Something Wicked-What if Dr. Hydecker recognized Sam?
Sam walked into the hotel room after having gone on a food run.
"Sam, dad sent us some coordinates. They point to Fitchburg, Wisconsin. I've done some researching and it looks like a bunch of kids have gotten sick lately," Dean said.
"Sick how?" Sam asked as he handed Dean his burger and put dressing on his salad.
"Pneumonia," Dean answered.
"That's too bad, but how is that our kind of thing?" Sam asked.
"I'm not sure, but dad wouldn't have given us the coordinates if it wasn't," Dean reasoned.
"Well, kind of lucky that we're only a couple of hours away from there. How do you want to handle it?"
"You can go talk to the doctor in charge of these cases and I'll go see what I can find out from the parents," Dean suggested.
"Sounds like a plan," Sam agreed.
They grabbed the rest of their food and headed for the Impala.
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When they reached Fitchburg, Dean dropped Sam off at the hospital and headed for the house of the latest child to get sick. When he got there, he rang the doorbell and waited.
"Yes?" a woman asked when she opened the door.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Howser, with the CDC. I'm investigating the recent outbreak of pneumonia. Pneumonia isn't something that usually turns into an epidemic, so we want to see if maybe there's something in the houses, or schools that are causing it."
"Whatever we can do to help," the woman said.
"Do you mind if I look at your daughter's room or rooms?" Dean asked.
"Sure, right this way," the woman led him up the stairs. "They share a room," she explained on the way up. "Amber got sick two nights ago and Bethany got sick last night," she said as she entered the room with Dean following her.
"Now was the window open or anything?" Dean asked.
"Yes, we did find the window open on both mornings. It's weird because last night, I made sure it was closed."
"Do you think your daughter opened it?" Dean asked.
"I don't know who else could have."
Dean walked over to the window and opened it. On the outside window sill, he saw a rotted track that he recognized from when he was a kid. He now knew what was making these kids sick and it wasn't your run-of-the-mill pneumonia.
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Sam walked into the hospital and asked to speak to the doctor in charge of the pneumonia cases.
"That would be Dr. Hydecker," the pretty nurse told him. "You can find him in Pediatrics on the second floor."
"Thanks," Sam said, thinking that if Dean were here, he would be so busy flirting with her that he'd have forgotten all about the kids.
"Dr. Hydecker?" Sam approached the first doctor he came to in Pediatrics.
"Yes, that's right," the doctor said. He couldn't believe it. This guy had no idea that they had met once before.
"My name is Dr. Kaplan with the CDC. We heard about the outbreak of pneumonia and wanted to investigate the cases," Sam said. He thought the doctor was looking at him strangely, but decided it was probably just his imagination.
"There were other cases like this a few years back. Would you like to see those files?"
"Yeah, that would be great," Sam said.
"OK, follow me. They're in here," Dr. Hydecker said leading Sam into an unoccupied patient room.
Sam looked around and saw a bed, table and chairs and not much else. "I don't understand," he began when the doctor turned around. His face had changed into this horrific, gray, wrinkly thing, that didn't even look human. Before Sam had a chance to react, he was thrown onto the floor and his mouth forced open. He tried to scream, but no sound came out.
"I started to feed off you once before, you know. I was interrupted, but I never forgot you. You're the only meal I never finished." And with that the "doctor" started sucking Sam's energy from him. Two minutes later, he was finished and transformed himself back to his human form. He stood up, peeked out the door to make sure nobody was in the hallway and exited the room, leaving Sam on the floor unconscious.