"Here" Haley offered her a bottle of water. Brie smiled to thank her as she took the bottle and took a sip of it. "How long has your friend been missing for?"
Brie shakes her head "I don't know. Not long. I hit my head and was unconscious while she was dragged away. One minute we were hiking and the next we were attacked. I didn't see what it was. It was too fast" Brie starts tearing up again "I need to go find her" She stands up and grabs her things as Sam rushes to her side.
"Your not going anywhere. You cant go out there alone, its too dangerous. We will help you look for her. But right now your not in the right state to go looking for her" he touches her next to her cut on her forehead "Let me take a look at that" Brie nods and sits back down as she Haley moves to let Sam sit next to Brie to let him bandage her cut up. Dean watches Brie as she getting attended to Sam. She looks familiar but he couldn't pin point where he had seen her before.
Dean goes over to Sam and Brie "I need to speak with you. In private"
Sam and Dean head a little ways away from the group. "Good. Let me see Dad's journal"
Sam hands it over. Dean opens it and flips through until he finds a particular page "All right, check that out" Dean points to a First Nations style drawing of a figure. "Oh come on, wendigos are in the Minnesota woods or, or northern Michigan. I've never even heard of one this far west"
"Think about it, Sam, the claws, the way it can mimic a human voice" Dean takes out his pistol. "Well then this is useless"
Dean gives Sam back John's journal and heads past Sam, stopping for a moment. "We gotta get these people to safety"
Back at the campsite, Sam addresses the group "All right, listen up, it's time to go. Things have gotten more complicated"
Haley stands up "What?"
"Kid, don't worry. Whatever's out there, I think I can handle it" Roy cocks his gun.
"It's not me I'm worried about. If you shoot this thing, you're just gonna make it mad. We have to leave now" Sam demanded.
"One, you're talking nonsense. Two, you're in no position to give anybody orders"
"We never should have let you come out here in the first place, all right? I'm trying to protect you"
Roy steps right into Sam's space. "You protect me? I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you good night"
"Yeah? It's a damn near perfect hunter. It's smarter than you, and it's gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here"
Roy laughs "You know you're crazy, right?"
"Yeah? You ever hunt a wen—"
Dean pushes Sam "Chill out"
"Stop. Stop it. Everybody just stop. Look. Tommy might still be alive. And I'm not leaving here without him"
Brie stands up "I am not leaving without Elena either"
"It's getting late. This thing is a good hunter in the day, but an unbelievable hunter at night. We'll never beat it, not in the dark. We need to settle in and protect ourselves"
"How?"
The group has built a campfire, and Dean draws something in the dirt around the campsite while Brie pokes at the fire. "One more time, that's?"
"Anasazi symbols. It's for protection. The wendigo can't cross over them." Roy laughs, gun over his shoulder. "Nobody likes a skeptic, Roy" Dean heads over to sit next to Sam, who is at the edge of the campsite. "You wanna tell me what's going on in that freaky head of yours?"
"Dean" Sam starts but gets interrupted.
"No, you're not fine. You're like a powder keg, man, it's not like you. I'm supposed to be the belligerent one, remember?" Dean pauses.
"Dad's not here. I mean, that much we know for sure, right? He would have left us a message, a sign, right?"
"Yeah, you're probably right. Tell you the truth, I don't think Dad's ever been to Lost Creek"
"Then let's get these people back to town and let's hit the road. Go find Dad. I mean, why are we still even here?"
"This is why" Dean comes around to Sam's front and holds up John's journal "This book. This is Dad's single most valuable possession, everything he knows about every evil thing is in here. And he's passed it on to us. I think he wants us to pick up where he left off. You know, saving people, hunting things. The family business."
Sam shakes his head "That makes no sense. Why doesn't he just call us? Why doesn't he tell us what he wants, tell us where he is?"
"I dunno but the way I see it, Dad's giving us a job to do and I intend to do it"
"Dean, no. I gotta find Dad. I gotta find Jessica's killer. It's the only thing I can think about"
Dean nods his head "Okay, all right, Sam, we'll find them, I promise. Listen to me. You've gotta prepare yourself. I mean, this search could take a while, and all that anger, you can't keep it burning over the long haul. It's gonna kill you. You gotta have patience, man"
Sam looks down, then up "How do you do it? How does Dad do it?"
