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The Cabin
Chapter ten
"Something's burning!" Dean told Sam as he spun around and looked at the cabin. The roof of the cabin right below the chimney was on fire. "The cabin's on fire!" Dean shouted as he ran toward the building.
Sam stood up and looked back toward the cabin. He could barely make out the shape of the cabin but he could see an orange glow coming from the top of the shape.
"Be careful!" He yelled to Dean as he tried to follow him, but instead he tripped over some rocks on the ground and went down hard on his knees. His eyes filled with tears of worry and frustration as he stood back up. What if something happened to Dean? What if his brother needed him and he couldn't help him? "Dean be careful!" He shouted again hoping his brother would heed his words.
Dean ran toward the cabin then veered toward his car and grabbed the fire extinguisher he had mounted under the dashboard. He quickly climbed up on the roof and easily put out the fire, thankful that it was relatively small. He then went inside and checked the fireplace where the small fire still burned that he had started in the morning to warm the cabin. What had happened he wondered? Had an ember from the fire gone up the chimney and started the roof on fire? He figured that's what had to happen….it was the only logical explanation. He went back outside and could see Sam slowly making his way toward him a worried look on his face.
"It's okay Sam. I put it out." He could see the relief on his brother's face, but he also saw Sam's pants were torn at the knees and blood was leaking through the material, he quickly walked over to him. "You okay?" He asked as he bent down to examine Sam's legs.
"Yeah….I tripped."
"Well let's get you down to the lake and wash off the blood and see what kind of damage you did to yourself." He took Sam's arm and led him down to the lake.
"What happened, how did it get started?"
"An ember must have blown up the chimney and landed on some dry leaves on the roof. It's rare but it does happen….Now let me take a look at those knees." Dean led Sam into the lake and began washing off the blood so he could get a look at his knees.
Earlier
The three men had snuck around to the back of the cabin and while Dean and Sam were busy fishing Rodger had crawled up onto the roof and lit the fire at the base of the chimney. They then ran back into the thick brush and easily hid while they watched. After Dean led Sam back to the lake they stayed low and out of sight as they made their way back to the other side of the lake.
"You'd think by now those boys would begin to wonder what's happening." Scott said laughing. "A snake…now a fire….some vacation huh?"
"It'll be a vacation they'll never forget." Rodger smiled.
"They're not going to live long enough to forget it." Joshua added as he once more picked up the binoculars and watched the brothers.
The lake
"You really banged these up didn't you?" Dean said as he gently washed the blood off of Sam's knees revealing some nasty cuts. "Let's get you back up to the cabin and I'll put some antibiotic on them."
He led Sam out of the lake and back to the cabin where he helped him inside and over to a chair.
"I'll be right back."
Dean turned and headed toward the car where the first aide kit was. He replaced the fire extinguisher then opened the trunk and took out the kit. As he was closing the trunk he finally noticed through the weeds that the left rear tire was flat. No problem he thought, he'd just replace it with the one in the trunk. But he then noticed the other back tire was flat also.
"What the hell?"
How could two tires be flat he wondered? He then walked around to the front of the Impala and saw that the front tires were also flat.
"Son of a bitch!" He shouted as he angrily looked around hoping he'd see who or what had flattened the tires.
TBC