After they left Mark's house Sam went to check out Frank's house and Dean went to go to the county clerks office while Kaylee disappeared back to the safe house after requesting Castiel join her there. "What is it Kaylee?" Castiel asked slightly annoyed because he was fighting to stop another seal from being broken when she called for him. "We are on a case where the victims are literally being scared to death…" Kaylee started to say before Castiel interrupted her and asked why that was his problem. Kaylee glared at him until he closed his mouth quickly. "As I was saying… they are being scared to death and suddenly Dean is starting to jump at shadows and cross the street to avoid teenagers" Kaylee continued walking past Castiel and grabbing a beer from the fridge. "That is… strange. But until you determine if it is life threatening I will trust that you can handle it. I am needed with my brothers elsewhere" Castiel said simply and when Kaylee turned around he was gone.
"Any luck at the county clerk's office?" Kaylee asked appearing in the backseat of the Impala making Dean jump, which didn't go unnoticed by Sam and Kaylee. "I'm not sure I'd call it luck. Frank's wife, Jessie, was a manic-depressive. She went off her meds back in '88 and vanished. They found her two weeks later, three towns over. Strung up in her motel room – suicide" Dean explained handing Sam an article. "Any chance Frank helped her along to the other side?" Sam asked hopefully but Dean explained he had an airtight alibi. "Okay, so how was Frank's pad?" Kaylee asked looking over at Sam while Dean started the car. "Clean. Searched it top to bottom. No EMF, no hex bags, no silver" Sam explained making Kaylee chuckle and say "So probably no ghosts, no witches, no demons. 3 down and 97 to go".
"Dude, you're going 20. That's the speed limit." Sam said suddenly making Kaylee frown slightly because Dean never went the speed limit. Ever. "What? safety's a crime now?" Dean asked before Sam commented that he drove past the hotel. "Sam, I'm not gonna make a left-hand turn into oncoming traffic. I'm not suicidal. Did I just say that? That was kind of weird" Dean said suddenly before Kaylee heard the EMF Meter going off. She reached forward and grabbed it from Sam's pocket and pointed it at Dean. It went off. "Am I haunted? Am I haunted?!" Dean yelled as he pulled into the hotel car park. Kaylee shoved a panicking Dean into the hotel room and shut the door before spinning around to face Sam.
"This is both annoying and hilarious" Kaylee commented making Sam glare at her slightly. "What's going on?" Sam asked and Kaylee shrugged walking over to the car and leaning against it. "I don't know and Castiel is busy with another seal at the moment so we got to find out what's going on a different way" Kaylee explained before both Sam and Kaylee looked at each other and said, "Bobby".
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The next day Sam walked back to the hotel with food to find Kaylee leaning against the door with her arms crossed. Sam frowned confused and silently asked her where Dean was. She simply pointed to the Impala to find him rocking out to the song 'Eye of the Tiger'. Sam walked over and knocked on the roof of the car to make Dean get out. "Dude. Look at this" Dean said showing Sam and Kaylee a rash that was on his arm. "I just talked to Bobby and um, well, you're not gonna like it" Sam said handing Dean the food, who smelt it and then tossed it in the car. "It's ghost sickness" Sam explained before Dean sighed in defeat before admitting he had no idea what that was.
"Some cultures believe that certain spirits can infect the living with a disease, which is why they stopped displaying bodies in houses and started taking them off to funeral homes. Symptoms are you get anxious... and scared, then really scared, then your heart gives out. Sound familiar?" Kaylee explained because she had overheard Sam's conversation with Bobby with her werewolf hearing. Dean quickly stated that they hadn't seen a ghost in weeks. "Well, I doubt you caught it from a ghost. Look, once a spirit infects that first person, ghost sickness can spread like any sickness through a cough, a handshake, whatever. It's like the flu. Now, Frank O'Brien was the first to die, which means he was probably the first infected. Patient zero" Sam explained.
"Our very own outbreak monkey" Dean added sarcastically making Kaylee frown slightly at the reference while she thought about if she should bother Castiel with this or not. "Right. Get this - Frank was in Maumee over the weekend. Softball tournament... Which is where he must have infected the other two victims" Sam explained before Dean asked if they were gamecocks and Sam explained they were cornjerkers. Kaylee rolled her eyes and stepped forward, "So, ghosts infected Frank, he passed it on to the other guys, and Dean got it from his corpse?" she asked and Sam nodded that she was correct. "So now, what, I have 48 hours before I go insane and my heart stops?" Dean asked and Sam looked at Kaylee awkwardly, "More like 24" She said because she knew Sam didn't want too.
"Super. Well, why me? why not you? I mean, you got hit with the spleen juice" Dean asked Sam and Sam looked over at Kaylee again who was wearing her usual emotionless face with a hint of amusement in her eyes. "Yeah, um, you see, Bobby and I have a theory about that, too. Turns out all three victims shared a certain, uh, personality type. Frank was a bully. The other two victims… one was a vice principal, the other was a bouncer…" Sam explained and trailed off, hoping that would be enough. It wasn't.
"Basically, they were all dicks" Kaylee added simply.
"So, you're saying I'm a dick?" Dean asked and Kaylee nodded her head before Sam stepped in, "No, no, no. It's not just that. All three victims used fear as a weapon, and now this disease is just returning the favour" Sam explained glaring at Kaylee slightly. "I don't scare people" Dean said in denial but Sam spoke up, "Dean, all we do is scare people". Kaylee watched amused as Dean tried to claim that means Sam is a dick as well and Sam responded brilliantly with "Apparently, I'm not".
"Whatever. How do we stop it?" Dean said looking over at Kaylee, annoyed at his brother. "We kill the ghost that started all this. We do that, the disease should clear up" She explained and Sam went on to say he was thinking it was Frank's wife because they didn't know why she killed herself. "What are you doing waiting out here, anyway?" Sam asked making Dean look at the hotel and then at a chuckling Kaylee. "Our rooms on the fourth floor. It's… it's high" Dean admitted making Kaylee burst out laughing this time. "Shut up Kaylee" Dean muttered while Sam walked off saying he would see if he can move them down to the first floor.
Dean and Kaylee spent the next few hours researching on Frank and his wife while Sam went to get some more food and a couple of more files on the victim. Kaylee looked up to see Dean staring at his book freaked out. She smirked amused before going to use the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror and couldn't help but remember when her eyes first changed when she was 15 years old. She was so scared. Her eyes flickered to white before going back to normal again. She wasn't that girl anymore. She ran her tongue along her werewolf teeth and thought about the fact she needed to go hunt soon.
Kaylee was brought out of her thoughts by a loud crash outside. She pushed open the door prepared for anything when she saw Dean walking away from the wall clock that was smashed on the floor. "Really Dean?" She asked looking at him as he grabbed a beer and sat on the lounge, glaring at her. "So are you going to tell Castiel that I'm dying from ghost sickness" Dean asked sarcastically but the look Kaylee gave him told him she already had. "And what? He isn't going to help?!" Dean asked angrily before startling himself when he put his feet on the table a little bit too hard. Kaylee looked up at the roof before walking over to the table and pulling out another book. "He will step in if needed but at the moment he trusts that I can help you" Kaylee explained simply as she continued to read the book on ghost sickness.
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