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NET KNOTS
Chapter 5
"Okay…" Dean conceded then scowled, "Sorry, still not getting any epiphany…or any younger," he added as he still wasn't fully on board yet.
"It's simple, Dean," Sam said earnestly, "the demon can stop us anytime it likes. It can put us down and take us out not only without breaking a sweat but without even having to do anything supernatural."
"Do tell?" Dean folded his arms, his eyebrows hugging his hairline as he oozed disbelief.
Sam could also do nonchalant. He shrugged, got up and went over the to the small coffee maker that came with the room, where he made himself a cup, not averse to making Dean stew – just a little brotherly punishment for the sarcasm; it was, after all, how their relationship worked.
"All the demon has to do is pick up a phone and make one call." Sam blew on the coffee and took another sip.
"A phone call." Dean repeated. "Who to? Ghostbuster Busters?"
"Yep. No possessing people like its children did Meg and…her 'brother'…no fire, no daevas or what-have-you." Sam sat down across from Dean again and looked his brother square in the face. "All the demon has to do is make an anonymous tip-off call to the IRS fraud information line and utter those three little words…" Sam held up his thumb and first two fingers as he counted them off, "No Visible Means."
And Dean had the epiphany.
Continued in Chapter 6…
© 2006, Catherine D. Stewart