Ghostfacers Part 1

"Stay low." Ed said. "Follow information. Okay, as suspected. A lot of people have tried to break into the Morton House. The local authorities have just gotten fed up."

"Looks like the cops have got this place pretty well fenced off." Harry added.

"Wait." Maggie said. "Didn't you guys get, like, a permit or something?"

"A permit?" Harry asked. "That's a good idea for next time."

"Yeah." Ed said.

"Car!" Spruce warned.

"Car. Shh, shh! Flashlights off." Harry instructed.

"Keep totally still." Maggie whispered.

There was a loud rumble of a car engine approaching, along with a radio playing 'We're an American Band'. It was the Impala, driven by Dean, slowing to a crawl, with Sam in the passenger's seat and Angela in the back. Sam was shining a flashlight towards the Morton House before they drove away.

"It's okay. No cops, just hicks." Spruce said.

"Ed's got it."

Ed opened the gate with wire cutters. "Guys, let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Go! Go!"

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"Oh, god." Corbett said. "Okay, it was just… I think it was just a branch… okay… in the window."

"This is spooky, man. This place…" Ed added.

"Okay. Oh, no!" Corbett exclaimed.

Corbett and Ed were confronted by three figures approaching with flashlights.

"Freeze!" Dean yelled. "Police officers! Don't move!"

"All right. All right. All right." Sam said. "Take it easy, take it easy."

"Let's see some identification." Angela added.

"Come on. Let's see some I.D." Sam said.

"What, are we under, under arrest?" Corbett asked.

"We are unarmed." Ed said.

"Oh, god. Oh, god." Corbett said.

"Want to explain that weirdo outfit, Mr., uh, Corbett?" Dean asked.

"I know you." Ed said.

"Yeah, sure you do." Dean replied. "Give me some identification."

"Yeah, ho, whoa, hold on a second." Ed said. "I know two of you. Yeah." He said. "Not the cutie, though." He added.

Angela looked at Sam and Dean. "You know this guy?" she asked. She looked at Ed. "And don't ever call me cutie again."

Corbett looked at Ed. "What?"

"Yeah, huh." Ed muttered.

"Holy s-!" Sam exclaimed.

"What?" Dean asked.

Sam looked at Angela. "Uh, West Texas…" he started. He looked at Dean. "The… the tulpa we had to take out. Those two goofballs that almost got us killed… the hellhounds or something?"

"F- me." Dean groaned.

"Yeah, we're not hellhounds anymore, okay?" Ed replied. "It didn't test that well."

"Ed, what's going on?" Corbett asked.

"They're not cops, buddy, no, not at all." Ed replied.

"Ed, Ed, you had a partner, too, didn't you, a different guy?" Dean asked.

"Oh, yeah, yeah." Ed nodded.

"Is he around here somewhere?" Dean asked.

"He's running around, chasing ghosts."

"Okay, well, listen, you and Rambo need to get your girlfriends and get out of here." Dean replied.

"All right." Ed replied. "Listen here, chisel chest, okay? We were here first. We've already set up base camp. We beat you."

Angela looked at Sam and Dean. "Aww, cute, they were here first."

"Mm hmm, that's right sweetheart." Ed replied.

She grabbed Ed, glaring.

"Oh, god." He said.

"Ed…" she whispered. "My name's Angela." She continued glaring. "And also," she started.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"…where's your partner?" she raised a brow.

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"What are you doing in the Morton House, Ed, on leap year, what are you thinking?" Dean asked.

"We're here to spend the night, okay?" Ed replied. He looked at Angela and smirked. "It's for our TV show." He said. "Impressed yet?" he asked. Angela just rolled her eyes.

"What?" Sam asked. "Great. Perfect." He added. He eyed Ed. "I'd also appreciate if you'd stop attempting to flirt with my girlfriend."

Ed looked at Angela. "You're dating him?" he asked. "Really?"

She smiled and took Sam's hand. "And I am very happy with him." She replied.

Corbett tried getting back on topic. "Yeah, nobody's ever spent the night before."

"Uh, actually, yeah, they have." Dean said.

"Uh, we've never heard of them." Ed replied.

"Yeah, you know why?" Angela asked. "'Cause the ones that have haven't lived to talk about it!"

"Oh, come on, I don't believe you." Ed replied.

"Look, missing persons report going back almost half a century." Sam said. "John Graham stayed on a dare, gone. Julie Wilkerson, gone. There are tons more. All of them came to just stay the night though, always on a leap year. The only body they ever found was the last owner, Freeman Daggett."

"These look legit." Ed replied.

"They are legit." Angela said. "Look, Ed, we ain't got much time here, buddy. Starting at midnight your friends are going to die."

Harry, Maggie, and Spruce ran down the stairs and into the living room.

"Oh, my god!" Harry yelled. "Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Guys! Guys! Oh, my god! Oh, my god! We got one! Corbett! Corbett, we saw one! We saw one!"

"Get outta here!" Ed replied.

"It was a full apparition!" Harry said. "It was like a class four. It was a spectral illumination! It…"

"It was amazing!" Maggie said.

