They arrived in Mobridge just after 7 that evening, and we're booked into a double room by half calling Bobby to let him know they had made it there. The guys had be reluctant to book separate rooms when the girls first got here but there excuse now was just it was easier for research.
The girls never complained, or asked for their own room, Sam and Dean had even gotten used to leaving about two feet in between them on the bed. "Ok, Sammy suit it up, we need to know the woman who's missing now". Jess and Charley just freshened themselves up to look presentable and drove to the police station with the brothers.
"There are three of the Vic's houses almost right across from the station we'll go to them first, if you guys need us, give us a call" Jess and Charley made their way over to the first house and began their roles as reporters.
Sam and Dean walked into the station and asked to see the person in charge, flashing their fed badge's at the chief they were filled in on all of the disappearances plus the latest. A young girl called Mandy, 22 years old and just finished her studies in the community college. Who had only gone missing since this morning but it was enough to frighten her parents.
After an hour apart, Jess called Deans phone,
"Hay you two ok?"
"Yep, we're good Dean. Just calling to let you know that we found out who the new Vic is..."
"Ye, the sheriff filled us in on her"
"Well turns out her home was just two streets away, so we checked it out that girl is squeaky clean, I mean honour student, volunteer work everything. But so far out of the other three house's the only thing all the girls have in common is spending time by the lake." Jess said
"What like, swimming together? alone?"
"Depends really some of the girls were friends, would go up to the lake on a nice day sometimes alone."
"Alright stay where you are, we'll come pick you up and we'll check out this lake"
"Ok, see ye in a few"
Dean filled Sam in on what the girls had found, "Ye know, I love the way they talk" Dean said randomly
"What..Jess and Charley?"
"Yeah, their accents are cool, like naturally sarcastic or something" Said Dean
"Ye it's pretty cool, everyone always knows their Irish because of it" Sam laughed.
They picked the girls up around the corner and made their way towards the lake. "Is there a certain part of this lake we're going to?"
Charley bit her lip "We think it's by a pier but none of the parents knew exactly where it is they go." Jessie snorted
"You would think with girls going missing that everyone would have the women on lock down in this town, it weird" Sam and Dean frowned at each other
"Ye that is weird" Sam murmured
Reaching the lake, it was already dark, the sky was clouded so there was very little natural light. Dean went to the back of the Impala and took out a two flash lights, Sam and Charley goin one side of the pier and Dean and Jessie going there other.
"Holler if you see anything" Charley said
"Will do babes"
Sam and Dean shared a secret smile at the accent again. They scouted around the lakes edge for a good hour seeing nothing unusual. Jessie and Dean decided to check out the pier itself, it was sturdy enough wood on top but what looked like concrete reinforced legs.
"I can't see anything" sighed Jessie, "do you think there could be something underneath?"
"Don't know Jessie, no way of checking now it's too dark"
"No, I think I can get a quick look, just long enough to see if it's worth coming back up here tomorrow" Jessie shrugged out of her jacket and kneeled down on the pier, putting her hand out for the flash light from Dean.
"Just be careful Jess"
"I will Hotstuff" Jessie replied still using her nick name for Dean. Hair tucked into the back of her top Jess shimmied so she was able to hold onto one of the struts and flash the light under the pier. It was still very dark and the water was to deep to see down, Jessie shot up from the edge
"What?..." Dean asked pulling Jessie away from the edge
"Thought I saw something...but it's do dark to see properly"
They all meet back at the Impala, Dean told them about their empty hand and Sam and Charley had no better.
"We might have better luck in the morning" said Charley.
Disappointed that they were not able to find anything solid today they high tailed it back to the motel, preparing for a long night of research. Once back at the motel they ordered in and started to sift through all of their finding's the only thing coming up in common with all of the women being the lake.
"Well it doesn't really narrow it down, I mean driving in here we saw no sports centres or basically any other way for people to entertain themselves, the lake is literally the towns hobby, go to spot and chill place." said Jessie.
