Whip Crack Away
E/O Drabble Challenge: word count 100 x3
Challenge words: Flu (and our triabble word is drape)
Warnings:none
Summary: The Winchester boys' latest hunt takes a nasty turn that is likely to reinforce Dean's assessment of humans.A triple drabble from Amberdreams, Dizzo and Edina Clouds (not necessarily in that order...)
It had been unknown territory, hunting a monster that didn't have claws or fangs. A monster not listed in Dad's journal because it wasn't supernatural – turned out it was human; an "every-day-Joe" getting his rocks off flagellating young women.
I'd been laid up with the flu, another girl was missing and Dean was working the case alone.
When he didn't call as scheduled I knew something was wrong.
I stole a car; tracked Dean down. Found him close to death, hanging from rusty-chains in an abandoned warehouse, his back shredded by the bloodied leather-whip now draped around his sweat-soaked body.
I gently draped my hands around his face, reassuring him as I felt the thready pulse under his jaw.
"Dean, man, talk to me;" I whispered, patting his bloodlessly grey cheek, cringing at how cold and clammy he felt.
It was like music when he whispered, "s'm."
I tried to examine the chains, but dammit, the flu had left me achingly weak, I could barely reach them.
Then a terrible thought struck me.
This creep's MO was to flay his victims half to death then watch as they slowly died.
And that meant he was still here somewhere.
Watching us.
I hid behind the drapes when the tall guy interrupted my work. How dare he interfere with my pleasure?
Rage spread as virulent as influenza through my body as I watched him fiddling with the chains, attempting to free my beautifully flayed victim.
Then I smiled. There was no way out without the keys, and now I intended to make the giant pay for his temerity.
I crept forward, confident he wouldn't hear me, and my boy was surely too out of it to alert his friend.
I was wrong. A glance between them - and a bullet was my reward.
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