Rose Miller: Looking for truth

8 Snakes

Rose parks her car. Both Sam and her step out. They see Jo getting dragged away by Ellen.

'Ellen? This is my fault. Ok? I lied to you, and I'm sorry. Jo did well out there; I think her dad would be proud.' Dean says.

Rose cringes. Ellen turns around: 'Don't you dare say that. Not you. I need a moment with my daughter. Alone.'

Jo and Ellen disappear inside.

Dean leans against his car and gives Rose a questioning look. When she doesn't look at him, he turns his eyes to the door again.

Sam is about to ask something when Jo comes storming out. She goes in Dean's direction. Rose goes that stand in her way: 'It's....'

'Go aside.' Jo shouts.

'That bad, huh?' Dean asks Jo.

Jo glares at him. She doesn't say or scream anything.

Dean walks towards her: 'What happened? 'Hey, talk to me.'

'Go away!'

Rose looks at him: 'Be smart and wait in the car.' Rose tells them. Sam gives her a look, and when Rose nods at him, he pulls Dean with him towards the car.

Jo's face softens slightly: 'She told me about my father's last hunt. She also said you continued to help John. Is that true?'

Rose nods: 'I'm sorry I couldn't help your father and broke my promise to never return.'

'She told me you tried to save him and only returned to tell her about what happened. You did that without him. You don't need to stay away anymore.' Jo says and walks back inside.

Dean steps out of the car: 'What was that?'

'Somewhere else. Follow my car.' She says he nods.

The two cars drive away from the roadhouse.

1861—

Alice looks at Rosalie, who sits on a bench in her garden: 'You know, you're lucky.'

'Yeah?' She doubts it. Alice doesn't feel how empty and lonely she is when her husband is away or even when he is in the house.

'You have a good marriage. Look around you and what you have.'

'I don't know, Alice.' Rosalie dreams of another life.

'Or is there someone else?' Alice has a flower in her hand and moves to sit beside her.

'My life isn't for your gossip enjoyment.' Rosalie giggles.

'But seriously, it could be so much worse. He is a good husband.'

Present—

They stop at the side of the road. Dean and Sam get out of the car. Rose stands at the side of the road and looks over the field.

'What happened there?' Dean asks: 'At the roadhouse.'

'You're both sure that you want to know?' Rose asks: 'Ok, just asking.' She says when she sees Dean's reaction. 'Your father didn't really hunt with others. He would call me when it got too dangerous but preferred to hunt independently. The hunt I'm talking about, that was what he did.'

'So, a more dangerous hunt, and he called you?' Sam asks.

'Yes, but there was another hunter involved. The point is that I couldn't get there in time, and the other hunter was dead.'

'And that was Jo's father.' Sam says.

Rose nods.

'Sam, are you driving with your brother or me?'

'Go ahead.' Dean says, already going back to his car.

It's nice. She laughs; she and Sam are making fun. After what she told him about the doppelgängers. And the fact that he is a hunter. She didn't expect to get along with him so quickly. It's good to have another friend.