After they released Liz from the hospital, the four took up residence at George's for two days, since he had extra rooms for the couples. Gabrielle had asked George to promise her not to tell the others about the angel thing and he promised that he wouldn't. George was up in the kitchen making something for the group to eat, while the others were down in the basement reading the journals, "Dude, Lizzie, check this out." Dean said, Liz perked her head up from the journal she was reading, which she herself had got interested in reading, and looked over as Dean brought the photo album over to her and put it down at the table, pointing to Evelyn, "Talk about twins."
Liz moved the photo album to the side so it was in full view for her and she huffed, taking a look at Evelyn, "Wow. Now that's creepy."
"You tellin' me." Dean said, "That picture," He said, as he pointed to the small date, "Taken back in nineteen-o-four." He finished, as he pulled up a chair and sat down.
"Evelyn Charles, that's our great-great-grandmother." Gabrielle spoke up, over hearing the two talking about the picture and how close of a resemblance Evelyn look to Liz, "First one in our family out of the women to become a hunter."
Dean perked his head up, looking over at Gabrielle, "No kidding?"
Gabrielle nodded, Sam lifted his head up from the journal he was reading to listen into what George had told Gabrielle, "George told me that back then, only the men were allowed into the job. At least, in that family. The women stayed behind, but Evelyn wanted to prove that women were just as good as men when it came to hunting and she practically trained herself, became one of the best hunters of our family."
Dean huffed, looking back down at the photo, but then his thoughts were cut off and he looked up, hearing the steps creek and George walking down into the basement, "You guys having fun down here?" He asked, a slight laughter after.
Liz and George's relationship was still a little edgy, since she still had a grudge over the fact that he had abandoned his own family over hunting. She was quiet, Gabrielle sighed then looked over to her grandfather, "I was just telling them about Evelyn, Liz's twin." She slightly joked.
Liz huffed, rolling her eyes. Dean just smiled and laughed at her, but she looked back over at him unamused, "Ah, Evelyn." George chuckled, crossing his arms, "So, do you guys think you would be up for a job?"
Dean raised an eyebrow, "What kind of job?" Sam asked, before Dean even could, as George pulled out some files rolled up that stuck out of his pocket.
"Morton House, it's not far from here. Been eying the place for a while." George replied, walking over to Sam and handing him over the files, "There's this story, that apparently every leap year, that house becomes the most haunted house in the state. Kids have gone in because of dares and for shits and giggles over the last decade, never to be seen or heard of again. Bodies never even recovered." He informed, as Sam skimmed through some of the pages that George had given him.
"And this Friday just so happens to be a leap year."
George snapped his fingers, "You got that right. I was going to call up a hunter I knew, see if they could do the job, but with you guys showing up, was wondering if you would take it? Better than four take it on than one." Dean thought for a moment, looking over at Liz because he still didn't like the fact of her tagging along. George noticed the awkward silence, remembering that they didn't want Liz hunting while she was pregnant, "Or three?"
Liz stood up, turning to George, "We'll take it." She said, giving him a smile. Sam and Gabrielle turned to look at each other. Liz turned to Dean, "Come on," She said, then turned to look at Sam and Gabrielle who turned to look at her, "This is like a freaking grand canyon we got here. Let's light this bitch." George smiled, seeing the enthusiasm in Liz, but the other three didn't get a kick out of it. Dean sighed, figuring he would give in and let Liz tag along, much to the rest of himself telling him to stand up and stop her. It was just a measly ghost hunt, right? Just a little salt and burn? If Dean made sure to keep a sharp eye on Liz, what could possibly go wrong?
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Sam walked up to Dean, who stood behind the Impala, and he threw him over one of their weapon bag. Dean caught it, then stuffed it in the Impala's trunk. Friday had came along and they were getting ready to take off to the Morton House. Sam stood by, looking off into the distance and sighing, "Sam, what now?" Dean asked, hearing the loud sigh from Sam, before standing up and closing the trunk.
