iv
( 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗐𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗋 )
▬▬▬ ALL THREE ARE AT A RESTAURANT, there is a empty plate in front of Dean, who is circling obituaries in a newspaper.
Dean circles an obituary that reads,
CARLTON, SOPHIE -The Carlton family is sad to announce the death of their beloved daughter in a tragic swimming accident. Sophie Carlton, 18, was having her - Lake Manitoc WI, an - suddenly -
As Dean was doing that, an attractive waitress named Wendy came by.
"Can I get you anything else?" said the waitress.
Dean looks up and grins around the pen he's chewing on.
Elena saw what was Dean doing, she was weirded out by his behavior.
"Ok, this man is a sleaze." Elena thought to herself.
Sam comes over to the table they are at.
"Just the check, please." said Sam.
"Okay."
"You know, Sam, we are allowed to have fun once in a while." Dean said.
Dean points to Wendy walking away; she's wearing short shorts.
"Seriously Dean, you're disgusting." Elena said to him.
"Hey, look, I got the looks so if anyone wants a piece of this, then they can." Dean said while pointing at himself.
Elena rolled her eyes at him while Sam was not amused at the whole situation, then Sam looks at Dean and he hands Sam the newspaper.
"Here, take a look at this, I think I got one. Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin. Last week Sophie Carlton, eighteen, walks into the lake, doesn't walk out. Authorities dragged the water; nothing. Sophie Carlton is the third Lake Manitoc drowning this year. None of the other bodies were found either. They had a funeral two days ago."
"A funeral?"
"Yeah, it's weird, they buried an empty coffin. For, uh, closure or whatever."
"Closure? What closure? People don't just disappear, Dean. Other people just stop looking for them."
"Something you want to say to me?" Dean said to Sam.
"The trail for dad, it's getting colder every day."
"What are we supposed to do?"
"I don't know, something, anything"
"You know what? I'm sick of this attitude. You don't think I wanna find Dad as much as you do?"
"Look guys, can we not fight and just get this over already?" Elena was annoyed by them arguing.
"She's right we shouldn't even be arguing about this." Sam said to Dean.
"Yeah, okay."
Sam rolls his eyes. Wendy walks by, distracting Dean.
"All right, Lake Manitoc. Hey!"
Dean returns his attention to Sam.
"Huh?"
"How far?" Sam asked.
✫☆✫
The impala pulls up in front of a house. The car stops and all three of them step out of the impala and walk towards the front door. Dean knocks on the door and a guy opens it.
"Will Carlton?" Dean questioned.
"Yeah, that's right." The man replied in which his name is Will.
"I'm Agent Ford. This is Agent Hamill, and this is,"
Elena cuts Dean off,
"Agent Pierce. We're with the US Wildlife Service." Elena said to Will.
Elena holds up her ID to show to Will.
✫☆✫
Will's father, Bill Carlton, is sitting on a bench on the dock. Will brings Sam, Dean, and Elena around to see him.
"She was about a hundred yards out. That's where she got dragged down." Will said to them.
"And you're sure she didn't just drown?" Dean asked.
"Yeah, she was a varsity swimmer. She practically grew up in that lake. She was as safe out there as in her own bathtub."
"So no splashing? No signs of distress?" Sam asked Will.
"No, that's what I'm telling you."
"Did you see any shadows in the water? Maybe some dark shape breach the surface?"
"No. Again, she was really far out there."
"You ever see any strange tracks by the shoreline?"
"No, never. Why? Why, what do you think's out there?"
"We'll let you know as soon as we do." As Dean said that, he heads to the impala.
"What about your father?" Elena asked Will
Dean stops and turns back around.
"Can we talk to him?"
Will turns to look at Bill, then turns back to Elena and Sam.
"Look, if you don't mind, I mean, he didn't see anything and he's kind of been through a lot."
"We understand."
All three go toward the impala.
✫☆✫
The three were all the police station and was talking to a sheriff named Jake Devins, during their conversation a woman was tapping on the door.
"I'm sorry, am I interrupting?" The woman said.
Everyone stood up to greet her.
"I can come back later."
"Gentlemen and lady, this is my daughter."
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Dean." Dean shakes her hand.
"Andrea Barr, hi"
"Hi."
