An: hello, I'm racing against time to get this typed and published to the best of my abilities before Monday. When I will more than likely become gainfully employed at god knows where.
Disclaimer: they belong to Eric not me.
Chapter 3 Research
"How did it go? Did you find out anything?" Sam fired his questions as soon as he came walking through the door. Dropping his school books down.
"It went pretty well, I found out that he knows why he was in the hospital, but that's about it." John said, as he quickly shut the computer down, so that Sam wouldn't see what he had been looking for.
As soon as John made it back to the motel, he looked up his brother-in-law, to see what he had been up too in the last 12 years, since Mary's death. What he found was enough to make his stomach churn, and make him want to commit murder. The only reason that he had given Dean back to his father, was because Chris had told him that he and the boy's mother were going to get married. Only to find out by his research, that it never happened. On top of that, he found that Dean had been hospitalized over thirty time since he was returned to his father. Half of which coincided with police reports of assault and battery of a minor.
John knew from experience that people got hurt on the hunt sometimes, but he checked the medical records, and none revealed that Chris had ever been hospitalized. If the monster that attacked Dean was his completely human father, Chris. Then John was going to make sure, that Chris wished that the police had found him instead.
The night that he had returned Dean to his father, was as hard on John as the night that Mary had died. He could see the boy's beautiful green eyes pleading with him.
"Daddy come back! I'll be a good boy I promise!" He could still hear to this day, every night when he closed his eyes.
"What were you looking for?" Sam asked looking at John.
John thought about not telling his son the truth because, he knew how much Sam had wanted a brother or cousin to clown around with. Which was a funny way to put it, since Sam was so freaked out by clowns. The boy actually amazed him, he could stare down a vamp and with a flick of the wrist behead it, but the mere mention of a clown would have him in the fetal position for hours. John finally came to the decision, because he knew that if he didn't tell Sam, then he would be snooping around until he found what he was looking for.
"Did I ever tell you that your mother had a brother?" John began.
"No, I don't think so. So does that mean that I have an uncle?" Sam answered trying not to get too excited about having family, out there in this world.
"She did, his name is Chris Campbell, and he lives here in Lawrence." John stated already knowing what Sam's next words were going to be.
"Are we going to see him?" Sam asked just as John knew he would.
"I don't know..." John answered, not knowing if he trusted himself to be around his brother-in-law.
"If we aren't going to see him, then why are you telling me this?" Sam asked in frustration, because it seemed like his dad was waving this in front of him, just to yank it away.
"Because, I don't think it was the creature that did that to the boy the other night." John explained.
"You do realize that you aren't making any sense, right?" Sam asked laughingly.
"After your mom and I were married, Chris and his girlfriend had a son. The girlfriend ran off leaving Chris to take care of the infant alone. Chris came to your mother and I, he said that he couldn't take care of the kid. He asked your mom and I to take care the child." John told his son, with a grin at the memory of Mary with Dean.
"So did you and mom do it, did you take the baby?" Sam said quietly, knowing that this was hard for his father to talk about, as everything with memories of his mom had always been.
"Yeah we did. He was a good baby, he had so much energy. We used to joke that we could run all the appliance in the house off of him, if we could plug him to them. And we loved him so much, I loved him just much as I do you son. Your mother even talked about maybe even adopting him. So he would share our last name." John grinned at the one of the happiest times in his life.
"So, what happened? It was the fire wasn't it?" Sam asked but knowing that it had to be right, because everything bad in their life had to with the fire.
"Actually, it was after the fire, when Chris came and said that he and Dean's mom were back together, and were going to get married." John explained not realizing that he had mentioned the boys name out loud.
"Wait...that kid at the hospital, his name was Dean Campbell. Is that kid my cousin or brother or whatever?" Sam asked shaking his head.
"Yeah I think so, I must have blocked it out. Or something because when they mentioned it at the hospital, it didn't click. Until I saw the kid today." John said knowing that he had to do something.
TBC
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