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( 𝗌𝗁𝖺𝗉𝖾𝗌𝗁𝗂𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋 )
▬▬▬ LATER, Sam is on the side of the house, looking around. He looks inside two garbage cans but finds nothing. He moves to the front of the house, where Dean and Elena come behind him.
"Hey." Dean spoke out to Sam.
Sam turns around.
"Remember when I said this wasn't our kind of problem?" Dean asks Sam.
"Yeah."
"Definitely our kind of problem."
"What'd you find out?" Sam questioned.
"Well, I just talked to the patrolman who was first on the scene, heard this guy, Alex's story. Apparently the dude was driving home from a business trip when his wife was attacked."
"So, he was two places at once." Sam states.
"Exactly. Then he sees himself in the house, police think he's a nutjob." Dean says.
"Two dark doubles attacking loved ones in exactly the same way."
"Could be the same thing doing it, too."
Sam thinks for a second, "Shapeshifter?" he asked.
Dean shrugs.
"Something that can make itself look like anyone?"
"Every culture in the world has a shapeshifter lore. You know, legends of creatures who can transform themselves into animals or other men." Dean says.
"Right, skinwalkers, werewolves."
"We've got two attacks within blocks of each other. I'm guessin' we've got a shapeshifter prowlin' the neighborhood."
"Let me ask you this, in all this shapeshifter lore, can any of them fly?" Sam asked.
"Not that I know of." Dean replied.
"I picked up a trail here. Someone ran out the back of this building and headed off this way."
"Just like your friend's house." Elena points out.
"Yeah. And, just like at Zack's house, the trail suddenly ends. I mean, whatever it is just disappeared."
"Well, there's another way to go, down."
They look down and notice a sewer.
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Elena and the brothers climb down the sewer.
"I bet this runs right by Zack's house, too. The shapeshifter could be using the sewer system to get around." Sam says.
"I think you're right. Look at this."
They all bend down and examine a pile of blood and skin on the ground. They are all disgusted.
"Is this from his victims?" Elena asked.
Dean takes out a pocketknife and holds up some of the skin.
"You know, I just had a sick thought. When the shapeshifter changes shape, maybe it sheds." Dean thought out.
"That is sick." Elena points out.
Dean puts the bloody pile back on the ground.
✫☆✫
They all went back to the black impala, Dean opens the trunk and takes out some weapons, "Well, one thing I learned from Dad, is that no matter what kind of shapeshifter it is, there's one sure way to kill it."
"Silver bullet to the heart." Sam says.
"That's right."
Sam's cell phone rings. He answers it, "This is Sam."
"Where are you?" It was Rebecca on the other line.
"We're near Zack's, we're just checking some things out."
"Well, look, Sam, just stop, cause I really don't need your help anymore."
"What are you talking about?" Sam was confused.
"I told the lawyers that we went to the crime scene."
Sam scoffs, "Why would you do that?"
"Well, I told them that we were with a police officer. And they checked it out, and they told me that there is no Detective Dean Winchester."
"Bec," Sam was cut off.
"No, I don't understand why you would lie to me about something like that."
"We're trying to help."
"Oh, trying to help? Do you realize that that was a sealed crime scene? This could have just ruined Zack's case."
"Bec, I'm sorry, but," yet again Sam was cut off by Rebecca.
"No, goodbye, Sam." She hangs up.
Dean walks over to Sam and Elena, who looks disappointed.
"I hate to say it, but that's exactly what I'm talking about. You lie to your friends because if they knew the real you, they'd be freaked. It's just, it'd be easier if," Dean starts off and was cut off by Sam.
"If I was like you."
"Hey, man, like it or not, we are not like other people. But I'll tell you one thing. This whole gig, it ain't without perks." Dean holds up a gun. Sam takes it and puts it in the back of his jeans. They all walk away.
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All three of them are in the sewer and are looking around with their flashlights and guns.
"I think we're close to its lair." Elena pointed out.
"Why do you say that?" Sam asks.
"Because there's another puke-inducing pile next to your face."
Sam turns and sees another pile of blood and skin on a nearby pipe.
