《Destroy Me (Book 1) A Supernatural Story》8-Howler Monkeys

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Sam heads to the sheriff's station wanting to get info on the ID card that Calliope had found, when they entered Sam introduces Calliope as another FBI agent, and the deputy digs up a file for them .

"This is the Garland file" the deputy passes a folder to Sam as he looks over at Dean, who is swaying, "is he drunk?" he then asks.

"No" Calliope and Dean say at the same time as Sam looks over the file.

"Deputy according to this, Luther Garland's cause of death was physical trauma. What does that mean?" Sam then asks him.

"The guy died 20 years before my time, sorry" the deputy says to them.

"Is it possible for us to talk to the Sheriff then?" Calliope asks.

"Um, he's out sick today" the deputy very quickly says and Calliope gets the sense he's not telling the truth.

"Well, if you see him, will you have him call us? We're staying at the Bluebird. Mind if we take this?" Sam tells the Deputy asking about the file.

The deputy just nods, "Know what? You're awesome" Dean suddenly says to the deputy.

"Thanks, umm, y-you too, I guess" the deputy says giving them an odd look as the three of them leave the office.

Calliope, Dean and Sam make their way back to the Impala, Calliope taking the file from Sam, and looking it over. "Looks like Luther has a brother that is still alive, he might be able to tell us what really happened." Calliope tells them.

"It's worth a shot, Dean is coming along though, we can't leave him alone" Sam tells her.

"No we cannot, looks like his brother is living at the Peaceful Pines Assited Living Center" Calliope tells him.

"Let's go" Sam says and they head back out. The three of them arrive at the center, and head inside, as they do, Dean is more jumpy and paranoid worry all over his face when he accidently bumps into one of the residents.

"This isn't going to work. Come on, these badges are fake. What if we get busted?" Dean says to them, "We could go to jail" he whispers to them.

"Dean" Calliope says as she stops and palces her hands on his arms, getting him to look at her, "Calm down, take a deep breath" she tells him and he does so, "is that better?" she asks and he shakes his head no, "I will be right by your side, come on and don't scratch that" she says indicating his arm.

Sam then approaches an elderly man, "Mr. Garland, Hi, uh I'm Agent Tyler, this is Agent Perry and Agent Richards, FBI. We'd like to ask you some questions about your brother, Luther" Sam asks the man.

"Let me see some ID" Mr. Garland asks them.

"Certainly" Sam says as the three of them take their 'badges' out to show him.

"Those are real, obviously, I mean who would pretend to be an FBI agent, huh? That's just nutty" Dean says and Calliope looks at him, almost willing him to shut up.

"What do you want to know?" he then asks them accepting their badges are real.

"Uh well according to this" Sam points to the file, " your brother Luther died of physical trauma" Sam says this and Mr Garland scoffs at that, "You don't agree?" Sam then asks.

"No, I don't" he tells him.

"What would you say happened then?" Calliope asks.

"Don't matter what an old man thinks" He says to her.

"Mr. Garland, we're just trying to get the truth on your brother, please" Sam asks him.

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"Everybody was scared of Luther. They called him a monster. He was too big, too mean-looking, just too different. Didn't matter he was the kindest man I ever knew. Didn't matter he'd never hurt no one. A lot of people failed Luther. I was one of them, I was a widower with three young'uns, and I told myself there was nothing I could do " he tells them.

"Uhh Mr. Garland, do you by chance recognize this woman?" Calliope asks taking the drawing out they had found earlier.

"It's Jessie O'Brien. Her man Frank, killed Luther" he tells her.

"How do you know that?" Sam asks.

"Everybody knows, they just don't talk about it. Jessie was a receptionist at the mill. She was always real nice to Luther, he had a crush on her. But Frank didn't like it, and when Jessie went missing, Frank was sure that Luther had done something to her. Turns out the old gal killed herself but Frank didn't know that. They found Luther with a chain wrapped around his neck. He was dragged up and down the stretch outside that plant till he was past dead" Mr Garland tells them.

"I'm guessing Mr. O'Brien was never arrested" Calliope asks.

"I screamed to every cop in town. They didn't want to look into Frank. He was a pillar of the community. My brother was just the town freak" he tells her.

"You must have hated Frank O'Brien" Sam says to him.

"I did for a long time, but life's too short for hate, son. And Frank wasn't thinking straight. His wife had vanished, he was terrified. A damn shame he had to put Luther through the same, but... that's fear. It spreads and spreads" he says this to them and he had his own look of worry on his face. Calliope thanks him for his time and the three of them leave the center.

"Well, I guess we know now what those marks on Dean are, road rash, and my best guess is it is Luther doing it" Calliope says as they make their way back toward the Impala.