Sam turned to Dean, "Is this a good thing, letting Liz come with us?"
Dean sighed, "Look, Sam, you know I don't want her to come along, but I don't want her going off and trying to prove to me that she can do the job. You and Elle can handle the thing, I'll try to get Liz to stay back from any of the action, alright?"
Sam nodded, opening his mouth to say something, "Hey! You guys ready or what?" Liz yelled, as she walked up and Sam turned around to see Liz and Gabrielle walking up to the Impala, "Not long until nightfall hits."
"Are you ready?" Dean asked, walking up past Sam to Liz where she stood in the lawn.
Liz rolled her eyes, "Dean, I'll be fine. Okay? It's probably just a little salt and burn. It's nothing I can't handle." Dean sighed, nodding his head, then he looked at her and Liz gave him a smile then leaned up and gave him a quick kiss, but pulling back before Dean could even kiss back, "C'mon, let's get our asses on the road." She then looked past Dean to Sam, "Race you for shotgun!"
Sam glared at her, taking off in a dash and running around the Impala, "Oh, no you don't!" Dean just shook his head, Gabrielle didn't even bother to fight over shotgun. Sam was fast, but Liz had been faster, they bumped into each other and both their hands on the car door.
"I got here first." Liz said, sticking her tongue out at him.
Sam laughed, "Yeah, right. I think the backseat is calling your name."
Dean threw his head back, laughing, as he walked over to the driver's side, "Okay, rock paper scissors?" Liz asked, taking her hand from the handle. Sam grinned, holding his hand out. Gabrielle rolled her eyes, walking over to her side because if Sam got the passenger side then she would sit behind him, either way, she always sat in the back on the passenger's side, she crossed her arms and watched Sam and Liz play a game of rock paper scissors. Liz shot out scissors while Sam did paper, "Ha!" Liz yelled, Sam groaned and rolled his eyes. Liz patted her hand on Sam's shoulder and he just gave her an unamused look, "Better luck next time." Sam snorted, turning around as Liz just cackled and evil laugh as she got in the Impala.
Dean looked over at Sam as he walked over, "Dude, next time, remember that she always chooses scissors."
Sam rolled his eyes, "Shut up." He retorted, Dean just laughed and the two got in the car as Liz and Gabrielle had already got in.
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Night had fallen by the time the four had managed to get to the Morton House, Dean turned up the radio louder, blasting We're An American Band by Grand Funk Railroad, Liz pulling down the window, then she turned around, "Sam, flashlight." She said, holding her hand out and Sam who was still not fond of sitting in the backseat, handed Liz over the flashlight, she gave him a grin and he just continued to glare at her.
If there were any teenagers playing any dares tonight then they'd hope to scare them away. Dean slowed down the Impala, while Liz scooped the place out and tried to scare off any teenagers there with the flashlight, "See anything?" Dean asked, looking past her.
"Nope." Liz answered, pulling the flashlight back in and turning it off, turning to look over at Dean, "All clear." She informed, Dean then put on the gas some more to find a place to park off in the distance. The four got out of the Impala once Dean parked her, Sam grabbed their weapon bag out of the trunk and a few other flashlights, throwing them over to Dean, Liz, and Gabrielle.
"Alright. Sam, Elle, you two take the back end of the house. Liz and I will take the front." Dean explained to them, setting up their plan, "Cover as much ground as you can and if you need help, yell." Sam, Gabrielle, and Liz all nodded, before they walked towards the abandoned house, splitting up in different directions as Sam and Gabrielle went to sneak into the house from the back while Dean and Liz went towards the front.
Dean turned to look at Liz before he pick locked the door open, a little worried about letting her get into the action. Once inside, the two walked through. Liz turned to look in what seemed to have been the living room part of the house and she shined her flashlight over, seeing all the computer equipment, "Hey, Dean." She whispered, slightly hitting his arm to get his attention.
