~Lawrence, Kanas 22 years ago~

Crickets chirp loudly in the night. A large tree with no leaves stands outside one of many houses, the wind lightly shakes it.
In this house a woman in a white dress carefully carries her child into his brother's room.

"Come on, let's say good night to your brother." Mary say as she flips on the light.

Sam who is lying in his crib looks up at Mary and Dean. Mary puts Dean down and watches as he kisses Sam on the forehead.

"Night, Sam." Dean says leaning over Sam's crib.

Mary leans over his crib as well.
"Good night, love." Mary says. She brushes Sam's hair back and kisses his forehead.

"Hey, Dean." A man says smiling at Dean.

Dean turns around to face the man. The man in the doorway wearing a USMC T-shirt is his father, John. Dean rushes over to him.

"Daddy!" Dean says with a smile.

"Hey, buddy." John says picking Dean up.

"So what do you think? You think Sammy's ready to toss around a football yet?" John asks.

Dean shakes his head and laughs, "No, Daddy."

John laughs, "No."

Mary passes John and Dean on her way out.

"You got him?" She asks.

"I got him," John replied as he hugged Dean closer.

"Sweet dreams, Sam" John says.

John carries Dean out of the room, flipping off the lights. Sam watches them go, gurgling, then tries to reach his toes.

The baseball-themed mobile above Sam's crib begins to spin on its own while Sam watches. The transportation-themed clock on the wall ticks, ticks, stops. The moon-shaped nightlight flickers.

Lights flicker on a baby monitor sitting on a nightstand next to a photo of Mary and John. Strange noises come through the monitor. Mary, asleep in bed, stirs. She turns on the light on the nightstand.

"John?"

Mary turns seeing that she is alone and gets up.

Mary walks down the hall to Sam's nursery. John, seen only in silhouette, stands over Sam's crib.

"John? Is he hungry?" Mary asks.

The man turns his head, "Shhh"

"Alright." She says.

Mary heads back down the hallway. The light by the stairs is flickering. Mary frowns and goes to tap at it till the light steadies.

"Hmm." Mary says.

More flickering light is coming from downstairs, Mary investigates. A war movie is on TV and John has fallen asleep watching it. If John is here, Mary realizes, then the man upstairs cannot be John and must be a danger. She runs back upstairs.

"Sammy! Sammy!" She yells.

Mary enters the nursery and stops short. Upstairs, Mary screams. John wakes up.

"Mary?"

John scrambles out of the chair.

"Mary!" He yells as he runs upstairs.

John bursts through the closed door of the nursery.

"Mary?" He says with a worried look.

The room is quiet and appears empty except for Sam awake in his crib and John. He glances around and pushes down the side of Sam's crib.

"Hey, Sammy. You okay?" John asks his youngest.

Something dark drips next to Sam. John touches it. Two more drops land on the back of John's hand. It looks like blood. John looks up. Mary is sprawled across the ceiling, the stomach of her nightgown red with blood, staring at John and struggling to breathe. John collapses onto the floor, staring at Mary.

"No! Mary!" He screams out.

Mary bursts into flame. The fire spreads over the ceiling. John stares, frozen. Sam wails. John, reminded he's not alone, gets up and scoops Sam out of his crib and rushes out of the room.

Dean is awake and is coming to investigate.

"Daddy!" Dean says.

John gives Sam to Dean.

"Take your brother outside as fast as you can and don't look back! Now, Dean, go!" John orders his oldest.

Dean turns and runs. John turns back to the nursery.

"Mary!" John yells.

The entire room is on fire. Mary herself can barely be seen.

"No!" John screams.

Dean runs outside holding Sam.

"It's okay, Sammy," He tells his brother.

Dean turns to look up at Sam's window, which is lit with an orange glow.

John runs outside, scoops up Dean and Sam, and carries them both away.

"I gotcha," John tells his boys.

Fire explodes from the nursery window.

