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The Headless Horseman of Monroe County
Chapter fourteen
"There isn't?" Dean said as he glanced at Sam and caught his 'I told you so' look.
"None that I know of." Casey looked back and forth at them. "There is a way to kill him though isn't there?"
Sam looked at Dean knowing his brother couldn't come right out and say what he was thinking, 'Yeah there is a way but it involves killing you'
Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by a loud clap of thunder.
"Let's go inside and get out of the rain." Dean was glad that it started pouring and he could change the subject.
Once inside Casey introduced them to his friends.
"This is Barry and Robin."
"I'm Dean and this is Sam."
"You can talk in front of them. They were at the séance and know what's been going on."
"So you know about the deaths from the curse."
"Yeah, six people…" Barry started to say.
"I thought there were only four." Dean interrupted him.
"It was just on the news a couple of hours ago. The Ryders were killed…. They were running for their train last night and the wife tripped and fell onto the tracks. Her husband tried to help her up but the train came and….."
"Killed them both, cutting their heads off." Sam finished the sentence.
"Yeah, their heads, legs, arms, just about everything."
Sam shook his head sadly and walked away. Why hadn't he made them listen to him? They'd both be alive if they had just stayed in the house.
Dean excused himself and walked over to his brother.
"Sam I know what you're thinking, but it isn't your fault." Dean knew his brother always took the deaths of people he tried to save hard….way harder then he did. He knew you couldn't save everyone and didn't dwell on it like Sam did. When he finished a job he tried to put the people involved in it behind him but not Sam. Sam would sit up for nights wondering what they did wrong and why people they tried to help had died.
"Dean I should have made them listen to me."
"How could you? We live the kind of lives most people don't even think about unless it's in their nightmares. Trying to convince them that a Headless Horseman was going to kill them is like telling them that pigs can fly. They have to witness it to believe it."
"Our lives suck."
"Yeah that's true…. But think of all the people we've saved throughout the years. There are a lot of people who would have died if it hadn't been for us. You got to think about that Sam, not about the people we lost."
"Dean you shouldn't have come after me tonight."
"I wasn't about to let you go after him by yourself. You never should have tried to."
"Yeah but now you're on his hit list too….because of me."
"Sam we're a team, we fight together, and we'll go down together. That's just the way it is."
Their conversation was interrupted when Casey suddenly spoke.
"He's out there." Casey started trembling as he backed away from the window.
"How do you know?" Dean asked as he and Sam walked over.
"Every time he's near…I can feel him….I have some sort of weird connection to him. I guess because I'm the one who summoned him."
Dean glanced at Sam then looked back at Casey.
"So he's outside right now?"
"Yeah."
Dean headed toward the door but was stopped when Sam grabbed his arm.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I'm getting the sword from the car….I'm going to end this thing."
TBC