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WHARTON STATE FOREST - THE PINE BARRENS, NEW JERSEY

Something is running through the forest towards an SUV and large tent. A generator is supplying power to the tent. Inside the tent, a Man and Woman in sleeping bags on a double bed are watching television. She uses the remote to turn the television off.

"Good night, sweetie." He Says

The Man turns off his bedside lamp and turns on his iPod. Recording on iPod: This is Nature Sounds' "Sounds of Nature," Volume 4, "Soothing Seas."

The Man, still asleep in his sleeping bag, is now hanging upside down high up in a tree.

"What the hell? Leanne!" He sees something moving in the tree above him. "No. No. Stay away. Leanne!

The Man screams as something begins to eat him alive. Bits of flesh, clothing and his iPod drop to the ground. Recording on iPod: This is Nature Sounds' "The Sounds of Nature."

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HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY

OLD HOUSE

Sam comes down the stairs, Dean is standing at a fuse box. "Did you strip enough wire?" Sam Asks

"Yes, I stripped enough wire." Dean Says

"All right." Sam Says

Sam attaches cables to the stripped wires. Electricity crackles and the lights come on.

"See? Told you." Dean Says

Bobby and Elena enters the house, Sam takes a seat at a table, Dean, Elena and Bobby stand around it.

"Well, isn't this cozy." Elena Says

"Yeah. Well, Motel 6 just ain't leaving the light on anymore." Sam Says

"Well, I'm taking a page out of Frank Devereaux's Bible on this. Everybody's out to get you -- paranoia is just plain common sense." Bobby Says

"Weeks, guys. Weeks. We've been living with cold showers, cold Hot Pockets, cold freaking everything. I mean, this is the bottom that we're living in. You guys get that, right?" Dean Says

"How many big mouths are out there, running card traces, like Chet, or hunting us down God knows what ways? No, now's not the time to be laying our bed rolls out on the grid. Not if we can help it."

The lights go off. Sam turns on a battery-powered lamp.

"That's just great. This is stupid. Our quality of life is crap. We got Purgatory's least wanted everywhere, and we're on our third "The World's Screwed" issue in, what, three years? We've steered the bus away from the cliff twice already." Dean Says

"Someone's got to do it." Elena Says

"What if the bus wants to go over the cliff?" Dean Says

"You think the world wants to end." Elena Says

"I think that if we didn't take its belt and all its pens away each year that, yeah, the whole enchilada woulda offed itself already." Dean Says

"Stop trying to wrestle with the big picture, son. You're gonna hurt your head." Bobby Says

Dean takes a beer out of a cooler and lies down on a sofa, Elena and Bobby sits down at the table

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