"Makes sense" Sam says as he looks at his brother, "You're experiencing his death in slow motion" Sam tells him.

"Yeah, well not slow enough, huh? Say we burn some bones and get me healthy" Dean says to them.

"Dean, it won't be that easy" Sam tells him.

"No, no, it'll be that easy" Dean tells him, " Why wouldn't be that easy?" he then asks.

"Dean, Luther's body was ripped to pieces, he was most likely scattered all over that road. It's not possible for us to even find all the remains" Calliope explains to him.

"You're kidding me" Dean says to her.

"We are just gonna have to figure something else out that's all" Calliope says to him.

"You know what! Screw this!" Dean shouts out.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Dean" Sam says to him.

"Come on, No, I mean, come one Sam, Callie, what are we doing?" he says to them his voice full of confusion.

"We're hunting a ghost" Sam tells him.

"A ghost! Exactly, who does that" he says to them.

"Us" Sam and Calliope say together.

"Us, Right, and that you two, that is exactly why our lives suck. I mean, come on, we hunt monsters! What the hell? I mean, normal people, they see monsters, and they run. But not us, no..no, no, we—we search out things that want to kill us. Yeah? Huh? Or eat us! You know who does that? Crazy people! We...are insane! You know, and then there's bad diner food and then the skeevy motel rooms, and then the truck stop waitress with the bizarre rash. I mean, who wants this life, Sam, Callioppe? Huh? Seriously? Do you actually like being stuck in a car with me eight hours a day, every single day? I don't think so! I mean, I drive too fast, and I listen to the same five albums over and over and over again, a-and I sing along. I'm annoying, I know that. And you-" he points to Sam, "You're gassy. You eat half a burrito and you get toxic! I mean, you know what?" He tosses Sam the keys, "You can forget it" he then starts to walk away.

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"Dean, Dean, stop! Where are you going?" Calliope calls out to him and starts to follow.

"Stay away from me Callie, okay! Cause I am done with it, I'm done with the monsters and-and-and the hellhounds, and the ghost sickness and your weird powers, and the damn apocalypse. I'm out! I'm done! Quit!" he keeps walking away.

"Should we follow him?" Calliope asks Sam.

"Just give him a few minutes" Sam tells her.

"Maybe he will head back to the motel" Calliope suggests.

"I will check around town for him, you mind heading back there" Sam asks her as he gets in the Impala.

"Sure" she says to him and she starts to take off the way Dean went. Calliope looks all over for Dean, and can't seem to find him. She decides to try and focus on him, like she had done to get here in the first place. Calliope thinks about Dean and closes her eyes, she feels herself moving and suddenly appears in the motel room. Dean lets out a loud scream, at her just appearing, "Dean...Dean it's okay remember I can do this, I needed to find you" she says trying to calm him down.

"You..you can't just appear out of nowhere like that, you could have killed me" he says to her.

"I realize that" Calliope says as she quickly text Sam letting him know where Dean was.

"How did you get here?" Calliope then asks Dean.

"I uh...I ran" he tells her.

It doesn't take long for Sam to finally appear and comes into the room looking at his brother, "I looked everywhere for you, Dean. How the hell did you get here?" he asks him.

"He ran" Calliope answers Sam.

"What do we do now? I got less than four hours on the clock, I'm gonna die, Sammy, Callie" Dean says scared.

"We are going to figure this out Dean" Calliope tells him, but he looks at them confused.

"Dean, we will call Bobby in see if he's got any ideas" Sam tells him.

"Back?" Dean suddenly says and Calliope and Sam look at one another, as they realize Dean is hallucinating something as he starts to move around the room in a panic.

"No! You get out of my brother, you evil son of a bitch!" he shouts at Sam.

"Dean, he's not posseesed" Calliope tries to tell him, as Dean starts to choke.

"Hey, Hey, Hey, Dean" Sam calls out as the two of them try to help him.

"Dean, Dean, it's us it's Calliope and Sam, you're okay, you're safe" she says to Dean, and he finally comes down from his panic attack.

Sam calls Bobby, and convinces him to meet him at the lumber mill, to hopefully stop Dean from dying. Calliope agrees to stay back, and keep a close eye on Dean, she told Sam to call her if anything happens to call her right away. Once Sam is gone, Calliope sits Dean down on the sofa, and puts the tv on hoping to keep him distracted. "Just sit here and watch cartoons. I am right here Dean, if you need anything" she tells him as she sits down on the one bed, keeping an eye on Dean, as she takes a book at starts to read. Every few minutes Calliope would look over at Dean, who was getting antsy with each minute, "Oh this isn't helping" Dean says as she watches him change the tv channel.

Just then Calliope's phone rings and she answers, "Sam what's up?" she asks him.

