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Mullet Rock

Chapter Four:

"Hi Allie," Sam said into the phone. "It's Sam."

The sound of his brothers' quiet voice woke Dean. He lay on his bed in the hotel listening to Sam. He knew his brother thought he was still asleep and he didn't do anything to make his brother think otherwise. He could only hear one side of the conversation which could get very annoying.

"What's wrong?" he heard Sam ask. Then after a brief pause he continued. "Oh, wow," he told her. "That must have been terrible. Did you know her?"

Dean had been about to retreat back into sleep when he heard Sam's last statement.

"Did they say how she died?" Sam asked. There was a long pause as she replied. "No, I don't think you're crazy. It um… it doesn't sound that strange to me. Listen, would you like me to come up there? I… we have to get together anyway, you left your purse last night and I…" Sam was silent again as he listened to Allies reply then he said. "Yeah, I know. I tried but my brother has this thing about… well, he can be kind of a jerk sometimes." Sam laughed at her reply then said, "Yeah, I guess they are. But hey, ya gotta love um anyway right." Sam laughed again and after a pause he said, "Okay, Lion Country Safari… I'll find it. I'll see you in a little while."

Dean heard the phone beep and knew Sam had hung up with Allie.

"Get your ass up Dean we need to go," Sam told Dean.

The fact that his brother didn't raise his voice told him that he'd been busted. Sam knew he was awake and heard the conversation. "What happened?" he asked sitting up.

"She works at a gift shop. When she arrived at work today she found a maintenance worker dead inside."

"What happened?" Dean asked.

Sam looked at his brother and replied, "She thinks a ghost killed her."

Dean raised an eyebrow surprised at his brothers' reply. "Come again?"

Sam shrugged, "She said she has proof but the cops won't listen."

Dean got up and rummaged through his bag for something to wear. "What kind of proof?"

"Video," Sam replied.

"That should be interesting," Dean told him. "I'm going to take a shower. I'll be out in a few minutes."

While Dean showered, Sam Googled Lion Country Safari. He got directions and information about the park.

Thirty minutes later they were in the car. Sam had already given Dean directions on how to get to the park. "Okay, so I know you did a little digging while I was getting ready. What'd you find?" Dean asked.

"Nothing," Sam replied. "Other than the occasional animal there haven't been any deaths in the park… ever."

"Park?" Dean asked.

"Yeah," Sam told him. "Allie works at Lion Country Safari. It's a local tourist attraction. Kind of like a drive through zoo."

"A drive through zoo?" Dean asked.

"Yeah, the animals roam free in large paddocks and people drive through and see them."

"What kind of animals?"

Sam grinned at his brother and laughed, "I don't know, I guess lions, maybe some zebra's stuff like that."

"Lions?" Dean asked. "They let lions roam free?"

"I don't know Dean," Sam replied. "We can check it out when we get there."

When they arrived at the park Allie was in the main office speaking with a detective. She was facing away from them when they arrived and she was unaware that they were there. Sam could tell by her body language she was getting agitated with the detective. "Here," she said shoving a CD at the man. "At least look at it. I'm not saying it was a damn ghost, I'm just saying I can't explain it! You're the detective, so you figure it out!"

Shaking her head she turned and stormed away from the officer nearly running right over Sam. He put his hands out catching her shoulders before she could. "Hey," he said.

"Oh Sam," she said surprised. "Sorry I didn't see you. I was having a discussion with stupid over there!" She indicated the detective.

Dean grinned at her she was spunky and anyone with that kind of attitude towards cops was okay as far as he was concerned.

Sam handed Allie her purse and said, "No problem."

"Let me guess," Dean said. "He wouldn't take you seriously as soon as someone mentioned the word ghost."

She laughed. "Yeah," She told him. "As soon as Tommy opened his big mouth and told the fool I was planning on sending it to that tv show ghost hunters. It went down hill from there."

"Sounds interesting," Sam said. "Can we see it or did you give the only copy to him?"

"Yeah," she said with a smile. "Come on, I've got it on my computer in the warehouse."

She led them through the park skirting around the gift shop where the incident occurred. It was taped off with crime scene tape. The brothers glanced at each other knowing if they decided this was something they should be looking into they'd have to come back later tonight and check it out. The warehouse was directly behind the gift shop. It was filled with boxes of t-shirts and other souvenirs. A desk was set up in one corner of the warehouse.

"This is from the surveillance camera we have in the gift shop," she said as she sat down at the desk and opening a video file.

The camera showed the interior of the gift shop. It was dark, most of the lights were off and the time stamp on the bottom of the screen indicated that it was three forty in the morning. The camera panned left and right several times before anything happened and it was obvious that there wasn't anyone in the store. Even thought he was looking for it Dean nearly missed it when something went flying across the room. "Huh," he said.

"Wait," Allie told him. "It gets better."

The first item was quickly followed by several more. Soon the screen was filled with stuffed animals, coffee mugs, t-shirts, and what ever else the gift shop sold as the shelves began to empty and merchandise shot off the shelves and flew around the room.

Allie fast forwarded the video. "There's about forty minutes of this happening and suddenly it just stopped." As they watched the video everything just dropped out of the air and fell to the floor. "When I arrived that morning the place was a real mess so I pulled the video."

"What about last night's surveillance tape?" Sam asked.

"There isn't one," she replied.

"Why not?" Dean asked.

"This," she said indicating the screen, "has happened five times since the first time. The Second time the camera broke when something hit it. We haven't been able to get it fixed yet."

"Well that's helpful," Dean said.

"Yeah, that's pretty much what the cop said."

"So Allie," Sam asked. "What about this morning. What happened?" She sighed and looked away but not before Sam saw the look of revulsion that crossed her face as she was reminded of the incident. "I'm sorry," he said. "If you'd rather not talk about it I understand."

"It's just… I knew her. To find her like that…" she said. "It was horrible. There was blood everywhere. She had cuts all over her body… hundreds of them like someone had taken a knife and just…" She stopped choking back the revulsion at the memory. "If that wasn't bad enough the sick person who did that posed her on the shelf and stuck a price tag on her forehead."

"I'm sorry about your friend," Dean said sympathetically.

"So Allie," Sam asked. "Has anything like this ever happened here before?"

"No," she replied immediately. "I've been working here for eight years and one of my people who has worked here for twenty two years agrees nothing like this has ever happened before."

"Why would you think it's a ghost?" Dean asked. "Has someone died here recently?"

"No, but what else can it be?" she replied. "You saw the video."

"I don't know," Dean replied truthfully.

"Well," she replied. "I'm going to leave it to the cops to figure it out," she said. "I can't deal with it. Hell, right now I don't even want to go in the gift shop ever again."

"Allie," Sam asked. "Did anything ever happen during the day?"

"No," she replied. "What ever was causing it only seemed to do its thing at night. I warned the staff not to go in at night especially alone, but Sally thought I was nuts. She didn't believe in ghosts."

Dean rolled his eyes. "Bet she does now," he muttered.

A/N Sorry it took so long to post this chapter! I'm back home in Texas and when I arrived I found out that I don't get the CW here! That means no Supernatural! Totally depressing… devastating…. irritating and well… you get it, I'm also going back to work so I won't be able to update as quickly as I have in the past.