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"Hey, don't we get a phone call?" Dean called out from the cell he was sharing with Sam as the officer who had arrested them just five hours earlier walked over to them and stood outside their cell.
"No need" He said "You're free to go"
"Really?" Sam asked curiously, standing up from where he'd been sitting on the bed, if one could call it that. It was true that their firearms hadn't actually been loaded with real ammunition, but it was strange that they would just let them go. The police hadn't even fingerprinted them.
"Yep" The officer said, pulling out his keys and unlocking the cell door "Your girlfriend's waiting for you outside" He said looking at Sam.
Sam frowned wondering who he was talking about. It could only really be Isabel "Isabel?" He asked the officer.
"How many girlfriends do you have, boy?" The officer asked him with a teasing smirk.
The officer led them out into the foyer of the station, where Isabel was sitting on one of the chairs. Her legs were crossed, and her arms were also crossed over her chest. Her expression was one of both amusement and self-satisfaction as she watched them with a half smile and a raised eyebrow.
"All yours Miss" The officer said as he reached Isabel "Keep them out of trouble, will ya?"
"I can only try Sir" She said standing up and walking over to the boys "So girls, how was the slumber party?"
"Splendid" Dean mused as another officer returned with their personal effects "How did you get us out?"
"I saw you getting arrested" She said still smiling "I came by and told them you were just a couple of dumbass pledges"
"And they believed you?" Dean asked.
She smiled wickedly and spread her arms, doing a full spin in front of them before turning to them and raising her eyebrows "Oh boys, please"
Now that they looked at her, it was difficult to ignore the short black skirt, brown knee length boots and low cut beige top. Sam looked at her disapprovingly and Dean just shook his head with a chuckle.
"You're my girlfriend now?" Sam asked with his hands on his hips as he stared down at her.
"I didn't want them to know I was related to you two halfwits" She said, raising her hand to reveal Dean's car keys around her index finger.
His face lit up like a Christmas tree as he grabbed the keys from her "My baby"
"Yeah, I'm fine, by the way" She said following them out of the station. She walked along Sam and nudged him on the ribs to get his attention "I've been driving his baby all morning, should I tell him?"
Sam smiled back at her "Please, allow me" He whispered conspiratorially to her before taking a step back "You scratched the car?" He yelled loudly whilst giving her an exaggerated wink. Her smile immediately disappeared.
Out of the corner of her eye Isabel saw Dean freeze in his spot and slowly turn to them. She looked at Sam with a warning frown on her face.
"Sam, what are you doing?" She asked quietly.
"Just go along with it" He whispered back to her "Watch him go nuts"
"I'd rather not" She looked at him dubiously "He looks like he wants to kill me" She said quickly before turning to Dean, who was now fast approaching them. His eyes were narrowed and focused angrily on Isabel.
"Dean, it was an accident" Sam said stepping in front of Isabel and blocking her from Dean's menacing advance.
"You scratched my car?" Dean asked, holding to his rapidly vanishing self-control. He tried to get around Sam, but he was keeping Isabel close behind him.
"Dean, she didn't mean it" Sam kept saying "We can fix it. It's no big deal"
"No bid deal?" Dean asked angrily over Sam's shoulder "Isabel, get over here and tell me what the hell happened to my car!"
Isabel panicked, grabbing at the material of Sam's jacket with her fists as she used him as a shield against her older cousin "I didn't scratch your car Dean" She protested, poking her head around Sam's body "He's lying!"
"Fess up now sweetheart, because if I find even one little scratch anywhere on it…" He threatened her, still trying to get around Sam. Dean stopped suddenly as he heard a laugh escape his brother "What are you laughing at?" He asked focusing his attention on him.
"You" Sam said, now breaking down into a fit of chuckles "You should have seen your face"
Dean looked from Sam to Isabel suspiciously "He's joking?"
"Yes, you idiot, I told you he was lying" Isabel said annoyed.
Sam laughed again and started walking towards the car shaking his head "You two are funny" He said over his shoulder.
Isabel and Dean shared a look before turning back to glare daggers at Sam's back.
"You thought that was funny?" Dean asked as he and Isabel followed him down the steps of the police station onto the street.
"You should have seen the look on your face Dean" Sam said, still amused "Priceless"
"Priceless? Pull something like that again and you'll get a kick to the crotch" Isabel said bitingly "How's that for a fair price?"
As they stepped out, a flurry of cops rushed past them. Dean and Sam shared a look and Isabel groaned, knowing that they were now going to follow and investigate, rather than return to the motel and relax.
They followed the police cars to the sorority, finding Lori outside. Her father and the sheriff were arguing about something, before the reverend pulled Lori away and they drove off.
"Dude, sorority girls!" Dean said excitedly to Sam as two girls walked out of the house "Think we'll see a naked pillow fight?"
"For Christ's sake Dean" Sam said rolling his eyes at his brother's one-track mind.
"Oh come on Sammy" Dean said smiling mischievously "All girls are just a couple of margaritas away from girl on girl action!"
"Grow up, will you?" Sam said.
