kinda smiled at that cause I was glad he remembered me.

He asked to talk to Dean and I told him to give me a minute to find him. After walking around for a few minutes I found him hitting on another one of the nursing students. He saw me holding his phone and immediately said that he didn't want to talk to dad. I pulled him close so I could whisper in his ear that it was Sam on the phone and he sounded kinda worried. Dean grabbed the phone from me and ran out a side door so he could talk to Sam. I followed Dean out the door.

After a rather tense conversation, Dean said he had to leave. I asked him what was going on and Dean told me that dad was missing. Sammy had been all alone since the day he had left. Dean said that dad should have been home by now. That's when I told him about dad calling the first night he was there.

I was expecting to get yelled at, but Dean didn't say anything. He just nodded his head and then tried to call dad's phone. There was still no answer after the third try, so he headed for the parking lot. I asked him if he wanted me to come with him and he said he thought it would be a good idea if I did. Just as we got to my Jeep, I heard James calling for us.

He saw us in the parking lot a few seconds after he said my name for the third time and ran over. He asked us if everything was ok and I told him what was going on. James just smiled at me and then jumped into the back of the Jeep. He said if there was something going on with my family then he was gonna help whether I liked it or not.

Dean started to protest, but I stopped him. I told him that we had no idea what kind of trouble dad had gotten himself into. Dean started to protest again, but I told him that James knew all about hunting, he came from a whole family that did exactly that. Dean just shrugged and said he was driving. I gave him the keys and we took off.

It took us a little over 5 hours to get to where Dean had left Sam and dad in Bishop, California. On the way we had to explain to James a little of our family history. Mostly the part that Sam didn't know I was his sister. All Sam knew about me was that I was a friend of his big brother's and had helped him save Dean and dad once. James didn't really understand, but he promised he wouldn't say anything.

We went straight to the motel Sam was in. Dean still had a key to the room, so we just walked right in and almost got shot. Sam was standing in the middle of the room holding a pump action shotgun. Dean had forgotten to tell him that we were coming.

It took a little convincing to get Sam to stop pointing the shotgun at James. He was ok with me being there, but he had never seen James before. Dean and I told him that James was a hunter like us and that he was there to help us find dad. Sam finally handed the gun to Dean, but barely took his eyes off James the entire time we were in the room.