Chapter 3 – Familiar
A female student walks through SMC trail. It is about early dawn. She walks slowly and with the way she is moving through the path she seems to be looking for something. As she continues a large figure of a giant man suddenly appears behind her, his fiery eyes glowing in the early morning rays.
A startled scream echoes into the woods.
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Dean opened the door to his room to find Sam stepping out of the shower. He gestured to he food and saw his brother's face light up. He laughed and placed the food in his brother's hand.
"My name is Eva Hernandez I am here to visit my cousin John, but I forgot my cell phone I know he's meeting me in the game room, do you mind if I just go in?" She said while batting her eyelashes to the freshman manning the dorm rooms. Leaning over the desk just little bit to give him a better view of her chest.
As intended he gave her a smile and eyed her appreciatively. She walked past him knowing he was staring at her ass. Boys she mumbled.
She knew that the only thing she needed to find to stop the killings was around here somewhere.
"Serve's them right you know Alfred, Rico and Chris. They had it coming" A blonde busty student said by her doorway talking to her friend
"That's a little harsh Stacie" The red head replied back.
"You didn't hear did you?" Stacie asked
Eva was now inconspicuously looking at the bulletin board next to the two talking.
"Hear what?" the red head asked
"Those boys were rumored to have rapped Nina in room 508 two weeks ago" Stacie continued.
"Oh my God, I didn't know but you know how rumors are Stacie" She replied.
That was what Eva exactly came here for. She headed for room 508.
In the floor below her Sam and Dean made their ways talking to students about what was happening.
"So that's the third person saying something that those kids deserved to die," Sam said looking through the notes he wrote.
"Yeah, let's go check it out, what room did they say it was? He asked
Before Sam could reply, a pair of blonde girls walking past him distracted Dean.
"If you would stop thinking with you downstairs brain you would remember" Sam said irritated.
"UH HUH yes lets go" Dean replied still busy flirting with the girls, obviously not listening to him.
"Room 508" Sam said as he headed for the stairs.
Dean soon followed thumbing a torn piece of paper with numbers written in pink ink. Grinning from ear to ear he held it over Sam face.
Sam just ignored him and continued up the steps.
"You seriously need to get laid Sammy" Dean mocked behind him.
Eva knocked on room 508. A timid girl peeked through to door and opened it. She was dressed in running gear and mud was visible on her pant leg, she looked a little rattled.
"Are you Nina?" Eva asked.
"Yes, who are you?" Nina said in reply
"My name is Eva, can I come in and talk to you about something?" Eva asked with a reassuring smile.
Nina was obviously hesitant but the familiarity of Eva's features put her fears to rest.
Eva closed the door. Nina motioned for her to sit on the bed.
"Your Filipina aren't you?" Nina said while moving to sit next to her.
"Yes, I am half" Eva confessed with a smile.
"You going to ask me about those guys aren't you?" Nina replied.
"Yeah" Eva said suddenly ashamed of planning to trick her into talking to her earlier.
"Well what do you want to know?" Nina replied.
It made Eva a little apprehensive that Nina was being a little unaffected by
all of this. So they began with small talk first. Eva knowing very well how to read people as they talked. She opened up quickly.
"Yeah they raped me" Nina said with no emotion at all.
"I am sorry Nina" Eva said as she placed her hands on hers.
She was just about to ask her to confirm her suspicions about the killings when a knock at the door cut her off. Damn it she said to herself.
"Good morning, Ms. Nina Rodriguez, We are detective Collins and Marshall, we are here to ask you a few questions" A tall longhaired man said by the door as they flashed their badges.
From where Eva was sitting she could only see the arm of the other cop.
Nina visibly stiffened at the mention of questions. At this rate she would never get the answers she needed Eva thought to her self.
"Yeah uh, come in" Nina said while glancing at Eva for reassurance.
Eva nodded a yes. She then began her scan of the room. Her eyes searching for a clue, then she found it. Nina motioned the cops to enter and as she did her sleeve reveled her wrist adorned by a white stone and a simple sting bracelet.
Bingo she said to herself.
Eva moved to sit on the windowsill. The cops entered and Eva didn't even care to acknowledge them. This wasn't the time she needed them out of here.
"I didn't realize you had company Ms. Rodriguez" A different deeper voice from earlier spoke up.
With that Eva made eye contact with the cop. There was something familiar bout him she just couldn't put her finger on it.
She tore away from his gaze and moved to talk to Nina.
