You Were Always There

2

A week later, Gabe and Jennifer sat in two rolling chairs on the opposite sides of the room from each other in her office. They sat, throwing a yellow tennis ball back and forth. Jennifer sighed when she missed the ball and it bounced off into the corner of the room. Gabe smirked as she stood and walked over to grab it.

"Jennifer, there are two men here who want to see the body from yesterday." Jennifer looked to where Gabe was quickly, worried that her coworker had seen him, but saw that he was already gone. "They say they are with the FBI." Jannifer nodded.

"Ok, let them in." Her coworker, a lady named Stacy waved to people she could not see and opened the door wide enough for them, closing it once they were inside. The two men were young, one significantly taller than the other. The shorter had spiked brown hair and green eyes that she could have stared at for days. The taller also had brown hair, though it was longer, going down to at least the middle of his neck. Both wore suits, the taller's noticeably straighter. The shorter of the two spoke first, holding out a hand for her to shake.

"Hi, I'm Agent Vedder and this is my partner Agent Cornell," Jennifer made a face at the names. Agent Cornell quickly flashed his ID and then shook her hand as well, smiling sweetly.

"So, you want to see yesterday's body?" she asked and both men nodded. She grabbed gloves from a box beside her and walked to the refrigerators, opening one of the doors and pulling out the slide. This one was male, age 24 with black hair and brown eyes. He showed to be completely healthy except for the missing heart. The men examined the body, glancing at each other every couple of seconds. Jennifer watched them carefully.

"Can I ask," Agent Cornell started, pointing to the chest. "Where is the heart?" She shrugged.

"They all have been coming in like this." The shorter mumbled to himself softly.

"And do you have any idea what this could have been?" She pierced her lips, thinking.

"It had to be a person. I know that. The chest was stitched back up here," she pointed to where she had cut the insition back open. "And the heart was ripped out. You can see here. The only reason I can think anyone would do that is sacrifice. But that was mainly Aztecs who did that." Agent Vedder walked around the body next to her.

"What about something non-human? Something supernatural?" She scoffed.

"Heaven knows we have enough of that here. Are you trying to tell me this was aliens? You didn't tell me you worked for the X-Files," The shorter shook his head.

"Of course not. Not aliens. What kind of stories are in this area?" She stared.

"Other than the aliens? Not a whole ton. Some believe that the mountain is some world vertex. I don't know about that though. Umm..." she walked to the pictures above her desk. "There are the Lumeriens,"

"Lumeriens?" She made her way back to the men.

"Yeah, they are just these giant people who have tunnels under the mountain. I guess that used to come from Lumeria. I don't know where that is." She started to slide the body back in. "They are these druid-like things, I think. But I've never heard of them sacrificing anything." All three turned to the sound of the door opening.

"Dr. Winchester, there is another one,"

"Shit," She pushed the body fully into the fridge and locked the door, hurrying around the room while getting things ready. She did not see the shocked look that the two men who called themselves Agent Vedder and Agent Cornell shared. "Bring it in" she called. "Thank you, Agents. I don't know if you want to stay. It's just going to be the same as the others. No heart and completely healthy." The taller shook his head.