"They're from the Wildlife Service, about the lake."
"Oh."
A little boy walks in around Andrea.
"Oh hey there, what's your name?" Elena asked the little boy.
The little boy walks away without speaking, Andrea follows.
"His name is Lucas." The sheriff said.
Lucas and Andrea went to another room and gave Lucas some crayons out of a box.
"Is he okay?"
"My grandson's been through a lot. We all have."
✫☆✫
Andrea leads Dean, Sam, and Elena along the street.
"So, cute kid." Dean said to Andrea.
"Thanks."
They crossed a street.
"Kids are the best, huh?"
Andrea glances at him and ignores him. They keep walking. They stop in front of a building that says Lakefront Motel.
"There it is. Like I said, two blocks." Andrea stated.
"Thanks."
"Must be hard, with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line."
Elena chuckled at what Andrea said to Dean, Dean glanced at her and gave her a look. Andrea leaves, calling back over her shoulder.
"Enjoy your stay."
" 'Kids are the best'? You don't even like kids." Sam knew his brother was trying to flirt with Andrea.
"I love kids."
"Dean, even I can tell this is a lie." Elena said to him.
"Name three children that you even know." Sam says.
Dean thinks and comes up empty. Sam waves a hand and walks into the motel. Dean scratches his head.
"I'm thinking!" Dean yelled.
"Keep thinking harder and you will win one million dollars." Elena sarcastically said.
✫☆✫
Sam is working on his laptop, Dean is going through his clothing, and Elena is going through photos of her family on her phone. Elena was smiling at the pictures where all of her friends and family were together having a great time, her heart was beginning to throb.
Dean glanced at Elena to see what was she doing.
"Why are you smiling at your phone? Secret admirer?" Dean said to Elena.
Elena quickly turned off her phone.
"No, uh just looking at something." Elena replied, Dean, got suspicious and knew Elena was hiding something.
"So there's the three drowning victims this year."
"Any before that?"
"Uh, yeah."
Sam has a browser window open to The Lake Manitoc Tribune. DROWNING TAINTS ICE FISHING FESTIVAL. He clicks, and another browser window comes up, again the Tribune: 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL DROWNS IN LAKE, Second drowning in 6 months at Lake Manitoc.
"Six more spread out over the past thirty-five years. Those bodies were never recovered either. If there is something out there, it's picking up its pace."
"So, what, we got a lake monster on a binge?"
"This whole lake monster theory, it just bugs me."
Dean comes over to read over Sam's shoulder.
"Why?"
"Loch Ness, uh, Lake Champlain, there are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts, but here, almost nothing."
"Whatever it is out there, no one's living to talk about it."
Sam scrolls to the comments section of an article, Dean points at it.
"Wait, Barr, Christopher Barr. Where have I heard that name before?"
Sam reads from the page.
Christopher Barr, the victim in May.
Sam clicks a link, opening a new page. LOCAL MAN IN TRAGIC ACCIDENT. The picture loads: it shows a police officer with Lucas.
"Oh, Christopher Barr was Andrea's husband, Lucas's father. Apparently, he took Lucas out swimming. Lucas was on a floating wooden platform when Chris drowned. Two hours before the kid got rescued."
Sam clicks the picture for a better look, then scratches his head.
"Maybe we have an eyewitness after all."
"No wonder that kid was so freaked out. Watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over."
Elena was lost in her thoughts when Dean said that, she knew how Lucas felt since she lost both of her parents when they went over the bridge. But since she knows the whole story, her dad pointed out to Stefan to save Elena from drowning but her mom and dad didn't make it out in time.
"Earth to Elena?" Dean waved just hand in front of her face.
"Yeah, kid was freaked out." Elena said after she came to a realization.
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Kids are laughing and playing. Andrea sits on a bench and watches Lucas, who is at another bench coloring and playing with toy soldiers.
"Can we join you?"
Andrea looks up, all three are there.
"I'm here with my son."
Dean looks over at Lucas.
"Oh, mind if I say hi?" Dean goes over to Lucas.
"Tell your friend or boyfriend whatever, this whole Jerry Maguire thing is not gonna work on me."
"He's not my boyfriend, but I'll tell him."
