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Carnival of Death

Chapter three

Dean was standing in front of the House of Mirrors looking for his brother when he heard a commotion coming from behind the booths. He hurried to the back of the booth and found Sam and Jack in a full blown brawl.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Dean ran over attempting to break it up. He knew Sam must have a good reason for fighting but he also knew he could get fired if the boss saw him.

Dean managed to pull Sam away but as he did Jack sucker punched Sam in the stomach. He dropped to one knee and Jack was just about to kick him in the face when Dean spun around and delivered a blow to his stomach which knocked him to the ground.

"Knock it off!" He yelled at both of them as he helped Sam up. "Sammy what the hell's going on?"

"That son of a bitch is an abusive jerk off!" Sam yelled at the man who had gotten up and was starting to walk away not wanting to get into a fight with two men, but when the man heard him he turned around and started heading back toward Sam.

"Oh is that right!"

"Yeah, that's right." Sam tried to pull away from Dean but Dean grabbed his arm.

"Knock it off Sam!" Dean yelled as he pulled Sam back. "I mean it Sammy knock it off!" Dean then turned toward Jack ready to take him on for sucker punching his brother if he continued toward him. Jack backed off, he had already taken a beating from Sam and he didn't want to take his brother on also.

"You just better watch your back buddy!" Jack yelled at Sam as he took Janice's hand and pulled her away.

"If I see you hurt her again I'm coming after you pal !" Sam yelled at Jack's back.

Jack responded by giving Sam the finger. Sam started once more going after him but Dean grabbed him.

"Damn it Sammy I said knock it off!"

Sam shook Dean's hand off of him but didn't attempt to follow Jack.

"You should have left me finish it!" Sam said to his brother.

"What the hell's going on Sam? I thought you told me I didn't have to watch you constantly, that you weren't a kid anymore. Well it looks to me like I do."

"I was just talking to the girl when that idiot comes up and grabs her by her arm and starts to pull her away."

"And?"

"What do you mean and? The guy was a jerk! You should see the bruises on her arm."

"Sam it's none of our business."

"What! None of our business? If it's none of our business then whose business is it Dean?"

"Look, I don't like it either but these carnies have a completely different set of rules then we're use to."

"So you would have just stood there and let that jerk treat that girl like that?"

"Sam I don't like half the crap I see in this world, but we're here to track down what ever is causing these disappearances and you could have gotten yourself thrown out of here if the boss would have caught you fighting. After we find out what's going on and take care of it…. then he's all yours…" Dean said as he patted Sam on the back. He didn't blame Sam at all, he knew he would have done the same thing in the same circumstances but he also knew if they got thrown out of the carnival they might never find out what happened to the missing people.

Later

The rest of the day went by uneventful. The workers then took turns eating at the food tent, and when it was the brother's turn they sat with their co-workers making small talk. Then they decided to see if they could find anything out.

"We heard some townies went missing." Dean said as he took a bite out of his hamburger.

"Yeah, the cops were here trying to pin it on us."

"Do they have any idea what happened to those people?" Sam asked.

"Nope…Seems the kids told their parents they were going to the carnival then never came home."

"Did anybody actually see them here?"

"The cops passed around pictures and a couple of us thought two of them looked familiar….but who knows, thousands of kids pass through here."

"No one saw anything strange, or any weirdos hanging around?"

"You got to be kidding. There are always weirdos at carnivals, it brings them out."

"Why so many questions? You guys cops?" Another man asked.

Dean laughed.

"No we're not cops, just heard some stories."

Just then a bell rang signaling them to return to work while the next shift came in to eat. Dean got up then tapped Sam on the shoulder when he saw he hadn't moved but was looking off into the distance. He glanced over to where his brother was looking just in time to see Jack, who was sitting at the far end of the tent, smile at Sam as he made a slashing motion across his throat.

TBC