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The Pesky Poltergeist Problem
According to the newspaper this is where they found her truck." They were at the scenic overlook. The park was nice, as far as parks go. Neither brother was very fond of being in the woods due to the sheer number of evil things that liked to callforests home.
The brothers walked to the gazebo that topped the overlook and leaned on the picnic table inside looking out at the beautiful valley before them. "Well, we're not going to find anything here," Dean said.
"That's because you're not looking in the right place," Said a female voice behind them.
Startled,the brothers turned. Misty Brandon's ghost was standing just inside the gazebo looking at them. Sam and Dean looked at each other and then back at the apparition. "Where should we be looking?" Sam asked.
"The cabin," she said.
"How did you find us?" Dean asked.
"I'm not sure I just… I though of you and then I was here."
"And you still don't think you are dead?" Dean asked it.
Sam took a step back expecting trouble. When was his brother going to learn! But instead of becoming angry the spirit looked at Dean and said, "No, I know you're wrong, I'm not dead, I checked my pulse it's not strong, but it's there. You said you wanted to find me."
"I do."
"So find me. Please." She said and faded away.
Dean looked at his brother. "This is too weird. When was the last time we had a ghost want us to find its body?" They walked back to the car.
"Dean, when was the last time we stood around having a conversation with one?" he asked.
"Good point."
"You know now we have to find her," Sam told his brother. "If we don't, she's going to be haunting you for a very long time. For some crazy reason she seems to have latched onto you."
"What so crazy about it," Dean said, "All the girls like me, even the dead ones."
Shaking his head and rolling his eyes at his brother Sam opened the car door and got in.
"Okay, she said she was at a cabin." Dean said, "Check the park map and see if there are any cabins in this place."
"Yeah, there's a dozen small ones and a large used for groups, not to far from here."
"Thirteen, she could have narrowed it down some, but at least we can drive to them." He smiled at his brother, "No hiking."
"You know these cabins were probably already searched by the police."
"Well, maybe they missed something."
They had already searched seven of the thirteen cabins with no luck. Both brothers were hot and thirsty, so they were taking a break. Sam grabbed a couple ofbottles of water out of the car, tossed one to Dean and opened the other. They were leaning on the car drinking when the ghost appeared again. Sheappeared moretransparent then she had the past few times they'd seen her.
"Please hurry, soon it will be too late," she said fading away. "Idon't know how much longer I can hold on."
Sam turned to Dean, "This is really getting weird," he told his brother.
Dean was lost in thought for a moment then turned to his brother and asked, "Sam is it possible that what she said is true. That she really isn't dead?"
"Why would you say that?"
"I don't know it's just… This whole thing, it's not right somehow."
"So you think what? She's having some kind of out of body experience?"
Dean shrugged, "Maybe, I don't know."
"Well, there's only one way we're going to know for sure."
"Yeah, we have to find her… soon."
Dean was getting frustrated. They'd continued searching without any luck and were now at the last small cabin. If she wasn't here, then she should be at the large group cabin. If she was even in a cabin. If they weren't chasing their tails.
The brothers got out of the car and headed for cabin, but stopped a few feet from the steps. Dean wasn't sure whether or not he should be worried that he wasn't even startled when she appeared in front of them again. This time she was nearly transparent and didn't say anything. She was gone so quickly that Dean looked at Sam to make sure he hadn't imagined it.
"We need to hurry," was all Sam said.
They searched the cabin but came up empty. "Damn it!" Dean shouted as he slammed the closet door in the room he'd been searching. He was becoming increasingly frustrated at the situation. "She's not here."
"Let's go check out the group cabin," Sam told him. "Maybe she's there."
They were at the bottom of the porch steps when Dean stopped and turned around.
"Dean…" Sam started to say, but he was immediately hushed by his brother who was intently listening for something. Then Sam heard it too, a very slight rustling sound coming from under the porch.
The brothers followed the quiet sounds around to the side of the porch. Sam, who always kept a small flashlight in his pocket pulled it out and shined it under the porch. Dean could just make out something deep underneath back towards the cabin. He took the flashlight from his brother and crawled beneath the porch.
He found her half buried under the loose soil. Whoever had done thishad thought she was dead, or would be as soon as they buried her. She hadtried to dig herself out, but had been unable to complete the task. Dean felt for a pulse at her neck wasa bit stunned when he actually found one, and again when she opened her eyes.
"Sam, Call 911!" he shouted at his brother. "We found her, she's alive!"
"I knew you'd come," Shewhispered.
"Shhh, don't try and talk," he told her. "Help is on the way."
Very carefully Dean started to dig her out of the shallow grave she'd been left in. He worked quickly and carefully, speaking quietly to her the entire time. He knew it was important that she realized she wasn't alone anymore,help had arrived. He was nearly done by the time the emergency crews arrived and all but shoved him out of the way.
When he was finally able to crawl out from under the porch he found Sam talking to a police officer. "Yes sir, like I said we were just checking out the cabin when we heard her groan…"
Dean quit listening to Sam's explanation he'd heard enough to back up his brother's story and surprisingly enough it wasn't to far from the truth this time. He walked to the ambulance as they were loading Misty inside. She was unconscious again. He asked the EMT, "How's she doing?"
"I think she's going to make it," he replied, "Ya'll probably save her life."
Dean nodded and walked to his car. He was hungry, hot, tired, and in desperate need of a shower. Sam walked up and Dean tossed him the keys. "You're driving," was all he said.
Sam caught the keys, got in the car and started it up, but Dean still didn't get in. He was looking thoughtfully at the ambulance. A news van pulled up followed closely by several more. "Dean," Sam said, "Time to go."
Dean turned saw the news vans and without a word he got into the car. He was quiet for most of the drive back to Austin and Sam was about to ask him what was bothering him when Dean asked, "Okay Sam, I get the whole out of body experience thing." He shook his head then continued, "Well no, I don't really, but stranger things have happened to us."
Sam waited patiently for Dean to get to the point of what he was trying to say.
"What I don't get is how did she knock me across the room in the hospital?"
Sam couldn't help it, he burst out laughing.
"What?" his brother asked.
"Dean, you can deal with Misty leaving her body and appearing several miles away, but you can't deal with her being able to beat you up?"
"Hey, she did not beat me up," Dean said defensively. "She just knocked me down. I can't figure out how she did it."
Sam was laughing so hard he had to pull the car over.
A/N I had a lot of fun with this one! I hope you enjoyed it. Please review!
