say you won't let go, sam winchester [ 4 ]

003. lizzie borden

"Hey." Sam walks into the bedroom, Miranda finishing cleaning up a bit. "Uh... I-I found a case. I know you said you aren't itching to get out of here like Dean is, but... do you wanna go?"

"I'll take a few days away from Dean." Miranda says.

"Well, uh... Cas is here. Still-- still healing and stuff." Sam reminds making her groan. "So... Dean or Cas?"

"I'm taking the kids to a movie, dinner, and hotel." Miranda says.

"Randi--"

"Okay, maybe the hotel is a lie, but dinner and movie are happening." Miranda says.

"Okay." He nods. "Be careful." He kisses her.

"You, too." She softly smiles. "If the monster needs to kill you or Dean, let it be Dean." She says making Sam chuckle.

"I love you." Sam kisses her nose.

"Love you, too." She says.

+++

Sam is sitting in the library with Serena on his lap and he's on his laptop.

"Math is stupid." Carly speaks up from where she sits diagonal from him.

"Math is useful." Sam argues. "You use it a lot more than you think."

"Yeah, right." Carly rolls her eyes.

"You just have one more page to finish. Don't feel scared to ask me if you need help." Sam says.

Carly huffs, glaring at the workbook. Sam's lips quirk in amusement, hiding his lips in Serena's hair so Carly doesn't notice.

"Yo." Dean walks in with two beers. "Don't suppose you got a 20 on the darkness."

"Uh, well, I thought I had something earlier. Half a town flipped their gourds and started attacking people." Sam says, taking the beer. "But it turns out they'd eaten rabid possum meat."

"Okay, they do realize that possum is a giant rat, right?" Dean asks.

"It's a marsupial." Sam corrects.

"Huh?"

"Not the point. Check this out." Sam turns the laptop to Dean. "Um, a couple was axe murdered in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts at, wait for it, the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast museum."

"A B&B and a museum. Yeah, that doesn't sound like a tourist trap at all." Dean says.

"I mean, the thing is the inn was Lizzie Borden's actual house. In 1892, she hacked up her mom and stepdad there. Or allegedly hacked them up. She was acquitted and spent the rest of her days in Fall Rivers hounded and persecuted by the townspeople."

"So you're thinking revenge killing?" Dean asks and Sam shrugs. "Why now? It was probably some psycho fan who's seen too many slasher flicks."

"Could be, but the inn was locked up. No signs of entry or exit. Half a dozen guests. None of whom saw or heard any intruders." Sam says.

"Well, maybe the intruder was actually competent. Wait a minute. I know what this is. This has something to do with your freaky fetish for serial killers."

"It's not a fetish."

"Oh, please. I bet you and Miranda roleplay serial killers all the time in the bedroom."

"What are you doing in the bedroom?" Carly frowns in confusion.

"Oh, God." Sam rests his forehead on top of Serena's head, hiding his face.

"You've always wanted to see that house." Dean tells Sam.

"Dean, two people are dead." Sam says, looking up. "In Lizzie Borden's home, we got no leads on Amara, I say we check this out." Sam shuts his laptop and stands up, holding Serena.