Third Person POV

"It's ok. It's ok." the Police Officer tells the girl as the girl points to the room across the hall.

"In there! In there!" the girl says. The S.W.A.T team moves to the other room. The man is there, trying to open a pair of doors leading to a balcony.

"Freeze! Don't move! Drop the knife. Keep your hands where I can see 'em. Drop it! Hold it right there! Do it!" the Police Officer tells the man. The man turns around. It is Dean.


March 2, 2006

Laila POV

Gas Station - Day

One Week Earlier

Sam, and Dean pull into the station, with Lore and I in the backseat.

Daddy was a Cajun, raised on Southern land
And so, my kinfolks tell me, was a street-fightin' man.
Well, they rushed him down to see the doctor

"Alright, I figure we'd hit Tucumcari by lunch, then head south, hit Bisbee by midnight." Dean tells Sam. Sam does not respond. "Sam wears women's underwear." Dean says and Lorelai and I bust out laughing.

"Hey doctor, won't you check his head?"
The only thing that was wrong with him
Was Johnny Walker's Red
He drank ole poison whiskey
'Til it killed him dead.

"I've been listenin', I'm just busy." Sam tells Dean. He is checking e-mails on his PalmPilot.

It happened back in the bayou many years ago
Satan came to take him, and he did it real slow
Well, they rushed him back to see the doctor
The doctor just shook his head,
"Twenty years of rotgut whiskey
Done killed the poor man dead."

"Busy doin' what?" Dean asks Sam.

He drank ole poison whiskey
'Til it killed him dead.

Take a tip from me, people... brothers can't you see
Ain't no future in ole poison whiskey.
They're gonna rush you down to see the doctor,
The doctor's gonna shake his head.

"Reading e-mails." Sam tells Dean. Dean gets out of the car and starts to fill the tank with gas.

The only thing he's gonna tell ya
"Stop drinkin' Johnny Walker's Red
Don't drink poison whiskey, don't you drink it boy.

"E-mails from who?" Dean asks Sam.

"From my friends at Stanford." Sam tells Dean.

"Who else would he e-mail?" Lorelai asks Dean, Razi pulling up in his 2004 Ford Mustang Mach 1 as soon as she says that, and she squeals and all but flies out of the car to kiss Raziel.

"Just like Harry and Razi email us." I say just as Harry pulls up in his 1996 Impala SS, I squeal and fly over to Hadraniel and kiss him.

"You're kidding. You still keep in touch with your college buddies?" Dean asks Sam, as he tries to ignore us kissing Harry and Razi.

"Why not?" Sam asks Dean.

"Well, what exactly do you tell 'em? You know, about where you've been, what you've been doin'?" Dean asks Sam.

"I tell 'em I'm on a road trip with my big brother and little sisters. I tell 'em I needed some time off after Jess." Sam tells Dean.

"Oh, so you lie to 'em." Dean tells Sam.

"No. I just don't tell 'em…. everything." Sam says.

"Yeah, that's called lying. I mean, hey, man, I get it, tellin' the truth is far worse." Dean tells Sam.

"So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life?" Sam asks Dean. Dean shrugs. "You're serious?" Sam asks Dean.

"Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you can't get close to people, period." Dean says.

"Your kind of anti-social, you know that?" Sam asks Dean.

"Yeah, whatever." Dean says. Sam continues to read his e-mails.

"God…." Sam says.

"What?" Dean asks Sam.

"In this e-mail from this girl, Rebecca Warren (Amy Grabow), one of those friends of mine." Sam says.

"How is she" Lore and I ask.

"Is she hot?" Dean asks and I whack him over the head. Sam ignores him.

"I went to school with her, and her brother, Zach (Aleks Holtz). She says Zach's been charged with murder. He's been arrested for killing his girlfriend. Rebecca says he didn't do it, but it sounds like the cops have a pretty good case." Sam tells us.

"Dude, what kind of people are you hangin' out with?" Dean asks Sam.

"Shut up Dean!" Lorelai tells Dean.

"Shut it!" I say.

"No, man, I know Zach. He's no killer." Sam tells Dean.

"Well, maybe you know Zach as well as he knows you." Dean tells Sam.

"They're in St. Louis. We're goin'." Sam tells Dean.

"We're going. That's final." I tell Dean.

Dean chuckles. "Look, sorry 'bout your buddy, okay? But this does not sound like our kind of problem." Dean tells Sam. "And you don't tell me what to do." Dean tells me.

"It is our problem. They're my friends." Sam tells Dean.

"St. Louis is four hundred miles behind us, Sam." Dean tells Sam. Dean and Sam exchange a look. A minute later, we pull out of the gas station and start driving, Harry and Razi following. I don't get why I couldn't ride with Harry or Lorelai couldn't ride with Razi.

Cross my heart and hope to die
I don't need another guy
To fight my battles
To overshadow me

Don't you know I'm dangerous?
Fire burning in my blood
I got this handled
I don't need rescuing

You can call me a princess all your life
'Cause you love to keep me helpless by your side
But it ain't what I want, I'ma show you
I'ma show you

How to treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty?
So, treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty?

