Chapter 123-Usual Suspects

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October 17th - October 20th, 2006

Dean and I sat at a table outside of a cafe

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Dean and I sat at a table outside of a cafe. Sam had run in to grab us drinks while Dean read over a local newspaper as Sam approached, Dean flipped the newspaper to face his seat. The headline read Man's Throat Slit Without a Trace.
Sam handed Dean his coffee and me a peach tea "there you go." Sam said as he sat down "Anthony Giles." Dean said "who's Anthony Giles?" Sam asked him "he's a Baltimore lawyer. Working late in his office, check it out." Dean said as he pointed to the newspaper.



"Uh..throat was slit, room was clean. Huh. No DNA, no prints." Sam said as he skimmed the newspaper "keep reading. It gets better." Dean said "security cameras failed to capture footage of the assailant." Sam said "so, I'm thinking either somebody tampered with the tapes-." Dean said "or it's an invisible killer." Sam nodded "my favorite kind. What do you think, Scully? You wanna check it out?" Dean asked "I'm not Scully. You're Scully." Sam said "no, I'm Mulder. You're a red-headed woman." Dean smirked.

[......]

Sam and Dean disguised themselves as employees from an insurance company to talk to Anthony's wife, Karen. I was left to wait in the car as usual, but they filled me in once they returned "so, apparently, Anthony said he saw a woman standing at the foot of his bed a few nights ago, but when he blinked, she disappeared." Sam said as Dean pulled away from the house "do you think this woman could have anything to do with his death?" I asked him as Dean looked back at me in the rear-view mirror.


"Karen thinks he just had a nightmare." Dean replied "don't you think that's too much of a coincidence, though?" I asked him "that's why we're headed to his office." Dean said.

[......]

We broke into Anthony's office to see if we could find anything the police may have missed.
The room was pretty dark, so we turned our flashlights on and started looking around "Dia, just stay close. We don't know what killed him yet." Dean said as I nodded and then shined my flashlight over the office until I spotted a bloodstain on the floor as Sam walked over with his flashlight "Anthony Giles's body was found right about here. Throat slit so deep part of his spinal cord was visible." Sam said.

I frowned, and then we continued walking through the office as Sam walked around and sat behind the desk while Dean picked a piece of paper up and handed it to Sam "take a look at this." Dean said as Sam took the paper and furrowed his brow as he read it "Dana Shulps." Sam said as he looked up at Dean "a name?" Sam questioned as Dean picked up another piece of paper.


"I dunno, but it's everywhere. Well, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Dean said "huh." Sam mumbled as he took a deep breath and then exhaled over the glass. As it heated up, the words Dana Shulps were revealed "wow. I'd say we've officially crossed over into weird." Sam said as Dean walked over and shrugged "maybe Giles knew her." Dean said "or maybe it's the name of our pale, red-eyed mystery girl." Sam suggested "well. Let's see what we can see." Dean said.


As we searched through the office, we became frustrated. We weren't finding anything helpful.
Sam was going through the computer as Dean, and I searched through files. Dean sighed and walked over to the desk "there's not a single mention of a Dana Shulps anywhere. There's not a D. Shulps. Or any other kind of friggin' Shulps." Dean said "great." Sam muttered "what have you got?" I asked as I joined them by the desk "nothing. No Dana Shulps has ever lived or died in Baltimore in the last fifty years, at least." Sam replied "so, what now?" Dean sighed.


"Well, I think I'm pretty close to cracking Giles's password. Maybe there's something in his personal files, ya know?" Sam said "by close, you mean...?" Dean asked "thirty minutes, maybe?" Sam said "awesome. So, I guess I just get to, uh, hang out." Dean said as he sat down "awesome." I said pulling a chair up next to Sam and watched while he worked as Dean sighed and started making clicking and mouth-fart noises. Sam and I looked up at him "dude, seriously?" Sam asked him.


"All right, I'm gonna go talk to Karen again. See if she knows anything about this Dana Shulps, huh?" Dean said as he looked up at us "great." Sam replied "keep going, sparky."
Dean smiled as he walked out after about another half-hour, Sam and I packed up and set off back to the motel.

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