Fight, Boy, Fight

Chapter 54

After a few minutes,
I heard Sam say" Riv, hey, eat your grilled cheese."
I mumbled" Wanna sleep, Sammy. Go away." 
" Come on, little dude, you've gotta eat something." I opened my eyes to look at him," Half." I pouted but grabbed half of the grilled cheese and began eating it, yawning." Thanks."

They came in with a thing, Bobby put the lantern and Sam's bag next to me on the couch as Sam and Dean put the thing on the table.
Bobby said" Built like a supermodel, but the thing was strong. That's for damn sure. Carried a full grown man up a tree in nothing flat."
Sam said" But it only took one bullet to bring it down."
Dean said" And not even a silver bullet, just a bullet-bullet." Then it jumped up, Sam, Dean and Bobby shot into it a lot, it dropped again.
Bobby said" First one must have just stunned it."
" All right, well, let's check its hulk pants for some ID." He pulled out a wallet," Oh, that is just gonna ruin the leather." Sam grabbed it from him,
" Are you feeling okay?"
" Yeah, I feel great."
Sam said" Gerald Browder. Uh, lived here in town, 5'9, brown hair and blue eyes... 235 pounds."
" Whoa." Dean whistled,
Bobby said" Well, apparently, he's lost a little pudge."
" Maybe it's a-a lap-band side effect." Bobby stuck a stick into one of the bullet holes, he pulled it out and the stuff on the stick didn't look like blood, it looked more like snot.
" What the hell? I think we better have a look under Gerald's hood."

Bobby said" God! It's organs are swimming in this stuff."
Dean said" You guys getting hungry? I'm hungry."
Sam said" What's that?"
Bobby said" His stomach. For a guy on a diet, Gerry here packed it in pretty good."
" That's human right there."
" That's fresh Rick. Let's see. Plus-" He held up a pine cone," Pine cone?" He threw it in the bucket," Pack of gum in the wrapper." He threw that into the bucket too,
" That's-That's older. Maybe like a- Maybe Ranger Phil or the camper."
" What's that?" He pulled up something, it looked like a cat's head, I hid half my face against Sam's side.
" Looks like a- Yeah, that's a- That's a cat's head."
" A glamper or two is one thing, but you got to be damn hungry to eat a cat's head."
" Mm-hmm."
" Well, lookit here. I'm no Dr. Oz, but... I think that's his adrenal glands."
" Okay. And?"
" Meant to be the size of hotel bar soap... and bright orange." He dropped it into the bucket, Sam groaned,
" All right, that might help explain the strength. Um, but whatever this thing is, it's not the Jersey Devil, but it sure as hell ain't Gerald Browder anymore."
Dean said" Okay, guys, seriously. It's time for dinner?" Sam quickly smiled at him, and he walked away.

We were back at Biggerson's,
Sam said" Gerald Browder, 35, self employed. Air-conditioning repairman. Missing person number 3. Disappeared 8 days ago."
Bobby said" Well, that explains all the people who got eaten in the last eight days."
" Yeah. Question is, what happened to him?" Dean was acting weird," Dean. Uh, so, what do you think?"
Dean said" I'm not that worried about it."
Bobby said" Excuse me?"
" That's funny, right? I could give two shakes of a rat's ass. Is that right? Do rats shake their ass, or is it something else? Eh." He took another bite of the weird sandwich, I looked around, everyone who had that sandwich wasn't acting normal. My eyes glowed,
Sam said" Give me that." He took the sandwich from Dean,
" Whoa, whoa! Why?!"
Bobby said" There's some funky chicken in the TDK slammer, ain't there?" I leaned up and sniffed the sandwich, I shot back, tilting my head.
Sam said" Yeah."

Dean said" This is stupid. My sandwich didn't do anything. I don't know what you think you're gonna find." Sam opened the tinfoil,
Bobby said" There's something wrong with you, Dean."
" Are you kidding? I'm fine! I-I actually feel great. The best I've felt in a couple months. Cas? Black goo? I don't even care anymore. And you know what's even better? I don't care that I don't care. I just want my damn slammer back."
Sam said" Dude, you are completely stoned, just like Ranger Rick was."
Bobby said" Just like the dinner rush back at Biggerson's. And everybody's loving the turducken."
Dean said" I think you pissed off my sandwich." It was oozing out gray goo, I looked at Sam," That-That's in me?"
Sam said" O-Only half of it."
Bobby said" Does that snot look familiar?"
" Okay, so whatever turned Gerry Browder into a pumpkin head... and is currently turning Dean into an idiot-"
Dean said" I'm right here. Right here."
Bobby said" Is in the turducken slammer at Biggerson's."
Sam said" Yeah."
" It's in the meat."
Dean said" If I wasn't so chilled out right now, I would puke."