Eyes on me like I'm a prize
But you better recognise
I'm not your angel
'Cause I belong to me

You can call me a princess all your life
'Cause you love to keep me helpless by your side
But it ain't what I want, I'ma show you
I'ma show you

How to treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty?
So, treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty?

You can call me a princess all your life
'Cause you love to keep me helpless by your side
But it ain't what I want, I'ma show you
(You-you-you-you)

How to treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty?
So, treat me like a queen
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Boy, you better bow down on your knees
Can I get a yes, your majesty? I listen to on my iPod.


March 3, 2006

Outside of Rebecca's House - Day

Rebecca opens the door and sees Sam, Dean, Harry, Raziel, Lorelai, and I.

"Oh my God, Sam! Lore! Lei!" Rebecca says happily.

"Well, if it isn't little Becky." Sam says.

"Hey Becca." Lore says.

"How's my little Beck Beck? I ask.

"You know what you can do with that little Becky crap, Sam." Rebecca says. She smiles and we hug.

"I got your e-mail." Sam tells Becca.

"I didn't think that you would come here." Becca says. Dean steps forward and extends his hand. I whack him for good measure.

"Dean. Older brother. Owe." Dean says. She shakes his hand.

"Hi." Becca says.

"Hi." Dean says.

"We're here to help. Whatever we can do." Sam tells Becca

"Come in." Becca tells us. We walk inside the house, and Dean shuts the door.


Inside Rebecca's House

"Nice place." Dean tells Becca.

"It's my parents'. I was just crashing here for the long weekend when everything happened. I decided to take the semester off. I'm gonna stay until Zach's free." Becca tells us.

"Where are your folks?" Sam asks Becca.

"They live in Paris for half the year, so they're on their way home now for the trial." Beck says. We enter the kitchen. "Do you guys want a beer or something?" Becca asks the elders as we call them well the beer part, but she has Coca-Cola and Root Beer stocked up for Lore and I.

"Hey—" Dean says, smiling.

"Coca-Cola please?" Lorelai asks Becca.

Root Beer please?" I ask Becca.

"Do you have Cream soda?" Harry asks.

"Or Dr. Pepper?" Raziel asks Becca.

"No, thanks. So, tell us what happened. " Sam tells Becca while rolling his eyes when we had our drinks given to us.

"Well, um, Zach came home, and he found Emily tied to a chair. And she was beaten up and bloody, and she wasn't breathing." Rebecca tells us as she starts to cry. "So, he called 911, and the police—they showed up, and they arrested him. But the thing is, the only way that Zach could've killed Emily is if he was in two places at the same time. The police—they have a video. It's from the security tape from across the street. And it shows Zach coming home at 10:30. Now, Emily was killed just after that, but I swear, he was here with me, having a few beers until at least after midnight." Rebecca tells us.

"You know, maybe we could see the crime scene. Zach's house." Sam tells Rebecca.

"We could." Dean says.

"Why? I mean, what could you do?" Rebecca asks us.

"Well, me, not much. But Dean's a cop." Sam says and Dean laughs and so do Harry, Raziel, me, and Lorelai.

"Detective, actually." Dean says and I snort at that.

"Really?" Becca asks and Dean nods. "Where?" Rebecca asks.

"Bisbee, Arizona. But I'm off-duty now." Dean tells her.

"You guys, it's so nice to offer, but I just—I don't know." Rebecca says.

"Bec, look, I know Zach didn't do this. Now, we have to find a way to prove that he's innocent." Sam tells Becca.

"Okay. I'm gonna go get the keys." Becca says as she walks away, down the hall.

"Oh, yeah, man, you're a real straight shooter with your friends." Dean tells Sam.

"Look, Zach and Becky need our help." Sam tells Dean and I agree with Sam, ready to prank him within next month.

"I just don't think this is our kind of problem." Dean tells us and I growl.

"Two places at once? We've looked into less." Sam tells Dean. Dean says nothing, defeated.


Outside of Zach's House.

Dean, Sam, Becca, Harry, Razi, Lore, and I park the cars and get out.

"You're sure that this is okay?" Rebecca asks Dean.

"Yeah. I am an officer of the law." Dean tells Becca. We walk into the house.


Inside Zach's house.

Sam, Dean, Harry, Razi, Lore, and I enter and look around. The furniture and walls of the house are smeared with blood. Rebecca stays on the porch steps.

"Bec, you wanna wait outside?" Sam asks Bec.

"No. I wanna help." Becca says as she ducks under the police tape and enters the house.

"Tell us what else the police said." Sam tells Becca.

"Well, there's no sign of a break-in. They say that Emily let her attacker in. The lawyers—they're already talking about plea bargain." Becca says tearfully as she looks around the room, crying.) "Oh, God…." Becca says.

"Look, Bec, if Zach didn't do this, it means someone else did. Any idea who?" Sam asks Rebecca. Rebecca shakes her head, then begins to remember something.

