Episode 19

"Second class citizens"

Chapter 1

Dean woke to the sound of his daughter's cry and when he looked up he saw Sam standing over Kaia.

Sam has sliced open his hand and was draining blood into the baby's open mouth.

Then Sam looked up his yellow eys met Dean's and he said "You should have read the fine print on that contract before you sold your soul."

Dean bolted awake wih a silent scream as the searing heat of ther flames had stolen his breath.

Laney looked down on him she had a happy Kaia balanced on her hip well out of reach should Dean come up swinginging.

Thankfully on this night Dean only woke screaming and sopping with sweat.. This was the twelfth night in a row that he'd had this EXACT same nightmare..

Laney had already seen the awful dream anyway so when she urged Dean to talk he let the "Winchester" way of things slide for a change and he actually gave in..

"Well hopefully after Kaia hits six months old you won't have those dreams anymore." Said Laney trying to offer comfort.

But that was the thing.. Kaia wouldn't hit six months old for another week and Dean was certain that the nightmares would end up killing him before then.. Heel he'd harldly slept a total of twenty hours ever since the first dream had sent him flying out of bed twelve nights ago..

Knowing it would comfort Dean, Laney handed over Kaia so that he could feel her there and safe..

Dean knew the reason why Laney had pulled Kaia out of bed in the first place was because of his thrashing...

But Laney shook her head and said "Nope.. You weren't so bad tonight.. I only moved her just in case."

"Do you wanna try going back to sleep?..Or..Do you wanna stay up for a while?" She asked as she rubbed Kaia's back from where she stood at Dean's side.

Dean knew that Laney needed the contact with Kaia during these nights just as much as he did because her own dreams hadn't exactly been pleasant and then with having to see his dreams to to0p it off.. Well she was probably losing more sleep than he was...

Dean scooted back to the side of the bed that was normally Laney's and patted where he had been laying and said "Sleep..Definately sleep."

Laney smiled and climed into bed and Dean wasn't even the slightestm bit suprised that she'd manage not to take her hand of Kaia the entire time..

That's how it was nowadays both of them needed the assurance that their daughter wasn't going anywhere.. and it was a rare occasion that both of them didn't have at least one hand on her at the same time...

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NOVEMBER TWENTY-THIRD, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN...

Sometimes it was hard for Adam to believe that it hadn't even been six months since the horrible night that he'd lost his family...

Even though Cas wasn't half bad for an angel..Especially given that he was insane most of the time.. Adam still didn't fully trust him and he knew that Cas could sense it..

But they did have a friendship of sorts.. No matter of how shaky of ground it stood on.. It was a friendship still the same..

The broken Angel kept hinting at someone he believed could help Adam and Adam kept asking who and Castiel's only reply would be.. "Well I'm not able to get it right yet.. But .. You'll see once I'm able to form him."

"Form?..Cas..What do mean by form?" Adam asked sounding both worried and suspicious..

"Angels have the power to recreate a being that was once amongst the living.. As long as we have a memory of the being we're recreating and a piece of their remains.. I have both... But unfortunately I'm having trouble, either because my mind is not exactly stable..or my tattered grace or because I'm cut off from heaven.. I honestly don't know.. But Lucifer still has heaven's power at his beckon.. Which is strange because it would be almost certain that he not have any power..Maybe I'm worse than he is.. Maybe.." Now Cas was rambling about Lucifer and how could Lucifer still have unflawed grace and how could he himself be cut off from heaven when even Lucifer hadn't lost that connection.

Adam had to admit those things stumped him to.. But he still couldn't get Cas to budge on just who or what exactly he was trying to recreate..

All Adam could do was hope that whatever Castiel was goind to do wouldn't blow up in anyone's face...

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After finally rousing from a still restless sleep Dean shook Laney to wake her as well so that they could move as one to the kitchen.. It was a routine they had almost down pat..

Laney would cook while Dean balanced Kaia on his hip but he'd stay close enough for Laney to touch both him and Kaia.. Go figure that Laney would be the one coordinated enough to cook with one hand while keeping the other on both her husband and child..

It had become pretty easy to move as one especially now that Laney had become successfull at letting Dean back into her mind...

They both kept a read on each other's minds while keeping guard over their daughter... It had become easy because it was the most natural thing in the world for both of them...

They were growing closer day by day and when breakfast was over Dean interlocked his fingers in to his wife's free hand and they sat together to read to Kaia..

Laney's makeshift ring had crumbled off her finger long ago and Dean constantly regretted not having kept the promise that he'd made to himself about getting her one that was permanent...

Anytime he'd go to feeling this way she'd smile at him and say " It's not like you really had time to go shopping."

The fact that she used the same words he'd of comfort he'd once given her made him grin.. He loved that she got him so well..

As Laney opened the book on Fractals Dean smirked and remarked "Kind of heavy for a kid that's not even one."

"I think she'll understand it just fine." Said Laney with a mischevious raise of her eyebrows.

Dean laughed... Because it was true.. Kaia was a sponge that soaked up every piece of information she was given... Once she learned something she KNEW it... AND.. UNDERSTOOD it...Jut like her mom...

The little girl wasn't even six months old and could already say around twenty words... And she was showing a desire to walk... But lately neither parent let the girl's feet touch the ground as they ALWAYS held her... It was almost enough to give a kid a complex..

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Lucifer knew he had burnt many bridges but he was finding he really had very few allies... It honestly sucked to have been the Captain of a team that had lost a few big games because now hardly anyone wanted to play ball with said Captain.

Luckily Lucifer had found two of his brethren still willing to see SOME reason... And while both Asmodeus and Mammon wouldn't side with him they wouldn't get in his way either... They just wanted to stay out of the fighting this time around... And Lucifer could handle that... It was Belphegor's reaction he couldn't deal with...

Belphegor had sided with Leviathan and they both had Beelzebub imprisoned in his sarcophagus so that they could siphon his power for themselves... so Lucifer wouldn't be finding any help in this oncoming war from any of the other princes of hell...

