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Insanity is Only a State of Mind

Chapter nine

Early the next morning

Dean spent a restless night and was glad to see the sun finally come up. He knew the guards were given breakfast and no one would think it odd if he showed up even though he was scheduled to work the second shift. A lot of the guards showed up for the free breakfast then went home and reported back to work later.

Dean grabbed a couple of doughnuts to make it look good then walked around the prison. His first stop was at Sam's cell. He slid back the wooden panel to reveal the small window. Sam was lying on his cot facing the wall. Dean gently knocked on the window and turned on the intercom.

"Sam…Sam wake up."

He watched as his brother began to move and slowly turned over. Sam looked up at the window and gave a little smile. But Dean didn't return the smile, instead he could feel the anger growing inside him when he saw the cut and bruises on his brother's face.

"Son of a bitch! Sam who did this to you?" Dean wanted nothing more then to take revenge on the person who had beaten his brother.

Sam walked over to the door.

"Take it easy Dean its okay." Sam could see the look on his brother's face and knew he had to calm him down before he went off looking for the guard who had beaten him and blow their cover.

Dean could feel himself burning up inside with anger, with Sam standing right at the window he could now clearly see the dark bruise and bloody cut on his brother's face.

"Who did this to you Sam? I swear I'm going to kill the son of a bitch!"

"Dean calm down! It's okay…."

"What the hell happened? I thought once the lights were out and the prisoners were locked in their cells till morning that was the end of it."

"They caught me trying to communicate with Kissinger. I guess there's a rule about no talking amongst prisoners after the lights are out."

"What did you find out?" Dean forced himself to calm down but seeing his brother hurt and not being able to do anything about it was eating him up inside.

"He said the spirit had on a blue jumpsuit."

"So it was a prisoner at one time?"

"Probably. He said he saw it standing at his friend's door looking in at him … And then a short time later his friend disappeared."

"I'm going to try and get a look at the admission records and see if I can find out what might have happened to the prisoners. If prisoners are really disappearing from here there should be a file on it."

"Maybe they're just being transferred to another facility. Maybe Kissinger is just imagining things. … Dean I've never heard of a spirit who killed someone and then actually took the body with it."

"Sam with the business we're in we learn something new everyday… Things aren't set in concrete you know? There are a lot of things out there we don't even know about."

"Yeah, guess you're right." Sam shifted slightly and Dean could now get an even better look at his face.

"You better get that looked at." Dean said trying his best to keep his temper under control. "That cut might need some stitches."

"I will." When Sam looked up and met his brother's eyes Dean's anger returned full force. He knew his brother had a gentle nature and the thought of him being beaten like that made him want to return the favor. "Sam tell me who did this to you….You must have seen his name tag."

"Why do you want to know?"

"I just want to keep an eye on him."

"Dean…I know how you keep your eye on someone…You're going to go after him aren't you?"

"No Sam….I just want to know who it is."

"If I tell you, you got to promise me you'll leave it alone."

"Sam…"

"Promise me Dean."

"Okay."

"I mean it Dean…promise me."

"Okay I promise." Dean looked at Sam and could tell he wasn't convinced. "What the hell do you want me to do Samantha….pinky swear?" Dean smiled as he held up his little finger.

Sam gave a little laugh.

"No Dean, you don't have to pinky swear."

"Okay so who was it?"

"Kelleher." Sam saw a flash of anger in Dean's eyes. "Dean let it go…. We're here to find out if there's a spirit here and get rid of it, not go on a vendetta against a guard."

"Don't worry Sam, I'll hold it together. I won't forget why we're here." Dean knew he had to get out of the cell block before someone saw him and wondered why he was talking to a prisoner. "Try to stay out of trouble Sammy."

"You do too Dean….I mean it." Sam said when he saw the little smirk on his brother's face.

"Don't worry…I will." Dean walked away knowing that even though he promised Sam he wouldn't go after the guard who had hurt him there was no way he was going to let Kelleher get away with what he did to his brother, no way.

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