If anyone's reading this story and I'm not posting this for the ghosts, this chapter is a long one.
Ps. If you recognize the dialog is not mine :)
- Alex
Several days after saying goodbye to John found the siblings driving into East Texas. Alexandra was napping in the backseat while Sam was napping on the passenger seat while Dean drove; Dean smirked as soon as an idea hit his head, he rummaged around in the car until he found a plastic spoon and put it in Sam's mouth, then he snapped a picture and stole a glance at the backseat, his sister couldn't be left out, now could she? He smiled as he shrugged, the music would have to do for now. He turned the music louder and sang along.
"Fire...of unknown origins...took my baby away!" he sang loudly.
Both Sam and Alexandra jerked up, woken by Dean, Sam fumbled with the spoon as Alexandra covered her ears and glared at Dean who air drummed along to the song on the steering wheel.
"Ha ha, very funny" said Sam as he turned the music down; Dean grinned at him.
"Hilarious" said Alexandra leaning forward from the backseat.
"Heh heh heh. Sorry, not a lot of scenery here in East Texas" he said not looking sorry at all, Alexandra rolled her eyes "kinda gotta make your own."
"Man we're not kids anymore Dean. We're not going to start that crap up again." Said Sam.
"Start what up? What did I do?" Dean asked looking as innocent as possible.
"That prank stuff. It's stupid, and it always escalates." Sam explained; Alexandra huffed.
"Aw, what's the matter Sammy, scared you're going to get a little Nair in your shampoo again huh?" teased Dean, then he looked at Alexandra through the rearview mirror "You're not scared of a few pranks are you Lexy?"
"I want nothing to do with your pranks, any of you prank me and I'll cut your dicks off" she deadpanned grabbing one of her daggers and started cleaning her nails with it to make her point; Sam and Dean nodded.
"All right, just remember you started it, Dean" Sam said, Dean grinned
"Ah ha, bring it on baldy," Dean said; Sam nodded.
"Where are we anyway?" asked Sam after a moment, Dean shrugged.
"A few hours outside of Richardson. Gimme the lowdown again?" said Dean, Alexandra leaned on her seat as Sam started reading.
"All right, about a month or two ago this group of kids goes poking around in this local haunted house" Sam started.
"Haunted by what?" asked Dean.
"Apparently, a pretty misogynistic spirit. Legend goes, it takes girls and strings them up in the rafters. Anyway this group of kids see this dead girl hanging in the cellar." Sam explained; Alexandra raised an eyebrow.
"What did girls ever do to the guy? Turned him down at some party?" she asked, Sam smiled.
"It doesn't say, or I haven't found it," said Sam, Alexandra nodded.
"Anybody ID the corpse?" asked Dean, Sam gave him a side look.
"Well, that's the thing. By the time the cops got there the body was gone. So cops are saying the kids were just yanking chains."
"Maybe the cops are right." Said Dean
"Maybe, but I read a couple of the kids firsthand accounts. They seemed pretty sincere."
"Cops usually do dismiss children when they talk about freaky stuff, overactive imagination and all that" reasoned Alexandra.
"Where'd you read these accounts Sammy?" asked Dean.
"Well, I knew we were going to be passing through Texas. So, umm, last night, I surfed some local ... paranormal websites. And I found one." Sam explained, a little bashful, Alexandra smiled at him.
"And what's it called." She asked
" " he answered, Dean snorted.
"Lemme guess, streaming live out of Mom's basement." He said, Sam and Alexandra laughed.
"Yeah, probably." Said Sam.
"Yeah. Most of those websites wouldn't know a ghost if it bit 'em in the persqueeter." Dean said.
"Look. We let Dad take off. Which was a mistake, by the way. And now we don't know where the hell he is, so meantime we gotta find ourselves something to hunt. There's no harm checking this thing out." Sam told him, Dean and Alexandra exchanged glances through the rearview mirror; she shrugged.
"All right. So where do we find these kids?" asked Dean, Sam smiled.
