Chapter 18 - The Monster at the End of this Book

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We walked into a bookstore, in our FBI suits and long black coats. We approached the man at the desk while taking out our badges.

"Uh... can I help you?" he asked.

"Sure hope so. Agents DeYoung, Gowan, and Shaw. Just need to ask you a few questions." Dean said.

"Notice anything strange in the building, last couple of days?" I asked.

"Like what?" the guy asked.

"Well, some other tenants reported flickering lights." Dean said.

"Uh, I don't think so. Why?" he said.

"What about noises? Any skittering in the walls? Kind of like rats?" Sam asked.

"And the FBI is investigating a rodent problem?" the guy asked skeptically.

"What about cold spots? Feel any sudden drops in temperature?" Sam asked.

"I knew it! You guys are LARPing, aren't you?" the guy said.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"You're fans." the guy said.

"Fans of what?" Sam asked.

"What is 'LARPing'?" Dean asked.

"Like you don't know." he said and we gave him confused looks. "Live-Action Role-Play! And pretty hardcore, too."

"I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about." I said.

"You're asking questions like the building's haunted. Like those guys from the books. What are they called? Uh... 'Supernatural.' Two guys, a girl, use fake IDs with rock aliases, hunt down ghosts, demons, vampires. What are their names? Uh... Steve, Cali, and Dirk? Uh, Sal, Jami, and Dane?" he said.

"Sam, Ali, and Dean?" Sam asked.

"That's it!" he said.

"You're saying this is a book?" Dean asked.

"Books. It was a series. Didn't sell a lot of copies, though. Kind of had more of an underground cult following." he said.

"There's more than one?" I asked.

He led us to a table. "Let's see. Um... Ah. Yeah" he said and handed Dean a copy. "That's the first one, I think."

"'Supernatural' by Carver Edlund." Dean read and flipped it to read the back. "'Along a lonely California highway, a mysterious woman in white lures men to their deaths'."

"Give me that." Sam said as he snatched the book. "We're gonna need all the copies of 'Supernatural' you've got."

We got back to the motel. Dean and I were reading the books. Sam was on his laptop.

"This is freakin' insane. How's this guy know all this stuff?" Dean said.

"You got me." Sam said.

Dean got up and walked to Sam. "How come we haven't heard of them before?"

"They're pretty obscure. I mean, almost zero circulation. Uh, started in '05. The publisher put out a couple dozen before going bankrupt. And, uh, the last one – 'No Rest For The Wicked'." he turned the laptop to Dean.

I threw the book away from me.

"What was that for?" Sam asked.

"The books have details of all of us having sex." I said.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Dean and I had sex for the first time while Sam and Madison did apparently." I said.

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