Chapter 2: A Case?
"So, is it vampires, or…?" Dean asks with a frown.
"I don't know, but like I said before ya idjit, is that this town has a history with the supernatural." Bobby says, while he scratches his head.
"This doesn't make any sense…vampires aren't like that." Sam says, looking over the information.
Dean frowns, it's not every day they get to face up against a vampire. In fact, up until recently he'd never heard of vampires except in fiction. If these are vampires, then they're sure not like normal ones. Normally they hide out in caves or wear houses and kill discretely and bury the bodies, so that way they won't be found. These can't be vampires there's no way. "I'll go for vengeful spirits." Dean says raising his hand.
Bobby looks up at Dean and frowns, "This isn't a vote, ya idjit."
Sam looks up, "Dean's right, Bobby, vengeful spirits make more sense, I mean the land had a massacre back then, it says that the town went after twenty-seven of its citizens in a frenzy to cleanse the town, whatever that means…but vengeful spirits fit better, I mean the kills they happen in and around the town, since that night. Spirits with enough power in a town like that would be able to roam the entire town to wreak havoc or their revenge."
Dean smiles, "See told ya."
Bobby rolls his eyes, "I'm just telling you what I know from experience, this town is the ultimate place of supernatural, I mean there are rumors of everything being there."
"What does that mean?" Sam frowns at that.
"It means that there've been rumors of witches, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and more roaming in and out of that town. If you're going in there to tackle the game then I suggest you get a hold of an old hunter friend of mine. He went to that town seeking revenge, but as far as I know, he got out of the job for some reason." Bobby says.
"He went there seeking revenge for what?" Sam asks.
"He claims that his wife was killed about three years ago by a vampire. The guy said he saw the thing in the process, but the way he described it, was just unlike anything I ever heard of. He said that it had veins coming out of its eyes, and had actual fangs, rather than teeth. It was weird, but he's a history teacher now." Bobby explains.
"He saw his wife being killed by a vampire?" Sam asks and Bobby nods, "Did he ever catch the thing?"
Bobby shakes his head and shrugs, "I have no clue. He stopped calling me. He said that some things just happened, but he never said what they were. However, I know that he can help you, because he's been in that town for about a year now."
Dean nods, "What's his name?"
"Alaric Saltzman." Bobby answers.
Dean nods, "Hey, wait a minute, Mystic Falls, is that what you said the name of the town was?"
Bobby nods, "Yeah, why?"
Dean stands up and walks over to the table where his father's journal is sitting. "I remember flipping through this, and reading something about a town with a turbulent paranormal history, and Dad he…" Dean lets his voice trail off as he leafs through a couple more pages of the journal, "Ahh…here it is."
"December 19th 1992, I find myself in Virginia, just outside of Richmond, there's a town out here in this forest. Apparently, there've been some rumors of killings and murders, far too much for my taste. I left the boys at Bobby's so that way I wouldn't have to worry about them. I have yet to figure out the entity doing the killings, but it appears to be some sort of vengeful spirits. I did some digging and the history of the town seems like it's trying to cover something up. The massacre that took place in 1864, caused the town to lose quite a bit of the town's most prominent citizens. The Salvatore family was all but destroyed, and upon further digging I found that the Gilberts and the Salvatores are tied into this history especially. I stayed at the boardinghouse, Zach Salvatore is the one running it. I asked him about the history, but he was very evasive. I tried to talk to the sheriff, but apparently the sheriff was busy because a young mother went missing. Abby Bennett, mother and wife, just disappeared. Upon investigation I found that it had something to do with the young Gilbert girl, Elena. The whole town knows something. Looking into the records, I've noticed patterns not just about the supernatural entity, but also about the town's positions of authorities. It seems as though the Lockwoods reign over the town, and the Fells are the doctors alongside the Gilberts. The sheriff position has been held by a Forbes for almost as long as the town has been around. I looked into the registries some more, and there were other occurrences that bothered me. The Salvatore boardinghouse alone appears to have had its fare share of murders. Back in 1912, the man was killed just outside of it, and in 1930, there was a suicide. In 1953 there was an 'accident' where it seemed that Zach's great grandfather fell down the stairs, and again in 1961, where his wife finally died of a heart attack. Then in 1990, two years ago, there was another suicide, where Zach's brother, Albert Salvatore hung himself off of the balcony. His daughter Samantha moved away. When I asked Zach why he stays in a house like this, he told me that it's family tradition.