"Same place you always find kids in a town like this." He answered.
They went to a small fast food restaurant where they interrogated the kids; the kids told them about Craig, a teen from a music store, they decided to go visit. From there they got the story of Mordechai Murdoch, a guy that had supposedly killed his daughters during the depression, Alexandra had grimaced when she heard the tale, although she had spent most of the time with her eyebrow raised at the teenager that was trying to give her the eyes.
They had decided to get a motel for the night and check the so-called Hell House come morning.
"Can't say I blame the kid." Said Sam as they made their way to the house, mud in their path.
"Yeah, so much for curb appeal." Said Dean, Alexandra snorted next to him.
"It's rather lovely," she said squinting her eyes "You know, if you cut out the creepy factor"
"The creepy factor is what has us here" said Sam, she nodded, Dean pulled out his EMF and it started making sounds, Sam and Alexandra looked at him interested.
"You got something?" asked Sam, Dean shook his head.
"Ye-ah. The EMFs no good." He said; Sam frowned.
"Why?"
"I think that thing's still got a little juice in it. It's screwing with all the readings." Dean explained as he gestured at the power wires around, Sam and Alexandra nodded.
"Yeah that'd fuck the readings," said Alexandra.
"Yeah. Come on, let's go." Dean said heading them towards the door, they walked inside and started looking around.
"Looks like old man Murdock was a bit of a tagger here in his time." Said Dean whistling, Alexandra moved to examine the sigils on the wall, taking pictures with her phone.
"And after his time too. That reverse cross has been used by Satanists for centuries but this sigil of sulfur didn't show up in San Franciso until the '60s" said Sam, Alexandra turned to him, head cocked to the side.
"What?" she asked, but before Sam could answer Dean interrupted him.
"That is exactly why you never get laid." Dean said with a smirk; Sam gave him a bitchface while Alexandra giggled, Dean moved to another wall "Hey what about this one, you seen this one before?" he asked, Alexandra and Sam moved to stand next to Dean so they could see the symbol.
"No." said Sam at the same time that Alexandra said "Yes", Dean looked at them raising an eyebrow.
"I have. Somewhere" Dean said as Sam placed his fingers on the wall rubbing the symbol.
"It's paint. Seems pretty fresh too." Sam said; Alexandra frowned.
"It doesn't make sense" said Alexandra placing her hand on the paint too.
"I don't know about you two and You know I hate to agree with authority figures of any kind, but ... the cops may be right about this one" said Dean, Alexandra and Sam exchanged a look and nodded.
"Yeah" they chorused, Dean raised an eyebrow at them, the youngest Winchesters shrugged.
Then a sudden noise snapped them out of their moment and into alert, they took up positions on either side of a door, Alexandra standing behind Sam, Dean looked at his siblings and nodded. Sam took a look at Alexandra and nodded at her too before they busted through, only to come to face a really bright light.
"Oh, cut. It's just a coupla humans." Said a male voice, Alexandra squinted her eyes, there were two guys, one holding an electrical gadget and the other a camera "What are you guys doing here?" asked the one holding the gadget, Dean glared at him.
"What they hell are you doing here?" he snapped.
"Ah-ha-ha. We belong here, we're professionals?" said the first guy.
"Professional what?" asked Dean, the guy smiled and pulled out cards out of his pockets.
"Paranormal Investigators." He said handing them the business cards "There you go, take a look at that, boys" Alexandra raised an eyebrow at him "and girl"
"Oh you gotta be kidding me." Said Dean, Alexandra snorted next to him, Dean started walking around opening cabinets
"Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spengler? . You guys run that website." Said Sam.
"Yeah." Said Ed proudly, Dean turned and winked at Alexandra, she smiled at him.
"Oh yeah, yeah, we're huge fans." He said; Ed looked at him.
"And ahh, we know who you guys are too." He said, that got the siblings attention
"Oh really?" asked Alexandra, Ed looked at her.
