Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 5 of See You Again. Thank you for all of those who have reviewed. Please keep them coming. I can't wait to show you guys more of this story. And the character development of Andi. Without further ado Chapter 5.
Chapter 5
Mirror Deaths
Dean leaned over the back of the front seat shaking his younger brother awake. "Sam, wake up." He hated waking his brother up, but he was having a nightmare and he felt hopeless not knowing what to do to keep the nightmares away.
Sam woke up, sitting up looking around in confusion. He was trying to remember how he ended up in the back seat of the Impala instead of sleeping in the front seat like he normally did.
Andi looked back at him. "I told you to sleep back there. You were of course too tired to remember that though." Andi said as she flicked her cigarette out the window blowing the smoke from her lungs.
Sam ran a hand through his hair tiredly. "I take it I was having a nightmare." He said as he got his bearings.
"Yeah, another one." Dean confirmed to his younger brother.
"Hey, at least I got some sleep." Sam said offering his brother a small smile even though it looked more like a grimace.
Dean let out a soft sigh. "You know, sooner or later we're gonna have to talk about this." Dean said looking at his brother.
"Are we here?" Sam asked rubbing his eyes sleepily.
"Yup. Welcome to Toledo, Ohio."
Sam picked up the newspaper that had Steven Shoemaker's obituary circled. "So what do you really think happened to this guy?"
"That's what we're gonna find out." Dean said as he took the keys out of the ignition. "Let's go."
Andi rolled her eyes as she got out of the car as well as Sam. She stretched her back out groaning as it popped. She pushed some of her hair back as she began to walk.
The three of them walked into the hospital and walked towards the morgue.
The morgue tech looked up from what he was doing. "Hey."
"Hey." Dean said offering a small smile to him.
"Can I help you?" He asked looking at the three of them.
"Yeah." Dean said with a nod of his head. "We're the…"
Andi pushed her way in front of Dean knowing that he was having trouble. "We're the med students." She said offering the morgue tech a smile.
"Sorry?" The tech asked in confusion looking at the three of them.
"Doctor Feiklowicz didn't tell you that we were coming in?" Andi asked tilting her head to the side.
"We talked to him on the phone." Dean offered up helping out with a small smile. "We're from Ohio State. He's supposed to show us the Shoemaker corpse. It's for our paper."
"Well, I'm sorry, he's at lunch." The morgue tech said shaking his head.
"Oh well he said… uh… oh, well, you know it doesn't matter. You don't mind just showing us the body, do you?" Dean asked hopeful that the morgue tech wouldn't just say no to them.
"Sorry, I can't." The Morgue tech said shaking his head looking at the three of them.
Andi shared a look at the brother. This was not a good sign. They really needed to look at the corpse to figure out what was going on here. If they couldn't figure out what was going on and how were they going to solve what was going on. What was written in that obituary wasn't normal at all.
"Doc will be back in an hour. You can wait for him if you want."
"An hour?" Dean looked at his brother and friend pursing his lips together giving a slightly panic looked like a college student would. "Oh. We gotta be heading back to Columbus by then." Dean looked at his brother again.
Sam nodded his head. "Yeah."
"Look." Andi said softly, her British accent coming softly through. "Mate, this paper's like half our grade. We could really use the help."
"Look British no." The man said looking at her.
Andi turned her head clenching her fists together in agitation. "Any ideas before I use my head to break his nose?" She mumbled under her breath.
Sam shook his head stepping in front of them pulling out his wallet. He pulled out five twenties putting them down onto the morgue tech's table.
He quickly picked them up. "Follow me." He said getting up leaving the room.
Dean grabbed Sam's arm as he tried to leave. "Dude, I earned that money."
"Please, Dean." Andi said rolling her eyes. "You won that in a poker game." She pushed his hand off of Sam's arm and walked past the two of them.
Dean let out a soft sigh. "Yeah."
Sam followed Andi into the back room.
Dean followed behind his brother to the back room.
"Now the newspaper said his daughter found him. She said his eyes were bleeding." Sam said looking at the morgue tech.
The morgue tech pulled the sheet back from over Steven's face. "More than that. They practically liquefied."
"Any sign of a struggle? Maybe somebody did it to him?" Dean questioned as he looked at the body on the table.
"Nope. Besides the daughter, he was all alone."
"What's the official cause of death?" Sam questioned looking at the Morgue tech.
"Ah, Doc's not sure. He's thinking massive stroke, maybe an aneurysm? Something burst up in there, that's for sure."
"What do you mean?" Andi asked looking at him in confusion.
"Intense cerebral bleeding. This guy had more blood in his skull than anyone I've ever seen."
"The eyes. What would cause something like that?" Sam asked curiously.
"Capillaries can burst. See a lot of bloodshot eyes with stroke victims."
"Yeah? You ever see exploding eyeballs?" Dean questioned looking up at the tech from the body.
"That's the first time for me, but hey, I'm not the doctor." The man said shrugging his shoulders.
