athazagoraphobia, supernatural

the mind-reading spider and the invisible lice

The sun rises on Hell House as emergency vehicles and responders surround the house. The Winchester brothers watch as a girl's body is brought out of the house on a stretcher.

The three approach a bystander, Dean asks, "What happened?"

"A coupla cops say a girl hung herself in the house." The man responds.

"Suicide?" Sam asks

"Yeah. She was a straight A student, with a full ride to UT too. It just don't make sense." The man walks closer to get a better look, leaving the brothers to process the information.

"Whaddaya think?" Sam asks.

"I think maybe we missed something." Dean says.

"Ya think?" Jamie sasses.

...........................

The Winchester brothers stake out the Hell House all day, the car parked a few blocks away. Jamie lays in the backseat, chewing a comically large piece of artificially flavored pink bubblegum, blowing huge bubbles.

If boredom could kill, Jamie would be long dead. Dean yelled at him to stop his incessant rambling hours ago (something about wiener dogs and Dean's bowlegs), and Sam was the one who gave him the gum to keep him busy.

The sun begins to set on Hell House, signaling that it's almost time to go look around the house again. The three exit the car and find a bush to hide in when they spot two cops standing guard around the house.

"I guess the cops don't want anyone else screwing around in there." Sam comments.

"Yeah but we still gotta get in there." Dean says, peeking out from behind the bushes.

Jamie locks eyes with a spider big enough to swallow him whole (not really), and uses all his control not to scream and grab Dean's gun to shoot it a million times.

Meanwhile, Dean spots familiar faces, "I don't believe it." he mutters in annoyance.

Lo and behold, Ed and Harry are approaching: hunched over, wearing all sorts of gadgets, whispering and shh-ing each other.

Jamie's internal dilemma goes unnoticed by his brothers, he holds his breath as he stares at the spider in horror. The boy could handle anything the hunting life threw at him, ghosts and monsters: a piece of cake. Bugs? Hell no. He'd rather drink dirty toilet water from a crappy motel.

"I got an idea." Dean slightly gets up from his crouching position to yell out towards the cops,
"Who ya gonna call!"

Leading Ed and Harry to turn towards wherever the voice came from, and also the cops spotting the wannabe ghost hunters and yelling after them.

The cops chase Ed and Harry down the path. Laughing, Sam and Dean make a break for the house. Jamie finally takes a gulp of air after running- no, sprinting away from the teeny spider, "Oh my G-"  he spares no dramatics.

Once inside Sam breaks out the rifles, handing one to Dean, Jamie turns on a flashlight.

"Guys, while we were out there, there was this huge spider like-" Jamie gestures an over exaggerated size of the spider, "-this big."

Sam gives the boy a confused look while Dean focuses on the symbol on the wall, "Where have I seen that symbol before? It's killing me!"

"Come on, we don't have much time." Sam urges.

They go down to the basement and look around, Dean looks at some jars and picks one up for a closer look.

A pale red liquid sloshes around inside, "Hey Sam. I dare you to take a swig of this."