Title: You're as Cold as Ice
Author: EdnaSummary: The brothers are walking on very thin ice on their newest job. Literally. Dean hates witches and he'll hate them even more after this. Hurt!Sam, Protective/Worried!Dean.
Notes: I totally made up the plant of Amanthrapod. The only alternative was moss and that's pretty much all over the world so that wouldn't work! You'll see…
I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I dream but I'd rather be on the show. Preferably in a sex scene with Sam, if that's possible?
"Ice?" Dean asked, non-believing. "Her house was covered in ice?"
"I know, pretty weird, huh?" Sam replied, after Dean started the car and began driving away from the Pure Spot Motel. Sam had been resting when he saw the news on the TV. A middle-aged woman, Maria Turner, froze to death when her house suddenly froze over, inside and out. The locals blame it on the cold time of year. North Dakota had had a big freeze this year. It wasn't predicted on satellites, there was nothing in pictures to predict a big freeze. And yet it happened very suddenly, according to the neighbours and it hit her house the worst. The further along the street you get, the houses were less covered in ice, from all around. It was as though her house was the source of all the deathly ice.
"Weird enough for us to take a look," Dean said. "Where do we go?"
"Uhh, Jamestown in North Dakota," Sam replied, looking at his notes and his map.
"Let's roll," Dean said, putting the Impala into gear and driving way beyond the speed limit knocking the air out of Sam.
"Can we go back?" Sam asked, uncomfortably.
Dean glanced at Sam frequently, looking from him and keeping his concentration on the road, frowning. "Why?"
"To get my stomach," Sam said. Dean smiled as Sam directed him the right way to North Dakota, despite it being pitch black at night. Unfortunately, Dean had lost them the room. Ordering a few porn movies and hitting on the female member of staff who delivered them to him was apparently not the way to go.
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Sam and Dean looked around, questioning the neighbour of young Maria. Michael Winston told them that his house froze very suddenly around midnight. As Dean questioned Michael, Sam wandered around, searching up and down, suspecting some kind of witchcraft.
"How soon after did you find Maria?" Dean asked.
"About a half hour," Michael replied. "The cold had died down and I wanted to make sure my neighbours were ok and Maria wasn't answering. I knocked down the door and just…found her…lying there…"
Michael turned around pointed to the kitchen floor as Sam looked in and out of the cupboards. He noticed Sam looking through them and frowned in confusion. "What are you looking for? It's not like she was murdered."
Sam stopped, looking at Michael, his mouth hanging half open and put on the spot. "Well, you know," Sam gave an awkward smile. "We have to take every precaution, so…"
Michael frowned at him and shook his head. Sam gave an unappreciative and embarrassed look behind his back and continued to look through cupboards.
"So, the freeze stopped after half an hour?" Dean asked Michael. Sam looked under the kitchen sink cupboard and found something incredibly interesting. Interesting enough to include this into the job.
"Thanks, Michael. We'll be in contact" Dean said, smiling politely to Michael as Dean watched him leave.
"Hey, Dean," Sam called. Dean walked over and looked under the sink.
"Woah, what is that?" Dean asked. He and Sam were both looking upon an infestation of plants. It looked like one plant, growing larger and larger, like a weed and yet with no source of growth.
"I think," Sam said, after pulling the entire plant out from the cupboard. It had no soil, no sunlight. Nothing keeping it alive, "it's some kinda plant from the arctic. It lives in really cold places and it's poisonous to animals."
Dean looked at Sam, not believing what Sam had just said. "Dude! How do you know that?!"
Sam looked at Dean with no answer. He simply shrugged, nothing to explain his weird brain full of random encyclopaedia. "Ok, so what are you saying?"
"Well, whoever's doing this planted this…plant here" Sam said, suddenly realising his pun. "so then the house would freeze over when they called it to."
"Let me guess." Dean said, looking very unhappy at Sam. "Witches?"
"My first thought, yeh" Sam said, casually. "Hey, this stuff is real strong too. I mean, you try and rip it."
Dean laughed as he and Sam stood up. "You kidding me? It's a plant!" Dean smirked as he took a length from Sam. Dean yanked with both arms and found he barely even made it weak. Dean frowned at the plant. "What the hell?"
Sam laughed. "See, they have to survive in the worlds most coldest places. So, they gotta stay strong among the ice."
"Do you even know what they're called?" Dean asked, a little annoyed at his fail.
"I think it's an amanthrapod." Sam said. Dean gave a questioning look at Sam and so Sam caved. "Ok, I know it's an amanthrapod. Happy?"
"Sure," Dean said, turning to leave. "Geek."
"Weakling," Sam replied.
"Bitch."
"Jerk."