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Melody lies on the ground, unconscious. Dean scans the alley, but Sam is nowhere to be seen.
"Sam!" Dean screams, tears rolling down his face. "Sam where are you?! This is all my fault." He falls to his knees, the loss of his brother fully overwhelming him. "No," he whispers as he saunters toward Melody's unconscious form, "Sam, I will find you."
"What?" Melody asks, slowly opening her eyes. "Where's Sam?"
"I don't know, but I'm gonna find him," Dean promises, lifting Melody to her feet.
"Then I'm going to help you."
Dean and Melody climb into the Impala, and Dean dials Bobby Singer's phone number.
"Hello," Bobby's voice comes from the phone pressed against Dean's ear.
"Bobby," Dean whimpers, barely keeping his emotions inside him, "I need your help. Sammy's gone."
"Boy, I'll be down there in a few hours. We'll find him. Dean, we'll find him, but to find him we'll need to work together. I'm not letting you turn into your father."
John's last words echo in Dean's mind once again. He knew he had to save Sam. No shape shifter would ever kill his little brother, not while he was alive to stop it.
By the time Bobby reached Sam and Dean's motel room, Melody and Dean have already conjured a map of the sewer systems of the town.
"Are you sure they won't be holding him somewhere other than the sewer system?" Melody asks.
"I'm sure. If he's alive, he'll be in the sewer system," Dean answers urgently.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go find, Sam," Melody said excitedly.
"We gotta wait for Bobby."
"He's outside, getting out of his truck," Melody explained. "He's terrified. His brain waves are going everywhere. He needs to find Sam just as much as you do. So let's go find him."
With that, Dean and Melody grabbed their now loaded guns and a duffle bag containing a few other necessities like salt, iron, and silver. Bobby climbed into the front seat next to Dean, while Melody jumped into the backseat.
"Hey, I feel dirty just sitting back here," Melody quipped. "I won't contract anything back here, will I?"
Dean gave her a somber look. "Sorry," Melody apologized, "Just trying to lighten the mood."
"Well, don't. We're looking for my brother. If you can't be professional about it, well you can take a flying leap," Dean answered, going into hunter mode.
"Then why don't you start acting professional and not like a total bitch," Melody answered.
"Stop it, ya idgets," Bobby stops them both in their tracks, "None of us can help him if we're bickering among ourselves."
Dean parks the Impala in a nearby restaurant's parking lot, and they all slip under the sewer cover before anyone can notice them. Each of them turns on their flashlights, and they split up through the labyrinth of the sewer system. Dean travels quickly, his eyes skimming for anything that could lead him to his brother. He swallows the lump in his throat and with it all his personal emotions.
"Treat it like any other case," he says to himself after about an hour. "Stay calm, stay cool." He turns a corner of the maze and comes across Melody, who shoots two bullets on either side of his head.
"You know, girl, if I were a shifter, you'd be dead by now," Dean states cockily.
"Yeah, well, if I hadn't recognized you, you'd be dead right now," Melody answered teasingly, "You should be glad that I decided to waste a couple bullets, instead of sending them through your skull."
"Hey have you found anything?" Dean asks.
"Nothing, but this place is huge," Melody answers, genuinely concerned about Sam's welfare. He was trying to protect her from shape shifters when he disappeared, so it is partially her responsibility to find him and she knows it. "Maybe, Bobby found something."
"Yeah. Well, if you see him ask him about it. I'm gonna keep looking for my brother," Dean answers her as he continues down the passage way. Melody continues in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile…
Bobby finally finds Sam, bound and gagged to one of the water lines along the wall, struggling slightly against his bonds. Bobby breathes a sigh of relief. Sam is still alive. After carefully checking to make sure that there is no one else in the tunnel, he jogs to Sam and begins untying him, but is forced to stop as he is hit on the back of the head into unconsciousness.
Sam doesn't even try to help Bobby. He knows that resistance is futile. There is no hope left. After the shape shifter ties Bobby securely, it turns to Sam, laughing, "Now Sammy we are going to have some fun."
Dean jogs through the never ending tunnels, until he finally finds Bobby.
"You find anything?" he asks.
"Nothing. You know, Dean, I don't think he's here. Maybe we should go back to the car and regroup," Bobby states. "Come on, we've searched the whole place. He's not here. Let's go find Melody and get the hell out of here."
"Yeah, maybe you're right, Bobby, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with you," Dean answers, staring Bobby straight in the eye, "If you want to look somewhere else go ahead, but I'm staying down here until I find Sam."
"Suit yourself, boy," Bobby states, turning around and starting to head out, but with lightning speed he turns around and slams the butt of his gun into the back of Dean's head. "Idgit." The shape shifter changes into Dean and drags him down the tunnels, toward the place where Sam and the real Bobby are being kept.
After Dean is secured to another water pipe, the shifter asks a man standing in the corner, "Only one more, Master, and we can get our plan on the move."
A/N: Ooh, a little cliff hanger here. Hope you like it and I will update promptly giving you more of this chilling story.