"Amateurs." He said, Dean rolled his eyes and turned around again to keep looking at the cabinets, Alexandra rolled her eyes "Looking for ghosts and cheap thrills."
"Yep. So if you guys don't mind, we're trying to conduct a serious scientific investigation here." Said the other guy, Harry, Dean looked at him.
"Yeah, what have you got so far?" he asked.
"Harry, why doncha tell 'em about EMF?" said Ed, Harry smiled.
"Well..." he started, Sam and Alexandra shared a look, mischief in their eyes.
"EMF, babe what is EMF?" asked Alexandra pulling Sam's sleeve, Sam smiled at her.
"According to the internet…"
"Electromagnetic field? Spectral entities can cause energy fluctuations that can be read with an EMF detector. Like this bad boy right here." Said Harry interrupting Sam and getting his EMF out of a bag, showing it to Alexandra, Dean smirked at his siblings.
"Babe, why don't you and Dean have one of those?" Alexandra asked Sam as she held his arm, Dean had to hold in a laugh.
"Cause they're amateurs, that's why" said Ed giving Alexandra a look; She frowned at Sam.
"Whoa. Whoa. It's 2.8mg." said Harry suddenly.
"2.8. It's hot in here." Said Ed, then he looked at Alexandra "Although it might be you" he did his best to wink at her, Dean whistled diverting the attention away from Alex.
"Wow." Said Sam.
"Huh. So you guys ever really seen a ghost before, or..." asked Dean, Alexandra raised an eyebrow at him.
"Once. We were, uh...we were investigating this old house and we saw a vase fall right off the table..." said Ed, Alexandra held back a snort and clasped Sam's hand in hers, Sam was also trying his best not to laugh.
"By itself" said Harry.
"Well, we, we we we didn't actually see it, we heard it. And something like that...it uh...it changes you." Explained Ed, Dean shook his head while Alexandra coughed a laugh, tightening her hold on Sam's arm.
"Yeah. I think I get the picture. We should go, let them get back to work." Said Dean, starting to walk towards Sam and Alexandra.
"Yeah, you should." Said Ed, Dean walked past him, clasping Sam's shoulder.
"Sam, Alex" he said leading them out of the house.
As soon as they made it outside they cracked off laughing.
"Amateurs" said Alexandra as they walked to the impala, Sam had his hand around her shoulder "Who do those kids think they are?" she asked, Dean smiled at her.
"Oh I don't know babe" he said with a smirk, she rolled her eyes at him, a smile on her face.
"Awe come on Dee, you know how creepy guys are, they would've started hitting on me" she defended herself, then she looked up at Sam "Besides, Sammy doesn't get mad when his sister needs him to be her shield, amirite Sammy?" she asked, Sam laughed.
"Course not, thats what brothers are for" he said, Alexandra stuck her tongue out at Dean.
"So what now?" she asked, Dean shrugged.
"I was thinking that maybe I could check the library" said Sam, Alexandra looked at him, then at Dean.
"I could mingle with the locals, ask around" said Dean as they got into the car, Sam opened the back door for Alexandra and she got in.
"I guess that gets me stuck in research duty with Sammy, since you'll need all your charm" she said smirking at Dean; he huffed.
"You college kids and your research" said Dean, Alexandra and Sam rolled their eyes at Dean.
"Says the kid that got an MIT acceptation letter" she argued, Dean looked uncomfortable for a second before rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, we're a little genius family, the joy" he said.
Dean parked the impala in a spot near the library; Alexandra and Sam made their way inside.
"It's not Disney world, but a little bonding didn't kill nobody" she said as they sat in one of the computers, Sam smiled at her.
"We had fun that day, didn't we?" he asked, she ruffled his hair.
"Simpler times Sammy, maybe someday we'll get to go with Dean, now you're tall enough to ride the rollercoasters" she teased, he rolled his eyes at her, the internet connection was pretty crappy so they had to wait for the website to charge.