Dean looks over at Brie, Haley and Ben "Well for one, them" Sam looks over at Brie, Haley and Ben "I mean, I figure our family's so screwed to hell, maybe we can help some others. Makes things a little bit more bearable" He pauses "I'll tell you what else helps." Sam looks back at Dean. "Killing as many evil sons of bitches as I possibly can"
Sam smiles. A twig snaps. someone screams, presumably the wendigo "Help me! Please!"
Dean stands and readies his gun. Sam shines a flashlight about "He's trying to draw us out. Just stay cool, stay put" Brie walks up next to Sam and Dean.
"Inside the magic circle?" Roy questions. Growling starts as Roy points his gun at the sound "Okay, that's no grizzly"
Haley talks to Ben "It's okay. You'll be all right, I promise" Something rushes past. Haley shrieks. "It's here"
Roy shoots at the rustling, then again. "I hit it!" Roy goes to see what he hit.
"Roy, no! Roy!" Dean turns to Haley and Ben. "Don't move"
Haley's holding a stick, burning at one end, as a weapon. Dean and Sam run after Roy.
"It's over here! It's in the tree!" The wendigo reaches down from the tree and snaps Roy'a neck.
"Roy!" Sam shines the flashlight around, then directly into the camera.
Sam is sitting against a hollow tree stump, holding John's journal and playing with a lanyard attached as Dean and Brie and Haley and Ben are among the tents.
"I don't" Haley doesn't know where to start "I mean, these types of things, they aren't supposed to be real. How do we know it's not out there watching us?"
"We don't. But we're safe for now" Dean says trying to give them a piece of mind.
"How do you know about this stuff?" Brie asks as she has her legs against her chest.
A pause while Dean considers. "Kind of runs in the family"
Sam comes over. "Hey" Brie stands up. "So we've got half a chance in the daylight. And I for one want to kill this evil son of a bitch"
"Well, hell, you know I'm in"
Sam shows the wendigo page of John's journal to Brie Haley and Ben 'Wendigo' is a Cree Indian word. It means 'evil that devours"
"They're hundreds of years old. Each one was once a man. Sometimes an Indian, or other times a frontiersman or a miner or hunter"
"How's a man turn into one of those things?" Haley asks as Brie thinks back to when Tyler became a werewolf.
Dean picks a couple things up off the ground "Well, it's always the same. During some harsh winter a guy finds himself starving, cut off from supplies or help. Becomes a cannibal to survive, eating other members of his tribe or camp"
"Cultures all over the world believe that eating human flesh gives a person certain abilities. Speed, strength, immortality"
"If you eat enough of it, over years, you become this less than human thing. You're always hungry"
"So if that's true, how can Tommy still be alive?" Haley looks at Brie "Or Elena for that matter?"
"You're not gonna like it" Dean glances at Sam, then back to Haley. "More than anything, a wendigo knows how to last long winters without food. It hibernates for years at a time, but when it's awake it keeps its victims alive. It stores them so it can feed whenever it wants. If your brother's alive, it's keeping him somewhere dark, hidden, and safe. We gotta track it back there"
"And then how do we stop it?"
"Well, guns are useless, so are knives. Basically..." Dean holds up the can of lighter fluid, the beer bottle, and the white cloth he'd picked up. "We gotta torch the sucker"
Dean leads the way through the woods, Molotov cocktail in hand. Hayley follows, then Ben, then Sam. They pass trees with claw marks and blood.
Sam is leading the group now "Dean" He yells as Dean catches up.
"What is it?" Sam and Dean look around at the trees. There are bloody claw marks and broken branches everywhere.
"You know, I was thinking, those claw prints, so clear and distinct. They were almost too easy to follow"
Growling appears as Sam and Dean whip around. They see the trees rustle.
Haley is standing under a tree as blood drips on her shirt. She notices and looks up, then leaps out of the way Roy's corpse lands where she'd stood.
Dean examines Roy as Sam goes over to Haley. "You okay? You got it?"
"His neck's broke" Sam helps Haley up. More growling.
"Okay, run, go, go, go!" Everybody takes off.
Brie falls and Sam hurries back to help her up, dividing the group two and two. "Come on, I gotcha, I gotcha"
Dean and Haley stop short the wendigo is in front of them and Haley screams.
"Haley?" Sam stops running and picks up Dean's Molotov cocktail, the bottle broken. "Dean!"
Brie turns to Sam with her arms crossed "If it keeps its victims alive, why would it kill Roy?"
