The bar was busy. Everybody appeared to be enjoying themselves except for the woman at the far end. She was nursing a beer and watching a younger man. They had come in together but, that appeared to be where it stopped.
The bartender watched this dynamic and decided to get involved. She told him that she had been dating the younger man but, obviously he was now interested in seeing someone else.
The bartender noticed the interaction of the girl to the young man, the giggling, the touching. He spoke reassuringly to the woman at the bar and she said, "I hope he chokes on it."
Suddenly, the young man grabbed his throat , his eyes bugged out and he opened and closed his mouth without making a sound. A woman screamed and the young man collapsed on the floor.
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Dean came in and walked directly to the kitchen for a beer.
"Glad you're here. We found something." Sam waved his brother over to Bobby's desk where he was seated. He and Bobby had been researching a couple of strange deaths. They had all occurred in a small town, at the same neighborhood bar. As Dean made himself comfortable, Sam explained.
He had been reading through police reports and found that all the witnesses had one observation in common. Before the young man choked to death, his ex told the bartender that she hoped he would.
"Wow!" Dean said. "He dumped her? That's some karma."
Sam ignored that and related the next case. A husband and wife came in. Most people described her as a tease. Dean interjected the word 'slut'. Sam ignored this too and continued reading. The wife was flirting and dancing. The husband was seated at the bar, in conversation with the bartender. Someone overheard him say, "She's gonna give me a heart attack."
Dean said, "Don't tell me."
Sam responded. "Oh, yeah. Now, what can do that?"
"Maybe a djinn, making your wishes come true."
"But, a djinn is hallucination. These people are dying for real. A trickster?"
"Not enough fun. You know, something like this happened in a Superman comic. A bacteria made your worst nightmare come true, then put you in a coma."
"That's nothing like this!"
"Just working the case, thinking out loud…."
"Great investigating, Jimmy Olsen."
"Don't hurt yourselves, boys." Bobby said carrying a book he had found in the other room. "I got an idea."