Harry noticed Sam, Dean and Angela. "Hey, aren't those the a-s from Texas? Though the chick is new…"

"Yes." Ed replied. "And she's dating Sasquatch over there." He added.

"All right, let's have this reunion across the street, guys." Dean cut in.

"Crap." Harry said. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Come on, come on." Dean said. "We'll get you ice cream, our treat. What do you say? Let's go."

"Yeah, I say no." Harry replied.

"Look at this." Maggie added. "Look, look. Ed, Ed. No. No. Look at this. Okay, honest-to-god proof, all right?"

Maggie showed the group their footage on the laptop.

"Are you kidding me?" Ed asked.

"Yeah. No, not kidding." Harry said.

"What kind of reading did we get?" Spruce asked.

"Uh, it was a 10.9." Harry replied.

"10.9?" Ed asked.

"Yeah, it was a 10.9." Harry nodded. "It was almost 11. I came out, and I was like, 'what's going on?' and I was like, wait, watch this. Oh! He got blasted. It was crazy."

Sam, Dean and Angela walked away from the group and talked amongst themselves. Spruce followed them, still recording them on his camera.

"Think we were off on this?" Sam asked. "I mean, that was just a death echo."

"Yeah, but what's it doing here?" Dean asked. "Did anybody get shot here?"

"No, not that I could find." Angela replied.

"What's a death echo?" Spruce asked.

"Look, we got a problem here." Angela said. "That ghost ain't it."

"Yeah, that's real. Like, that happened." Harry said.

"What's a death echo?" Spruce repeated.

"Echoes are trapped in a loop, okay?" Dean replied. "They keep replaying how they died over and over and over again, usually in the place where they were ganked. It's about as dangerous as a scary movie."

"So maybe the echo's not dangerous, but maybe something else is." Sam said.

"You're right. All right, we need to get out of here, guys." Dean said. "Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Pack it up."

"Guys, time is running out!" Angela yelled.

"We're moving!" Dean shouted.

"What about all of our equipment?" Maggie asked. "What are we gonna…"

"Lots of fun. Let's go." Dean said.

"We got more material. We got all kinds of stuff. We'll make you guys recurring guest stars." Harry said.

"Wait! Wait!" Ed yelled. "Where's Corbett?"

~/~\~

"No man left behind." Ed said.

An anguished scream was heard in the distance.

"That was Corbett." Ed told them.

"That was Corbett!" Harry exclaimed. "Corbett!"

"Corbett! It's okay!" Maggie exclaimed.

Ed, Harry, and Maggie ran upstairs while Sam, Dean and Angela protested.

"We'll get him! Go back!" Dean yelled.

"Guys!" Sam shouted.

"S-!" Angela exclaimed.

~/~\~

"No! Where are you, dude?"

"Tell us where you are!"

"Corbett!"

"Let me go!" Corbett yelled. "Guys!"

"Corbett, you need to come back, Corbett." Ed replied.

"No!" Corbett screamed.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Dean yelled. "Come on."

Corbett's screams continued, fading away.

"Corbett's… he's not here." Sam said. "Let's go. Let's go."

"No. No. No." Harry replied. "But that's Corbett. No, that was Corbett. Didn't you hear that?"

"Go, go, go, come on." Dean said.

"Guys. Guys. Guys. He's that way." Angela said.

"Here we go. Here we go. Keep it moving. Keep it moving."

"Corbett?" Ed asked.

"Hey, hey, hey. Watch him. Watch him." Sam said.

Dean thumped Harry with his flashlight. "Go. Go. Move. Move. Turn it off!"

There was static.

~/~\~

"Oh, god, what's happened?" Ed asked. "Oh, god. He's gone. He just disappeared."

"Okay, let's just go through all the angles. Let's go through all the cameras we have." Harry said.

"Well, it's 12:04, Dean." Angela said. "You good? You happy?"

"Yeah, I am happy."

"'Let's go hunt the Morton House,' you said, 'it's our Grand Canyon." Sam said.

"Guys, I don't want to hear this." Dean replied.

"You got two months left, Dean. Instead, we're gonna die tonight." Sam said.

Sam picked up a chair and smashed it against the sealed front door.

"Whoa!" Spruce exclaimed. "What the hell is going on guys?"

"I'll tell you what's going on." Angela replied. "Every door, every window, I'm guessing every exit out of this house, they're all sealed."

"But w-why are they sealed?" Maggie asked.

"It's a supernatural lockdown, okay? Whatever took Corbett doesn't want us to leave, and it's no death echo." Dean replied. "This is a bad mother, and it wants us scared."

"Or it just wants us." Maggie said.

The EMF detector went off. There was more camera interference as harry sidled up to Maggie as the secretly held hands.

"Uh, guys, the camera's fritzing again." Spruce said.

"Whoa. Whoa." Ed replied. "Guys, the EMF's starting to spike. This is a big one!"

"Everybody, stay close. There's something coming." Sam said, pulling Angela close.

Another apparition appeared.

"Whoa!" Everyone yelled.

"Is this the same echo you guys saw earlier?" Dean asked.

"No, it's a different guy." Harry replied.

"Multiple echoes? What the hell's going on?" Angela asked.