Sam sits next to Andrea and Elena goes to where Dean and Lucas are at.
"I don't think that's what this is about."
Elena approaches Dean and Lucas.
"So, how's it going?" Dean kneels down next to the bench where Lucas is coloring; when Lucas doesn't even look up, Dean picks up one of the toy soldiers. Elena kneels down to the other side of Lucas.
"Oh, I used to love these things." Dean imitates guns and explosions, then tosses the toy soldier down.
"Dean, I don't think you're helping."
"Ok, well how would you know? You haven't been through what's he going."
Lucas has a pile of drawings on the bench. Dean takes a look. The top one is of a big black swirl; the second one is of a red bicycle.
"Hey, these are pretty good. You mind if I sit and draw with you for a while?"
Dean picks up a crayon, so does Elena.
"I'm not so bad myself."
"You know what, I'll talk. You know, I'm thinking you can hear me, you just don't want to talk. I don't know exactly what happened to your dad, but I know it was something really bad. I think I know how you feel. When I was in my teen years, I saw something happened."
Dean then looks at Elena's face, confused.
"Anyway. Well, maybe you don't think anyone will listen to you, or, uh, or believe you. I want you to know that we will. You don't even have to say anything. You could draw me a picture of what you saw that day, with your dad, on the lake. Okay, no problem. This is for you."
Elena holds out to Lucas the picture she drew. It's stick figures.
"This is my family, that's my dad, that's my mom, that's my brother who I love dearly, and that's me."
Dean looked at what Elena drew, she has a brother, why didn't she tell him the rest of her life when they went on the Wendigo hunt?
"Alright, I guess we'll see you around Lucas." Dean said to him.
Elena was already gone, Dean had a lot of questions for Elena. He heads towards the group.
"You know, he used to have such life. He was hard to keep up with, to tell you the truth. Now he just sits there. Drawing those pictures, playing with those army men. I just wish," Andrea paused when Lucas was approaching them.
Lucas walks up, carrying a picture.
"Hey sweetie."
Lucas hands Elena the picture.
"Thanks, Lucas." Elena said.
It's a picture of the Carlton house. Lucas heads back to the bench.
✫☆✫
Dean is inside the motel room sitting on a bed. Elena was sitting on the other bed looking at the picture of what Lucas gave to her.
"So, you have a family and left them? Why would you do that?"
"You know Dean, you ask a lot of questions." Elena said to him.
"I'm just trying to get to know you better, what if you're a serial killer that is plotting to kill us."
Elena looked at him with a look that makes him go in defense mode.
"Hey, we don't know, you could be one." Dean said while his hands are up.
Sam opens the door and comes in.
"So, I think it's safe to say we can rule out Nessie."
"What do you mean?"
Sam sits next to Dean, Elena gets up from the other bed and sits besides Sam.
"I just drove past the Carlton house. There was an ambulance there. Will Carlton is dead"
"He drowned?" Elena asked.
"Yep, in the sink."
"What the hell? So you're right, this isn't a creature. We're dealing with something else." Dean to him.
"Yeah, but what?"
"I don't know. Water wraith, maybe? Some kind of demon? I mean, something that controls water, water that comes from the same source."
"The lake."
"Yeah."
"Which would explain why it's upping the body count. The lake is draining. It'll be dry in a few months. Whatever this thing is, whatever it wants, it's running out of time."
"And if it can get through the pipes, it can get to anyone, almost anywhere." Dean stands up.
✫☆✫
Bill Carton is sitting on the bench on the dock.
"Mr. Carlton?"
Bill looks up, the three approaches him.
"We'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind."
"We're from the Department,"
"I don't care who you're with. I've answered enough questions today."
"Your son said he saw something in that lake. What about you? You ever see anything out there? Mr. Carlton, Sophie's drowning and Will's death, we think there might be a connection to you or your family."
"My children are gone. It's, it's worse than dying. Go away, please."
Sam, Dean, and Elena head back to the car.
"What do y'all think?"
"Aw, I think the poor guy's been through hell. I also think he's not telling us something." Dean said to him.
Sam leans on the Impala.
"So now what?"
Elena goes still while Dean is trying to find more connections.
"What is it?" Sam asked.
Elena is glancing at the Carlton house.