"Hey, think we could take a look at that police report? You know for, uh… our paper?" Dean asked curiously.
"I'm not really supposed to show you that." The tech said shaking his head.
Sam let out a sigh getting annoyed with the tech pulling out his wallet again.
Andi scoffed looking at the tech with narrowed eyes knowing that the tech was now in it for the money since Sam had started something with giving him five twenties to begin with to come back here to begin with.
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The three of them walked down the stairs together.
"Might not be one of ours." Sam said putting his hands in his pockets in agitation. He was upset with the Morgue tech taking almost two hundred dollars off of him. Money that Dean had gotten from a poker game sure, but it was money that they could have used for a room. "Might be some freak medical thing."
Dean rolled his eyes scoffing a bit. "How many times in Dad's long and varied career has it actually been a freak medical thing and not some sign of an awful supernatural death?"
"Uh, almost never." Sam said letting out a soft sigh.
"Exactly."
"Alright, let's go talk to the daughter."
"And let's hope that she can give us some sort of answers." Andi said as they walked towards the Impala.
SPNSPN
Dean, Sam, and Andi walked into the funeral. All of the attendees were dressed in black. The three of them stood out due to their jeans and flannels.
Dean looked down at what he wore. "Feel like we're underdressed."
Andi rolled her eyes scoffing what Dean said. "We're working Dean, remember."
The three of them walked through the house and out to the back of the house.
Dean walked up to a man. "Do you know where we could find Donna Shoemaker?" He asked the gentleman.
The man pointed towards Donna.
"Thanks." Andi said with a smile.
The three hunters walked towards the two daughters of Steven.
"You, must be Donna, right?" Dean asked looking at the eldest sister.
"Yeah." Donna said with a nod of her head.
"Hi." Sam said softly before clearing his throat. "Uh… we're really sorry."
"Thank you." Donna said softly looking at Sam.
"I'm Sam, this is Dean, and this is Andi. We worked with your dad."
Donna looked at her friend Charlie and then back to the three hunters. "You did?" She asked in confusion.
"Yes." Andi said offering Donna a small smile and running a hand through her tousled sandy hair. "This whole thing. A stroke."
"I don't think she really wants to talk about this right now." Charlie said looking at them trying to get her to stop talking.
Donna looked at her friend. "It's okay." She said softly. "I'm okay."
"Were there any symptoms? Dizziness? Migraines?" Dean asked looking at Donna hoping that she would give them some sort of answers.
"No." Donna said shaking her head.
Lily, her sister, turned around. "That's because it wasn't a stroke."
"Lily, don't say that." Donna said scolding her little sister.
"What?" Sam asked looking at Lily in confusion. He couldn't help, but wonder why Lily would say that.
Andi blinked a few times trying to get a read on the younger sister.
"I'm sorry, she's just upset." Donna told Sam softly.
"No," Lily said shaking her head, "it happened because of me."
"Sweetie, it didn't." Donna said shaking her head. She had gone over this with her sister before that it wasn't her fault that this had happened to their father.
"Lily." Sam kneeled down to Lily's level to look into her eyes. "Why would you say something like that?" He was curious of why she would say something like that.
"Right before he died, I said it." Lily said softly, knowing that it was true.
"You said what?" Sam asked softly, as he put her hand softly on her shoulder trying to be reassuring to her that it was okay to tell him.
"Bloody Mary, three times in the bathroom mirror." She took a breath. "She took his eyes, that's what she does."
"That's not why Dad died. This isn't your fault." Donna told her sister.
"I think your sister's right, Lily." Dean said softly looking at Donna's little sister. "There's no way it could have been Bloody Mary. Your dad didn't say it, did he?"
"No, I don't think so." Lily said shaking her head.
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The three of them went upstairs of the home of the Shoemakers.
Sam pushed the door open of the bathroom. He noticed that there was some dried blood still on the bathroom floor. "The Bloody Mary legend… Dad ever find any evidence that it was a real thing?"
Dean shook his head. "Not that I know of." He said as he walked into the bathroom.
Sam stooped down and touched the dry blood.
Andi looked around making sure that they weren't being spied on. "Well… all legends have truth to them." Andi said as she pursed her lips together.
"I mean, everywhere else all over the country, kids will play Bloody Mary, and as far as we know, nobody dies from it." Sam said looking up at Andi and Dean.
"Yeah, well, maybe everywhere it's a story, but here it's actually happening." Dean said looking around pursing his lips together.
"The place where the legend began?" Sam asked thinking standing up.
Dean shrugged as he opened the medicine cabinet.
"But according to the legend, the person who says B…"
Andi jabbed him in the ribs making him realize that he was looking dead on in the medicine cabinet mirror.
Sam closed it quickly with his brows furrowed. "The person who says you know what gets it. But here…"
"Shoemaker gets it instead, yeah." Dean said thinking pursing his lips together into a thin line.
