DADDY DEAREST

"What are they doing here?" Dean asks.

"They're here because of what happened to your family. You see, all those years ago, real evil came to you. It walked this house. That kind of evil leaves wounds. And sometimes, wounds get infected." Missouri says.

"I don't understand." Dean says.

"This place is a magnet for paranormal energy. It's attracted a poltergeist. A nasty one. And it won't rest until Jenny and her babies are dead." Missouri says.

"You said there was more than one spirit." Elena points out.

She nods. "There is. I just can't quite make out the second one."

"Well, one thing's for damn sure—nobody's dyin' in this house ever again. So whatever is here, how do we stop it?" Dean asks.

ean, Sam, Elena, and Missouri are sitting around a table. On the table are different herbs and roots. "So, what is all this stuff, anyway?" Dean asks.

"Angelica Root, Van Van oil, crossroad dirt, a few other odds and ends." She says.

"Yeah? What are we supposed to do with it?" Dean asks.

"We're gonna put them inside the walls in the north, south, east, west corners on each floor of the house." She says plainly.

"We'll be punchin' holes in the dry wall. Jenny's gonna love that." Dean says sarcastically.

"She'll live." Missouri says slyly.

"And this'll destroy the spirits?" Sam asks.

"It should. It should purify the house completely. We'll each take a floor. But we work fast. Once the spirits realize what we're up to, things are gonna get bad." Missouri says.

Back at the Winchester's, Missouri is walking Jenny and her kids outside. "Look, I'm not sure I'm comfortable leaving you guys here alone." says Jenny.

"Just take your kids to the movies or somethin', and it'll be over by the time you get back." Missouri says, but Jenny, still slightly unsure, leaves with her kids. Missouri goes back inside.

Inside the house, Sam goes into one of the rooms with a hammer. He kneels down by the wall and begins using the end of the hammer to hit against the walls. While he is doing this, a plug on the other side of the room takes itself out of the outlet.

A lamp begins to move on its own also. The plug snakes its way towards Sam. Downstairs in the kitchen, Dean is punching the wall with a small ax. Behind him, a drawer begins to open on its own.

In the basement, Missouri and Elena are together, looking around. Missouri brings a bag full of herbs to the wall. Elena hears a noise and turns around to see a table coming towards her. She screams as it pins her against the wall.

Back in the kitchen, Dean also hears a noise. He quickly ducks just as a knife hurls itself into a cabinet. Dean places a table in front of himself as more knives come through it.

Upstairs, Sam is chopping a hole in the wall. The lamp crashes to the ground. Sam turns around to see what the noise was, and the cord wraps itself around his neck. Sam falls to the ground, trying to get the cord off.

Eventually, he lays weak on the floor. Dean runs upstairs and into the room. "Sam!" Dean rushes over to Sam and tries to get the cord off, but it won't budge. Instead, Dean kicks a hole in the wall and places the bag of herbs inside.

A blinding white light leaves the room. Once the spirit is gone, Dean goes back over to Sam, who is completely weak. Dean unravels the cord from around Sam's neck and pulls him into a fierce hug.

few hours later, Dean, Sam, Elena and Missouri are standing in the extremely messy kitchen. "You sure this is over?" She asks.

"I'm sure. Why? Why do you ask?" Missouri asks.

"Never mind." Sam sighs. "It's nothin', I guess."

They hear Jenny enter the house. "Hello? We're home." She comes into the kitchen and looks around. "What happened?"

"Hi, sorry. Um, we'll pay for all of this." Sam says and Dean looks confused.

"Don't you worry. Dean's gonna clean up this mess." Missouri says. Dean stands there, not moving. "Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Get the mop." He begins walking away. "And don't cuss at me!"

Dean walks away, muttering under his breath. A little while later, Missouri, the boys, and Elena leave the house. Jenny waves and shuts the door behind them.

ater that night, Jenny is in bed, reading a magazine. She yawns and puts the magazine on her bedside table. After turning off the light and sliding underneath the covers, she goes to sleep. A few seconds later, she opens her eyes, startled.

The bed begins to shake violently. She screams and gets out of bed. Meanwhile, outside, Dean, Sam and Sam are sitting in the car. "All right, so, tell me again, what are we still doin' here?" Elena asks.

"I don't know. I just...I still have a bad feeling." Sam says.

"Why? Missouri did her whole Zelda Rubenstein thing, the house should be clean, it should be over." Dean says.

"Yeah, well, probably. But I just wanna make sure, that's all." Sam says.

"Yeah, well, problem is I could be sleeping in a bed right now." Dean slides down in his seat and closes his eyes.

