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Hunted

Chapter eight

The ground exploded at Dean's feet where the bullet had hit the dirt. He quickly grabbed Sam's arm and pulled him up knowing they had to get out of there and he couldn't take the time to be gentle with him. Sam gasped in pain as he was yanked to his feet and his arm once more put over his brother's shoulder. Dean then led him back into the thick woods using it as cover.

"Sorry Sam." Dean apologized as he drug Sam through the woods.

"It's okay…." Sam managed to get out as he winced in pain every time his side was twisted or his sore knee hit the ground.

"Did you hear the way that shot sounded?" Dean asked.

"Yeah."

"That was from a long distance rifle. They were using a scope…probably a night vision scope."

"So they're further away then they want us to believe."

"Yeah….But a shot that far can still kill you."

"Yeah, but as long as we keep moving and keep enough trees between us and them they can't get a clear shot off and we still stand a better chance then if they were right behind us."

"How the hell did they know where we were? The cameras that we saw didn't seem to be working or maybe were turned off because the red light was out."

"Well hopefully they don't get many visitors out here and maybe were a little lax in keeping their equipment in working order. Or maybe with all the rain we've been having the system short-circuited."

"Let's hope that's true."

"But they still have the long distance scope so if they spot us they can still shoot us."

"Well at least we have the crossbow and one arrow."

"A lot of good that's going to do us unless they're right on top of us, and even then we can only take one of them out."

"But at least it will be one less to worry about."

Later

They kept running till they came to a rocky cliff.

"We're almost there." Dean said as they stood at the top of the rocks and looked down. From their vantage point they could see the road where they had left the car. Dean, knowing Sam was injured, knew there would be no way his brother could climb down the side of the cliff, not with his bad leg and stomach injury. He looked over at Sam. "We're going to make it Sam…we'll just take the easy route." He said as he started leading Sam back into the woods and cover. They kept to the woods keeping the cliffs to their left as a guiding point. Eventually they knew they'd find an easy passage through the rocks, the same one they had come up a few days earlier.

After walking for about a half hour they felt the ground suddenly give way beneath their feet and they were hurled into a deep pit filled with about two feet of water. Sam hit the ground hard and cried out in pain as he landed on his sore leg. Dean also hit the ground hard but quickly recovered and immediately began looking for a way out. It was then he smelled it and he knew immediately what the smell was…it was the smell of death. He looked around the pit and noticed two bodies half submerged floating facedown beneath the water both in an advance stage of decay.

"Sam." He called to his brother as he nodded toward the bodies. He walked over to the bodies and grabbed the first body he came to and flipped it over. He could see a bullet hole in the front of the skull and it was obvious that the man had either fallen into the pit and been shot, or had been shot first then dumped in the pit. Either way Dean knew they had to get out of there …and soon.

TBC