Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 8 of See You Again. Thank you to all of those who have left reviews for this story. It really does mean a lot to me. I hope that you guys will like this next part. Without further ado Chapter 8 of See You Again.
Chapter 8
What's Going on at the Plains
Andi relaxed in the front seat passenger of the Impala with the door open reading a book while Sam was reading an article in the newspaper sitting on the impala hood and Dean was in a bar probably hustling some pool. She turned the page in her book letting out a soft sigh. "You know, he's probably hustling you know that right?" She questioned knowing that the older brother really had no concerns of having a real legal job. She knew that the boys weren't as lucky as her to be getting money from her mother, but she wouldn't touch it not with the strained relationship that she had with her own mother. Of course she really couldn't tell the boys about it. She didn't want them to worry about her or why her mother wanted her to drag her back to England.
Sam pursed his lips and let out a sigh. "Yeah, I wish we could do something legal and get a day job." He rubbed the palms of his hands against his eyes some letting out a breath.
Andi chuckled lightly. "You know a day job isn't an easy thing. Dean hasn't really worked a day in his life and probably won't start now." Andi said shaking her head realizing how true her statement was.
Sam chuckled lightly. "Yeah that's probably very true." Sam put the paper down on his lap and turned slightly looking back at her. "Can I ask you something Andi?"
Andi blinked a few times in confusion that was something that she wasn't expecting out of Sam. She put the book that she held in her hands down on her lap. She looked up at him with curious cognac eyes her eyebrows furrowed together wondering what Sam could ask her. "What did you want to ask Sam?"
Sam rubbed his mouth trying to figure out how to ask her this question. He was just curious of what she did before coming back here. After all she had been gone for ten years. "Did you have a job? A day job I mean?" He asked curiously. He hardly knew anything about this adult version of Andi only catching glimpses of the young Andi that he remembered fondly. He couldn't help but wonder what made her change and come back into this life when he thought that she would have been happy overseas in England with her mother.
"Wow…" Andi chuckled lightly. "I wasn't expecting that question." She rubbed her pale pink lips. A small smile came to them. "But yeah I did hold down a job. I was a bartender for a little while in a pub in London. Before that I worked at a cafe as a barista." She admitted telling him the truth of what jobs she held down, but she couldn't tell him much more than that. Of what else she did while she was overseas. Even just thinking about it made her skin crawl of how much had happened over there and she no longer wanted a part of that world.
"Wow… I never thought I would see you as a bartender." Sam said giving her a smile showing his dimples. He couldn't really see Andi as a bartender, but she had grown up and Sam couldn't help, but admit that she had grown into a beautiful young woman who he cared deeply for as they grew up.
Andi chuckled. "Why? Is that so hard to believe?" She asked as she put her book down onto the seat and leaned against the door looking at him with a questioning gaze.
"I don't see you being a bartender. You don't seem like someone who would um…" He trailed off not knowing how to finish the sentence off without offending her.
"What want the clientele to hit on me?" Andi said with a laugh. "Bloody hell no. I never let that happen." Andi looked up and saw Dean coming out of the bar. She let out a soft sigh. "Looks like he's done." She said jerking her head towards the stairs that led into the bar.
Dean was laughing waving a wad of cash in the air coming down the stairs.
"You know, we could get day jobs once and awhile." Sam said looking at his older brother shaking his head.
Andi got out of the car shaking her head knowing that was true. But she also knew that jobs would be hard to come by since they would have to use fake names to get them unless they didn't tarnish their names too badly.
"Hunting's our day job. And the pay is crap." Dean said scoffing a bit.
"Yeah, but hustling pool? Credit card scams? It's not the most honest thing in the world, Dean."
"Well, let's be honest." Dean held out one hand. "Fun and easy." He held out his other hand and gestures that fun and easy outweighs honest. "It's no contest. Besides, we're good at it. It's what we were raised to do."
"Yeah, well, how we were raised was jacked." Sam said rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, says you. We got a new gig or what?" Dean asked looking at his brother.
"Maybe."
Andi looked at Sam as she picked her book up. "Maybe?" Andi asked, raising her eyebrows. She never did like the sound of maybe about a case. It was cut and dry usually if there was a case or not. But it looked like it seemed to bother Sam quite a bit and anything was better than nothing. They needed to continue on their hunt for John so she could give him a piece of her mind for leaving her behind because she wasn't about to be treated like luggage by John to be left behind and forgotten. Not after he had brought her there with promises of helping her get revenge on the thing that had killed her hunter father. And she would do anything to find the killer and get justice for her father.
"Oasis Plains, Oklahoma." Sam said as he got off of the hood of the car. "Not far from here. A gas company employee, Dustin Burwash, supposedly died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob."
"Huh?" Dean asked in confusion.
Andi rolled her eyes shaking her head at Dean's confusion. "Human mad cow disease." Andi said looking at Dean. She couldn't believe that he didn't keep up on health things in the world.
"Mad cow." He pursed his lips together thinking for a second. "Wasn't that on Oprah?"
Sam looked at on his brother in confusion. "You watch Oprah?"
Dean looked slightly embarrassed and couldn't figure out anything to say. "So this guy eats a bad burger. Why is it our kind of thing?"
Andi shook her head before looking over at Sam. "Yeah. Why would it be our kind of thing?" She asked curiously.
"Mad cow disease causes massive brain degeneration. It takes months, even years, for damage to appear. But this guy, Dustin? Sounds like his brain disintegrated in about an hour. Maybe less."
"Alright… I will have to admit that is a bit odd." Andi said with a nod of her head. She couldn't ever remembering anything like that. It sounded like something that they at least needed to check out and hopefully no one else would end up getting hurt in the process.
"Yeah. Now, it could be a disease. Or it could be something much nastier." Sam said looking at them.
"Alright." Dean said agreeing with his brother. "Oklahoma."
The three of them got into the car.
"Man. Work, work, work. Not time to spend my money." Dean complained as he started the Impala up and backing out of the parking lot and down the road.
Andi rolled her eyes. "And you're going to complain about a job really?" Andi said looking at the older brother. "That's not like you, Dean."