"Right." Andi said with a firm nod of her head. "I've never heard of anything like this happening before. Ever." Andi scratched the back of her head rubbing the back of her short hair up causing it to stick every which way.
Dean hummed thinking. "Still, the guy did die right in front of the mirror, and the daughter's right. The way the legend goes, you know who scratches your eyes out."
"It's worth checking into." Sam said nodding his head.
"I agree to that." Andi said turning on her heels.
Dean nodded his head. "Alright let's go."
The three of them left the bathroom only to run into Charlie.
"What are you doing up here?" Charlie said raising her eyebrow crossing her arms.
"We… we, had to go to the bathroom." Dean said lamely.
Andi couldn't hold back a groan. She was agitated with the fact that Dean couldn't come up with something better story.
"Who are you?" Charlie demanded narrowing her eyes eyeing the three of them. She didn't know what to think of the three of them at this moment.
"Like we said downstairs, we worked with Donna's dad."
"He was a day trader or something. He worked by himself."
"No, I know, I meant…"
"And all those weird questions downstairs, what was that? So you tell me what's going on, or I'll start screaming."
"Alright, alright." Sam said looking at her raising his hands up. "We think something happened to Donna's dad."
"Yeah, a stroke."
"That's not a sign of a typical stroke. We think it might be something else." Andi said looking at Charlie getting agitated with what was going on.
"Like what?"
"Honestly? We don't know yet. But we don't want it to happen to anyone else. That's the truth." Sam said softly.
"So, if you're gonna scream, go right ahead, but I don't think that Andi." Dean looked over at their friend standing next to them. "Will take too kindly to it. She has a way of sweet talking out of things and she really hates using it."
"Who are you, cops?" Charlie asked looking at the three of them.
"Something like that." Dean said shrugging his shoulders.
"I'll tell you what. Here." Sam reached into his pocket and pulled out a paper and pen. He wrote his cell phone number down and handed it to her. "If you think of anything, you or your friends notice anything strange, out of the ordinary… just give us a call."
Andi looked at them. "Can we go now?" She asked looking at them.
Sam nodded his head.
The three of them headed down the hallway.
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They walked towards the library it was starting to get dark outside.
"Alright, say Bloody Mary really is haunt this town. There's gonna be some sort of proof… Like a local woman who died nasty." Dean said looking at the two of them.
"Yeah, but a legend this widespread it's hard. I mean, there's like 50 versions of who she actually is." Sam said rubbing his mouth letting out a soft sigh. "One story says she's a witch, another says she's a mutilated bride, there's a lot more."
The three of them walked into the library together.
"Alright so what are we supposed to be looking for?" Dean asked looking at them.
"Every version got a few things in common. It's always a woman named Mary, and she always died right in front of a mirror." Sam said looking at his brother.
"So we've gotta search local newspapers and the public records and see how far back they go. See if we can find any Mary's that fit the bill." Andi said running a hand through her hair closing her eyes thinking as she walked.
"Well that sounds annoying." Dean said complaining a little bit..
"No, it won't be so bad, as long as we…" Sam stopped in mid-sentence looking at the computers and let out a chuckle. "I take that back. This will be very annoying."
Andi scoffed rolling her eyes. "You and your technology." She said pushing past them. "Come on college boy and your annoying computer technology. Let's hit the books."
Dean grumbled a bit following the two younger hunters.
"Quit complaining Dean." Andi snapped, rolling her cognac eyes at his grumbling. "I did this all of the time back home. Never once used a computer. Always hit the books."
"Sounds like a borefest."
"Yeah it was." Andi said scoffing a little bit. "But in a way rewarding."
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Sam shot up kicking Andi in the back with his long legs since she was sitting on the bed next to him. Sam groaned rubbing his eyes narrowing his eyes at his brother and best friend. "Why'd you let me fall asleep?"
"Cause I'm an awesome brother. So what did you dream about?" Dean questioned not looking up from what he was doing.
"Lollipops and candy canes." Sam said snarkily.
"Yeah, sure." Dean said rolling his eyes.
Andi rolled her eyes rubbing her sore back where he had kicked her at. "You needed the sleep you tosser. You're no good to us sleep deprived."
Sam rubbed his eyes tiredly. "Did you find anything?" Sam asked trying his best to shake off the nightmare that he just had about Jessica.
"Oh besides the whole new level of frustration?" Dean grumbled out rubbing his tired eyes pushing the papers away from him.
Sam sat up on the bed with a groan.
"No. I've looked at everything. A few local women, a Laura and a Catherine committed suicide in front of a mirror, and a giant mirror fell on a guy named Dave, but uh, no Mary."
Sam fell back onto the bed, letting out a little huff. "Maybe we just haven't found it yet." Sam said rubbing his eyes trying to think where else they could look.
"Well I've been searching the strange deaths in the area while Dean did that." Andi said looking over at Sam. "The whole eyeball bleeding thing… There's nothing. Whatever's happening here, maybe it's just ain't Mary." Andi rubbed her eyes tiredly. "Maybe it's something else.