"Um, there was something, about a week before. Somebody broke in here and stole some clothes—Zach's clothes. The police—they don't think it's anything. I mean, we're not that far from downtown. Sometimes people get robbed." Becca says. Sam walks away. Dean moves to the open front door and sees the neighbor's dog, barking loudly. Rebecca comes up behind him. "You know, that used to be the sweetest dog." Becca tells Dean.

"What happened?" Dean asks Becca.

"He just changed." Bella says.

"Do you remember when he changed?" Dean asks Becca.

"I guess around the time of the murder." Bec says. Dean looks at her, then walks away.


Lorelai POV

House.

Sam, Laila, Harry, Razi, and I are in the hallway, looking at a framed picture of himself, Zach, Laila, Becca, and me as Laila and I use to visit Sam a lot. Dean walks over to us.

"So, the neighbor's dog went psycho right around the time Zach's girlfriend was killed." Dean tells us.

"Animals can have a sharp sense of the paranormal." Sam tells Dean.

"Yeah, maybe Fido saw somethin'." Dean says.

"So, you think maybe this is our kind of problem?" Sam asks Dean.

"No. Probably not. But we should look at the security tape, you know, just to make sure." Dean tells us.

"Yeah." Sam says.

"Yeah." Dean says. Rebecca walks over to us. "So, the tape. The security footage—you think maybe your lawyers could get their hands on it, 'cause I just don't have that kind of jurisdiction." Dean tells Bec.

"I've already got it. I didn't wanna say something in front of the cop." Bec tells us and I laugh. Dean laughs too. "I stole it off the lawyer's desk. I just had to see it for myself." Bec says.

"All right." Dean says. All of us leave.


Third Person POV

Street

Zach is sitting on a bench across the street from a house. He watches an Asian man come out of the house with his wife, Lindsay.

"Why do they always have to send you?" Lindsay asks her husband.

"Because I'm the best." Alex tells Lindsay.

"I know. That's why I want you to stay home." Lindsay says.

"It's just Kansas City. I'll be home tomorrow night and make it up to you." Alex tells Lindsay.

They kiss. The man gets in his car and drives away. Zack watches Lindsay go back in the house. He smiles wickedly, and his eyes glint silver for a moment, before returning to normal.


Lore POV

Inside Rebecca's house

Living room

Dean, Sam, Becca, Harry, Raziel, Laila, and I are watching the security footage.

"Here he comes." Bec tells us. The tape shows Zach entering his house.

"22:04, that's just after ten. You said time of death was about 10:30." Dean says, noticing the timestamp.

"Our lawyers hired some kind of video expert. He says the tapes authentic. It wasn't tampered with." Becca says. Sam seems to notice something on the tape.

"Hey, Bec, can we take those beers now?" Sam asks Becca.

"Oh, sure." Bec says. She gets up to go to the kitchen.

"Hey." Sam tells her and she turns around. "Maybe some sandwiches, too?" Sam asks her and I snort.

"What do you think this is, Hooters?" Becca asks Sam. She leaves the room.

"I wish." Dean says. He walks over to Sam. "What is it?" Dean asks Sam.

"Check this out." Sam tells us as he rewinds the tape, then replays it. One of the frames shows Zack looking directly at the camera. His eyes are silver. Sam pauses the tape.

"Well, maybe it's just a camera flare." Dean says

"And I'm the Tooth fairy Dean." Laila says, sitting on Harry's lap.

"And I'm the friggin Queen of Spain." I tell Dean, sitting on Razi's lap.

"That's not like any camera flare I've ever seen. You know, a lot of cultures believe that a photograph can catch a glimpse of the soul." Sam tells Dean.

"Right." Dean says.

"Remember that dog that was freakin' out? Maybe he saw this thing. Maybe this is some kind of dark double of Zach's, something that looks like him but isn't him." Sam tells Dean.

"Like a Doppelganger." Dean says.

"Yeah. It'd sure explain how he was two places at once." Sam tells us.


Third Person POV

Inside Alex and Linday's House - Night

Alex enters.

"Honey, it's me. Flight cancelled at the last minute." Alex calls out. He sets down his briefcase and keys and looks around. "I called. Why didn't you answer?" Alex asks Lindsay. Lindsay doesn't respond. "Lindsay?" Alex calls out. Alex looks around. "Lindsay?" Alex asks. Alex turns around and sees blood spattered on the wall. "Lindsay?!" Alex shouts. Alex opens the door to a nearby room and finds Lindsay. She is tied in a chair, beaten and bloody. The man rushes over to her and takes the gag out of her mouth. "It's ok, Lindsay, it's me." Alex tells Lindsay.

"Please, don't hurt me anymore! Leave me alone!" Lindsay tells Alex. Alex man looks at her, confused. He hears a noise in the other room and leaves. In the living room, the man looks around. Suddenly, he turns and sees himself, standing there with a baseball bat. The man is puzzled. The double's eyes glint silver, and he hits the man over the head with the bat.


Lorelai POV

March 3, 2006

Zach's house - Morning

Dean, Sam, Harry, and Raziel park their cars behind the house, and we all get out.

"Alright, so what are we doin' here at 5:30 in the morning?" Dean asks Sam.

"I realized something. The videotape shows the killer goin' in, but not comin' out." Sam says.