Sam saw the pile and was disgusted, "Oh, God!"
They look around the area and see a pile of clothes in a corner.
"Looks like it's lived here for a while." Dean said.
"Who knows how many murders he's gotten away with?" Sam turns and sees the shapeshifter, still in the form of the Asian man, standing behind Dean. "Dean!" Dean turns and gets punched by the shapeshifter. He falls to the ground, and the shapeshifter runs away. Sam shoots after it a few times but misses. Sam and Elena moves over to Dean.
"Get the son of a bitch!" All three starts following the shapeshifter.
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The shapeshifter comes out of the sewer and runs away. Seconds later, Elena and the brothers come out and look around.
"All right, let's split up." Sam suggested.
"All right, I'll meet guys around the other side."
"All right." They all walk away in separate directions.
Dean is looking around, with his gun drawn. Passersby turn away, frightened.
Sam is also searching while keeping his gun inside his jacket. Meanwhile, Elena was on another street looking for the shifter.
In the alley, Dean is still looking frantically.
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Sam is waiting for Dean and Elena at a street corner, Dean comes up behind him and a minute later Elena comes.
"Hey." Dean says.
Sam turns around.
"Anything?" Dean asked while looking at Sam and Elena.
"No. He's gone." Sam says.
"Nope." Elena spoked.
"All right, let's get back to the car."
Sam and Elena crosses the street. Dean stops, waiting for a passing car to drive by. As the car passes, Dean's eyes momentarily glow silver.
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The three were by the car.
"You think he found another way underground?" Elena questioned.
"Yeah, probably. You got the keys Sam?" Dean asked Sam.
Sam stops and thinks before turning around.
"Hey, didn't Dad once face a shapeshifter in San Antonio?"
"Oh, that was Austin. It turned out not to be a shapeshifter, it was a thought-form. A psychic projection, remember?" Dean said.
"Oh, right. Here ya go." Sam throws Dean the keys and walks away. Dean opens the trunk and observes all the weapons. He laughs.
"Don't move!" Dean turns and sees Sam and Elena pointing guns at him, "What have you done with him?" Elena asked.
"Elena, chill. It's me, all right?" Dean said.
"No, I don't think so. Where's my brother?" Sam spoke up.
"You're about to shoot him. Sam, calm down." Dean is trying to calm the situation.
"You caught those keys with your left. Your shoulder was hurt." Sam points out.
"Yeah, it's better. What do you want me to do, cry?" Dean said.
"You're not my brother." Sam is sure this guy who looks likes his brother is not him but instead a shapeshifter.
"Why don't you pull the trigger, then? Hm? Cause you're not sure. Dude, you know me." Dean says.
"Don't." Dean pauses before hitting Sam twice with a crowbar then kicks Elena's legs, they both fall down.
"No!" Elena was trying to fight back the shapeshifter until he knocks her out with the crowbar that he used on Sam.
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Sam and Elena wakes up in a dingy, dusty room. Their neck and hands are bound to a wooden post. The shapeshifter walks over to them and backhands Sam. Sam groans.
"Where is he? Where's Dean?" Elena asked.
"I wouldn't worry about him. I want to know more about you."
"Damn it, answer her!" Sam yelled at the monster who was in front of Elena.
"You don't really wanna know." the shifter chuckles, "So Elena, tell me, although you didn't tell the rest of your story to the brothers, when will you tell them? I mean, I know you're hiding something."
"I'm not hiding anything!" Elena yelled.
Yes, Elena is hiding secrets, she doesn't want to tell the brothers about it, maybe they would've killed her.
"Ah, you see, in Dean's heart, he knows you're hiding something. I mean why not just spill it out already." The shapeshifter moves closer to Elena.
"Don't touch her." Sam gritted through his teeth.
"Ah, Samuel, your brother got issues with you. You got to go to college. He had to stay home. I mean, I had to stay home. With Dad. You don't think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you?"
"Where is my brother?" The shapeshifter walks towards Sam and leans in close to him.
"I am your brother. See, deep down, I'm just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I'm a freak. And sooner or later, everybody's gonna leave me." The shifter backs away.
"What are you talking about?" Sam questioned.
