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Carnival of Death

Chapter nine

"Hey." Dean nodded to Sam as he opened the door and walked into the trailer.

"You find Jack?"

"Nope. I followed his tracks to the mirror house but…." Dean stopped; too embarrassed to tell Sam that he hadn't checked inside.

"He wasn't inside?"

"I don't think so."

"Well I'll check the whole house out tomorrow after I repair that cord."

"I don't like this Sam. Why would Jack disappear?"

"I don't know. Maybe what ever took the others took him also."

"Or maybe he's hiding out somewhere waiting to take you on again."

"Well this time I'll be ready. He won't sneak up on me again."

"Well just watch your back and keep your eyes open."

"I will and you do the same."

"Did you remember yet why you tried to call me?"

Sam shook his head.

"No…I think I might have seen something but…. if I did ….I can't remember what."

Dean was going to mention the reflection in the mirror he thought he had seen but figured he had just spooked himself into imagining it. He knew the mirror house didn't freak Sam out the way it did him and he had hoped he was over his childhood fears but apparently he wasn't. Even now he could still picture Sam being led away by the stranger and seeing his reflection growing smaller and smaller and not being able to reach him. Sam of course had been too little to realize the danger he was in, but he hadn't. He had read in the paper of people stealing small children and then of their bodies turning up dumped along the side of the road, or sometimes not at all. He remembered pounding on the mirrors and screaming for Sam but his little brother thought it was all a joke and had ignored him. But as the man led him out of the house Sam broke loose from him and ran back into the house not wanting to leave his brother alone in the house. He shook his head slightly trying to get the memory out of his mind.

"You okay?" Sam asked seeing the look on Dean's face as he relived his past.

"Yeah….yeah I'm fine." Dean fought his way back to the present.

"What did you say to the boss?"

"I told him the lights had gone out in the house and when you went back to check on them you tripped and smacked your head against the frame of one of the mirrors. That will at least explain the bruises on your face. Just keep your shirt buttoned so he doesn't see the other bruises."

"I will."

Later during the night Dean took another stroll around the grounds hoping to spot Jack but it was like he had just disappeared into thin air. Was Jack a victim of whatever was going on? Or could he be involved in it? Dean had no way of knowing. He walked by the mirror house and stood across the runway from it looking at it. Maybe the way to deal with his irrational fear was to have Sam take him through it. But he didn't want to freak out in front of his brother; he would be mortified if he did that. When he couldn't find anything unusual happening at the carnival he headed back to the trailer.

When he opened the door and walked in he found Sam on his knees, his hands pressed against his temples grimacing in pain.

"Sammy!" Dean ran to his brother. "Sammy what's going on?" Dean knelt next to his brother and put his hands on Sam's arms and looked into his face. "Sammy."

Sam didn't answer but after a few seconds he lowered his hands and began to relax as the pain started to lessen.

"Sammy what's going on? Talk to me."

"I had ….I had a vision."

"What of?" Dean knew Sam had been having painful visions off and on for months but neither of them knew how to control them or how to stop the painful headaches that accompanied them.

Sam looked over at his brother.

"Jack…I think he's dead."

"What?" Dean swallowed hard, had he hit Jack hard enough to kill him?

"I saw him Dean….I saw him being sliced up….God there was blood everywhere."

"Sliced up? By who?"

"Some figure in a black cloak….He just kept slicing him with a long knife….and then….then he drank his blood."

"We're dealing with a vampire?"

"I don't think so….It was something different."

"Could you see where he was?"

"I'm not sure…."

"Is he still here Sam? Could you tell if he's still here at the carnival?"

"I think so…. but I'm not sure…I saw the others too ... I saw the missing people Dean. They're all dead….I saw them hanging by their arms… they all had their throats cut.

TBC