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Hunted
Chapter nineteen
Dean continued further into the cave following the voices with Santos following close behind.
"Sammy….Sammy where are you?" Dean called out but was only answered by silence. He looked back at Santos. "Stick close to me and keep your eyes open, is you see anything move let me know."
"Believe me, you'll be the first to know." He said giving Dean a small smile.
A few minutes later the light from Dean's flashlight lit up a pile of bones and decaying flesh then a few seconds later it lit up three bodies strung from the ceiling, one of them Sam. The creature was no where in sight.
"Sam!" Dean ran to his brother while Santos ran to Carlos.
Sam's body was covered in blood and Dean could see the deep cut running down his chest to his waistband where the creature had sliced him open. He breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed the shallow rise and fall of his brother's chest and knew he was still alive.
"Sammy?" Dean put his hand up to Sam's chin and gently raised his head. When Sam didn't respond he gently patted his face. "Come on Sam it's time to wake up."
Finally Sam moaned and slowly opened his eyes. At first he thought the creature was still in front o f him and he tried to pull away from it.
"Sam! Sam it's me!"
"Dean?"
"Yeah Sam it's me."
"Oh thank God…thank God…." Sam shut his eyes and took of deep breath. "What took you so long?" Sam gave his brother a small relieved smile.
"Oh I stopped and had a few burgers then had the car tuned up…. What about you…it looks like you've just been hanging around doing nothing." Dean said as he reached up and cut his brother down. He collapsed into his brother's arms. Dean handed the knife to Santos who also cut Carlos down.
Dean glanced over at Ray's disemboweled body and quickly looked away realizing that the same thing could have happened to his brother.
Once Carlos was free he started heading for the entrance of the cave.
"Let's get the hell out of here!" He shouted over to Santos.
"I need help with my brother." Dean said as he struggled to hold Sam up.
"To hell with him!" Carlos continued walking with Santos following a short distance behind. But Santos suddenly stopped and looked back at Dean. He could see Dean was having a hard time holding Sam up. He hesitated a few seconds then walked back to Dean and put one of Sam's arms over his shoulder while Dean did the same. They then started dragging Sam out of the cave.
"What the hell are you doing?" Carlos yelled back to Santos.
"I'm not leaving anyone behind for that thing to kill."
"Who cares if that thing kills them!... They know about our crop!...It they get out of here they'll turn us in!"
"I don't think so." Santos knew that all Dean wanted was to get his brother to safety. "He just wants to get his brother out of here."
"I don't give a damn about his brother or him, and I don't know why the hell you do!"
"My brother Tony died because I couldn't help him." Santos explained, he knew the pain of losing a brother. His own brother had died during a gang fight when he had arrived too late to help him and for some reason seeing Dean try to save his brother brought those memories flooding back to him.
"What the hell does that have to do with us?...These men are going to turn us in….I want them both dead." Carlos walked over to Santos and grabbed the gun from his hand.
"What the hell are you doing?" Santos asked. "That thing's in here… we got to get out of here."
"I say we let them here for that thing to feed on…it'll give us time to get out of here." Carlos pointed the gun at Dean. "Drop the gun."
"It's a flare gun…we need it to kill that thing." Dean kept his grip on the gun there was no way he was giving it up. He knew the creature could be anywhere and if he lost the gun they were all doomed.
"I said drop it or I'll blow a hole in your brother's good knee." He pointed the gun at Sam's leg.
"Damn it Carlos we don't have time for this…Let's just get out of here!" Santos continued helping Dean with Sam.
"They're not coming with us!" Carlos fired toward Dean.
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