SuperPotter

Chapter 10 Asylum

The trio is staying in another motel room. Sam is on the phone. Hermione is reading a book.

'No, Dad was in California last we heard from him. We just thought...he comes to you for munitions...maybe you've seen him in the last few weeks. Just, call us if you hear anything,' Sam tells the voice on the phone.

'Kay,'

'Thanks,'

'You bet,'  Dean looks at Sam who hangs up the phone.

'Caleb hasn't heard from him?' He asks.

'Nope. And neither has Jefferson or Pastor Jim. What about the journal? Anything leads in there?'

'No, same as last time I looked. Nothing I can make out.... I love the guy, but I swear, he writes like frigging Yoda,'

'You know, maybe we should call the Feds. File a missing person,'

'We've talked about this. Dad be pissed if we put the Feds on his tail,'

'I don't care anymore,' Dean turns on the bed towards Hermione.

'What about you?' Hermione looks up from her book.

'Huh?'

'You're magic, can you do anything?'

'There is a spell but I think that only works if there was some magic, and if it works, it needs to be at a place he was recently,' The cell phone rings Dean gets up from the bed and crosses the room.

'After all that happened back in Kansas, I mean...he should've been there, Dean. You said so yourself. You tried to call him and...nothing,'

'I know!' Dean rummages through his duffel. 'Where the hell is my cell phone,'

'You know, he could be dead for all we know,'

'Don't say that! He's not dead! He's —he's...'

'He's what? He's hiding? He's busy?' Hermione moves from the bed with one swish the phone of Dean flies into her hand she hands it to him. He opens the cell phone. And reads the message

'42, -89,'

'Huh. I don't believe it,' Hermione looks at the screen of the phone.

'What?' Sam asks.

'It's, uh....it's a text message. It's coordinates,' Dean moves towards the laptop that was standing on the table and starts typing.

'You think Dad was texting us?' Sam asks.

'He's given us coordinates before,' Dean answers still looking at the laptop.

'The man can barely work a toaster, Dean,' Dean looks at Sam.

'Sam, it's good news! It means he's okay, or alive at least,'

'Well, was there a number on the caller ID?' Sam asks.

'Nah, it said unknown,'

'Well, where do the coordinates point?'

That's the interesting part. Rockford, Illinois,'

'Ok, and that's interesting how?'

'I checked the local Rockford paper. Take a look at this,' When Dean said that Hermione moves towards the boys. 'This cop, Walter Kelly, comes home from his shift, shoots his wife, then puts the gun in his mouth, blows his brains out. And earlier that night, Kelly and his partner responded to a call at the Roosevelt Asylum,'

'Okay, I'm not following. What has this have to do with us?'

'Dad earmarked the same asylum in the journal. Let's see...' Dean moves and grabs the journal. 'Here. Seven unconfirmed sightings, two deaths —till last week at least. I think this is where he wants us to go,'