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Chapter 6
Skin Changers Suck
Dean pulled into the gas station to get some gas station. "Alright, I figure we'd hit Tucumcari by lunch, then head south, hit Bisbee by midnight."
Andi leaned back against the back of the seat trying to ignore what Dean was saying. It really didn't matter where they went as long as they had a place to stay for the night with a bed. Sleeping in the car was becoming a bit of a hassle on the back.
"Sam wears women's underwear." Dean said when his younger brother didn't reply which causing Andi to roll her eyes.
"I've been listening, I'm just busy." Sam said not looking up his Palm Pilot.
"Busy doing what?" Dean questioned his younger brother, wondering what was so important that he wasn't answering him.
"Reading emails."
Dean got out of the car. "Emails from who?"
Andi rolled her eyes. "Can't he just have some privacy Dean?" Andi questioned as she moved around in the backseat, letting out a soft breath.
Sam let out a soft sigh. "They're from my friends at Stanford."
Dean blinked a few times. "You're kidding. You still keep in touch with your college buddies?"
"Why not?"
"Well, what exactly do you tell 'em? You know, about where you've been, what you've been doin'?" Dean pressed looking at his brother as he put gas in his precious car.
Andi rolled her eyes. She didn't see the point in why Dean was pressing on his little brother so much. After all it was probably the one thing that Sam had that Dean and her didn't have. It was friends that cared about them. She wasn't about to let Dean force Sam to lose his friends because he didn't have any.
"I tell them I'm on a road trip with my big brother and that I ran into a friend of mine. I tell them that I needed some time off after Jess." Sam explained to his brother.
Dean rolled his eyes. "Oh, so you lie to them."
"No. I just don't tell them… everything." Sam said pursing his lips together.
"Yeah, that's called lying. I mean, hey, man, I get it, tellin' the truth is far worse."
"So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders.
"You're serious."
"Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you can't get close to people, period."
"Dean you shouldn't be allowed to be in control of his social life." Andi said scoffing at the older Winchester. "Just because you and I decide to be antisocial and not have friends doesn't mean that Sam doesn't have to cut his friends from his life." She didn't like the idea of Sam cutting people out of his life. Just because she and Dean didn't have people in their lives didn't mean that Sam didn't have to do the same thing as them. It just wasn't fair to the younger Winchester brother.
Dean rolled his eyes. "Yeah, whatever."
Sam continued to read his emails. "God…" He said softly.
"What is it Sam?" Andi asked leaning over the back of the seat looking up at the younger Winchester in concern pursing her pale pink lips together in a thin line. Whatever it was she could see it was worrying him with the way his brows were furrowed together and his eyes were widening in confusion.
"In this email from this girl, Rebecca Warren, one of those friends of mine."
"Is she hot?"
"Dean." Andi shot back at the old brother. "Go on Sam… what's wrong?"
"I went to school with her, and her brother, Zack. She says Zack'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 said rubbing his mouth.
"Dude, what kind of people are you hanging out with?" Dean questioned looking at his brother.
"Dean." Andi warned looking back at the older brother. She was getting tired of Dean being a jerk to his younger brother. It was becoming an everyday thing.
"No, man." Sam said shaking his head. "I know Zack. He's no killer."
"Well, maybe the Zack as well as he knows you." Dean said rolling his eyes.
"They're in Saint Louis. We're going."
Dean chuckled. "Look, sorry about your buddy, okay? But this does not sound like our kind of problem."
"It is our problem. They're my friends." Sam said looking at his brother. He was willing to go and help them regardless of the problem.
"Saint Louis is four hundred miles behind us, Sam." Dean complained, not liking the idea of turning around to go and help someone out that probably didn't need help.
The two brothers exchanged a look with one another.
Dean let out a soft sigh and got into the car and started it up. He turned the car around heading back towards Saint Louis.
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Sam knocked on the door of Rebecca's home and stuck his hands in his pockets.
Rebecca opened the door and gasped when she saw Sam standing there with Dean and Andi. "Oh my God, Sam!"
Sam smiled when he saw her surprise. "Well, if it isn't little Becky."
"You know what you can do with that little Becky crap." She said with a smile as she gave him a hug.
"I got your email." He told her softly. He could only hope that he wasn't too late to help his friend out of a bad time in jail for something that he didn't do.
"I didn't think that you would come here." She said looking up at him with wondering eyes. She was surprised that he was here.
Dean took a step forward and extended his hand. "Dean. Older brother."
Rebecca shook his hand. "Hi."
"Hi." Dean said with a smile.
Andi rolled her eyes. She knew that Dean saw what he liked. "Hello. Andi. Friend." She said with a small wave of her hand.
"Hi." Rebecca said with a smile looking at the young woman that stood behind Sam. She remembered Sam emailing her about Andi. "You're the friend that Sam said that he ran into on his travels."
