SuperPotter

Chapter 21 Salvation

Hermione looks around the motel room she shares with Sam, Dean and John. The walls are covered with information about the yellow-eyed demon. Weather charts, hieroglyphics, pictures, newspaper articles, written notes, a shelf of books and more stuff. John is sitting at a paper-strewn desk with the Colt in front of him. Sam leans against the counter while Dean paces. Hermione was sitting on the bed, looking at the Winchester. This was their hunt, she was just an information point.

'So this is it. This is everything I know. Look, our whole lives we've been searching for this demon right? Not a trace, just...nothing. Until about a year ago. For the first time, I picked up a trail,'

'And that's when you took off,' Dean points out.

'Yeah. That's right. The demon must have come out of hiding, or hibernation,'

'All right so what's this trail you found?'

'It starts in Arizona, then New Jersey, California. Houses burned down to the ground. It's going after families, just like it went after us,'

'Families with infants?' Sam asks.

'Yeah. The night of the kid's six-month birthday,'

'I was six months old that night?'

'Exactly six months,'

'So basically, this demon is going after these kids for some reason. The same way it came for me? So Mom's death...Hermione's attack. It's all because of me?'

'We don't know that Sam,' Dean jumps in, he didn't want his brother to think it was all his fault.

'Oh really? Cause I'd say we're pretty damn sure Dean,'

'For the last time, what happened to them was not your fault,' Dean and Sam were both getting frustrated.

'Right. It's not my fault but it's my problem,'

'No it's not your problem it's our problem!' John stands up. Hermione moves her left hand and Dean slowly moves away from Sam.

'Okay. That's enough,' Hermione thought that John meant her so she stopped right away. The boys take a deep breath and calm down.

'So why's he doing it. What does he want?' Sam asks.

'Look I wish I had more answers, I do. I've always been one step behind it. Look, I've never gotten there in time to save...' John looks down.

'All right so how do we find it...before it hits again,' Dean asks.

'There are signs. It took me a while to see the pattern, but it's there in the days before these fires signs crop up in an area. Cattle deaths, temperature fluctuations, electrical storms. And then I went back and checked...and...'

'These things happened in Lawrence,' Dean finish. John nods.

'A week before your mother died. And in Palp Alto...before the attack. And these sings, they're starting again,'

'Where?' Sam asks.

'Salvation lowa,'

Dean, Sam and Hermione are driving in the Impala while John was driving in his truck. Dean was driving behind John's truck when he pulls off to the side. Dean follows his Dad and they all get out of the car.

'God damn it!'

'What is it?' Dean asks.

'Son of a bitch,' That's where Dean gets it from, Hermione thinks to herself.

'What is it!'

'I just got a call from Caleb,'

'Is he okay?'