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Burial Ground
Chapter sixteen
Sam, who had been watching his brother through the window, quickly grabbed his gun and ran outside. But when he got there the wolf was gone.
"Where'd it go?" Sam asked Dean as he kept the weapon pointed toward the wood pile.
"I don't know. It was there….and then it wasn't."
Sam glanced over at the firewood on the porch.
"You got enough wood….let's get back inside before it comes back."
Sam kept his gun trained on the wood pile as Dean carried the wood inside. Once his brother was finished bringing in the wood and was safe inside Sam backed up toward the door then quickly stepped inside and bolted it.
"I wonder why it didn't attack?" Sam asked as he peeked out through the shutter.
"I don't know. Maybe you scared it away when you came out."
"Or maybe it took off to get its pack."
The brothers turned toward the couple who was staring at them wide eyed with fear as they listened to their conversation.
"There's a wolf pack out there?" Andrea asked as she huddled closer to Mike.
"No, not a pack….just a single wolf." Dean tried to reassure her, but he knew wolves almost always traveled in packs and there was no doubt in his mind one was out there close by. "But just in case put whatever furniture you can find against the windows and door." Dean told them as he threw some of the wood into the fireplace and soon had a roaring fire going. "We should be safe for the night as long as we stay inside."
"While we're stuck in here we might as well tear this place apart and look for that piece of bow." Sam said as he looked through some old cabinets then pushed them against the windows when he was certain the bow wasn't hidden in them.
"What if we don't find it?" Mike asked as he too began looking around.
Sam glanced over at Dean not sure what to tell him.
"If we don't find it, tomorrow we'll head back to the ranger's station." Dean told the couple. He knew it was the only thing they could do, they had to get the couple to safety, but first he'd have Mike trace his and Andrea's trail on their map at least what he could remember of it. Then once the couple was safe he and Sam would return and search the area and hopefully find the missing bow.
"What about this so called curse you told us about? What happens if we leave before we find the bow?"
"Oh the curse is very real, don't doubt that. Four of your friends already died because of it."
"Well then what will happen if we can't find the bow?"
"More then likely more people will die."
"And there's no way to stop it?"
"None that we can use."
"So we just leave?"
"There's nothing else we can do. If we had the bow we could take it back to the burial ground and that should end the curse, but without it we're screwed." When he saw the look on Mike's face he added. "Oh don't worry, once you two are safe my brother and I will keep looking for it…it's what we do."
"It's what you do?" Mike couldn't believe someone actually did this for a living.
"Yeah…" Dean gave a little smile. "Sort of like the family business."
"Well you must have a weird family then." Mike said as he turned away and went back to looking for the bow.
"Yeah…yeah I guess we do." Dean glanced over at Sam. But it's all we know he thought to himself sadly. He had always hoped Sam could live a normal life, but he had dragged him back into the hunting business when their dad went missing. But by doing that he had inadvertently caused Jessica's death. Now most of the people the brothers had cared about were dead, their mom, Jessica, and now even their dad….and soon he would be too. He looked at Sam then quickly turned away as his eyes filled up with tears. He knew he had hurt his brother deeply by making the deal to bring him back from the dead, but he knew he couldn't live without him. Now instead his brother would be forced to live without him. But the question that bothered Dean the most was …what would happen to Sam once he was gone? He shook his head slightly trying to get the question out of his mind. He couldn't worry about that right now. Right now surviving the night was the only thing that mattered.
TBC