𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻|𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷 1

Wendigo

1
Sam walked through the cemetery, flowers in his hand and he wore a suit. He made his way over to the stone with Jessica's name on it, a few candles, a photo, and a teddy bear were placed on and around it.
Sam sighed and took a few seconds to speak "I, Uh..." he huffed a laugh "You always said roses were lame, so I, brought you, Uh..." Sam looked at the photo in the stone and looked away as tears filled his eyes "Jess... oh god." He kneeled in front of the stone "I should have protected you. I should have told you the truth."

Sam leaned in and placed the flowers against the front of the stone, an arm reached up from the dirt and grabbed his own.

Sam jumped up in the car, he took a moment to realize where he was. Dean looked at him in concern.
"You okay?"
Sam looked over and back "Yeah, I'm fine."
"Another nightmare?" Sam cleared his throat "At least someone is getting sleep." Dean looked in the rear view mirror and back to the road, Sam turned to look and saw Ethan's wide eyes as he stared at him, his small fingers played with the wheels on the car.

"You wanna drive for a while?" Dean asked and Sam turned back to the front.
Sam lightly laughed "Dean. Your whole life you never once asked me that."
"I just thought you might want to. Never mind." Dean dismissed.
"Look man, you're worried about me. I get it, and I thank you, but I'm perfectly okay."

"Mm-hm." Dean hummed, unimpressed. Suddenly, Ethan climbed over the seat, somehow out of his car seat, and made the brothers jump.
"Ethan Samuel! How did you even get out of your seat?"
Sam chuckled "Dean, it's okay." Sam let the boy climb into his lap and put his arm around him, Ethan laid his head on Sam's shoulder. Dean turned and made eye contact with the boy before he closed his eyes. "I've got him." Sam reached up and grabbed the map off the dashboard "Alright, where are we?"

"We are just outside of Grand Junction." Sam looked at the X marked on the map with the coordinates and sighed.
"You know what? Maybe we shouldn't have left Stanford so soon."
"Sam we dug around there for a week. We came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica-."
"We gotta find Dad first." Sam finished for Dean. He sighed as he looked away from the map.
"Dad disappearing and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it's no coincidence. Dad will have answers, he'll know what to do."

"It's weird, man. These coordinates he left us. This is Blackwater Ridge." Sam said as he looked at the map.
"What about it?" Dean asked as he put his eyes back to the road.

"There's nothing there. It's just woods." Sam dropped the map into his lap, and weaved the map around the boy to prevent the hit he could've taken "Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?"

They drove past a sign that welcomed them to Lost creek.
At a ranger station, Sam looked at a 3D map of the forest. His arms wrapped around the boy whose head was buried into his shoulder.
"So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote. It's cut off by canyons here, rough terrain,dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place."
"Dude, check out the size of this freaking bear." Dean said, then pointed to the photo on the wall.
"And, a dozen or more grizzlies in the area. It's no nature hike." Sam said coming up behind Dean.

A voice behind them made them whip around "You boys aren't planning on going out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance? Especially with that little one?" The guy pointed to Ethan with his free hand.
"Oh, no, sir, we're environmental study majors from UC Boulder, just working on a paper." Sam gently laughed before Dean held up a fist.
"Recycle,man."
"Bull." The guy said, Sam looked to Dean, who didn't move or indicate he was found out "You're friends with that Haley girl, right?"
Dean stood still for a few seconds "Yes. Yes, we are, ranger..." Dean read his name tag as they moved closer "Wilkinson."
"Well I will tell you exactly what we told her. Her brother filled out a backcountry permit saying he wouldn't be back from Blackwater until the twenty-fourth, so it's not exactly a missing persons now, is it?" Dean shook his head "Tell that girl to quit worrying. I'm sure her brother's just fine."