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Chapter 38

Dad wanted to leave right away, but I argued him into staying put and working on cases that kept us in Ohio. We could both see that Dean wasn't ready to leave yet. Dad was afraid that Dean would quit the job, and him, to follow Cassie home when she graduated. I knew he wouldn't do that, but I also knew he was completely in love with Cassie. I wanted him to have that at least once.

We stayed in Ohio for a total of 3 months. When dad and I couldn't find any more cases to work in the state, he said it was time for us to move on. I went with Dean to give Cassie the news. What I didn't expect, was for him to actually tell her the truth about what we do. She didn't take it well at all.

She told Dean that he was nuts. She completely went off on him. He tried to explain to her that everything he'd told her was true, but she didn't want to hear it. In the end she kicked us out of her apartment and told Dean to never come back. We went straight to a bar afterwards.

After a few hours, I tried to get him to come back to the motel and sleep. He told me to go check on dad and said he'd call me when he was ready to come home. I knew it was a bad idea to leave him, but left anyway. I went to the motel, told dad what had happened, and asked him if he could get Dean out of there before he did something stupid. He said he'd try and we headed back to the bar.

There were 4 cop cars and an ambulance outside when we got there. Dean was sitting in one of the cop cars, screaming profanities at the top of his lungs. They were loading Brian into the ambulance. Dad went to talk to the cops while I went inside to talk to some of the witnesses.

Apparently, Cassie had called Brian after we left her house and told him what had happened with Dean. Brian showed up to the bar a minute after I'd left to go get dad. Brian just grabbed Dean's shoulder and spun him around. He tried to take a swing at Dean, but Dean blocked it and proceeded to beat Brian to a bloody pulp.

Several people tried to pull Dean off him, but only succeeded in getting themselves black eyes. In the end, the cops had to use a couple tazers on him to stop him from beating Brian to death. They cuffed him and then put him in one of their cars. He came too a few seconds before we got there.

I don't know how dad did it, but he managed to convince the cops to release Dean into his custody. We headed straight back to the motel and started packing. Dean was a little upset that dad made him wait in the back of the car and wouldn't take the cuffs off him. It was one of the few times I didn't argue with dad about the way he treated my brother. We left town and didn't stop driving until we were 2 states away. Dad didn't let Dean out of the handcuffs until then either.

What surprised me was that dad didn't yell at either of us for the whole thing. When I asked him about it he said that I had tried to prevent it, but Dean was determined to make the pain go away no matter what I'd done. He said that at least I recognized that I couldn't handle it on my own and had come to get him. He said he was proud of me for that.

Dean wouldn't talk about it at first, at least not to dad. He'd come into my room at night and just sit on the floor by my bed, telling me how much he missed her and he'd wished he'd never fallen for her. I kept telling him I was sorry for putting him through that. If I hadn't talked dad into staying he never would've had to go through that. He just said it wasn't my fault and then we just sat there watching TV for the rest of the night.

We stayed at the motel in Tennessee until Dean was ready to get back to work. When he was ready, he threw himself into the job with everything he had. Dad finally had to tell him to relax a little or he was gonna make himself nuts. I took about a month or 2, but he finally calmed down and got back to his old self.

He never did let himself get that close to a girl again though. Well, other than me I should say. He swore he'd never put himself into that position again. He convinced himself that he'd let dad and me down somehow, by not being there with us while we were working. Dad and I tried to tell him that wasn't true, but he wasn't going for it. We let it go in the end and never brought up Cassie or Athens, Ohio again.