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Burial Ground

Chapter fourteen

The brothers stood still for about a minute listening to the sound of the woods. When nothing happened Dean looked over at Sam.

"I don't hear anything unusual."

Sam tilted his head slightly trying to see if he could hear the sound he had heard earlier. At first he didn't, then he nodded and looked over at Dean.

"There." He pointed toward the woods. "Do you hear that?"

Dean could hear a faint squeaking sound coming from out of the woods. But before he could tell Sam he now heard it, hundred of bats flew out of the woods and toward the campsite.

"Mike! Andrea! Zip up your sleeping bags and stay inside!" Dean shouted over to the sleeping couple.

They didn't have to be told twice. Hearing Dean's warning they crawled deep into the bags and zipped them shut.

Dean and Sam both reached down and picked a burning branch out of the fire and began waving it over their heads trying to ward off the bats. At first it worked and the bats flew off in every direction. But soon they regrouped and began attacking any exposed skin they could find.

Dean pulled one bat off his neck and tossed it into the fire only to have a second bat replace it. Sam also was fighting a losing battle. After about ten minutes of continuous attacks the bats finally flew back into the woods.

Both brothers stood protectively in front of the couple, blood dripping from their numerous wounds.

"You okay Sammy?" Dean asked as he held a lit branch high in the air.

"Yeah, you?"

"I'm fine." Dean looked toward the closed sleeping bags. "It's okay, you can come out not."

Mike and Andrea crawled out of the bags and ran over to Dean and Sam.

"Oh my God they really did a number on you two." Mike said as he looked the brothers over.

"What about rabies?" Andrea asked her eyes wide with fear. "Bats have rabies."

"Not every bat carries rabies." Sam said trying to keep the fear out of his voice. He too was thinking the same thing.

Dean looked at the couple.

"You two stay here, and stay by the fire. We're going down to the river to wash up; we'll only be a few minutes. If you see or hear anything, yell."

"Oh don't worry, we will." Andrea said as she grabbed Mike's arm and pulled him close.

Dean grabbed the first aide kit then he and Sam headed for the river. Once there they stripped off their clothes and grabbed a bar of antibiotic soap. They washed themselves thoroughly paying special attention to the areas where they had been bitten. They then dried off and rubbed antibiotic cream over the bites.

"You know this isn't going to help at all if those bats really did have rabies." Sam said as he started to get dressed.

"I know, but let's just hope they didn't." Dean looked over at his brother and was surprised to see him trying not to laugh

"What's so funny?" Dean couldn't imagine what Sam could find so funny.

"Us."

"Us?"

"Yeah us. We're suppose to be saving these people and look at us. We're standing here half naked, and covered in blood….We look like a couple of amateurs. We're bit to hell, you can barely walk, and I …." He reached his hand up to his bandaged head. "Well let's just say I've seen better days…. Some heroes huh? Those two kids probably think they'd be better off without us."

Dean smiled back at Sam.

"Yeah we do look like idiots don't we?" Dean agreed, instead of saving the couple they had them cowering in their sleeping bags. Plus he could barely walk and Sam might have a concussion. "We're not exactly instilling confidence in them are we?"

"Well we're all they have for the moment." Sam looked at Dean and turned serious. "We got to find that bow Dean and get it back to the burial ground or I have a feeling none of us will be walking out of these woods alive."

TBC