This is a great explanation for why Bobby speaks Japanese! LoL I loved the part where Bobby's wishing somebody would invent salt rounds for guns. Hehehe

Great story girl!

Lol. I just love Bobby. This is an interesting take on how he learned it. Very nice.
So sad about his wife. *sniff* I feel for the guy.

Hey! Thanks so much for the dedication to this story! I'm SO TOUCHED! Your friendship has meant the world to me as well and I cherish it everyday. Who else would agree with me about Dean suffering? Hee!

You know how much I LOVE Bobby and finding out that Jim Beaver spoke Japanese was a great little tidbit to find out about him and I loved that they incorporated it into Bobby.

I SO LOVED this inside look into the young Bobby. You've captured his dedication to hunting, but also to the loss he feels for his wife. I got this warm feeling while reading that Bobby harbors no revenge, just sorrow for the direction of his life. I can totally picture a young Bobby hunting much in the way Dean hunts just not so much with the research and reading the books part for Dean, hee! I really enjoyed this.

Fav. Parts
Bobby Singer was no stranger to hard work. Life is hard work, his daddy had always said. So, it didn’t really surprise him that hunting was hard work, too. He’d just never figured on the kind of hard work it would be. LOVED this. It describes Bobby's work ethic beautifully.

The thought came before he could stop it, and Bobby closed his eyes against it, trying to push the inevitable pain away. Even five years after his wife’s death, it still hurt, the pain as fresh as ever, a wound that would never heal.*sigh...lovely. I can so see this.

Hunting was all he had left, the only way he could try to make up for…for what had happened. What he’d had to do. Maybe that was why he’d thrown himself into it like he had, tracked down every scrap of information he could find and tried to make himself a walking encyclopedia of all things supernatural.

It wasn’t easy. Bobby had always liked workin’ with his hands a whole lot more than he liked workin’ with his mind, but now he needed both. So, he spent most of his mornings trainin’ out in the yard, and his evenings buried in books. And night…night was for hunting.-TOTALLY LOVED THIS PART! Bobby is the best combination of book smart and street smart. There's also a sense of balance of those two that Bobby achieves so easily.

Bobby snorted. At this rate, he’d be a crippled old man by the time he hit 35. If he got there, anyway. Only a handful of hunters managed to live that long. What were the chances that he’d actually be one of them?-LOVED this hint that Bobby has actually lasted past 35. The thought is much like what Dean is thinking now about how he doesn't think he'll live to see old age. It gave me a lump in my throat too as I can't get the thought that Bobby might die in the next couple of episodes out of my mind."no, no, no must stop thinking that
Bobby shook his head. Thoughts like that were gonna get him killed one of these days if he wasn’t careful, and Josie wouldn’t have wanted that, even if maybe, a part of him did.*sigh...what I can I say? LOVED it.
Bobby shivered as the temperature suddenly dropped about twenty degrees. He tightened his grip on his gun, and reached for the salt. Times like this, he wished somethin’ fierce that somebody’d figure out a way to fire salt-rounds.-HILARIOUS! I loved that Dean takes credit for inventing it in "Hookman".“Uh,” Bobby tried, feelin’ like an idjit and probably soundin’ like one too, “hablo Inglés?
The spirit chucked a picture frame at his head.*Giggles!

That was hard enough to pull off with a normal spirit, though. Spirits hung on to things real tight, and letting go was usually the last thing they wanted to do. What was he supposed to do with a spirit that only spoke Japanese? He’d gotten to know a handful of other hunters in the last five years, but he was pretty sure none of them spoke a word of Japanese. Bobby snorted. Some of ‘em barely managed English.-I can see it would be hard to find a hunter speaking Japanese, all the more wonderful that Bobby took the time to learn it. You cracked me up with the English line at the end. I can SO see that!

It wasn’t pride. He knew better than to let pride keep him from askin’ for help when he needed it. But being a hunter had made him paranoid. He’d learned real quick that it didn’t have to be supernatural to be evil. He didn’t want anyone watching his back that he didn’t trust a hundred percent.-OH I LOVED THIS MOST OF ALL! I loved that Bobby would ask for help and I LOVED that he'd have to trust someone implicitly to have them watch his back. It makes his trust of Dean and Sam that much more meaningful.“I was wonderin’, how exactly does a fella go about learning Japanese?-HILARIOUS! I can SO hear Bobby's voice saying this!

Thanks SO MUCH! I LOVED IT!

loved it

This may be bad, but I laughed out loud at Bobby trying to speak Spanish to the ghost! Hee! (Incidentally, Jim Beaver says that he speaks Spanish, Italian, French-I believe, and Japanese. The worst out of all of them: Japanese.
I always enjoy stories about Bobby, just because Bobby is awesome! As everyone knows.

As always, great one-shot!

Kat