"You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothing, just poof. Left me with your sorry ass. But, still, this life? It's not without its perks." the shifter laughs, "I meet the nicest people. Like little Becky. You know, Dean would bang her if he had the chance. Let's see what happens." He smiles and covers both Sam and Elena with a sheet.
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The shapeshifter arrived at Rebecca's house, he knocks at the door, and Rebecca comes downstairs to open it.
"Oh, Hi." Rebecca greeted.
"I know what you're gonna say."
"Oh, you do?" Rebecca questioned.
"Well, no, not exactly. But I can take a guess. Get off my porch?"
Rebecca laughs, "That's about right."
"I admit it, we lied. Thought I'd try to explain myself. Sam told me not to come, but, you know, I thought, what the hell, I have to try." the shifter smiles.
✫☆✫
Sam and Elena are trying to get out of the ropes but fails.
"Damn it." Sam said, he hears movement in another area of the room, and he hears someone coughing.
"That better be you guys and not that freak of nature." It was Dean.
Sam laughs, "Yeah, it's us."
Dean manages to uncover himself from the sheet and starts to undo his ropes.
"He went to Rebecca's, looking like you." Sam said.
"Well, he's not stupid. He picked the handsome one." Dean says.
Sam and Elena gave him a confused look, then continues to work through their ropes.
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Rebecca and the shapeshifter are sitting in front of the fireplace, in the living room.
"So, you're saying that there's something out there that made itself look like my brother."
"Mmhmm."
"What'd you call it?" Rebecca asked.
"A shapeshifter."
Rebecca laughs and rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, maybe we're crazy. But what if we're not? I mean, look, you said it yourself that Zack was in two places at once. Now, tell me how that can happen."
"Okay, so, this thing, it can make itself look like anybody?"
"That's right."
Rebecca chuckles, "Well, what is it, like a genetic freak?"
The shapeshifter laughs, "Maybe. Evolution is about mutation, right? So, maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else."
Rebecca looks around, weirded out. The shapeshifter's eyes glint silver, and he smiles.
✫☆✫
Elena and the brothers are still working their way out of their ropes.
"Yeah, that's the thing. He didn't just look like you, he was you. Or he was becoming you."
Dean finally works his way out of the ropes, "What do you mean?"
"I don't know, it was like he was downloading your thoughts and memories."
"You mean, like the Vulcan mind-meld?"
"Yeah, something like that. I mean, maybe that's why he doesn't just kill us."
Dean gets up and walks over to Sam and Elena.
"Maybe he needs to keep us alive. Psychic connection." Dean says, he starts untying Elena ropes.
"Do the hands first." Elena told Dean, he touched her hands, they were warm, friendly, soft, he undid the ropes and went onto Sam's.
"Yeah. Come on, we gotta go. He's probably at Rebecca's already." Sam said.
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The three climb out a window and onto the street.
"Come on. We gotta find a phone, call the police" Elena said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna put an APB out on me." Dean says.
Elena shrugs, "Sorry."
"This way." They all start running down the street.
✫☆✫
"It's funny. I kind of understand him. He's all alone, close to no one. All he wants is for someone to love him. He's like me."
Rebecca looks very uncomfortable.
"You know, everybody needs a little human touch now and then. It's so hard to be different." The shifter tucks Rebecca's hair behind her ear. She shrugs away, "You should go."
The shapeshifter leans in and whispers something in her ear. She looks horrified and stands up, "You are disgusting, just get the hell out of here!"
"Rebecca, just calm down." the shifter stands up.
"Calm down? What is wrong with you?"
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you?"
Rebecca walks to the phone, "I'm calling the police."
The shapeshifter walks over to her and throws the phone to the floor. She screams and tries to run away, but he trips her and she falls to the ground. He straddles her legs and begins tying her hands with the telephone cord.
"Give me your hands!" The shifter yelled
Rebecca screams. "Shut up!"
✫☆✫
Rebecca is tied in a chair, beaten and bloody.
