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Chapter 16

Sam said" Yeah, I hear you. All right, well, thanks for looking. Yep, bye. So, Nora didn't see any pattern to the dig sites either."
Dean said" Yeah, 'cause they got nothing in common. And I got nothing from local lore 50 miles in every direction of all of them. I mean, it's like they're just... old dirt. What's dick looking for?" The lights flickered, Sam and Dean stood up, pulling out their guns. Bobby showed up,
He said" Hey, hey, go easy, you idjits. Sorry for the jump scare."
" So how does this work, huh? I leave the cap off and you just genie your way out?"
" I wish it were that easy. The thing is-" And he was gone.
Sam said" Bobby?"
" Damn it. It's hard to stay focused. I'm still kind of worn out."
Dean said" You've been pretty busy for a dead guy."
" All right. Listen. I-I don't know how long before my next ghost nap, so let's just skip to the skinny- those numbers I gave you."
" The empty lot in cheeseville?"
" Yeah, well, it aint gonna be empty for long. I got a gander at Dick's big plan, right before he lincolned me. They're breaking ground- what month is this?"
I said" Uh, April."
" Ground's broke. They're building as we're yammering. Check it out yourself. It's all right. I mean, you guys missed it because you've been kind of busy killing ghosts the past few days. But Dick is about to get into the Soylent green business. That site'll show you they're building a biotech lab, right? Biotech my ass. That sucker is a state of the art slaughterhouse. And we're the beef."
Sam said" Don't you think that's a little bold, even for Dick?"
" I bet you no one will even notice, 'cause first he's gonna dumb us all down with turducken-style munchies. Make us docile."
Dean said" We haven't been to Biggerson's since that whole fiasco."
" Biggerson's? He's bought a list of joints 10 pages long."
" Ah."
" Next, he's gonna cure us."
Sam said" Cure of us what?"
" All the biggies- cancer, aids, heart disease. Let's just say they got an affinity for stem-cell research."
Dean said" The, uh, leviathan real-estate mooks building that cancer center."
" They're not hunting anymore. They're engineering the perfect herd. Now, we've gone up against plenty- liked to eat a few folks in the woods. This ain't that. This is about knocking us off the top of the food chain. This is about them levis living here forever, one-percenter style, while we march our dopey, fat asses down to the shiny new death camps at every corner." The computer beeped,
Sam said" It's an email. From Frank."
Dean said" Frank's alive?"
Bobby said" That jackass, always stealing my thunder."
Sam said" Sam and Dean, if you're reading this, I'm dead... or worse. This email was sent because some prince is trying to hack into my hard drive right this second. So unless it's you, you got trouble. Um, okay.... my drive is full of compromising info. Your new aliases, hangouts, where you stored your car..."
Dean said" Baby?"
" Even though he encrypted the crap out of his drive, he says we should assume that someone can hack into it eventually. He did put a tracking device in it. All right, let's see where Frank's drive is." He clicked in and it was at a Dick enterprise... shit, shit, shit!
" Perfect. It's in the middle of the Death Star. All right, well, off to Chicago."
Bobby said" No, wait, boys, you can't just break in. They know your mugs. What if we mailed in the flask? Then I could ghost through the joint. I mean, it's not like Dick can kill me twice. What, you got a better plan? Come on. Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I don't know how to do my damn job."
Sam said" Bobby, that's Dick's office."
Dean said" I think what Sam's trying to say is, what happens if you run into Dick and, you know... go vengeful. You know it's not something you can just shake off."
Bobby said" Come on. Give me some credit. What, I'm supposed to just ride the pine?"
Sam said" Sorry, Bobby." We walked away from him, oh, this is gonna go great!
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We broke into the girl's place, the girl that hacked into Frank's drive. We saw her come in, then as she was about to leave. Dean stopped her,
He said" It's all right. I'm not gonna hurt you."
She said" Get away from me, you... shapeshifter!" Sam went up to her,
He said" Look, we're not shapeshifters." She swung the sword she picked up and it broke," Geez!" I grabbed the sword,
Dean said" Look, we're not leviathans, okay? You want us to prove it? You know what Borax does to them?" She nodded," Sam? Key?" Dean poured some on my hand, then Sam's, then his own." Huh? Your turn." She took the bottle and poured some on her hand," Good."
She said" Who the hell are you guys?"