"It would be nice, after we kill the demon" he said "We'd deserve vacations"
"And psychological help, never forget the help Sammy" she said with a grin, he ruffled her hair "Not the hair, it tangles" she said fixing her red hairband; Sam frowned.
"Is that the same one you had when we were children?" he asked; she nodded.
"Dean gave it to me one Christmas, I have never parted with it ever since," then she frowned "Well I have, but temporarily, 'sides, its useful, keeps the hair out of my face"
"It's really long, your hair" Sam said grabbing a dark lock of hair; she smiled at him.
"Dean will probably say that you are trying to grow it as long as mine, huh," she said bumping her shoulder with his, he laughed.
"Probably" Sam said, running a hand through his hair, "It's the same shade, Dean's lighter"
"Dean was a blond baby, you've seen pictures, he takes after mom, you and I take after dad," she said softly, Sam smiled at her, the page had loaded, they started reading, Alexandra reading over Sam's shoulder. "Sammy, about what the Demon said, me and Dee using you as luggage, you don't really think that, right?" she asked softly after a while, Sam looked at her.
"No, of course not" he said, Alexandra held his gaze for a moment.
"Cause you heard what Dee told us back at the motel, about us being a family, I… I agree with him in some parts" she said softly, Sam looked at her concern in his eyes "I tried the normal life like you did, but I couldn't stay away for long, Dean went to visit me several times and he looked so sad even though he tried to hide it, and Dad leaving him alone, I couldn't let Dean be wandering around the country alone, not when he has a family"
"I thought you dropped out because you got tired of college" Sam said, Alexandra smiled sadly at him.
"At the time I thought so too, but it was more than that Sammy, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you or Dee, you're my brothers and if I don't have your backs who will, huh? You know how dangerous hunting alone is" explained, a far off look on her face, Sam smiled at her.
"There's nothing I wouldn't do for you or Dean either" Sam said, Alexandra grinned at him.
"I know, but I'm not sure Dean understands that completely, he's the eldest and dad placed too much responsibility on him, Dean was almost our mother, father and everything in between, even thought I was kind of a prodigy I was still three years old when mom died, Dean was four, barely five and he took care of us" she said softly, Sam nodded "Just take it easy with Dee, I know that you guys don't like to talk about your feelings or something like that, but if there was something that I learned at college was that bottling things up, its never good"
"Okay" said Sam, she hugged him and placed a kiss on his hair.
"Now lets see what they say about Mordechai!" she said grinning suddenly, Sam smiled, as he knew that she would not push him to talk.
They read several papers and articles on the web, Sam even standing once to go to the bathroom while Alexandra continued the research. They found nothing on Mordechai but found about a guy named Murdoch. Sam called Dean when they finished and the three of them met outside of the library.
"Hey" said Sam as they walked down the stairs to meet Dean.
"Hey. What you got?" Dean asked, Sam fiddled with the journal as they walked
"Well we couldn't find a Mordechai but we did find a Martin Murdock who lived in that house in the '30s. He did have children but only two of them, both boys, and there's no evidence he ever killed anyone." Sam said; Alexandra nodded.
"Mister Murdoch was your average family guy, two sons who went to war in the 40's and he didn't seem like a psychopath, actually the town liked him quite much as his boys were total charmers with the ladies and were always lending a hand" Alexandra said with a grin
"Huh." Said Dean.
"What about you?" asked Sam as they reached the impala, they stood talking over the car.
"Well those kids didn't really give us a clear description of that dead girl but I did hit up the police station. No matching missing persons. It's like she never existed. Dude, come on, we did our digging, man, this one's a bust all right. For all we know those HellHound boys made up the whole thing." Dean said looking a bit annoyed by the whole thing; Sam and Alexandra shrugged.
"Yeah all right." Said Sam.
"I say we find ourselves a bar and some beers and leave the legend to the locals." Said Dean as he opened the door to the car.