Lucifer knew he'd best be careful so as to not wind up like Beelzebub... The only way Lusifer was going to get the kind of backing he needed was to get a hold of the one thing that was an army within itself... And though he REALLY dispised LEGION and THEY hadn't called him master for some time he was sure that if he offered them something he knew they wanted then an agreement of sorts could be reached between them...

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Chapter 2

There was a ruckus in the center of camp and Adam went to check on things... Sarah was also trying to make her way to see what the comotion was as well...

A Shifter and a human had gotten into it over vegetables... The human hadn't wanted to make a fair trade... The Shifter was in the form of a girl who's name was Caydence and the human was a man named Sorin...

The girl had been the only one harmed in the altercation but the man fained an injury and yelled for the "monster" to be put down...

Several eyewitnesses gave their accounts in favor of the man as so many people still had prejudices against creatures no matter how peaceful they tried to be..

The girl rallied that she had only come into "their" side of camp because there was so little food on the side of camp that had been segregated off for all of the supernatural beings and that alll the creatures there had families to feed to...

She swore she had only come for a fair trade and when the man refused she was about to leave and the man said to her that all of her kind deserved to die.. and she swore that her only involvement had been verbal as she had yelled back that human's could be more monsterous than anything on "her" side of camp. That's when the man had struck her... Called her a witch and most of the surrounding people had started to cheer for the man and taunt her... She swore she hadn't even tried to defend herself as the man continued to beat her..

Adam believed her because he had heard the crowd chanting.. "Kill It!, Kill It!, Kill It!".. Over and over again as he came up... Sarah didn't know how to handle this situation... On one hand she had a man who had DEFINATELY exhibited violence as it was apparent from the shifter's bruised face but on the other hand a creature had been involved in that violence as well and even if said creature was innocent it still posed a problem...

Sarah couldn't afford to show to much partiality to ANY group but now she was stuck in a position of having to chose sides between "things" that most of the people here would normally hunt and the people who couldn't let go of their prejudices...

She felt it both fair and wise to admonish both parties as she herself hadn't witnessed anything and neither had Adam.. Plus there was eyewitness accounts... And.. Even if they were mostly lies Sarah had to take them into account...

So the Shifter was returned to her side of camp to be put under house arrest for two weeks and the same went for the man...

But Sarah did make sure to start a bigger garden on the side of camp where the creatures resided so that hopefully this wouldn't happen again..

Adam protested that the shifter be punished at all because he believed her and he reminded Sarah that Sam and Laney weren't exactly all human as well and asked her how she'd feel if Sam or Laney were to be treated in such a way...

Sarah knew exactly how she'd feel... She'd be enraged to see someone do that to anyone she cared about... But she couldn't allow that to be the part of her that governed this camp.. Because the truth was.. is there was as many creatures in this camp that had prejudices against people as there were people that had prejudices against them... And BOTH groups had potential to be volatile... Plus there was the creatures.. they didn't exactly get along amongst themselves... There were feuds between... Shifters and Skinwalkers,... Bakenekos and Amaroks,... Akhluts and Asenas,... Ba Juchnes and Byangomas,... Honestly to many feuds to name but the one common thread amongst them is most out of each group of creatures had a beef against humans... So it was hard keeping the peace between everyone...

Sarah was grateful to have Adam as he was a HUGE help in keeping the creatures in camp under control and then there was Castiel... He might be a broken angel but he could still manage to help keep the peace...

Sarah was also weary... The camp was becoming over crowded and they needed to expand or risk internal combustion as quarters were getting cramped... But the military still posed a threat...With every raid they took more and more supplies that Sarah's camp could not afford to lose and with every raid they threatned the creatures in camp and all those friendly to them... Which made tensions between humans and creatures even worse...

Sarah needed someone who presented a stronger front to head this camp because she wasn't exactly threatening at her size and she couldn't handle herself as well as most of the other hunters here... She wished Sam was here.. He could be plenty intimidating if he wanted.. People would listen to Sam... But then she remembered that... No...These people mlost likely WOULDN'T listen to Sam because in the eyes of most people here Sam would be a monster just like alll the other supernatural beings here...

Adam felt sorry for the Shifter and went to check on he... He found that she had never taken another form except the one she'd grown up in.. That it had been her choice to live as "normally" as possible until her neighbors had tried to kill her once they saw what she REALLY was... Then she'd had to run for her life like so many other creatures there...

He asked her how old she was and to his surprise she said she was twenty-seven which was just a year younger than him.. He was sure she couldn't have been older than nineteen and Caydence had laughed at that and said "Good genetics." Adam got the joke.. Being a shifter meant you never had to visibly age past a point you didn't want to...

And he felt bad that she'd only been on the human side of camp because the creatures had actually put aside their differences and elected her as an ambassador of sorts which meant the creatures were behaving better than MOST humans were giving them credit for...

The creatures were riled by the unjust imprisonment of the one they'd elected to represent them and they found it unfair that they were ALL being treated unequally...

And they were right to feel so as they had the portion of camp farthest from the gates... Farthest from the main sorces of food and they were being forced to live in what ramshackle abodes they could put together themselves because all of the already built cabins were occupied by humans... But as supplies to build had become hard to come by as the military was suquestering EVERYTHING for themselves and THEY weren't sharing.. It meant less ability for the creatures that had come into camp to errect decent housing for themselves.. And the humans in the camp.. Even the ones who didn't have a problem with creatures weren't going to give up space in their own homes to house the supernatural beings that came into camp...

Poor Caydence's "house".. if it could be called that... was just a small shed that she had built herself... Honestly Adam had seen children's play houses built bigger and he had no idea how Caydence would be able to stay there two weeks without going crazy as she had no one.. so he promised he'd come by to keep her company everyday while she was under house arrest...

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Adam being busy entertaining Caydence left Castiel to wonder about unchecked which gave the broken angel more reign to do what he needed without so many questions... He was so close to getting it right and he knew that Adam would be happy to see a friendly face from the past...

