As Will and I drove away I looked in the rear view mirror hoping against hope that this wouldn't be the last time that I saw my nephews. I had so many unanswered questions about John and Dean and Sam could hopefully fill in the blanks. We arrived back at the hotel and waited for a call from them.
At the salvage yard, Dean and Sam turned to Bobby and started with the questions "What do you know old man?", "Who the hell is that?", "Where's the evidence?", "Are you sure it's true?" Bobby put his hand up and got them to sit down and started to explain what he found out. Bobby stated that he had verified all the paperwork that I had left with him. He past this over, both John and my birth certificates, John's and Mary wedding picture with me as a flower girl, my school transcripts, and the Winchester family tree. The more he said that he was able to verify the story, the more Dean and Sam started to calm down and their faces went from shock to calm to annoyance.
Dean turned to Sam stating "Dad and his secrets, I can understand why he hide the storage lock up from us, but why would he hide family?" Sam in turn turned to his brother and stated "I don't know Dean, but what do we do now? Do we ring her back and get to know her or do we follow Dad's lead and keep her shut out of our lives?" They seemed to be working themselves back up into a state.
So Bobby jumped in and said "You don't need to make any decisions this minute, take some time, do some research", he knew this was how Sam worked things through in his head, "fix a car", knowing that this is how Dean worked out his issues, "there isn't a shortness of cars that need to be repaired in the yard"."You can come back for dinner and decide at the end of the day, I'm sure that Samantha is not going anywhere and will totally understand that you need to take the time to process all of this."
Dean turned to Sam "Sounds like a plan" he declared and walked out the front door across the salvage to a Red and White '67 Chevy Impala that he had been fixing up on and off since he had turned 16, originally it was going to be his car, then when John gave him the Impala the plan changed. He decided to do the car up and give it to Sam. Once Sam had dropped out of Stanford and joined Dean back on the road this idea had been put on the back burner, but he still loved working on the car and knew at some point that he would give the car to Sam. He knew that his love of the car came from his father but he didn't know how much of a family tradition it truly was. He turned on a radio, picked up a wrench and started on the carburetor, this had been acting up last time he had turned on the car. As he started on the car, Dust in the Wind started on the radio and he slipped down the side of the car head and his hands and screamed out to no one in particular "Why Dad, Why do you keep doing this to me.."
In the house, Sam set up his laptop and started researching 'Samantha Winchester' he wanted to see if he could find out any more information. He knew how he felt; this was someone he needed to speak to. He had so little family and if someone could fill in some of the blanks for him then he needed to speak to them. He was also sure that Dean wouldn't want to speak to them, to find out anything about their family. This threw him into turmoil as he didn't want to go against his brother, every time that happened one or both of them suffered, he had been possessed, Dean had been kidnapped by Gordon and he had then been blown up and both of them had been shot up, but he really wanted to find out more about his family.
The evening drew in and Bobby shouted out at Dean to start clearing up as dinner was about to be served. Dean packed the tools away, turned the radio off and headed in; he went upstairs to the bathroom and washed up. As he walked downstairs he still wasn't sure what they would be doing. He thought that they should at least speak to this 'Samantha Winchester' and find out if she knew more about the family, he was concerned about Sam and his promise to both him and Dad. He didn't know if Sam would want to speak to her though, family could be a sensitive subject to him sometimes he wanted to know more and other times he just shut down. Which way was he swinging today? He walked into the kitchen and asked "What's cooking, Bobby". Bobby turned to him, handed him plates, knives, forks, spoons and as he went to hand him the glasses Sam walked in. He passed the glasses to Sam and Sam and Dean set the table for the three of them and they sat down and started to eat.
Following dinner they made their way outside with a beer each and Bobby broached the subject that had been hanging there all through dinner, but hadn't been mentioned 'Samantha Winchester'. "So boys, what are you going to do?" Sam and Dean answered at the same time "I think that we should get her back here, so we can ask her some questions" they then turned to each other "You do". Bobby laughed it was uncanny he thought how they could do that, at times they were so synched that if you didn't know better you could swear that they were reading each other thoughts. Sam started "I need to know what she knows about Dad and Mum, she has memories from when they were young, before he started down this track, you have those memories to Dean but I don't and really need to know about Dad before demons and other supernatural things came crashing into our lives." Dean continued "I know and I need to know what she knows about the supernatural? She is married to a hunter after all." "That seals it then" Bobby said "I'll call them and get them back here in the morning, 10am ok for the both of you?"
It was about 10pm when the phone rang in the hotel; Will answered it in a hushed voice as I had just drifted off. Bobby told him the news and Will said we would be back in the morning. He gently nudged me awake and told me that Sam and Dean had made a decision that they wanted to talk to me and that we should swing by Bobby's around 10am tomorrow. I leaned up and kissed him, he put his hand to my stomach and the twins moved around they knew that I was happy and so it would seem were they, I was going to get my answers and my family was growing again.