Andi smiled a small smile as she looked at Sam seeing the shy smile on his lips. "Yeah. I'm here for a short stay." She said lying some knowing that it was not a short stay that she was having. She had been there for a little while and she probably wasn't going home any time soon.
"We're here to help. Whatever we can do." Sam told her softly with a small smile.
"Come in." She said inviting them into her home.
Sam, Andi, and Dean came inside.
Dean closed the door. "Nice place." Dean said looking around.
"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 Zack's free." Rebecca explained to them as they walked through the house.
"Where are your folks?" Sam questioned curiously.
"They live in Paris for half the year, so they're on their way home now for the trial." She said as they walked into the kitchen. "Do you guys want a beer or something?"
Dean smiled. "Hey…"
"No, thanks. So, tell us what happened." Sam said softly looking at her. He wanted to know what Rebecca knew about her brother's arrest.
"Well, um, Zack came home, and he found Emily tied to a chair. And she was beaten up and bloody, and she wasn't breathing." Rebecca began to cry. "So, he called 911, and the police… they showed up, and they arrested him. But, the thing is, the only way Zack 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 Zack 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."
"You know, maybe we could see the crime scene. Zack's house." Sam said thinking hoping that Rebecca would allow them to go to the house to see what was going on.
"We could." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"Why?" Rebecca asked looking at them in confusion. "I mean, what could you do?"
"Well, me, not much and with Andi visiting she can't do much either. But Dean's a cop." Sam said lying knowing that it wasn't a good idea to lie to a friend, but he wanted to try and get Zack out of jail.
Dean laughed. "Detective, actually."
"Really?" Rebecca asked looking over at him.
Dean nodded his head.
"Where?"
"Bisbee, Arizona. But I'm off-duty now."
"You guys, it's so nice to offer, but I just… I don't know." She said softly pursing her lips together.
"Bec, look, I know Zack didn't do this. Now, we have to find a way to prove that he's innocent." Sam said softly looking at her.
"It's the least that we could do for Sam's friend." Andi said offering a small smile.
"Okay. I'm gonna go get the keys." She said walking out of the kitchen and down the hall.
"Oh, yeah, man, you're a real straight shooter with your friends." Dean said looking at Sam.
"Look, Zack and Becky need our help." Sam said looking at Dean.
"I just don't think that this is our kind of problem."
Andi rolled her eyes at what Dean said. She saw Sam's point of view of this. It sounded kind of strange. There was no way that someone could be at two places at once. Not unless there was a doppelganger that Zack had. It was something that they had to look into.
"Two places at once? We've looked into less." Sam said ending their argument.
Dean let out a sigh, knowing that there was no way to stop Sam into looking into this. He was after all being very head strong on this case and Andi was being just as head strong on this case. He didn't understand why Andi was being so behind Sam on wanting to help out on this. It was as if she was trying to right a wrong or something.
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Dean pulled the Impala outside of Zack's house.
The four of them got out of the car.
Andi stuck her hands in her pockets looking up at the house with a soft sigh.
Rebecca looked over at Dean. "You're sure this is okay?"
"Yeah. I am an officer of the law."
Rebecca allowed them inside of the house not thinking twice after Dean had said that.
Sam, Dean, and Andi looked around seeing the furniture and walls smeared with blood while Rebecca stood on the porch steps hesitating.
"Bec, you wanna wait outside?" Sam asked her softly.
"No, I wanna help." Rebecca said as she ducked under the tape and entered the house.
Andi looked at Sam. "Ballsy friend you got Sam."
"Tell us what else the police said." Sam said softly looking at his friend.
"Well, there's no sign of a break-in. They say Emily let her attacker in. The lawyers… they're already talking about a plea bargain." She said as she looked around the room crying. "Oh, God…"
"Look, Bec, if Zack didn't do this, it means someone else did. Any idea who?"
Rebecca shook her head. She pursed her lips together thinking. "Um, there was something, about a week before."
Andi looked at Rebecca. "Would it be something that will help your brother's case?"
Rebecca looked at Andi. "I don't know." She admitted softly. "But somebody broke in here, and stole some clothes… Zack's clothes. The police… they don't think it's anything. I mean, we're not that far from downtown. Sometimes people get robbed."
Sam walked away from them thinking and Andi followed him. Sam looked at the photo of himself, Rebecca, and Zack together grinning.
"You know…" Andi said softly looking at the photo that Sam held in his hand. "I think it is a nice gesture that you're doing for your mate."
Sam looked over at Andi. "Would you do the same?"
Andi pursed her lips together. "Sam, I can't answer that. You know that." She said looking up at him. "I don't have friends remember?"
"If you had them." He said softly looking her dead in the eye. "Would you do the same?" He wanted to know if she would do the same if she had friends. He knew that she was friends with him and his brother, but she wasn't really close with anyone else. But if she had friends in the outside world would she do the same thing for them that was what he wanted to know.
