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Swamp Creature

Chapter six

The next morning

Neither of them got any sleep as they listened to the rain on the tent and for the creature to return. Dean kept remembering Sam's words when he had read the paper about the girl's statement. She had been temporarily blinded and had listened to her boyfriend being ripped to shreds. The thing hadn't hurt her but had killed her boyfriend. Was the thing going to come back for Sam? Would he be forced to hear his brother being attacked and not be able to do anything to help him?

"What are you thinking?" Sam asked seeing the worried look on Dean's face.

"Nothing."

"Nothing? Well it sure doesn't look like you're thinking about nothing. What's up Dean, what are you thinking about?" Sam stood up and walked over to the tent flap and looked out. "If you're worried about that thing…don't. We're going to get out of this…I'm going to get you out of this."

"Sam you're an idiot if you think you can drag a blind man around this swamp. You're going to get yourself killed."

"Is that what has you worried? Well I'm not leaving you here, no way. So just shut up and let's get going." Sam helped Dean up and they both went outside. "Okay, I know this is going to be tough but we're going to do it." He took some canteens of water and grabbed a few supplies and put them in his backpack. He then got a rope and tied it around Dean's waist and left a few feet then tied it around his own. "Okay now just follow my lead."

Dean reached out and touched Sam's pack and could tell it was heavy.

"Sam I'm blind, I'm not a cripple. I can carry some of the supplies."

"I got it don't worry about it…just follow me. If you need to rest say it, otherwise we keep going. I'm thinking it should take us about two or three days to hike out of here." He took one of the guns and tucked it in Dean's waistband. "Just in case." He then took the other gun and tucked it in his own waistband.

Four hours later

They were both totally exhausted from hiking through the swamp and tried to stay on dry land as much as they could but it was impossible. They sank up to their thighs in mud as they walked and it took all their strength to pull themselves out. Finally Sam found a small island and stopped to rest. He climbed up on the island and pulled Dean up after him. They both lay on their backs trying to catch their breaths and to rest. After a few minutes Sam took one of the canteens out of his bag and handed it to Dean who took a couple of swallows and handed it back to Sam, who took a swallow.

"I better wash your eyes out again."

"We should save the water Sam once it's gone that's it."

Sam knew Dean was right. Once the water was gone they had no idea where they could find clean water. Water was all around them but they knew drinking the swamp water would only make them sick. But Sam wanted to make sure he had flushed out all the liquid that the creature had squirted into Dean's eyes.

"We have enough, now just lay back." Sam said then gently opened Dean's eyes and poured the water over them. When he was satisfied that he had rinsed them out thoroughly he once more lay back on the ground. He had started to feel dizzy and could tell the heat was getting to him, he knew Dean was probably feeling the same way.

"We need to get to some shade." Sam said as he slowly got up and lead Dean over to the only patch of shade on the island.

"You okay?" Sam asked as he lay back down.

"Yeah…How are you holding up?"

"I'm okay…We might as well rest a little ….I didn't realize it was going to be this hard." Sam shut his eyes waiting for his heart to stop pounding from the effort of walking through the thick swamp mud. When he opened them the creature was standing over him.

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