Sam's phone began to ring. He answered it. "Hello?" A look of concern crossed Sam's face.
"Sam?" Andi asked looking at him.
"We'll meet you there at the park. Just hold tight." Sam told the person softly.
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Dean sat next to Charlie on a park bench. Sam and Andi were standing there next to it looking at the crying girl.
"And they found her on the bathroom floor. And her… her eyes… They were gone."
"I'm sorry." Sam said softly looking at the heart broken girl that was sobbing on the bench.
"And she said it."
Dean looked up at Andi and Sam.
"I heard her say it. But it couldn't be because of that. I'm insane, right?" Charlie asked tearfully.
"No, you're not insane." Andi said shaking her head.
"Oh God, that makes me feel so much worse." Charlie said burying her head in her hands sobbing some more.
"Look." Sam said softly looking at her. "We think something's happening here. Something that can't be explained."
"And we're gonna stop it, but we could use your help." Dean said looking at her. He knew that he needed her help. They really did need to get to the bottom of this case and figure out what was going on and get to the bottom of this case.
Andi nodded her head. "It's gonna keep happening if they say… you know what… people are going to keep dying."
Charlie pursed her lips together and nodded her head. "Alright." She said softly. "I'll help you."
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Charlie locked the door of Jill's room and opened the window to allow Sam, Dean, and Andi into the room.
Sam entered the window first.
Dean threw the duffel into the room causing Sam to catch it. He then helped Andi into the room before coming into the room.
Andi let out a soft breath. "I hate coming through the windows." She rubbed her hands on her jeans huffing a little bit.
Sam put the duffel down onto the bed going through it carefully. "What did you tell Jill's mom?"
"Just that I needed some time alone with Jill's pictures and things."
Sam pulled out something out of the bag.
Dean quickly shut the curtains.
"I hate lying to her."
"It's for the best. Trust us." Andi said pursing her lips together. "Better for her to be in the dark than knowing the truth."
"Hit the lights." Dean said as he continued to work on the curtains.
Charlie walked over and shut the lights off. "What are you guys looking for?"
"We'll let you know as soon as we find it." Dean said softly.
Sam handed the digital camera over to Dean. "Hey, night vision."
Dean turned the night vision on for Sam and handed it back to him.
"Perfect." He aimed it Dean.
"Do I look like Paris Hilton?"
Sam walked away from Dean He opened Jill's closet and began filming around her mirror.
Andi rolled her eyes. "Only you would say her name Dean." She scoffed a little bit. "By the way…. What is your fascination with her anyways?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know what Andi meant by what she said. He didn't see a problem with having a crush on Paris Hilton.
"So, I don't get it. I mean… the first victim didn't summon Mary, and the second victim did. How's she choosing them?" Sam questioned wondering how Mary was picking the victims.
"Beats me." Dean said pursing his lips together.
Sam closed the door trying to think of how she was choosing her victims.
"I want to know why Jill said it in the first place." Dean said looking over at Charlie.
"It's just a joke." Charlie said softly of why Jill had said it in the first place.
"Yeah well somebody's gonna say it again, it's just a matter of time." Dean said huffing a bit.
Sam walked into the bathroom leaving the two hunters in the bedroom with Charlie.
"What I don't is why someone would say someone's name. I mean it's just as bad as Tim Burton's Beetlejuice." Andi said letting out a soft sigh running a hand through her hair. "Both are dangerous in their own perspective ways." She closed her eyes.
"Hey." Sam called out to them.
"What is it Sam?" Andi asked coming towards him into the bathroom with a concerned look on her face.
"There's a black light in the trunk, right?"
Andi smiled and then chuckled. "I think I can do one better."
"What do you mean?"
"Come on… Get that mirror down. I have a feeling you want to look at the back of it?" She questioned him with a quirk of her brow.
Sam nodded his head as he moved the mirror off of the wall and carried it towards the bed putting it face down being careful not to break the glass.
Andi reached into the small purse that she carried on her and pulled out a small little light and handed it to him.
"What's this?" He asked looking at her.
Andi rolled her eyes scoffing a little bit. "Go on and turn it on."
Sam turned it on and saw that it was a black light. "Ah…" His cheeks flushed in embarrassment. He was surprised that Andi would carry a black light on her.
Andi laughed lightly as she peeled the brown paper off of the back of the mirror as Sam shined the black light over it slowly. A handprint appeared along with the name Gary Bryman.
"Gary Bryman?" Charlie asked in confusion looking at the three hunters.
"You know who that is?" Sam asked looking over at Charlie.
"No." Charlie said shaking her head.
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The four of them were outside and Dean and Charlie were sitting on the bench. Andi had taken a seat on the ground smoking a Lucky Strike cigarette.
Sam walked up behind the three of them. "So, Gary Bryman was an 8-year-old boy. Two years ago he was killed in a hit and run. The car was described as a black Toyota Camry. But nobody got the plates or saw the driver."