Andi's brows furrowed together and she let out a soft sigh. "If I had friends outside of this business then, yeah." She nodded her head. "I would be doing the exact same thing that you are doing Sam. Protecting your friend is something right. Especially if you know them so well." She looked at the photo he held in his hand. "And it looks like you knew him very well."
Sam looked back at the photo that he held in his hand. "Yeah." He said softly.
Dean walked over to them. "So, the neighbor's dog went psycho right around the time Zack's girlfriend was killed." Dean said putting his hands in his pockets.
"Animals can have a sharp sense of the paranormal." Sam said as he put the photo down onto the table.
"Yeah, maybe Fido saw something."
"So, you think maybe this is our kind of problem?" Sam asked looking over at his brother.
"No. Probably not. But we should look at the security tape, you know, just to make sure."
"Yeah." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"Yeah."
Rebecca came over to them.
"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 said looking over at her.
"I've already got it." Rebecca admitted softly rubbing her arm shyly. "I didn't want to say something in front of a cop."
Dean laughed.
"I stole it off the lawyer's desk. I just had to see it for myself."
"Wow…" Andi said with a shake of her head. "Bang up job there."
Dean smiled. "Alright."
The four of them left Zack's home.
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Rebecca, Sam, Dean, and Andi watched the footage in Rebecca's living room.
"Here he comes." Rebecca said looking at the footage.
Dean looked at the time stamp. "22:04, that's just after ten. You said time of death was about 10:30."
"Our lawyers hired some kind of video expert. He says the tapes authentic. It wasn't tampered with." Rebecca admitted running a hand through her hair.
Sam took a closer look at the tape noticing something was off on it.
Andi saw the look on Sam's face. Andi pursed her lips together into a thin line. She ran a hand through her hair nervously hoping that Sam would come up with something that would get Rebecca out of the room.
"Hey, Bec, can we have those beers now?" Sam asked, hoping that it would get her out of the room long enough.
"Oh, sure." She said getting up out of her seat to go to the kitchen.
"Hey." Sam called back to her.
She stopped turning around looking at him with a wondering look.
"Maybe some sandwiches, too?"
"What do you think this is, Hooters?" She asked as she left the room.
"I wish." Dean muttered as he walked over to Sam. "What is it?"
"Check this out." He said as he rewind the tape and hit replay. He paused the tape where Zack was looking right at the camera. Zack's eyes flashed silver.
"Well, maybe it's just a camera flare." Dean said trying his best to dismiss it.
"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."
"Right."
"Remember that dog was freaking out. Maybe he saw this thing. Maybe this is some kind of dark double of Zack's, something that looks like him, but isn't him."
"Like a Doppelganger." Dean said thinking pursing his lips together into a thin line.
"Yeah. It sure explain how he was two places at once." Andi said softly running her hand through her hair. "Better not mention that to Rebecca though. Not yet anyways until we figure out what's going on."
Dean and Sam both nodded their heads in agreement.
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Dean parked the car outside of Zack's house and the three of them got out of the car.
"Alright, so what are we doing here at 5:30 in the morning?" Dean asked looking over at his younger brother.
Andi yawned stretching out as she walked with the brothers. "This better be good Sam because the three of us should be sleeping." She didn't like the idea of being out at five thirty in the morning trying to figure out what was going on.
"I realized something." Sam said as they walked.
"And what would that be?" Andi asked as she rubbed her eyes tiredly.
"The videotape shows the killer going in, but not coming out."
"So, came out the back door?" Dean asked leaning against the hood of his car.
"Right. So, there should be a trail to follow. A trail the police would never pursue."
"Cause they think the killer never left. And they caught your friend Zack inside. I still don't know what we're doing here at 5:30 in the morning."
Sam looked around the outside of the building trying to find anything that would help them out with this case.
Andi walked by the telephone pole that wasn't too far away. "Hey…. there's some blood here. Somebody came this way."
"Yeah, but the trail end. I don't see anything over here." Dean said looking over at her.
Andi rubbed her face with a soft sigh. This was going to be a long and confusing morning.
An ambulance drove past them causing the three of them to exchange a look with each other.
"Sounds like something that we have to look into." Andi said as she walked towards the car.
Dean nodded his head as they got into the car.
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The three of them observed the scene that was going on before them.
Andi took a drag of the cigarette and twirled it between her fingers as she watched with wondering eyes as an Asian man was handcuffed and put into a police car.
"What happened?" Dean asked a nearby woman who was watching the scene unfold as well.
The woman looked at them. She took a breath. "He tried to kill his wife. Tied her up and beat her."
"Really?" Sam said looking at her with wonder. This was beginning to sound too much like Zack's ase. But Zack's girlfriend was dead and this guy's wife wasn't dead. Perhaps he had walked in on it happening?
"I used to see him going to work in the morning. He'd wave, say hello. He seemed like such a nice guy."
They watched him get taken away in the police car.
