Hey guys! Happy holidays! I am back home now and am back for a month. I'm so happy to have a whole month that I can do some writing for you guys. We may actually finish season 2 before I go back to school! You'll have a solid two seasons to read and reread if you so please for a while when I'm not able to write as much. Anyways, I'm watching a friend's live stream as I write this. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Hollywood Babylon Part
I never expected the first time I get to go to Los Angeles I get to go to a movie set. Granted it's because of a case, but we're still on a movie set! There's been a weird death on set, and because Dean is in love with these kinds of movies, we had to come check it out. So, we got ourselves some tickets for the tour and got on the cart thing.
"First opened in 1927, the lot has been in continuous operation for eight decades." The tour guide says as we get going.
"Hey, you know this is where they filmed 'Creepshow'?" I hear Dean ask the kid in front of us. The kid gives him a weird look and continues eating his ice cream.
"Now, to the right here is Stars Hollow. It's the setting for the television series Gilmore Girls, and if we're lucky, we might even catch one of the show's stars." So, I checked out the show and the guy who plays Dean on the show kinda looks like Sam. It's a little weird. Wonder what that guy is like.
"Come on." Sam whispers to us.
"Let's finish the tour!" Dean says excitedly. Sam gets off the cart anyways. I jump off after him, but Dean stays for a moment.
"Dean!" Sam whisper yells. Dean gets off, and we take off.
"Sammy, Kate, check it out, it's Matt Damon!" Dean says pointing at some guy. He doesn't look like Matt Damon.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not Matt Damon."
"No, it is." Dean says.
"Well, Matt Damon just picked up a broom and started sweeping."
"Yeah, well, he's probably researching a role or something."
"Ahhh, I don't think so." I say.
"Hey, this way, uh, I think stage 9 is over here." Sam says pointing at a sign that says stage 9.
"Come on, guys, let's keep going this way." Dean whines.
"No, come on, we've gotta work." Sam says. Dean sighs but doesn't say anything "Dude, you wanted to come to L.A."
"Yeah, for a vacation. I mean swimming pools and movie stars! Not to work." Yeah, it would be nice to actually have a vacation.
"This seem like swimming pool weather to you, Dean? I mean it's practically Canadian." I say. I almost laugh at my own joke. Kinda wish we could go to Vancouver.
"Yeah, I just figured that, you know, after everything that happened with...Madison y-you could use a little R and R, that's all." Dean says turning to Sam.
"Well, maybe I wanna work, Dean. Maybe it keeps my mind off things." Sam says.
"Okay, okay, all right. So, this crew guy...what did he...he died on set?"
"Yeah, uh, rumors spreading like wildfire online. They're saying the set's haunted."
"Like 'Poltergeist'?" I ask.
"Could be a poltergeist."
"No, no, no. Like the movie 'Poltergeist." Dean says. "You know nothing of your cultural heritage, do you? It was rumored that the set of 'Poltergeist' was cursed. That they used real human bones as, uh, as props. And, like, at least three of the actors died in it."
"Well, yeah, it might be something like that."
"All right, so this crew guy...what's his name?" I ask.
"Frank Jaffey."
"Frank Jaffey...he got a death certificate or a coroner's report or anything?"
"Well, no. But, uh, it's L.A., you know? It might not even be his real name, but the girl who found him, she said she saw something...a vanishing figure."
"What's the girl's name?"
"Uh, Tara Benchley?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Tara Benchley? From 'Fear dot Come' and 'Ghost Ship', Tara Benchley? Dude, why didn't you say so?" Dean asks.
"So now, you're suddenly on board?"
"Oh, I just...I mean, I'm a fan of her work. It's very good." Dean says slightly calm as he walks off to Stage 9. We enter and soon after a guy comes over to us.
"Uh, excuse me, Green Shirt Guy?" Dean points to himself. "Yeah, you. Come here." Dean goes over to the guy. "Can you get me a smoothie from Kraft?"
"You want a what from who?"
"You are a P.A.? This is what you do?" The guy asks. Sam and I walk over to Dean quickly.
"Yeah, yeah...he uh...one smoothie coming right up." Sam says. We walk away quickly.
"What's a P.A.?" Dean asks once we're out of earshot.
"I think they're kind of like slaves." Sam says. The rest of the day goes on like that. Me, Sam, and Dean do stuff around the set for everyone without anything bad happening luckily. We pulled off this fake P.A. stuff. We met up at the Kraft services table later to talk about if we had found anything.
"So?" Sam asks us. He was supposed to try and find anything on the dead guy.
