Title: Us and Them
Author:Poohgirl32
Rating: M (for Violence and sexual themes)
Summary: After the apple pie life turns sour, Dean re-joins Sam on the hunters battlefield. The boys take off to the swamp lands of Western Kentucky at Bobby's urging. While there, Dean continues his search for happiness, while Sam begins to learn the origins of hunters-and himself.
Disclaimer: I do not own Supernatural. If I did, I would be busy having love scenes with the characters, instead of filling my time by writing about it.
PROLOUGE
James Carson was excited. Last year he couldn't have imaged Laura Hill speaking to him, and now here they were on their third date. Yes, senior year was going to be epic! First, there had been Dylan. The two of them had been best friends since kindergarten, but in Jr. High they parted ways. Dylan's large build had gotten him recruited to the football team and his interest in video games and Star Wars movies faded. His athletic talent, easy going personality and good looks had moved him into the popular click quickly, leaving James behind.
Then last year Dylan was hurt early in the season. The doctors said he could play after a month, but his mother put her foot down, ending his athletic career. His absence was blamed for the losing season, and he quickly fell out of grace with the "in" crowd. James continued to watch from the sidelines as Dylan's depression sent him from one group to another, finally settling on, of all things, the dark and rebellious troupe ruled by the most unlikely of underclassman.
Dylan had brought Angie, his girlfriend and cheerleader extraordinaire along with him. Her friends, including Laura, soon followed. Slowly but surely, Goth and Glam was becoming the ruling class of Fulton High School.
James had just recently been brought into the fold of the new alliance. He ran into Dylan in the comic book store and after a few awkward comments on a LARP game, the friendship was renewed.
It was Dylan who had encouraged him to ask out Laura. Two months ago, he wouldn't have had the nerve to speak to her in the hall. Yet here he was, in the middle of the night, making his way into the woods to relieve himself of the beers they'd been downing as well as checking the condom in his pocket for the twentieth time.
He leaned against a tree to steady himself. He felt his foot sinking into the marsh as he began urinating on a bush. He laughed to himself as the leaves began to droop from the spray. He heard a rustling behind him.
"Dude, you decide to join me?" He zipped his pants and started to turn, but his foot wouldn't break free from the mud. "Great." He thought, as he turned his head, expecting to see his friend behind him. There was nothing there. He began struggling as the rustling continued.
"Dylan?" he asked quietly. Wiggling the foot seemed to push it deeper into the dark muck so he reached down and grabbed the denim of his pants with one hand, yanking hard. The noise was coming closer. "Dude." He called out as the fear began to creep in. "Help me."
With both hands he pulled, all his strength aimed at freedom. Instead, his hands slipped from the heavy cotton fabric and he began to fall backwards. His arms flayed out and finally grabbed a low hanging branch from a nearby tree. Just as he was steadying himself, the rustling behind him became thunderous. His scream was cut short as he was hit from behind with such force that the breath was knocked out of him.
He was being carried deeper into the woods by an unseen force. He looked down at his now freed foot and saw nothing but a bloody stump.
James Carson fainted.
The three teens stood around the campfire just outside the woods. The air was momentarily filled with James' scream, before it was cut off. Grinning, Dylan turned to the girls.
"Got him." He draped his arm around Angie, who in turn wrapped both arms around his waist.
"How long should we wait?" She purred.
"He'll call when it's safe." He twisted open a beer and drank. "Then, we'll call 911 and stick to the story, RIGHT." He glared to Laura, who was staring down at the fire.
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