Andi's mind was wandering through what possibilities it could be for creatures. This case was becoming weirder and weirder as it went on.
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Sam looked around the side of the house trying to find anything that would help them.
Andi looked into the trash cans, but didn't find anything in them. She pursed her lips together in a thin line.
"Anything?" Sam asked looking over at her.
She shook her head as she walked with him towards the front of the house.
Dean walked up to them.
"Hey." Dean said causing his brother and friend to look at him. "Remember when I said this wasn't our kind of problem?"
"Yeah." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"Definitely our kind of problem." Dean said running his hand through his hair.
"What'd you find out?"
"Well, I just talked to the patrolman who was fist 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 explained to them.
"So, he was two places at once."
"Exactly." Dean said with a nod of his head. "Then he sees himself in the house, police thinks he's a nutjob."
"Two dark doubles attacking loved ones in exactly the same way." Sam pursed his lips thinking.
"Could be the same thing doing it, too."
"Shapeshifter?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders.
"Something that can make itself look like anyone."
"That's the only thing that I can think of that could change itself at will. Shapeshifters can do that pretty much at will." Andi said running her hand through her hair nervously.
"Every culture in the world has a shapeshifter lore. You know, legend of creatures who can transform themselves into animals or other men." Dean said with a groan pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Right, skinwalkers, werewolves." Sam said pursing his lips together running a hand through his hair.
"We've got two attacks within blocks of each other. I'm guessing we've got a shapeshifter prowling the neighborhood."
"Let me ask you this… in all this shapeshifter lore, can any of them fly?"
"No." Andi said bluntly looking at them. "None of them can fly."
"I picked up a trail here. Someone ran out of the back of this building and headed this way." Sam said to them.
"Just like at your friend's house." Dean said looking at Sam.
Sam nodded his head. "Yeah. And, just like Zack's house, the trail suddenly ends. I mean, whatever it is just disappeared."
"Well, there's another way to go… down."
They looked down and noticed a manhole cover.
"Well, that would explain why the trails always ended. Shall we?" Andi asked looking at the two brothers.
Dean moved the manhole cover. "Only one way to find out if it's using it."
Andi climbed down first. "Ugh…" She said as she wiped her hands on her pants looking around as the brother's climbed down. "Never thought that I would be down in a sewer."
Sam looked around as well with his brother. "I bet this runs right by Zack's house, too. The shapeshifter could be using the sewer system to get around."
"I think you're right. Look at this."
The three of them bend down to examine a pile of blood and skin that is on the ground.
"Is this from his victims?" Sam asked trying to hold back his disgust.
Dean took out his pocket knife and held up some of the skin with it. "You know, I just had a sick thought. When the shapeshifter changes… maybe it…."
"Sheds it skin like a snake?" Andi said looking at the skin looking a bit paler than she normally was.
"That is sick." Sam said feeling a bit sick to his stomach.
Dean put the bloody pile back onto the ground.
"Makes you want to lose your breakfast doesn't it?" Andi said looking at Sam.
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Dean opened the trunk of the car and began to take some weapons out. "Well, one things I learned from Dad, is that no matter what kind of shapeshifter it is, there's one sure way to kill it."
"Silver bullet to the heart." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"That's right." Dean said with a nod of his head.
Sam's phone began to ring. He took it out and answered his phone. "This is Sam. We're near Zack's, we're just checking some things out." He pursed his lips together as Rebecca talked to him on the other end of the line. "What are you talking about?"
Andi looked over at Sam in confusion. She had a feeling that something was wrong with how Sam was reacting. "Sam is something wrong?"
"Why would you do that?" His eyes going wide. "Bec…" He pursed his lips together.
Andi took the gun that Dean offered her slipping it into the back of her jeans. She walked towards Sam.
"We're trying to help."
She pursed her lips knowing that Sam was trying to calm the angered friend on the other end of the phone.
"Bec, I'm sorry, but…" Sam looked down disappointed.
Andi put her hand on Sam's arm. She knew that Sam was probably disappointed in himself for allowing this to happen. She never thought that Rebecca would go to her lawyer and say something to them.
Dean walked over to them. "I hate to say it, but that's exactly what I'm talking 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…"
"If I was like you and Andi." Sam said looking at the two of them.
"Hey, man, like it or not, we're not like other people. But I'll tell you one thing. This whole gig… it ain't without perks." He held up a gun for Sam to take.
Sam took it from his brother and put it in the back of his jeans with a soft sigh.
The three of them walked away.
Andi looked looked over at Sam. "Don't mind what Dean says Sam. We're trying to help your friends out. Don't let what Rebecca say get you down." Andi said giving him a soft pat on the arm. "Just don't ever turn out like me or Dean. You wouldn't be Sam Winchester if you do." She walked ahead of him.
Sam looked at her back and watched her walk ahead of him. She didn't want him to turn out like his brother and her? He had a feeling that she didn't want him to lose his friends.
