Getting into the truck I begin heading for Holy Oak, Nebraska which is near Omaha Nebraska, to meet up with Zoey and take out possibly a pack of Kitsune, though typically only form family groups of two to six but can exceed such numbers.
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"Bobby." John Winchester greets dipping his chin slightly as he enters the private room in the hospital Bobby has been put up in.
"John." Bobby nods back, a slightly annoyed look flashing in his eyes.
"How's the boy?" John asks the concern for Matthew lingering in his voice.
"He'd be better if he knew the truth, John…he's putting on a good front but he's drifting." Bobby answers John, his voice growing angry.
"We talked about this Bobby, it's better that Matt doesn't know that I'm his father or the boys learn that after Mary's death I slept with and knocked up their aunt, their mother's sister. The boy has only known Mike to be his father, whether he remembers him or not, I'll not take that from him." John says his own voice growing angry in return.
"I've heard he's been doing a rather good job pretending to be you, he's even been giving good advice to Hunter's who need help." John says one he and Bobby both calm down.
"Yeah, I know damned kid he makes me seem obsolete." Bobby mutters fondly.
"I stopped by…I noticed he has some company with two young women…know anything about them?" John asks concern shining through his voice.
"Balls, John…you don't get to act like a father with the shit you're pullin, he's young John he should have more than two young women pinning for him, leave it be." Bobby practically growls at John, someone who might be his friend they sure have a complicated relationship after their fallout over how Sam and Dean should be raised…and the drunken one night stand that they had, that neither man would ever openly acknowledge.
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Jody knows she shouldn't let it get to her, but this time of the year so close to Owen's passing…finding her husband fucking a girl who just graduated highschool, hearing I love you from a handsome youngman who's suffered so much but you can still smile and love so freely yet here she is trapping herself in a loveless marriage, well it's enough to bring her to tears.
'What am I some little girl?' Jody asks herself as she grabs a tissue from her desk and dries around her eyes.
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'I've missed the freedom of the open road' The feeling of being behind the wheel cruising the backroads of South Dakota fills me with a deep sense of freedom I haven't felt since I was seventeen, truly it's liberating in a way nothing else even compares.
After driving a little over four hours, it dawns on me that I told Zoey that I would call her when I started towards her, 'I really need to get a cellphone, as a guy from 2026 I can't believe I've spent this long without one even if the cells from 2005 don't even compare to 2026 in terms of capabilities other than calls and texts…to bad I'm not some kinda super genius that could invent technology out of my ass.' Shaking out of my thoughts I crank up the radio as I read the sign that says thirty miles to Holy Oak, Nebraska.
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Zoey heard a knock at the door which makes her stand up from the bed, an almost silly smile on her face as she skips over to the door and pulls it open, "Hey Dork, I thought you were gonna call-" Zoey doesn't get to finish her sentence before a woman's hand tipped with sharp claws buries itself in her abdomen and is followed by a crunch of bone, Zoey falls to the floor unable to even scream out due to the other hand wrapping around her throat, as the hand that just snapped her spine comes out and breaks her flailing arms, before a long spine like appendage comes out of the womans's wrist and the gets stabbed into Zoey's skull behind her right ear.
The woman with oriental features pulls away from her kill, plucke the petuitary gland from her spike a sadistic smirk on her face as she stands up, "Stupid Hunters." the woman muttere as she walks to a dark forest green Ford suv under the watchful gaze of a repear who pulls a pda out of her pocket and sees the Kitsune and her children are now added to her collection list for today, as the young woman Zoey's soul rises from her mortal husk just as a red Ford pickup truck pulls into thr parking lot that causes a shiver to run down Tessa's spine, she meets the eyes of the driver and finds recognition in those yellowish-golden with vertical slit pupils in his head.
Tessa gulps, "Witcher…Grimm impossible, they were exterminated from this world by Death hundreds of years ago." Tessa murmurs and hears Zoey let out a soft sob, "I'm dead…I didn't even get to get fucked by the dork!"
"Zoe-Zoe…who's your friend?" Matthew asks gently, drawing Zoey's attention away from her mortal coil directing it to Tessa, her Reaper escort to Heaven.
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My heart breaks a little at seeing who could only be Zoey dead on the floor at the entrance of her motel room, with her spirit and a familiar Reaper from the series standing beside her, Approaching the two women I call out to Zoey, who perks up slightly and rounds on Tessa who is caught off guard if her expression is anything to go bye.
"Zoey, I'm sorry that I didn't get here in time to save you but I promise the monster that did this to you will die today." I offer my true and honest apology while promising her a vow of vengeance, and turn to Tessa. "Reaper, I know it isn't your policy to interfere with the living but would you be willing to tell me what direction Zoey's killer took off in and if they were driving anything?" I ask Tessa who looks at me with a frightened look in her eyes.
"Green Ford Sport utility vehicle that headed off in that direction." Tessa informs me and points to the way I'd just come from, "Thank you, Lady Reaper…goodbye Zoey, I wish we had had a chance to get to know each other better...I must get going before the trail gets cold." I offer and walk back to my truck, climb inside, grab my weapon from underneath the seat and strap up.
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