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Chuck had no idea where he was... Again... Or what had happened... Or how long he'd been gone... All he knew was that he had been holding something precious when he was taken and that, that something precious wasn't with him now nore did he know where that something precious had been taken...

He felt heavy with shame and guilt that he had allowed the helpless infant to be taken from his arms...

Chuck headed for the only place he knew to go...

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Bobby Singer knew he'd died... Hell he'd fought to try to keep from it but in the end the Reaper had convinced him that letting go was better than losing the memories of EVERYTHING that had mattered... And he was sure his boys wouldn't be fool enough to NOT salt and burn his body... So why the hell was he laying stark naked on the cold hard ground under a gray and dreary sky and why the hell couldn't he move his damn legs?

He felt something thick and warm being draped over him and he was about to curse his boys for doin somethin stupid... But then a different face he knew came into view and stared down at him with piercing blue eyes...

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Castiel tried to calm the ranting man that lay at his feet and then as he found he couldn't he decided that it was for the best to go retrieve Adam because maybe Bobby would listen to reason from him...

Whan Adam realized just what Castiel had done he wasn't exactly happy... He had been hoping for some time that the broken angel had just forgotten his plan to resurect some one from the dead... And Adam felt bad for poor Bobby as the only memory the mentaly frayed Castiel could fully picture in his mind of Bobby had been from the time the old man had been paralyzed... So Bobby couldn't move his legs and Adam knew it had to be humiliating as hell for the seasoned hunter to be so helpless especially in the buff like he was.. So Adam scolded Castiel that by now he should maybe know to leave well enough alone but secretly he was actually grateful because the world needed someone like Bobby right now...

Bobby finally calmed his rants giving a frustrated sigh and a gruff "What's done is done." And both Adam and Cas helped the old man to a place where he wouldn't be so exposed... They got him some clothes and told him just what was going on in the world and why Cas thought he was needed...

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Sarah hadn't spoken to Adam in days because she knew he was still angry about what had happened with the shifter... So she was surprised when Adam actually initiated a conversation with her and she was happy that he was talking to her again.. That was of course untill he dropped the "Cas just brought someone back from the dead.. Thought as leader of the camp you should know." BOMBSHELL and then she was at a loss... What the heck was she supposed to do with this kind of information?

Though Adam was happy for Bobby on his return to the living... He couldn't help but feel disapointed that Cas hadn't thought of.. Hmmm.. Maybe Dean?.. As Adam was certain his oldest brother was dead and most likely not in heaven... Then Castiel explained that... One he tried to form Dean first and there were several possible reasons that it hadn't worked... One of them being that Dean may still be alive... And Castiel explained that while Bobby may seem like the same old man Adam remembered... That for the time being Bobby Singer was souless because it was impossible for him to retrieve Bobby's soul from where it was and he was pretty sure that Adam would want Dean back... Soul in tact...

When Adam fumed about Bobby having no soul and equated Castiel to an inhumane piece of garbage Castiel told Adam that even without a soul Bobby still knew who he was and what the people in his life had meant to him and that even without a soul Bobby could still make conections between those he cared about before... All they'd have to do was nurture those seeds until they grew... And eventually Bobby would be able to start to feel on his own... Soon Bobby's soul could grow back new IF they went about things right...

That's when Castiel dropped a bombshell of his own... IF Dean had just left things alone Sam had been starting to feel on his own and Sam would have never needed the wall because his soul would have reformed without those horrible memories in the first place and that had been why he'd continuously insisted that Dean stop trying so hard to get Sam's soul back and now Adam fumed that Cas was a manipulative bastard that could have told Dean as much when it actually could have been useful... and Castiel had to agree that at that time in his life he had been blinded by the things he needed to accomplish to SAVE THE WORLD and Sam and Dean's issues had taken last place on the list of his priorities so he hadn't exactly had the presence of mind to vocalize his reasonings at the time.

That's when Cas realized maybe he hadn't been "all together in the head" for quite a while before the whole thing with Purgatory... And being broken and insane Castiel just shrugged it off like it meant nothing and went back to doing his chores around the camp...

Adam was angry now... That stupid winged... ASS CLOWN could have done something to keep so much of this crap from happening and he wondered just what other WRONG choices that Castiel had made that helped bring the WORLD he was "SUPOSSEDLLY"... TRYING TO SAVE to the point it was at right now... But in the same beat he wondered just what RIGHT choices the broken angel had made to HELP keep it from being EVEN WORSE than it was right now...

It seemed to be a very thin line in deed between the seemingly VERY FEW points in the tides of Fate that someone could do something, to change something and the points that if they even tried to do ANYTHING, to change ANYTHING they'd SCREW... EVERYTHING... UP...

It sometimes made Adam want to shut down and just stop functioning all together just to see how Fate and Destiny could force anything out of him then...

The only things that kept him going was that he'd promised Caydence he'd be there for her everyday... that Bobby was going to need him to help foster the feelings he'd had in life so that his "soul could grow back...right" or whatever nonsense Castiel had spoutted... that Dean could still be alive and there MIGHT be SOME MIRACLE that could help save Sam from Lucifer...

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As the day that Kaia turned six months old came and went with nothing "unusual" happening both Dean and Laney began to breath a little easier and they began to allow their daughter the small acts of indepence that'd she'd been craving... And.. By the end of that week she'd started walking around just as sure footed as any grown up..

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Sarah knew the tensions in camp were high and she knew she couldn't refuse all the newcomers who had no other place to go.. So now the camp was going from overcrowded to... NO ROOM TO MOVE AROUND...

It was definately time to expand...

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It was Bobby and Adam's joint idea for an "underground railroad" of sorts... Adam suggested they use Laney's home in Oregon as the secondary base camp and Bobby sugeested they rebuild his home in Sioux Falls as a midway point between the two... Then they could spread out like webs along the lines and soon they could have a network of camps that both humans and supernatural beings could live in peace... Then the idea came to form a council for all the camps so that things could be fair for everyone...

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Chief Strong Eagle liked his indian name better than the name on his birth certificate because Chief Francis just didn't have the same ring to it..