"Great" snarked Dean "so this could be anyone or anything, and the lake being the only place people go making it easier for whatever this is to pick off women" Dean scrubbed at his face tired and irritable.
"Dean..." Jess said softly, "Lie down for a bit you drove all day and its after 1am, get a few hours shut eye" Dean was about to protest saying a cup of coffee would make him better but a stern look from Jess and a persistent tug on his arm had him sprawled on one of the beds sill half dressed, and asleep in ten minutes. God he's cute when he sleeps.
Sam sent Jess an appreciative smile, another thing the girls had done was boot the boys to bed every now and then stayed up to finish the research themselves. They'd be reprimanded for it the next morning but the boys did the same for them. The four had fallen into an easy pattern of looking out for one another.
Sam sat on his laptop for another while trying to research the town's history, looking for any legends or lore surrounding the lake, but coming up blank. Charley and Jess were trying to organise the Vic information, dates everything and started mapping out their home, jobs or schools looking for any place apart from the lake where they might all visit. By 2am Jessie's bad night sleep was catching up on her, eyes heavy and gritty, she lay her head on the edge of the bed from where she was sitting on the floor.
"Ugh...find anything Sam?" asked Charley, Sam rubbed at his tired eyes and shook his head
"Nothing, there's no history of deaths on the lake, no recent murders or suicides that could point to an angry sprit. There's no legend around the lake at all" Jess sighed
"So our best bet is still heading to the lake in the morning and look again?" Sam closed his laptop and yawned
"Yup, nothing else is showing at the moment"
"Alright...sleep then even for an hour I don't care" sighed Jess, Sam stood and held out a hand to her helping her up off the floor. Charley was already lying on the other bed eyes closed and lamp off, Jess looked at Dean he was sprawled awkwardly across the bed, no way Sam would fit next to him. "You lie down next to Charley Sam, there's no way you'll fit on the same bed as Dean tonight"
"Um...no...it's alright Jess I'll sleep in one of those chairs"
Charley snorted eyes still closed "You will not, you won't sleep sitting in one of those small chairs so just lie down. Promise I don't bite"
Sam bit his lip and blushed grateful for the lack of light in the room to hide it. "Ok"
Jessie collapsed on the bed next to Dean, pulled the covers up and slept.
The dream started much the same as it did the night before, except Jess remembered the last dream now she was asleep. She stood eyes darting around for the wolf that had entered her dreams. A white flash moved on her right, Jess stood straighter, no point in trying to outrun something that big, it'll just eat me anyway.
A light bell like laughter pealed through the field, Jess spun around quickly and low and behold there sat the white wolf, just as big as the last time.
You are a strange one child
"Oh god...am I hearing things?...I'm hearing things right?"
No you are not, this is the safest way for us to talk, for now
"What?..." Jess was so confused "My head must be more screwed than I thought, cause this is a weird dream"
This may be a dream but me speaking to you is all really child, everything I say here I mean. That gun will not work. And you must leave the town you are in now. It is not safe for you.
"What?...I am finding it hard to take this in here...so give me a second"
The wolf was patiently waiting for Jess to calm herself but took a small step towards her.
"Whoa..." Jess held up her hands, stepping further away from the huge wolf moving towards her "You said that you really here speaking to me. Who are you?"
Not yet child, too soon to tell you. Leave the town. Do not stay there, when you wake leave!
The voice running through her head was become more forceful when trying to stress the point about leaving. Suddenly Jessie's head went light and the field and wolf began to shimmer.
Jess shot up from the bed, breath coming in short gasps and her head aching again, this time she knew she had dreamt something, but again the more she reached for it the less she could remember. Sighing frustrated with herself Jess looked at the clock 7am, ok at least I got a few hours sleep. Knowing that she wouldn't go back to sleep with her head aching Jess quietly tip toed around the room deciding on having a shower.
"Jessie?..." Dean questioned sleepily
"Hay, morn'in Hotstuff" Jessie smiled through her headache.