"So, he came out the back door?" Dean asks Sam as he leans against the hood of his car.

"Right. So, there should be a trail to follow. A trail the police would never pursue." Sam tells us.

"'Cause they think the killer never left. And they caught your friend Zack inside. I still don't know what we're doin' here at 5:30 in the morning." Dean says, complaining. Sam looks around the outside of the building, and notices blood smeared on a nearby telephone pole.

"Blood. Somebody came this way." Sam tells Dean.

"Yeah, but the trail ends. I don't see anything over here." Dean tells Sam. An ambulance drives past us, and we exchange a look.


Outside Alex and Lindsay's House

Dean, Sam, Harry, Razi, Laila and I observe the scene. Alex is handcuffed and is stepping into a police car.

"What happened?" Dean asks a nearby woman.

"He tried to kill his wife. Tied her up and beat her." the woman says.

"Really?" Sam asks the woman.

"I used to see him going to work in the morning. He'd wave, say hello. He seemed like such a nice guy." the woman tells us. We watch the man get taken away.


Outside Alex and Lindsay's House - Later in the Day

Sam is on the side of the house, looking around. He looks inside two garbage cans but finds nothing. He moves to the front of the house, where Dean comes behind him.

"Hey." Dean says. Sam turns around. "Remember when I said this wasn't our kind of problem?" Dean asks us.

"Which time?" Laila asks Dean.

"Yeah?" I ask.

"Yeah." Sam says.

"Definitely our kind of problem." Dean says.

"What'd you find out?" Sam asks Dean.

"Well, I just talked to the patrolman who was first on the scene, heard this guy, Alex's story. Apparently, the dude was driving home from a business trip when his wife was attacked." Dean tells us.

"So the girls were right. Harry says, teasingly.

"They always manage to prove you wrong." Raziel tells Dean.

"So, he was two places at once." Sam tells Dean.

"Exactly. Then he sees himself in the house, police think he's a nutjob. And no comments from the peanut gallery." Dean says.

"Two dark doubles attacking loved ones in exactly the same way." Sam says.

"Could be the same thing doin' it, too." Dean says, showing his smarts. Sam thinks for a second.

"Shapeshifter?" Sam asks Dean. Dean shrugs. "Something that can make itself look like anyone?" Sam asks.

"Every culture in the world has a shapeshifter lore. You know, legends of creatures who can transform themselves into animals or other men." Dean says.

"Right, skinwalkers, werewolves." Sam says.

"We've got two attacks within blocks of each other. I'm guessin' we've got a shapeshifter prowlin' the neighborhood." Dean tells us.

"Let me ask you this—in all this shapeshifter lore, can any of them fly?" Sam asks Dean.

"Not that I know of." Dean tells Sam.

"I picked up a trail here. Someone ran out the back of this building and headed off this way." Sam says.

"Just like your friend's house." Dean says.

"Yeah. And, just like at Zach's house, the trail suddenly ends. I mean, whatever it is just disappeared." Sam says.

"Well, there's another way to go—down." Dean tells us. We look down and notice a manhole.


Laila POV

Sewer

Dean, Sam, Razi, Harry, Lore, and I climb down the manhole and look around.

"I bet this runs right by Zach's house, too. The shapeshifter could be using the sewer system to get around." Sam says.

"I think you're right. Look at this." Dean tells us. We bend down and examine a pile of blood and skin on the ground. We are all disgusted.

"Is this from his victims?" Sam asks Dean. Dean takes out a pocketknife and holds up some of the skin.

"You know, I just had a sick thought. When the shapeshifter changes shape—maybe it sheds." Dean says and with that, I glare at him as now I want to puke.

"That is sick." Sam says. Dean puts the bloody pile back on the ground.


Impala

Dean opens the trunk and takes out some weapons. I get out my Bow, and guns, Laila, her sword, and guns, Harry and Razi get their weapons

"Well, one thing I learned from Dad, is that no matter what kind of shapeshifter it is, there's one sure way to kill it." Dean says.

"Silver bullet to the heart." Sam says.

"That's right." Dean says. Sam's cell phone rings. He answers it.

"This is Sam." Sam says.

"Where are you?" Becca asks over the phone.

"We're near Zach's, we're just checkin' some things out." Sam tells her.

"Well, look, Sam, just stop, 'cause I really don't need your help anymore." Becca says.

"What are you talkin' about?" Sam asks Becca.

"I told the lawyers that we went to the crime scene." Becca says. Sam scoffs.

"Why would you do that?" Sam asks Bec.

"Well, I told them that we were with a police officer. And they checked it out, and they told me that there is no Detective Dean Winchester." Bec says.

"Bec—" Sam starts to say.

"No, I don't understand why you would lie to me about something like that." Becca says.

"We're tryin' to help." Sam says.

"Oh, trying to help? Do you realize that that was a sealed crime scene? This could have just ruined Zach's case." Becca says.

"Bec, I'm sorry, but—" Sam starts to say.

"No, goodbye, Sam." Bec says, and she hangs up. Dean walks over to Sam, who looks disappointed.

