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Just Another Bad Day

Chapter eight

Dean heard the commotion in the basement and didn't bother to ask permission to go down and check on his brother. The second he heard the crash he was up and running for the basement.

"Hey wait a minute!" Jim yelled as he followed him.

Dean threw open the basement door, turned on the light and ran down the steps. He immediately noticed Sam wasn't where he had left him.

"Sam! Sammy!" Dean yelled as he looked around the floor for his brother. Where the hell could he have gone?

He finally spotted Sam lying crumbled in a heap over near the corner of the basement.

"What the hell's he doing over there?" Jim asked when he too saw Sam.

Dean ignored him and ran to his brother's side.

"Sammy?" He said as he knelt down next to him and gently rolled him onto his back. "Damn it Sammy." Dean said softly when he noticed the right front of Sam's jeans was covered in blood. He pulled Sam's waistband down a little and could see that the gauze bandage was now dirty and saturated with blood. "What the hell were you doing Sam?" He asked his unconscious brother. Why had Sam gotten up he wondered? If he had started bleeding why hadn't he pounded on the pipe for him, or tried to make his way up the steps, why did he crawl over to the corner?

"Sammy?" Dean said when he heard his brother begin to moan softly.

"Dean…." Sam opened his eyes and looked up at Dean and at first didn't realize what had happened, but then the face of the man he had found flashed in front of him. "Dean!" Sam grabbed his brother's arm as he tried to sit up. "Dean there's a vampire down here!"

"What?" Dean glanced around the basement but didn't see anything unusual. "Down here, are you sure?"

"A vampire?" Jim asked when he heard Sam. "What the hell's your brother smoking?"

"Just shut up!" Dean shouted at Jim then turned back to his brother. "Sam what did you see?"

"I heard something….I came over to see what it was and….and there was a man ….blood all over his throat….He had puncture wounds Dean…..he's been turned." Sam managed to get out as he winced in pain.

"You sure? You weren't just dreaming?"

"No Dean, I'm sure." Sam nodded his head toward a pool of blood in the corner. "He was standing right over there."

Dean reached down and turned Sam's head to the side and checked out his neck.

"You okay? It didn't…."

"No, it didn't bite me."

Dean looked at Jim.

"We got to get out of here."

"What the hell's going on?" He asked Dean as he kept the gun trained on him. "Is your brother on drugs or what? …. And whose blood is that?" Jim asked as he glanced over at the blood.

"He's not on drugs, believe me, he knows what he's talking about. And that blood….that blood belongs to a vampire. "

"A vampire?" Jim looked at Dean like he was nuts.

"Yeah, a vampire."

"Look, I don't know what you two are trying to cook up but I want you back upstairs." Jim said to Dean.

"Not without my brother." Dean said standing up.

"He stays down here."

"No way….there's something down here and I'm not leaving him down here with it."

"There's nothing down here, and if you don't get back upstairs right now I'll put your brother out of his misery and then you won't have to worry about him anymore."

"My brother's bleeding and there no way I'm leaving him bleed to death down here by himself. Now either my brother and I both go up those steps…. or we both stay down here, it's your choice." Dean meant every word. He'd rather die then leave his brother down there with whatever it was he saw.

"If you want to stay down here with your brother that's your choice." Jim said as he pointed the gun at Dean's head. "But you'll be staying down here with a bullet in your brain."

"Dean go….I'll be okay, I have my cross." Sam reached into his pocket and took out his cross. "It can't hurt me with this."

"Sam you're hurt, you're bleeding, and I'm not leaving you alone." Dean turned toward Jim. "No one has been hurt so far, but if you pull that trigger you'll be wanted for murder, and they'll never stop looking for you. Now let's just get my brother upstairs so I can redress his wound. … Besides, if what my brother said is down here… you got yourself a bigger problem then us."

"You expect me to believe that there is a vampire down here? You think I'm stupid or what?"

Before Dean could answer, a noise in the basement caused them both to spin around. In the distance they could vaguely make out the form of a man standing in the darkness watching them.

TBC