"Maybe Bill's not the only one who knows something." Elena said.
Elena pulls out the picture Lucas brought her, which is of the Carlton house, Elena looks at Sam.
✫☆✫
"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's a good idea."
"I just need to talk to him." Dean said to Andrea.
The three are inside Andrea's house, talking to her.
"Just for a few minutes." Dean pleaded.
"He won't say anything. What good's it gonna do?" Andrea said to him.
"Andrea, we think more people might get hurt. We think something's happening out there." Elena said to her.
"My husband, the others, they just drowned. That's all."
"If that's what you really believe, then we'll go. But if you think there's even a possibility that something else could be going on here, please let me talk to your son."
Lucas is coloring, toy soldiers standing around him. Dean, Andrea, Sam, and Elena approach the doorway. Elena enters and crouches down by Lucas.
"Hey, Lucas. You remember me?" Elena said to Lucas.
Lucas has drawn two more pictures of a red bicycle.
"You know, I, uh, I wanted to thank you for that last drawing. But the thing is, I need your help again."
Lucas is drawing a person in the water. Elena opens the house picture and puts it down in front of Lucas.
"How did you know to draw this? Did you know something bad was gonna happen? Maybe you could nod yes or no for me."
Lucas keeps coloring.
"You're scared. It's okay. I understand. See, when I was a teenager, I saw something real bad happen to my mom and dad, I was scared, too. I didn't feel like talking, just like you. But see, my mom and dad, I know they wanted me to be brave. I think about that every day. And I do my best to be brave. And maybe, your dad wants you to be brave too."
Sam and Dean glances at Elena.
Lucas drops his crayon and looks up at Elena. He hands Elena a picture of a white church, a yellow house, and a boy with a blue baseball cap and a red bicycle in front of a wooden fence.
"Thanks, Lucas."
✫☆✫
The three are in the Impala, Sam holding the church picture.
"What happened to your parents?" Sam asked Elena.
"Wow, you guys are really are brothers." Elena said.
"Oh, sorry for asking." Sam apologized to Elena.
"Andrea said the kid never drew like that till his dad died." Dean said.
"There are cases, going through a traumatic experience could make people more sensitive to premonitions, psychic tendencies."
"Whatever's out there, what if Lucas is tapping into it somehow? I mean, it's only a matter of time before somebody else drowns, so if you got a better lead, please."
"All right, we got another house to find." Sam said.
"The only problem is there are about a thousand yellow two-stories in this county alone." Dean said to Sam.
Sam looks at the picture. "See this church? I bet there's less than a thousand of those around here."
"Oh, College Boy thinks he's so smart." Dean jokingly said.
✫☆✫
Sam, Dean, and Elena approach a white church shaped like the one in Lucas's picture. Elena holds up the picture and looks at it, comparing it to the scene in front of him; there's a yellow house next to the church and a wooden fence near the house. Sam looks at Dean. They both look up at the church and cross the street to the house.
"We're sorry to bother you, ma'am,"
The three are inside the house, speaking to an old woman, named Mrs. Sweeney.
"But does a little boy live here, by chance? He might wear a blue ball cap, has a red bicycle."
"No, sir. Not for a very long time. Peter's been gone for thirty-five years now."
There's a picture of Peter on the side table. Sweeney sighs.
"The police never, I never had any idea what happened. He just disappeared." Sweeney said to them.
Sam points out to Dean a number of toy soldiers on a table.
"Losing him, you know, it's, it's worse than dying."
Elena glances at Sam and Dean.
"Did he disappear from here? I mean, from this house?" Elena asked.
"He was supposed to ride his bike straight home after school, and he never showed up."
Dean picks a picture off the mirror. There are two boys in the picture, one Peter with a bicycle. Dean reads from the back of the picture.
"Peter Sweeney and Billy Carlton, nineteen seventy."
✫☆✫
The three are in the impala driving to the lake.
"Okay, this little boy Peter Sweeney vanishes, and this is all connected to Bill Carlton somehow."
"Yeah, Bill sure as hell seems to be hiding something, huh?" Dean asked.
"And Bill, the people he loves, they're all getting punished." Sam said.
"So what if Bill did something to Peter?"
"What if Bill killed him?" Elena questioned.
