Dean's sleeping in the hospital bed with both legs lifted up, IV in arm, face still lined in pain.
"Fortunately, the desert spider wasn't poisonous."
The doctor's staring at Sam. Maybe he suspects something.
"Also, no life-threatening amount of tropical rattlesnake venom in his blood. What did keep you from bringing him faster, again?"
" The scorpion's nest under the car seat… " That and to break the curse.
"Look, it's not my nature to pry into people's lives, but what's your line of work?"
"We exterminate things."
"You should reconsider it."
"That's okay…next time he's so going to get protection."
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