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The three of them went back into the sewer. They moved their flashlights looking around holding their guns tightly in their hands.
"I think we're close to its lair." Dean commented as he looked around.
"Why do you say that?" Sam asked looking over at his brother.
"Because there's another puke-inducing pile next to your face." Dean commented knowing that Sam would probably get disgusted with that comment.
"Oh, God." Sam said feeling his stomach churn as he turned his head seeing a pile of blood and skin on a nearby pipe.
"You just had to say that, didn't you?" Andi said gagging a bit. "Why did you have to do that Dean?"
"Hey I was just saying." Dean said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"That is the most disgusting thing that you could have done Dean." Andi said wanting to hit the older Winchester brother.
They turned the corner and find a pile of clothes in the corner.
"Looks like it's lived here for a while." Dean said looking at the clothes.
"Who knows how many murders he's gotten away with?" Sam turned and saw the shifter still in the form of the Asian man standing behind Dean. "Dean!"
Dean turned and got punched by the shifter falling to the ground hard.
The shifter ran down the tunnels of the sewers.
Sam and Andi fired a few times missing.
Sam ran over checking on Dean.
"Get the son of a bitch!" Dean yelled at his brother as Sam got him up to his feet.
The three of them ran after the shifter.
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They came up from the manhole and looked around.
"Alright, let's split up." Sam said looking around.
Andi nodded her head.
"Alright, I'll meet you around the other side." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"Alright." Sam said with a nod of his head.
The three of them separated running in different directions looking for the shapeshifter.
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Andi came back towards where Sam was. "Find anything?" She asked trying to catch her breath.
"No, you ran?" Sam asked concerned looking her over.
"Yeah." She said as she put her hands on her knees trying to catch her breath.
Dean walked up to them. "Hey."
The two of them turned around looking at him.
"Anything?"
"No. He's gone." Sam said shaking his head.
"Alright, let's get back to the car."
Sam and Andi crossed the street while Dean waited for a car to pass.
Dean walked over to the car meeting up with them.
"You think he found another way underground?" Andi asked looking at Dean pursing her lips together.
"Yeah, probably. You got the keys?" Dean asked looking at his brother.
Sam stopped and thought for a second looking at Andi.
Andi looked at him with a quirk of an eyebrow. She was wondering what he was thinking.
"Hey, didn't Dad once face a shapeshifter in San Antonio?" Sam asked his brother.
"Oh, that was Austin. It turned out not to be a shapeshifter, it was a thought form. A psychic projection, remember?" Dean said looking at Sam.
"Oh, right." Sam said as he pulled the keys out of his pocket. "Here ya go." He threw the keys and walked away.
Dean opened the trunk observed the weapons in the trunk. He laughed lightly.
"Don't move."
"Sam?" Andi asked in confusion.
Dean turned looking at Sam to see him pointing a gun at him.
"What have you done with him?" Sam asked keeping his gun steady.
"Dude, chill. It's me, alright?" Dean said calmly looking at Sam.
"No, I don't think so. Where's my brother?"
"You're about to shoot him. Sam, calm down."
"You caught those keys with your left. Your shoulder was hurt."
Andi automatically lifted her gun up. She knew that was true. Dean did get hurt and it was his left arm.
"You too Andi? It's better. What do you want me to do, cry?" Dean questioned looking at the two of them.
"You're not Dean." Andi said looking at him with narrowed eyes.
"Why don't you both pull the trigger then? Hmm? Cause you're not sure. Guys, you know me."
"Don't." Sam said looking at Dean's clone.
Dean paused before hitting Sam first with a crowbar twice causing him to fall to the ground.
Andi went to shoot him and he hit her twice with the crowbar and she fell to the ground harshly.
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Sam woke up first in a dingy, dusty room. He was bound to a wooden post.
The shifter back handed him. A smirk on his face.
Sam groaned looking up at him. "Where is he? Where's Dean?"
"I wouldn't worry about him. I'd worry about you and Andi." The shifter said looking at Sam with the smirk widening some.
Andi's eyes fluttered open. "Where is he?" Andi said her voice hoarse.
"You don't really wanna know." The shifter said with a chuckle. "I swear, the more that I learn about you and your family… I thought I came from a bad background." He shook his head.
"What do you mean, learn?" Sam questioned looking at him.
The shifter stopped grabbing his head in pain and grimaces.
Sam looked at the shifter in confusion.
The shifter relaxed. "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. You don't think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you?"
"Where is my brother?"
The shifter leaned in towards 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." He backed away.
"What are you talking about?"
"Andi left first with her mom. You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothing, just poof. Just to find out that he picked her up." He said pointing at Andi with a sneer on his face.
"That was his choice." Andi said looking at the shifter.
The shifter walked over to her with a smirk on his face before slapping her causing her to shriek. "He should've never picked you up! You are nothing to him You weren't family."