"You're a nice girl, Rebecca. I mean, I liked you. Believe me, that makes this harder." The shifter holds up a knife and examines it, "But I gotta do what I gotta do." He moves towards her. Suddenly, they hear a crash come from another room of the house. Rebecca screams but the shapeshifter covers her mouth and holds the knife to her throat, "Shh."
✫☆✫
In the hallway, the swat team is searching the house. While their backs are turned, the shapeshifter crosses the hall and goes into another room.
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The shapeshifter enters another room and closes the door, looking around frantically. He moves to a set of doors leading out to a balcony. Just as he opens the doors, the swat team enters, "Freeze! Drop the knife! Drop the knife! Drop the knife!"
The shapeshifter throws the knife at the swat team, and the rest of the team begins shooting. The shapeshifter kicks one of the men, then goes outside and jumps off the balcony, onto the grass below.
"Come on! Come on! Go! Go!"
The shapeshifter runs away, while the team continues to shoot and miss him several times.
✫☆✫
The shapeshifter is in the sewer, he stops walking, looking weak. He takes off his jacket and shirt, then falls to his knees. He groans and screams in pain as he continues to shed his skin.
✫☆✫
Sam, Dean, and Elena are standing in front of a store window, watching a news report that is being shown on a display of televisions.
"An anonymous tip led police to a home in the Central West End, where a swat team discovered a local woman bound and gagged. Her attacker, a white male, approximately twenty-four to thirty years of age, was discovered hiding in her home." A sketch of Dean appears on the screen.
"Man! That's not even a good picture." Dean said. Elena looked at Dean weirdly.
Sam looks around cautiously, "It's good enough." He walks away, so does Elena.
"Man!" Dean follows Sam and Elena.
The three are walking in an alley, Dean steps into a puddle.
"Come on." Sam said, he pauses, "They said attempted murder. At least we know,"
"I didn't kill her." Dean cut off Sam.
"We'll check with Rebecca in the morning, see if she's all right."
"All right, but first I wanna find that handsome devil and kick the holy crap out of him." They stop walking.
"We have no weapons. No silver bullets."
"Sam, the guy's walkin' around with my face, okay, it's a little personal, I wanna find him."
"Okay. Where do we look?"
"Well, we could start with the sewers."
"We have no weapons. He stole our guns, we need more." They pause to think. "The car?"
"I'm betting he drove over to Rebecca's."
"The news said he fled on foot. I bet it's still parked there."
Dean was getting upset, "The thought of him driving my car."
"All right, come on." They start walking.
"It's killing me."
"Let it go." Elena said.
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Elena and the brothers arrived at Rebecca's house. They walk around the side of the house and see the car parked.
Dean is relieved to see his car, "Oh, there she is! Finally, something went right tonight."
A police car appears and parks next to the car, "Oh, crap."
They turn around, but another police car is parked a few yards away, "This way, this way."
Sam moves towards a fence, "You guys go. I'll hold them off."
"What are you talking about? They'll catch you."
"Look, they can't hold me. Just go, keep out of sight. Meet me at Rebecca's."
Dean and Elena start to climb over the fence.
"Don't move! Keep your hands where I can see them." Sam raises his hands in the air.
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Dean and Elena are getting weapons from the trunk.
"I'm sorry, Sam. But you know me, I just can't wait." Dean closes the trunk and walks away.
"Dean, Sam will be pissed at you." Elena reminded Dean.
"It's alright, he can be pissed all he wants, I just want to kill this son of a bitch."
✫☆✫
Elena and Dean are in the sewer, they are looking around. The two comes across a chamber filled with candles and chains. Revolting piles of skin and blood are on the floor. They hear a noise and moves to another area of the sewer and they see a large figure covered with a sheet. Dean removes it and see Rebecca, her hands and feet are bound together with rope.
"Rebecca?" Dean was confused.
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At Rebecca's house, Sam is sitting, having a beer. He is talking with the shapeshifter, who is in the form of Rebecca.
"So, say this shapeshifter is real. By the way, you know you're crazy? But, um, say it is real. How do you stop it?"
The shifter replaces Sam's empty beer bottle with a new one.
"Thanks." Sam sighs. "Silver bullet to the heart."
