After raiding a recently abandoned convenience store for water, candy bars and money, Dean tried to call Sam on the payphone outside. When told the number was out of service he fought down panic. Lillith probably killed Sam after she set the Hell Hounds on him. He pushed that thought down. He didn't know anything yet. He picked up the phone again and called Bobby.

"Hello?" Dean had never been so glad to hear Bobby's voice before in his life.

"Bobby," he said simply.

"Yeah, who is this?"'

Dean was confused. He had never had to identify himself to Bobby before. "It's me."

"Who's me?" Bobby asked, grumpily.

"Dean."

"This ain't funny," Bobby said and hung up.

Dean called back again. When the phone was picked up he said, "Bobby, listen to me…"

"Call here again and I'll kill you," Bobby said and hung up again. He couldn't believe that someone would do this to him. He loved Dean like a son and had been grieving for him for four months. Now, someone—a shapeshifter, or demon, or something—was opening up all that pain again. If he found out who, he would kill them.

Dean decided not to try calling again. He saw a car he could steal and decided he would drive to Bobby's.

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John made it to the road. A truck pulled over. "Where you headed?" the driver asked John.

"Where are we?" John asked in response.

"Jefferson City, Missouri."

That made sense. It was the last place he remembered being, but where were the boys. "I'm headed to South Dakota," John decided. He had no idea where Sam and Dean were, but Bobby was usually fairly easy to track down. Maybe he could help.

"Well, I can get you part of the way there. Hop in."

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"Are you Mary Winchester?" Missouri asked when she came into Jenny's kitchen where the two of them were drinking coffee.

"Yes," Mary answered simply. She was so confused about everything. If this was her house, where was her family? "Do you know my husband?"

"I do, but I haven't seen him for about three years. Your boys either."

"Well, my sons are young. Sammy's just a baby," Mary said. If she didn't know this woman, she didn't know how her kids could.

"Mary, you died 25 years ago," Missouri said.

"That's impossible," Mary protested. On the other hand, how many things in her life had she seen that everyone else would think impossible.

"I know someone who knows your family. His name is Bobby Singer. I haven't talked to him in years, but I think he might be able to help you find your family. I called him and asked him to come down here. I didn't tell him why. He's on his way."

Mary nodded. This was a lot to take in.

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Sam and Ruby were looking for a demon. There were all the omens, and Sam wanted to use this demon to fight Lillith. His whole family was dead and all he had left was payback. "You go that way," he whispered to Ruby.

"I don't think we should split up," Ruby said.

"Here, you can take the knife. I have my psychic thing. We'll be fine." Before Ruby could argue more, he slipped down the alley.

"Looking for me?" a woman with black eyes asked.

"Yep," Sam answered. He put his hand out to start exorcising her. This was how he and Ruby caught demons. He would exorcise them with his mind until they were half out of the body, rendering them powerless and then call for Ruby to subdue it so they could take it back to wherever they had set up devil's traps for their interrogation. So far none had been willing to spill their guts on Lillith's whereabouts. Sam figured it was only a matter of time.

"Stupid moron. This is a trap," Sam heard a man behind him say, then felt the jab of a needle. He slumped to the ground.

"Where's his little demon slut?"

"I don't know, but the van's outside. Let's just get him out of here."

The man hefted him up and they loaded him into the van before Ruby even knew he was missing.

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"Hi, Mary? My name's Bobby Singer. I'm a friend of John and the boys."

"Are you going to take me to them?" Mary asked.

"Well, I hate to tell you this but John is dead," Bobby said bluntly, never having been any good at the emotional side of things.

Mary took a moment to let that sink in. "And Dean and Sammy?"

"I'm not sure where either of them are. My place is probably where you'll be most likely to find them though." Bobby had started to say his place would be the safest, but was afraid she would ask safe from what. He wasn't sure how much he should tell her right now. He needed to find out why she was back from the land of the living. This on top of the strange phone call he had received that morning, had him wondering about a lot of things. He would feel bad that he had done it, but he sincerely hoped it was Dean he had hung up on. Missouri had already told him that she had subtly run the salt and silver tests on Mary and she was fine.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Yes," Mary answered.

They got in Bobby's truck and she fell asleep shortly. Bobby was glad of that, because he still didn't know what he was going to tell her. Probably best to have the conversation back at his house.