Art made his way into the warehouse and sat his bagged breakfast on his desk in the operations center. Sitting down he unwrapped his sausage biscuit and took a big bite. He was feeling good about this job. The first day he had discovered an undiscovered artifact and reunited two brothers after 90 years. Of course the brothers were both long dead but he liked to think that if there was an afterlife they were now happy.

He was pulled from his musings by a soft beeping noise. Setting his breakfast sandwich down he started looking around the room to try to locate the source of the sound. He was on his knees searching under the desk when Claudia said behind him "You have a ping."

Startled he jumped up banging his head on the desk.

"Dude, it's a ping, on the computer." Claudia pointed.

Art rubbed his head as he sat back down and looked at the screen. He reached out and touched the displayed icon bringing up a story from Thee Wall Street Journal. He blinked at it several times trying to make sense of the headline.

Iron Prices at All Time high due to Heavy demand in Southern US

The story outlined a shortage of Iron due to a small wrought Iron factory that was currently buying up all the iron it could get. Not just iron ore but any iron item. The same factory had in the past six months also made a run on rosaries and salt, a very odd combination to be sure. And it set something to niggling in the back of Art's brain. There was some significance to these different items that he could not put his finger on.

Art loaded the terms into the warehouse computer, but came up empty. So although it was a long shot he tried the Global Data Network. That did bring back a result under 'Pop Culture':

"Iron, salt and rosaries (Used to create holy water) figure prominently in the Carver Edlund literary series of books focusing on the exploits of Dean and Sam Winchester."

"Carver Edlund?" Claudia peered over Art's shoulder. "I never read any of his books but they were extremely popular in Eureka, Oregon. In fact the people living there never questioned Edlund's claim that they were based in fact. But then again people in Eureka were used to living with the impossible."

"There's nothing listed in the Warehouse data banks that matches the input." Art said. "Does that mean it's not an artifact?"

"No it means it's more than likely a previously unknown artifact." Claudia said. "New artifacts are constantly being created. For example when the Titanic sank a plank of wood from the ship absorbed all the fear and terror of the people who died. It created and artifact that could cause people to die of Hypothermia in a climate controlled room with a maintained temperature of 72 degrees."

"Wow! So basically any item in the right circumstances could become and artifiact?" Art asked.

"You got it, dude." Claudia said. "And it makes the field agent's job harder when they have to try to figure out exactly what an artifact is. That brings us to the second part of your job description, research.

We're going to have to track down those books and come up with a list of possibilities. Do you remember how many books were in the series?" Claudia asked.

"No but it's way more than four, which is how many I have read." Art said.

"Well looks like we have our work cut out for us. Pings take priority. In the meantime you need to notify the US Branch of the ping and have them see what they can learn on site." Claudia said. "I'll notify the Regents of the situation."

Art was snoring softly his head pillowed on his hands. The computer screen displayed a page of text which Claudia soon realized was from one of Edlund's books. She had tracked them all down online and had made her way through the first 4 books in the series. The books made for interesting reading if you enjoyed fantasy or horror. But there were still over 15 more books to get through. Being an AI she didn't get bored, but she could see where a human could quickly get bored.

Setting the volume on the computer's speakers to maximum, she quickly found an audio track of Military bugle calls. Selecting Reveille, she smirked as Art jumped up startled by the sound of a trumpet blasting in his ear.

"Hey sleeping beauty. The books that bad?" Claudia asked.

Art stretched and yawned. "There's a reason I only read four of them. When they started getting all religious I gave them up. I've been trying to get through this one where Dean gets rescued from hell for hours."

"Well I'm here to relieve you and give you a different task." Claudia said. "I just spoke to the Regent historian. He has reason to believe that Sam and Dean Winchester actually existed. He's on his way here now. You might want to run a comb through your hair before he gets here."

"A regent? Coming here?" Art asked and stammered. "I thought no one ever saw them or even know who they are?"

"Well no one outside of the Warehouse organization and they know each other just like I know who they are." Claudia answered. "And they agreed that you should have special clearance when they offered you the job. You've got highly respected ancestors dude."

"Miss Donovan, it's a pleasure to see you again." The man said in a cultured British accent. "We regents so rarely have reason to visit the warehouse. And you must be Arthur Lattimer, we were correct in choosing you to assist Claudia. Thanks to you, both Connor and Murphy MacManus' guns have been identified and are now safely stored in the Warehouse."

"Thank you for your confidence in me." Art said shaking the man's hand. "I hope I can live up to it."

"Art this is Benedict Crowley Valda IV, There's been a Benedict Valda on the board of regents for four generations." Claudia said.

"My family's long standing as regents is why I am here." Valda said. "The first Benedict C. Valda was personally acquainted with the Winchester brothers."

To be Continued

AN: Yes another character did slip into the story in present time. Since Mark Shepard portrays both Valda on Warehouse 13 and Crowley on Supernatural, I just couldn't resist.