"I hate to say it, but that's exactly what I'm talkin' about. You lie to your friends because if they knew the real you, they'd be freaked. It's just—it'd be easier if—" Dean starts to say.

"If I was like you." Sam tells Dean.

"Hey, man, like it or not, we are not like other people. But I'll tell you one thing. This whole gig—it ain't without perks." Dean says as he holds up a gun. Sam takes it and puts it in the back of his jeans. We walk away.


Sewer.

Dean, Sam, Harry, Razi, Lore and I are looking around with our flashlights and guns.

"I think we're close to its lair." Dean tells us.

"Why do you say that?" Sam asks Dean.

"Because there's another puke-inducing pile next to your face." Dean says. Sam turns and sees another pile of blood and skin on a nearby pipe.

"Eww." Lore says.

"Gross." I say.

"Oh, God!" Sam says, seeing that he's disgusted. We look around the area and see a pile of clothes in a corner.

''Looks like it's lived here for a while." Dean tells us.

"Who knows how many murders he's gotten away with?" Sam says. Sam turns and sees the shapeshifter, still in the form of the Asian man, standing behind Dean. "Dean!" Sam tries to warn Dean. Dean turns and gets punched by the shapeshifter. He falls to the ground, and the shapeshifter runs away. Sam shoots after it a few times but misses. He moves over to Dean.

"Get the son of a bitch!" Dean tells Sam. Sam and Dean run away, following the shapeshifter.


Street - Night

The shapeshifter comes out of the manhole and runs away. Seconds later, Sam, Dean, Razi, Harry, Lore and I come out and look around.

"All right let's split up, Laila, Raziel you go with Dean. Lorelai, Harry, you're coming with me." Sam tells us.

"All right, we'll meet you around the other side." Dean tells Sam, Lore and Harry.

"All right." Sam says. We walk away in separate directions.


Alley

Dean, Razi and I are looking around, Dean with his gun drawn. Passersby's turn away, frightened.


Lore POV

Street

Sam, Harry, and I are also searching, while Sam keeps his gun inside his jacket.


Laila POV

Alley.

Dean is still looking frantically.


Lore POV

Street corner

Sam, Harry, and I are waiting. Dean comes up behind us, without Razi and Laila.

"Hey." "Dean" says. Sam turns around. "Anything?" "Dean" asks us.

"No. He's gone. And where's Razi and Laila?" Sam asks "Dean."

"All right let's get back to the car. And they said they'd meet us at the car." "Dean" says. Sam crosses the street. Dean stops, waiting for a passing car to drive by. As the car passes, Dean's eyes momentarily glow silver.


Street

"Dean", Sam, Harry and I stop at the cars.

"You think he found another way underground?" Sam asks "Dean."

"Yeah, probably. You got the keys?" "Dean" asks Sam. Sam stops and thinks before turning around.

"Hey, didn't Dad once face a shapeshifter in San Antonio?" Sam asks "Dean"

"Oh, that was Austin. It turned out not to be a shapeshifter, it was a thought form. A psychic projection, remember?" "Dean" says.

"Oh, right. Here ya go." Sam says. He throws the shapeshifter the keys and walks away. The shapeshifter opens the trunk and observes all the weapons. He laughs. "Don't move!" Sam says as Sam, Harry, and I have our guns trained on him. The shapeshifter turns and sees us pointing our guns at him. "What have you done with them?" Sam asks the imposter.

"Dude, chill. It's me, all right?" the Dean imposter says.

"No, I don't think so. Where's my brother?" Sam asks the imposter.

"And sister? And boyfriend?" I ask more like growl.

"You're about to shoot him. Sam, calm down." "Dean" says.

"You caught those keys with your left. Your shoulder was hurt." Sam says.

"Yeah, it's better. What do you want me to do, cry?" the imposter asks, well if he wants to cry... I pierce his shoulder with siver and he screams.

"Jig is up dude." I tell him.

"You're not my brother." Sam tells the shapeshifter.

"Why don't you pull the trigger, then? Hm? 'Cause you're not sure. Dude, you know me." the shapeshifter says.

"Don't." Sam says. The shapeshifter pauses before hitting Sam, Harry, and I twice with a crowbar. We fall to the ground.


Unknown location.

Sam, Harry, and I wake up in a dingy, dusty room. Our neck and hands are bound to a wooden post. The shapeshifter walks over to him and backhands him. Sam groans.

"Where is he? Where's Dean?" Sam asks the shapeshifter.

"Where's Laila?" I ask.

"Where's Raziel?" Harry asks.

"I wouldn't worry about them. I'd worry about you." the shifter tells us.

"Where are they?" Sam asks.

"You don't really wanna know." the shifter says. He chuckles. "I swear, the more I learn about you and your family—I thought I came from a bad background." the shifter says.

"What do you mean, learn?" Sam asks the shifter. The shapeshifter stops. He grabs his head in pain and grimaces. Sam looks at the shapeshifter, confused. The shapeshifter relaxes and looks at Sam.

"He's sure got issues with you. You got to go to college. He had to stay home. I mean, I had to stay home. With Dad and the twins. You don't think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you?" the shifter asks.

"Where is my brother?" Sam asks. The shapeshifter leans in close to Sam.

