God's Gift of Hope (Supernatural Fanfiction )

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Eighty-six hours and change.

"What are you working on?" a sleepy Sam asked Hope; Sam was standing in the doorway between the two adjoining rooms, surveying the papers that were plastered all over the table and wall; Hope had clearly been busy in the five hours that he had been sleeping.

"Looking for connections..." is all Hope would say, as she kept working on her computer. Sam noticed that his and Dean's laptops were also open and Hope appeared to be controlling them both from her own device; the girl did have some serious computing skills – not to mention stealth, Sam was sure his own computer had been beside his bed when he went to sleep.

"Find anything?" Sam asked, after watching her work for a few minutes.

"Maybe..." Hope's voice trailed off, she kept working and then her fingers slowed as she looked up at Sam, who just stood there, waiting, an expectant look on his face... "And?" he pushed.

Hope stood up saying, "I don't know if it's anything... but it is a little weird..." Hope pointed at a picture on the wall, "An aerial shot?" guessed Sam.

"Of the first crime scene, here in Manhattan," Hope added, "if we zoom out, we can see the second... See... Here..." Hope was now pointing at the next picture on the wall and Sam followed her finger with his eyes.

"Okay..." he encouraged her to continue.

"Well... Any two points will make a straight line. Right?" Sam nodded in agreement, "It's just, what's interesting about these two points, is that they lie on the same great circle."

Hope looked at Sam keenly, when he didn't say anything she went on elaborating, "They have the exact same line of longitude. If you gave them a position, as a latitudinal and longitudinal point on the Earth, they would both have the same point of longitude."

Sam did not look that impressed, so Hope emphasised her next sentence, "The... exact... same... value... Right down to three decimal places. Moreover, I'm not talking about the buildings either, this is a match to each of the actual rooms within the buildings, the rooms where the incident occurred. I used the schematics – it is an exact match... Exact!"

"Coincidence?" suggested Sam.

"Maybe... Then again, if you go back to the scenes of the first two incidents, just outside Sioux Falls. They both lie on the exact same line of longitude as well."

"Yeah... Well, you just said, any two points make a line?" Sam tried to reason it out.

"No Sam... You don't get it. I am talking, the exact same line... as the one here... in Manhattan..." Hope pointed at the final picture, it was a larger section of the states, and all four scenes were pinned on it and they did run along the same line of longitude.

Sam let out a long breath and shook his head, "What does it mean?"

"I don't know. Maybe nothing. Maybe something. Just another piece of the puzzle; a puzzle that didn't come with a picture for us to follow." Hope sighed as she thought about how difficult this case seemed to be; and how far they hadn't come with it.

"I think we should check out some of the places on the line; maybe somewhere between the two places here in Manhattan. Maybe what happened in these two offices, happened in another place on the line, but nobody has found it yet? Or... maybe there is something else to find... Like an epicentre. A place of importance; a sacred space."

"You think magic is at work?" Sam asked after hearing Hope's reference to a sacred space.

"It's something we haven't considered, and maybe whatever they were doing arced out, taking out these people in the offices?"

"Where would we even start?" Sam asked; it seemed a mammoth task, looking along the line on the picture.

"Here." Hope pointed to a spot that was exactly halfway between the two scenes from the last two days. "We go here!"

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