Here's yet another one I had finished months ago. Hope you like it.

Ageless

Chapter one

Dean lay stretch out on the bed in the motel room watching a basketball game while Sam sat at a table checking out sites about unexplained deaths on his laptop. He finally found one that caught his attention.

"Listen to this." He said over his shoulder to his brother. Dean pressed mute on the TV remote and looked over at him. "In the last four months men and women in their twenties have died from what appeared to be old age." Sam glanced back at his brother. "It says they all died within a week of showing symptoms."

Dean sat up excited at the prospect of going on another hunt.

"Sure sounds like something we should check into. Where's it happening?"

"A town called Bradford, about sixty miles from here." Sam continued reading then looked over at his brother. "It says all of the victims had been at various bars within a five block area a week before their deaths."

Dean got out of bed and walked over to Sam then leaned over his shoulder and looked at the computer screen.

"Well that narrows it down a little…What are the symptoms?"

"Arthritis, heart attacks, strokes… their bodies just shut down from…well, from basically old age."

"And these people were only in their twenties?"

"Yeah, it says they started feeling weak like they had the flu or were coming down with something and were dead within the week." Sam looked up at Dean. "Do you remember reading anything like this is Dad's journal?"

"It seems like I remember reading something about…" Dean walked over to the dresser and picked up their dad's journal. He sat back down on the bed and began paging through it. He was looking through a section on vampires when he glanced over at Sam. "Here's something….he has it under the section on vampires but he says they're not true vampires. He says they're some kind of demon who by taking a picture of their victim steals that person's life force and transfers it into their body. He says here that this demon will take a picture of someone and then take it back to their home and keep the picture on a special altar and then after the person dies they find a new victim. Dad says this demon comes out every twenty years and must kill thirteen people before it disappears for another twenty years. It looks like this thing can live forever as long as it makes its thirteen kills every twenty years."

"Well according to this twelve people have died so far, so it'll be looking for its final kill…Does he know how to kill it or how to save a victim once the demon has their picture?"

"He has in here that the only way to destroy the creature is to save one of the victims."

"And how do we do that?"

"We have to find where the demon is staying and destroy the picture by fire before the victim dies. Once the victim dies there is no way to destroy the thing, it only grows stronger with each death."

"Well the odds are against us on this one. It's going to be next to impossible to track this thing down if it only has one more victim to kill."

"But we can try. Hey, maybe we'll get lucky…Anyway it beats hanging around here doing nothing."

"Well it did say that the victims had all been in bars about a week before they died and the bars had been within five blocks of each other."

"So you'd figure a bar on each block…and if we split up…"

"The odds are still against us Dean."

"Well we can't just sit back and do nothing."

"No, I guess not."

Dean smiled; he had been bored the last two weeks and actually was looking forward to another hunt.

"Pack up Sammy, we're going to Bradford."

"Now?"

"Yeah, now…This thing isn't going to wait for us."

Sam closed his laptop and began packing. He shook his head and gave a small smile. He could see a change come over Dean as soon as he knew they were heading out on a job. Dean, who earlier had been lying in bed bored to death, was now slinging clothes into his bag whistling. Yeah, Sam could tell Dean was looking forward to a little excitement.

TBC