"I want to have a break every so often, sweetheart and be able to spend some money."
Andi shook her head and looked out the window. "That you hustled from pool alright. Makes perfect sense."
SPNSPN
Dean, Sam, and Andi got out of the car and approached Travis.
"Travis Weaver?" Andi asked her accent was soft causing the man that she called for to turn around looking in confusion.
"Yeah, that's right." He said looking at her with his brows furrowed.
"Are you the Travis who worked with Uncle Dusty?" Dean questioned curiously falling into the role of curious nephew.
"Dustin never mentioned nephews or a British niece." Travis said looking at Andi in confusion.
"Oh…" Andi rubbed the back of her head. "I'm not his niece. I'm…" She trailed off, unsure of what to say to this guy of who she was.
Dean pushed her towards Sam. "She's with him."
Andi's cheeks flushed in embarrassment. She was going to kill him for this later or yell at him for this later as Sam's arm wrapped around her. She couldn't believe Dean was going to be this stupid in playing off her as Sam's girlfriend.
"Well, he sure mentioned you. He said you were the greatest." Dean said with a smile covering up the fact that they were lying to this man just trying to get information out of him and trying to figure out what had happened to him.
"Yeah." Sam said with a nod of his head.
Andi pursed her lips together and nodded her head slowly forcing a smile onto her lips.
"Oh, he did? Huh?" Travis said with a smile.
"Listen, we wanted to ask you… what exactly happened out there?" Dean asked as he crossed his arms. Maybe Travis knew something that he hadn't told the cops.
"I'm not sure." Travis admitted to the three of them. "He fell into a sinkhole, I went to the truck to get some rope, and, uh… by the time I got back…"
"What did you see?"
"Nothing. Just Dustin."
"No wounds or anything?" Andi asked curious as Sam rubbed her side made it look like she was his girlfriend. A shiver went down her spine kind of enjoying the feeling of having someone that close to her doing that. It was something that she hadn't had done in a long while.
"Well, he was bleeding… from his eyes and his ears, his nose. But that's it."
"So you think it could be this whole mad cow thing?" Dean asked looking at Travis.
"I don't know." Travis said shaking his head. "That's what the doctors are saying."
"But if it was, he would've acted strange beforehand, like dementia, loss of motor control. You ever notice anything like that?"
"No. No way. But then again, if it wasn't some disease, what the hell was it?"
"That's a good question." Dean said putting his hands on his hips thinking.
Andi pursed her lips together. Indeed that was a good question. Something was definitely going on here. But what was it? Could it be a sign that something was going to happen and it was going to be something much worse. Her mind reeled at the thoughts of what could be going on.
"You know, can you tell us where this happened?" Sam asked softly hoping that Travis would be willing to show them where this had happened.
"Yeah." Travis said with a nod of his head.
SPNSPN
The three of them arrived at the scene where the sinkhole was surrounded by police tape.
Andi pursed her lips together as she looked around. Her heart raced at the thought of what they could find.
"Huh. What do you think?" Dean asked looking at his brother.
Andi carefully bent down and crawled under the police tape.
"I don't know." Sam admitted as he looked around. "But if that guy, Travis, was right, it happened pretty damn fast."
The two of them ducked under the police tape.
Andi shined her light into the hole pursing her lips together in thought as she tried to look down the hole not seeing much of anything.
"So, what? Some sort of creature chewed on his brain?" Dean questioned them.
"No, there'd be an entry wound." Sam said shaking his head. "Sounds like this thing worked from the inside."
"Huh. Looks like there's only room for one." Dean said looking down the hole that was in the ground. "You wanna flip a coin."
Andi looked at Dean with narrowed cognac eyes. "You seriously are saying that right now after that stunt that you pulled back there."
"Dean." Sam said giving his brother a warning tone. "We have no idea what's down there."
Dean went and grabbed a coil of rope. "Alright, I'll go if you two are too scared to go down. Besides I wouldn't want little Andi to freak out."
Andi rolled her eyes. "Dean I'm not some girl that is scared of the dark."
"Flip the damn coin." Sam said rolling his eyes.
"How about no." Andi said as she grabbed one end of the rope.
Dean's eyes widened as he watched her tying it around her waist.
"Andi." Sam said looking at her with wide hazel eyes.
"Come on you two grow the bloody hell up. I'm not some little girl alright? I'm not afraid of the dark alright? Never have been alright? Now as long as their ain't nothin that ain't going to sting me down there we're going to be good alright?" She said as she continued to tie the rope around her waist. "Plus you two aren't exactly light. I'm the lightest of the three of us agreed?" She snapped looking at the two of them. She knew that she was the lightest out of the three of them due to her thin frame. She knew that if one of the boys went down she wouldn't be much of a help to get them back up to the surface.
Dean and Sam couldn't help, but agree to what she said.
"And plus the smallest. It'll be easiest for me to go down. So we done bickering about this? I'm doing this. Now the only thing I ask you is don't bloody drop me alright?"
"You got it." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"And we will talk about that little stunt that you pulled earlier Dean." Andi said with narrowed eyes.
Dean swallowed the lump in his throat as they lowered Andi into the sinkhole.
"I think she's pissed at you for shoving her into me and making her and me boyfriend girlfriend and boyfriend." Sam said looking at him.
"I didn't think that she would be." Dean said looking at his brother with a slightly worried look.
"Well, she's not like you or me Dean. She's never shown interest in anyone." Sam said softly looking down in the sinkhole. He knew that Andi didn't show much of an interest in anyone. Not really at least she didn't show it on her sleeve.
SPNSPN
Dean drove down the road while Sam examined the dead beetle in his hand that Andi had brought up out of the sinkhole.
"So Andi found some beetles. In a hole in the ground. That's shocking, by the way Andi." Dean said scoffing a bit.
Andi rolled her eyes. "That's not the point Dean." Andi said leaning up between the boys resting on the back of the seat. "There were no tunnels, no tracks. There was no evidence of any other kind of creature down there. You know, some beetles do eat meat. It's usually dead meat."
"How many did you find down there?"
"Ten." Andi said resting her head on her arm letting out a soft sigh.