Andi's head lulled to the side whimpering. Her eyes closing in pain. She hadn't expected the shifter to haul off and hit her.
"Leave her alone." Sam snapped not liking the idea that the shifter had done some harm to Andi.
The shifter pulled a sheet over her head. He moved over towards Sam. "Then leaving me with you two. But, still, this life? It's not without its perks." He laughed. "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 said with a smile before covering Sam with a sheet as well.
Sam closed his eyes as he heard the shifter walk away. "You alright Andi?" He asked as he was able to knock the sheet off of him.
She let out a soft groan. "I'm alright Sam." She said letting out a soft breath. "Just was kind of a surprise that he was going to hit me." She tried to work on her ropes. "Try to work on your ropes Sam."
Sam groaned. "Yeah. You trying too?"
She let out a soft breath. "Yeah." She said as she knocked the sheet off of her face.
"Damn it." Sam said with a groan.
Movement and coughing alerted them that they weren't alone.
"That better be you, Sam,and not that freak of nature." Dean grumbled out.
"Yeah, it's me. Andi's here too." Sam called back to his older brother thankful that he was okay.
Dean was able to uncover himself and started to work on his ropes.
"He went to Rebecca's, looking like you."
"Well, he's not stupid. He picked the handsome one." Dean said with a smirk on his lips.
Andi rolled her eyes at what Dean said.
Sam gave him a confused look.
"Yeah...keep telling yourself that Dean." Andi said wounding the older brother's pride some.
"Yeah, that's the thing." Sam said as he struggled with his ropes. "He didn't just look like you, he was you."
"No, Sam… He was becoming him." Andi said as she tried to work on her ropes. She winced a little bit.
"What do you mean?" Dean asked as he worked his way out of his ropes.
"I don't know, it was like he was downloading your thoughts and memories."
"You mean like a Vulcan mind meld?"
"Yeah, something like that. I mean, maybe that's why he doesn't just kill us."
Dean got up and walked over to Sam first. "Maybe he needs to keep us alive. Psychic connection." He said as he untied Sam.
"Hands. Yeah. Come on, we gotta go. He's probably at Rebecca's already."
Andi finally got free of her binds standing up rubbing her wrists. "And we can only hope that he hasn't tried to harm her."
Sam nodded his head.
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The three of them climbed out a window and out onto the street.
"Come on. We gotta find a phone, call the police." Sam said starting to walk quickly.
Dean grabbed his arm. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna put an APB out on me."
Sam shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry."
"This way." Dean said jerking his head.
The three of them ran down the road.
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Andi, Sam, and Dean stood in front of a store watching a news report being shown on one of the 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."
A sketch appeared of Dean on the screen.
"Man!" Dean groaned. "That's not even a good picture."
Sam looked around cautiously.
Andi grabbed Dean's arm. "It's bloody good enough."
Sam nodded his head in agreement.
"Man!" Dean followed the two younger hunters complaining along the way.
The three of them walked down an alley.
Dean stepped into a puddle.
"Come on. They said attempted murder. At least we know…" Sam began.
"I didn't kill her." Dean said cutting his brother off.
"We'll check with Rebecca in the morning, see if she's alright."
"Alright, but first I wanna find that handsome devil and kick the holy crap out of him."
Andi stopped walking causing the two brothers to stop walking. She turned and looked at Dean. "We have no weapons and no silver bullets. How do you plan on doing that?"
"Andi, the guy's walking around with my face, okay, it's a little personal, I wanna find him." Dean said in agitation looking at her.
Andi let out a sigh running a hand through her hair wincing a little bit.
"Okay." Sam said softly with a nod of his head. "Where do we look?"
"Well, we could start with the sewers."
"We have no weapons. He stole our guns, we need more."
"The car?" Andi asked looking at the brothers.
"I'm betting he drove over to Rebecca's." Dean said rubbing his mouth.
"The news said he fled on foot. I bet it's still parked there."
"The thought of him driving my car." Dean said in agitation.
"Come on." Andi said scoffing a little bit.
"It's killing me."
"Let it go." Sam said rolling his eyes.
"Could he be much of a drama queen?" Andi asked Sam as they walked.
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The three of them walked around the side of Rebecca's house and saw the Impala parked.
"Oh,there she is." Dean said relieved.
Andi scoffed looking at Sam. "You would think that he is talking about a woman."
"Finally something went right tonight."
A police car appeared and parked next to Dean's car.
"Oh, crap."
They turned but another police car is parked a few yards away.
"Shite." Andi groaned "Come on this way." She said as she went towards the fence.
"You two go."
"What?" Andi said turning towards Sam with wide eyes.
"I'll hold them off."
"What are you talking about? They'll catch you." Dean said to Sam.
"Look, they can't hold me. Just go, keep out of sight. Make sure that he keeps out of sight."
Andi nodded her head. "I will." She said firmly grasping Dean's arm in her small hand.
