Anything But Normal
Part 5

Present Day

"What are you doing?" Liz questioned.

"Reading the newspaper." Dean said.

"Why?" she asked.

"I thought I'd catch up on my current events." Dean said.

"That's why you watch the five o'clock news. You don't like reading."

Dean looked up at her. "What are you getting at, Lizzie?"

"You've got two weeks off from work, and you're gonna go on a hunt." She knew that his hunting would never permanently stop. She accepted that...usually. He'd been working at the firehouse a lot since he was promoted to fire marshal, so he hadn't spent much time with Liz lately. When he said that he was taking two weeks off, Liz assumed that she would be spending time with him.

Dean looked back down at the paper without answering.

"Dean! What are you not telling me?"

Dean sighed. "Bobby called Sam. Sam called me. Bobby found something important."

"What do you want me to do, Dean? Beat it out of you?"

Dean sighed yet again. He knew that she wasn't gonna like this at all. "There have been three nursery fires within the past month."

The color drained from Liz's face.

2002

Four hours later Liz heard a knocking on her door. She opened it to see Dean Winchester. His hair was a bit darker and shorter. He also looked older. "Hi," Liz said.

"Hey, Lizzie. How've you been?"

"Pretty good up until I found out my new apartment was haunted. How about you?" she asked as she motioned for him to come inside.

"I'm okay. Holy shit." Dean said as he saw her kitchen counter. Eight steak knives were spinning on their points slowly.

"Yeah, it's been like that for half an hour."

"What else happened?"

Liz went through a whole list of things. Electronics turning on and off, post-its flying to random places, things turning up in places they weren't put, and such.

"Sounds like a poltergeist." Dean told her.

"Yeah I thought it was too. But I saw a man. He appears and disappears. I tried to shoot him with rocksalt but it only holds him off for a little bit."

"Yeah, poltergeists don't typically reveal themselves."

"I can never really get a good look at him. I could tell that he was in his sixties or seventies with grey hair, but that's about it."

"Did he ever directly attack you?"

"No yet. Well, actually once. I tried to put down the knives and then he threw them at me." Lis said as she pointed to the holes in the wall where the knives landed.

"Are you okay?" Dean asked.

"Yeah, just a scratch." Liz lifter up the sleeve of her t-shirt to show a cut. It was about an inch and a half long, but it wasn't deep.

"You're lucky it wasn't worse." Dean commented.

"So you have to salt and burn the body of the ghost, right?" Liz asked, trying to remember what Dean had told her a few years ago.

"Yeah, but I've gotta figure out who it is first."

"How? It's not like he'd be really willing to just tell you his name."

"No, he doesn't seem real talkative. I'm gonna go to the library, look up the history of the apartment building to see if anything weird happened, and go from there."

"BUT SOON YOU'LL BE FINDING

YOU CAN RUN, YOU CAN HIDE,

BUT YOU CAN'T ESCAPE MY LOVE." the radio started blasting.

"Seriously?!? Enrique Iglesias? Come on!" Liz yelled as she ran to turn it off. Dean followed with his shotgun in hand. "At least last time it was Black Sabbath."

"How many times has that happened?" he asked from the doorway.

"Four. First it was Bon Jovi, and then it was N'Sync."

"Is it trying to kill you with bad music?"

"Well, after that it played Black Sabbath, which isn't that bad. More importantly, what do you have against Bon Jovi?"

Dean was about to make some smart ass comment against Bon Jovi when suddenly the cord from the stereo pulled Liz to the ground and started strangling her.

"Lizzie!" Dean yelled. He ran over to he and skid the ground on his knees to stop himself. He took out his pocket knife and cut the cord. Both halves of the cord fell to the ground.

"You okay?" Dean asked as he helped Liz up while she coughed.

"Not really." Liz said rubbing her sore neck.

A/N: Okay, 3 things I have to mention. The first being the reference from last chapter. Apparently, no one on here got it, but people on other boards connected that I had part of the story set in Seattle in 2002. In 2002, Jensen Ackles was working on Dark Angel which was set in Seattle. Yeah, so I guess there aren't a whole lot of Dark Angel fans reading (or no one bothered to look for the clues).

Back to the current chapter. So I'm thinking about doing a look into the future every five chapters. I wish I could do it every chapter, but I know that I wouldn't have nearly enough to write. Do you guys like the idea? Let me know what you think.

On another note, sorry for the late update! The site wouldn't let me upload the new chapters. So you guys get two new chapters at once!

As always, I'm a feedback whore. I live off of it. Sad, yet true. Please review.