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Burial Ground

Chapter seven

They both took off running across the rock slide in opposite directions being careful not to slip on the rocks and become wedged in the cracks between the boulders. They had just managed to clear the slide when the avalanche of rocks rumbled past them. They immediately turned around and looked for each other and were relieved to see that they both had survived.

"You okay Sam?" Dean shouted over to his brother.

"Yeah…You?"

"Not a scratch."

"Stay there…I'll be right over." Sam once more began climbing across the rocks; he knew the lake was in the direction that Dean was.

"Be careful Sam." Dean stood at the edge of the slide watching his brother and keeping his eye out for any indication of another slide.

Sam passed the area where Rob had been trapped and stopped. All he could see now were blood covered rocks; the body had been completely covered. He hesitated for a few seconds wondering if he was still alive and if he should try to dig him out.

"Sam get out of there! Get off the rocks!" Dean shouted a warning to his brother. He knew at any moment another rock slide could sweep Sam away.

Sam reluctantly left the site and headed for Dean.

"Poor guy." He said when he reached him.

"Yeah, but there was nothing we could have done for him. He was busted up inside and even getting those rocks off of him wouldn't have helped."

Sam looked back over at the rocks.

"This spirit or whatever it is really means business….You know Dean…." Sam said as they once more continued toward the lake. "…we might not be able to stop this thing." He took out the map and put an X over the spot where Rob's body was.

"Well if we can find this Andy and he still has the bow it should be just a matter of getting it off of him and taking it back to the burial ground….at least that's what the legend says."

"But what if Andy doesn't have the thing with him or if we can't find him?"

"If that happens then I guess we're screwed….unless we find someone who's willing to be sacrificed to the Indian Gods."

"Well that's not likely."

"Well then I guess we leave and never look back."

"But what about the deaths, they'll just keep happening?"

"What about them Sam? …Look, we didn't cause this Andy did, and if we can't stop it it's not our fault. I'm not going to spend the time I have left worrying about something I can't fix….and I don't want you to either. Life's too short Sam…if we can't stop it we move on. There are plenty of other things out there that we can stop."

"I know you're right but…."

"But what? We can't win them all Sam, and once I'm gone I don't want you to try to."

Tears welled up in Sam's eyes at the reminded that Dean wasn't going to be around much longer. He turned his face away from his brother not wanting him to see them. But Dean had noticed. He hated reminding his brother of his date with death but it wasn't going to do either of them any good to ignore the fact that in a few months he'd be gone. They continued walking for the next half hour in silence, each lost in his own thoughts, Sam trying to figure some way of getting Dean out of his deal with the demon, and Dean worrying about what was going to happen to Sam after he was gone. They suddenly came to a large dry river bed. Sam pulled out the map.

"There's no other way around it." He said to Dean as he studied the map. "This river must have been dried for years or it wouldn't be marked 'dry river bed' on the map."

"I don't know..." Dean stood at the top of the river bank and looked up and down the dry cracked ground where the river once flowed. "I just don't trust it….Its pretty far to the other side and if we get in trouble out there in the middle we're screwed."

"There's no other way to Mirror Lake."

"Any place where the river is narrower?"

"Yeah…but it's about fifteen miles out of our way. It narrows a little bit but not much."

Dean looked up at the sky; there wasn't a cloud in sight. He knew that the area was known for flash flooding but with no possibility of rain in the area they should be able to make it across with no problem.

"What do you think?"

Sam was hesitant too, but it was the only way to reach Mirror Lake without having to waste a day walking to the narrower section. He wondered how many other people might die if they did that.

"I say we go for it."

"Okay…then let's do it."

They cautiously headed down into the river bed.

TBC