"I am your brother. See, deep down, I'm just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I'm a freak. And sooner or later, everybody's gonna leave me." the shifter says. He backs away.

"What are you talkin' about?" Sam asks the shifter as I am communicating telepathically with Laila. Telling her to do anything that has Dean as an innocent man.

"You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothin', just poof. Left me with your sorry ass. But, still, this life? It's not without its perks." the shifter says. He laughs. "I meet the nicest people. Like little Becky. You know, Dean would bang her if he had the chance. Let's see what happens." he says. He smiles and covers us with a sheet.


March 5, 2006

Third Person POV

Inside Rebecca's house

There is a knock at the door, and Rebecca comes downstairs to open it. It is the shapeshifter, still in the form of Dean.

"Oh. Hi." Becca says.

"I know what you're gonna say." shifter Dean says.

"Oh, you do?" Becca asks shifter Dean.

"Well, no, not exactly. But I can take a guess. Get off my porch?" shifter Dean says. She laughs.

"That's about right." Becca says.

"I admit it, we lied. Thought I'd try to explain myself. Sam told me not to come, but, you know, I thought, what the hell, I have to try." shifter Dean says. He smiles.


Laila POV

Unknown location.

Sam, Lore, and Harry are trying to get out of their ropes but fail.

"Damn it." Sam says. They hear movement in another area of the room, and they hear people coughing.

"That better be you, Sam, Lore, Harry, and not that freak of nature." Dean tells Sam. Sam laughs.

"Yeah, it's us.' Sam tells us. Dean, Razi, and I manage to uncover ourselves from the sheet and start to undo our ropes. "He went to Rebecca's, lookin' like you." Sam tells Dean.

"Well, he's not stupid. He picked the handsome one." Dean says, conceited. Sam gives him a confused look, then continues to work through his ropes.


Third Person POV

Rebecca's House.

Living room.

Rebecca and the shapeshifter are sitting in front of the fireplace.

"So, you're saying that there's something out there that made itself look like my brother." Becca says.

"Mmhmm." shifter Dean says.

"What'd you call it?" Becca asks shifter Dean.

"A shapeshifter." shifter Dean says. Rebecca laughs and rolls her eyes. "Yeah, maybe we're crazy. But what if we're not? I mean, look, you said it yourself that Zach was in two places at once. Now, tell me how that can happen." shifter Dean says.

"Okay, so, this thing—it can make itself look like anybody?" Becca asks.

"That's right." shifter Dean says. She chuckles.

"Well, what is it, like a genetic freak?" Becca asks. The shapeshifter laughs.

"Maybe. Evolution is about mutation, right? So, maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else." shifter Dean says. Rebecca looks around, uncomfortable. The shapeshifter's eyes glint silver, and he smiles.


Sam POV

Unknown location.

Dean, Laila, Harry, Razi, Lorelai, and I are still working their way out of our ropes.

"Yeah, that's the thing. He didn't just look like you, he was you. Or he was becoming you." I tell Dean. Dean, Lei, and Razi finally works their way out of the ropes.

"What do you mean?" Dean asks me.

"I don't know, it was like he was downloading your thoughts and memories." I tell him.

"You mean, like the Vulcan mind meld?" Dean asks me.

"Yeah, somethin' like that. I mean, maybe that's why he doesn't just kill us." I say. Dean, Razi, and Lei get up and walk over to Lore, Harry, and me.

"Maybe he needs to keep us alive. Psychic connection." He says. They start untying our ropes.

"Hands. Yeah. Come on, we gotta go. He's probably at Rebecca's already." I tell Dean.


Alley

Dean, Harry, Razi, Lore, Laila, and I climb out a window and onto the street.

"Come on. We gotta find a phone, call the police." I tell the others.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna put an APB out on me." Dean tells me. I shrug.

"Sorry." I say.

"This way." Dean tells us. We start running down the street.


Third Person POV

Rebecca's House.

Living room.

"It's funny. I kind of understand him. He's all alone close to no one. All he wants is for someone to love him. He's like me." shifter Dean says. Rebecca looks very uncomfortable. "You know, everybody needs a little human touch now and then. It's so hard to be different." shifter Dean says. He tucks Rebecca's hair behind her ear. She shrugs away.

"You should go." Bec says. The shapeshifter leans in and whispers something in her ear. She looks horrified and stands up. "You are disgusting, just get the hell out of here!" Becca says.

"Rebecca, just calm down." shifter Dean says as he stands up.

"Calm down? What is wrong with you?" Becc asks shifter Dean.

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you?" shifter Dean asks. Bec walks to the phone.

"I'm calling the police." Bec tells shifter Dean. The shapeshifter walks over to her and throws the phone to the floor. She screams and tries to run away, but he trips her and she falls to the ground. He straddles her legs and begins tying her hands with the telephone cord.

"Give me your hands!" shifter Dean tells Bec. She continues to scream. "Shut up!" shifter Dean says.


Bedroom.

Rebecca is tied in a chair, beaten and bloody.

