someone to stay, supernatural [ 1 ]

003. never go home

They got to a motel and Sam picks the lock on John's room that the manager told them about. They go inside, looking around the messy room that's covered in research.

"I don't think he's been here for a couple of days -- at least" Dean says, sniffing an old burger and recoiling in disgust making Ophelia giggle.

"Salt, cats eyes shells... he was worried. Trying to keep something from coming in." Sam says. "What have you got here?" He walks to his siblings and niece who are looking at a wall of the guys who went missing.

"Centennial Highway victims." Dean says. Sam walks over to a different wall of research.

"I don't get it. I mean, different men, different jobs, ages, ethnicities. There's always a connection, right? What do these guys have in common?" Dean asks.

"Dad figured it out." Sam says.

"What do you mean?" Dean asks.

"He found the same article we did. Constance Welch. She's a woman in white." Sam says.

"You sly dogs." Dean says.

"I think you mean you disgusting dogs." Natalie corrects.

"Eh." Dean shrugs.

"Why am I related to you?" Natalie questions herself.

"What?" Ophelia looks between them, confused, not understanding why her dad's praising the men and her aunt's bashing them.

"Uh..." Dean looks at Natalie for help.

"Don't look at me. She's your kid." Natalie scoffs.

"It's nothing, sweetheart." Dean tells the girl who frowns in confusion.

"Well, you don't wanna know now but you ever date someone like these guys in the future, tell me and I'll kick his ass." Natalie says. "Well... by then, you'll be able to."

"Bold of you to assume she'll ever be dating." Dean says. Natalie rolls her eyes.

"All right, if we're dealing with a woman in white, dad would have found the corpse and destroyed it." Dean says.

"She might have another weakness." Sam says.

"Well, dad would want to make sure. He'd dig her up. Does it say where she's buried?" Dean asks.

"No, not that I can tell. If I were dad, though, I'd go ask her husband. If he's still alive." Sam says.

"All right. Why don't you two, uh, see if you can find an address, I'm gonna get cleaned up." Dean says, walking to the bathroom.

"Finally." Natalie whispers making Ophelia giggle.

"Hey, Dean?" Sam calls. "What I said earlier, about mom and dad... I'm sorry." Dean holds his hand up.

"No chick flick moments." Dean says.

"All right." Sam laughs and nods. "Jerk."

"Bitch."

"Dumbasses."

Ophelia giggles.

Dean goes into the bathroom and Ophelia sits on the bed, Natalie still looking at the research. Sam finds a picture of the John and the siblings when they were little and smiles sadly at it.

~ ~ ~

"Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm okay." Natalie assures Noah as she talks to him on her cell phone.

"You sure? Nobody's driven you insane yet?" Noah asks.

"Well, Dean's gotten on the brink of it. But I haven't killed him yet, so that's something." Natalie says.

"Just call me if you need a breather or something, okay?" Noah tells her.