Dakota Elizabeth Winchester

Chapter 5: Dead in the Water Part 1

The Winchesters were sitting in a dinner in the middle of nowhere looking for their next case. Their waitress came over to them to ask if they needed anything else. Upon seeing the busty, blond woman in front of him Dean turned on the charm and smiled at her. Dakota rolled her eyes not even looking up from the paper she was reading.

"Just the check." Sam said before Dean could start throwing lines at the girl. Dakota smiled to herself. Dean dropped his head as the waitress walked away and then looked to his left at Sam.

"You know Sam, we are allowed to have fun every once and a while." Dean said and then pointed to the retreating waitress, "That's fun." Sam just glared at Dean.

"Well while you were busy undressing the waitress with your eyes, I, the responsible youngest sibling, found us a job. Check it out." Dakota said and threw the paper she had been reading at Dean. He and Sam looked at the page while Dakota explained, "Lake Manitco, Wisconsin. Last week this girl, Sophie Carlton 18, walks into the lake and doesn't walk out. The authorities searched the entire lake and got nothing. Sophie is the third lake victim this year. None of the other bodies were found either. They had the funeral two days ago."

"Funeral?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. It's weird. They buried an empty coffin for closure, or whatever." Dakota said.

"Closure?" Sam questioned. "What closure? People don't just disappear, Kota. Other people just stop looking for them."

"Sammy that sounds suspiciously like you are trying to imply something." Dean said.

"The trail for Dad..." Sam started.

"Oh. Here we go." Dakota muttered to herself and grabbed the coffee in front of her.

"It's getting colder and colder every day." Sam continued.

"Exactly, so what are we supposed to do?" Dean asked with a bit of anger in his voice. Dakota worried she was going to have to break up yet another fight her brothers were having over their missing father.

"Something! Anything!" Sam said, starting to raise his voice,

"You know. I'm getting really sick of this attitude. You don't think Kota and I want to find Dad just as much as you do?"

"Yeah. I know you do..." Sam said then Dean cut him off.

"We're the ones who have been with him every single day for the past two years, while you've been off to college going to pep rallies! We will find Dad, but until then will we kill everything bad between here and there! Okay?" Dean snapped.

"Guys! Knock it off!" Dakota hissed at them through her teeth. She had noticed their waitress approaching the bar they were sitting at and the siblings decided to stow their emotional baggage until they were in a less public area.

"So, Lake Manitoc? How far?" Sam asked.

..........

Sam, Dean, and Dakota pulled up that the latest victim, Sophie's, house and knock on the door. A young man answered for them.

"Will Carlton?" Dean asked. The boy confirmed his identity, so Dean continued, "I'm Agent Ford, this is Agent Fisher and Agent Hamill." Sam looked at his brother like he was crazy while Dakota and Dean just pulled their badges out.

"We're from the US Wildlife Service." Dakota said. Will led them down to the dock on the lake were an older man, who Dakota assumed could only be Will and Sophie's father, sat. They stopped a little way away from the dock and Will explained what happened.