"Oh my god." Charlie said her eyes widening in shock.
"What?" Sam asked looking at her.
"Jill drove that car."
"We need to get back to your friend Donna's house." Andi said getting up to her feet crushing the butt of her cigarette under her boot. She let the smoke out from her lungs. "I think that is our link of how Mary's killing people."
"I think you might be right." Dean said looking at her.
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Dean, Sam, and Andi hunched over the bathroom mirror with the brown paper off of it revealing a handprint on it as well along with the name Linda Shoemaker.
"Linda Shoemaker." Sam said pursing his lips together.
Andi pursed her lips together. "Hm… I'm beginning to wonder…"
"What do you think…" Sam asked looking at her with wondering eyes.
"Let's ask Donna some questions before I say what I'm thinking okay? I want to make sure that I'm right okay?"
Sam nodded his head.
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"Why are you asking me this?" Donna asked looking at the three of them.
"Look, we're sorry, but it's important." Sam said looking at her hoping that Donna would give them some sort of information that would help them.
"Yeah. Linda's my mom okay? She overdosed on sleeping pills, it was an accident, and that's it. I think you should leave."
"Now Donna, just listen." Dean said looking at her.
"Get out of my house." She said running up the stairs.
"Oh my God. Do you really think her dad could've killed her mom?" Charlie asked looking at them worriedly.
"Maybe." Sam said thinking. It could be possible that Steven Shoemaker could've killed Linda and not have told anyone.
"I think I should stick around." Charlie said softly.
"Alright. Whatever you do, don't…" Dean said giving her a warning.
"Believe me, I won't say it." Charlie said looking at them.
Andi looked at Charlie and chuckled lightly. "Bloody hell kid." She rubbed the back of her head. Just try to make sure that no one here says it."
Charlie nodded her head.
"We got work to do boys."
Sam and Dean nodded their heads knowing that was very much true.
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Dean sat at a computer while Sam and Andi looked at some things that they had put on the bulletin board.
Sam looked over his brother's shoulder. "Wait, wait, wait, you're doing a nationwide search?" Sam asked in confusion wondering why his brother was doing that.
"Yep. The NCIC, the FBI database… at this point any Mary who died in front of a mirror is good enough for me." Dean said rubbing his temples.
"But if she's haunting the town, she should have died in the town." Sam pointed out wondering why they were broadening the search so much.
Andi let out a soft sigh running a hand through her sandy brown hair. "There's nothing local Sam. We've checked. We've got to widen the search. Anything will help us at the moment now. So unless you have a better bloody idea then you better speak up. Both of these people died because they both had secrets where people had died."
"Right." Sam said with a nod of his head letting out a soft sigh. "There's folklore out there about mirrors that they reveal all your lies, all your secrets, that they're a true reflection of your soul, which is why it's bad luck to break them."
"Right, right. So maybe if you've got a secret, I mean like a really nasty one where someone died, then Mary sees it, and punishes you for it." Dean said rubbing his mouth thinking.
"Whether you're the one that summoned her or not."
"Take a look at this." Dean said printing out a photograph of a woman laying by a mirror in a puddle of blood handing it to Sam.
Andi came over to look over Sam's arm.
"Looks like the same handprint." Sam said getting a good look at it.
"Her name was Mary Worthington… an unsolved murder in Fort Wayne, Indiana." Dean explained to them.
"Sounds like we need to find the people that worked the case and hope that they are alive." Andi said letting out a soft sigh as she ran a hand through her hair.
"We got a drive ahead of us. Let's go." Dean said as he got up out of the chair.
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"I was on the job for 35 years… detective for most of that. Now everybody packs it in with a few loose ends, but the Mary Worthington murder… that one still gets me." The detective said looking at the three hunters that sat before him.
"What exactly happened?" Dean questioned looking at the detective.
He looked at the three of them with wondering eyes. "You guys said you were reporters?"
Sam nodded his head. "We know Mary was 19, lived by herself. We know she won a few local beauty contests, dreamt of getting of Indiana, being an actress. And we know the night of March 29th someone broke into her apartment and murdered her, cut out her eyes with a knife."
"That's right." The detective said with a nod of his head.
"See sir, when we asked you what happened, we wanted to know what you think happened." Sam said leaning forward looking at him.
The detective got up from where he was sitting and pulled out some files from a filing cabinet and came back over to where he had been sitting. "Technically I'm not supposed to have a copy of this." He said as he opened the file it was the same photo that Dean had found earlier. "Now see that there? T-R-E?"
"Yeah." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"I think Mary was trying to spell out the name of her killer."
"You know who it was?" Andi asked shifting in her seat looking up curiously up at the detective. She could only hope that the detective knew who the person was or had an inkling.
"Not for sure. But there was a local man, a surgeon… Trevor Sampson." He pulled out a picture of a man showing it to them. "And I think he cut her up good."
