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Chapter 14

Somebody Save Me

"You take 'em back?" Dean asked as his brother entered the room after a suspiciously extended absence.

Sam nodded. "Yep. Sorry about the hold-up. Guy at Blockbuster needed some persuading."

"How much you get?"

"Six seasons of that crapfest for thirty bucks. Can you believe it?"

"Ouch."

"Yeah," the younger man sighed, "so not worth it. So, you find everything?"

Dean nodded, turning back to the laptop and pulling up the list of names that Sam had told him to search for. "You mind telling me why you wanted to know who the unlucky Smallville rejects are, or do I have to guess?"

"We both might be guessing," Sam admitted. "It's just a theory. Why don't you run them by me in order, huh?"

"Like, alphabetical?"

"Like, in order of their deaths, Dean."

The older man rolled is eyes. "My, aren't we specific? All right, first off was Eric Johnson-"

"Whitney Fordman," Sam recalled, "he joined the marines and went missing. K.I.A."

"Went missing?" Dean asked, "Like-?"

Sam shook his head. "Not sure. Give me the next one."

"Um, Emmanuelle Vaugier."

"Helen Bryce."

"Another hottie," Dean observed, "right?"

"I didn't notice."

"Come on, Sam. You know you'd bang her if you had a chance."

"She tried to kill Lex," the younger said a little louder than was necessary, "but it didn't work. He wrestled over a gun with her-"

"And she fell out of a plane," Dean finished, "told you that show was sadistic."

"It's no worse than the one that follows it," Sam said.

"Reaper?"

"Dean."

"All right. Um, after the Good Doctor got a face full of ocean, there was Ian Somerhalder."

Sam nodded. "Adam Knight. Lionel brought him back from the dead in order to find a way to cure his own ailing liver. As long as Adam took his drugs, he lived, but when he ran out-"

"His body shut down on him," Dean said, "yeah. I remember. He was almost a hero, too. Nearly got rid of Lana."

"Who's next?"

"Jane Seymour. Alias, Genevieve Teague."

"Stabbed to death by Lana the Witch."

"Purple eyes never lie," Dean quipped. "Hey, Sammy, I think I see what you're getting at here."

"And it hasn't even gotten good yet." He nodded, indicating that his brother should continue reading.

"Jensen Ackles," Dean said. The room fell into a silence, as if both brothers were waiting for a black hole to rip open between them, swallowing their universe whole at the mention of that name.

"Jason Teague," Sam finally said, "shot in the shoulder, fell off a cliff, probably nearly drowned-"

"And it still didn't kill him," Dean muttered, shaking his head in disbelief. "Lana was right. The guy was resilient."

"Until faced with a kryptonite-laced meteor."

"And they still didn't find a body," the older man pointed out, "so he could come back. So, you gonna let me in on your little secret now, or do I have to wait?"

"Just give me a couple more."

Sighing, Dean turned back to the computer. "John Schneider." He looked back up at Sam, who had crossed the room to stand over him and look at the list.

"You're missing one."

"Who?"

"Kristen Kruek. Lana got hit by a bus before Jonathan's heart crapped out on him."

Dean nodded. "Freaky coincidence, then, if what I'm thinking is right." He glanced back at the screen. "Then, uh, Lois got stabbed. That's a couple more, you mind telling me why I spent a day and a half on these stupid websites looking up the deceased?"

Sammy grinned, grabbing a chair and spun it around to sit across the table from his brother. "I think you already know."

"Whitney Fordman went missing," Dean recapped, "just like Eric Nitham. Helen Bryce fell out of a plane into the ocean after almost getting shot. Kinda like victim number two."

"Adam Knight's body turns on him because of a liver disease," Sam added, "and some kid in the hospital turns up covered in weird sores and no liver. Genevieve Teague gets stabbed in the chest, just like Jane Richmond."

"Her son goes through hell and doesn't come back out. Our main suspect turns out suspiciously like him, only with an identifiable body."

"A girl nearly gets run over by a bus. Superman bends the rules of staying in cognito to save her, and the bus driver dies of a heart attack."

Dean nodded. "The actors share names with the victims. Or, in Jen's case, a nickname maybe. Who names their son Jensen?"

"It doesn't matter. It was the death that tipped me off. Pretty specific. I'd noticed the similarities in names back in season 2, with Helen, but it didn't click together until season 4."

"Our villain's copy-catting Smallville?"

"And he-"

"She."

"She just struck again. Take a wild guess at the vic's name and cause of death."

The older man sighed, glancing back at the laptop before closing it. "Erica. Stab wound in the stomach."

"Only no Krypto-tears to heal her." Sam hung his head. "Maybe we should just burn the cape. Even if we're not sure-"

"If we're not sure, it might not stop the killings. Maybe this psycho's just getting started. We need to look into the cape more before we do anything drastic."

"Well, we're gonna have to look fast."

"Why's that?"

Sammy sighed, looking back up at his brother. "Lana Lang finally died at the end of season 6. Her car blew up. Dean, some woman out there is in danger, and the longer we wait, the more chances this chick has to strike."

The older brother nodded his agreement, standing up and crossing the room to look into the mirror. "What do you suggest we do, then?"

"You stay here and find out everything you can about the cape and its origins. Call Bobby again if you have to. Maybe try Ellen, too."

"What are you gonna do?"

Sam pushed himself out of his chair and stretched. "I'm gonna find someone named Kristen and make sure she doesn't start her car."