"We think we got some sort of plan, you are just going to have to ride it out with Dean, till we work this out, he's going to be fine" Sam tells her.

"What is the plan?" Calliope asks.

"It's a good one just trust me" Sam tells her.

"Fine, I will try and keep Dean safe" she tells him.

"Thanks Calliope" Sam says to her.

"Just save your brother" she says as the phone call ends.

"Who was it? Was it Sam? Please tell me it was Sam" Dean suddenly says.

"It was Sam, him and Bobby have a plan to save you" Calliope tells him.

"Oh great...just great...." Dean says to her.

"Dean, it's going to be okay, just watch the tv" she tells him, and he does so. Calliope goes back to sitting on the bed and reading, as they wait out what Sam and Bobby have planned.

As they sit there, suddenly they hear a dog barking, and the door starts to rattle, Calliope stand up, and grabs a nearby gun, "Stay back Dean" she tells him as he stands behind her.

Suddenly the door breaks down, and a man enters the motel room.

"Sheriff?" Dean says to the man, and they then eye the gun in the sheriff's hand, "What are you doing?" Dean ask.

"Why are you looking into Luther Garlnad's death?" he shouts at them.

That's when they see the blood on the Sheriff's arm, right in the same area that Dean has his rash on him, "Sheriff listen, you're sick just like him, we can help you, but you need to put the gun down" Calliope tells him.

The Sheriff then advances on her, knocking her down, before hitting Dean, "Frank O'Brien was my friend, so he made a mistake. So I didn't bust him, so what? And you're gonna bring me down over that? No, sir" he points the gun at Dean, but Calliope manages to get up in time and using her powers she makes the gun fly out of the Sheriff's hand. He looks at Calliope terrified, as Dean tries to fight him.

"Dean!"Calliope calls out as she tries to stop the men.

"Get away from me!" the sheriff shouts as he steps away and starts to hyperventilate.

"You need to calm down sheriff" Calliope tells him.

"Step back!" he shouts as he grabs his chest, and they realize he's about to subcumb to the ghost sickness. "They know!" he says before he collapse.

"Dean, I need to help the sheriff, you need to stay here" she tells Dean.

"I can't...I can't" he panics.

"Dean, you will be safe in here, I promise, I won't be long" she tells him, as she then manages to drag the Sheriff's body out of the motel room, and looks for a nearby car. Calliope finds on that is unlocked, and drags the sheriff into it. Calliope hot wires the car, and rushes to the closest hospital. After dropping him off, she floors it back to the motel. When she gets back inside, she see's Dean scared in the corner of the room.

"Why me? Why'd I get infected?" he calls out.

"Dean...Dean it's going to be okay..I'm here now" she says as she crouches down beside him. It doesn't take long, before Dean finally looks up at her and keeps looking around the room.

"She's gone" he then says to her, Calliope looks around the room.

"Who's gone Dean?" she asks.

"Umm...Lilith" he tells her.

"No one is here" she says to him.

"No, not anymore" he then says to her, and he takes a deep sigh.

Sam came back around for Calliope and Dean, and they gathered their stuff and left the motel, they met up with Bobby on a road outside of town.

"So you guys road-hauled a ghost with a chain?" Dean asks as he leans against the Impala.

"Iron chain etched with spell work" Sam tells him.

"Hmm, that's a new one" Dean says.

"It was what he was most afraid of, it was pretty brutal, though" Sam says.

"On the upside, I'm still alive, so uh, go team!" Dean says.

"Yeah, how you feeling, by the way?" Sam asks him.

"Fine" Dean says.

"You sure, Dean? 'Cause this line of work can get awful scary" Bobby says to him.

"I'm fine, you want to go hunting? I'll hunt, I'll kill anything" Dean says to them.

"Aww, he's adorable" Bobby then says, "I got to get out of here, Calliope you coming along?" he then asks her.

"I think I'll stick around with these two, they seem to get in more trouble when I am not around" she tells him.

"I figured, that's why I grabbed this, your bag" Bobby says as he reaches in the car, and takes out her dufflebag, that she always kept packed.

"Thanks Bobby" she says to him.

"You guys drive safe" he then says as he gets in his car and drives away.

"So, uh...so what did you see? Near the end I mean?" Sam asks Dean.

"Oh, besides a cop beating my ass?" he says to him.

"That was real" Calliope adds.

"Seriously" Sam says to the two of them.

"Howler monkeys" Dean lies, "Whole roomful of them, those things creep the hell out of me" he says as they open the car doors.

"Right" Sam says.

"No, just the usual stuff, Sammy, nothing I can't handle" Dean says as the three of them get in the Impala and Dean drives away down the road.

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