A/N: Thank you so much for your lovely reviews! I'm glad you seemed to enjoy the first installment of the story. I'm really enjoying writing this story in paticular. I always loved the comedic aspect of the show – it gives a great relief when things get darker. Be kind and review!

Complications

Sam was standing in front of Officer Pike, an older man in his fifties, who was just finishing the last round of questions. "I think I've got everything I need here, Mr. Rudd." He extended his hand towards Sam, who took it quickly for a firm handshake, "Thank you for your time."

"Any idea as to what happened, Officer?"

"It's hard to say for sure, the coroner will provide better results within the week. It seems to me that the cook suffered a severe heart attack." The officer grinned, "I hope this didn't put a damper on your vacation."

"No, no, that's okay, it's just awful about the cook. Thank you officer," Sam smiled graciously at the man before they both parted ways.

Sam rejoined Dean by the Impala, he followed Dean's gaze across the parking lot to the waitress Becky from the restaurant. She was visibly distraught, understandably, as she ran her fingers through her blonde hair. She looked over at the brother's, catching Dean's gaze, before turning back to the Deputy.

"So, what do you think?" Sam asked hoping to gain his attention.

"What do I think about what, Sammy?" his face and full attention never waivered from the young waitress as he responded. Dean leaned back against the car as he slid his hands into his jean's pockets.

"Uhm, Dean, the dead guy in the kitchen?" Sam replied.

Dean looked over at his brother, "I think someone's been eating a bit too much and his heart finally gave up, poor bastard."

"Becky, the waitress," Sam motioned with his head to Becky from across the lot, "said that there was no sign of physical stress before. She's worked for him for three years. She said that he had just returned from a routine physical a few weeks back and everything checked out. He wasn't over weight either, so, what gives?"

With a sarcastic smile, "Listen, Sam, as much as I would love to stay here and investigate the idea of why a man had a heart attack. There's nothing we can do. He had a heart attack; people have them all the time."

"Did you also happen to notice that the guy was older?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"How old do you think he was?"

"You want me to guess his age?" He shifted off the Impala to look at Sam. When he saw that his brother was actually serious, Dean rolled his eyes and matched it with a loud sigh, "fine I'll say he looked like he was pushing forty."

"Nope, wrong and I thought that, too. According to the reports he was twenty-eight years old. So how does a guy who just got back from a physical, mind you, with a good bill of health look like that?"

"So the guy looks old and had a crappy doctor. I don't see anything we could possibly do."

"Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that." Sam pulled out a napkin from the resturant that had a drawing on it. The drawing consisted of a triangle with two squiggly marks coming out of the top accompanied with a circle in the middle.

Dean took the napkin for a closer look, "Dude, I've seen better drawings than this from a two year old."

Sam ignored his brother's remark and continued with his theory, "This symbol was on the man's shoulder, I saw it before they took his body away."

"Yeah, and?"

"I've seen it before."

"Then do tell, Sherlock, what it means."

"So, now it's worth looking into?" He said with a grin.

"Come on let's go prove me wrong." Dean said with a wave of his hand towards the car.

"I'd love to."

After several hours of researching the distinctive symbol and its possible meanings at the motel, there was a breakthrough. Sam looked up from his computer over to his brother who was flipping through an old book absent mindedly, "Found it."

Dean slammed the book shut and propped himself up in the chair waiting to hear the news, "What is it?"

"That's odd," Sam continued.

Another few moments of waiting he began to grow even more impatient, "uhh, the suspense is killing me Sammy."

"Well, it says here that it's actually not used in rituals as I first thought. It's actually some sort of symbol for protection."

"Well, good, I'm glad everything hunky dory. You know how I hate to tell you I told you but I told you—"

Sam quickly interrupted him, "But why would he get a tattoo for protection?"

Dean sighed, "When are you going to stop with the questions, Nancy Drew? Perhaps he went in, saw it, thought it was cool and just got it. I mean, just imagine those people who do not understand Chinese or Arabic. They get symbols on their bodies thinking it means one thing but turns out it means something incredibly different. Or perhaps he had a fear of clowns and wanted to protect himself." He paused briefly and considered, "Ooh, maybe you should look into that."

Sam cut his eyes at his brother before continuing, "I don't know something about this just seems off." He shook his head and ran his long slender fingers through his brown hair, a common action when he was thinking.

"But without something to go on we're sitting at a stand still."

"I don't know, maybe we should go talk to that waitress from the restaurant ourselves?"

"You didn't happen to catch her last name, did you?"

"We'll start at the diner and go from there."

"Better get some sleep. We'll get up first thing in the morning." Sam looked over at Dean who was pulling out his Beretta 92 9mm pistol for cleaning. "That means we're going to have to be up pretty early."

"Yeah, yeah, I don't need as much beauty sleep as you do, Sammy."

A/N: Whew, this actually came to me in a day and I was actually going to update last night but.. I fell asleep. Since I'm out of school for the summer, I can hopefully update this story more often. Though life, and writers block, can sometimes keep you from doing that. That is if people want me to continue so please review. It'll make me happy!

Update: 5/25 I decided to take Becky out of this chapter - well the last bit at least. It seemed too forced and I wasn't happy at all with it. By the way, thanks for the reviews, adds, etc. If you haven't yet, please review!!