The Navajo people were proud but even they had fallen in with some of the customs of the whites.. Now what was happening in the world was effecting the tribe and as Chief of the Navajo people Gary Francis had no choice but to get together the people of his tribe and move them from their villages out into the vast unknown so that they could find help in this troubling time...

There wasn't a lot in their area especially since they were in the deserts of the South-West part of The United States.. So Chief Strong Eagle led his tribe East in hopes that someone out in the "civilized" world would help his people with their plight...

What was going on with them was much like what had happened in the times of the old west... The military had been raiding their vilages and robbing them of their livelyhoods and even killing their people because of what lay inside them...

As Native Amaricans the Navajos KNOW of things from the realms of the supernatural... BUT unlike MOST people those "things" didn't usually bother them... In fact they are all almost always very excepting of beings with abilities to change their forms into those of animals.. other people, or the abilities to see into another's mind or move objects with their minds... MOST Native Ameriacan tribes RESPECT life in ALL it's forms and most know the miracles of creation when they encounter them.. So the Navajos especially didn't so much as blink twice when some people among their tribe was revealed to not be human or entirely human because, well for the most part it wasn't some big secret that they were there to start out with as they had been amongst them for as far back as tribal history could recall.. But when the military started the ignorant killings of some of those within the tribe that weren't human... Lines had to be drawn because whether entirely human or not they were still part of their tribe and their deaths would not be tolerated so Chieff Strong Eagle took his tribe and they ventured out to find a new place for their tribe to relocate so that the military could no longer bother them... and to find GOOD people that would help defend those in their tribe that weren't human but still lived peaceful lives...

The tribe kept away from the main roads as the military and other very prejudice people kept to those raods more than the mostly forgotten trails that had once only ever been used for nature walks.. Now no one used them so they were perfect for Gary and his people to travel along... It was WEEKS before Gary and his people could find a safe place for their tribe to settle as some sort of plague was effecting the world and even cities were becoming ghost towns... Gary didn't get how a plague like this could just take an entire country by storm and he found there was no real safe places that either this plague or the military couldn't effect his people... So he settled for the best place he and his tribe could find and it wasn't exactly vacant but at least SOME of the people there ACTUALLY... UNDERSTOOD and ACCEPTED a good majority of their beliefs ...

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Sarah felt grateful to come across someone like Gary... He was the strong type of person she needed to head her camp and as a Chief of a whole tribe of people he had experience with fair Diplomacy so she offered him and his tribe what space she could offer within her camp and asked Gary to accept a position as head of the council she was trying to form to ensure fair dealings between EVERYONE that lived inside her camp...

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It was amazing for Dean to see how fast Kaia learned to do EVERYTHING... By the time the little girl reached a year old she was already able to read... able to speak a good twenty languages and math.. Well Einstein would be rolling in his grave at Kaia's math skills...

Laney was very good at teaching Kaia everything she knew from how to do exorcisms to how to fight.. Soon Kaia was able to show both mom and dad up in combat training and she wasn't even two...

Both Laney and Dean were proud as their little girl surpassed them both in brain power and fighting skills... And PROUD that it hadn't gone to Kaia's head and she still behaved very well for a child that would be evntually able kick both of her parents asses if she wanted.. Talk about having your parents wrapped around your little finger... It was more like she was wrapped around both of their's...

Soon Kaia had won her biggest strive for independence yet... Despite both her mother's and father's protest the little girl stated that she was "old enough" to have her own room and with that another room manifested in the shack just perfectly sized and supplied for Kaia..

Even the shack was against them as apparently their daughter's wants and needs weighed just as equally if not more strongly than Laney's..

Laney finally insisted that Kaia be treated as an equal and Dean had to agree that since the kid was smarter than BOTH of them that she was well past deserving equal treatment because she wasn't using it to be a little tyrant like they BOTH knew she could... So at just two and a half Kaia was allowed to sleep on her own.. Even if it did put dark circles under BOTH her mother's and father's eyes for a few days it eventually became okay...

With the passing months Laney had let down a lot of walls for Dean she had come to be able to plant a chaste kiss on his lips every now and again... And it made Dean love his wife even more than he knew he could as she gave him more than he could ever ask for just by being his wife...

One night as Laney read Kaia to sleep Dean marveled over the little girl that was so grown up in her own right but still willing to listen to bedtime stories because somewhere in there she was still just a child.. And he wondered just how it was possible that he could ever be so lucky to have a kid like her... She was perfect in every possible way and he felt praise for his wife because without Laney he would never have Kaia...

Laney smiled over her shoulder at Dean and he walked over behind her and began to rub her shoulders... Kaia smiled up drowzily and whispered "Love you guys." Then the little girl rolled over and fell asleep.

"Love you to sweetie." Both Dean and Laney whispered together with huge smiles on their faces... And with that they went to their own bed...

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Dean liked to sit by the one window in the shack and make guesses at what new places he was seeing... He'd secretly always wanted to travel the world and now as The Great Wall Of China flew out of his sight to be replaced by a jungle of some sort Dean was pretty sure that he was constantly receiving that wish in record time as it seemed they were cicumnavigating the globe about once every twenty minutes... Laney came to sit by him asking how many places he'd counted today and he answered "Sixteen so far."

She laughed and said "I have you beat... I've counted Seventy-Two."

"Wow! Someone needs a knew hobby!" Dean joked...

"Sorry." Laney quipped "I have a REALLY BAD case of CABIN FEVER!"

Now Dean laughed and said "Me to."

He couldn't wait till he could get his wife and his daughter out of here and into some place they could call HOME... and not just "Home of the week" But "HOME... For FOREVER" He wanted THAT for his WHOLE family now more than anything and he was finally getting just what Sam had been longing for all of the years of his childhood... Not "NORMAL"... But "SAFE" and PERMANENT...

That night Dean watched his wife as she slept... He wanted to give her and their child EVERYTHING and he loved them both so much that he felt his heart might explode sometimes from just how much he loved them...

Laney cracked open her eyes and whispered "We love you to." and she placed her hand to Dean's temple and leaned across the bed and kissed him deeply...