"It'd take a whole lot more than that to eat some dude's brain." Dean said rubbing his mouth.
"Well, maybe there were more." Sam said thinking.
"I don't know, it sounds like a stretch to me."
"Well, we need more information on the area, the neighborhood. Whether something like this has ever happened before." Dean said thinking as he drove down the road.
Andi let out a soft sigh leaning back against her seat. "Yeah maybe you're right about that. But it's a long ways away to the library." Andi said as she crossed her arms, letting out a soft breath.
They passed a sign for an open house, that was decorated with red balloons.
"What?" Sam asked looking at his brother.
"I know a good place to start." Dean said looking at his brother with a small smile.
Andi looked at Dean confusion was written across her face. "What the hell are you talking about Dean?"
"I'm kinda hungry for a little barbeque, how about you?"
Sam gave his brother a knowing look.
"What, we can't talk to the locals?" Dean asked defending himself.
"And the free food's got nothing to do with it?" Sam asked looking at his brother with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course not. I'm a professional."
"Right."
"Of course you are." Andi said rolling her eyes. "If you're a professional we wouldn't be stopping at a barbeque."
Dean pulled the car over and killed the engine to the Impala.
The three of them got out of the car and began to walk down the road towards the open house.
"Growing up in a place like this would freak me out." Dean said as he looked around at the neighborhood.
"Why?" Sam asked as he looked around. He didn't see anything wrong with the neighborhood.
"Well, manicured lawns, 'How was your day, honey?' I'd blow my brains out." Dean complained as they walked.
"That's normal Dean." Andi said as she walked. "Kind of think of it this is the style of house mum and I lived in when we were in the suburbs of London." She shrugged her shoulders thinking that it was fairly normal, but the boys didn't know that she had pretty much lived a normal life.
"What?" Dean asked in confusion as he looked over at her. That was the first time that he had heard her talking about her time in London and her home life. She actually had a normal home life after she had left them. "You had a normal life after you left us."
"I wouldn't have called it normal Dean. Not really." Andi said softly as she walked ahead. She wasn't about to admit of what happened while she lived a normal life. She didn't deem it was a normal life for her whatsoever.
"There's nothing wrong with normal." Sam said looking at his brother.
"I'd take our family over normal any day." Dean said looking at his brother as they walked up to the house and knocked on the door.
Larry Pike, the homeowner, opened the door with a smile on his face. "Welcome."
"This the barbeque?" Dean asked looking up at Larry.
"Yeah, not the best weather, but… I'm Larry Pike, the developer here. And you are?"
"Dean. This is Sam and Andi." Dean said introducing them as he shook hands with Larry.
"Sam, Dean, Andi, good to meet you. So, you three are interested in Oasis Plains?"
"Yes, sir." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"Let me just say… we accept homeowners of any race, religion, color, or… sexual orientation." He said looking at Sam and Dean.
Andi pursed her lips together shaking her head. "They're brothers."
Larry cleared his throat realizing his mistake.
"Our father is getting on in years, and we're just looking for a place for him." Sam said looking at Larry.
"Great, great. Well, seniors are welcome, too. Come on in." He said as he led them to the back yard.
Andi shook her head lightly following Larry. "I can't believe that he thought that you two were gay. But then again…" Andi said as she began to think.
"What Andi…" Dean asked looking at her.
"Never mind." Andi said with a smile.
Dean groaned as they walked.
"You said you were the developer." Sam asked looking at Larry.
"Eighteen months ago, I was walking this valley with my survey team. There was nothing here but scrub brush and squirrels. And you know what, we built such a nice place to live that I actually bought into it myself. This is our house. We're the first family in Oasis Plains."
They walked over to his wife.
"This is my wife, Joanie."
"Hi there." Joanie said with a smile.
"Hi." Dean said as he shook her hand.
"Hi, nice to meet you."
"Sam and Dean and Andi."
"Sam." Sam said shaking her hand.
"Pleasure."
"Andi." Andi said with a small wave of her hand.
"Tell them how much you love the place, honey. And lie if you have to because I need to sell some houses." Larry said to his wife.
"Right."
They laugh.
"Will you excuse me." Larry said to the three of them before leaving.
"Don't let his salesman routine scare you. This really is a great place to live." Joanie said with a smile.
Lynda Bloome walked up to them with a smile on her face. "Hi, I'm Lynda Bloome, head of sales."
"And Lynda was the second to move in. She's a very noisy neighbor, though." Joanie said before leaving the three of them with Lynda.
Andi blinked a few times in confusion. Andi pursed her lips together feeling slightly uncomfortable standing there with this happy energetic woman.
Lynda laughed lightly. "She's kidding, of course. I take it you three are interested in becoming homeowners."
"Well…" Dean began looking over at his brother and best friend.
"Y-yeah, well…" Sam tried to finish his brother's sentence.
Andi remained silent beside the two boys.
"Well, let me just say that we accept homeowners of any race, religion, color, or… sexual orientation."
Dean chuckled. "Right. Um… I'm gonna go talk to Larry. Okay, honey." Dean turned and smacked Sam on his ass before walking away.
Andi let out a soft sigh pinching the bridge of her nose. "Then he wonders why people think that the two of you are gay."
Sam looked at her.
"What they aren't together?" Lynda asked looking at her.
"No, they're brothers." Andi said looking at Lynda.
"And why do people think we're gay."
"Dean has a butch sense to him." Andi said looking at Sam. "I wouldn't tell him that though." She rolled her eyes. "You can tell him later if you want. But don't you tell him you heard it from me."
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Lynda had been busy chatting Andi and Sam's ears off talking about the houses here in Oasis Plains. "Who can say 'no' to a steam shower? I use mine everyday."
Andi leaned against Sam uninterested in what she was talking about.
"Sounds great." Sam said uninterested as well.
Lynda hadn't noticed that the two of them weren't interested in what she was talking about and she kept right on talking about the houses.
Andi elbowed Sam in the ribs lightly when she noticed something crawling towards Lynda's hand.
Sam saw it as well. "Excuse me." He said pushing Lynda out of the way and carefully pushed the spider into his hand.