We were watching for the meat truck, I was on Sam's lap, my head dropped and I was out.
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Sam and I went around the building,
Sam said" There's nothing happening back here at all."
Bobby said" Yeah, okay, Sam. Well, they're pretty dug in. So why don't you finish circling and head on back?"
" Right." Bobby hung up, I looked up at Sam," Let's head back, bud."

We were nearly back to the van when we saw the cars pulling in.
I said" Something's up." Sam grabbed my arm and we ran for the van.

We got into the van,
Sam said" Hey, something's up." The cars stopped, a guy got out of one.
Bobby said" Well, I'll be a squirrel in a skirt. It's Dick friggin' Roman."
Dean said" Who the hell is Dick friggin' Roman?"

Sam showed us a video of this Dick Roman guy, and if he's one of them... this is bigger than we thought.
Dean said" Holy crap. What the hell is that?"
Sam said" That's one of the top 50 most powerful men in America, Dean."
" Says here top 35 as of last month. Now it's all making sense. Remember when Crowley kept going on about hating Dick? I thought he was just being general. Pfft!"
Bobby said" Well, if the leviathan got to him, then that means they're playing on a much bigger board than we were thinking."
Sam said" So what, then? I mean, we can't exactly outgun them."
" No, but we got the drop on them. Means we got a chance to figure out what these guys are really doing here." Bobby put together his giant hearing thingy.
Dean said" Whoa. Where'd you get that mother?"
" It's on loan from Frank's big brother collection. It'll pick up vocal vibrations from window glass at half a mile. Well, it's time to find out what these ugly bastards are up to."

Dean said" Our side's still dead, Bobby. Anything with you?" I looked at Bobby, then went back to looking through binoculars.
Bobby said" Same here. I got- hold on. Yeah, I got movement- My side, second floor, meeting room." I went to the area he said, I saw Dick Roman, a woman, a doctor and Edgar. Bobby watched and listened,
" What's happening now?"
" Wait." Then I saw the doctor start eating himself," Now I have officially seen it all."
Sam said" Bobby, what is it?"
Bobby and I said" He's making the doctor eat himself."
Dean said" What?"
" He's-" Then I saw a man, I screamed as he punched Bobby, my eyes glowed, then I was punched, everything went black.

I woke up but stayed still, I could feel the black smoke around me, circling me like it was protecting me.
I heard Dick Roman say" We both know that you're not gonna get past me. How's your head?" I got really dizzy, the black smoke wants to keep me asleep, to keep me from moving.
Bobby said" So you got Dick Roman."
" We can have whoever we want. We could have you, for example. If you were worth the effort."
" Oh, you're hurting my feelings."
" Well, it's a hard world, Bob. It's an us-eat-dog world."
" What do you got there?"
" Winning bid at auction. Beautiful. Known for their peerless sighting. I imagine you appreciate guns."
" I'd appreciate one right about now." The energy was getting too much, I couldn't think... I-I couldn't breathe-

I heard Bobby say" River, come on, son, wake up." My eyes opened, everything looked blurred," That's never a good sign." I stood up, but everything felt different now, I don't understand. The door opened and Bobby was slapped, he hit the ground, I saw a woman. Bobby shot her with a gun, and we ran out, I looked at him.

I saw Sam cornered by Dick, Bobby shot him,
Dick said" Hey. That's mine." Then Dean poured borax on him,
Dean said" Go! Go! Go!" Sam and Dean ran, Bobby followed after them,
" Would you stop it with that stuff?" I flung him back, the energy hit me like a giant rock, I wanted to whimper but my mouth wasn't listening to me. Then I saw black smoke, then I was in front of Bobby, all the energy left me, I felt like I was in a block of ice. The leviathan flung me to the side, Bobby hit him with a crowbar and ran, black smoke surrounded me again. It lifted me up, I ran after Bobby, then I was thrown into the back of the van, I hit the side and everything went black.