Sam looks up at Jenny's bedroom window and sees her screaming, just as in his dream. "Dean. Look, Dean!"

They rush out of the car and run towards the house. "You two grab the kids, I'll get Jenny." Dean says.

Inside Sari's bedroom, the figure made out of fire is standing by her closet. In the hallway, Dean rushes to Jenny's bedroom door. "Jenny!"

"I can't open the door!" She yells.

"Stand back!" He yells.

She moves back. Dean kicks down the door and brings her downstairs. "No, my kids!" Jenny says.

"Sam's got your kids, come on."

While Elena carries Ritchie in her arms, Sam goes to Sari's bedroom, where she is screaming for help. Sam goes to her bed and picks her up.

"Don't look. Don't look!"

They leave the bedroom. Outside, Dean and Jenny rush out of the house. Inside the house, Sam and Elena rush down the stairs and puts the kids down on the floor. "All right, Sari, take your brother outside as fast as you can, and don't look back." Sam says.

Suddenly, an invisible force makes Sam fall to the floor. He slides backwards into another room, crashing into a table. Elena runs in after him. Sari screams and runs outside with Ritchie. They rush outside to Dean and Jenny.

Dean kneels down to Sari's eye level. "Sari, where's Sam? Where's Elena?"

"They're inside. Something's got them." She cries.

Panicked, Dean looks at the front door. It slams shut on its own. Dean opens the trunk of the Impala and grabs a rifle and an ax. He rushes to the front door and begins chopping away at it.

Inside the kitchen, Sam gets flung into a set of cabinets. He stands up and is pinned against the wall by the invisible force. He can't move any part of his body. It then flings Elena and she hits her head on the wall. She's out cold.

The fire figure makes its way towards Sam. Dean continues chopping down parts of the door. Eventually, he makes a hole that he is able to step through. He walks through the house, looking for Sam. "Sam? Elena!"

He finds Sam. As he looks at the fire figure, he raises his gun. "No, don't! Don't!" Sam yells.

"What, why?!"

"Because I know who it is. I can see her now." Suddenly, the fire vanishes. Instead, standing in front of them is Mary Winchester, exactly as she was the night she died. Dean's expression softens.

In shock, he lowers his gun slowly. "Mom?" Mary smiles and steps closer to him.

"Dean." She says.

Tears form in Dean's eyes. Mary walks away from him and goes to Sam. Dean watches her, never taking his eyes off her. "Sam." Sam smiles weakly, crying. His mother's smile fades. "I'm sorry."

"For what?" He asks.

She looks at him sadly, but says nothing. She walks away from them and looks up at the ceiling. "You get out of my house. And let go of my son."

Once again, she bursts into flames. When she is entirely engulfed, the fire reaches the ceiling and disappears. The force holding Sam to the wall is released. He walks over to Elena and exchanges glances with Dean. "Now it's over."

The next morning, Dean is standing by the car with Jenny, looking through old photos. "Thanks for these."

"Don't thank me, they're yours." Dean puts the trunk of photos into the car.

When Elena was finally conscious, Sam had given her an ice pack from Jenny's freezer and made sure she was okay. They're sitting on the front steps of the house and soon joined by Missouri.

"Well, there are no spirits in there anymore, this time for sure." She says.

"Not even my mom?" Sam asks.

"No."

"What happened?" Elena asks groggily.

"They're mom's spirit and the poltergeist's energy, they cancelled each other out. Boys, your mom

destroyed herself goin' after the thing."

"Why would she do something like that?"

She smiles. "Well, to protect her boys, of course.

Sam nods, with tears in his eyes. Missouri goes to put her hand on his shoulder, but she stops herself. "Sam, I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"You sensed it was here, didn't you? Even when I couldn't." She says.

"What's happening to me?"

"I know I should have all the answers, but I don't know."

Dean interrupts the two. "Sam, Elena, you ready?" Sam nods and goes to the car. Jenny thanks all of them.

"Don't you boys be strangers." Missouri says.

"We won't."

"See you around."

Jenny waves. They smile, get in the car, and drive away.

issouri comes inside her house and sets her purse on the table. "That boy...he has such powerful abilities. And the girl, she shouldn't be with them. But why he couldn't sense his own father, I have no idea."

John Winchester sits on the couch. "Mary's spirit—do you really think she saved the boys?"

"I do." John nods sadly and twists his wedding ring on his finger. "John Winchester, I could just slap you. Why won't you go talk to your children?"

John gets tears in his eyes. "I want to. You have no idea how much I wanna see 'em. But I can't. Not yet. Not until I know the truth." They share a look.