"You're a nice girl, Rebecca. I mean, I liked you. Believe me, that makes this harder." shifter Dean says. He holds up a knife and examines it. "But I gotta do what I gotta do." he says. He moves towards her. Suddenly, they hear a crash come from another room of the house. Rebeccaa screams but the shapeshifter covers her mouth and holds the knife to her throat. "Shh." shifter Dean says.


Hallway.

The S.W.A.T. team is searching the house. While their backs are turned, the shapeshifter crosses the hall and goes into another room.


Second bedroom.

The shapeshifter enters and closes the door, looking around frantically. He moves to a set of doors leading out to a balcony. Just as he opens the doors, the S.W.A.T team enters.

"Freeze! Drop the knife! Drop the knife! Drop the knife!" the Police Officer tells shifter Dean. The Singer Twins called their dad, and with that, a Caleb Winchester is known, a look alike of Dean, so everyone knows he's innocent. The shapeshifter throws the knife at the police officer, and the rest of the team begins shooting. The shapeshifter kicks one of the men, then goes outside and jumps off the balcony, onto the grass below. "Come on! Come on! Go! Go! Aim at Caleb!" the officer says. The shapeshifter runs away, while the team continues to shoot and miss him several times.


Sewer.

The shapeshifter stops walking, looking weak. He takes off his jacket and shirt, then falls to his knees. He groans and screams in pain as he continues to shed his skin.


Sam POV

Street.

Dean, Lore, Lei, Harry, Razi, and I are standing in front of a store window, watching a news report that is being shown on a display of televisions.

"An anonymous tip led police to a home in the Central West End, where a S.W.A.T team discovered a local woman bound and gagged. Her attacker, a white male, approximately twenty-four to thirty years of age, was discovered hiding in her home, his name, Caleb Winchester. He has a cousin and look alike Dean. Don't mistake them one hangs out with his siblings and has tattoos." the reporter says. A sketch of Dean appears on the screen.

"Man! That's not even a good picture. I look around cautiously.

"It's good enough." I say. I walk away.

"Man!" Dean says. They follow me.


Alley

Dean, Harry, Razi, Lore, Laila, and I are walking. Dean steps into a puddle.

"Come on." I say and I pause. "They said attempted murder. At least we know—" I say.

"I or Caleb didn't kill her. Thanks Harry." Dean says.

"We'll check with Rebecca in the morning, see if she's all right." I say to Dean.

"All right, but first I wanna find that handsome devil and kick the holy crap out of him." Dean tells me. We stop walking.

"We have no weapons. No silver bullets." I point out.

"Sam, the guy's walkin' around with my face, okay, it's a little personal, I wanna find him." Dean says.

"Okay. Where do we look?" I ask Dean.

"Well, we could start with the sewers." Dean tells me.

"We have no weapons. He stole our guns, we need more." I tell Dean. We pause to think. "The car?" I ask.

"I'm bettin' he drove over to Rebecca's." Dean tells us.

"The news said he fled on foot. I bet it's still parked there." I tell Dean.

"The thought of him drivin' my car." Dean says, upset.

"All right, come on." I say as we start walking.

"It's killin' me." Dean says, upset.

"Let it go." I tell him.


Lore POV

Outside Rebecca's house.

Dean, Sam, Harry, Razi, Laila, and I walk around the side of the house and see Dean's car parked.

"Oh, there she is! Finally, something went right tonight." Dean says, relieved. A police car appears and parks next to Dean's car. "Oh, crap." Dean says. We turn around, but another police car is parked a few yards away. "This way, this way." Dean tells us. He moves towards a fence.

"You go. We'll hold 'em off." Sam tells Dean as they might think the car is "Caleb Winchester's"

"What are you talking about? They'll catch you." Dean tells us.

"Look, they can't hold us. Just go, keep out of sight. Meet us at Rebecca's." Sam tells Dean. Dean starts to climb over the fence. "Dean." Sam says. Dean stops and turns around. "Stay out of the sewers alone." Sam tells Dean. Dean says nothing and hops over the fence. "I mean it!" Sam tells Dean.

"Yeah, yeah!" Dean tells Sam.

"Don't move! Keep your hands where I can see 'em." the police officer tells us. We raise our hands in the air.


Dean POV

Impala

I am getting weapons from the trunk.

"I'm sorry, Sam. But you know me—I just can't wait." I say. I close the trunk and walk away.


Sewer.

I am looking around. I come across a chamber filled with candles and chains. Revolting piles of skin and blood are on the floor. I hear a noise and moves to another area of the sewer. I see a large figure covered with a sheet. I remove it and sees Rebecca. Her hands and feet are bound together with rope.

"Rebecca?" I ask.


March 7, 2006

Sam POV

Inside Rebecca's House

I am sitting, having a beer. I am talking with the shapeshifter, who is in the form of Becca.

"So, say this shapeshifter is real. By the way, you know you're crazy? But, um, say it is real. How do you stop it?" shifter Becca asks. She replaces my empty beer bottle with a new one.

"Thanks." I say. I sigh. "Silver bullet to the heart." I tell "Becca". She chuckles.

"You are crazy." the shifter says. She hits me over the head with the empty bottle. I fall over, unconscious. The shapeshifter's eyes momentarily glow silver.


