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The Mermaid

Chapter twelve

"Get him out of there you bastard!" Dean screamed at Grady as he watched his brother struggling to keep his head above the water. He'd surface for a breath of air then sink, then surface again. Dean flexed his wrist and activated a hidden knife he had on a cuff hidden up his sleeve, the knife popped out and he began cutting through the rope, but the rope was thick and he knew it could take minutes to get through it, minutes his brother might not have.

"Maybe all that splashing around the kid's doing will draw her to us." Grady said to his partners.

"That kid is going to drown tied up like that." Jack one of Grady's men said, he was having second thoughts about what they were doing.

"Jack's right Alex, if that kid dies we'll be wanted for murder." Bill the other man said.

"Not if we don't have any witnesses." Grady nodded toward Dean. "If the kid drowns we'll toss this one in with him."

Dean watched in horror as Sam's head kept going beneath the water for longer and longer periods. He knew Sam was growing weaker and soon wouldn't come up at all. But then he saw something that was even more horrifying, fish jumping out of the water as a large object began swimming towards his brother.

"Get him out of there! That thing is going to kill him!" Dean shouted as he frantically worked on his ropes.

Grady saw the disturbance in the water also and he motioned to his men to get the net ready.

"Wait till she's right on top of him!" Grady shouted. He and his men went to the side of the boat holding the net above the water.

"Get him out of there!" Dean knew the mermaid would be on Sam in a matter of seconds.

He watched, his heart pounding in his chest, as the mermaid surfaced briefly then grabbed Sam and began dragging him down deep into the water.

"Nooooooo!" Dean screamed as he watched his brother disappear.

"Get her!" Grady cried out as he and his men got ready to toss the net into the

water.

Dean did the only thing he could think of and that was to tip the boat over. He got to the side of the boat that Grady and his men were on then rolled over the side flipping the boat over with him.

He left himself sink into the water trying desperately to see some sign of Sam. He finally saw the mermaid, her arms locked around his brother, her lips on his. Sam put up no resistance and Dean felt a cold chill go through him. Was Sam already dead? He worked frantically on his ropes and could feel them start to loosen up….a few seconds later he finally broke free. He quickly brought his legs up and cut through the ropes around his ankles then swam toward Sam.

In the meantime Grady and his men were floundering around in the water trying to flip the boat back over.

"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch when I get hold of him!" Grady shouted as he looked around the water for Dean. "I don't want either of those boys getting out of this pond alive!"

Dean swam toward Sam but the mermaid was strong and wasn't about to release him. His lungs were crying out for air, but with one last desperate surge of strength he didn't know he had he was finally on her. He took his knife out and began stabbing her anywhere he could. He knew he couldn't kill her, he didn't have his salted knife with him, but he could at least hurt her hopefully enough that she would release his brother.

The mermaid used her strong tail to slap at him but he was relentless and didn't give up. He knew if he did Sam was as good as dead. Finally the mermaid let Sam go and his body slowly sank into the water. The mermaid knew there were other men in the water….men who might be easier pickings then this one. She swam off and within seconds had one of Grady's men underwater. She locked her lips on his and he finally stopped struggling as she sucked his life out of his body.

Dean had his full attention on Sam and didn't care what was happening to Grady or his men. They should have listened to him in the beginning and not been so blinded by the money they expected to make off of the creature.

He grabbed Sam's arm and swam toward the surface with him. Once at the surface Dean gasped in much needed air as he rolled Sam onto his back in the water and could see that Sam was already turning blue. He pinched his brother's nose shut and breathed into his mouth.

"Come on Sammy breathe!" He shouted as he gave his brother breath after breath.

Dean tried not to panic as Sam's unresponsive body floated in his arms. He tried to concentrate only on giving his brother the air he so desperately needed. Was Sam already dead? Had he been under too long? Tears flowed down Dean's face at the thought that he was too late and that Sam was gone.

"Damn it Sammy breathe!" Dean screamed into Sam's ear hoping that he was still in there somewhere and he could get through to him. "Don't you go doing this to me Sam! Don't you go leaving me!"

There was no response.

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