Dean froze unsure how to react because this was the first time she'd ever kissed him like this...

She pulled back and looked down at him and smiled at the way she was still able to surprise him even though he could read her mind like an open book at all times now... Well maybe she'd surprised even herself a bit...

Dean grasped her sholders hoping he wasn't overstepping his bounds as he pulled her back into another kiss... She didn't seem to mind and he swore he's even heard a pleasured gasp escape her as he wrapped his arms around her...

They were together in all things now... and Dean wanted his wife in all the ways she'd allow him to have her... He could see in her mind that she felt the same about him..

They didn't have an epic love story.. Hell he had barely withstood her when he'd first met her... But he'd grown to love her as deep as he could ever love anyone and THAT DOES count in all the meanings of TRUE LOVE and it didn't matter how it came to be that he'd fallen for her or how she'd fallen for him... It only mattered that THEY HAD fallen together... And as their limbs entangled and their bodies became one... Nothing could be more right than what they trusted to share with each other on that night... ... ...

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As time ticked down to only having less than a week left to stay in the shack Laney began to get stir crazy... Because she was over eager to get out of this place but also freaking out because neither she nor Dean knew what kind of world lay outside the door NOW... Also there was the issue of just what exactly the'd be allowed to take from this place in terms of supplies as they didn't know what supplies would be available once they were out in the world...

Having as feeling that this place might reduce them to possibly no more than they came with Laney made sure to keep Dean's long sleeve shirts and jacket set aside for Kaia as she hadn't had ANYTHING when they'd come here... But on the off chance they could keep anything from the shack she also made sure to dress Kaia in SEVERAL layers as there was no telling what weather they'd be facing once the door opened and She and Dean had a few bags packed with food and water for IF the shack allowed them to keep at least SOME supplies...

Laney's first assumption was correct they were left with NOTHING but what they'd come with as the shack and EVERYTHING from it they'd been hoping to take just disapeared from around them without so much as the courtesy to give them any kind of warning that, that was how they'd be leaving what had been their prison for a little over three years...

Chapter 3

It was colder than it should be for what should be only two days after the Fourth Of July but of course it WAS ... Night time AND they could be in friggin Alaska, Iceland,.. Heck even The Artic Circle for all they knew... So Laney bundled Kaia with Dean's shirt and jacket as best she could and she and Dean took turns carrying their daughter as Kaia had no shoes now... It wasn't exactly THAT freezing but there was enough chill in the air to bring the barely clothed Kaia to shivering... Then there was the FRIGGIN WIND... The wind started to pick up becoming like something that could have once been seen on The Weather Channel in the coverage of a huricane.. Except instead of a brave Meteorologist all geared up with good sturdy clothes being battered about by the winds it was a small family who's daughter had only her father's shirts and jacket to wear... Who's mother had nothing but a torn to shreds sundress and who's father had on only jeans and a T-shirt... And a meteorologist would have had the option of going inside after their take... The family didn't have that option as there wasn't any kind of shelter as far as the eye could see as the clouds covered what moonlight there MIGHT be and the landscape around them was nearly pitch black...

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It felt like they'd traveled for hours before they could make out the miraculous sight of trees against a hazy red hued night sky.. Now at least they could get MOSTLY out of the wind... But as luck would have it the sky opened up it's irony and rained down on them with bitter cold drops of water that soon became a heavy shower of Mother Nature's cruelty...

They couldn't win for losing... Now their was wind AND rain... "How much crappier could things get right now?"

Dean realized that thought had been a "Knock On Wood" moment and it was already to late to find something "Wood" to "Knock On" The treeline was still out of reach and the wind and the rain started to pick up even worse... Now lightening cracked through the sky and the redish hue in the sky glowed and ebbed as the power of the storm that was over them pulsed intensely and showed no signs of waning...

Then there was a rumble of thunder that rumbled to long to REALLY BE THUNDER and Dean looked up to see the clouds in the sky were swirling... Well wasn't that just friggin peachy?

Dean grabbed Laney's arm and pulled her behind him as she was losing traction and her light body was sliding backwards due to the gail force winds... Of ALL the places the shack could have left them... It chose right in the path of a freakin tornado...

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The treeline was slowly going bye bye as what might have been fifty foot trees were being snapped into the air... All Dean could do was keep Kaia bundled into him... Keep pulling his wife behind him and keep moving...

Dean could see where the darkness deepened at the ground... This was SO NOT GOOD!... The winds howled and the funnel towered above them... And even though he felt himself being pulled by the winds he kept his forward momentum and just kept moving... It was a difficult "One Step At A Time" process... BUT... IT WAS WORKING...

He was managed to pull himself and his wife and daughter into a ditch and he laid over them to keep what airborn debris from landing on them...

As the funel moved away an eerie, still, quite was left in it's wake... It was hard to believe they'd survived something like that... Of course when compared to THE APOCOLYPSE... A little twister was nothin...

The wind and rain slacked off a bit and the air became a little warmer now so it wasn't as insufferable as before... The type of weather they'd just witnessed had Dean wondering just where it was they were...

Laney's best guess was that they were in the central part of The U.S. which meant they may have very well landed right back in Kansas... And Dean made a crack about The Wizard Of Oz and asked Laney if they weren't "in Kansas anymore" would she call him Toto... And she answered that he was definatly the Scarecrow because right now he was acting like he had no brain... Dean laughed and said "Could have at least mafe me something cool like the Tinman... Or maybe The Wizard... That would be AWESOME"... Kaia giggled and told her daddy that the Tinman didn't have a heart so that didn't fit him and that Oz was just a crazy fraud so that DEFINATLY didn't fit... But the little girl agreed that her daddy was definatly no Scarecrow either...

Laney smiled at the way Dean was keeping Kaia distracted... The Wizard Of Oz was her favorite story and Laney was happy to play along in naming all the characters she, Kaia and Dean could be as they trecked for whatever "Emerald City" they could find...

Their little game helped lighten the mood, helped pass the time and helped keep them distracted from the exaustion and hunger that was beginning to creep in..