Alexandra went to open the backseat door, but Sam discretely placed a hand on her shoulder halting her, he gave her a wicked smile and he leaned down to look in the window. Dean turned the car on and the speakers went on full blasting some tropical sounding song startling him, Dean tried to turn it off immediately accidentally turning the wipers on, when he finally managed to turn them off Dean leaned back onto his seat and Sam opened Alexandra's door for her, she got into the car with a pleased smile on her face.
"WHOA! What the..." said Dean as he gripped what had happened, Alexandra chuckled as Sam got in laughing and making a number one sign in the air then pointing at himself. Dean gave him a dirty look, "That's all you got? Weak. That is bush league." He said before starting the engine and pulling away.
They made base at a weird looking motel, it was too Texan for Alexandra's likes altogether. And then headed towards a bar nearby, Alexandra had ditched her jacket and her hairband and was wearing a long sleeved black V-neck; hair falling loosely framing her face, and her skinny jeans with her combat boots while Sam had ditched his jacket. They found a nice table for three and ordered beers. They were exchanging stories when a guy approached their table.
"Alexandra" said the guy, Sam and Dean straightened their postures and looked warily at the guy; Alexandra looked up green eyes glinting with malice as they met blue.
"Um… Hi, you are?" she asked sweetly, the man glared and Sam and Dean tensed next to her, she gave them a look.
"You're such a whore that instead of one guy you need to get two, are they paying for your drinks too?" he sneered, she rolled her eyes at him looking bored, she noticed that they had the bar's attention.
"I still don't know who you are, you see, I tend to forget useless thing and bad laids" she said with a shark-like grin "So which one were you, hun?"
"You're such a bi-" Mathew suddenly found himself acquaintanced with Sam's fist, Dean was also standing in a threatening pose, Alexandra snorted into her beer, Sam was a tall figure next to Mathew, Dean too.
"You will apologize to the lady now" growled Dean, who had taken a hold of Mathew's shirt, Mathew glared at Alexandra and she raised a defiant eyebrow at him.
"I'm waiting," she said with shit-eating grin on her pretty face.
"He said apologize," commanded Sam taking a hold of Mathew's shirt too, the man actually looked cowered between Sam and Dean.
"I'm sorry for calling you a whore Ma'am" Mathew said quickly, Dean shook him.
"You said another thing about my little sister, keep apologizing or they won't find your remains" Dean growled in Mathew's ear, Mathew paled.
"Yessir" he muttered, then looked at Alexandra, all the bravado gone "I'm sorry for calling you a bitch too, I won't approach you like ever again, I'm truly sorry, really, don't kill me" he was almost crying by this point, Alexandra smiled and nodded at her brothers, Sam let go of him but Dean didn't.
"This is the last time you will refer to a woman in those terms, no matter what she decides to do or not to do with you, am I understood?" Dean asked roughly, Mathew nodded before dashing out of the bar, Dean glared around and everyone returned to their business, he then sat next to Alexandra and took a sip of his beer, Alexandra smiled at him and placed a kiss on his cheek and then one on Sam's.
"My fierce brothers" she said with a smile, Sam rolled his eyes and Dean glared.
"I truly don't know where you find them," he said after taking another sip of his beer, Alexandra chuckled.
"That one was a mistake in Blue Earth, not happening again, I totally hate it when guys lie about their size, it-"
"Shut your face" warned Dean, Alexandra laughed "I don't want to know about his size or your escapades, I'm sure Sammy doesn't want to either, honestly it was better when you thought that other boys apart from me and Sammy had rabies"
"I didn't, wait rabies? Isn't it cooties?" she defended herself; Sam smirked.
"Dad told you it was rabies, and you totally did, I remember that kid from Nebraska, Allen, right?" Sam supplied, Dean laughed.
"You packed him a punch, Dad even had to go to the school because you broke a seventh grader's nose to keep yourself clean from rabies" Dean said laughing.
"He was weird and creepy" she defended herself. "And then of course there was Dean 'touch my little sister and die' Winchester to contend with"
"Good times Lexy, although that still stands, any dude that comes at you like that one did, is as good as dead" Dean said, Sam nodded.
