"Cause I'm TNT, I'm dynamite. TNT, I'll win that fight..."
"Dean-"
"TNT I'm a power load"
"Dean!-"
"TNT, watch me explode!"
"DEAN!" Sam yelled as he ejected the ACDC tape.
"What?" Asked Dean, surprised and a little annoyed.
"I'm trying to tell you what we're gonna be walking into here."
"Dude, there's like 300 miles before we get there - chill. Come on you used to love this song!" Dean pushed the tape back in and cranked it up. Sam gave his trademark eye roll in return.
--
A couple hours later Sam was asleep and Dean was driving down the empty highway, now shrouded in darkness and minus the ACDC. The EMF meter on the Impala's dash whined to life with low readings. Ahead, Dean made out a faint flickering figure on the side of the road.
On high alert, he slowed slightly. As they drew closer the EMF readings increased and Sam was stirred by its shrill whine. Just as the EMF peaked and the Impala had almost reached the figure, it cut out. Dean glanced at the EMF then back to the road but the figure had vanished. As Dean pulled off the road the headlights passed over a body lying on the ground.
"Sam!" Dean gave his brother a quick shake before leaping out the car. Moments later Sam was at his side, watching as Dean gently turned over the limp body. Sam gasped as Dean looked with horrified eyes at the bloody body of a young woman, illuminated in the headlights.
For a moment both were stunned but then sprung into action as Dean checked for a pulse "It's faint."
Sam laid his jacket over her and Dean carefully picked up her motionless body and carried her to the car.
"I got it" Sam said as he moved to open the back door. Dean gently laid her down on the back seat. "She's freezing." Said Dean as he turned to face Sam.
"What happened, did you see anything?"
"The EMF started up and I saw what looked like a spirit up ahead but when we got close, just whoosh – gone."
"Do you think it might've done this?" Sam asked as both boys looked down at the unconscious girl in the back seat.
"Maybe, I dunno."
"She's in pretty bad shape Dean, she could... you know, at any time. If she could warm up a bit it would help."
"Yeah, how?"
"Well you look pretty beat, you've been driving for hours. If you lie next to her, try to warm her up, I can drive hospital back in town."
"What!? What if she wakes up and freaks?"
"Look man it might be her only chance and she doesn't look like she's waking up any time soon. It could save her life Dean."
"...Alright. But it was your idea, you cant call me sick or nothing."
Sam sighed "you're so immature sometimes."
Dean took his jacket off and climbed into the back. "Lucky my baby got big seats I guess." Sam started the engine as Dean laid down next to the girl and spread his jacket over them. He reached his arm over her and pulled her slim, freezing body to his as Sam pulled off.
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15 minutes later they were on the outskirts of the town they were staying at for their latest hunt. The street lights overhead gave a strobe light affect in the Impala as Sam flew through the town trying to find any sign of the hospital. The girl in Dean's arms started to stir slightly and began shivering.
"Dude she's coming to."
Sam glanced in the backseat as Dean pushed himself up and helped the dazed girl sit up. Suddenly she snapped to attention and threw herself back against the other side of the backseat. Eyes wide with terror and violently trembling she pushed back even further into the door.
"Sam stop the car."
"P-please let me go... no..please don't hurt me anymore, please god-" she begged and began to sob.
"Hey hey hey... we're not gonna hurt you." Dean tried to soothe but she wasn't hearing anything. Hysterical with fear, she flung herself out the car as soon as Sam had stopped.
The girls escape was in vain as after only a few steps she stumbled and was down on the road. Sam was at her side trying to calm her but she wasn't registering anything he was saying. Chest heaving all she could say is "Please...please I'm sorry, please just stop..."
Dean kneeled down in front of her. "Hey it's alright, we're gonna take you to the hospital- "
"NO!" yelled to girl. "I can't go there, please, he'll be there, don't make me go there!"
"Okay, alright, it's okay, you don't have to. What's your name?" asked Dean as gently as he could.
"...Jess..." The girl breathed before suddenly collapsing, exhausted. Sam caught her before her head hit the bitumen.
When Sam had carried her back to the car Dean commented "She wont wake up huh?"
"Okay she woke up."
"Yeah and she freaked – big time."
"She didn't know where she was, she thought something was trying to hurt her."
"The spirit maybe?"
"Maybe...well we can't take her to the hospital."
"She didn't know what was happening, she could've just been confused, there might be nothing there."
"Dean, how often is that the case?"
"True."
"She wouldn't have been that scared for no reason, hell she was unconscious one moment and running for her life the next – something bad happened."
Looking over Jess and her blood stained singlet and jeans Dean remarked "You think?"
