When Jo came out of surgery, the doctors told them that she was stable, but due to the trauma, shock, closeness of the gun, and of course blood loss, there had been a few complications that would be something Jo was going to have to fight against ( Read more... )

Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit.It had been the constant litany going through Dean's head once he got the call concerning Jo. Once he got to the scene he did everything he could to keep a lid on the news from getting out to his brother, because he wasn't going to Sam with this unless he had facts. Hard, solid, irrefutable facts that Jo was ( Read more... )

It all happened so fast. That thought hit Jo just as she hit the side walk, gasping for breath through the two bullet holes in her chest. She had heard those words from witnesses and victims since her first day in uniform and she had only sort of believed them. Things couldn’t happen so fast people couldn’t see something, but now she knew they ( Read more... )

Michael knew that he had been fighting a battle upstream from the moment he decided to look for the group of foster brothers who had gone through the system with him in their childhood. It was a mixture of curiosity - wanting to know if they were doing okay on their own as adults - and of a brotherly devotion he had always felt ( Read more... )

The alarm clock went off beside the bed and Sam just opened his eyes. He stared at the little red display of the time before he reached over and turned the damn thing off ( Read more... )

"I'm not talking to the press."

It was a general rule of thumb when it came to working with Dean Winchester. He never, ever talked to the press. Ever. The last time he talked to the press -- well, it got complicated. It didn't matter if he was the victim, the lead detective, or it was for charity, he wouldn't speak to someone with a microphone ( Read more... )

Sam remembered how it had once been. Birthdays were about cake and ice cream, a few presents and sitting in front of the television while waiting for Dad to come back from work. Sometimes Dad got lucky enough to get the day off and they would go out to a movie or bowling, but winters in Chicago meant that any birthday activities were indoors only ( Read more... )