Andi slowly followed behind Sam. "Sorry." Andi said as she walked past Lynda following Sam to Matt.
"Is this yours?" Sam asked looking at Matt.
Matt took the spider from Sam. "You gonna tell my dad?" He asked looking at the two of them.
"I don't know. Who's your dad?" Sam asked putting his hands into his pockets.
Matt scoffed. "Yeah, Larry usually skips me in the family introductions."
"Ouch." Andi said wincing when she heard Matt calling his dad by his first name.
"First name basis with the old man… sounds pretty grim." Sam said looking at Matt with a sad look. He kind of knew the feeling. It was kind of what he went through with John.
"Well, I'm not exactly brochure material."
"Well, hang in there. It gets better, alright? I promise."
"When?"
"Matthew."
The three of them turned seeing Larry and Dean walking towards them.
"I'm so sorry about my son and his… pet."
"It's no bother." Sam said excusing the fact that Matt had a spider in his hands.
"Excuse us." Larry said as he walked away with Matt.
"Remind you of somebody?"
Dean looked over at Larry who is now yelling at Larry.
Andi looked down sadly as a few memories flashed through her mind. She knew what it felt like with her mother and she had some idea of John before she left of how he treated Sam and Dean like soldiers.
Dean looked at Sam in confusion.
"Dad?"
"Dad never treated us like that."
"Well, Dad never treated you like that. You were perfect. He was all over my case. You don't remember." Sam said shaking his head.
"Well, maybe he had to raise his voice, but sometimes you were out of line." Dean admitted looking at his brother.
Sam scoffed a bit. "Right. Right, like when I said I'd rather play soccer than learn bowhunting."
"Bowhunting is an important skill." Dean defended himself.
Sam rolled his eyes. "Whatever. How was your tour?"
"Oh, it was excellent. I'm ready to buy."
Sam laughed.
"So you might be into something. Both of you." Dean noticed that something was wrong. Andi hadn't said much of anything. He looked over and saw that he was looking down and deep in thought. He snapped his fingers in front of her face causing her to jump and look up with wide eyes.
Sam looked over at her in concern seeing her wide eyed look. "Hey, are you okay Andi?" He asked softly.
"Yeah. I'm fine." She lied softly rubbing the back of her neck.
"You've been quiet since you saw Larry yelling at Matt. You sure?" Sam asked softly looking at her concerned.
Andi nodded her head. "Yeah."
Dean nodded his head. "Alright. This is what I found out. Looks like Dustin Burwash wasn't the first strange death around here."
Andi blinked a few times. "What happened?"
"About a year ago, before they broke ground, one of Larry's surveyors dropped dead while on the job. Get this severe allergic reaction to bee stings."
"Well that's not unheard of." Andi pointed out. "I'm allergic to bees, but not that bad." She admitted as she rubbed her arm shyly. The boys didn't know that she was allergic to bees. But she said as long as she didn't get stung she would be fine.
"More bugs." Sam murmured thinking.
"More bugs." Dean said with a nod of his head.
Now this case was getting weirder and weirder.
SPNSPN
Sam was driving the Impala this time while Dean looked through John's journal.
Andi pursed her lips together. "This case is getting too strange."
"I have to agree there. You know, I've heard of killer bees, but killer beetles? What is it that could make different bugs attack?" Dean questioned as he flipped through the journal.
"Well, hauntings sometimes include bug manifestations." Sam said as he gripped the steering wheel as he drove.
"Yeah, but I didn't see any evidence of ghost activity."
"Yeah, me neither."
"Same here." Andi said running a hand through her hair letting out a breath. This case was just getting weirder and weirder. There was just no way of knowing what was going to come their way next with this case, and that was worrisome.
"Maybe they're being controlled somehow. You know, by something or someone." Dean said leaning back in the seat.
"You mean, like Willard?"
"Yeah, bugs instead of rats." Dean said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"There are cases of psychic connections between people and animals- elementals, telepaths." Sam explained.
"Yeah, that whole Timmy-Lassie thing." Dean thought for a second. "Larry's kid… he's got bugs for pets."
"Matt?" Andi asked leaning forward.
"Yeah." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"He did try to scare the realtor with a tarantula." Sam said thinking back to when Andi had elbowed him back at the barbeque.
"You think he's our Willard?" Dean asked looking at them.
"I don't know. Anything's possible, I guess." Sam said thinking.
"Ooh, hey. Pull over here." Dean said smacking Sam's arm lightly.
Sam pulled into an empty driveway of one of the Oasis Plains home. "What are we doing here?" He asked looking at his brother in confusion.
Dean got out of the car. "It's too late to talk to anybody else."
"We're gonna squat in an empty house?" Andi asked looking at Dean with wide eyes.
"I wanna try the steam shower. Come on."
Sam doesn't move the car.
"Come on!"
Sam let out a sigh and reluctantly moved the car into the garage.
Dean quickly closed it.
SPNSPN
Andi sat in the living room of the house that they were squatting in the night before. They had heard a call over the police scanner and now they really needed to get Dean out of the shower. "You should get him out of the shower. That call on the police scanner coming through… we need to figure out what's going on."
Sam nodded his head. "Alright. I'll see what I can do." He said getting up off of the floor stretching out.
Andi rubbed under her eyes tiredly.
"You didn't get much sleep did you?" Sam questioned looking at her.
"Not really. I mean sleeping on a hardwood floor you wouldn't either." Andi said rubbing her back lightly. It was true they had slept on the hardwood floor and it was kind of hard to sleep on that was for sure.
Sam knew exactly what she meant by that. "I'll go and check on him alright."
"Hopefully it won't take him too long."
SPNSPN
Dean pulled the Impala up outside of Lynda's home and the three of them got out of the car.
The three of them approached Larry slowly.
"Hello." He said looking at the three of them. "You're, uh, back early."
"Yeah, we just drove in, wanted to take another look at the neighborhood." Dean said looking around putting his hands in his pockets.
"What's going on?" Sam asked curiously.
"You guys met, uh… Lynda Bloome at the barbecue?" Larry said looking at them.
"The relator." Sam said with a nod of his head.