"And now its not just Dean, Alex, meet Sam 'hurt my big sister and die' Winchester, I'm much more reasonable than Dean though" he said with a smile, Dean rolled his eyes.
"Besides Lexy, you can't talk much, you've never liked my girlfriends" said Dean, Alexandra rolled her eyes at him.
"Maybe you might have to try with a boyfriend then" she said, Dean glared at her while Sam laughed.
"Ha, ha, so funny Alexandra" said Dean, she raised an eyebrow at him, but kept drinking her beer.
"Jokes aside, Alex you need to pick them better" Said Sam giving her a lessened version of his puppy dog stare, she sighed.
"I know Sammy, trust me I do, I just wasn't feeling it at the moment, ya' know, looking for something to keep my mind occupied" she said, Sam and Dean looked uncomfortable for a moment. "But hey, enough of this chick flick moment, why don't I get us a couple of burgers, huh, I saw a menu here"
"Sure" said Dean and he moved to hand her money, she stopped him.
"On me tonight" she winked at him, then looked at Sam, "You okay with burgers?" she asked, he nodded.
They ate their burgers at the bar and then returned to the motel; Alexandra flopped onto her bed not bothering to take her clothes off, only her boots and falling asleep almost immediately, Sam and Dean shared a look when they noticed their sister sleeping peacefully over the covers, the night only promised to get colder, they exchanged glances.
"We tell no one of this" said Dean.
"Deal" answered Sam.
They moved to Alexandra's bed, Sam carefully carrying her so Dean could pull the covers down, Sam placed Alexandra on the bed, her soft breathing even. Dean tucked her in carefully, out of the three of them she was the heavy sleeper, reason why her bed was usually the one in the middle, away from the door and the windows, girl could sleep through storms and probably the apocalypse. Once they were pleased with their job they each turned to their beds shedding most of their clothes.
Next morning they heard that a girl had died in the house so they returned to the place in the morning, Dean spoke to one of the officers who told him that the girl hung herself, her death was to be listed as a suicide, apparently Mordechai did kill girls, they returned back to the motel to wait for the night.
"You're not going in" said Dean as he parked the car at night in front of the house, Alexandra scoffed.
"Why ever not, Dean?" she asked, he and Sam exchanged glances.
"A girl got killed in there Alex, you are a girl" said Sam, she gave him a dirty look.
"Oh gee! I hadn't noticed, what gave me away? Was it the high-pitched voice? No, don't tell me, it was the boobs, amirite" she said sarcastically, Dean sighed.
"Alex" he said warningly.
"No, I know, It was me bleeding all over the things you love, ain't it right Sammy?" she asked sweetly, Sam looked sick.
"Alex no" he said, She walked out of the car and opened the trunk grabbing her gun, Dean and Sam stood next to her.
"Alex yes, I am going in, I am as much as a hunter as you two knuckleheads" she said glaring at her brothers.
"Fine, but I still don't like it" Dean said, then looked at Sam "Watch her back Sammy" Sam nodded, they grabbed their flashlights and walked up to the house.
They had to hide in the bushes near the house as cops were stationed around, until Dean sold out Harry and Ed to the cops, the Winchesters dashed into the house and went down to the basemen where they started investigating, finding several colored jars and rats that had Alexandra clinging onto Sam, as Dean hated rats too. Then Mordechai appeared and tried to off them with an axe and they barely made it out bolting through the door and making a wild dash towards the impala.
"That thing is no ghost," said Alexandra as she regained her breath when they had reached the impala, Dean looked at her.
"You telling me?" Dean asked, they looked over at Sam, who was also holding onto the car.
"What the hell?" asked Alexandra, Sam and Dean shrugged and they decided to make their way to the motel for the night, they needed to research, again.