Kaia soon fell asleep in her father's arms and now it was just he and Laney walking in silence along the path the tornado had carved...

It wasn't no "Emerald City"... But the sight of the rows of buildings were just as welcomed as if it had been... A good few of the buildings were rubble due to the storm... But there were also some that still stood strong and Dean got Kaia inside what looked to be a hollowed out supermarket and Laney followed in behind him...

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When the sun came up that morning the light of the new day revealed that a great portion of a good sized town had been devistated by the tornado... There were signs that hung crooked and broken over the broken glass of store fronts... Most of the signs proving that it was good that Dean hadn't bet Laney on not being in Kansas as some signs clearly read things like "Lawerence Bait and Tackle",... "Lawerence Assembly of GOD",... and "Lawerence Chamber of Commerce".

Now Dean joked that he hadn't even had to click his heels together but Laney could tell Lawerence, Kansas was a place Dean couldn't wait to put and keep behind him and she honestly felt the same way...

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Sam couldn't stand that Lucifer had control again... or that he was seing and hearing EVERYTHING the damned Archangel was saying, doing and planning... But what he hated MOST was that there was NOTHING he could do about ANY OF IT... Lucifer had figured out a few loop holes in the blood pact Laney had made with him and his brothers... The pact stated that neither THEIR vessels nor THEIR souls could harm each other and Lucifer branded Sam's vessel as HIS OWN making Sam's vessel Lucifer's property and therefore no longer officially Sam's So Sam was litterly a prisoner in what had once been his own body and Lucifer made sure to let Sam know that EVERY chance he got... It was pathetuic really the things Lucifer could sink to doing for the sake of winning the right to sit in The King Of Heaven's throne... Then Lucifer did something so vile... so foul that even the The Devil was disgusted with himself... Lucifer made a deal with LEGION... And as part of that deal Lucifer agreed to obtain one of the prophesized children and hand either Him or Her over to THEM Sam tried to fight Lucifer in this but Lucifer only pushed Sam into the little space reserved for him just close enough to the forfront of consciousness so that Sam would have to witness what Lucifer was doing but not get the satisfaction of retaliation...

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JANUARY TWENTY-SECOND, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN...

Adam had grown very close to Caydence over the time he'd spent with her during her two weeks of house arrest and now they were officially an item... Adam had, had Caydence move in with him just a year ago and they were happy... She was his muse as he found he had a nack for drawing and she loved to pose for him in the nude as it always turned them both on and made for some hot sex after... And as the girlfriend of a well respected council leader she was getting less flack from the humans in camp than what she used to encounter...

One day Caydence was showing off some of Adam's more PG friendly works to Sarah, Bobby and Chuck... And ALL three of them had a stroke of genuis...

The military was acting more like the warlords of what had once been the Sudan... There were people prejudiced against all the wrong beings... There was hope being lost EVERYWHERE... WHat everyone needed right now was some kind of INSPERATION to rebel against cruelty... To fight against hate... Something that could push people to think and to act in ways that made REAL... GOOD differances in the world... Something that could spark hope...

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Crowley was a survivor... He knew how to come back of the ropes swinging like any GOOD fighter... SUre several of his followers had died... And obviously several of those who were once his allies wanted his head on a plate... But it wasn't exactly anything new to him... He'd been here done this and he'd got right back in the saddle each time and that was how he'd gotten to the top of the perverbial ladder... And that was how he'd get there again... He was a "Pull himself up by his own bootstraps" kind of demon... And those who had underestimated his ability to go it practically alone in this war were all a bunch of fools...

He'd been ENTIRELY on his own when he'd made it to the top and became King Of Hell in the first place after all... So those who thought him weak were going to be finding themselves DEAD WRONG...

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MAY THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN

Walt, Roy and Malcolm had barely slithered away from the fight alive along with a handful of their men... They didn't know exactly what the hell had just happened but knowing it was to big for stupid JACK-ASSES like them didn't make them act any smarter...

In fact they behaved even more ignorantly and now that they could see when some"thing" wasn't human they'd taken to outright killing the creature and it didn't matter that those beings may not have ever caused any harm to anyone... It didn't even matter that some of them were only infants that were only hours old... They wanted to kill EVERY"THING" they could get there hands on and the events of the day that'd lead them to see all "things" now was simply proof to them that what they were doing was right...

This kind of mentality eventually made them popular among the military who were MOSTLY acting just as ignorant as the three hardheaded "hunters" and this earned them privilages and bountiful rewards of food and Gasoline so that they could "keep up the "GOOD" work"... Seeing how they were favored for the bestowing of such gifts made people flock to them in droves everywhere they went and their numbers grew as the military started cracking down harder than ever on gas usuage and food consumption...

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As they walked out of Kansas they noticed the colorful rain of drifting sheets of paper that flitted in the breeze..

One piece of paper blew past Dean and he snatched it in mid air... At first for the helll of it... Then curiousity to see what was on it.. It looked like a page from a comic book... On the page two figures cast in shadow from the setting sun walked through an area of destruction... The word bubbles contained nothing but a line of three dots to show the characters' silence... And when Dean turned the page over he saw one of the figures was revealed to be a woman carrying a little girl and the other was a man... And then as he looked at his wife and daughter then back to the paper he held in his hand he had to do a couple of double takes as it slowly dawned on him that he was looking at what had been happening in REAL LIFE only moments before finding this piece of paper... He showed Laney and her eyes grew wide as she started scouring the littered ground for more to the book this page had come from...

Dean found what looked to be the cover and it still had four pages inside it... It was the FREAKIEST THING EVER when Dean saw that one of the pages was him looking at the page he was looking at... Looking at the page he was looking at over and over again... Until the images of both him and the book were to small to make out... NOW THIS.. was TRIPPY... He handed Laney the book and she saw the page that had, had Dean so freaked out of his mind... Her mouth hung open in shock and Kaia shifted in her mother's arms so that she could see as well... Laney closed the book to see the cover... It was the seventeenth issue of the comic the author and creator was Chuck Shurly and the Illistrator was simply displayed as RC3... The publishers were displayed as The BIG B.S. & The Rebel's Underground Camp and upon further inspection a small insert on the inside of the back cover saying "When you guys find this... You'll know where to come."