"Well, she, uh… passed away last night."
The three of them looked at one another in shock. Now that was something that they weren't expecting.
"What happened?" Dean asked looking at Larry.
"I'm still trying to find out. Identified the body for the police. Look, I-I'm sorry, this isn't a good time right now."
"It's okay." Sam said softly.
"Excuse me." Larry said leaving the three of them.
"You know what we have to do, right?" Dean said looking at them.
"Yeah. Get in that house." Sam said pursing his lips together.
"See if we got a bug problem."
"Sounds like we're gonna have some fun trying to climb in." Andi said with a sigh.
The three of them walked around getting a bit away and climbed over the fence. They made their way up the side of the side of the and in through the window easily without being seen.
"And why do you guys insist on having me climb through windows?" Andi said looking at them with narrowed eyes. "I hate climbing through windows."
They saw the outline of her dead body drawn on the carpet.
"This looks like the place." Dean said looking around.
They walked over to another part of the room.
Dean picked up the towel and dropped it when he saw it was covered in dead spiders. "Spiders. From Spider Boy?"
"Matt… maybe." Sam said softly.
"Now that." Andi said looking at the dead spiders. "Is something new."
SPNSPN
Dean pulls up to a curb and across the street the bus is there.
The three of them see Matt get off of the bus and he is walking the opposite direction of his home.
"Isn't his house that way?" Dean questioned looking back towards the direction of his house.
"Yup."
"So where the bloody hell is he going?" Andi asked in confusion. Now that was something new and something that they needed to follow up on.
The three of them got out of the car and followed Matt into the woods. They found him examining a grasshopper.
Andi stuck her hands in her pockets pursing her lips together.
"Hey, Matt. Remember me?" Sam said looking at Matt.
"What are you doing out here?" Matt asked turning looking at them in confusion.
"Well, we wanna talk to you." Dean said as he stuck his hands into his pockets.
"You're not here to buy a house, are you?"
Dean shook his head.
"W-wait. You're not serial killers?"
The three of them laugh at that.
"Oh bloody hell that's a good one." Andi said with a smile.
"No, no. No, I think you're safe." Sam said looking at Matt with a small smile.
"So, Matt… you sure know a lot about insects." Dean said looking at him.
"So?" Matt said looking at them.
"Did you hear what happened to Lynda, the realtor?"
"I hear she died this morning."
"Mm, that's right. Spider bites." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"Matt… you tried to scare her with a spider." Sam said looking at Matt.
"Wait. You think I had something to do with that?" Matt said looking at them in shock.
Andi crossed her arms looking at Matt with a concerned look on her face. "You tell us."
"That tarantula was a joke." Matt said looking at her. "Anyway, that wouldn't explain the bee attack or the gas company guy."
"You know about those?" Sam asked looking at Matt softly. He wasn't sure if Matt had known about those.
"There is something going on here. I don't know what… but something's happening with the insects. Let me show you something." Matt said as he picked up his backpack and began to walk leading them to another area.
The three hunters followed Matt.
"So, if you knew about all this bug stuff, why not tell your dad? Maybe he could clear everybody out." Sam said as they walked.
"Believe me, I've tried. But, uh, Larry doesn't listen to me."
"Why not?" Andi asked as she walked carefully not to step in any holes or trip over any sticks.
"Mostly? He's too disappointed in his freak son."
Sam scoffed lightly. "I hear you."
"I can understand." Andi said softly.
Dean looked at the two of them. "You do?"
They gave him a look.
Sam looked at Matt. "Matt, how old are you?"
"Sixteen."
"Well, don't sweat it, because in two years, something great's gonna happen." Sam said offering him a small smile.
"What?"
"College. You'll be able to get out of that house and away from your dad."
"What kind of advice is that? Kid should stick with his family." Dean said looking at Sam.
Sam sighed and glared at his brother. "How much further, Matt?"
"We're close." Matt replied as they continued to walk.
Sam glared at Dean once more before he continued walking.
"Advice for a teenager who wants something more in life Dean. I'm away from my family too." Andi said as she walked. "And I hardly talk to my mum."
They stopped at a large clearing and the sounds of hundreds of insects could be heard among the trees.
"I've been keeping track of insect populations. It's, um, part of an AP science class." Matt explained to them.
"You two are like peas in a pod."
Sam ignored what his brother said.
Andi elbowed Dean in the ribs. "And you really need to quit being a tosser."
"What's been happening?" Sam asked looking at Matt.
"A lot. I mean, from bees to earthworms, beetles… you name it. It's like they're congregating here."
"Why?" Dean questioned looking at Matt.
"I don't know."
"What's that?" Sam asked pointing to a dark patch of grass that was a few feet away.
Curious the four of them walked over to the dark patch of grass that was a few feet away from them and discovered that it was covered by worms.
Andi wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Why does it have to be wiggling things." She asked as she moved behind Sam trying to hide the sight of the wiggling earthworms from her line of view.
Dean stepped on some of them and they fell into the ground creating a hole. Dean crouched down grabbing a stick and began to poke around in the hole. Dean hit something with the stick and he looked back at them. "There's something down there."
Andi peaked around Sam. "Could be a root from the trees."
Dean shook his head. "It's harder than that."
Andi's eyes went wide.
Dean put the stick down onto the ground and put his hand inside of the hole.
Andi wrinkled her nose in disgust as he dug around in the hole. She couldn't understand how he was able to feel around when there was earthworms around him.
Dean pulled his hand up out of the hole and what he revealed was something horrifying. A human skull.
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Dean pulled the car outside of the local university.
The three of them got out of the car.
Sam got the box of bones out of the car covering them up with a coat so no one could see inside of the box. "So, a bunch of skeletons in an unmarked grave."
"Yeah. Maybe this is a haunting. Pissed off spirits? Some unfinished business?" Dean asked pursing his lips together in thought.
"Yeah, maybe." Andi said as she put her hand into her back pockets as they walked towards the school.
"Question is, why bugs? And why now?" Sam asked softly.
"That's two questions." Dean said as Sam ignored him. "Yeah, so with that kid back there… why'd you tell him to just ditch his family like that? The both of you?"
