Rose Miller: Looking for truth

31 Lady in Red

Rose doesn't get any motion in the door. Where is she? Why is she here? She starts going through the house. She stays downstairs. Everything looks familiar, except there are no people here. She is alone and was never alone here, the girl that did the cooking and cleaning. A visit from Alice or even Damon, who came to check on her, he did before he left for war.

'You're going?'

Damon looks at her: 'Yes, tomorrow. You'll keep an eye on Stefan.'

'Of course.' She looks down: 'Everything will be okay. Just make sure you come back.'

He lays a hand on her shoulder: 'I'm going to.'

They never expected that she was the one that was going to die. She gets into the dining room. The candles are lit, and a plate of food awaits her.

'We talked to the janitor. The one from the building where they found the professor.' Dean says.

'He was to one that found the professor.' Sam clarifies: 'But we came up empty-handed. No EMF, that's for sure.'

'There was this girl he saw, but that's a dead-end.' Dean adds: 'I suggested checking out the building's history.'

'And that's when I noticed my computer was broken.'

'But did you dig up anything about the building? Or on the suicidal co-ed?' Bobby asks.

'No. History's clean.' Sam tells him.

'Then it's not a haunting.' Bobby reasons.

'Maybe not. Tell you the truth, we're not really sure.' Dean says.

'What do you mean, you're not sure?' Bobby asks.

'Well, it's weird....'

'What's weird, Sam?'

'This next part, we didn't see it happen ourselves exactly, but it's pretty fragging weird, even for us.'

'Curtis said he was walking alone through the campus.' Sam tells Bobby: 'He must have heard something, but when he turns around, he doesn't see anything.'

'He talks about a sudden bright light.' Dean continues: 'A bright beam of light shoots down and grabs him like a tractor beam, pulling him up. He screams and flails.'

'Aliens?' Bobby asks.

'And then the last victim.'

'Because Cops didn't release the cause of death, they had no clue what it was. So, we went to the morgue.' Sam starts. 'We found something that looks like a belly scale from an alligator.'

'An alligator? In the sewer?' Bobby asks.

'I thought the same thing, but Sam said it's some kind of urban legend. Kid flushes a baby gator down the toilet, and it grows huge in the tunnels.'

'Did you find anything?' Bobby reacts.

'I found my tires flat.' Dean glares at Sam.

'Apart from that.' Bobby says.

'No, that's why we called you.' Dean tells Bobby.

Bobby stands up: 'I'm surprised at you two. I really am. Sam, first off, Dean did not steal your computer.'

'But...'

'Shh, shh, shh, shh! And, Dean, Sam did not touch your car.' He continues, reaches for a phone under a cabinet, and throws it on the bed. 'And aren't neither of you worried about Rose? At all?'

'Of course, we're worried.' Sam says.

Dean nods: 'There isn't anything to go on.' He thinks she left; he hopes she didn't. What happened to her?

'And if you two bothered to pull your heads out of your asses, it all would have been pretty clear.'

Dean is confused; he tries to think it through: 'What?'

'What you're dealing with.'

'I got nothing.' Dean admits.

Sam shakes his head: 'Me neither.'

'You got a trickster on your hands.' Bobby says: 'These things create chaos and mischief as easy as breathing, and it's got you so turned around, and at each other's throats, you can't even think straight.'

'The laptop.' Sam says.

'The tires.' Dean adds: 'Do you think the trickster took Rose?'

'It knows you're onto him, and it's been playing you like fiddles. They're like demigods, really. There's Loki in Scandinavia and Anansi in West Africa. Dozens of them. They're immortal, and they can create things out of thin air. Things are as real as you and me. Make them vanish just as quick.'

'Bobby, what do these things look like?' Sam asks.

'Lots of things, but human, mostly.'

'And what human do we know who's been at ground zero this entire time?' Dean questions.

Sam frowns, thinking, then gets it: 'The janitor.'