The Lawrence fire department has arrived. A firefighter gets out of a fire truck and takes over at the gauges for another firefighter.

"I got it. You go hold the line up." The firefighter says to another firefighter.

The second firefighter goes to the back of the truck and takes a hose from a third firefighter. That firefighter takes the hose towards the house where a fourth firefighter is spraying through Sam's nursery window. A paramedic opens the back of an ambulance. A police officer waves some neighbors back.

"Stay back. You have to stay back." The officer tells the neighbors.

Across the street from the house, John and Dean sit on the hood of John's Impala, John holding Sam. John looks up at the remnants of the fire.

~Present day, 2005~

"Sam!" A young woman says.

The young woman, Jess, comes around a corner; she is wearing a sexy-nurse costume and adjusting her hat. The photo of Mary and John from earlier is on the dresser.

"Get a move on, would you?" She says.

"We were supposed to be there like fifteen minutes ago."

"Sam!"

Sam pokes his head around the corner. He's wearing jeans and a shirt, not a costume.

"Do I have to?" He asks.

"Yes!" Jess replies.

"It'll be fun." She adds.

Sam comes into the room.

"And where's your costume?" Jess asks him.

Sam laughs and ducks his head, "You know how I feel about Halloween." He tells her.

Soon Sam and Jess leave, and make their way to the bar to celebrate Sam's high score and some other good news.

~Meanwhile at Bobby's house~

Maxwell let out a sigh as he sat on the couch and turned on the TV. He was bored out of his head and didn't have anything to do.

"So, how are you doing?" Max asked Stella.

Stella smiled at him, "I hanging on, I just wish Bobby would come back soon,"

Max nods, "Yeah, why did he need to go to the store anyway? We have plenty of salt and some food in the kitchen,"

"Maybe to get away from you. You can be annoying at times."

Max laughs, "Me annoying? Never in a million years,"

"Whatever you say, Sunshine."

Max playfully punches Stella as he noticed his phone was going off. Max picked it up off the table and turned the TV down.

"Hello? This is Max Parker speaking," Max said as he used his parents last name. He hated to use it half the time because it reminded of a lot of pain, but this number was unknown and you could never be too safe.

"So, your Spiderman now?" A man said over the phone.

Max recognized the voice almost immediately, "Dean?" He said as he looked at Stella.

Max placed the phone down so they both could here him.

"Yeah, it's me, Blondie. Is Stella there with you?" Dean said.

Max nods, "She I-i" He says before getting cut off.

"I'm here, what is it?" Stella asks

"Well, I need both of your help. I should be at the house soon and then we can drive to Stanford to get Sam," Dean says.

Max nodded, "Okay, Brushy Top just don't be late and you have to explain everything,"

"Okay, okay I will. Just be nicer to me, you scare me sometimes Blondie,"

"Stop it, now! Or I will never stop calling you Brushy Top!" Max replied to Dean.

As much as Max hated to admit it he liked Dean a lot even if he could be annoying, childish, and plain dumb sometimes.

"See you," Stella said before Max hung up.

Max shook his head, "At least we have something to do. Do you want to go get packed, dressed, and whatever else you need to do?" Max asked as he got up and looked at Stella.

Stella nodded, "I will just write a note or something for Bobby to let him know where we are going, okay?"

Max nodded, "Of course, I will do that," Max said as he smiled at her.

Stella left the room to go get ready for their ride.

Max then went to his room forgetting to write a letter or evern calling Bobby about where they were going.

With in about thirty minutes after they both got ready. Someone knocked on the door. Max got out of his chair and opened it, he then closed it in Dean's face.

"Rude much," Dean said a little annoyed.

Stella got up and opened the door as she smiled at Dean, "Come in," She told him.

"Thank you, at least some people like me," He said as he looked at Max.

"So are you ready?" Dean asked both of them with his signature smirk.

Max and Stella nodded, "Let the fun begin!" Max said excited.

Stella and Max both grabbed their things and followed Dean out to the Impala.