Linda gaped at Charlie, "You cannot be serious. You're telling me that you were the one to break into Roman Enterprises and get all that information for Sam and Dean?"
"Don't sound so surprised", Charlie said, with a hint of annoyance, "I'm not just a pretty face you know". She walked over to her laptop and gestured for everyone to gather around. Annie flickered to behind Charlie, making her jump, but Annie only smiled sweetly and everyone else moved around to look at the laptop as if a ghost wasn't in the room with them.
Charlie regained her composure, "Right, back to the matter at hand I think, dudes...", after weary looks from Jodie and Linda, she said, "What? I spend most of my time working with guys, which is unfortunate considering I'm-"
"Just get on with it Charlie", Jodie said impatiently. Krissy chuckled at this and got, what can only be described as, a death stare from Jodie.
"Ok, fine. Look, this is what I have on the case so far. From what I can gather from various online sources and forums, there are currently seven monster families here is Sioux Falls...actually make that six," she shot a sideways glance at Jodie and grinned, "Nice work by the way". She held her hand up to Jodie, clearly expecting a high five, but Jodie simply stood there are stared at her impatiently.
"Oh, come on lighten up!" Krissy said, and gave Charlie a high five instead. Charlie nodded at Krissy approvingly,
"Yeah! That's the kind of attitude we need!" Charlie said enthusiastically to a beaming Krissy.
Linda watched Jodie's face, and found it unmoving apart from a very small twitch of a smile when she looked at Krissy. After all Jodie had been through, she was allowed to be as she was, but that glimpse of a smile gave Linda hope that perhaps, Krissy might be the one to brighten up Jodie's life once again, after so much loss. She shot a sideways glance at Annie, who was still staring at the screen,
"Ok, so we've taken out the vamps right?", Annie, who appeared to have ignored Charlie's outburst of enthusiasm, said and looked at Jodie, who simply nodded, "So, I'm guessing, since you've called me here, there is also a ghost family? That's a new one on me."
Charlie spoke up, "You got it in one, the police reports show multiple strange deaths recently all over Sioux, no break ins, no fingerprints, nothing, nada, null. Originally, I couldn't work out what it could be," she said frantically typing, "Could be anything, poltergeists, Tulpas - although that's unlikely - witches even. Then however I came across this." She turned the computer around to the group, with a police report on the screen.
Linda scanned her eyes over the report, she read something about someone with serious vertigo falling off a roof, to which she said,
"They're not subtle are they, these supernatural beings?", for which she received a knowing head shake from Krissy.
Linda turned her eyes back to the screen, and just as she read the sentence which gave the clue, Annie stood up suddenly with a flicker and a gasp,
"Salt", she said.
"Exactly", Charlie said, "There was a hell of a lot of salt found at the crime scene, all over the window ledges, thrown all around where the body was found."
Jodie interrupted, "So, our murdered friend here was a hunter. So we worked out it was likely one of two things, demons", Linda shot a look at Jodie, "or ghosts", she finished.
"So I got in contact with Sam and Dean, and they said they'd heard nothing from Crowley about any activ-"
Linda suddenly jumped out her seat, and spun Charlie around to look at her, "What?!"
Jodie looked around her frantically and took Linda by the shoulders, Charlie looked around caught off guard,
"Now Linda, don't panic. It's not as it seems." Jodie said, trying to calm her.
Linda could only stare, "Well, if it isn't as it seems, explain to me what you mean."