"Just, uh… I know what the kid's going through." Sam admitted as they continued to walk.
"How about telling him to respect his old man, how's that for advice?"
"Dean, come on." He said as they stopped in their tracks. "This isn't about his old man. You think I didn't respect Dad. That's what this about."
Andi pursed her lips together looking down at the ground kicking at the stones that were there.
"Just forget it, alright? Sorry I brought it up."
"I respected him. But no matter what I did, it was never good enough."
"So what are you saying? That Dad was disappointed in you?"
"Was? Is. Always has been." Sam admitted looking away.
Andi pursed her lips together looking up at Sam sadly.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because I didn't want to bowhunt or hustle pool… because I wanted to go to school and live my life, which, to our whacked-out family, made me the freak."
"Yeah, you were kind of the blonde chick in The Munsters." Dean said thinking.
"Dean, you know what most dads are when their kids score a full ride? Proud." Sam admitted looking at his brother with tear filled eyes.
Andi put her hand on Sam's shoulder giving it a comforting squeeze.
"Most dads don't toss their kids out of the house."
"I remember that fight. In fact, I seem to recall a few choice phrases coming out of your mouth." Dean said remembering the fight well.
"You know, truth is, when we finally do find Dad… I don't know if he's even gonna wanna see me."
"Sam, Dad was never disappointed in you. Never. He was scared." Dean admitted rubbing the back of his neck.
"What are you talking about?"
"He was afraid of what could've happened if he wasn't around. But even when you two weren't talking… he used to swing by Stanford whenever he could." Dean took the box from his brother. "Keep an eye on you. Make sure you were safe."
"What?" Sam asked confused.
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you tell me any of that."
"Well, it's a two-way street dude. You could've picked up the phone."
Sam stared at him sadly.
"Come on, we're gonna be late for our appointment." He said as he walked away from him.
Andi patted Sam's arm softly. "Dean's right you know."
"Huh?"
Andi smiled a small sad smile. "I didn't know you were in Stanford… John had stopped by once and didn't tell me what was going on…" She rubbed the back of her head. "John really did check on you." She said softly as she walked towards the building.
Sam took a sharp breath and knew that she was telling the truth.
SPNSPN
"So you three are students?" The professor asked looking at them.
"Yeah. Yeah, uh, we're in your class… Anthro 101?" Sam said looking at the professor as he leaned back against one of the long tables that was in the classroom.
"Oh, yeah." The professor said with a nod of his head.
"So, what about the bones, Professor?" Dean asked curiously. He hoped that the professor would be able to tell them something about the bones that they had found.
"This is quite an interesting find you've made. I'd say they're 170 years old, give or take. The timeframe and the geography heavily suggest Native American." The professor said looking at them.
"Were there any tribes or reservations on that land?" Sam asked curiously.
"Not according to the historical record. But the, uh, relocation of native peoples was quite common at that time." The professor admitted to them.
"Right." Andi said with a nod of her head. She had remembered hearing that in her history classes when she was younger. "Are there any local legends? Histories about the area through mouth?"
"Well…" The professor thought about it for a second pursing his lips together, "you know, there's a Euchee tribe in Sapulpa. It's about sixty miles from here. Someone out there might know the truth."
Dean, Sam and Andi shared a look with one another.
"Alright." Dean said with a smile.
"Thanks, Professor." Andi said thanking the professor.
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Dean drove down through Sapulpa after getting directions from someone who knew where they could get the legends from.
"I hope that we can get the answers that we need." Andi said as she twirled her cigarette in her fingertips letting the smoke from her lungs with a soft sigh.
"Well it's an elder that we are going to talk to. He knows the legend. He should know the answer that we are seeking." Sam said turning and looking at her.
Andi pursed her lips together. "I don't think it would be a good idea for me to go in with you." She said shifting around in her seat.
Sam blinked in confusion, he hadn't seen her act like that before. Her shifting around in the backseat like a nervous teenager like she was on her first date or something. "Andi what is it?" Sam asked softly growing a bit concerned with her.
"It's um just some Native Americans that I've met… don't like Brits, that's all." She said rubbing the back of her neck nervously. "Maybe I just should stay behind in the car while you talk to them."
"Andi, we're just asking questions… it's not like they're gonna hold a grudge against you because you're half British." Sam said softly offering her a small smile.
Andi nodded her head slowly. "Okay." She said softly taking a breath and letting it out slowly. "If you really think so."
SPNSPN
The three hunters enter a diner and find an older native american playing cards at a table.
"Joe White Tree?" Sam asked, hoping that they had the right man.
He looked up and nodded his head at them.
"We'd like to ask you a few questions, if that's alright."
"We're students from the university." Dean said putting his hands in his pockets using the facade that he hoped would work.
"No, you're not. You're lying." Joe White Tree said shaking his head looking at Dean.
Dean looked taken aback. He wasn't expecting that someone was going to catch him in a lie that normally worked well for him in the past.
"Well, truth is…"
"You know who starts sentence with 'truth is'? Liars."
Dean looked at Andi and Sam with a look.
Andi let out a soft sigh.
Sam squeezed her shoulder lightly letting her know that she was going to be okay.
"Have you heard of Oasis Plains?" She asked softly.
"It's a housing development near the Atoka Valley." Sam finished looking at Joe White Tree hoping that he knew what they were talking about.
"I like them. They're not liars."
Dean looked over at the two of them upset.
"I know the area." He said with a nod of his head.
"What can you tell us about the history there?" Sam asked curiously, hoping that they could get some sort of information that would help them out.
"Why do you wanna know?"
"Something bad is happening in Oasis Plains." Andi said softly looking at Joe White Tree. "We think it might have something to do with some old bones we found down there… Native American bones."
"I'll tell you what my grandfather told me, what his grandfather told him. Two hundred years ago, a band of my ancestors lived in that valley. One day, the American cavalry came to relocate them. They were resistant, the cavalry impatient. As my grandfather put it, one the night of the moon the sun share the sky as equals, the cavalry first raided our village. They murdered, raped."
Andi gasped softly bringing her hand up to her mouth. She hadn't been expecting that.
