The Eye Watches
Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural or any of the characters.
Chapter 1- The Hardware
Sam and Dean sat in the bar quietly talking about their last hunt. It had been a tiresome and complicated one, but everything turned out fine.
"So, where to next?" Sam asked, taking a sip of his beer.
"We'll stay here for a bit longer, until something else turns up." Dean's speech was slightly slurred, but Sam wasn't surprised as this was his third beer.
They sat for a bit longer until they overheard two truckies talking behind them.
"…I know, wasn't it terrible?"
"It's a mystery… the first body to be found…"
"…It was bound to happen. That old, haunted Hardware place…"
Sam and Dean both looked at each other and decided to investigate further.
"Um, sorry… but did you just say that there was a murder in an old, haunted Hardware?" Sam spoke calmly but inquiringly.
"Yeah. Brutal! Poor soul…" one of the men answered.
"Um… What happened?" Dean asked.
"Some guy was found in the Hardware down the road. He was a right mess. Blood everywhere, but they don't know what killed him. There were so many injuries that they couldn't work out what came from what! It's very suspicious. All of them have been."
"Wait… all of them?" Sam was intrigued.
"You haven't been here long 'ave ya?" Sam and Dean shook their heads. "Well, they weren't exactly murders, but many disappearances. People, dangerous tools, bump in the night sort of things… You know."
"We know more than you think…" Dean mumbled under his breath. He had heard more than enough to know that this was definitely their new hunt.
"Sammy," he nudged Sam and nodded his head toward the door.
"Well thanks fella's. But we gotta go… See ya." Sam and Dean rushed out to the car, but didn't leave.
"What do you make of that?! Let's check it out; it's only down the road." Dean started up the car and drove speedily towards the Hardware. Sam fumbled in the glove box for fake I.D's if they needed them, as they pulled up right outside.
It was definitely old. Some of the windows had been broken, but were now covered in duck tape, and some of the lights on the sign were blown. But nevertheless, the Hardware was still open during the day.
They ducked under the police tape and looked around for any police. They slid inside and checked that it was all clear. They turned on a couple of lights, and headed for the crime scene.
Although the body had been removed, they could still see the outline of where it had been in the large, sickening pool of blood.
"Oh gross!" Dean stared at it and instantly regretted having so many beers.
"Shut up you big baby!" Sam knelt down for a closer inspection. All of a sudden, there was a pain in his head, and he was taken back to when the crime had happened.
A young staff member was running away from something, but he tripped.
"Please NO!" he screamed, as a hooded figure in a black cloak appeared before him. It had a number of dangerous tools hanging from it's belt, and Sam took note of them. He also saw, what looked to be a gold watch, hanging from a chain around it's neck. It then bent down and took a similar one from the man. The hooded figure then started up a chainsaw and…
"Sammy! Sam, can you hear me? Are you alright?" Dean was hunched over him. "What happened? Was it a vision?"
"Yep." Sam sat up slowly. "There was a hooded figure, in a black cloak. It had about 4 or 5 tools hanging from a belt and… there was…"
"What?" Dean asked impatiently.
"A gold watch… two actually." Dean pulled a face. "I know it's weird. But one was hanging around it's neck, and then it took another from the man who was murdered." Sam explained, desperately trying to remember. "There was something engraved on them… The creature's one said… P.W.II, and there was a rose. One the other watch it said P.W.I, and I think it had an eye on it." Sam looked at Dean.
"A rose? An eye? And what the hell does P.W.II stand for?!" Dean was really confused and was starting to get frustrated.
Sam thought for a moment and then said "I don't know, but it seemed familiar… I've seen them before…".