We stayed and talked to the girls for a couple of hours, going over what we knew from the police and what they had picked up around campus.

Finally though, Sam convinced them that they both needed to get some sleep. He offered to stay around to help them feel safer, but they assured us they'd be fine. They wanted us to be making an effort to find the thing that was attacking students, not hanging around guarding just them.

As we walked down the corridor of the dorm Sam and I exchanged a smile. "Our girls are growing up." I said, pretending to wipe a tear from my eye.

Sam laughed quietly and rolled his eyes at me.

I couldn't help but feel a little proud of them. Both of them had matured a lot since their first, terrifying, encounter with the supernatural world. Both of them had chosen to return to school so that they could become doctors and help people, and on top of that they had both taken the initiative to learn more about the supernatural so that they no longer felt as overwhelmed by it all.

It was so different to the young women who had wanted to live in denial of their experiences.

I also couldn't help but notice that Taylor still got adorably red faced if I got too close. She was also no longer a 19 year old girl, but a 25 year old young woman. I had to admit, it would be harder to refuse if she made the same offer as last time…

For the moment though, we had a decision to make. Obviously, we would prefer to prevent another death from occurring. But the reality was that neither of us was in top form right now. We'd booked into a hotel on the way into town, and taken the time to shower and freshen up, but neither of us had slept for more than a couple of hours at a time for the past three days.

After some discussion we decided to take the night in shifts. Sam had taken the last turn at driving, so he headed back to the hotel to sleep for a few hours. I was going to stay on campus.

Most of the deaths had occurred in the early morning, with evidence that they had been held for some time beforehand. So it made sense to assume that they were being taken during the night, after their friends had seen them going to bed.

With that in mind, I was going to talk to the security guards who were on duty tonight, while also keeping my eyes and ears open for anything unusual.

Sam would then relieve me in the early morning, so that I could take a turn getting some sleep at the hotel. He would talk to the early morning security shift and watch out for unusual activity around the time the bodies had been dumped.

Sam looked at his watch as we approached the front doors, and a wary looking security guard. "It's about 10 now, so I'll come back at about 2am. Call me if anything happens before then."

I nodded, "Sounds good."

We were stopped at the door by the guard. "ID please."

I gave him a nod, pulling my ID out of my pocket calmly. Sam did the same. "Evening. Dean, FBI. I was hoping I could ask you a few questions?"

The guy studied both ID's for a moment and then nodded. "Sure. And him?"

Sam smiled at him reassuringly. "I've got other places to be, I'll be back later." I passed him the keys to the impala and he walked off towards the visitor parking lot, quickly disappearing into the darkness between the buildings.

Once Sam had gone the security guard resumed his position to the side of the door, eyes roaming the darkness outside nervously.

I glanced at the name badge on his uniform. "Feeling a bit anxious Jeremy?" I asked him, moving to the side of the door with him to allow my eyes to adjust to the darkness a little.

He nodded, "Yeah. Looking out for a serial killer is not exactly my usual gig, you know?"

I nodded understandingly. "Were you on last night?"

He shook his head, "No, I usually only work weekends. I do the night patrols. But, with everything that's going on…they've called everyone in for extra shifts. They usually only have a couple of us roaming the campus at night, but someone at the front gate. We make sure no one's getting up to too much mischief at night, and keep the campus parties from causing trouble." He sighed. "Then when they found the first body they added an extra roaming guard…and then more security at the gate. Then when that girl was found inside the building this morning, they decided to have someone stationed at each dorm as well."

"All that extra security, and no one has seen anything?" I asked, voice a little sceptical.

He shook his head, then lowered his voice conspiratorially. "Not a thing. It's like there's a ghost doing the killings. One minute there's nothings, then…bam! Body bits on the lawn."

I raised an eyebrow at him and he shrugged, "You got a better theory?"

I gave a non-comital little frown that said I wasn't going to discuss my theories with a campus security guard. He didn't seem to care, seemingly perfectly happy to stick with his ghost theory.

"So there is just one guard per area?" I asked him after a few moments.

He nodded, "Yep. We have radios if we need to communicate."

I nodded thoughtfully. "So, you know all the other security guards?"

"Yeah, most of 'em." He frowned, "You don't think one of them would do this, do you? 'Cause they're all good guys."

I shrugged, "I'm not ruling anything out just yet."

He went quiet, seeming to lose his enthusiasm for talking to me after that. I figured it was time to move on.

"I'm going to go look around the rest of the campus, talk to some of the other guards." I held out a hand and after a moment he shook it. "Thanks for your help Jeremy."

As I walked away he called out to me, "Hey, I think Tony was on duty last night. He'll be out near the ovals somewhere."

I turned and smiled at him, "Thanks, good to know."

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