"Now why would he do something like that?" Sam asked curiously. He couldn't understand why a surgeon would do something like that to someone like that.
"Her diary mentioned a man that she was seeing. She called him by his initial., 'T'. Well, her last entry, she was gonna tell 'T's wife about their affair."
"Yeah, but how do you know it was Sampson who killed her?" Dean questioned looking at the detective.
"It's hard to say, but the way her eyes were cut out… it was almost professional." The detective explained to them.
"But you could never prove it?" Dean asked leaning forward.
"No." The detective said shaking his head. "No prints, no witnesses. He was meticulous."
"Is he still alive?"
"Nope." He sat down and let out a soft sigh. "If you ask me, Mary spent her last living moments trying to expose this guy's secret. But she never could."
"Where's she buried?" Sam asked curiously.
"She wasn't. She was cremated."
"What about the mirror?" Dean asked nodding at the one that was in the picture. "It's not in some sort of evidence lockup somewhere is it?"
"Ah, no. It was returned to Mary's family a long time ago."
"You have the names of her family by any chance?" Andi asked with a small smile.
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Dean drove down the road.
"Oh really? Ah that's too bad Mr. Worthington. I would have paid a lot for that mirror. Okay, well maybe next time. Alright, thanks." Sam hung up his phone.
Andi sat up stretching her back. "So what's up Sam?" She asked tiredly.
"So that was Mary's brother. The mirror was in the family for years, until he sold it one week ago to a store called Estate Antiques. A store in Toledo."
"So wherever the mirror goes, that's where Mary goes." Dean said thinking.
"Her spirit's definitely tied up with it somehow." Sam said thinking as he pursed his lips together.
"Isn't there an old superstition that says mirrors can capture spirits?"
"Yeah there is. Yeah, when someone dies in a house people would cover up the mirrors so the ghost wouldn't get trapped." Sam said remembering the superstition.
"So Mary dies in front of a mirror, and it draws in her spirit."
"Yeah, but how could she move through like a hundred different mirrors?" Sam asked in confusion.
"I don't know, but if the mirror is the source, I say we find it and smash it."
"Yeah, I don't know maybe." Sam said pursing his lips together.
"It's worth a shot Sam." Andi said softly running a hand through her hair.
Sam phone began to ring and he answered it. "Hello." A flash of concern came across his face.
"Sam?" Andi said looking concerned at the younger Winchester brother.
"Charlie?"
"Shite." Andi said softly. She knew that this meant trouble.
SPNSPN
Charlie sat on the bed with her head on her knees.
The curtains in the room had been all closed and the mirrors had all been covered with sheets or facing towards the wall or on the facing the floor.
Sam sat down next to Charlie. "Hey, hey it's okay. Hey, you can open up your eyes Charlie. It's okay, alright?"
Charlie looked up slowly.
"Now listen. You're gonna stay right here on this bed, and you're not gonna look at glass, or anything else that has a reflection, okay? And as long as you do that, she cannot get you." Sam said in a soothing tone.
"But I can't keep that up forever. I'm gonna die, aren't I?"
Andi shook her head. "No." She snapped causing Charlie to look at her. "The bloody hell you aren't. Not anytime soon." She took a seat next to Charlie as well. "Now we're gonna need to know what happened."
"We were in the bathroom. Donna said it." Charlie said softly choking back her sobs.
"That's not what she's talking about." Dean said looking at Charlie. "Something happened, didn't it? In your life… a secret… where someone got hurt. Can you tell us about it?"
Charlie pursed her lips together and nodded her head. "I had this boyfriend. I loved him. But he kind of scared me too, you know? And one night, at his house, we got in this fight. Then I broke up with him, and he got upset, and he said he needed me and he loved me, and he said 'Charlie, if you walk out that door right now, I'm gonna kill myself.' and you know what I said? I said 'Go ahead.' And I left. How could I say that? How could I leave him like that? I just… I didn't believe him, you know? I should have." She lowered her head back into her knees and started crying again.
Andi looked at the brothers letting out a soft sigh. "Just sit tight okay." Andi said softly. "We will take care of this. We promise."
SPNSPN
Dean drove down the road while it rained. "You know her boyfriend killing himself, that's not really Charlie's fault."
"You know as well as I do spirits don't exactly see shades of gray, Dean. Charlie had a secret, someone died, that's good enough for Mary." Sam said looking over at his brother.
"I guess."
"You know, I've been thinking. It might not be enough to just smash that mirror."
"Why what do you mean?"
"Well Mary's hard to pin down, right? I mean she moves around from mirror to mirror."
"Yeah… I get what you're saying Sam." Andi said looking at him. "You want to summon her to her mirror pin her there and then smash her mirror."
Sam nodded his head.
"Well how do you know that's gonna work?" Dean questioned looking at them.
"I don't, not for sure." Sam said shaking his head. It was just an idea that he had.
"Well, who's gonna summon her?"
"I will. She'll come after me."
"You know what, that's it." He said as he pulled the car over.
