25. Man Out of Time

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[Time After Time]

(Natalia's outfit above)

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

A man wearing a fedora hat and long coat walked along a sidewalk in front of a house, and turned down an alley along the side of the house. Dean, Sam, Natalia and Dylan were in a parked car on the opposite side of the street.

"All right, let's do this," Dean said. "Move fast." He and Natalia cocked their guns.

Sam frowned. "Wait, wait, wait. What's the plan exactly?"

"Don't die," Dean and Natalia replied.

Dean, Sam, Natalia and Dylan got out of the car and hurried after Fedora Man.

"He's heading downtown," Natalia informed. "All right, you and Dylan take the tree. Dean and I'll take the alley. We'll meet you in the middle."

Dylan kissed the top of Natalia's head. "Be careful."

Dean and Natalia turned an alleyway corner and saw Fedora Man kneeling over and holding the head of another man, who was on his back on the ground. There was a red light above the prone man's face which seemed like it was being absorbed by Fedora Man.

"Son of a..." Dean and Natalia began.

Dean and Natalia ran towards the man. As the red light from the prone man was completely absorbed by Fedora Man, Fedora Man let prone man's head fall to the ground and stood. Sam and Dylan came around the corner and saw Dean and Natalia tackle Fedora Man. Dean, Natalia and Fedora Man disappeared in an explosion of red and white light.

"Dean? Natalia?" Sam and Dylan called.

Sam and Dylan held their arms out in front of their faces as the force of the explosion reached them at the other end of the alley. The light disappeared and everything was still. Dean, Natalia and Fedora Man were gone.

"Dean?! Natalia?!" Sam and Dylan called again.

TWO DAYS EARLIER

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

Dean and Natalia were sitting at a table with a bottle of whiskey and laptop, looked at websites related to Dick Roman: 'Global Economic Report: RRE, a search engine page, Financial Market Watch: Richard Roman Enterprises stock soars. A phone rang. Sam, who was asleep on a bed in the same room, sat up and groaned. Dylan glanced up from the chair he was on.

"Don't give us that dirty-diaper look," Dean said. "We ain't calling you."

Sam answered the phone. "Hello?"

INT. CAR - NIGHT

Jody Mills was driving. "Sam, it's Jody Mills. I wake you?"

"The Sheriff? Uh..."

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

Sam turned on a lamp. "Yeah. Uh, I mean, uh-"

"Listen, I got something that smells like you boys and girl."

INT. CAR - NIGHT

"A body turned up in Canton, Ohio. Local P.D.'s trying to bury the story and the body."

INT. CAR - NIGHT / INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

"Okay, um, so, uh, what's up with the body?" Sam asked.

"Well, when it went missing, it was a perfectly normal grad student named Charles Durbin," Jody replied. "When it turned up, the thing was mummified minus the wrapping. This is actually the second body found like this in the last couple weeks. Sound like a song you boys and girl tap to?"

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