Dean turned, looking over and groaned, "You have got to be kidding me." He said, putting his head down and shaking it as they walked over to the equipment, pulling out his cell phone to text Sam and warn him they weren't the only ones there while Liz checked out the computers. Dean pressed send on the text then looked back over to all of the equipment, "Great, not only do we have to find a ghost now but we have to find some stupid teenagers."
Liz slightly laughed, "Yeah, hopefully we find their dumbasses before old man Morton does." She groaned, before turning to a different direction and walking away, Dean following her from behind.
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Sam and Gabrielle walked through the darkened hallway, shining the flashlights to see if they could find anything that'd spark their attention. Sam felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, he stopped, while Gabrielle walked a head a little bit, and he pulled his phone out to check the text sent from Dean,
Be on the look out, found equipment. Not the only ones here.
Sam groaned as he read the text, "Oh, great."
Gabrielle turned around, "What?" She asked, hearing him from behind.
"Just got a text from Dean and apparently, we're not the only ones here. Now we have to find some stupid kids."
Gabrielle lifted her eyes in a roll, groaning, "Fantastic!" Sam chuckled, then walked up to her as she turned around and started searching,
Sam and Gabrielle stopped, hearing a scream in the distance, "Oh, that is so not funny Spruce!" Gabrielle turned to Sam, motioning her head in the way from where they heard the voices.
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Dean and Liz walked down the hall, Liz had thought she heard some voices in the distance. She shined her flashlight over down one of the halls, catching sight of two men, "Hey!" Liz yelled at them, in a rough deep voice to get their attention.
"Freeze! Police officers! Don't move!" Dean yelled, as they walked up, not noticing at first that one of the men he had met before.
"What the hell do you think you're doing here?" Liz asked, she was actually getting a kick out of watching the other guy in some camo outfit whimpering and looked like he was about to cry.
"Let's see some identification." Dean ordered them, holding out his hand.
"What? Are-are we under-under arrest?" The guy in the camo outfit that Liz was scaring half to death, asked.
"We are unarmed." The other man with glasses and beard, informed, as he held up his hands.
"Oh, god. Oh, god." The other one next to him whimpered, as he pulled out his wallet and gave it to Dean.
"Want to explain that weirdo outfit, Mr., uh, Corbett?" Dean asked, as he read Corbett's ID from Corbett's wallet.
"Woah." The other man spoke, calmed voice, not freaked out anymore as he got a better glimpse of Dean, "I know you." Then he looked over at Liz, "Don't know you, but I'd like to get to know you."
Liz just crossed her arms and glared, "Not in your lifetime." She replied, giving him an unamused smile.
"Hey!" Dean yelled, his protective and territorial side showing, "You don't hit on her! Now let me see some identification, c'mon." His voice a bit deeper in the order. No one hit on Liz, unless they wanted him to rip them a new one.
"Wait, hold on. You-you uh, had a taller guy with you."
Liz raised an eyebrow, looking over at Dean wondering what was going on, "Fuck me." Dean said, as he finally remembered the one guy.
"Dean, what the hell is going on?" Liz asked, putting her hands on her hips, confused at how the one guy apparently knew Dean and Dean did too.
Dean turned his head to her, "Uh, it was a while back. Sam and I had to take out some tupo, tupa, whatever. Him and his buddy, uh, Hellhounds, something."
Liz squinted her eyes then looked over at the guy that apparently Dean knew, "Yeah, we're not Hellhounds anymore, okay? It didn't test that well."
"Ed, what's going on?" Corbett asked, just as confused as Liz was.
"They're not cops, buddy no, not at all."
"Ed, Ed, you had a partner, too, didn't you. A different guy?" Dean asked, remembering the smaller guy.
"Oh, yeah, yeah."
"Is he around here somewhere?"
"He's running around, chasing ghosts." Ed replied, Liz just scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"Okay, well, listen, you and Rambo need to get your girlfriends and get out of here."
