Closer to Love

41. Monster Movie

Dean fiddled with the radio and muttered, "The radio around here sucks."

Sam glanced at his brother. "Come on man."

"Jobs don't get much sweeter than this, you know? Dead vic with a gnawed-on neck, body drained of blood, and a witness who swears up and down that it was a vampire."

"No, I-I agree. It's a hell of a case."

"A little more gusto, please."

"It's just... The world is coming to an end. Things are a little complicated, you know?"

"Yeah, well, we can't save the world, not today anyway. But what we can do is chop off some vamps' heads. Come on, man, it's like the good old days, an honest-to-goodness monster hunt. It's about time the Winchestersand Katie Grayson got back to tackling. A straightforward, black-and-white case." He glanced back at the girls, who were in the car Katie had recently gotten.

The hunters made their way past a sign that read OKTOBERFEST 2008. Sam and Dean adjusted their suits after exiting the Impala and Katie and Kelsey adjusted their dresses after exiting the Firebird. Dean unbuckled Tess from her car seat and held her.

"I be wif Daddy?" Tess asked.

Dean glanced at Kelseyand she nodded. He set her on his shoulders and she squealed.

Kelsey and Katie walked inside and made their way to the bar as the latter said, "Hi, we're the new bartenders."

Jamie looked at them. "Amanda Andersen and Harley Grace, right?"

Kelsey nodded. "That's us."

"Come on back. Lucy and I'll help you two get started."

Outside, Dean said, "We still got to see the new "Raiders" movie."

"Saw it," Sam replied.

"Without me?" Dean asked incredulously.

"You were in Hell."

"That's no excuse." Something caught his eye. "Big pretzel!" Sam smiled and shook his head.

"Daddy? Can I has?" Tess asked.

Dean accepted three pretzels from the vendor and said, "Thank you." He handed Sam and Tess a pretzel.

"Thank you," Sam replied before each took a bite of their pretzels.

"Gutentag," Jamie, Kelsey and Katie greeted.

""Gutentag" yourselves," Dean said with a full mouth.

"Mama!" Tess cried, smiling.

Sam chewed and hummed, "Mmm." He noticed an old man in a sheriff uniform. "Looks like that's our man. Sheriff Dietrich."

"Are you the boys from the fed?" Sheriff Dietrich questioned.

"Agents Angus and Young. Pardon the kid." The two showed their badges. "We called ahead about your, uh, problem."

"Right. Um... I''ll tell you what, why don't we talk this out away from the crowd, huh?"

INT. MORGUE

The door opened and a body was slid out and covered with a sheet.

Noelle covered her eyes. "Icky!"

Sheriff Dietrich drew back the sheet. "Marissa Wright, 26, just up from Lockhard for the 'fest. Terrible. Just terrible. It's the last thing this town needs at peak tourist season."

"Definitely the last thing Marissa Wright needed," Sam commented as the sheriff smiled tightly.

Dean turned the body's head and saw two dark puncture marks on her neck like a vampire bite, trying to ignore that the victim was around Dahlia's age. "What the hell?"