"Dean." Andi said with wide eyes.
"Stay out of this Andi." Dean said looking back at her with narrowed eyes.
Sam looked at Dean with wide eyes. Never once did Dean tell Andi to stay out of something.
"This is about Jessica, isn't it? You think that's your dirty little secret that you killed her somehow? Sam, this has got to stop, man. I mean, the nightmares and calling her name out in the middle of the night… it's gonna kill you. Now listen to me… It wasn't your fault. If you want to blame something, then blame the thing that killed her. Or hell, why don't you take a swing at me? I mean I'm the one the dragged you away from her in the first place."
"I don't blame you." Sam stated looking at his brother.
"Well you shouldn't blame yourself, because there's nothing you could've done."
"I could've warned her."
"About what? You didn't know what was gonna happen! And besides, all of this isn't a secret, I mean I know all about it. It's not gonna work with Mary anyways."
"No you don't." Sam said shaking his head.
Andi looked at the two brothers. What did Sam mean by that? Was he hiding something?
"I don't what?"
"You don't know all about it. I haven't told you and Andi everything."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well it wouldn't really be a secret if I told you, would it?"
"No." Dean said looking at his brother in surprise. "I don't like it." Dean shook his head. "It's not gonna happen, forget it."
"Dean that girl back there is going to die unless we do something about it. And you know what? Who knows how many more people are gonna die after that? Now we're doing this. You've got to let me do this."
Andi pursed her lips together in a thin line. She didn't want to mutter out that she could do it too, that would have just caused more of a fight and added more fuel to the fire. That was the last thing that she wanted to do. So it was best that she kept silent about it for now. It was just better to keep her mouth shut about the whole thing. It was better that way for the brothers to not know about her little secret and knowing that Mary might come after her.
SPNSPN
Sam picked the lock to the shop and the door swung open to the shop.
Dean took a breath looking around seeing many mirrors. "Well… that's just great."
Andi rolled her eyes at Dean's complaining. "Let's just start looking. They couldn't have sold it within the week that they've gotten it. Mirrors can't go that quickly."
The three of them split up and began to look around to try and find the mirror that use to be Mary's.
"Maybe they've already sold it." Dean said as he looked around.
Sam's flashlight landed on a mirror. His brows furrowed together. "I don't think so."
Dean and Andi came over.
Andi pursed her lips together. "Only one way to find out if it is hers." Andi looked at Dean.
Dean pulled out the picture to compare it. "That's it." He let out a soft sigh and looked at his brother. "You sure about this?"
Sam handed his flashlight to Dean. He let out a soft sigh. "Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary." He looked at Dean and Andi who are looking back at him with unsure looks. Sam picked up the crowbar that Andi held in her hand. "Bloody Mary."
Dean turned seeing a light being flashed off of the window.
"Dean?" Andi questioned softly pursing her lips together in a thin line.
"I'll go check that out. Stay here with him. You both be careful." Dean ordered her causing her to look at him with a look of distaste. She hated it being ordered around like Dean was ordering her around. He sounded way too much like his father and that angered her.
Sam readied the crowbar that he had nodding his head.
"Smash anything that moves." He said as he crawled towards the door.
"You should go Andi and help Dean." Sam told her softly.
"No Sam." Andi said looking at him. "I'm not leaving you. I'm gonna keep an eye on you."
Sam heard a breath and he saw Andi looking around with wide eyes as well. "You heard that didn't you?" He asked looking at her as he saw Mary out of the corner of his eye in a mirror and smashed it with the crowbar. She moved to another and he smashed that one as well. He looked at Andi. "Don't tell me you have a secret as well."
"Mine to bear Sam." She said softly keeping her lips pursed together. "I'm not going to tell you Sam." She looked away from him.
Sam looked at the mirror that was before him. He knew that Andi wouldn't do anything unless she was willing and ready to tell him which she wasn't. It was one of her quirks. "Come on. Come to this one." He looked oddly at his reflection. His breathing became harsher like he was having problems breathing and a trickle of blood dripped from his eye. The crowbar fell from his hand and he grabbed his chest.
"Sam!" Andi yelled rushing towards Sam's side.
"Andi no… She'll get you too."
Andi smoothed his hair back.
"You think I care about that?" She asked looking at him with soft look in her eyes.
"It's your fault. You killed her. You killed Jessica." His reflection said to him. "You never told her the truth… who you really were."
Sam slid towards the ground.
"But it's more than that, isn't it? Those nightmares you've been having of Jessica dying, screaming, burning…. You had them for days before she died. Didn't you!? You were so desperate to ignore them, to believe they were just dreams. How could you ignore them like that? How could you leave her alone to die!? You dreamt it would happen!"
Andi held onto him tightly. "Sam come on, fight this. You're stronger than this." She looked up at the mirror.
"Andi don't." He said gasping out.
Andi's reflection looked at her with a menacing look. She gasped stumbling back her back hitting the ground hard.
