What if Jump the Shark took place Season 1 right after The Benders?
Sam and Dean were walking away from Kathleen and the farm. "Dude, if you ever do that again," Dean said.
"Do what?" Sam asked, wondering what he had done wrong.
"Go missing like that."
Sam smiled. "You were worried about me."
"No, I wasn't," Dean denied. "All I'm saying is if you ever go missing again, I'm not going to look for you."
"Yeah you will," Sam said confidently. If there was anything he could count on, he knew it was that Dean would always look for him.
"Yeah," Dean admitted. But, better to make sure Sam never went missing again.
"Man, how far are we from town anyway?" Sam asked about a half hour later.
"Quite a ways," Dean said.
Sam was tired. He hadn't eaten for two days and he hadn't dared to fall asleep since waking up in that cage. Especially after what happened to Jenkins. He was just going to have to suck it up. Dean had problems too. He was branded and that had to hurt like crazy.
SSS
"There she is," Dean said when he saw the Impala.
Sam smiled. He half wondered if he went missing at the same time as the Impala, which one Dean would look for first.
"Let's go to the hotel," Dean said.
"Food?" Sam asked.
That was weird. Sam never got hungry before he did. "Did they feed you?"
"No."
Dean was pissed. If he hadn't been tied up, he would have killed those guys, not locked them in the cages. At least the dad was dead. He wondered what would happen to the girl. "We'll get some food," Dean said.
SSS
Three Days Later
"I think I found a new case," Sam said. "It's actually not far from here, Windom, Minnesota."
"What is it?" Dean asked. He hoped it was a simple salt and burn.
"A woman disappeared from her house."
"How do we know that's our kind of thing?" Dean asked, thinking it sounded an awful lot like their last case which turned out to be humans.
"Well, her neighbor saw her go in, but she never came out. Doors were locked from the inside and there's no trace of her."
"Any sign of a struggle?" Dean asked.
"A table was knocked over in the bedroom. That was about it."
"I don't know, Sam," Dean hedged. He was afraid that whoever or whatever took that woman would take Sam, too.
"It'll be fine, Dean," Sam said, rolling his eyes. Sometimes he didn't understand Dean. He came to drag him back to hunting, but then got overprotective every time something went wrong. Things were bound to go wrong in the hunting business.
"Fine," Dean acquiesced.
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