"The next day, the cavalry came again, and the next, and the next. And on the sixth night, the cavalry came one last time. And by the time the sun rose, every man, woman and child still in the village was dead. They say on the sixth night as the chief of the village lay dying, he whispered to the heavens that no white man would ever tarnish this land again. Nature would rise up and protect the valley. And it would bring as many days of misery and death to the white man as the cavalry had brought upon his people."
"Insects. Sounds like nature to me. Six days." Dean said pursing his lips together.
"And on the night of the sixth day, none would survive." Joe finished looking at them.
The three hunters exchanged a look. Now that was something that was scary. Really dangerous.
"Thank you." Andi said softly.
SPNSPN
The three of them walked down towards the car.
"When did the gas company man die?" Sam question putting his hands in his pockets.
"Uh, let's see, we got here Tuesday, so, Friday the twentieth." Dean replied to his brother's question.
"March twentieth?"
Dean nodded his head.
"That's the spring equinox." Andi said looking at the brothers.
"The night the sun and the moon share the sky as equals." Sam said rubbing his mouth in thought. "So, every year about this time, anybody in Oasis Plains is in danger. Larry built this neighborhood on cursed land."
"And on the sixth night… that's tonight." Dean said realizing what was about to happen.
"If we don't do something, Larry's family will be dead by sunrise. So how do we break the curse?"
"You don't break a curse." Dean said shaking his head. "You get out of its way. We've gotta get those people out now."
The three of them got into the car quickly and Dean started it up and they were well on their way back towards Oasis Plains.
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Dean drove the Impala while he was on the phone with Larry. "Yes, Mr. Pile, there's a mainline gas leak in your neighborhood." Dean said as he gripped the wheel with his other hand hoping that his plan would work. "Well, it's fairly extensive. I don't want to alarm you, but we need your family out of the vicinity for at least twelve hours or so, just to be safe." Dean pursed his lips together when he was asked who he was. "Travis Weaver. I work for Oklahoma Gas and Power. Uh…" Dean quickly hung up the phone.
"Give me the phone." Sam said taking the phone from his brother.
"Really Dean panicking while trying to save lives. That's real smart." Andi said as she leaned up between the two of them against the back of the front seat.
"Matt, it's Sam. Matt, just listen. You have to get your family out of that house right now, okay. Because something's coming. Yeah a lot more." Sam took a breath letting it out in a soft sigh as he heard Matt explaining things. "You've gotta make him listen, okay."
"Give me the phone, give me the phone." Dean grabbed the phone from Sam as he kept the car in the same lane.
"Oh bloody hell." Andi said with a groan. "Can we not start this shite right now?"
"Matt, under no circumstances are you to tell the truth, they'll just think you're nuts. Tell him you have a sharp pain in your right side and you've gotta go to the hospital, okay?" Dean hung up the phone. Dean looked over at his brother. "Make him listen? What are you thinking?"
Andi let out a soft sigh rubbing her temples.
SPNSPN
Dean pulled the car outside of the Pike's home. "Damn it." Dean grumbled out through his clenched teeth. "They're still here. Come on."
The three of them get out of the car and see Matt come out of the house. Their eyes go wide when Larry comes out of the house.
"Get off my property before I call the cops." Larry threatened them lowly.
"Dad, they're just trying to help." Matt said trying his best to diffuse this situation that was happening.
"Oh bloody hell." Andi said rubbing her temples.
"Mr. Pike, listen." Sam said softly trying to get the older man to listen.
"Get in the house." Larry said demanding his son to go back into the house.
"I'm sorry." Matt said looking to the three hunters looking down pursing his lips together. "I told him the truth."
"We had a plan, Matt, what happened to the plan?"
"Look, it's 12:00 AM. They are coming any minute now. You need to get your family and go, before it's too late." Sam said looking at Larry.
"Sam we're going to be screwed if there are bees in that swarm." Andi said gripping onto his coat in her hand tightly.
Sam looked down at her seeing the slight panic in her eyes.
"Yeah, you mean before the biblical swarm." Larry said scoffing.
"Larry, what do you think really happened to that realtor, huh?" Dean questioned looking at Larry with narrowed eyes. "And the gas company guy? You don't think something weird's going on here?"
"Look, I don't know who you are, but you're crazy. You come near my boy or my family again, and we're gonna have a problem."
"Well, I hate to be a downer, but we've got a problem right now." Dean said looking at them.
"Dad, they're right, okay?" Matt said looking at his father. "We're in danger."
"Matt, get inside! Now!" Larry said getting irritated with his son.
"No!" Matt yelled back at his father. "Why won't you listen to me?!"
"Because this is crazy! It doesn't make any sense!"
"Look, this land is cursed! People have died here. Now, are you really going to take that risk with your family?" Sam questioned looking at Larry hoping that Larry really wasn't going to take that risk with his family.
"Wait." Dean said looking around as they go silent. "You hear it?"
They heard a loud buzzing noise.
"What the hell?" Larry said in confusion.
The fluorescent bug light on the porch began to overheat killing several bugs at a time.
"Alright, it's time to go. Larry, get your wife." Dean said looking at Larry.
"Guys." Matt said looking at the sky.
They all looked at the sky only to see millions of bugs flying towards the house blanketing the sky.
"Oh my God." Larry said with wide eyes.
"We'll never make it." Sam said softly.
"Everybody in the house. Everybody in the house, go!" Dean yelled as he shoved them inside.
They all rushed in and Dean slammed the door shut and locked it.
Andi took a deep breath through her nose. "Bloody hell."
"Okay, is there anybody else in the neighborhood?" Sam asked looking at Larry.
"No, it's just us." Larry said giving them confirmation that it was just the three of them there.
Joanie came into the entrance way. "Honey, what's happening? What's that noise?"
"Call 911." His wife doesn't move. "Joanie!"
"Okay." She said as she picked up the phone and dialed it.
"I need towels." Dean said looking at Larry.
"Uh, in the closet."
Dean moved to go and get the towels.
"Okay, we've gotta lock this place up, come on… doors, windows, fireplace, everything, okay?" Sam said looking at Matt.
