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Tall Tales

by Rachel

A professor walks towards Crawford Hall where his office is located. He stops when he sees a young pretty woman standing at the steps. He asks if she’s lost but she answers that she was waiting for him. He adds that his office hours are Tuesday and Thursday mornings but when she coyly says she was hoping to see him right away, he agrees and they go up to his office.

In his office the woman admires the professor’s picture on a book he wrote. He asks what he can do for her and how is her paper coming along. She tells him she has a confession to make; she’s not really one of his students. He asks why is she there and she says maybe she should just leave. As he walks towards her he tells her he knows how she feels; she is young and wide-eyed, he is somewhat of a celebrity there but although she is very beautiful it would be wrong of him to take advantage. But he kisses her. A she pulls back, he opens his eyes to see her face decomposing.
“Oh my God”, he exclaims.
“What? Don’t you like me anymore? Don’t you want me?”

Outside, the janitor locks the building’s door and while he’s going down the stairs, he hears a strange noise. He turns around; it’s the professor, fallen out of the window.

One week later.
The boys are in a hotel room, Sam is doing some research and Dean is eating sloppily, while sitting on one of the beds. Sam asks if he minds not eating on his bed, Dean says no but carries on eating. Dean asks how the research is going, Sam retorts it would go a lot faster if he had his laptop. Sam asks him to turn down the music, Dean turns the volume up. Sam suggests Dean go out somewhere for a bit, Dean replies that would be a great idea except his car’s screwed to hell. As Sam tries to explain he has nothing to do with him, there is a knock at the door.
Sam stands up and looks through the door's spy hole before opening.
“Hey, Bobby, Sam says. Bobby walks in and asks why they called him. They tell him they are on a job but need some fresh eyes. Bobby asks them to tell him all about it. Sam motions Bobby to sit down and begins:
“So, it all started when we caught wind of an obit. See, a professor took a nose dive from a fourth story window, only there’s a campus legend that the building’s haunted. So, we pretexted as reporters from the local paper....”

Sam is in a bar and he’s interviewing Curtis and Jen, 2 of the professor’s students. Curtis explains they were in the professors “Ethics and Morality” class.
Sam asks if they have any ideas why he did it. Jen tells Sam he was tenured, had a wife and kids and his book was popular, but who was to say it was suicide? Sam asks what else could it be, so Jen tells the story of a girl who had an affair with a professor, broke it off then killed herself. Apparently she jumped from room 669 and now haunts the building.
Sam thanks them and heads towards Dean who is at the bar.
He joins his brother who’s downing several purple shots in a row. He glances at them, a disgusted look on his face and asks what they are. Dean replies (a bit slurred) he doesn’t know; he thinks they’re called Purple Nurples. Sam suggests they should check out the professors office. Dean says they can’t; “‘cause I’ve got a feisty little wildcat on the hook. I’m about ready to…Zz!...reel her in, I’ll introduce you.”
Before Sam can stop him, Dean calls to a woman with her back to them.
“Starla. Starla, hey” he says and the young woman turns around after downing a Purple Nurple. “This is my shuttle co-pilot, Major Tom. Major Tom, Starla.”
They greet each other politely, Sam clearly unimpressed, especially when she nearly vomits. Dean however looks pleased with himself when he informs Sam that she’s got a sister….

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a minute!” Dean interrupts. He says that’s not how it happened, yes he drank Purple Nurples but he didn’t say “feisty little wildcat” and her name wasn’t Starla. Unfortunately he doesn’t know what her name was, but she was a “classy chick”, a grad student studying anthropology and they were talking about local ghost stories….

“Here’s to…, she starts saying as she raises her glass.
“Here’s to us”, Dean says before clinking glasses and they both drink their Purple Nurple. She seems to be unable to take her eyes off him and tells him he is attractive. Dean is unusually serious in front of the beautiful woman and tells her she needs to tell him about the stories as lives are at stake.
“Sorry. I just…I can’t even concentrate. It’s like staring...into the sun”, she says before kissing him.
“Dean, what do you think you’re doing?” Sam interrupts them. Dean asks him to give them five minutes.
“Dean, this is a very serious investigation. We don’t have time for any of your blah blah blah…”, Dean turn his attention back to the young woman…

Sam interrupts, saying he doesn’t sound like that. Dean says he does to him. Booby asks what has got into the pair of them, they are arguing like an old married couple. Dean says no, married couples can get divorced, they are like Siamese twins. Sam points out its “conjoined” twins. Dean exasperatedly shrugs to Bobby, “see what I mean?”
Sam explains to Bobby it’s probably just because they have been on the road too long, close quarters. Then he continues….