They returned to the motel that night and Dean had a breakthrough with one of the symbols painted at the house. They went back to the music store and talked to the kid again, apparently he had made the story up with his cousin, although that still didn't explain the Mordechai. It wasn't until next morning that Sam theorized that it could be a Tulpa.
"Something's wrong Sammy?" asked Alexandra as they walked to the eating-house to buy coffee; Sam had been fidgety all morning.
"Yeah, I'm fine" he said, Alexandra tilted her head to the side but decided to say nothing, unbeknown to her and Sam; Dean smirked as he held the door open for his siblings.
Dean ordered coffee and they sat on a table theorizing about Ideas and the Tulpa and the best possible way to kill them. Sam was still fidgety and Dean was strangely calm with it, so Alexandra supposed that it was another prank. Dean had an idea to deal with the Tulpa problem. They stood to leave and Sam was still fidgeting.
"I think I'm allergic to the soap or something" said Sam finally, Dean laughed as he started to walk away, Alexandra threw Sam a sympathetic look, "You did this?" he asked but Dean kept laughing "You're a frigging jerk!"
"Oh yeah" Dean said, Alexandra giggled and placed her hand on Sam's arm offering him a smile.
"Let's go Sammy, I might know a way to help you," she said as she dragged him outside.
After a fast trip to their motel room and another shower and pair of underwear for Sam; and Alexandra's laughter, they went with Dean to pay a visit to Ed and Harry so they could change the legend again. Dean and Alexandra played them to the beat and they left for a restaurant so they could have lunch, not without Alexandra showing them a hundred dollar bill that she had pickpocketed from Ed.
"How?" asked Dean as they took their seat at the dinner, they ordered beers.
"I will not reveal my secrets to you, 'sides they deserved it, they never should have tried to woo me that badly" she said with a smirk, Sam and Dean laughed.
They ordered beers and Sam pulled out his laptop, Dean excused himself to go to the bathroom as the beers arrived, Sam smiled gleefully at the open chance, he took out a tube of superglue and looked at Alexandra who took a sip of her beer and shrugged, it was not her war. Once Dean's bottle was covered with superglue and Dean returned, it was only a matter of time. Dean returned looking gleeful and started fiddling with the cords of a fisherman artwork that laughed whenever the cord was pulled.
Sam got annoyed fast and held the cord while glaring at Dean "If you pull that string one more time I'm gonna kill you." He threatened.
Alexandra smiled into her beer and watched as Dean stared at Sam, deadpan, and pulled the cord again, Sam stopped it, still glaring at Dean
"Come on man, you need more laughter in your life. You know you're way too tense." Said Dean with a smirk, "Isn't he tense Lexy?" Dean asked turning to his sister.
"Oh no, don't pull me into your lover's spat" she said with a smile, Sam and Dean glared at her. Dean sighed and looked at Sam.
"They post it yet?" he asked, Sam moved his laptop around so Alexandra and Dean could see it.
"We've learned from reputable sources that Mordechai Murdock has a fatal fear of firearms." Read Alexandra out loud to her brothers;
"All right. How long do we wait?" asked Dean, Sam sighed.
"Long enough for the new story to spread, and the legend to change. I figure by nightfall iron rounds will work on the sucker." Sam explained, Dean nodded; Sam then held his beer out to Dean, who lifted his own and tapped against Sam's, Alexandra kept her eyes on the computer to contain her smile.
"Sweet." Said Dean before taking a drink of his beer; Sam started grinning when Dean couldn't put the bottle down.
"You didn't." said Dean, Sam was laughing at this point and Alexandra smiling into her bottle.
"Oh, I did!" said Sam holding up the Superglue, Dean shook his hand several times while Sam laughed and pulled the cord of the fisherman so it started laughing again.
"This is going to take hours," Dean said trying to pull the bottle from his hand; Alexandra stopped him.
"Calm down you big baby" she said rummaging into her bag, she pulled out a bottle of nail polish remover and several cotton balls "Hand" she ordered, Dean offered his hand looking confused.
"How do you know it will work?" he asked, Alexandra grinned at him.
