This was started and finished before the 4th season began. Hope you like it.
Maiden Voyage
Chapter one
The brothers returned to their motel room tired but knowing that they had to go over what they had learned that day. They had spent the entire day interviewing the families and friends of seven people who had mysteriously vanished after visiting a museum. All of the victims had visited the museum late in the evening only an hour before closing time. Five of the people suddenly reappeared at the museum a few days later with wild stories of having been sent back to the past, two of the people never returned.
"I have a feeling this case might be something we never dealt with before….We might not be able to help these people." Sam said as he sat down on his bed.
"Sure we can." Dean gave his brother a smile. "We're the Winchesters."
Sam gave a little smile.
"That might not be enough this time."
"Well let's go over what we know so far." Dean sat down on his own bed and took out a tablet which he had written several notes in, Sam did likewise. "We got seven people who went to the museum and suddenly vanished. Five of them returned a few days later with wild stories of how they had been living in the past…."
"Yeah and according to the families they all went to the museum late at night right before closing."
"Which is one of the reasons no one saw them vanish, most of the visitors had already left the building."
"Three of the families said their family member was going to see an exhibit on strange metals and objects discovered after a meteor shower, and the other four families had no idea why their family member went."
"And the only couple who vanished that we could talk to both gave the same story. All they remember is waking up in an old western town already dressed in clothes from that time period. They both said they spent the time wandering around town trying to figure out what had happened to them. They're not sure how long they were gone but figured it had to be at least a day or two. Then they both remember some men attempting to rob the bank and being caught in the middle of a gun battle between the men and the sheriff….Next thing they knew they were back in the museum."
"So it seems we're dealing with some kind of time warp."
"Either that or these people have vivid imaginations?"
"But what can warp time?"
"Demons maybe?"
"But for what purpose? Why would a demon want to warp time?"
"Who knows…But I can't think of anything else it could be."
"So what do we do?"
"We take a little visit to our local museum."
"I was afraid of that."
Later that night
They waited till an hour before the museum was suppose to close then ran up the many steps in front of the museum and went inside. They weren't surprised to see only a few people still wandering around inside. Most people visited the museum during the day or in tour groups also during the day. It didn't take long to find signs pointing them in the direction of the meteor exhibit. The exhibit consisted of a long glass coffin like table filled with bits of metal and strange looking rocks. But what really drew the boy's attention was a small box like rock that seemed to have some strange writing on it.
"Can you make out what language that is?" Dean asked as they both leaned over the glass to get a better look at the box.
"Nothing I ever saw before. It almost looks Egyptian."
"It moved!" Dean took a step back.
"What?" Sam wasn't sure if he had heard his brother right. He thought he said it had moved but he himself hadn't seen any movement.
"It moved Sam." Dean automatically started reaching for his ever present bottle of holy water.
"You sure?"
"Sure I'm sure….It just shifted a little, but it moved."
Sam leaned down to take a better look.
"Careful Sam." Dean warned his brother as he uncorked the bottle.
Suddenly and without warning a beam of light shot out of the rock hitting Sam who vanished immediately.
"Sam!" Dean shouted as he instinctively reached his hand toward the spot his brother had just been standing in. "Sammy!"
He didn't have time to react as another beam of light hit him and he too vanished.
TBC