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Jungle Fever

Chapter ten

The beatings continued over the next few days with each man experiencing his own share of them. At one point the enemy used reverse psychology and made Sam sit in the chair and watch Dean and the other men being beaten. They figured an officer would be trained to handle the torture but seeing his men tortured might just break him. But by this point Sam's fever was raging and instead of giving them the information they wanted, he rambled on about demons and the creatures they had hunted.

The torture room

Dean stood on a chair a noose around his neck his hands tied behind him. The rope had been thrown over a beam in the ceiling and had already been tighten to the point where Dean had to stand on his toes so he wouldn't be strangled. Every time Sam was asked a question, and didn't give them the answer they wanted, Nguyen pulled the rope tighter. Dean's lungs screamed for air, his face was red from trying to get a decent breath. He knew it would be easy to just stop fighting and die and get it over with, but he didn't want to leave his brother alone with these men. He didn't want Sam to endure the suffering alone. He could hear Sam pleading for them to stop as he fought the darkness that threatened to claim him.

"Please stop….please…." Sam begged in his more lucid moments. The fever was causing him to be confused as to where they were and what was happening, but the one thing he could keep straight was that Dean was in trouble and he had to help him. "Let him go…..please …please just let him go."

When Sam's head lolled down onto his chest one of Nguyen's men put a rifle butt under it and forced it up while another threw water onto his face to keep him awake.

"Tell me what I want to know and your friend will not have to suffer." Nguyen told Sam. "Where is your command post? How many men are assigned to it? What are their orders?" Nguyen began barking out questions.

Sam looked up at Nguyen but instead of seeing him he saw the face of a demon grinning back at him.

"Get away from him you son of a bitch!"

"Tell me what I want and I'll leave him alone."

"Go to Hell!"

Nguyen nodded to his men and the rope was pulled even tighter, Dean was slowly being pulled off his feet.

"Let my brother alone you bastard!" Sam struggled to free himself.

"Your brother?" Nguyen had no idea the men were brothers. This could work to his advantage he thought. "Your brother will die unless you tell me what I want to know." He knew the death of a brother was far worse then the death of a fellow soldier.

Sam looked up at his brother as his eyes filled with tears. He tried to think straight, he had to for Dean's sake, but he couldn't, all the creatures they had fought throughout the years kept flashing through his mind and as he looked back at Nguyen he saw him morphing into each of them. When Nguyen started walking toward him he tried to pull away from him but he was tied and there was no where to go.

"Dean!" He cried out for his brother. He was defenseless, he couldn't help himself or his brother and the thought of it caused him to panic. His heart started racing which only pushed the poison in his body faster into his bloodstream. "Oh God Dean I'm sorry….." Sam managed to get out right before he collapsed in the chair. Nguyen reached over and pulled Sam's head up by his hair and looked into his face making sure he was really unconscious and not just faking it.

Dean could see everything that was happening but was powerless to do anything about it. With Sam now unconscious Nguyen ordered his guards to release Dean. Once the rope was cut Dean also collapsed and fell to the floor where he lay for a few seconds coughing as he tried to catch his breath. He then looked over at his brother.

"Sam?"

"Don't worry…your brother isn't dead…but he'll wish he was." He added with a sadistic smile.

Dean swallowed hard when he heard Nguyen say brother. He now knew that they were brothers, and that would only mean more torture to try to break them. He could try to give the man fake coordinates so he would stop torturing Sam but he knew Nguyen wouldn't believe him, only commanding officers knew the exact coordinates of the command post and the other platoons. He had to get Sam to give out the fake information; at least it might give his brother a little break from the torture. But he knew Sam wasn't himself…..he was confused and hallucinating, and if the man who told them about the symptoms of Jungle Fever was right……he was soon going to die.

TBC