"Honestly? I think because Roy shot at it, pissed it off"
Brie finds a trail of peanut M and picks one up. "They went this way"
Sam catches up to Brie, who hands over the M . Sam laughs. "It's better than breadcrumbs. Sam tosses the M away. Sam and Brie follow the trail. They come to a mine entrance marked with a sign that says WARNING! DANGER! DO NOT ENTER EXTREMELY TOXIC MATERIAL. Sam looks at Brie who shrugs, and goes inside. Above the entrance is a larger sign that says KEEP OUT NO ADMITTANCE.
Sam shines the flashlight ahead of them. Growling; Sam shuts off the light and pulls Ben against the wall. The Wendigo comes towards them. Sam covers Brie's mouth before she can scream. The Wendigo takes a different tunnel at the crossing. Sam and Brie keep going. The floorboards creak and Brie and Sam fall through the floor; they land in a pile of bones. There is another pile nearby of skulls. Brie spots them and leaps backward. "Hey, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay"
Sam and Brie look up; Dean and Haley are hanging by their wrists from the ceiling. Sam runs to Dean, Brie and Ben to Haley "Dean!"
"Haley, wake up!" Ben shakes Haley.
Brie hears a painful moan around the corner. Was it the Wendigo? She slowly turned the corner to see Elena tired up. She gasped and ran up to her. "Elena. Oh my god are you okay?"
Sam grabs Dean and shakes him "Dean!" Dean opens his eyes. "Hey, you okay?"
Dean winces "Yeah"
Sam cuts Dean down and Ben takes care of Haley. They help them over to an empty patch of floor and get them sat down. Dean makes pained noises. "You sure you're all right?"
Dean grimaces "Yeah. Yep. Where is he?"
"He's gone for now" Haley divests herself of rope. She stands up and spots Tom still hanging and starts crying.
"Tommy" Haley touches Tom's cheek. Tom's head jerks up. Haley jumps back and shrieks. She turns to Sam "Cut him down!" Sam cuts Tom down.
"We're gonna get you home"
Sam turns around to see Brie no where in sight "Dean where is Brie?" Sam alarmed as Dean became alarmed as well to find her. "Brie?"
"Over here" Brie yelled quietly as Sam rushed over to her. He looked up at Elena who was tied up.
"Is that Elena?" She nods slowly as he could see tears forming in her eyes. "Hey its okay" He pulls her into a hug "She's okay. Shes going to be fine" he said rubbing his hand on her back. Dean walks around the corner to see Sam and Brie hugging. "Uh am I interrupting something?" He asked as Sam and Brie pulled away from each other. Dean looked up at Elena. Now I know where he knew Brie from. He looked at Elena again, even when tied up and bloodied she was attractive. Sam and Dean both helped Elena down as Brie pulled her into a hug.
"Oh my god Elena. I am so glad your okay" Brie said squeezing her.
The stolen supplies are piled in the corner. Dean picks up flare guns. "Check it out"
"Flare guns. Those'll work" Sam grins. Dean laughs and twirls the guns. They head down a tunnel, Dean and Sam in the lead with the flare guns and Haley and Ben supporting Tom, who is limping with Brie hand in hand with Elena who wasn't hurt too much.
Growling "Looks like someone's home for supper"
"We'll never outrun it" Elena said as she held tighter to Brie's hand.
Dean looks back at the others "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Sam nods "Yeah, I think so"
"All right, listen to me. Stay with Sam. He's gonna get you out of here"
"What are you gonna do?" Brie ask.
Dean winks and starts walking and yelling "Chow time, you freaky bastard! Yeah, that's right, bring it on, baby, I taste good." The rest of Dean's words are indistinct.
Sam waits until Dean is a safe distance away "All right, come on! Hurry!" The Collins, Brie and Elena follow Sam down the tunnel.
"Hey, you want some white meat, bitch! I'm right here!" Dean yells running down the tunnel.
Sam, Haley, Brie, Elena, Ben, and Tom hurry down a tunnel. Growling. Sam points the gun at it, then lowers the gun and turns to the Collinses. "Get him outta here" he see's Haley just standing there "Go! Go! Go!"
"Come on, Haley!" Haley and Ben help Tom along the mine tunnel.
Sam holds the flare gun ready to shoot, looking down the tunnel "Come on. Come on"
Growling. Sam turns: the wendigo is right in his face. Same shoots and misses, then runs after the Collinses.
"Sam!" Brie shouts as Sam catches up.
"Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry" Sam grabs Brie's hand who has Elena's hand and they all run to the end of the tunnel, the wendigo right behind. "Get behind me"
Sam is large enough to hide all Brie and Elena. The wendigo approaches, taking its time.
