STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Present Day

Some rock music is playing on a radio in the dorm room as a teen male is getting ready in a halloween costume. "Jo! Get a move on ? We were supposed to be there like 15 minutes ago."Eric said to Jo as he was putting the last items of his costume on. "Jo,you coming or what?" Eric peaked her head out of her room and looked a bit bummed "Do I have to?" Jo said. " 'll be fun."Eric walked out of her room in a t shirt adn jean shorts her jeans a bit faded. "And where's your costume?"Eric scoffs at Eric. "You know how i feel about halloween."Jo said. They leave the dorm and head to the bar a costume party was going on Jo was the only one not in costume there.

Eric raised his small shot glass into the air. "So here's to Jo and her awesome LSAT victory."Eric announced. "All right,All 's not that big a deal."Jo glanced at Eric. "She acts so humble,But she scored a 174."Eric said to everyone at the friend Chris was in between Jo and Eric. " that good?"Chris said. "Scary good."Eric replied. "See,There you are a first-round draft can go to any hunting camp you want."Chris said.

"Actually,I got an interview here it goes okay,I think I got a shot at a full ride next year."Jo said looking at Chris. "Hey,It's gonna go great."Eric said. Jo looked at Eric and nodded "It better."Jo said. "How does it feel to be the golden girl in your family?"Chris said. Jo looked over at Chris "Ah,they don't know."Jo said.

"Oh,No I would be not?"Chris threw a peanut at chris chest "Because we're not exactly the brady's."Jo said. Chris spoke as he walked towards the bar "I'm not exactly the shots?"Chris and Eric replied at the same time with a no but Chris didnt looked at Jo "Seriously,I'm proud of you,And you're gonna knock them dead on Monday.

You're gonna get that full ride.I know it."Eric looked at Eric a smile on her lips "What would Ido without friends like you guys?" Jo said. Eric chuckled "Crash and burn."Eric that night in Jo and Erics dorm room a window is opened and the sound of a lamp falling onto the ground. It had woken up Jo that is when her hunter skills kick in and she got up to check it.

Jo walked over to her doorway as quietly as she poked her head out of the doorway looking around to see if she saw anything,But there was stayed in her doorway and loked into the hallway adjacent from her room and saw then turned her head to the left a little to check the dining room again nothing,but then she saw a shadow walk by the doorway with the beads haning was in full fighter mode she went to the wall where the door to the living room was and leaned against the wall.

As the shadow was walking on the floorboards they creaked getting closer and closer to Joanna's the man walked through the door it made a loud creaking noise next to Jo as she took stepped forward grabbing onto the mans jacket feeling the material of fought with the shadow man until he had her pinned to the ground,The light from the window just bright enough to see his face. "Whoa,Easy,tiger." Dean said to Jo on the ground holding her down.

"Dean?"Jo said looking at the attacker reconizing him as Sam's went to the same college as Jo he was staying with Jo and Eric in their looked down at Jo and chuckled smiling. "You scared the crap out of me."Jo said trying to catch her breath laying on the wooden floor. "That's cause you're out of practice."Dean replied in his soothing attractive voice.

Jo smirked and knocked Dean down and had him against the ground chuckled "Or not."Dean said and patted Jo's back twice. "Get off of me."Dean said to stood up helping Dean up off the ground. "Dean ,what the hell are you doing here?"Jo said.

Dean placed his hands on Jo's shoulders and looked at her "I was looking for a beer."Dean Jo was speaking with Dean she didn't realize she had woken up Eric in the room next to her's. "Jo?"Eric and Jo glanced over at Eric standing in his doorway in his red and black plaid pants and a white wife beater shirt. "Eric,Hey." Jo said. "Dean this is my room mate ,Eric."Jo said.

" friend from Lawerence Dean?"Eric said with a smile on his face. Dean noticed on Eric's wife beater shirt it had a little blue smurf painted on it. "I love the smurf's"Dean said referring to Erics looked at Eric "You know I got to tell you,You are completely out of Jo's league."Dean said. "There is nothing going on between us Dean."Jo said glaring at Dean a bit. "Just let me put something on."Eric said looking at Dean then at Jo for a second.

"No,No don't worry about it,It's no big deal,Seriously."Dean said to Eric. "Anyway I got to borry Jo and Sam here,Talk about some private family buisness,But nice meeting you."Dean said walking back over to smiled at Jo obviously not okay with not being told . Jo saw Eric's reaction and looked at him then to Dean " ,whatever you want to say,You can say it infront of 's my best friend I trust him."Jo said facing Dean. "Okay"Dean said walking towards Jo a little bit as Sam has realized what was going on and joined Jo and Eric to listen to Dean speak.

"Um,Dad hasn't been home in a few days."Dean said. "So he's working overtime on a "miller time" 'll stumble back in sooner or later."Sam said to his looked down to the wooden floor for a second before looking back up at the three people who stood before him. "Dad's on a hunting trip,And he hasn't been home in a few days."Dean said moment Dean said "Hunting trip" Sam and Jo knew what he was saying and it was nothing good.

