[Yellow Fever]
ROAD
Dean ran down the road, hearing growling and barking noises behind him. He turned around a corner, ran into a shopping cart, and fell to the ground. He saw a homeless man rummaging through a garbage bin.
"Run! It'll kill you!" Dean yelled as he pointed.
Dean was running from a pink-ribboned Yorkie. He started running again while shouting at the same time.
43 HOURS EARLIER
INT. MORGUE
The coroner opened a body bag. "Agent Tyler, Agent Perry, Agent Kramer, meet Frank O'Brien."
"He died of a heart attack, right?" Sam asked.
"Three days ago."
Natalia frowned. "But O'Brien was 44 years old, and according to this - a marathon runner."
"Everybody drops dead sooner or later. It's why I got job security."
"Yeah, but Frank kicked it here," Dean said. "Now, just yesterday, two perfectly healthy men bit it in Maumee. All heart attacks, you don't think that's strange?"
"Sound's like Maumee's problem to me. Why's the FBI give a damn anyway?"
"We just want to see the results of Frank's autopsy."
"What autopsy?"
"The one you're gonna do."
The coroner cut open the dead body. "First dead body?"
"Far from it."
"Oh, good. Because these suckers can get pretty ripe. Hand me those rib cutters, would you?"
Sam took a fortifying breath while Natalia swallowed quickly and Dean picked up the rib cutters and handed them to the coroner. The coroner cut the ribs open while Sam kept himself from squirming.
A discoloration on Frank's left ring finger caught Natalia's attention and she asked, "Is that from a wedding ring? I didn't think Frank was married."
"Ain't my department."
"Any idea how he got these?" Sam picked up Frank's arm, which was full of scratches."
"You know what? When you drop dead, you actually tend to drop. Body probably got scraped up when it hit the ground. Huh!"
"What?" Sam and Natalia asked.
"I-I can't find any blockages in any major arteries." The coroner broke off the heart while Dean tried not to vomit. "Heart looks pretty damn healthy." He handed the heart to Dean. "Hold that a second, would you?" Sam smirked and Natalia bit her lip to keep herself from laughing.
The coroner cut something else in the body and hit Sam and Natalia's face with blood. "Oh, sorry. Spleen juice." Dean smirked.
They left and Natalia furiously wiped the blood from her face as she muttered, "I don't like him. He was rude."
INT. SHERIFF'S STATION
Sam, Dean and Natalia were sitting down in front of the deputy's desk, waiting. The deputy smiled at Dean before focusing on Natalia and smiling at her. Dean glared, silently warning the deputy to look away.
The sheriff opened his office door. "Hell's bells, Linus, have you seen my... Who are they?" The siblings stood.
"Federal agents," Deputy Linus replied. "I, uh..."
"And you kept them waiting?"
"You, you said not to disturb."
"Come on back, fellas, miss."
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Point of Know Return
Mystery / ThrillerNatalia Millie Winchester never knew her mother. She's been surrounded by male figures since she was three months old. Her life was far from normal. Instead of having tea parties and sleepovers, she learned to use a gun and to always be wary in the...