Dean looked around confused and spotted Sammy sprawled out on the bed with Charley, catching his stare Jess explained. "You were all stretched out and Sam was vouching to sleep on a chair so I swapped with Sam"
"Oh,..." Dean flushed, in the bed next to me all night and I didn't even know, damn. "Did you stay up much later last night?"
"No, about an hour, we didn't finding anything new so it's back to the lake today to see if we can find anything this morning. I'm just gonna jump in the shower"
"Ok" watching Jess close the bathroom door Dean face palmed, mental kicking himself for not grabbing an opportunity to sling an arm over Jess when they slept, could have been an easy way to play it off, hay I was asleep.
Dean hopped out of bed himself feeling better after the few hours sleep, dressing and snagged his car keys and decided to go bring breakfast back.
Sam and Charley woke up hearing the purr of the Impala's engine and shyly looked at the each other. Sam really loved the way Charley looked in the morning her hair all sleep messed but still shiny and silky looking her half lidded eyes and flushed cheeks making it hard for Sam to breath.
Charley was doing the same run down in her head of how adorable Sam looked all sleepy. Closing her eyes again briefly and biting her bottom lip from stopping herself reaching out to move his damn hair out of his eyes, damn it, he needs to get that cut its too cute. Actually no I think I'd kill him if he cut it.
Sam stared and the teeth that were pulling at Charley's lip making it red from the blood rushing to the surface, he buried his head in the pillow and breathed deep, just stop staring at her and it helps, pshh right if it was that easy I wouldn't be such a dork around her.
Jess stepped under the warm spray of the shower relief hitting her straight away, already the pain in her head had dulled to a small throb. Washing her hair Jess tilted her head back, a dizzy spell hit her.
"Shit..where did that come from" Rushing to wash the rest of the soap from her hair and body, Jess wanted to get out of the shower in case she slipped and cracked her head. Another dizzy spell hit her, much stronger this time, causing her stomach to roll and her limbs to shake. Jess fumbled with the taps to turn the water off but before she could get out of the bath another spell hit, pain wrenching through her body, her knees giving out and a small moan of pain leaving her lips.
Panic set, Jess think the worst that she was being taken...but the pain was different, Jess struggled to make her voice work, to get anything out apart from the sound of her laboured breaths. Charley...oh god...I can't go now...please no! Darkness took hold and Jess slumped in the bath.
Sam and Charley were now up and waiting for Dean to return with breakfast, they had managed to change clothes without blushing too much but Sam had near passed out when Charley had pulled out clean clothes and asked him to turn around. The rumble of the Impala brought Sam out of his thoughts and he turned to the door where Dean came in, Deans expression though caused Sam to pause
"What wrong Dean?"
"Well that girl Mandy, she's back, heard the waitress just now saying that she was found by the road side shivering but healthy. That's a brake in pattern, but it's the first time it's happened"
"What...that's just so weird, why now?" Charley said
"I don't know Charley but I doubt it's good"
Charley walked across to the table where she had set the map her and Jess had worked on "Which road was she found by?" Dean went over and examined the map.
"There down two streets from the station" All three of them looked at the surrounding area to see what was there.
"There's nothing no house's marked, no farms nothing, just the forest surrounding the lakes and the lake. We need to check out that lake again?" Sam said
"Seems like" Dean said, glancing around the room Dean frowned "Jess still in the bathroom?"
"Ye, but I heard the shower turn off just before you came in so I'd say she'll be out now"
Jess slowly came back around, her neck bent at an awkward angel off the edge of the bath, her limbs felt heavy and sluggish. She lifted her head slowly, black spots danced in front of her eyes and she clutched her head with one hand to try stop the swirling motion she was feeling. Putting both hands on the side of the bath Jess tried to pull herself up and froze, slowly turned her head to see that in the place of her legs was a tail. Bright blue and shimmering in the light of the bathroom almost looking like moving water, Jess gasped
"Holy shit!"
Cliff hanger ! So first proper bit of supernatural activity with all four of them, let me now what you think...Review :-)