Challenge Word: Darling

Warnings/Spoilers: None.

100 words per MS Word Count

In a Cavern

By Swellison

"You're sure this is our kinda case?" Sam questioned from the stalagmite he was crouched behind.

"Of course! Y'think people disappear'n die in caves all the time?"

"Don't you read the papers? People die in caves a lot. Mining's still the most dangerous occupation—"

"Shhhhhh!" Dean cut him off.

"I will NOT—" Then Sam heard it, too—faint singing.

"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my dar-ling Clementine—"

A grubby-looking apparition with a pickax appeared before them. Dean fired his shotgun, and the ghost-miner disappeared.

"Let's go. We've gotta lot of research to do," Sam conceded.