"Peter's spirit would be furious. It'd want revenge. It's possible." Dean replies to Elena.
✫☆✫
The Impala pulls up in front of the Carlton house. Sam, Dean, and Elena approach the house.
"Mr. Carlton?"
An engine roars.
All three of them go around the house to see Bill going out on the lake in his boat.
"Hey, check it out."
The three-run to the end of the dock, yelling.
"Mr. Carlton! You need to come back! Come out of the water! Turn the boat around!"
"Mr. Carlton!" Elena yelled.
Bill ignores them and keeps going. The water rises up and flips Bill's boat over. It and he vanish.
✫☆✫
Lucas is sitting in a chair, rocking back and forth. Andrea is sitting next to him, holding a paper bag and a plastic container.
"Baby, what's wrong?"
Sam, Dean, Elena, and Jake Devins walk in the door. Andrea looks over.
"Sam, Dean, and Elena." Andrea spoke.
Andrea stands up, putting the bag and container on her chair.
"I didn't expect to see you here."
"So now you're on a first-name basis. What are you doing here?" The sheriff asked.
"I brought you dinner." Andrea replied.
"I'm sorry, sweetheart, I don't really have the time."
"I heard about Bill Carlton. Is it true? Is something going on with the lake?"
"Right now we don't know what the truth is. But I think it might be better if you and Lucas went on home."
Lucas looks up and whines, looking stricken; he jumps up and grabs Elena's arm.
"Lucas, hey, what is it? Lucas." Elena questioned him.
"Lucas."
"Lucas, it's okay. It's okay. Hey, Lucas, it's okay. It's okay." Elena said while reassuring him.
Andrea pulls Lucas away from Elena and leads him outside. Lucas doesn't look away from Elena.
Jake throws down his jacket and goes into his office, the three follows him.
"Okay, just so I'm clear, you see, something attack Bill's boat, sending Bill, who is a very good swimmer, by the way, into the drink, and you never see him again?"
Dean glanced at Sam and Elena
"Yeah, that about sums it up." Dean said.
"And I'm supposed to believe this, even though I've already sonar-swept that entire lake? And what you're describing is impossible? And you're not really Wildlife Service?" The sheriff questioned.
Dean looks surprised.
"That's right, I checked. Department's never heard of you three."
"See, now, we can explain that."
"Enough. Please. The only reason you're breathing free air is one of Bill's neighbors saw him steering out that boat just before you did. So, we have a couple of options here. I can arrest you for impersonating government officials and hold you as material witnesses to Bill Carlton's disappearance. Or, we can chalk this all up to a bad day, you get into your car, you put this town in your rearview mirror, and you don't ever darken my doorstep again."
"Door number two sounds good." Sam said.
"That's the one I'd pick."
✫☆✫
Sam, Dean, and Elena are in the Impala, waiting at a traffic light. A sign says I-43 North to Milwaukee is to the left. The light turns green. The Impala doesn't move.
"Green." Sam said.
"What?" Dean questioned.
"Light's green." Sam said again.
Dean turns right.
"Uh, the interstate's the other way"
"I know." Dean answered
✫☆✫
The three are in the car.
"But Dean, this job, I think it's over."
"I'm not so sure."
"If Bill murdered Peter Sweeney and Peter's spirit got its revenge, case closed. The spirit should be at rest."
"All right, so what if we take off and this thing isn't done? You know, what if we've missed something? What if more people get hurt?" Dean asked.
"But why would you think that?"
"Because Lucas was really scared." Dean replied.
"That's what this is about?"
"I just don't want to leave this town until I know the kid's okay."
"Who are you? And what have you done with my brother?"
"Wow, Dean has a heart after all." Elena joked.
Dean glances at Sam and Elena.
"Shut up you guys."
✫☆✫
The three have arrived at Andrea's house.
"Are you sure about this? It's pretty late."
Elena rings the doorbell. At that moment, Lucas opens the door, desperately afraid.
"Lucas? Lucas!" Dean yelled.
Lucas takes off. All three follow him to where Andrea is at.