"Bibigay ko ang phone number ko, tawagan mo ko pag alis nila, okay?" Eva said.
"I am giving you my phone number call me when they leave, okay?"
Nina nodded and handed her a piece of paper.
Eva scribbled her number down.
" Sorry officers but I need to study" Eva replied with a fake accent in her words, obviously lying through her teeth.
The blond haired cop cocked an eyebrow to her excuse and let her pass.
Dean couldn't put his finger on it but that woman in front of him looked familiar.
Sam and Dean did the usual investigating and asked Nina questions about a rape. She lied and said she knew nothing of the sort. Then when they knew they weren't getting any answers. Sam and Dean left.
"Something isn't right about this" Sam replied.
"She was lying to our face" Dean added on.
Dean had a feeling that the woman in the room with Nina earlier had some answers.
As soon as the cops left Nina grabbed her phone and dialed.
"Hello?" Eva answered moving away from the crowd to better hear the person on the other line.
"Hey Eva, they're gone, you still want to talk to me?" Nina asked.
"Of course Nina, where do you want to meet me?" Eva asked.
"The court yard in front of the library, in five minutes" Nina replied.
"Okay see ya" Eva said into the phone as she moved towards the library.
It was surreal only a couple of years ago she was in college. The people around her walking with backpacks and books in hand made her miss the days where she knew everything was normal for once. It was a Sunday and these people looked so busy. She remembered the days when she herself did those things. Even if it was only two years, she felt that it was the first time she didn't have to worry about hunting. But in a heartbeat she would give it up just to have two more years with her brother. She absentmindedly ran her hand over the cross underneath her shirt.
She saw Nina approaching and smiled widely.
They talked and avoided subject they were discussing earlier for a while. Eva already knew she had to ask her this so she could figure out if her hunch was right. Having the platform of being the same nationality made it easier for Nina to open up to her. She thanked her parents silently for the genes, even if she never met them; at least they gave her something useful.
She waited till they were at a clearing in the courtyard and she motioned for them to sit on the bench.
"Nina I have to ask you something" Eva said gently.
"Yeah I knew you weren't done with me?" she said jokingly.
"Those guys who died, where they the one's who raped you?" Eva asked
Nina's eyes started to water, She looked away from Eva and answered.
"Yeah" She said.
"Oh I am sorry Nina" Eva said laying her hand on Nina's clenched fists.
"I had nothing to do with it, I .. I mean it wasn't my fault" She said fighting back the tears.
"I know Nina, I know" Eva reassured her.
"I need to ask you one more thing" she continued.
"It's the Kapre, Nina isn't it?" As she said it Nina wretched her hand from Eva's and ran her hand through her hair.
"He wont stop till they are all dead, I told him no more but he wouldn't listen I tried again this morning but he wouldn't let it go" She was fidgeting now.
"Hey, Hey Nina, I know I believe you, its not your fault" Eva said." How many more of those guys are still alive?"
"One more, I don't want him to die, I just wanted justice" Nina replied.
"Just tell me who it is Nina and we can stop it." Eva said making Nina look at her now.
"Jay, Jay Cummings… Oh God he's going to die because of me, don't let him go into then SMC trail" She replied.
"He wont die Nina I promise". Eva said.
She walked her to her dorm to make sure she was okay. She promised to call her and make sure she was okay. When she got her there and said her good bye she practically ran out to find this Jay Cummings.
She asked everyone in sight if they knew Jay and they said the same thing, that he would be back tonight and that he usually goes jogging on the SMC trail. She would have to wait then till then for now she needed to head back and rest up for a long night.
"Dean would you stop flirting with all the girls we talk to" Sam said scratching his head to the absurdity of his brother's actions.
Dean wanted to find that woman earlier and he knew the only way to find her was to talk to women. He knew that women seemed to know everyone. He smiled at the thought of how much he understood women. To bad no one seemed to know this girl they were looking for.
"I am getting answers aren't I? Dean answered as they walked back to the parked Impala.
Just as he neared the parking lot, Dean's eyes caught a familiar color of a vehicle pulling out of the College.
"Son of a Bitch" he growled as he tried to get to the car faster.
"What?" Sam replied to his brothers back as he rounded the Impala to get to the passenger side.
"It's that Idiot who almost ran me over" He replied as he planted his foot on the gas and reversed out of the lot.
"Calm down Dean" Sam shouted as Dean barely missed the curb.
"Shit, that sucker got away," Dean muttered as he looked into the empty street ahead of them.