Ed laughed slightly, "All right. Listen here, chisel chest, okay? We were here first. We've already set up base camp. We beat you."
Dean turned to Liz, who just looked like she wanted to punch something, "They were here first." Liz just shook her head, lifting her eyes in a roll, then Dean turned and pushed Ed up against the wall, "Ed?"
"Yeah?" He asked, voice cracked, as Dean held him up against the wall.
"Where's your partner?"
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Gabrielle and Sam walked down the hallway, from where they had heard the man scream, although now everything was silent again, but then they jumped hearing a whole group screaming and the two turned to look at each other before running off, soon enough colliding with the other group, "Hey!" Sam yelled, trying to get their attention, "Calm down!"
Although, the group screamed again, seeing Sam's shotgun and they ran past the two and down the hall, Sam looked over to see that Gabrielle had been knocked down. He walked over, holding out his hand and she took it so he could help her up, "What the hell was that about?" Gabrielle yelled, dusting off some of the dirt from the floor off of her pants.
"No time. Let's follow them." Sam said, taking off. Gabrielle groaned before turning a heel and following Sam as they went after the other group.
zzzzzz
"What are you doing at the Morton House, Ed? On a leap year? What are you thinking?!" Dean yelled, as him, Liz, Ed, and Corbett walked into the living room.
"We're here to spend the night, it's for our tv show." Ed replied, in a low voice.
Liz groaned, rolling her eyes, then rolling them back towards Ed, "Tv show, really?" She asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, nobody's ever spent the night before." Corbett replied.
"Yeah, you know why? 'Cause the ones that have haven't lived to talk about it!" Dean yelled, irritated by the group and the fact that he had now run into Ed again, not forgetting what had happened last time.
Ed laughed, "Oh, come on, I don't believe you."
Liz rolled her eyes, "Dean, bag." She asked, moving her hand to give it to him and he took the duffel off of his shoulder and threw it over, "Here, check this out." Liz said, as she unzipped the duffel open and pulled out the files that George had given the group, Ed walked over to look at the files that Liz now held as she showed to him, "John Graham stayed on a dare, gone. Julie Wilkerson, gone. There are tons more, too. And all of them came to just stay the night, always on a leap year." Liz said, as she shoved the papers at Ed's chest, "The only body they had ever found was the last owner, Freeman Daggett."
"These look legit." Ed said, as he skimmed through the papers.
"That's because they are, moron!" Liz screamed, actually slapping Ed in the back of the head.
"Ow!" Ed yelled, taking his hand to rub where Liz had hit him and then she scoffed and walked away, crossing her arms.
Dean slightly chuckled and shook his head at Liz, then he looked over at Ed, "Look, Ed, we've got to get you and little buddies out of here because we ain't got much time here, dude Starting at midnight, you're all gonna die."
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!" Dean and Liz jumped, turning around as the other group ran down the stairs, Sam and Gabrielle soon enough catching up too and running up to Dean and Liz, "We got one! Corbett! Corbett, we saw one! We saw one!" Harry yelled, ecstatic.
"Get outta here!" Ed replied, laughing. Noticing how freaked out his friends were.
"It was a full apparition! It was like a class four. It was a spectral illumination! It..." Harry said, as he talked fast trying to get everything out, but then he looked to see Sam and Dean and he stopped talking, which had everyone silent and look over at Sam and Dean, "Hey! Aren't those the assholes from Texas?!"
"Yes, with their girlfriends."
"All right, let's have this reunion across the street, guys." Dean said, trying to force them to move and get out of the house, not wanting to deal with having to worry about keeping all of them alive.
"Crap. What are you guys doing here?" Harry spoke, as Dean continued to talk.
"Come on, come on. We'll get you ice cream, our treat. What do you say? Let's go!"
"Yeah, I say no." Harry replied, as he walked over to the computers and Maggie set up the camera to show the footage they had just captured.
"Look at this. Look, look. Ed, Ed. No. No. Look at this. Okay, honest-to-god proof, all right?" Maggie said, as the group huddled around to see the footage on the camera.