"It's your fault." Her reflection said looking at her with narrowed eyes. "All those innocent people died…"
Dean smashed his crowbar through the mirror. Dean looked down at the two hunters on the ground. He bent down. "Sam, Sammy! Andi!"
"It's Sam." Sam said scolding his brother trying to catch his breath.
"God, are you two okay?" He asked looking at the two of them over with a concerned look.
"Uh, yeah." Sam said softly.
"Come on, come on." Dean said as he pulled Sam up. He put his arm around his neck.
Andi stumbled up to her feet.
"What the hell was that about Andi? Why the hell did Mary attack you too?" Dean said looking at her.
"Just drop it Dean, alright?" She said as she walked slowly. "It's not important alright?"
"Yeah it actually is Andi." He said as they began to walk out.
Mary began to come out of the frame of her mirror.
They turned seeing her crawling over the broken glass. They fell to the ground bleeding from the face.
Dean reached for a mirror and pulled it over forcing Mary to see her own reflection.
"You killed them! All those people! You killed them!"
Mary started choking to death and melted into a pile of blood.
Dean threw the mirror down and it shattered on the ground. "Hey Sam. Andi."
"What?" Andi said trying to catch her breath leaning against Sam.
"Yeah?"
"That has got to be like… what? 600 years of bad luck?"
The two younger hunters chuckled weakly at what he said.
"Something like that." Andi said trying to get up to her feet.
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Dean pulled the Impala up to Charlie's house.
"So this is really over?" Charlie asked looking at the three hunters hopeful.
Dean nodded his head. "Yeah, it's over."
"Thank you." Charlie said with a smile.
Dean reached back and shook her hand.
Charlie got out of the car.
"Charlie." Sam called to her causing her to turn around and look at him. "Your boyfriend's death… you really should try to forgive yourself. No matter what you did, you probably couldn't have stopped it. Sometimes bad things just happen."
Charlie smiled faintly and then turned to walk up to her house.
Dean smack his brother lightly on the arm. "That's good advice." He said as he pulled the car away. "Hey Sam?"
"Yeah?"
"Now that this is all over, I want you to tell us what that secret is."
"Look…. You're my brother and Andi's my friend and I'd die for you, but there are some things I need to keep to myself." Sam said softly as he looked out the window. He saw Jessica in a white dress standing in a white dress on a street corner next to a light pole but she was gone by the time they turned the corner. Sam blinked a few times. Perhaps it was his mind playing tricks on him.
Andi leaned back in her seat looking out the window with a cigarette in between her pale pink plush lips. She lit it with her zippo and took a long drag from it.
"What was your secret Andi?" Sam asked softly. He wanted to know why Mary went after her. He knew that Andi was hiding something and it wasn't fair that she had kept something hidden from him and Dean like this.
Andi looked up at the back of Sam's head. She pursed her pale pink lips together. "Isn't that what secrets are supposed to be. Secret."
"Andi it almost got you killed." Dean said grumbling at her.
"So? I didn't think that it would have mattered." Andi said with a shrug of her shoulders. She needed to keep her own secrets and it was going to remain that way.
"Didn't matter?" Dean growled pulling the car over.
"Dean." Sam said looking over at his brother.
"No, this has gone on long enough, Sam. She hasn't explained why she's over here. Why dad has brought her over here. She has a secret that Mary would go after her today and didn't tell us."
Andi closed her eyes pinching the bridge of her nose. "Sam gets to keep his, but I can't keep mine a secret?" Andi said snapping at him. "Why is it so important for me to tell you a secret? Yes someone died, alright? But I'm not telling you how or why. As for John bringing me over here. He thought that I would want to find the thing that killed my father alright? Is that good enough for you Dean?" Andi looked at Dean with narrowed eyes. She wasn't about to tell Dean or Sam what was going on. It was her secret to bare and she didn't need to be judged by the brothers of what she had done in the past.
Dean looked at her with wide green eyes.
"Now can we just go?" She asked as she took a drag of her cigarette looking at him with narrowed cognac eyes.
Dean pulled off the side of the road and began to drive down the road again.
"Andi…" Sam said softly turning slightly looking back at her seeing her looking quite agitated with Dean. "You never told us why dad had brought you over."
"I didn't want to tell you why he had brought me over. I saw it as an opportunity to come over and I took it." Andi said as she looked out the window. She didn't want to go any more into depth about why she had taken John's offer. It was bad enough that she was admitting of why she had come over.
Sam pursed his lips together seeing the far off look in her eyes. He had a feeling that there was something else that had happened. But whatever it was, he had a feeling that she wasn't ready to tell and with the look she had on her face he could tell she wasn't. But the niggling feeling in his chest he could tell that it wasn't good.
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This is the end of Chapter 5. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I enjoyed rewriting this chapter. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'm trying to keep Andi unique along with the rest of the characters that I've created for the Supernatural world. I can't wait to get the next chapter up. Until next time guys.