"Meet me at Rebecca's."
Andi climbed over the fence and Dean followed her.
"Dean."
Dean stopped and turned around.
"Stay out of the sewers alone."
Dean said nothing and hopped over the fence.
"I mean it!"
"Yeah , yeah!"
"Don't move! Keep your hands where I can see them!"
Andi pulled Dean along with her. "You're gonna do as he says." She ordered as she moved quickly with him.
"What do you mean?" Dean asked looking at her.
"You're doing exactly as he said. You are not going to go into the sewers."
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going in."
"Andi."
She smacked him on the arm. "I'm saying that I'm going into the sewers and you're staying out of sight. I mean it. Don't make me tie you up to make sure that you don't go into the sewers."
Dean let out a soft sigh. "How are you going to deal…"
"Don't worry about me alright?" Andi said looking at him dead in the eyes.
"If you're gone too long."
"Don't you dare look for me alright?"
"I will look for you and that's final. We don't need you missing if that shifter finds you."
Andi took a breath. "Alright. Come looking for me in a few hours alright."
Dean nodded his head.
"Stay out of sight."
Dean groaned. "Alright."
"It won't take me long. I promise. I'm gonna try to find a gun and kill it." She said before she departed from the older brother.
Dean took a breath hoping that the young woman would be alright. His dad would really have his head if she would get hurt. Well, him and Sammy's head.
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Andi sat with Sam enjoying a beer with Rebecca.
"That thing that was in the form of my brother." Sam began looking at Rebecca. "It wasn't Dean."
Rebecca rubbed her arms nervously looking at Sam and Andi. "What was it then?"
"A shapeshifter." Sam said looking up at her.
Andi nodded her head as she got up finishing the last of her beer moving towards the window looking out it.
"Dangerous. Dean, Andi, and I know that is what killed Zack's girlfriend… and there was another almost murder not too far from Zack's home."
Rebecca nodded her head pursing her lips together. "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?" She asked as she put a new beer in front of Sam.
"Crazy huh?" Andi said turning around looking at Rebecca.
"Thanks." Sam said softly. He let out a soft sigh rubbing his mouth. "Silver bullet to the heart."
Rebecca chuckled lightly. "You are crazy."
"Crazy huh?" Andi said as she hit Rebecca over the head with her empty beer bottle quickly catching the bottle that Rebecca had picked up off of the table that was Sam's.
"Andi what the hell did you do?" Sam said getting up to his feet.
"Awe poor Sam." Andi said tapping the side of her head her eyes glinting silver revealing that she was the shifter.
"What did you do to Andi?" Sam questioned his heart clenching in his chest. He was shocked that Andi would go down to the sewers alone when he had told Dean not to do so.
"Oh her? Funny thing?" The shifter said laughing. "She went into the sewer alone looking for me. Didn't take much to overpower her. Turned into her and met you here." The shifter hit Sam with the beer bottle against the side of the head.
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Dean walked through the sewers looking around flashing his flashlight around. He heard a groan coming from another area of the sewer and he moved quickly into the other part of the sewer. He saw a white sheet covering something. He removed it and gasped. "Andi."
Andi looked up at Dean with hooded eyes. The side of her head was bleeding from where the shifter had hit her. "Hey Dean." She said softly.
"What the hell happened to you?" He asked as he began to untie her ropes.
"The damn thing jumped me. He got me good. He morphed into me. Oh god… Rebecca. It was going to Rebecca's house."
"Shit. Sam was going to Rebecca's house."
"I know. Can you walk?" Dean asked looking her over.
Andi nodded her head. "Yeah. I can." She said softly getting up to her feet. "I just hope we aren't too late."
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The shifter finished tying Sam's feet and hands up. They walked around the kitchen still in Andi's skin.
"What are you going to do to me?" Sam asked looking at the shapeshifter that still looked so much like his best friend.
"Oh, I'm not gonna do anything. Not in this form anyways. Wouldn't dream of pinning it on this girl." The shifter said laughing. "But Dean will, though."
"They'll never catch him." Sam said shaking his head.
"Oh, doesn't matter." The shifter said leaning in close to Sam with a smile. "Murder in the first of his own brother? He'll be hunted for the rest of his life." The shifter picked up a sharp knife examining it. "Then I'll run around in this sweet girl's form for a while."
"You won't get away with this." Sam said with narrowed eyes.
"Oh, but I will. You see… I've started to download this sweet girl's memories. Memories of her childhood with you." The shifter laughed lightly. "And she certainly has some precious thoughts about you Sam. Thoughts that she won't say out loud."
Sam's eyes went wide when he heard that.
"Oh pity that you'll never find out what she thinks."
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"Sam's fighting him." Andi said in a soft whisper trying her best not to alert the shifter who was fighting Sam. "Shite. He's choking the life out of him." She held Rebecca back. They had found her tied up in a different room.