"Well, I think being a P.A. sucks. But...the food these people get...are you kidding me? I mean look at these things." Dean says picking up a sandwich. "They're like miniature Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. They're delicious." He holds one out to Sam.
"Maybe later." Sam says turning it down. Dean just shrugs and eats the sandwich. I grab one and starting eating it. I was starving.
"Uh...Frank Jaffey was just filling in for the day. Nobody here knew him or where he lived or anything." Sam says.
"Oh, great. So you found out about as much as we did." Dean says.
"No, not quite, I..." A guy approaches us.
"Hey, guys." The guy says.
"Oh, hey." Dean says.
"Sorry." The guy says as he grabs a sandwich.
"That's all right." I say moving out of the guy's way. The guy leaves once he has his sandwich.
"They're wonderful!" Dean says.
"Listen, I did dig up some stuff about Stage 9's history." Sam says.
"Yeah?" I ask.
"Yeah, four people died messy here over the past eighty years. Two suicides and two fatal accidents." Sam says.
"Any one of those could be a vengeful spirit." Dean says.
"Yeah, we've just gotta narrow it down more." I say.
"I'll get right on that." Dean says walking off. He walks over to Tara and starts talking to her.
"I'll see you later Sam. I've gotta get back on set unlike him." I say pointing to Dean. Sam nods, and we go our separate ways. We meet back up to find out that Dean had found some information on this Frank Jaffey, whose name was actually Gerard St. James. We head over and knock on the door.
"Gerard St. James?" Dean asks when the man answers the door.
"Yes." Gerard says.
"You're still alive, and you're not Frank Jaffey." Sam says. Gerard just looks extremely confused.
"Uh, no?"
"You were Desert Soldier Number Four in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn?" Dean asks excitedly. How the heck does he even know that? Why would anyone pay that much attention to small characters?
"I was."
"I knew I recognized you. I am a huge fan. Heh heh." What the heck? "I mean, your turn as a tractor crash victim in Critters 3..."
"Critters 3!"
"Wow. Yeah."
"Well, please, come in." Gerard says stepping aside and letting us inside. He brings the boys some coffee and me some tea and sugar. "Yeah, it was the producers. They brought me up for the day to play Frank."
"Just to fake your death?" I ask. Gerard sat down across from us.
"Well, rumors of a haunted film set, free publicity, especially when you're making a horror movie. I mean, uh, it's already all over the internet." Well, at least no one got hurt.
"Yeah, we know." Sam says.
"These days it's all about new media, building buzz. They say I'm the new 'lonelygirl'."
"Who?" Dean asks.
"And the ghost Tara saw?" Sam asks.
"Projected on a screen of diffusion." Gerard says.
"Isn't that kind of cruel? Messing with their heads like that?" Dean asks.
"Hey, I just play the part. I don't write the script. Speaking of, I'm playing Willy in a...in a dinner theater production of Salesman at Costa Mesa, all next month." Gerard says giving me a wink. Is this guy seriously trying to flirt with me? "You get a free pepper steak with the coupon. Maybe I can take you there sometime?" Yep definitely hitting on me. I was about to reply no when Dean spoke first.
"Now, wait a second. If you're...if you're seen in public, won't that ruin the hoax?"
"Oh, please. Frank and Willy? Totally different characters. So-" Sam cut him off this time.
"You know what? Thanks very much, Mr. St. James. It was just nagging at us, you know? But we're...we're very glad...you know...you're alive and well." Are these boys going to let me reject this guy.
"Absolutely." Gerard shakes the boys' hands then gets to me and shakes my hand but doesn't let go of my hand.
"So, about that date?"
"Sorry, but I'm already seeing someone." I reach back and grab Sam's hand. Gerard suddenly looked a bit scared.
"Oh, I didn't realize..."
"It's cool, but we're gonna go ahead and go." Me and Sam walk away still holding hands.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you..." Dean starts.
"Dean!" I yell back at him.
"Okay, fine! Geez." He says following us out to the Impala. We get in and drive off. "So, do you two have something to tell me?" Dean asks after a while.
"Are you asking whether or not we're dating? The answer to that is no. I just really didn't want to date that guy. He creeps me out."
"And yet you would date that guy who was mind controlling you."
"He was a sweetheart. That guy looks like he wouldn't stop if I said no."
"Whatever floats your boat sweetheart." Dean says.
To Be Continued...
Well, there we go guys! Another chapter in the books! I start school on the 14th, and it will be my last semester! Ah! I'm so nervous about it. I can't believe I'll be done. Well, at least for a little bit. I would like to go get my Masters Degree at some point. Anyways, I hope you guys have an amazing day! Bye!