Liz groaned, crossing her arms as her, Dean, Sam, and Gabrielle walked over to see what they had captured. Dean tilted his head, watching the video, as the group talked amongst themselves and Harry said what the emf was reading at the time. Gabrielle rolled her eyes and then moved her head in motion to the side, then walked away from the living room. Sam, Liz, and Dean following her, not realizing that Spruce was following them, "Think we were off on this? I mean, that was just a death echo." Sam asked, in a whisper.
"Yeah, but what's it doing here? Did anybody get shot here?" Dean asked, Sam shook his head.
"George didn't really find any of that and list it in the papers." Gabrielle replied, crossing her arms.
"So, he sent us on a hunt, not giving us the right info so we could get our asses killed? Great." Liz commented, with a scoff.
Gabrielle turned to look at her sister, glaring since Liz still wasn't all cool with George and trusting him, "Liz, he wouldn't do that."
"What's a death echo?" Spruce asked, interrupting their conversation.
Sam turned to Spruce, "Look, we got a problem here. That ghost ain't it."
"What's a death echo?" Spruce asked again, Liz just lifted her eyes annoyed.
Dean turned to Spruce this time, "Echoes are trapped in a loop, okay? They keep replaying how they died over and over and over again, usually in the place where they were ganked. It's about as dangerous as a scary movie." He explained.
"So maybe the echo's not dangerous, but maybe something else is." Sam added.
"You're right. All right, we need to get out of here, guys." Dean said in order, as he walked over towards the group, "Lizzie will take you guys out, come on. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Pack it up."
Liz turned quickly over at Dean, "I'll take them out?"
Dean looked up over at Liz, "Yes, you'll take them out. Take them somewhere, anywhere. I don't care."
The group stopped talking as they scattered everything together while Sam and Gabrielle tried to get them to leave, turning their attention to Dean and Liz, "Why me?"
"Um, I don't know...maybe because you're pregnant!" Liz just crossed her arms, rolling her eyes. Sam and Gabrielle sighed, seeing they were fighting, "Lizzie, if this thing is a serious badass mofo, you're getting out of here!"
The group turned to look back over at Liz, "Dean, I can do the job just fine!"
"No, you can't!"
"Yes, I can!"
Sam groaned, ignoring Liz and Dean yelling at each other, "Guys, shut up!" He yelled, causing Dean and Liz to abruptly stop yelling, "Time is running out! "
"Right, right." Dean nodded, glaring over at Liz who just looked away from him and he then motioned the group to continue packing up their stuff, "We're moving!"
"What about all of our equipment? What are we gonna..."
"Lots of fun. Let's go." Dean ordered, cutting off Maggie as he forced them out of the living towards the door.
"We got more material. We got all kinds of stuff. We'll make you guys recurring guest stars." Harry spoke up, trying to convince the four to let them stay.
"Wait! Wait!" Ed yelled, stopping at the door, everyone soon shut up to look at him, as he was in silence for a moment, realizing the were one member less, "Where's Corbett?"
"We'll find him, you go!" Dean yelled, pushing Ed to go out.
"No man left behind!" Ed yelled, trying to get past Dean to leave, but Dean pushed him back. They all stopped as they heard a scream, Corbett's scream, from the upstairs, "That was Corbett."
"That was Corbett! Corbett!" Harry yelled, as they group soon took off towards the upstairs following where they heard Corbett's screams coming from.
"We'll get him! Go back!" Dean yelled, although the group wasn't listening as they ran up the steps.
"Guys!" Sam called after them, "Shit!" Sam cursed, as the four took off and ran upstairs after the group, who were all yelling out for Corbett while they heard his screaming off in the distance, just not able to find the source of where he was screaming from, "Hey! Hey! Hey! Come on." Sam yelled, as him and the others tried to get the group back downstairs and out before 12am hit, not realizing the clock had switched to 12am.