"You and Sammy are not the only one who likes pranks, although in college pranks wars always blew up to epic proportions," She said as she worked on Dean's hand, careful to remove as little skin as possible.
"You participated in prank wars?" asked Sam, surprised; she shrugged.
"There was no other choice Sammy, it was prank or get pranked and I'm a Winchester, I have a reputation to keep" she said with a smirk; Sam smiled at her.
"You never did like to participate in ours though" Dean pointed out; she shrugged.
"It would have been unfair, besides your prank wars escalate enough as they are trust me, you don't need me making things worse, I don't play nice" she said with a smug smile on her face; she returned her attention to Dean's hand and finally had gotten the bottle off with minimum damage.
"Any memorable pranks?" asked Sam; she grinned at him.
"Oh yes, there was this girl who kind of worshipped Loki, she had a shrine on her dorm and all, and no she was not a witch, I checked, she was into mythology, but she really worshiped Loki, so whenever we had a prank war we had to make offerings to Loki so we had good luck and such, thing is that I won the war, I stuck a girl to the ceiling with duct tape while she slept, I placed plastic wrap in most doorways, I also filled the Loki worshipper's room with cups filled with water, like the whole floor, like I said, it was crazy town back in college" she said, Sam and Dean looked at her impressed.
"You're a monster" Dean said with a smile, she rolled her eyes at him.
"Those were my wild college days, I needed them" she said, her brothers smiled, she finally finished cleaning Dean's hand and smiled at him "There you go, try not to peel the remaining skin or it will be uncomfortable as hell" she said, Sam raised an eyebrow.
"Personal experience?" he asked, she grinned at him.
"Hey, I was not the only one who was good, I was the best, but there were some good contenders" she said.
Come nightfall the siblings armed with their guns decided to visit the house again. Dean had the fantastic idea to distract the policemen with the annoying fisherman art from the restaurant, thing that gave them an opening to the house. They started searching the house methodically but there was no sign of Mordechai, then they bumped with Ed and Harry who were stupidly in the house trying to film the ghost, they opened a door and Mordechai appeared the siblings shooting him making the ghost turn into mist. The siblings exchanged glances and split up to check the other rooms for signs of the ghost.
Alexandra took the basemen and went downstairs with her gun at the ready, she took several steps down when she heard the commotion upstairs, she swore under her breath and took a fast look before running back upstairs.
"Dee!" she said as she saw Dean spraying kerosene around she looked around him "Where's Sammy?" she asked.
"Next room" he said as he continued to work, she nodded at him and walked into the other room where Mordechai had Sam pinned to the wall.
"Hey fugly! Fight with someone your own age" she said shooting at the wall next to him, that got his attention and he let go of Sam to go after her, Dean walked in behind her, and she ducked so he could scare Mordechai with fire, she ran past the tulpa and helped Sam up.
"Go, go go!" said Dean, Alexandra nodded at him and dragged Sam with all her strength until they were in the porch of the house, Dean close behind fiddling with his lighter. "Mordechai can't leave the house, we can't kill him, we improvise." He said as he threw the lighter into the room, bursting it into flames, Alexandra kept dragging Sam outside of the house as it burned.
"That's your solution? Burn the whole damn place to the ground?" asked Sam as they watched the house burn.
"It's a damn good solution, you were almost dead Samuel" Alexandra said as she checked him over for wounds, he tried to bat her hands away to no avail.
"Well nobody will go in anymore. I mean look, Mordechai can't haunt a house if there's no house to haunt. It's fast and dirty but it works." Reasoned Dean as he looked at his siblings.
"Alex stop it I'm fine" Sam told Alex holding her hands in his, she pouted at him, then he looked at Dean "What if the legend changes again and Mordechai is allowed to leave the house?"
"We come back and find a way to kill it, simple Sam" Alexandra said freeing her hands, she sighed and ran a hand through her hair "Can we go?" she asked Dean, Dean laughed.
"Yeah, lets get out of here"