Adam Milligan

Adam John Milligan is the son of John Winchester  and Kate Milligan. The product of a one-time fling between his parents, he was raised for twelve years without knowing his father. Finally, just before his twelth birthday, he got to finally meet John.

2002-2006

Adam and John enjoyed a very easy-going relationship with each other, mainly because of the fact that Adam was so thrilled to have a decent father figure in his life. The role models he had had previously were people that Kate had dated that had always ended up as being losers, control freaks or just plain abusive. He was grateful for the chance to know John and have another parental figure.

Adam always looked foreword to his father's visits which happened about once a year in Windom and always included John taking him on special trips to football games or, on occasion, to see his friend Bobby Singer. Adam especially liked these trips because of the fact that Bobby had a car lot full to the brim with cars of all makes, models and sizes.

During one bad time in his life when his mother was dating a loser, he escaped to his grandmother's house where John soon picked him up. Their time together, although brief was happy for Adam because it meant for him that he got to spent more time with his father. Even though Adam never said anything out loud, his dream was that he would be able to have his parents be together, he wished for that desperately but also knew that it would never happen. In the fall of 2004, he, John and Kate took a trip to California to visit Yosemite National Park. The outing was memorable for Adam, he had never been in the same room with both of his parents for more than a few stretches at a time and enjoyed the fact that John and Kate were able to get along and co-parent him effectively.

Around October 2005, John mysteriously cut off contact with Adam and Kate. Adam thought that was strange but there was little he could do. He wished that he would hear something from him but when he tried calling him, he was surprised to see that his Dad's cell phone was out of service.

one February weekend, he went to stay with his best friend and trick or treat and spend the night. Adam had little way of knowing that that weekend would be the last he would spend with his friends before something changed his life forever. The following Monday when he returned home, he noticed signs of a break-in at their house when he went in to investigate, he was shocked to find small traces of blood in the kitchen.

A quick search and investigation revealed that Kate had been murdered by an unknown assailant. The investigation into her death was put on standbye until new evidence could come in. Immediately following Kate's death, his half-brothers Dean and Sam took him in, told him about the secret that their father had kept from him and taught him to hunt. Sam and Dean and Adam spent several months together searching for John who had gone missing.

Finally, one weekend in June, Sam and Dean pick up a case in Chicago. The case involves a few women that died mysteriously in their apartments--posing as security alarm company reps, they find a common link between the victims: The victims are from Lawrence, Kansas. They try to call John, telling him to come to Chicago, that they think they have a serious lead on the demon that killed their Mom.

Adam accompanies them to the warehouse where they think the demon is. The demon, actually, is a "daughter" of the demon--Meg. Meg is also the one that killed Adam's mother. She ties them up and rubs this fact in to the Winchesters before Sam is able to escape and overpower her. Once they escape from the apartment, they rush back to the apartment they are renting to find an unexpected visitor: John. He greets his boys warmly before their reunion is interrupted by shadow demons, which Meg is controlling, they barely escape from the attack.

Dean urges John to take Adam and go, insisting that they were weak around Sam and him. John resists the move but eventually agrees, knowing that they are right. He and Adam drive away from Chicago, taking refuge in a motel a few hours away where John stitches up Adam's wounds that he sustained in the attack. A few weeks later, they fixed a poltergeist problem where Adam, for really the first time, got to be an active member of the team and help rid the house of the problem. It was around early June that John got the call that one of his friends had been murdered by vampires, looking for the colt gun.

When Adam and John arrive in Colorado, they are surprised to learn that Sam and Dean have actually picked up the same case that they have picked up, the team agrees to hunt the vampires together. During one stake-out, John tells Adam to wait by the truck where he knows he'll be safe. Adam agrees but then when he sees a woman whom he assmes to be in trouble, he follows her right to a trap. The vampires, knowing that John and his sons are on to them, kidnap Adam and hold him in their lair, intending to kill him right when John arrives so John would be forced to watch.

Luckily, when the vampires leave to hunt, John and Dean and Sam sneak in and rescue Adam. Adam suffered a severely broken leg in the attack and was forced to give up hunting for the next few months while his leg healed. He was very upset to learn of his Dad's plans to go and try to find the demon that killed his wife. He urged John to let it go, he insisted that he didn't want to lose another parent, that John was the only parent he had left in the world. John calmly explained to him that if he just let this demon go, he would be allowing it to kill other people, and other families.

Adam hesitantly agreed to not come between his father and the demon but did make him promise to get himself out of the fight if it looked like he would lose it. A few days later, Adam and Bobby (who he was staying with) got the news that Sam and Dean had been injured in a car accident, John was unharmed. Adam stayed with Bobby while doctors raced to save Dean's life. Tragically, a few days later, Adam got the news that Dean did not survive, that he was dead. When Adam heard the news, he was understandably devastated. To him, this was the second person close to him that he had lost in the space of a short amount of time, and he didn't know how to express his grief properly. He warred with Sam over his treatment of their father; Adam could not understand Sam's anger until Sam let it slip that he blamed John for Dean's death.

