The cool crisp air made Sam feel at ease as he got out of the Impala. Sam and Dean had gotten in contact with the friends of the hikers whom went missing and had driven out to the motel to meet them for questioning. As Dean got out of the car, Sam looked around the parking lot. There weren't many cars here, and it might be a good idea to get a room for recovery after they fought the wendigo. Sam and Dean had fought wendigos before, and they were not only strong and fast but smart as well. Odds were that Sam and Dean would at least have a few more bruises by the end of this hunt. Having a hotel room waiting for them might be a good idea.

Dean also glanced around and gave Sam a look; he clearly had the same idea. Quickly checking into the motel, Dean grabbed the room key, and they headed towards the hikers' room. Sam knocked on the There was no movement inside, and Sam was worried that something may have happened to them before the door opened. A small woman opened the door warily and looked them up and down.

"Hello, I'm Agent Osborne, and this is Agent Smith," Dean quickly said trying to ease the tension. "We spoke to a Benjamin Alben on the phone. I'm sorry. We didn't get your name, Miss…?"

"Lin. I'm Aubrey Lin," Aubrey replied as she turned and motioned for them to follow her into the room and closed the door behind them.

Sam suddenly realized where he knew that name. They had worked a case a while back with a mysterious lizard man and an accidental death, and she had been the last person to see the victim. They had never gotten to interview her due to circumstances, so hopefully their cover as agents wasn't blown.

"Ben, they're here!" Aubrey shouted and banged on the bathroom door.

A tall man about the size of Sam soon emerged from the bathroom, wiping shaving cream from his face. As he met Sam's eyes, Sam could see recognition on his face.

"Ah, the 'agents.' Don't worry, guys," he said impishly at Sam and Dean's surprised faces. "I just remember you from the campus. You're the guys that Nadir told me about."

"What?! Ben! When?" Aubrey asked angrily and shot Sam and Dean a distrustful glare.

"At ease, Aubrey," Ben replied calmly. "Remember when Nadir asked us a little while ago if we'd heard anything about May and you stomped off in a huff? I stayed and asked him why he was interested. He told me that the 'agents' asking for you on campus were really hunters, and I'm actually really happy that you showed up and not real agents."

"Why?" Dean asked now on edge.

"Because 'real agents' wouldn't believe what happened to us, but you probably know more about what we fought than we do," Ben replied still calm and shared at look with Aubrey.

"What happened to your friends? You told police that they suddenly disappeared."

"They kind of… did disappear. We heard rustling in the trees and didn't think anything of it. Not long after we couldn't find them, but we heard their voices. We thought that they were trying to play a prank on us, so we followed behind them as quietly as we could. I don't think that it heard us coming," Ben stopped talking for a second as though reliving the moment.

"It was a grotesque… monster!" Aubrey added. "It looked almost human but big and just skin and bone. Its eyes…!" Aubrey stopped and shivered. "You could just tell that it wasn't a person."

Sam shared a glance with Dean. That sounded like a wendigo for sure, but the only question was how these two were alive.

"What happened next? Were you able to sneak away?" Sam asked tentatively, and Aubrey scoffed.

"No, it saw us," Ben continued. "And I just charged it. That seemed to take it off guard for a bit, and although I can't change forms anymore, I still have a little bit of strength left. Enough to send it flying into the trees. After that we took off running for camp, and Aubrey got ahold of some of our fireworks. We had brought some sparklers with us while we camped."

"And when it attacked us, I lit them up right in its face," Aubrey said smugly. "Bet it never saw that coming."

"After that it ran away into the forest, but then another one appeared."

"How do you know it wasn't the same one?" Sam asked alarmed. Wendigo were usually solitary creatures, and he prayed that they were just confused.

"Because the one I hit with the sparklers had a tattoo and still looked at least kind of human. The other one was bigger and faster," Aubrey explained.

"We had a campfire started before we left. I saw what the sparklers did to the other one and used the fire to keep the bigger one at bay. We made it to the car and hit the gas. We figured that Mike and Claire were either dead or hiding, so we went to the police."

"Fat lot of help that was," Aubrey snapped as she threw the last of her luggage in a bag.

"So what was it?" Ben asked; his eyes were pleading with Sam and Dean as though asking him if he did the right thing.

"It's called a wendigo, and you were smart to get out of there when you did," Dean assured him gruffly. "Otherwise more people would have probably gone missing before anyone noticed, and we wouldn't be here."

"Oh, so you saw my story on Reddit?" Ben asked.

Dean's eyes narrowed, and Sam had to hide a smile. Point one to Syd, Sam thought to himself.

"Someone did," Dean responded.

"Are they dead?" Aubrey asked blatantly. She stared at Sam and Dean waiting for an answer, but her eyes betrayed no emotion.

"Maybe," Sam said. "There's a small chance that they might still be alive. Wendigo try to keep… their food fresh for as long as possible."

Aubrey nodded, pulled out a few sparklers from her bag, and handed them to Dean.

"We'll stay in town then," Ben said. "That way they have a ride back if… yeah." Ben scratched the back of his neck and stopped.

"You should probably leave. The wendigos may come after you again," Sam explained.

Aubrey said nothing but left the room. She came back in with a grill lighter and hairspray.

"Give us your number, and we'll give you a call if they do. And if they do, they'll be sorry," Aubrey said with a devilish grin.