The shifter chuckles, "You are crazy." The shifter hits him over the head with the empty bottle. He falls over, unconscious. The shapeshifter's eyes momentarily glow silver.
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Dean is untying Rebecca's ropes.
"What happened?" Elena asked.
"I was walking home, and everything just went white. Someone hit me over the head, and I wound up here just in time to see that thing turn into me. I don't know, how is that even possible?" Rebecca starts crying.
"Okay, okay. It's okay." Elena says. Dean finishes untying her, "Come on. Can you walk?" Rebecca nods. "Okay, we've gotta hurry. Sam went to see you."
✫☆✫
At Rebecca's house. The shapeshifter has changed back into the form of Dean. He finishes tying up Sam's hands and feet, then starts walking around the kitchen.
"What are you gonna do to me?" Sam asks.
"Oh, I'm not gonna do anything. Dean will, though."
"They'll never catch him." Sam says.
"Oh, doesn't matter. Murder in the first of his own brother? He'll be hunted the rest of his life." The shifter picks up a sharp knife and examines it.
"I must say, I will be sorry to lose this skin. Your brother's got a lot of good qualities. You should appreciate him more than you do." The shifter says
He pours himself a drink."Cheers." He takes a drink, then picks up the knife from the kitchen and sticks it into the edge of the pool table. Sam lifts his legs and kicks the shapeshifter, who falls to the ground. Sam quickly sits up and moves his hands up and down on the blade of the knife. The ropes break apart. The shapeshifter gets up, and Sam takes the knife and swings at him. The shapeshifter grabs Sam's arm in mid-swing and twists it. Sam falls to the ground. "Oh, you son of a bitch." The shifter and Sam start to fight. Sam tries to pin the shifter down. "Not bad, little brother." The shifter says.
"You're not him."
They continue to fight. The shapeshifter finally throws Sam into a bookshelf. It falls apart, and books fall on top of Sam
"Even when we were kids, I always kicked your ass."
The shapeshifter grabs a pool cue and swings at Sam but misses and hits a light fixture. After fighting for several more minutes, they fall onto a coffee table. He pins Sam to the floor and starts to choke him.
"Hey!" The shapeshifter sees Elena and gets off of Sam.
"Well isn't it Elena Gilbert." The shifter smirks and walks towards Elena.
Elena aims a gun at the shapeshifter and shoots him in the heart twice. The shapeshifter falls to the ground, dead. Rebecca enters and sees Sam on the floor, "Sam!" She rushes over to him. Dean walks to the shapeshifter's body and notices him wearing Dean's necklace, he yanks it from around the shapeshifter's neck and nods knowingly at the group.
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Dean and Elena are by the car, looking at a map. Rebecca and Sam came outside.
"So, this is what you do? You and your brother, Elena, hunt down these kinds of things?"
"Uh. Yeah, pretty much."
"I can't believe it. I mean, I saw it with my own eyes. And, I mean, does everybody at school, nobody knows that you do this?"
"No."
"Did Jessica know?" Rebecca asked.
Sam looks thoughtful. Elena saw Sam's face, sad.
"No, she didn't." Sam said.
"Must be lonely."
"Oh, no. No, it's not so bad. Anyway, what can I do? It's my family." Sam says.
Rebecca laughs, "Well, you know, Zack and me, and everybody at school, we really miss you." She hugs him.
"Yeah, me too." Sam said, they pull away.
"Well, will you call sometime?"
"It might not be for a little while."
Rebecca nods and waves goodbye to Dean and Elena, they wave back, and she goes back inside the house.
Sam walks over to the car.
Elena felt that a question was going to be asked for her.
"Hey Elena, uh, when the shifter said about you hiding something, do you know why he said that? Because if Dean actually has a weird suspicion of you then maybe you can tell us?" Sam said.
Elena saw that both brothers were staring at her waiting for an answer.
"No, I don't know why he said that I have no secrets to hide when you guys first met me I told every single truth about me." Elena said, she walked away and went inside of the impala.
Dean knows she still wasn't being truthful, Sam was beginning to get suspicious.
One day, Elena will tell them every single detail about her life, just not yet.
based on 1x6, skin