"I asked about anything ghost related, but he just brushed me off, and said that there was no problem. However, it was last night that the most startling thing happened. I was awake in my room, when I heard a ruckus going on, and crept over to one of the locked rooms, and looked inside. I saw two brothers that were fighting, arguing. I recognized their faces, from old pictures from way back in 1864, they were the two Salvatore brothers, from way back then. Then, I blinked and they were gone. The house appears to be haunted. I checked back into the story and read about the Salvatore brothers, Stefan and Damon. They fell in love with the same woman, and they both were shot down the night of the massacre. I asked Zach if he had anything from the original house in this one and he said that yes there are, but they're mostly found up in the two locked rooms. He told me not to go into those rooms under any circumstances. I asked why, but that night I had another sighting of the Salvatore brothers going at it again. They were still fighting, and it was that night that Zach finally kicked me out. He told me or rather advised me to never return there again. I couldn't finish that hunt." Dean finishes reading.
"So, vengeful spirits?" Sam says amused, "Why would Dad leave the hunt, especially if he could just burn the bodies?"
"Maybe because he couldn't find where they were buried." Dean answers, still looking down at the book.
"What?" Bobby asks.
"Yeah, apparently, Dad wrote about his attempt to find their bodies, but he couldn't find out where they're graves were. When he asked Carol Lockwood, the mayor's wife, also the record keeper where they were buried, she told him, that the town's old cemetery houses all the old founding family members from the 1800s. Dad went there looking, but he could only find Giuseppe Salvatore, the dad, and Maria Salvatore, the mother. He wrote here that there is no record of the bodies ever being buried. He investigated into it further in Richmond and learned that the sons' bodies went missing shortly after they were both shot dead. He also wrote about how there were sightings in and around the town in the past of these two, but none recently, until Dad saw them arguing in the house. The Salvatore house or plantation or whatever, was burned down, but the contents were distributed throughout the town." Dean looks up with resolution.
"That would explain the sightings." Sam says in agreement.
"That information's all good and stuff, but what about the killings going on by the old church ruins." Bobby asks.
"That's where the bodies were taken to be burned during the massacre, and Dad claimed that there were some obscure accounts claiming the citizens were something supernatural, like they weren't normal people." Dean answers, glancing up momentarily from the book.
"What?" Sam asks suddenly not understanding.
"But Dad seemed to have dropped the idea, upon reading into it more, because the killings didn't match any sort of supernatural being that he knew of." Dean explains.
Sam frowns, "Okay, so apparently we have to find out where the brothers are buried. Does Dad have any pictures of them?"
Dean shakes his head, "No, he said that he knows where the pictures can be found though. The library, in one of the books he says that you can see the pictures of the original founding family members."
Sam nods, "Well, we have no idea what to look out for, then."
Bobby sighs, "I could go with you boys, to help ya…lord knows you two have the high probability of screwing it up." He adds with a chuckle.
Dean nods, "That might not be the worst of ideas, because Dad talked about the violence of the house, before and after the sightings."
Sam frowns, "What does that mean?"
"I don't know it doesn't say much more about it. Dad just left a few footnotes about the house being violent, and such. He said that he went to the old ruins of Fell's Church and wrote down that there's like a presence there. The eerie feeling was almost overwhelming." Dean explains, setting the journal down on the table beside them, as he closes it.
"Well, at least we know where to start." Bobby says. "I'll give Ric a call in the morning, before we head out and see if he can tell us anything."
Sam muses over that, "You said you sent him that way to look for vampires?"
Bobby nods, "Yeah, I heard they were moving that way, but that was two years ago, this town appears to have a more pressing concern, though, according to your daddy. Vampires are nomadic creatures; they wouldn't stay in a place for long, unless they had a scent to track. Ric's still alive, so they obviously didn't track him. Vampires come and go everywhere, but ghosts, it seems that this town is littered with them, they stay in one place and wreak havoc."
Dean nods, "Okay, then…sounds like a plan."
Sam sighs, "I guess we should get going then."
Bobby thinks about that, "Yeah, we could be there in the morning."
