Reckless and Brave

LXXXVI. (86) Under Pressure (Part II)

The six of them started shining their lights on the gravestones.

After a moment, Dean said, "Holly and I found the four boys."

"And here's Leticia Gore."

Dean looked up to see the three cosplayers tip toeing around the edge of the cemetery, shining their torches in the bushes. "Ah...what are you guys doing?"

Damien said, "We're looking for bones, genius. They gotta be around here somewhere."

"Okay. Generally, bones are in the ground."

"Yeah, I know that. I just..."

Damien watched as Sam pulled a shovel out of his bag. "Wait, hold on. Are you guys serious?"

"Deadly." Dean replied.

Barnes frowned. "We're not really digging up graves you guys, we're just playing a game."

"Trust us. You wanna win the game, right?"

Dean finished digging the grave and hit the coffin. The others stood around the grave shining their lights. The wind picked up as Dean grunted and lifted the coffin lid. Damien gagged when he saw the skeleton. Holly jumped in to assist Dean.

Damien's eyes widened. "That's not a plastic skeleton. That's a...that's a skeleton skeleton."

"You just dug up a real grave." Barnes said.

"A real friggin' grave!" Felicity cried.

"Yeah." Dean said from inside the grave.

"You guys are nuts." Damien told them.

Sam turned to them. "I thought you guys wanted to be hunters."

"Hunters aren't real, man. This isn't real."

The cosplayers turned to walk away and stopped.

Holly poked her head up, standing on her tiptoes. "D, we gotta hurry! Ghost is here!"

Dean rummaged through his duffle and pulled out salt and burn materials. He handed Holly the kerosene. "Get ready, okay?"

He glanced up to see Leticia putting a hand on the cosplayers' chests and put salt on her skeleton. He gave a nod to Holly and she poured kerosene over the skeleton. Dean pulled out his lighter from his pocket, flicked it, and dropped it into the grave. Gore screamed as she burned up.

Sam stood himself up while Dean and Holly turned to face the cosplayers.

"Real enough for you?" Dean asked.

"That was a real ghost." Holly added.

Damien, Barnes, and Felicity turned to Dean and Holly, horrified.

They made their way back to the hotel bar. Damien drank his shot and exhaled.

"That was...really..." Barnes began.

"Awful. Right?" Dean finished.

Damien, Barnes, and Felicity turned to see the siblings standing behind them.

"Exactly." Dean said. "Round's on us, guys." He clapped Barnes' shoulder and put a note on the bar.

"See you around." Sam said as they turned to go.

Damien's voice stopped them. "Hey. How'd you know how to do all that?"

Holly's eyes flicked to Sam and he replied, "We...uh...We read the books."

Dean and Holly nodded in agreement. They turned and walked to where Chuck was standing with the convention manager.

Dean said to him, "Hey, Chuck. Good luck with the Supernatural books, and screw you very much."