Dean spends his sixteenth birthday on a hunt.  It’s an awesome hunt and he wouldn’t have it any other way.  He got to burn a mass grave.  It was better than candles on a cake.

When they pull into the driveway Sunday afternoon Sammy’s sitting on the front porch, waving a handmade sign declaring “HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAN!”  Missouri’s standing besides ( Read more... )

After Mary and John tell Dean and Sammy the truth about their family Dean starts training in earnest, transitioning from karate to muay tai and kick boxing, practicing with the knives and perfecting his aim, growing more comfortable with the gun Mary’s gifted him - a .45m Colt with ivory grip that fits his hand perfectly - and taking his Latin ( Read more... )

Mary gets hurt and they decide its time to tell the boys.

Getting injured was so stupid, a rookie mistake that she beats herself up over the entire time she’s in the hospital.

They’re hunting a werewolf and using Mary as bait, letting it chase her through the city’s park and down side streets until she’d taken a wrong turn and ended up in an ( Read more... )

 
In the fall Dean wants to play soccer with his friends.  The park district has a soccer league and most of the boys on the block and in his class are playing and Dean wants to play too.

Mary signs him up for karate classes instead.  Dean is not happy.

They have their first fight of Dean’s entire life.  He’s always been so good, stubborn sometimes ( Read more... )

 
John’s the first to get seriously hurt.  They’d been lucky for so long, walking away from every hunt with nothing more than cuts and bruises, sprained ankles and wrists and the occasional broken bone.  But hunting is dangerous and it was bound to happen sooner rather than later.

They’re cleansing a house of a violent poltergeist and they’re nearly ( Read more... )

John’s first hunt is a pack of black dogs.

Mary is not happy; she would have preferred John’s first hunt be something a little less dangerous.  But John’s a Marine, he fought against some of the nastiest sons of bitches you can imagine in one of the most godforsaken countries in the world, he’s pretty sure he can handle a few doggies.

The ( Read more... )

They set up some rules:

-          No hunting on the holidays or birthdays
-          They will not start hunting together until the boys are older
-          They will only leave the boys with someone they trust and know is safe
-          At least one of them will always attend the boys’ school events
-          The boys can start training but they ( Read more... )

 
( Prologue )

Let me start with saying that I had absolutely no interest in seeing this movie.  I have no idea why, I just wasn't drawn in by it.  Probably because the characters were ordinary people and I tend to like my super heroes to be, well, super.  But a friend got free screener tickets and he's been squeeing like a fangirl over this movie since the first ( Read more... )

( Fangirl squeeing this way )