Chapter 2

Days later, Sam has been digging through the Men of Letters archives trying to find any information on the thing that tried to kill him. He couldn't find anything about the creature, but he did find something else interesting. He came across several boxes labelled "Immunity." As he started going through these boxes, he realized they contained files on creatures who gained immunity from the Men of Letters because they were not killers. He was thinking to himself how this could settle the debate about "friendly monsters" and if it was a good idea to let them live.

At that moment, he discovered a very interesting box that carried the same label, and the name of the creature was "Mina Harker." Intrigued by the famously familiar name, he had to open the box. The first folder Sam pulled out from the box turned out to be "A Synopsis from Abraham Van Helsing's journal regarding Dracula." Sam chuckled to himself, not surprised the Men of Letters would have such a verbose title on a relatively thin file folder. As he looked through the box, he found files from other Men of Letters, as well as photographs and even a film reel from the 1950s. The photographs caused Sam to do a double take as recognition hit him.

Sam ran into the conference room, shouting for his brother, "Dean, Dean, come in here, quick! You have to see this!" Sam could barely contain himself.

"What?" Dean wandered in, looking as if he just woke up. "This better be good for 3 o'clock in the morning."

Sam semi-glared at his brother, "Like you sleep anyway. Look, you just have to check this out."

"I'm guessing you must have found something on that creature that tried to kill you?"

"No. But I did find something on the person who killed it. There's a reason Cherry knew so much about the creature. She hunted it before."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Dean said incredulously. "That thing only attacks every 40 years. There's no way she hunted it before."

"She did if she was alive 40 years ago…or even say, 125 years ago," Sam stated mysteriously.

"Sam, if you don't start making sense in the next ten seconds, I'm going back to bed."

"Ok, ok. Just listen to me. I found all these boxes down in the archives labelled 'Immunity,' and they contain info on all of these creatures that the Men of Letters thought shouldn't be hunted."

"So, friendly monsters. I get it. But what does this have to do with Cherry?" Dean asks, clearly getting more annoyed by the minute.

"Will you just sit down and shut up?" Sam says, exasperated. This isn't the first time Dean wouldn't let him talk.

Dean sits and gives Sam a look that says, "Well, get on with it."

"Ok, so one of these boxes is for a creature named 'Mina Harker'. You know, from Dracula. Anyway, there's a bunch of pictures in this box. And, just look." He shows Dean a picture of a 50s pin up girl.

"Whoa! No frickin' way! She looks just like Cherry!" Dean exclaims.

"Exactly," Sam replies. "Now listen to this." He reads from a file he pulled from the box. "Name: Mina Harker. Species: Nosferatu. Known Aliases: Cicely St. Cloud, Deirdre Cox, Ginger O'Toole, and Lucy Westenra. That one is interesting, because Lucy Westenra was Mina's best friend in the novel."

"So, Dracula is real. And I slept with one of his brides? Is that what you're telling me? Awesome."

Rolling his eyes at his older brother, Sam continues, "Anyway, according to this, back in like, the 1890s, Jonathan and Mina Harker were hunters, and Abraham Van Helsing was a Man of Letters. While hunting Dracula, who they did kill by the way, Mina was turned, just like in the book. But, unlike the book, killing Dracula did not reverse it."

"Of course not," Dean replied, "because killing the sire never reverses the change."

"But," Sam continued, not hiding his annoyance at being interrupted, "Something happened that Van Helsing didn't share with the other Men of Letters that caused Mina to make a very firm promise to him and Jonathan that she would never kill an innocent person, never create another Nosferatu, and never drink someone's blood without their permission. To that end, Van Helsing made arrangements that the Men of Letters would interview her every 20 years or so to ensure she was standing up to her promise. If not, they'd send a hunter after her. Same thing if she just didn't make her scheduled appointment."

Dean starts rifling through the box. "There's a film reel in here. Did you watch it yet?"

"Nope. What do you think, movie night?"

"Absolutely."