"You two go ahead." Andi said looking at them. "I'll see what I can find in the kitchen." She walked past them as the power went out. "They chewed through the power lines!"
"Just keep working Andi!" Dean called back.
"I know this. You have your lighter?!"
"Yeah if we need it!"
"Good!" She yelled as she began to look through the cabinets finding a can of bug spray. "Well this will work better than anything else." She said to herself as she walked back into the living room.
"Bug spray?"
"Trust me it'll help."
"I need my cell." Larry said as he grabbed his phone. He tried his phone. "No signal."
"You won't get one." Dean said shaking his head. "They're blanketing the house."
"So what do we do now?" Larry asked looking at them.
"We try to outlast it. Hopefully, the curse will end at sunrise." Sam said pursing his lips together.
"Hopefully?"
"This curse is from the native americans years ago…" Andi said looking at them. "No one has lived past the sixth night. So we don't know what happens. We can only hope that we can pull through this."
They heard a creaking noise coming from around the fireplace.
"What is that?" Matt asked concerned.
"The flue." Sam said pursing his lips together.
Andi tossed Dean the can of bug spray that she found.
"Alright, I think everybody needs to get upstairs." Dean said with a nod of his head.
"I'll agree with you on that one." Andi said with a nod of her head as hundreds of thousands of bugs swarmed into the living room all around them.
Dean used his lighter and a can of bug spray to ward them off. "Alright, everybody upstairs! Now! Go, go, go!"
They run up the stairs to the attic with Dean following right behind them using the bug spray and lighter to keep the bugs off of them the best that he could.
Sam slammed the door of the attic to keep the bug from coming up into the attic.
The buzzing gets louder from the roof.
"Oh, God, what's that?" Joanie asked softly.
"Something's eating through the wood." Dean said looking around.
"Termites." Matt said knowing exactly what it was.
"Alright, everybody get back. Get back, get back, get back!" Dean ordered them.
The three Pike family members get into a far corner of the attic that they can.
A second later a hole is chewed through the ceiling and bugs swarmed into the attic.
"Guys!" Andi yelled as she swatted the bugs away with her hands.
The brothers quickly tried to patch the hole in the ceiling, but it is eaten through.
Dean then quickly tries to ward them off with what is left of the bug spray and uses his lighter.
"Oh bloody hell. Boys!" Andi yelled as she continued to swat the bugs away.
Dean and Sam rush over to them and begin to swat the bugs away as well. Anything that they could do to just survive the night now.
Dean tries to use the bug spray until he runs out. He throws it to the side. "Son of a bitch." He growls out. "Any other ideas?"
"Sorry none!" Andi called out as she swatted some bugs away. "Oh bloody hell. Ow…"
"Andi what's wrong?" Sam asked as he swatted some bugs away.
"There's bees in here." Andi said as she continued to swat. "I'm allergic to them remember, but not deathly allergic to them."
A few moments later the bugs began to leave through the holes in the roof as the sun rose.
The three hunters move slowly watching through the roof watching the bugs congregate into one enormous colony.
Sam looked at Andi. "You alright?"
"Just gotta get me to the hospital since I was stung multiple times."
Sam wrapped an arm around her. "Dean."
Dean nodded his head. "Right."
SPNSPN
The three hunters walked up to Larry who was putting boxes into the moving van that he had gotten to move out of the house. They finally had gotten out of the hospital much to the dislike from the doctors.
"What, no goodbye?" Dean questioned as he put his hands in his pockets looking at Larry.
"Good timing." Larry said as he dusted his hands off looking at the three of them. "Another hour and we'd have been gone." He shook their hands.
"For good?" Sam questioned softly.
"Yeah. The development's been put on hold while the government investigates those bones you found. But I'm gonna make damn sure no one lives here again."
"You don't seem too upset about it." Andi said putting her hands in her pockets. Her hands bandaged covering the bee stings that she had gotten. She had gotten off fairly lucky to not be dead with how many bees had stung her. The doctors had put her on some medication to help with the swelling and benadryl to help with her allergy to the stings which of course made her tired.
"Well, this has been the biggest financial disaster of my career, but." He looked over at his son who is carrying a box to the trash. "...somehow, I don't really care."
Andi smiled a soft smile as father and son share a smile.
Sam walked over to Matt.
Andi looked at Dean. "You know Dean… you shouldn't be hard on Sam." She said softly. "I think he's beginning to understand."
"What do you mean?" Dean asked looking at her.
"I was with John one of those times that he went and checked on Sam in Stanford." Andi said as she stuck her hands in her pockets looking at Dean. "Didn't know it at the time that Sam was there. But I think Sam's coming around to understand."
Sam comes over to them.
They watch Larry and Matt who are finally getting along.
"I wanna find Dad." Sam told Dean softly.
"Yeah, me too."
"Yeah, but I just… I want to apologize to him."
"For what?" Dean asked looking over at Sam.
Andi smiled a soft smile knowing that this was coming.
"All the things I said to him. He was just doing the best he could."
"Well, don't worry, we'll find him. And then you'll apologize. And then within five minutes, guys will be at each other's throats." Dean said looking at Sam shaking his head lightly.
Sam laughed lightly. "Yeah, probably."
The three of them sat there in silence.
"Hey can we hit the road now?" Andi asked as slung her arms over their shoulders.
"Let's." Dean said with a chuckle.
The three of them got into the car and gave one final wave to Larry and Matt before they headed down the road leaving Oasis Plains.
Sam looked back at Andi. "Are you sure that you're feeling alright?"
"I'm fine Sam. The allergy shot is doing what it's supposed to. I'll be perfectly fine come tomorrow." She said offering him a small smile. She knew that he was worried and he had every right to be worried since she had been his friend for this long. And she knew that he hated seeing her get hurt. She knew that one day that they would all be tested, but in what way, she didn't know which worried her some. But for now she was going to spend as much time as she could with the brothers and help them as much as she could.
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This is the end of Chapter 8. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. I'll try to update soon with the next chapter of this story as soon as I can. Reviews keep me going and I hope there is a little bit more development with Andi. I hope you guys like how she's progressing as a character. Until next time guys.