"Well, in his defence, he's kinda right" Isabel said shrugging "You know, when I was in college, my roommate and I got wasted one night, and before we knew it…"
Dean turned to her sharply "Stop right there" He warned her "Don't you dare ruin that fantasy for me"
She raised her eyebrows "Sorry" She said lifting her hands in a gesture of surrender "Never happened"
"Can you two get your minds out of the gutter for just one minute and focus?" Sam cut in impatiently "We need to go in and check it out"
They parked the car outside and Dean turned back towards Isabel.
"Oh, don't worry" She said, beating him to it "I'm staying in the car"
They left her, returning about fifteen minutes later.
"Taylor's dead" Sam said as they drove off.
"Lori's roommate" Isabel said "Find anything?"
"I think we're definitely dealing with some manifestation of the Hook Man" Sam said, he pulled out a piece of paper in which he'd drawn the symbol that had been painted on the girl's wall with blood "And he left this symbol on the wall"
"Wait a minute" She frowned as she looked at it then snatched it from him. She started flipping through the files and papers they'd collected during their research at the library the day before. She found what she was looking for and shoved the printout towards Sam "Look at that"
He grabbed it off of her and looked at Dean as he recognised the symbol.
"It's definitely the spirit of Jacob Carnes"
"Alright, let's find the dude's grave, salt and burn the bones, and put him down" Dean said in a determined tone.
"Hang on there, Mulder" Isabel said, reading from another article "After execution, Jacob Carnes was laid to rest in an Old North Cemetery. In an unmarked grave"
Sam and Dean sighed in frustration.
"Super" Dean said.
They drove back to the motel, thinking about the next plan of action. Isabel changed into more comfortable clothes as they boys took turns having a shower.
"OK, so we know it's Jacob Carnes" Sam said as Dean stepped out of the bathroom "But we still don't know where he'll manifest next. Or why"
"I'll take a wild guess" Isabel said as she laid down on the bed "I think Sam's little friend, Lori, has something to do with this"
"I think I've got something" Sam said looking up from this laptop and papers on the desk near the window.
There were a whole bunch of murders in the town's history connected to clergymen, dating back to 1932. But there was still the question as to how all this was connected to Lori Sorensen.
"Reverend Sorensen" Dean said connecting the dots "You think he's summoning the spirit?"
"We should keep an eye on Lori's place tonight" Sam said.
"Isabel" Dean said "How do you feel about dropping by Lori's place while we go find this grave?"
"What?" She asked, sitting up on the bed and looking at Dean with a reluctant frown on her face.
"Just go over and talk to her" Dean explained, slipping a shirt on over his jeans "you know what I mean…be girly and do that girl talk stuff"
She scoffed "I'm not very good with the girl talk" She said tilting her head towards Sam "Can't Samantha do it?"
Dean snorted and Sam looked up at them annoyed.
"I hate to agree with Isabel" Sam said as if it truly pained him to "but I don't think she should go near the reverend or Carne's grave"
"It's settled then. I stay here" Isabel said, slumping back onto the bed and looking at Sam with narrowed eyes "I'm also going to pretend that wasn't a slur on my virtue"
"Virtue" Sam scoffed "Good one"
Silenced by surprise at Sam's uncharacteristic insult, she settled for rewarding him with an unamused glare.
Dean nodded. Sam was right, it was probably better not to involve Isabel in this whatsoever. If the reverend was in fact summoning this evil spirit to protect his daughter from immorality, then he didn't want Isabel anywhere near the reverend or his daughter. He was also not going to take Isabel to a cemetery in the middle of the night to dig up a grave.
"You stay in this room…" He started.
"Lock the doors and call you if anything happens, I know" She finished for him "Be careful"
"You too" Sam said as the boys headed out.
They jumped into the car and Dean wasted no time in driving off towards Lori's house. Sam glanced back towards the motel as they rounded the corner and it disappeared out of sight.
"Think she'll be OK?" He asked Dean.
"She was fine last night. Saved both our asses" Dean shrugged "Why? Do you think that maybe she should come along?"
"I don't know" Sam said unsurely "Not really. I mean, it's not safe, is it?"
"No safer than leaving her in a motel room all alone at night" Dean pointed out.
Sam frowned as he looked out the window "I hadn't thought of it like that"
"Really? I had" Dean said "I still don't want her coming out to dig up a grave with me in the middle of the night"
"I don't want her near Lori or her dad either" Sam said then turned back to Dean "Just hurry back to her Dean, will you? I don't want her alone all night"
"Maybe this whole thing was a bad idea" Dean said finally.
Sam sighed loudly, partly agreeing with Dean, partly not.
"I think she's getting better Dean" He said in a hopeful tone "I think this trip is helping her, although maybe it was too soon to take her on the road. You think we should take her back home?"
Dean looked at Sam strangely as he pulled up to Lori's house "It honestly hadn't crossed my mind" He said with a frown "I meant that coming to Iowa to hunt an evil spirit was a bad idea. Why? Do you want to take her back?"
"Not really, no" Sam said.
Dean nodded; satisfied with his brother's answer "Good, 'cause we're not" He looked up towards the reverend's house across the street "No, run along Samantha"