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It wasn't everyday That Ed and Harry got to "fanboy out" over REAL LIFE super heroes... But here they were right at the same table with one helping to work on "Costume Development" for some of the less litteral displays of the comic book's characters... One of their mock up templats had Laney in white and silver battle garb and she was wielding axes posed over hundreds of fallen demons... They showed this to Adam, who considered it for a moment before he drew his own spin on their idea now she looked more BAD ASS... AND.. more benevolent at the same time.. He changed the costume around some making the silver areas of her outfit have more ornate details and he made sure to include the wisp of the wings and a hint of what lay within her... Plus he removed the axes and put the weapon she'd really used in her grasp

The issues Adam was allowing Harry and Ed to help him with were the yet to be published issues of the characters' back stories and so far he had his own, Sam's and Dean's... Now all he had to do were Laney's and he'd have the back stories done for MOST of the MAIN characters... Chuck was working hard at writing out all the characters' thoughts and dialouges for the back issues and he was multi-tasking between back story issues and issues of future events because now that they'd started publishing the comics he was a wealth spring of crystal clear visions and Adam WAS EVERY PROPHET'S DREAM COME TRUE because he could "SEE" what Chuck described and evn though SOMETIMES he'd put his own artistic spin on things he'd almost always peg what Chuck saw to every last detail.. Honestly Adam was so good at this it was scary and Chuck wondered if Adam might have a little bit of hidden prophet within himself...

Bobby was old.. Old enough to know what entertainment was before Television... And in his days of youth Comic books were a great pass time... And very few people knew this about Bobby Singer... When he was in his teens he'd worked for the Sioux Falls Daily newspaper and he'd had a really good job as person who ran and maintenanced the printing press, So he was the perfect person to get together the stuff needed to build the printing press they were currently using and the ink they were using came from Bobby's knowledge of Alchemy... Sarah was glad that the legend of the Winchester brothers were spreading via the comics...

Adam was just thrilled to know that Dean was actually okay and that hopefully he'd be seeing him soon... Of course that was until he remembered what shape Dean would be finding his "BABY" in...

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Laney stood staring at the cover... At Chuck Shurly's name... If Chuck was alright then that might mean her son was alright as welll and she found her hopes soaring that when they arrived at Sarah's camp that her little boy might be there waiting for her and Dean...

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They were double timing it now as Laney couldn't slow down for a second to even catch her breath... She was hoping she'd actually, FINALLY get to lay eyes on her son... and she wanted to hold him so bad and make up for ALL the time she'd lost with him... Dean could see his wife's mind and he hoped for both of their sanities that Nicholas would indeed be there when they arrived... And he had hope in his heart that Sam and Adam would be alright and waiting for them as well...

They had made it as far as Indiana before the wind was taken out of their sails by their first encounter of people infected with Croatoan... Laney knew it straight away from the reports on the news on the last day she been amongst the civilized world and Dean knew it because Sam had been in the same room at the time so therefore Dean had been able to see it through Laney's mind... Laney let Dean take on the small hoard of the infected as she wrapped herself protectively around Kaia.. Once Dean vanguished the infected he assured the mother of his child it was safe for her to release the death grip she had on her daughter... Laney let out a small half hearted chuckle as she realized how tightly she'd been squeezing Kaia..

She held out her daughter for Dean to take insisting that if anything else came for them she should be the one to fight... Dean had to agree... Well it was his view that nothing... NOTHING... Not even the infected would want to mess with a VERY... OVERLY PROTECTIVE mother... Especially a VERY.. OVERLY PROTECTIVE mother like Laney who knew how to kill just about anything...

They came across about twelve more groups of infected and Dean had to pity the poor dumb sons of bitches because they'd just happened to pick the WAY wrong momma to mess with...

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As they headed towards what had once been Cincinnati they found perameter fencing with signs of warning for even more infected... The dates on the signs still said 2014 which sent a shiver up his spine as he remembered this had been what made Past him think he had only jumped five years in the future... He remembered the events of the night of Kaia's birth ... He remembered Lucifer knocking Sam out... And he remembered one of the reasons he had chosen to stay at the shack... He had been afraid because a part of him knew that he'd be finding out that Lucifer would have a hold of his little brother again and he just hadn't been ready for facing that... He doubted very strongly he'd be ready to face that EVER...

Once that part of him realized that Sam wasn't okay... He felt himself deflate... He felt like he'd failed Sammy yet again.

Kaia was an intuitive little girl and she knew when her mother or father was upset about something... So the little girl put her hand on her daddy's face until he looked into her eyes... And when she was sure her daddy could see and hear her she sweetly kissed him on the cheek and whispered "It's okay daddy."

Dean smiled and wiped away a tear that had strayed from the border of his eye... Laney saw Dean's mind... She felt his knowledge about Sam and the sadness it caused and she put a hand on her husband's shoulder and whispered they'd figure everything out as they went along... and as long as they did it together they'd be succesful in getting Sam back...

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Byangomas are very noble creatures nd unlike several other supernatural beings they'd NEVER given cause for anyone or any"thing" to hunt them... But they can see the future... and their powers to do so make their powers either coveted or feared so in turn it made them cursed enough to either be hunted to near eradication because of the dangers their power COULD pose... or to be captured and imprisoned because of the knowledge their power COULD provide... But Byangomas are not foolish enough to allow their power to be used for the purpose of coruption so if they were captured and imprisoned they'd kill themselves before being forced to use their gift by those who'd claim themselves their masters...

Now there were only ten of them left in the world and they knew better than to let anyone within the camp know their secret...

Ramesh who was the leader of the Byangomas by birthright like his father before him... And he kept his small "flock" to the little corner of the camp the human named Sarah had told them they could abide in... They ran their portion of camp like it was their own little world... They grew their own gardens for food and kept it to where they'd never have any reason to associate with any of the others that resided in this camp...

