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The Mermaid
Chapter six
An hour later Dean walked into the motel room. Sam was sitting in a chair anxiously waiting for him.
"So?" Sam asked both relieved that Dean was back but also worried about what he might have done.
"Don't worry, he's still breathing." Dean said as he took his gun out from his waistband and put it on the table.
"It was him out on the pond?"
"Yep."
"Damn it Dean don't you ever go off by yourself like that again. You could have gotten yourself killed."
"What am I suppose to do Sam, leave some idiot take shots at us and walk away?"
"We're already wanted by the law Dean, or have you forgotten that? If you start trouble and we get busted…"
"Sam I warned him, it's over with…Don't get your panties in a wad over it." Dean walked into the bathroom. "I'm going to take a shower and hit the bed; I suggest you do the same."
The next day
They slept into the early afternoon then got something to eat and headed out to the pond. Dean had wrapped Sam's leg tight and he could walk on it if he took his time but it was painful and Dean insisted he use the crutches that they kept in their car, at least for a few days till the wound had time to heal a little. They stood at the pond looking out over the lake toward the outcropping of rocks.
"They were out near those rocks; they must think she hangs around there."
"So what are we going to do?"
"What we've been doing. Hang out at the bar, then hang out here at night and hope we spot her."
"Now that she knows we saw her won't she change her appearance?" Sam asked.
"Nope…once they morph into human form that's the form they keep forever, they can't chance. But remember Sam if we find her try not to look directly into her eyes, that's how she gets you. One look into her eyes and you'll see what she wants you to see."
"What if she doesn't show up at the bar…or even here at the pond?"
"Then I'm going swimming."
"What? Are you nuts?"
"I'm thinking she probably is hold up somewhere in an underwater cave below those rocks. If I can find her, I can kill her."
"Or she'll kill you…I say we wait around here then when she shows, blast her with a salt gun. If she doesn't show tonight, then we come back tomorrow."
"That could take days, plus we don't know if she'll show up here, she could enter the pond from anywhere."
"Well if you're going in there I'm going with you."
"You got to keep your wound dry Sam. There's a lot of bacteria in the pond and if your leg gets infected…."
"I don't give a damn about my leg. There's no way I'm letting you go in there by yourself, no way."
"Sammy I've handled worse things then her before by myself…"
"Dean you're in her element. You can't breathe underwater, she can. Besides I think it will be much easier to take her while she's in human form."
"We'll see..." Dean said trying to pacify his brother. "Why don't we head on over the bar and see if she shows up"
Sam watched Dean walk back toward the car. He knew his brother was foolish enough to try and take the mermaid by himself which to him was just plain stupid. If Dean thought he was going to go down there by himself he was foolishly mistaken.
Flanigan's Pub
They entered the bar and could immediately sense the hostility coming off of the customers. It was obvious that Grady had gotten to the patrons of the bar and turned them against the strangers in town. They couldn't believe the people in the town actually would listen to Grady; he seemed like such a jerk. Maybe they were just afraid of going against him and didn't want to get on his bad side.
They waited till the bar was about to close and when neither Grady or the mermaid appeared they headed back to the pond.
The Pond
They sat for hours at the edge of the pond keeping an eye out for anything unusual. It was just about day break and they were ready to pack it in and head back to the motel when they heard a terrified scream coming from the water. Looking across the lake they could barely make out the forms of a man and woman struggling in the water.
TBC