The Winchesters had made their way to a motel. Sam and Dean lay asleep whilst John listened to a walkie-talkie.
"Sam, Dean, let's go" Johns shouts woke them up. "Picked up a police call"
"What happened?" Sam asked groggily.
"A couple called 911. They found a body in the street. Cops got there, everyone was missing. It's the vampires" John nodded his head, he was sure it had to be them.
"How do you know?" Sam questioned. Dean was just willing to take his word as usual.
"Just follow me, okay?" He stood up and turned to the door. "With any luck if it is vampires Kat's already on the case"
John stood talking to the police while Sam and Dean waited by the car.
"I don't see why we couldn't have gone over with him" Sam sulked.
"Oh, don't tell me it's already starting" Dean rolled his eyes.
"What's starting?" John walked back over to them.
"What do you got? Any sign of Kat?" Dean cared more about the latter.
"It was them, all right. Looks like they're headin' west. We're gonna have to double back to get around that detour and ... no, no sign" Dean sighed and placed a hand on his head. "Hey Kat's one of the best she's probably in their nest right now" John smiled.
"Yeah that's what I'm afraid of" Dean turned away from both of them.
"How can you be so sure?" Sam asked. "About the vampires I mean?"
"Sam -" John began.
"I just wanna know we're goin' in the right direction" Sam interrupted him. "We could be wasting time, time we could be using to find Kat"
"We are" John reassured him. "She's a big girl Sam if she left then she obviously doesn't want your help" Sam huffed
"How do you know?" Sam questioned him again. John took something out of his pocket.
"I found this" Dean took it from his hand.
"It's a vampire fang" Dean stated.
"No fangs, teeth. The second set descends when they attack, any more questions?" Sam was silent."All right, let's get out of here, we're losin' daylight. Hey, Dean, why don't you touch up your car before you get rust? I wouldn't have given you the damn thing if I thought you were gonna ruin it" He got in his own truck. Sam laughed, but Dean didn't.
Sam was driving the Impala and Dean was reading from some research on vampires that Kat had given him.
"Vampires nest in groups of eight to ten. Smaller packs are sent out to hunt for food. Victims are taken to the nest, where the pack keeps them alive, bleeding them for days or weeks. I wonder if that's what happened to that 911 couple"
"That's probably what Dad's thinking. Of course, it would be nice if he just told us what he thinks" Sam huffed.
"So, it is starting" Dean scoffed.
"What?" Sam snapped.
"Sam, we've been lookin' for Dad all year. Now we're not with him for more than a couple of hours, and there's static already?" He threw the papers on the dash board.
"No. Look, I'm happy he's okay, all right? And I'm happy that we're all workin' together again ... well not all of us but-"
"Good" Dean nodded.
"It's just the way he treats us like we're children" Sam sighed.
"Oh, God" Dean took a deep breath.
"He barks orders at us, Dean, he expects us to follow him without question. He keeps us on some crap need-to-know deal"
"He does what he does for a reason" Dean's tone was firm.
"What reason?" Sam scoffed.
"Our job! There's no time to argue, there's no margin for error, all right, it's just the way the old man runs-" Sam interrupted him.
"Yeah, well, maybe that worked when we were kids, but not anymore, all right? Not after everything you and I have been through, Dean. I mean, are you tellin' me you're cool with just fallin' into line and lettin' him run the whole show?" Sam shook his head, he knew Dean wasn't no way.
"If that's what it takes" Lie.
"Kat was right about you, you do need to man up" Dean's phone began to ring.
"Yeah, Dad. All right, got it" He hung up. "Pull off at the next exit" He pointed in the direction.
"Why?" Sam slowed down.
"Because Dad thinks we've got the vampires' trail" Dean hoped that meant Kat's trail too.
"How?" Sam questioned.
"I don't know, he didn't say" Sam suddenly stepped on the gas forcefully, and speeded down the road. He cuts in front of John's truck and pulled over. John had no choice but to pull over aswell. All three of them got out of their cars. "Oh, crap. Here we go. Sam!" Dean attempted to calm his brother.
"What the hell was that?" John approached Sam.
"We need to talk"
"About what?" John attempted to dismiss his son's request.
"About everything. Where we goin', Dad? What's the big deal about this gun?"
"Sammy, come on, we can Q and A after we kill all the vampires" Dean pulled on Sam's arm.
"Your brother's right, we don't have time for this. What if Kat-"
"Last time we saw you, you said it was too dangerous to be together. Now, out of the blue, you need our help. Now, obviously, something big is goin' down, and we wanna know what! And you don't care about Kat; your just using her as bait to get Dean to follow your every command" He turned to Dean hoping that he would realise that too.
"Get back in the car" John's words were stern.
"No" Sam refused.
"I said get back in the damn car"
"Yeah. And I said no, Kat never liked you, it took her what like a month to see what your really like; controlling"
"All right, you made your point, tough guy. Look, we're all tired. We can talk about this later. Sammy, I mean it, come on" Dean pushed Sam back towards the car.
"This is why I left in the first place" Sam muttered under his breath.
"What'd you say?" John got up in his face.
"You heard me, you trying to control my every move"
"Yeah. You left. Your brother and me, we needed you. You walked away, Sam, you walked away!" He grabbed Sam by his shirt.
"Stop it, both of you!" Dean attempted to free Sam from his father's grip.
"You were the one who said "Don't come back", Dad. You're the one who closed that door, not me! You were just pissed off you couldn't control me anymore!" Dean tried to pull the two of them apart again.
"All right, stop it, stop it—stop it, that's enough!" He broke them up and turned to his father. "That means you, too" Sam and John got back in their cars slamming the doors shut. Dean looked around. "Terrific" He joined Sam in the car.