Water is pouring out from under the bathroom door and down the stairs. Lucas starts pounding on the bathroom door again. Dean pushes him over to Sam and Elena and kicks in the door. Lucas grabs Elena, Sam runs into the bathroom and sticks his arms in the tub, trying to pull Andrea out. She is pulled back under, but Sam keeps pulling until Andrea is all the way out. She starts coughing up water.
✫☆✫
Dawn is breaking. Sam and Andrea sit in the living room. Andrea is dry and wearing comfortable clothing.
"Can you tell me?"
"No."
Dean is looking through notebooks on bookshelves. Elena was with Lucas.
"It doesn't make any sense." Andrea stated, she starts crying.
"I'm going crazy." She puts her face in her hands.
"No, you're not. Tell me what happened. Everything." Sam said to her.
"I heard, I thought I heard, there was this voice."
"What did it say?"
"It said, it said 'come play with me'."Andrea sobs.
"What's happening?"
Dean pulls out a scrapbook that says "Jake – 12 years old" and opens it, flipping pages. He closes it again and goes to Sam and Andrea; he puts the book down in front of Andrea open to a picture of Explorer Troop 37.
"Do you recognize the kids in these pictures?" Dean asked Andrea.
"What? Um, um, no. I mean except that's my dad right there. He must have been about twelve in these pictures."
She moves her finger over to another picture of Jake as a child; he is standing next to Peter. Dean looks at Sam.
"Chris Barr's drowning. The connection wasn't to Bill Carlton. It must have been to the sheriff."
"Bill and the sheriff, they were both involved with Peter."
"What about Chris? My dad, what are you talking about?"
Dean looks sideways, Sam and Dean looks over at Elena and Lucas.
"Lucas?"
Lucas is staring out the window.
"Lucas, what is it?" Dean asked.
Lucas opens the door and walks outside. Everyone follows.
"Lucas, honey?" Andrea
Lucas stops and looks at the ground, then at Elena.
"You and Lucas get back to the house and stay there, okay?" Elena said.
Andrea pulls Lucas back to the house. Sam and Dean presumably fetch shovels from the Impala, Elena would have to see what they were doing before they start digging. Sam's shovel clanks against something. They dig with their hands and pull out a red bicycle.
"Peter's bike." Sam said.
"Who are you?"
The three turn around; Jake is there, pointing a gun at them.
"Put the gun down, Jake." Sam said to him.
Sam and Dean drop the shovels.
"How did you know that was there?"
"What happened? You and Bill killed Peter, drowned him in the lake and then buried the bike? You can't bury the truth, Jake. Nothing stays buried." Dean said.
Andrea sees Jake with the gun aimed at the three of them, she talks to Lucas.
"Go to your room, sweetie. Now. Lock the door and wait for me. Don't come out."
Lucas runs off, Andrea goes outside.
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about."
"You and Bill killed Peter Sweeney thirty-five years ago. That's what the hell I'm talking about." Dean sternly said.
Andrea runs up.
"Dad!" Andrea yelled.
"And now you got one seriously pissed off spirit."
"It's gonna take Andrea, Lucas, everyone you love. It's gonna drown them. And it's gonna drag their bodies God knows where, so you can feel the same pain Peter's mom felt. And then, after that, it's gonna take you, and it's not gonna stop until it does." Sam stated.
"Yeah, and how do you know that?" Jake asked.
"Because that's exactly what it did to Bill Carlton."
"Listen to guys, the three of y'all. You guys are insane."
"I don't really give a rat's ass what you think of us. But if we're gonna bring down this spirit, we need to find the remains, salt them, and burn them into dust. Now tell me you buried Peter somewhere. Tell me you didn't just let him go in the lake." Dean said.
Lucas didn't go to his room; he's outside watching.
"Come play with me." The ghost of Peter's voice was heard, Lucas follows the voice.
"Dad, is any of this true?" Andrea asked her Dad.
"No. Don't listen to them. They're liars and they're dangerous."
"Something tried to drown me. Chris died on that lake. Dad, look at me."
Jake does.
"Tell me you, you didn't kill anyone." Jake looks away.
"Oh my God."
"Billy and I were at the lake. Peter was the smallest one. We always bullied him, but this time, it got rough. We were holding his head under the water. We didn't mean to. But we held him under too long and he drowned. We let the body go, and it sank."
Dean glances at Sam and Elena.