"Beats me." Sam said.

"Okay. All right. All right. All right." Dean said. Dean started to yell at the apparition. "Uh, hey, buddy! Hey. Hey. Wake up. You're dead! Hello!"

"What's he doing? What's he doing?" Harry asked.

"It's rare, but sometimes you can shock an echo out of its loop if you can talk to the part of the ghost that's still human, but usually you have to have some kind of connection to the deceased." Sam replied.

"Come on! Wake up! Be dead!"

There was camera interference; the apparition flickered and turned around.

"You guys hear that?" Harry asked.

"What's that sound?" Ed asked.

"You guys hear that?" Harry repeated.

"Snap out of it, buddy, huh? Come on, what are you waiting for? You're gonzo! You're dead!"

Bright light shined on the apparition and the sound a car horn approaching. The apparition flew backwards, as if hit by an invisible vehicle.

"Where the hell did it go?" Harry asked.

~/~\~

The group followed Sam, Dean and Angela down the hallway.

"Dude, there's no records of any of this here." Dean said. "No one got shot here. Obviously, no one got run over by a freaking train."

"Stay close." Angela said.

"Did the echoes take Corbett?" Maggie asked.

"Yes. No. I don't know." Dean replied. "We don't know what's doing what here; that's what we're trying to figure out, okay?"

"All right, stay close." Sam said. "Okay, look, um, death echoes are ghosts, okay? Now, ghosts, they usually haunt places where they lived or where they died."

"Except these mooks didn't like or die here." Dean said.

"Right." Sam nodded.

"So, what are they doing here?" Maggie asked.

"Hey, give the lady a cigar." Dean replied. "All right, seriously, does looking at this nightmare through that camera make you feel better or something? I mean…"

"Um… I, uh… well, yeah. Uh, yeah. I think so."

"Oh." Dean nodded.

The group continued to walk through the house. They entered a room full of stuffed animal heads on the walls, as well as file cabinets.

Angela held up a broken framed certificate. "Freeman Daggett, house's last owner, officially commended for 20 years of fine service at the Gamble General Hospital."

"He was a Doctor?" Dean asked.

"Janitor." Sam said.

"This looks like his den." Dean replied. "When'd you say he died, '64?"

"Yeah, heart attack." Angela nodded.

"What are these, c-rations?" Maggie asked.

"Yeah, army-issued, three squares, like a lifetime supply." Dean replied.

"God, is that all he ate?"

"One-stop shopping." Dean said. "Hello, locked."

"Oh, come on, guys." Ed said. "This is ridiculous. I mean, how the hell is this supposed to find Corbett, huh? We should be digging up the friggin' floorboards right now."

Sam held up a dusty pamphlet. "Huh 'Survival Under Atomic Attack.' An optimist."

There was a loud bang as Dean pried the safe open.

Dean leafed through the file box. "Crap. Crap. Taxidermy. Okay. You said Daggett was a hospital janitor?"

"Yea." Sam nodded.

"Ewww." Dean replied. "Got three tags here, one, death by gunshots, train accident, and suicide."

"Ewwwwww!" Sam said.

"Aw, gross." Angela said.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Well, that explains why all the death echoes are here." Angela answered. "They're here because their bodies are here… somewhere in the house?"

"Daggett brought the remains home from the morgue. To play." Dean said.

"Ewwwww! Ugh!" Harry and Ed replied.

"That's nasty, dude." Spruce said.

"Right." Sam nodded.

"Wait a minute." Dean said.

"Corbett." Maggie added. Maggie startled herself by coming across her own reflection in a mirror. "Okay, Maggie."

There was camera interference. Maggie swung the camera around, frightened, to reveal Dean.

"Closer to the herd, okay?" He said.

"Maggie? Maggie?" Harry asked.

"She's fine." Dean said.

"Harry." Ed said. "Harry, I got an 8.6 and climbing fast. Something huge is coming. Look. Something big is coming."

There was more camera interference.

"It's past 11, you guys." Harry said.

"What?" Dean asked. "Nobody move! Hold on. Hold on. Stay quiet."

There was more camera interference, then suddenly, Sam who stood next to Dean and Angela, disappeared into thin air.

"It's really cold in here." Ed said.

"Harry?" Maggie asked.

"Sam?" Dean asked.

"Sam?" Angela frowned.

"Some kind of surge." Ed said.

"Sam?" Dean asked.

"Where'd he go?" Spruce asked.

"Oh, no." Maggie said.

Dean found Sam's dropped flashlight and picked it up.

"Sam!" Dean and Angela yelled.

A/N: Hey guys, I'm posting a bit early today! I hope you guys liked this rather short chapter. It was fun to write. :) And to answer the review about adding Sam/Angie moments, that's a great idea! It would be hard to fit that into an episode though, so what I'm gonna do is make a separate 'story' for drabbles and one shots for they're days off from hunting and everything. I may start that relatively soon considering I'm still in the early planning of the next installment. Maybe during that time so you guys still have something to read every now and then. I will take requests for drabbles btw if your interested in giving an idea for something they'd do on a day off. :)

Don't forget to review, review, review! Love you guys!

~Emily