A few days after Dean's death, Adam correctly figures out what monster they are hunting by guessing that it is the Loch Ness Monster. Since Adam is still unable to actively hunt due to his injured leg, he volunteers to be bait for the monster to lure it out. The plan goes off withotu a hitch and the monster is finally killed. Their next stop is Nebraska where John meets an old friend of his, Ellen Harvelle who had called John months previously to offer her help with finding and killing the demon. John informs her that the demon had "gotten to Dean before he could get to it".

A week after their meeting, Sam and John find a case where young blonds are kidnapped by something inside an apartment building. The three Winchesters travel to the apartment building and are shocked to find Jo, Ellen's daughter there, having found the case first, she believes that she has the right to solve it with them. Jo, though, is kidnapped by the spirit and almost killed.

Shortly after, John gets a call from an old Marine friend of his, Deacon. Deacon informs John that there had been strange activity at his prison that he worked at and he was wondering if John would come and check the case out. John agrees, but first takes Adam back to Windom to celebrate his sixteenth birthday. While there, Adam gets a call from Bobby informing him that John and Sam were in prison. On the way back to Bobby's, Adam and Bobby come across the scene of a car accident. Bobby and Adam successfully help the people in the car but the cause of the car accident was revealed to be the work of a spirit of a young mother who committed suicide after her children were accidentally killed in the street.

2007-2008

The spirit took a liking to Adam and kidnapped him for a few hours before Bobby found him. Shortly after, John and Sam are hunting a djinn and Adam, on the way home from a target shoot, is kidnapped by it and forced into a sort of alternate reality where everything supernatural and otherwise is just a horrible dream: His mother is alive and she and John are married, he still lives in Windom, Dean is alive, and he has his school and friends all back with him.

Soon though, he begins seeing troubling signs: Every single person that he and his family had saved had died from what they were originally supposed to die from. He, along with a very confused Sam, leave Windom in search of the place that Adam was attacked in. He finds himself along with a young girl that also had been attacked, he knew what he had to do. He knew that the only way to "dig" himself out was to essentially kill himself. He did, but not before having an emotional goodbye with his mother, and essentially, all that he would lose, all that he would gain if he chose to stay, but like Adam knew, in choosing to stay, he would be dead in the real world within days.

He digs himself out and finds his family anxiously trying to wake him. Several weeks later, the signs that John was looking for to find the Yellow-Eyed Demon was all there. John and Adam get a call from Jo, explaining that the Road House had burned to the ground, that Ash (their friend) was dead and so probably was her mother. John and the two boys meet Jo at Bobby's where Ellen miraculously is alive and well. They go over the signs again, this time picking up pieces of the puzzle, finding out that someone from Yellow-Eyed Demon's circle is going to try to open the Devil's Gate and release several hundred demons from hell. The gates, unfortunately, do open, and the final showdown between Azazel and John happens.

One of the souls that escapes from hell, is Dean's soul. Dean had gone to hell after dying from the car accident, he had been tricked by his "daughter" Tessa who had posed as a reaper, when in reality, she was working for Azazel to bring him Dean's soul. Dean fights Azazel long enough to give John the advantag and kills him.

Adam and Sam watch in shock as Dean and John share an emotional reunion, then much to their shock, an angel acting on God's orders, brings Dean back to life at that moment. The brothers and family all share an emotional reunion before the reality of what has happened, hits them. They know it means war is upon them and Bobby urges them to get tattoos that will protect them against possession. Adam, and the rest of the Winchesters plus Ellen gets them.

A few weeks later, they begin seeing other signs of the war they have unleashed. They battle the seven deadly sins where Adam faces Wrath head on, Wrath taunts Adam about his mother calling her a 'slut' and laughing evilly when Adam punches him, full of rage. It took all night, but eventually, Bobby (their friend, Tamara) and the Winchesters defeat them once and for all.

Shortly after, the Winchesters pick up a hunt in Hood River, Oregon. The spirit of the town 'bad guy' was going around murdering people--especially young couples in the national park near where his cabin was built. Complications arose when Bobby informs them that his bones had been scattered from place to place in the area and that they could be anywhere in the forest which spanned a few hundred miles on foot at least. The case was considered by many hunters to be a dead-end case, many had attempted over the years to solve it without much success.

Even John had to admit that the case was something that was almost beyond their ability to handle. Bobby, who had received a call from them, had arrived the afternoon after they had arrived. The group decides to go in the forest and camp there for the night before starting the search for the bones. In the morning while hunting for bones, Adam gets a feeling he is being watched but dismisses the feeling when nothing comes of his worries. Right after the group finds a small stash of bones, Adam gets the feeling again, only this time the spirit appears and throws Adam violently against a tree.

Adam thinks he's fine apart from a broken rib but when he starts having breathing problems and his chest starts hurting, he is forced to stop so Bobby can look at him. Bobby discovers that Adam has a collapsed lung on his left side due to a very common problem that can happen in broken rib cases: The rib, when it broke, also punctured his lung, collapsing it. Bobby informs John that the only cure is to insert a chest tube in Adam's side so it can drain all the blood out of his chest cavity.