"Oh, Andrea, we were kids. We were so scared. It was a mistake. But, Andrea, to say that I have anything to do with these drownings, with Chris, because of some ghost? It's not rational."
"All right, listen to me, all of you. We need to get you away from this lake, as far as we can, right now." Dean said.
Andrea turns her head and spots Lucas going down to the lake. She gasps.
"Lucas!" Jake yelled.
They all run-up to the dock. Lucas is leaning over the side, reaching for a toy soldier in the water.
"Come play with me." The ghost of Peter said.
"Lucas!" Dean yelled.
"Lucas! Baby, stay where you are!" Andrea was scared that her son might drown.
A hand comes up and pulls Lucas into the water. The adults have reached the edge of the lake. Jake stops. Peter's head is visible; Jake recognizes him. Dean and Sam keep running to the end of the dock and dive in.
"Oh my God!" Andrea cried out.
She takes off her jacket to jump in.
"Andrea, stay there!" Sam yelled at her.
"No! Lucas!"
"We'll get him! Just stay on the dock!"
Sam dives under again. Dean comes up. A minute later so does Sam.
"Sam?" Dean questioned.
Sam shakes his head.
"Lucas, where are you?"
Jake takes off his jacket as Sam and Dean dive back down. Jake wades in, Andrea looks over. Elena was hugging Andrea.
"Peter, if you can hear me, please, Peter, I'm sorry. I'm so, I'm so sorry."
"Daddy, no!" Andrea tried to run to her dad but Elena holds onto her.
"Peter. Lucas, he's, he's just a little boy. Please, it's not his fault, it's mine. Please take me."
Sam and Dean come up for air.
"Jake, no!" Dean yelled, Peter surfaces.
"Just let it be over!" Jake is dragged down.
Sam and Dean dive down again. Sam comes up, shaking his head. Andrea mouths 'no!'
Dean comes up, holding Lucas, who isn't moving.
✫☆✫
The three walk out of the motel. Dean opens the car door and Sam tosses a duffel in.
"Look, we're not gonna save everybody." Sam said.
"I know."
"Sam, Dean, Elena." Andrea said as she walks up with Lucas.
"Hey." Dean said.
"We're glad we caught you. We just, um, we made you lunch for the road."
Lucas is carrying a tray of sandwiches.
"Lucas insisted on making the sandwiches himself."
"Can I give it to them now?" Lucas asked.
The three were surprised that Lucas spoke for the first time, he had finally opened up.
"Of course." Lucas's mom said, Andrea smiles and kisses Lucas's head.
"Come on, Lucas, let's load this into the car."
"How are you holding up?" Sam asked Andrea.
"It's just gonna take a long time to sort through everything, you know?"
Sam sighs.
"Andrea, I'm sorry."
Andrea shakes her head. "You guys saved my son. I can't ask for more than that. Dad loved me. He loved Lucas. No matter what he did, I just have to hold on to that."
Dean puts the sandwiches in the car.
"All right, if you're gonna be talking now, this is a very important phrase, so I want you to repeat it one more time."
"Zeppelin rules!"
Elena smiled at the phrase of what Lucas said.
"That's right. Up high."
Dean holds his hand up for a high five. Lucas obliges, grinning.
"You take care of your mom, okay?"
"All right." Lucas replied.
Andrea comes up and kisses Dean. Elena glances at them, happy.
"Thank you." Andrea said to Dean, Dean thinks a minute, then scratches his head and goes around the car.
"Sam, move your ass. We're gonna run out of daylight before we hit the road."
Dean gets in the car, then Sam and Elena. Dean starts the engine.
The three smiled at Andrea and Lucas waving goodbye.
All three of them drive away. The impala drives on.
"They drowned." Elena spoke.
"Yeah, we know, Jake and Will drowned." Sam said.
"No, my parents, we were in a car accident, my dad was driving and went over the bridge, I was in the car too."
"Oh."
The car was silent.
"So, sorry about that, how did you make it out alive?" Sam asked.
Elena didn't want to answer that question, she knew that Stefan saved her, she can't say "A vampire saved me from dying." or she would've exposed her other life.
"It was a miracle." Elena said. It was all she can say.
based on 1x3, dead in the water