"What the actual…" Adam says in disbelief, while looking at something on his lap top.
"What is it? Something for us?" Dean asks, scrolling through the news, eating something.
"I… I don't really know…" Adam replies slowly. Melody stands behind him, reading over his shoulder.
"I think it is." She says when she's read halfway through it.
"What is it then?" Sam asks.
"Strange deaths in the mountains in Wyoming. A lot of people have gone hiking, now that it is summer breaks from school and stuff you know. Only a few has come back home. The cops was investigating it, and apparently most people has taken the same way, and they found a lot of corpses spread out everywhere, almost intact. Except for their heads. They're bashed into a mess, and their brains are missing." She tells them. Dean nods.
"Looks like we're going to Wyoming then. Where do they keep the bodies?" Melody shakes her head.
"FBI have apparently already taken a look at them, so now they're all buried." Dean frowns. But Sam smiles.
"Like we're gonna need a hacker, and a really good one too" Dean smirks. Melody thinks for a bit.
"Right! Charlie, if I remember it right?" she says. Sam nods, and Dean goes away to call her. Adam starts searching for any monsters that fits the way of killing. After a few minutes Dean returns.
"Charlie will be here tomorrow. Any idea of what it could be?" Adam puts one of his fingers in the air.
"I'm working on it." Dean nods and sits down.
"Cas! We think we've found something! Come over here and help us!" he shouts. A few minutes later Cas walks through the door, his hair a little bit wet from a shower. Dean looks at him and smiles a little bit.
"You like taking showers, huh?" he asks the angel, grinning a little bit.
"Yes." Cas answers simply. "What is it you've found?" he continues.
"Some strange deaths in the mountains. A lot of people with their heads bashed and brains missing. Any idea? I can't find anything that seems possible." Adam says, not looking away from his screen. Sam looks a little bit confused.
"What do you find that doesn't seem possible? I mean… pretty much everything exists." Adam sighs.
"Yeah, I know, but… everything I can find is about some kind of African monster, that has not been sighted anywhere else in the world, ever."
"Let me see." Sam says, taking the laptop. He reads for a long time, wrinkling his eyebrows. Then he looks at Cas.
"Do you know anything about Nandi Bears?" he asks.
"Yes. It's a kind of monster. But I've only heard of them in Africa, never in America." Cas says thoughtfully.
"Well, that's the only results on here." Sam says, giving the laptop back to Adam.
"We'll just have to wait for Charlie then, so we hopefully can get some more detailed information." Dean says lightly and walks towards the kitchen. Cas follows him.
Charlie arrives right after lunch the next day. When they meet her at the door, Adam stops, staring at her.
"The dude is a dudette!?" he bursts, before putting his hands over his mouth, looking awkwardly at the floor. Charlie looks at him with a confused look, then at Melody, still confused, but something else too. Dean points at them.
"Charlie, this is our brother Adam, who Mel over here just rescued from Hell. And Mel, or Melody, here is Sammy's new girlfriend. Adam, Mel… this is Charlie, the best hacker ever and a friend of us who's still alive." Melody hugs Charlie.
"It's fun meeting you, I've heard a bit about you." She says, smiling. Sam takes Charlie's bags, carrying them to her room. The others walks to the living room.
"You don't need to do anything today, just stay here and chill. We're getting to work tomorrow." Melody says, before anyone of the others can say something. She needs to talk to some of them.
"Cas, Dean, could you two get some ingredients at the store for me? I feel like making some pie." Dean looks a bit confused.
"Sure, but why do both me and Cas go? I could fix it myself you know."
"You never know when you need someone to keep you focused, or when a demon or something tries to attack you." Melody says.
"Fine. Get the list with ingredients then." Melody smiles, and jumps into the kitchen. She hands Dean the list, right when Sam returns. Cas is on his way to put his fingers at Dean's forehead, but Dean stops him.
"You know what I think about being zapped somewhere. We're taking the Impala." Then they leave the room. When Melody hears the door closing she sits back.
"Good, they're out of the way." The others look a bit confused.
"What? I needed them both out of the way. So, is it just me, or are Cas and Dean a bit gay for each other?" the others stares at her, then starts thinking. Sam is the first one to start talking again.
"It's not just you, I think they are too. I mean… no personal space at all, and Dean is usually very fond of it. And I really wonder what their record is for staring at each other."
"Yeah. I know the signs when I see them. They are totally gay for each other… or Dean is gay for Cas at least, I don't know if an angel can be gay." Charlie says. Adam nods in agreement.
"Should we help them out a bit then? They doesn't seem to like the thought of being the first one to say anything." Melody says, smiling.
"Yeah. We should. Like making one of them trip over and land on the other and stuff like that." Sam agrees. They go back to doing whatever. Sam takes up a book to read, Charlie and Adam talks and Melody goes to the kitchen to prepare the stuff she can. Soon the door's open again.
"We've got your bloody ingredients! This better be some hell of a pie, because it wasn't easy, Mel! How the fuck does you people do it? I mean…" He's cut off by something. The next second Cas stands in front of Melody, handing her the bag with groceries.