Adam is devastated by this, knowing that the procedure would be a painful one. He gathers courage from his father, who was behind him the whole time, holding his hand and from Dean, who tried to distract him by playing little games with him on his cell phone. The procedure starts, Adam tries to arch back but is trapped by John who was behind him. Soon though, the procedure is over, the tube in place. Adam is encouraged by John to try to sleep.

When Adam finally does wake up, he is almost immediately assaulted by the pain in his chest. He is informed that it's only the blood bubble in his chest bursting. He doesn't care, though and he struggles through the process until finally it pops. After that, he and John leave the area and find refuge in a hotel a few hundred miles away. Adam is frustrated when John doesn't want him hunting and keeps him back at the motel while he takes care of minor cases. Eventually, though his luck turns around and he and John are forced to travel to Buffalo to investigate a break-in at a storage place that John kept.

Once there, they find that a rabbit's foot was stolen by someone. John and Adam track the thieves down and retrieve the foot. However, soon Sam accidentally touches the foot, therefore transfering the bad luck that the foot gave out over to him. After that, John and Dean decide the best course of action is to call Bobby, which they do, and get information on the girl that hired the two men to steal the foot in the first place. She is well-known amongst hunters and her last known location was in the middle east someplace. Her name? Bela Talbot. She was currently living in Queens, New York. John and Dean decide to drop Sam and Adam off at a motel about two hours from Queens so Adam can keep close tabs on Sam.

In the parking lot of their chosen motel, John spotted a familiar RV and leaped into action. He discovered that it was two hunters whom he had met in passing several times and always had a very guarded opinion of them. Adam watched as his Dad beat them on the pavement, demanding to know why they were there watching them. The one hunter that John had pinned revealed to him that he was there to kill Sam. Adam wasn't exactly aware of Sam's psychic abilities and was shocked to learn of the extent of them now. He was also stunned to hear his father admit to the fact that before the visions stopped, he was considering killing Sam.

He is offended when he and his family meet a wanna-be hunter in Ohio. Richie who was an old friend of Dean's, had a secret passion to hunt. He apparently helped Dean kill a succubus, but Dean and Richie have differing accounts of who really killed the demon. Adam angrily demands to know if he's ever lost a relative to a demon. Richie admits he hasn't. Adam tells him that he wished he could be normal, but that went out the window when his mother was murdered by a demon.

On the one year anniversary of his mother's in 2007, Adam visits Windom to see her gravesite and also to check out some cases with his family near Windom, but not directly in Windom. Adam goes and visits her, lying down a stuffed teddy bear instead of flowers or candy--reminding her that she always favored bears above anything else. He thinks back on some of the memories he has of her before returning to the rented house he was sharing with his family. He is feeling emotionally exhausted from the day, and snaps at his family before going to his room and getting on the computer. He soon falls asleep, though and to his great surprise, he enters into a dream where he is at his old house--the one he lived in when he was still a child. He recalls that the house had a trial that he and his mother used to walk several times, he goes there and is shocked when he is greeted by Kate, who remarks that she had forgotten how peaceful the place was.

They share an emotional reunion even though it is a brief one. He asks her why she hasn't visited him before then. She tells him that he wasn't ready emotionally for this time, and that she needed to make sure that he had gone on with his life, and started becoming happier again. He asks her how she can expect him to be happy with everything that's happened and how he can so easily forget her. She tells him that she doesn't expect him to forget her, but to merely let go of her enough so that he can move on and be happy like he was before she was murdered. She admits to him that it hasn't been easy--and that whenever John takes him on a hunt, her first instict has always been to protect him but she can't move from where she is. When their time comes to a close, Adam asks her if they can talk like this again. She tells him in time but not for awhile.

Shortly after solving the disappearance and murder of Dean's friend, Richie, Adam is possessed by Meg in order to gain intel on the Winchesters. This possession happens after Adam is left alone. She wants him to spy on his family so she can report their movements to her boss. Adam fights the possession, though and actually does succeed in overthrowing her for several minutes at a time, but never permanently. According to Meg, Adam fought the possession every second of everyday and never gave up. Also complicating things was the fact that she had branded on his arn, a binding link that would keep her inside of him no matter what, no exorcism would work on her. The purpose of the binding link is that it would give her the choice of whether or not to leave his body. She tells the Winchesters that the possession was so complete that they never knew because she had watched them, she had adopted Adam's behaviors and tendancies. Eventually, she is exorcised by Bobby when he burns the mark off Adam's arm.

After the exorcism, Adam withdrew into himself more so than he had previously. He only emerged from his bedroom when he absoutely had to to eat and use the bathroom. He never engaged anyone in conversation until John confronted him and reassured him that he did everything he could to overthrow the possession and that he was proud of him. Adam felt better, but still troubled by what had taken place.