Once.. When the world outside stilll assumed they were human Ramesh and his "people" had what could seem like the very ordinary lives of new imigrants from Bengal... Now the world could see what really lay within them... And even though they were revealed to be nothing more than harmless bird creatures their human neighbors had tried to kill them... And they took flight for as far as their wings could cary them until they found what they knew would be the safest refuge for them... Of course seeing the future sometimes DOES have it's advantages...

A person might ask how something that can see the future could be captured or killed... Well their gift... They'd much more perfer to call it a curse... It's flawed in many ways... They CAN see the future but NOT ALL THE TIME and and there are things that can block their power... And anyone who knew the lore about them could use those things to shield themselves from the sight of the Byangomas... making themselves cloaked until they've murdered or captured a Byangoma... Plus there are times when something happens that even a Byangoma DID NOT SEE... COULD NOT SEE ... because THEY WERE SIMPLY... NOT... MEANT TO BE... Not meant to happen at all... And they were creatures who... JUST KNEW... when THOSE things had come to pass as they were beings that knew of the true notions of Destiny and they knew just how many people and things wanted to control or corupt those notions...

Thankfully they had yet to encouter anyone that knew the lore on them in this camp... And they knew the one human who they'd ever met that DID know the lore on them would have never used it against them... In fact she had saved them from someone who had tried to do just that and in return they'd offered her to tell her, her future and like only someone TRULY WISE she had REFUSED...telling them that she'd prefer to not know... Now that person was dead... And they knew her child would soon be coming to this camp so they'd offer her the knowledge of her future in her mother's stead...

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Chapter 4

Night fell as they neared the border of Pennselvania it started to get quiet again... To quiet... And by now both Dean and Laney knew that this most likely meant they were in an area of people infected with Croatoan...

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Roy had taken a group out on a scavaging mission... And he was just outside the perimeters of his camp when he'd noticed the quiet... He'd been so sure they'd rid this area of all the infected... So now instead of searching for food and supplies they began searching for the "Croats" as they'd taken to calling them in what was left of the civilized world...

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They heard the sounds of movement coming from around the blind side of a building Laney shifted Kaia over to Dean as she took point... She slid along the wall waiting for the group of infected she was sure would be rounding the corner any second now... Then she saw the light of what looked to be fire and she heard voices speaking... She looked back at Dean and they both had the same thought at the same time "People"... At first Dean was relived to be coming across signs of other humans... Then he could see Laney's mind and feel her fear and tension and suddenly he remembered not all people are friendly... Then he remembered what lay within them and if Chuck, Sam and Adam had been able to see "things" and he could still see "things"... then it stood to reason that anyone else might be able to see "things" including what lay within them as well...

So now they were pulling back away from the light and into the shadows of the empty building... Dean held his finger to his lips letting Kaia know she needed to stay quiet... The little girl nodded and she rested her head on her father's shoulder and the three of them watched as the group of people passed... And Dean was glad he'd listened to Laney's instincts because he recognized Roy heading the group...

Laney grew even more tense... But now it was the "I wanna go kick some ass" kind of tension and Dean gently grabbed her forearm and tugged her to follow him out the back...

They stayed in the treeline making sure to stay out of the sight of anyone who might be traveling the road...

There was the sound of barking of dogs and some yelling... A bright floodlight started scanning the trees...

Dean suddenly realized he and his family were just outside the high walls of what looked like some kind of fortress... Then it hit him that it was probably a prison of some sort...

Then Dean heard someone shout there were "monsters" in the treeline and as the spotlight was right on him and his family he realized the "monsters" that person was yelling about was them...

They took to running South in hopes of cutting back North-East for New York as soon as they got away from here... But the sound of the barking dogs was closing in on them... They reached a river and Dean ran alongside looking for a point shallow enough to cross and as he trecked through the icy waters he heard a the shot of a rifle crack through the air... He curled himself around Kaia as he kept forward momentum ... When he reached the trees on the other side of river he grabbed Laney's hand and they moved for the road.. Both of them thinking "What the Hell?" ...

The kept going South-East into Kentucky in hopes of being able to cut bsck to the North once it was safe again.

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When the dogs had started barking they'd geared up for what they had been sure were "Croats" in the treeline... But it hadn't been "Croats" because "Craots" don't run AWAY... They run TOWARDS... Even when they're being shot at... But the dogs had been trained to only ever alert them to any kind of supernatural scum so even though it hadn't been "Croats" it HAD been SOME"THING" and they knew Roy wouldn't give any mercy to them if they let whatever IT was get away so they kept the dogs on the scent for as long as they could follow it... But what ever it was, had been smart and it had gone through the river... Malcolm had tried getting a shot at it... But there was hardly any light to have seen by once they'd been lead away from camp so now whatever it was, was gone and they'd all have hell to pay when Roy found out...

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When Malcolm told Roy that some"thing" had gotten close to their camp the man wanted to see the "things" hide and when their wasn't one to offer he layed into those who'd failed to kill it including Malcolm... Except he'd at least let Malcolm live... Now Roy called for Walt and a few others and they loaded up in jeeps and sped in the direction that Malcolm had been sure the "thing" had gone...

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They stayed hidden in the trees as they heard the engines of the vehicles speeding down the road and saw the tail lights as they passed... Uncertain of how to continue because all hints of civilization made them just as jumpy as hints of an area with those infected by Croatoan because they knew the odds of how many people that might have the same ideals as people like Walt, Roy, and Gordon Walker... And they knew the odds of their family walking away alive and unharmed should people like that capture them...

They decided to head towards the mountain range East of them. While staying away from the main roads to avoid detection.

They'd hike to the top and follow the ridge as far North as it would take them as the mountain range ran North to South..

It was a far walk and would probably put them at the new risk of traveling in broad daylight where they could be more easily seen... But they couldn't afford to stop because all the back-trecking to avoid capture was taking up to much time and they needed to get to safety fast...

But then they heard the barking of dogs again and knew whoever was hunting them hadn't given up so easily...