"Hey!" Dean yelled before firing his gun killing the shifter.
Andi moved quickly towards Sam helping him off of the ground.
Dean walked over to the shifter and pulled his necklace off of him. He slipped it back on around his neck.
Rebecca ran over to Sam. "Sam!"
Dean looked over at the three of them nodding knowingly to them.
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Andi leaned against the car smoking a cigarette and her head bandaged while Dean was looking at a map. She looked up as Sam and Rebecca came out of her house.
"So, this is what you do? You, your friend, and your brother… you hunt down these kind of things?" Rebecca asked looking at Sam.
Sam scratched the side of his face, letting out a soft sigh. "Yeah, pretty much."
"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?"
"No." Sam said shaking his head.
"Did Jessica know?"
Sam looked thoughtful. "No, she didn't."
"Must be lonely." Rebecca said softly.
"Oh, no. No, it's not so bad." Sam said softly. "Anyway, what can I do? It's my family."
She laughed lightly. "Well, you know, Zack and me, and everybody at school… we really miss you." She hugged him.
"Yeah, me too." Sam said sadly as he pulled away from her.
"Well, will you call sometime?" Rebecca asked softly looking at him.
"It might not be for a little while."
Rebecca nodded her head and waved to Andi and Dean.
Dean and Andi waved back as Rebecca went back inside of the house.
Sam walked over to them.
"So, you're friend Zack…" Andi said taking a drag of her cigarette looking up at him turning her head releasing the smoke from her lungs. "Any word on him?" She was hoping that there was a good word on Zack like he was coming home.
"Cops are blaming this Dean Winchester guy from Emily's murder. They found the murder weapon in the guy's lair. Zack's clothes stained with her blood. Now they're thinking maybe the surveillance tape was tampered with. Yeah, Becca says Zack will be released soon." Sam said with a smile.
Dean rolled his eyes as he got into the car.
Andi chuckled lightly as she dropped her cigarette on the ground stomping it out with her foot before she got into the car.
Sam shook his head and got into the car.
Dean started the car up and started down the road. "Sorry, man."
Sam looked at his brother in confusion. "About what?"
Andi blinked a few times. Dean was apologizing for something. Now that was something new.
"I really wish things could be different, you know? I wish you could just be… Joe College." Dean admitted as he gripped the steering wheel as he drove down the road.
"No, that's okay." He said softly looking over at his brother. "You know, the truth is, even at Stanford, deep down, I never really fit in." He rubbed the back of his neck.
"Well, that's 'cause you're a freak."
"Dean." Andi said looking at the elder brother with wide eyes. "That's not nice to say to your brother."
Sam shook his head. "Yeah, thanks."
"Well, I'm a freak too. I'm right there with ya, all the way."
Sam laughed. "Yeah, I know you are."
Andi chuckled lightly. "Hey I'm right with you too Sam." Andi said offering him a small smile.
"Thanks Andi." He said softly. He was thankful that Andi was willing to stick around on this.
"You know, I gotta say… I'm sorry I'm gonna miss it." Dean said with a chuckle.
"Miss what?" Sam asked in confusion.
"How many chances am I gonna have to see my own funeral."
Sam and Dean smiled at one another.
Andi shook her head. "Your barmy you know that right, Dean?"
Dean laughed as he continued to drive down the road. "Don't you find that the least bit funny Andi?"
Andi laughed lightly before looking out the window. "Not in the least bit Winchester."
Dean rolled his eyes. "You know you are a killjoy Andi."
"Always mean to be sweetheart." Andi said sassily.
Sam began to laugh leaning his head back. But what the shifter had said to him was in the back of his mind. What did Andi feel? That was something that was going to bother him. He knew that he was going to have to talk to her about it. He knew that, but he didn't know how. He was still dealing with Jess's death and well she wasn't going to stick around too much longer. After all she had told him that she would leave after they had found John.
"Sam…" Dean called breaking Sam from his thoughts.
Sam looked at his brother. "Huh?"
Andi looked at Sam and heard the confusion that was laced in his voice. She couldn't help, but wonder why he was confused.
"You alright there? You looked like you were deep in thought." Dean said giving his brother a sideways glance.
"I'm fine Dean."
"You know whatever that shifter said…"
"Dean… it's fine…" Sam said looking over at Dean with a small smile. "He just said something that I'm thinking about. It's nothing major okay?"
"Alright man. But whenever you need to talk…"
"I know man. I'll let you know."
Andi bit her lower lip wondering what the shifter might had told Sam. It could've been anything and the thought of that scared her.
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This is the end of Chapter 6 of See You Again. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. Please leave a review and I'll update soon with Chapter 7. What do you guys think of Andi? I am kind of enjoying writing her character. And I hope that you guys are enjoying her character as well. I'm trying to keep all my characters different and unique to the series that they are in. Let me know who you would like to see Andi with. Until next time guys.