Episode:: Season 2 Episode 18

Part: 2

Key:

(M/n) = Male Name

(L/n) = Last Name

(D/n) = Demon Name

(N/n) = Nickname

WARNING: Death, swearing, boy x boy, some triggering stuff. This is Supernatural, everything happens in this show/fandom

Enjoy~

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~St. James Residence~

There was a knock on the door. A man opened it to see the thee boys outside.

"Gerard St. James?" Dean asked.

"Yes."

"You're still alive. And you're not Frank Jaffey." The demon said next.

"Uh, no?"

"You were Desert Soldier Number Four in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn?"

"I was."

"I knew I recognized you. I am a huge fan. Heh heh. I mean, your turn as a tractor crash victim in Critters 3-" The oldest began.

"Critters 3!"

"Wow. Yeah."

"Well, please, come in." They entered the house while Gerard bringd them coffee. There were pictures lining the walls of Gerard, merely an actor, portraying various characters.

"Yeah, it was the producers. They brought me up for the day to play Frank."

"Just to fake your death?"

"Well, rumors of a haunted film set, free publicity, especially when you're making a horror movie. I mean, uh, it's already all over the Internet."

"Yeah. We know." Sam said.

"These days, it's all about new media, building buzz. They say I'm the new "lonelygirl"."

"Who?" The demon questioned.

"Anf the ghost Tara saw?"

"Projected on a screen of diffusion." The man explained.

"Isn't that kind of cruel? Messing with their heads like that?"

"Hey, I just play the part. I don't write the script. Speaking of, I'm playing Willy in a, in a dinner theater production of Salesman at Costa Mesa, all next month." He handed Dean a flyer. "You get a free pepper steak with the coupon."

Dean laughed. "Now, wait a second. If you're, if you're seen in public, won't that ruin the hoax?"

Gerard scoffed. "Oh please. Frank and Willy? Totally different characters."

~Next Morning~

The actors were filming one again, where they left off the pervious day. Tara's chatacter, Wendy, enters the abandoned house.

"Wendy?" Mitch asked.

"Oh, Mitch! God, you're alive!"

"You can't get rid of me that easy."

"Rumble, rumble, rumble!" McG said.

"Salt. Okay, we need salt. I read in that book that it keeps ghosts away."

"Kendra, Logan, you guys check the back."

Off camera, Marty was whispering to Jay. "Jay, the poor bastard killed himself. Like, for real. Shouldn't we shut it down or something?"

"We had a moment of silence for him at breakfast. He was just a studio guy."

"Shh!" McG hushed the two.

"I love you." Wendy said to "Mitch".

"I know." He sined his flashlight directly in her face. Then he broke character. "Sorry."

"Can we, can we cut or something?" Tara asked, also breaking character.

"Um...uh, yeah, cut. Cut!"

"That's a cut!" (M/n) yelled, wearing a headset, lounging in a chair.

"Only I can say cut."

"Well you're no fun." McG glared at him, he approached Tara.

"Hey, what's up?"

"I'm sorry. I'm just a little upset."

"ell, with everything that's been going on around here, who can blame ya, huh?"

"I, I, I just can't wrap my head around the dialog, you know? Salt? Doesn't that sound silly? I mean, why would a ghost be afraid of salt?" (M/n) chuckled at that. It did sound petty silly.

"Okay, um...Marty?"

"Yo." The man named Marty said.

"What do you think?"

"Not married to salt, what do you want? We still sticking with condiments?"

"It just sounds different, not better. What else would a ghost be scared of?"

"Oh, you've gotts be kidding me." Walter said, standing next to (M/n).

"What would a ghost be scared of? Maybe, un, maybe shotguns?"

"Okay, that makes even less sense than salt."

"These people are idiots." Walter walked away, irritated.

Sam and Dean walked up to (M/n).

"Walter's a little testy for a P.A., huh?" Dean asked.

"How's it going in here?" Sam asked the boy.

"It is going really good. Tara's really stepped up her performance. I think it's probably from all the sense memory suff she's drawing on."

"Sense memory?" Sam asked.

"Yeah."

"(M/n).....I'm talking about the case....You don't really work here." Sam said plainly. Dean was just chuckling.

"Hey, let him have his fun." Dean said.

"Umm...Listen, we conned our way into the morgue."

"And?"

"News reports were right: Brad's a doornail, no question."

"Copy that." (M/n) said into his headset. "I'm sorry, what?"

"'Copy that'?"

"What did you say?"

"The news reports were right. Brad's a doornail-"

"They are aware." (M/n) said into his headset.

"Who's aware?"

"I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

"Uh, uh....uh. The newspaper's right: Brad's a doornail, no question about it."

"I guess it's a good this we didn't skip town."

"Yeah."

"Oh, come here. I want you to hear something." The demon said something into the headset before leading the two to the sound guy.

"Hey, Dave. Can you play them that thing you were playing me earlier?"

"Sure." He handed Sam and Dean a pair of headphones.

"Thanks."

The two listened to the audio on one of the scenes in the movie. Midway through the dialogue, the sound becomes staticky and distorted. Sam exchanged a look with Dean.

~Backstage, later~

"From the night of Brad's stage dive. All of a sudden, I keep getting a feeling." The demon explained.

"Well, maybe it's a ghost?"

"Yeah, I keep getting electromagnetic readings up the wazoo."

"Then who's the ghost?"

"Don't know. I think we should take a look at Brad's death scene."

~Daytime~

Outside the lot, (M/n) lead Dean and Sam to on of the trailers, once inside, he popped a DVD into the tv.

"Hey, where'd you get this DVD?" Sam asked.

"They're called dailies. I got it from Cindy. She's kind of got this on-and-off thing going with Drew. He dubbed me an extra copy." They watched the footage of he scene, complete with Brad's surprise entrance.

"All right, here's where the guy fell through the roof."

"Right."

"All right, here we go."

"They must have super-hearing." They heard Mitch say on the tape.

Suddenly, Brad fell through the ceiling of the set, hanging by a noose.

"Hey, wait, go back, go back." (M/n) rewinds the tape. "Right after. Right aft- yeah right. Wait. There."

The demon paused the frame. They all saw a ghostly white woman standing in the far corner, the one who led Brad to his death.

"It's like 'Three Men and a Baby' all over again." Sam looked at his brother confused. "Selleck, Danson, and Guttenberg. And....I don't know who played the baby."

"What's your point?"

"There's a scene in the movie where people say that the, the camera caught a ghost on film. Apparently, in the background of one of the scenes, there was this boy that nobody remembers from set. Spirit photography."

"I've seen her before." Sam said.