Sam and Jo both looked at each other and at the same time they glanced at Eric saying "Eric,Excuse us."Jo and Sam went with Dean walking down the metal grate stairs in the back of the dorm building hearing a clack...clack...clack every time they take a step on the metal stairs. Sam had a look of dipleasement on his face,Jo on the other hand couldn't say no she didnt like college too mom made her try to go try to be normal and have a normal life but she couldn't do couldn't handle have a normal life anymore knowing her dad died hunting. When Jo did hunting it made her feel close to her father again.

"Come on,you can't just break in in the middle of the night and expect us to hit the road with you." Sam said. "You're not hearing me, Sammy."Dean said. Jo kept quiet letting the two brothers bicker but staying with the conversation. "Dad's missing.I need you to help me find him." Dean continued to walk down the grate stairs bickering Jo a little behind them walking down the stairs. "You remember the poltergeist in Amherst,or the devil's gate in Clifton? He was missing then, 's always missing, and he's always fine."Sam said.

"Not for this , are you going to come with me or not? "Dean said as he turned around to look at Sam . "I'm not."Sam replied looking back at Dean a bit annoyed. "Why not?" Dean questioned a bit shocked that his brother didn't want to find there father. "I swore I was done hunting for good."Sam said looking at his stopped behind Sam on the stairs unable to get by him.

"Come on,it wasn't easy,but it wasn't that bad."Dean said as he walked toward the metal door. "Yeah? When I told dad I was scared of the thing in my closet,He gave me a .45."Sam said following Dean to the door Jo close behind them. .The boys stopped at the door with Jo to say a few more things as Jo was growing annoyed with their arguing. "What was he supposed to do?"Dean said glaring at his little brother. "I was 9 years was supposed to say, "Don't be afraid of the dark." Sam said to his brother . Dean was shocked to hear his little brother say that . "Don't be afraid of the dark"? Are you kidding me? Of course you should be know what's out there." Dean said.

"Yeah,I know,But still-They way we grew up after Mom was Dad's obsession to find the thing that killed her,But we still haven't found the damn we kill everything we can find."Sam said not realizing what he just said. "Save a lot of people doing it,too."Dean said calmly. Sam looked at his brother and scoffs annoyed. "You think Mom would have wanted this for us?"Sam said to Dean. That's when Jo finally said something.

"Sam ,stop her death was hard on Dean you know that." Jo said to Sam harshly. Dean looked at Jo and at Sam one last time before pushing the metal gate open with force and leaves Jo and Sam tagging along behind. Sam was following behind but kept bickering to Dean. "The weapon training and melting the silver into bullets? Man Dean,we were raised like warriors."Sam said. "So,what are you going to do? Are you just gonna live some normal,apple-pie life? Is that it?"Dean said walking to his car hood and turning toward Sam.

"No, not ."Sam said calm again. "And that's why you ran away."Dean said. Sam took a pause before answering Dean. "I was just going to was Dad who said if I was gonna go I should stay that's what i'm doing."Sam said to his brother. "Yeah,Well Dad's in real trouble right now if he's not dead feel it."Dean said there was a long pause between the two brothers.

"I can't do this alone."Dean said looking at Sam then to Jo. "Well you know i'm in Dean no matter what."Jo said smiling at dean patting his arm with her hand. "Yes,you can."Sam said. "Yeah."Dean said looking down at the ground. "Well I don't want to."Dean said looking back up at Sam Jo at his looked around and then sighed slightly. "What was he hunting?"Sam said.

The three of them walked to the back of Dean's 97' Impala and he opened the trunk it was empty except for a case on the floor that just fit in the leaned in and opened it weapons were everywhere in a certain used a shotgun to hold the cover open. "All 's see. Where the hell did I put that thing?"Dean said talking to himself as Jo and Sam looked at all the weapons and firearms. "So when Dad left,Why didn't you go with him?"Sam said watching Dean carefully. "I was working my own gig-This voodoo thing down in New Orleans."Dean said to Sam looking for the papers.

"Dad let you go on a hunting trip by yourself?"Sam said shocked. "I'm 26,Dude."Dean said with seriousness as Jo chuckled a bit. "Alright,here we Dad was checking out this two-lane blacktop just outside of Jericho,California"Dean said as he was looking down at the printed news repoorts and hands the most recent to Sam. "About a month ago,this guy- They found his car,but he'd vanished."Dean said glancing at Sam and Jo to make sure they were keeping up. "Completely M.I.A."Dean said.

Sam was looking over the printed paper with the vic's picture on it. "So maybe he was kidnapped."Sam said . Jo nodded agreeing with Sam looking at the paper over his shoulder. "Yeah,well,here's another one in April."Dean said holding few more printed papers placing them down as he went through them. "Another one in December '04,'03,'98,'92- 10 of them over the past 20 years-"Dean said picking up the papers in his hands.

