And here's yet another one of my stupid little fics, I hope you like it.

The Mermaid

Oregon ---One week earlier

The man pulled up next to the lagoon and parked then looked over at the woman he had met only a few hours earlier at a local bar. She was beautiful with long black hair and blue eyes. Even though they had only just met he already felt like he was falling in love with her. She hadn't spoken at all and he thought maybe she couldn't, but that didn't matter to him. Ten minutes after they had met she had grabbed his hand and pulled him out to his car then pointed in the direction she wanted him to go. Fifteen minutes later they ended up at the lagoon. They both got out of the car and walked hand in hand down to the pond. She suddenly let go of his hand and ran ahead of him encouraging him to follow her as she ran into the water and stood waist deep motioning for him to come to her. He didn't even hesitate as he dove into the water and surfaced next to her. She smiled and took his hand then led him deeper and deeper into the water.

"Hey, it's getting pretty deep, maybe we should go back." The man was starting to get nervous, he could swim, that wasn't the problem, but he didn't like the idea of swimming at night in an unfamiliar pond.

She only smiled at him and pulled him deeper. The man hesitated only a few seconds before willingly following her. She pulled him close and kissed him as she pulled him even deeper into the dark water. He responded to her kisses, his fear momentarily forgotten until he felt a cold scaly object sweep by his legs. He pushed her away as he tried to look into the dark water.

"What the hell was that?" He spun in a circle expecting to see a large fish swimming near him, but what he saw was even more horrifying. The woman's face had turned into an ugly mask of scales and slime. His eyes widened in horror as he opened his mouth to scream, but before he could she reached out and grabbed him and pulled him down deep into the murky water.

Present time – a back country road

Dean drove while Sam read out loud from the computer printout he had printed earlier in the morning.

"Sounds like we might have us a mermaid." Dean said as he listened to Sam.

"Really?" Sam had never hunted a mermaid before and didn't know much about them, only what he had read in their Dad's journal. "It says here that all were men and that all the bodies were found along the shoreline, drowned, without a mark on them." He read awhile then looked at Dean. "It says that three of the men were last seen leaving a bar with a woman and never seen again."

"No marks huh?" Dean glanced over at his brother. "A mermaid will pull you under then kiss you and suck the life right out of your body. …The men…were they in the same bar?"

Sam read a little then looked up.

"No, two were at Flanigan's Pub and the third was at The Tap Room." Sam looked at Dean. "But both of the bars were in a town called Settler's Grove which is located near a large lagoon with a narrow channel that leads out to the ocean."

"Do you remember that time we were hunting that mermaid with Dad?" When Sam shook his head Dean added. "Guess you were too young."

"What happened?"

"Men were disappearing from a shore town in Southern California and Dad took us down there to figure out what was going on. At first Dad thought maybe it was just a human serial killer but one day we were out on the beach and we heard a man screaming for help. Dad shined the light out into the water and we saw this man and woman way out in the water fighting. The woman…well, at first she looked really pretty, but then her face began to morph into this ugly, scaly looking thing. The man was fighting her trying to get away but she grabbed him and pulled him down…It was then I saw the tail. She flipped over in the water holding onto the man and this huge purplish green tail rose out of the water then sank beneath it along with the man. I remember Dad jumped in the ocean and tried to swim out to them but he was too late…they were both gone." Dean gave a small sad smile. "I remember screaming at Dad to come back…man was I scared, I thought that thing was going to get him. But he told me to watch you and stay back away from the water." Dean glanced over at Sam. "You must have been about two or three, and you kept crying for Dad." Dean smiled. "You were even a brat back then…but Dad was fine and a few minutes later he came out of the water."

"Did Dad ever actually kill a mermaid?"

"Two in fact. He and Bobby talked to some other hunters and found out how to kill them…salt plug to the heart, either with a gun or a knife with a salt plug attached to the end of it. It dissolves their heart, sort of like what salt does to a snail…kills them almost instantly. In fact Dad even had special knives made up that have an opening filled with a salt plug at the end of it….Stick it in them and poof…no more mermaid."

"Well let's hope if we find one we can use the gun and not get close enough to have to use the knives."

TBC