Dad - the thing that looked like Dad - didn’t seem to be happy about hearing him say the morgue any more than Dean was happy to think about it,
>"Fair.... What do you know that can steal dead memories."
“Revenents,” except they’d burned the body, there was no way that could be what this is, “Or... demons,” demons were the most likely culprit, given their lives, just get a strong enough one, and it could make a form to look like what it wanted you to see, screw with your head, but it would take one stronger than your average one, stronger than Alistair - “Or a shifter, if... if you took them before he died.” There was probably more, too, more options, and that meant figuring out what it was, how to kill it...
>"I don't have any on me."
Dean avoided the eye contact, dropping his eyes to the ground, watching without looking, because he didn’t want to meet this thing’s eyes until he knew it was his father, wasn’t sure he’d want to meet them even then, wasn’t sure what he’d find there if he did.
>"Where's the Impala?”
”I don’t know,” he responded, and his voice was sharper than it was meant to be, clearly frustrated, confused. He didn’t remember even arriving here, let alone where he’d parked the car - or where Sam could possibly have moved it to in the time since he apparently died, why he’d let Dean’s body get taken to the morgue in an FBI building, why he hadn’t been there when Dean woke up. He pulled his phone out of his pocket, turned away (turning your back on a shifter is stupid, you shouldn’t-) and then back again, “I don’t know.” Quieter, steady, almost calmer, except the calm was painted on thick over the panic creeping in. None of this made sense. Maybe he wasn’t alive, not really, maybe he was dead and that was why John was here, that made sense, he must be dead.
“I’ll... I can try to find out. I’ll see if Sam answers,” if he’s even alive - he started typing a message in, choking back those words because if he didn’t say it, it isn’t true he couldn’t deal with that prospect right now.
[ooc: and cue Dean's epic I'M NOT DEAD network post.]