"All men,all same 5-mile stretch of road."Dean said as he grabbed a tape recorder from one of the pockets in the trunk. "It started happening more and more,so Dad went to go dig around."Dean said looking down into his Impalas trunk. "That was about three weeks ago."Dean listened sort of excited to hunt agin it has been a walked over to the side of Dean and picked up the papers reading them all carefully.

Dean looked at Sam acknowloging Jo next to him but not saying a word. "I hadn't heard from him since,which is bad enough,And then I get this voice mail yesterday."Dean said and held the recorder in his hand and hit the play buttin as Sam and Jo payed very close attention to Dean hit the play button Jo and Sam could hear John Winchester's Distorted voice on the recording. "Dean,something is starting to happen.I think it's serious."Dean looked at Sam as he let it continue to play. "I need to try to figure out what's going on." As it played through John's voice started getting hard to understand,but he became more cleara fter 15 seconds or so.

"Be very careful, 're all in danger."Then the recording ends as Sam is silent Jo is thinking about the tape and realizes something that was on the tape. "You know there's EVP on that?"Jo said to Dean. "Not bad,Jo" Dean said in reply. "Kind of like riding a bike,isn't it?" Dean said this to Jo because she wasn't as experienced as he was a novince and he was Dean and Sam's responibility if anything happened to her.

Although she likes to argue with them thinking she can take care of herself,But she knows the boys mean good and go with their looked down at the recorder rewinding it as he spoke to Jo and Sam. "All right.I slowed the message down and ran it through a Goldwave,Took out the hiss and this is what I got."Dean said as he looked at Jo and Sam hitting the play button on the it played there was static at first till about 30 seconds in as they hear a female voice whispering as it speaks. "I can never go home."The female voice whispers on the recorder.

Sam and Jo listened to it one more time and heard what it was looked at Dean and repeated what the voice said. "Never go home."Sam said to Dean. Dean nodded and tossed the recorder into the pocket where it belonged and placed the gun holding the case open down and shut the case then shuts the trunk of his looked at Sam and leaned against the trunk of his car Jo leaning against the west wall. "You know,in almost two years,Iv'e never bothered you,Never asked you for a thing."Dean said looking at Sam as Sam sighs.

Sam looked at Dean then to Jo unable to let them take on whatever this thing was decided to give in "All right, I'll go."Sam said as Jo smiled walking up to the two brothers. "I'll help you find him,But I have to get back first thing Monday."Sam said to Dean. "Just wait here." Sam said to Jo and Dean. "Hey,Sam if your grabbing some stuff upstairs could you grab my gun bag and clothes,Thanks."

Jo said to Sam.

Dean was still leaning on the trunk of his impala as Sam started to walk back to the metal door. "What's first thing Monday?"Dean said. Sam stopped and turned back towards his brother "I have an interview."Sam looked at his brother a bit surprised. "What,a job interview?Skip it."Dean said being turned towards his brother "It's a Law-school interview,And it's my whole future on a plate."Sam said to Dean as Jo stayed on the sidelines leaning again the side of the impala.

"Law school?"Dean said surprised that his baby brother wanted to go to a law looked at Dean with a serious face. "So we got a deal or not?"Sam said. Sam goes back inside gathering Jo's bags and clothes placing them on his then grabs his bag out of the very back of Jo's closet and slide a hook knife into the bag and covers it with girlfriend Jessica walks into the room a bit confused and worried about Sam not knowing what he use to do.

"Wait,You're taking off?"Jess said to looked over to a worried Jess not sure what to say as she continued to talk. "Is this about your Dad?Is he alright?"Jess said. Sam answered this time calm " know,just a little family drama." Sam said still gathering his clothes and stuff as Jess sat down on the bed next to Jo's bags. "But your brother said he was on some kind of hunting trip."Jess said watching Sam gather his stuff. "Ah,yeah,he's just deer hunting up at the cabin,And he's probably got Jim,Jack, and Jose along with 're just gonna go bring him back."Sam said as he looked around the room seeing if he forgot to pack anything.

"What about the interview?"Jess said worried Sam would miss his big chance at getting into a good law school. Sam looked at Jess and chuckled. "I'll make the is only for a couple of days."Sam replied. "Sam,I mean, stop for a second."Jess said as she stood up and walked over to Sam he turned to face Jess. "You sure you're okay?"Jess asked Sam a bit concerened. Sam looked at her smiling "Hey,everthing's gonna be okay.I promise."Sam said to Jess reassuring her and grabbed all the bags on the bed and his as he left he kissed Jess on the cheek and headed out the door.

"At least tell me where you're going."Jess said but Sam already left the dorm as he went to the impala placing the bags in the and Dean were in the impala Dean was driving sat in the back letting the two brothers sit up front anyway she needed room to had been having trouble sleeping latley and she decided to give it a shot she curled up on the back seat of the impala and closed her eyes slowly drifting off to sleep.

Author's note: Soon to come is chapter 3 Jericho,California. May I remind everyone that none of this is mine no charecters belong to me unless I add some I am unsure if I will but I might please read and review and share ideas with me I might need some soon.