Dean comes up behind the wendigo "Hey!" The wendigo turns. Dean shoots it in the stomach. The flare goes off and the wendigo goes up in flames "Not bad, huh?" Sam grins.
An ambulance loads up Tom. Two police officer interview Ben; Sam stands behind Ben "And the bear came back again after you yelled at it?"
"That's when it circled the campsite. I mean, this grizzly must have weighed eight hundred, nine hundred pounds"
Sam nods. "All right, we'll go after it first thing"
Brie talks to Dean; both have already been patched up "So I don't know how to thank you" Dean smirks lasciviously. Brie smiles despite herself. "Must you cheapen the moment?"
"Yeah" Dean smiles as Elena and Haley both walked over to them. Elena had been patched up. She sat down next to Brie and smiled at Dean who smiled back.
"Hey I just want to thank you for everything you done back there. Helping me save my brother. If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't of been able to find him so thank you" Haley smiled as paramedic comes up to Haley.
"You riding with your brother?"
"Yeah" The paramedic heads back to the ambulance. Haley turns to Ben "Let's go"
Sam and Ben nod at each other. Haley kisses Dean on the cheek. "I hope you find your father" Haley and Ben head for the ambulance "Thanks, Sam" Haley and Ben climb in the ambulance with Tom, who is shirtless and bandaged.
Sam sits on the Impala's hood with Dean .
"Close her up." Another paramedic closes the ambulance doors.
"Man, I hate camping" Brie says looking smugly at Elena.
"Me too" Sam and Dean both agree.
Elena looks at Brie "Okay maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all. You can tell me I told you so"
Brie thought about it for a second "Is there any fun in that?"
"Is there?" Elena challenged.
"I told you so" Brie said smugly "Yeah it was fun" Brie sticks out her tongue.
Elena rolls her eyes and laughs. She watches the Winchesters silently smiling to themselves. "Anyways thank you's both. Like Haley said about Tom, if it wasn't for you's I wouldn't of been found"
"And you would have been Wendigo food" Brie smirks as Elena slaps her arm.
"Hey don't listen to Elena. You should of seen the state she was in when she found you missing" Dean playfully winked at Brie.
"Aww Brianna, did you miss me" Elena said putting her arms around Brie kissing her cheek.
"Never gonna live that down thanks to you" Brie glares at Dean who playfully pushes her. Sam smiles slightly as he looks down. Brie stands up and kisses his cheek. "That's for bandaging me up"
He blushes "No problem, anytime"
"Right are we going to head?" Brie asks Elena who nods "Throw me the keys, I am driving"
Elena looks at her "I thought you had them?"
"How could I have them if you were the one who drove?" Brie questioned.
"They must be in my duffle bag then..." Brie looks at her whitely. "What?"
"You mean the duffle bag that's miles up there?" Brie pointed back at the mountains. "Elena I am not going back in there" Brie said crossing her arms.
Dean smirks to himself "Why don't we give you a lift to wherever yous are headed?"
Brie and Elena look at each other "Uh thanks but we don't know where we are going. This was a where the wind takes us kinda trip"
Sam stands up "Why don't you tag along with us? We would love the company" Sam offered as Dean didn't look too pleased, maybe the fact he didn't have a chat with him first.
"That depends" Elena questioned "Is this the kinda stuff you do on a day to day basis?"
"Pretty much" Sam said as Brie didn't know what to say.
"Uh Elena can I talk to you for a minute?" Brie said pulling Elena to the side "What you doing? I thought we left Mystic Falls to get away from the supernatural?"
"Oh come on Brie. It doesn't have to be forever. A few cases then we can go our separate ways. Why not?"
"The last thing you suggested something you were kidnapped by a wendigo and nearly ended up as a snack" Brie pointed out.
"Please, one trip. Besides they are hot" Elena had a point which made Brie laugh as she thinks the winchesters heard her as they both had a smirk on their face. Elena looks at them then turns back to Brie "Oops"
"Yeah oops" Brie laughs "Fine one trip"
Noises of the ambulance driving away, sirens on "Sam, you know we're gonna find Dad, right?" Dean asks as Sam as he watches Elena and Brie talking. They both have a great ass, he thought.
"Yeah, I know. But in the meantime? I'm driving" Dean tosses Sam the keys. "You girls coming?" Brie and Elena looked at them both and smiled as Brie grabbed the only duffle bag they had between them and chucked it in the boot of the car. Sam and Dean get in the car, slamming the doors almost in sync. The car starts and drives off.