Dean POV

Sewer

I am untying Rebecca's ropes.

"What happened?" I ask.

"I was walking home, and everything just went white. Someone hit me over the head, and I wound up here just in time to see that thing turn into me. I don't know, how is that even possible?" Becca says, crying.

"Okay, okay. It's okay." I tell her. I finish untying her. "Come on. Can you walk?" I ask her. She nods. "Okay, we've gotta hurry. Sam went to see you." I tell Becca.


Laila POV

Inside Rebecca's House

I wake tied to a chair. The shapeshifter has changed back into the form of Dean. He finishes tying up Sam's hands and feet, then starts walking around the kitchen.

"What are you gonna do to us?" Sam asks the shifter.

"Oh, I'm not gonna do anything. Dean will, though." the shifter says.

"You mean Caleb." I say, smirking.

"They'll never catch him." Sam tells the shifter.

"Oh, doesn't matter. Murder in the first of his own brother and sister? He'll be hunted the rest of his life." the shifter says. He picks up a sharp knife and examines it.


Living room. Later

"I must say, I will be sorry to lose this skin. Your brother's got a lot of good qualities. You should appreciate him more than you do." the shifter says. He pours himself a drink. "Cheers." He takes a drink, then picks up the knives from the kitchen and sticks it into the edge of the pool table. Sam and I lift our legs and kick the shapeshifter, who falls to the ground. Sam and I quickly sit up and move our hands up and down on the blade of the knives. The ropes break apart. The shapeshifter gets up, and Sam and I takes the knife and swing it at him. The shapeshifter grabs Sam and my arm in mid-swing and twists it. Sam falls to the ground followed by me. "Oh, you son of a bitch." the shifter says. He and Sam start to fight. Sam tries to pin Dean down. "Not bad, little brother, little sister." the shifter says.

"You're not him." Sam tells the shifter. We continue to fight. The shapeshifter finally throws us into a bookshelf. It falls apart, and books fall on top of Sam and me.

"Even when we were kids, I always kicked your ass." the shifter says, and I get up and I am ready to kick him where the sun doesn't shine. He grabs a pool cue and swings at us but misses and hits a light fixture. After fighting for several more minutes, we fall onto a coffee table. The shapeshifter pins us to the floor and starts to choke us.

"Hey!" Dean says. The shapeshifter sees Dean and gets off of Sam and me. Dean aims his gun at the shapeshifter and shoots him in the heart twice. The shapeshifter falls to the ground, dead. Rebecca enters and sees Sam and me on the floor.

"Sam! Laila! Are you okay?" Becca asks us as she rushes over to us. Dean walks to the shapeshifter's body and notices him wearing Dean's necklace. Dean yanks it from around the shapeshifter's neck and nods knowingly at Sam and Rebecca, and me.


March 8, 2006

Outside of Rebecca's house. Day.

Dean is by the car, looking at a map. Rebecca and Sam come outside.

"So, this is what you do? You, the twins, and your brother—you hunt down these kinds of things?" Becca asks us.

"Yeah, pretty much." Sam says.

"I can't believe it. I mean, I saw it with my own eyes. And, I mean, does everybody at school—nobody knows that you do this?" Becca asks.

"No." Sam says.

"Did Jessica know?" Becca asks. And Sam looks thoughtful.

"No, she didn't." Sam says.

"Must be lonely." Bec says.

"Oh, no. No, it's not so bad. Anyway, what can I do? It's my family." Sam says and I smile. Bec laughs.

"Well, you know, Zack and me, and everybody at school—we really miss you." Bec says. She hugs him.

"Yeah, me too." Sam says sadly and they pull away.

"Well, will you call sometime?" Bec asks Sam.

"It might not be for a little while." Sam says. Rebecca nods and waves goodbye to Dean. He waves back, and she goes back inside the house. Sam walks over to the car.

"So, what about your friend, Zach?" Dean asks Sam.

"Cops are blamin' this Caleb Winchester guy for Emily's murder. They found the murder weapon in the guy's lair, Zach's clothes stained with her blood. Now they're thinking maybe the surveillance tape was tampered with. Yeah, Becca says Zach will be released soon." Sam says. He smiles. Dean rolls his eyes and gets in the car.


Impala

Dean and Sam are driving, Lore and I are in the back yet again.

"Sorry, man." Dean tells Sam.

"About what?" Sam asks Dean.

"I really wish things could be different, you know? I wish you could just be….Joe College." Dean tells Sam.

"No, that's okay. You know, the truth is, even at Stanford, deep down, I never really fit in." Sam says.

"Well, that's 'cause you're a freak." Dean says.

"Yeah, thanks." Sam says.

"Well, I'm a freak, too. I'm right there with ya, all the way." Dean tells Sam. Sam laughs.

"Yeah, I know you are." Sam says.

"You know, I gotta say—I'm sorry I'm gonna miss it." Dean tells Sam.

"Miss what?" Sam asks Dean.

"How many chances am I gonna have to see my own funeral?" Dean says and I whack him for that. He and Sam smile at each other. They continue to drive