"He was about to stand there all day." He says.
"Thanks, Cas." Melody says, flashing him a smile. He smiles a little smile back.
"Cas! What do you think you're doing!?" Dean shouts.
"Giving her the ingredients so you can get some of your beloved pie!" Cas shouts back, walking out of the kitchen. Melody starts baking.
"Here you go, a bit pie. You'll see it was worth go shopping, Dean." Melody says with a grin.
"It better be." Dean mutters, still a little bit angry. He shoves some pie in his mouth and swallows.
"It was worth it." He says. Melody looks proud and hands all the others some pie too.
"I made it! I hacked into FBI's database!" Charlie shouts, bringing everyone to the library. They gather around the computer, while she shows them all the facts about the bodies.
"Seems like we've got a Nandi Bear to take care of." Cas states.
"But… how? I thought the only lived in Africa?" Dean asks.
"Not this one." Cas says. Dean bangs his head at the wall.
"No shit, Sherlock. Well we better get moving then."
"Great. Me and Adam takes my car, the rest of you can take the Impala." Charlie says happily. Adam looks a bit stunned, but follows her. Melody smiles.
"He likes her." Sam nods.
"Yep, but he's really not her type. Or… no guys really are her type."
"Oh. So that's what she meant with that she knew the signs. Now I get it." Melody says.
They are soon on their way.
"Give me your phone. If you're going to stay I need to check that you've got a decent taste in music." Dean says. Melody gives him her phone. He goes through it all.
"Metallica… good. AC/DC, great. Kiss… awesome… what the hell is Katy Perry!?" he continues like that for a few minutes.
"Angel with a shotgun… what song is that?" Dean asks, actually sounding interested.
"Well… maybe not exactly your taste in music, but you should give it a shot." Melody says, taking her phone back to start playing the song.
"Listen to the lyrics, it's pretty good." Then she signals to Sam that they have to observe both Dean and Cas during the song, since the two of them sits in the backseat, and Cas sits beside Dean. Sam nods. It shows them all they need to know. Dean's eyes flickers to Cas all the time, and Cas stares at Dean through the corner of his eye.
"Okay, I don't know what to feel about that. Who the hell makes a song, kind of, about Cas and his rebellion against Heaven? Well, it was pretty nice, but we're not listening to it again." Dean says when the song is over.
"No Dean, we can listen to it again. I actually liked it…" Cas says. Melody smiles proudly.
They arrive and discuss what they should do next. Adam come with the best idea: walk straight into the mountains, camping and searching with guns ready, and not involving anyone that could get killed. Charlie and Sam get the mission to get tent and stuff, while the others decide what weapons they should have. When they start walking Melody gets to carry the food, while Charlie carries their sleeping bags, Adam takes the tents, Cas takes their clothes and hygiene stuff, and Dean and Sam shares the weapons. They set the tents up where they're sure no one will bother them. Charlie sends Dean and Cas to get wood to the fire. When they're back Sam lights it up and Melody starts cooking. Adam sets up some traps with some help from Cas, Dean checks the weapons and Charlie and Sam sits by the fire, talking to Melody. It's all pretty nice in Melody's mind, but she takes that back when they hear a roar that chills her to bone, not too far away. Dean hands everyone one gun each, and then they share knifes, spears and other stuff. And of course torches. They gather in a circle around the fire, with their back turned to it. Melody got one gun, one knife and one torch, and stands between Adam and Dean. Adam's got one gun, an iron spear and a torch, while Dean's got a shotgun, baton and a torch. They wait, very tense, for a single sound or one of the traps to go off. They're not disappointed. Soon it sounds like something breaks a smaller tree. And soon one of the traps goes off, the one where the monster gets a stone in the head or back. A few seconds later they see an animal, with the size of a bigger lion, but looks like a mix between a bear and a hyena, and only one eye. It stares right at Melody, but holds its ground.
"Put a bullet in the eye." Dean whispers, not looking away from the monster. Slowly Melody points the gun right at the eye, then fires. The monster goes crazy, running right towards them. Melody jumps out of the way, and Dean hits it the head. It answers with ripping up his chest with its gigantic claws. Melody screams, and the monster turns to her. She grabs the knife, and runs it up the monsters open mouth, aiming upwards, at the brain, but the knife isn't long enough. Suddenly Cas is between her and the Nandi Bear. He takes his angel blade, runs it through the rest of the eye, stopping it from biting him, while he runs his spear right up its stomach, hitting the heart and killing it. He lets go as soon he's sure it's dead, and runs over to Dean, who is almost dead. He places his hand over Dean's chest, healing him. Dean coughs a little bit, then sits up, looking at their worried faces. He slowly stands up.
"Should we light this bitch up then?" he asks, laughing a little bit. Sam nods, getting the blade, the knife and the spear out of the bear. They throw their torches at it, and it's soon burning. They decide that they might as well sleep in the tents now that they're up and all. The next day the packs fast, trying to get away from the stinking rests of the Nandi Bear. When the night falls they stumble through the door of the bunker, really tired. They just drop everything at the door, then walks into their rooms.