Sam asks the janitor how long he’s worked there as they arrive in front of the professor’s office. The janitor tells them he’s been there six years, then spots Sam’s EMF meter and asks what its for. Sam tells him to find the wire in the wall. The janitor replies it won’t do the professor much good, when Dean asks why he tells them that the professor is dead, he went out the window, when he went up he realised the professor hadn’t been alone. By now Dean has his mouth so full he looks like a chipmunk, cheeks stuffed so he can’t talk properly….

“Come on! I ate one, maybe two”, the elder Winchester exclaims.
“Just let me tell it, okay?”

The janitor explains the professor was with a young lady, but although he saw her go in he didn’t see her come out. He also says that the professor brought a lot of girls up to his office. By now Dean is continuing to stuff his already full mouth with more food.
Sam asks if there are only 4 stories, there wouldn’t be a room 669? The janitor says of course not and asks why. Sam replies he is just curious.

The boys are back in their hotel room. They conclude there were no traces of EMF and room 669 doesn’t exist. They are confused about the professor though, so Sam opens his laptop to start research. Unfortunately it’s frozen on a website and Dean seems to vaguely it. Sam shouts at Dean to not touch his stuff. Dean retorts to control his OCD.

Bobby intervenes, asking if they found out anything about the building. Sam responds that the history is clean. Then it’s not a haunting, Bobby concludes. Dean says they’re not sure, Sam agrees saying that the next bit is weird….Dean concludes even for them…..

After dark, Curtis is walking alone on the campus and, while approaching Crawford Hall, he hears a strange noise. At first, it makes him smile but when the sound seems to continue, Curtis no longer looks so confident. Suddenly, a blinding light appears right above him. He tries to run away but the light remains focused on him and suddenly, he’s taken up.

“Aliens?! Bobby asks, incredulous.
“Yeah”, Sam answers.
“Aliens?!”
“Yeah”, Dean confirms as well.
Bobby says that even if they are real, they aren’t coming and swiping people, he has never found evidence of a genuine abduction. Sam explains they thought so too but they figured they’d listen to the guy….

The boys are at the bar to talk to Curtis. Seeing the glasses in a line in front of the student, Dean tells him he should try the Purple Nurples. Sam tries to get Curtis to talk about what happened. He finally tells them he blacked out, lost time and when he awoke he didn’t know where he was. They did tests on him, they probed him – by now Sam is trying hard not too smile – Dean repeats back “They probed you?” “Yeah, they probed me. Again and ag... Again and ag… And again, and he downs another glass. And again and again and again. And then one more time.” “Yikes”, Dean exclaims. Curtis says that’s not the worst of it. Dean looks surprised and asks how could it get worse when some alien made him their bitch? “They...they made me...slow dance!” And with Chris De Burgh’s “Lady in red” playing in the background, we see Curtis, under a disco ball, slow dancing with an alien hugging him. The boys find it hard to believe.

“You guys are exaggerating again, huh? Bobby asks.
“No”, they answer in unison.
“Then this frat boy’s just nuts.”
“We’re not so sure”, Dean replies.

Where Curtis was taken, there’s a burned circle in the middle of the grass. Sam is convinced it was made by a jet engine. Both boys are confused., first the haunting, now this. But they can’t find the connection between “the angry spirit and the sexed-up E.T.?”

“But what could we do? Dean says speaking to Bobby. So we just kept on digging.”

Sam and Dean are talking to a student. Sam asks him if he and Curtis were in the same house. The student says yes he was, he heard Curtis say it was aliens but he shrugs it off. “Look, man, I…I know this all has to be so hard”, Sam says in a very very compassionate tone. “Um, not so much.” “But I want you to know...I’m here for you. You brave little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. Come here, he says before hugging him. You’re too precious for this world.”…

“I never said that! Sam exclaims.
“You're always saying pansy stuff like that”, Dean replies. All the time Bobby is observing them.

The student says he is okay so Sam lets him go, he says really Curtis had it coming. When Dean asks why, he explains that Curtis was their pledge master, out them through hell and got off on it. The boys enter their hotel room. They’re still confused but, hey, at least there’s one connection, as Dean puts it; “The professor and the frat guy…they're both dicks.” Sam opens the bag which usually contains his computer. It’s not there, so he asks Dean where it is. Dean says he doesn’t know and continues aloud with his ponderings. “I left it in here”, Sam interrupts him as he still doesn’t find his laptop. Dean says he obviously didn’t and continues. Sam snaps, and demands to know where he hid the laptop. Dean asks why would he take his computer, Sam says that no-one else could, the door is kept locked and they don’t even let the maid in. Dean suggests that maybe he lost it. Now Sam is really mad, he says he puts up with a lot from Dean, his socks, food and all he asks is that Dean doesn’t touch his stuff. How would Dean feel if he screwed with the Impala?
“It’d be the last thing you ever did.”

“Did you take his computer?” Bobby asks Dean. Dean says no. Sam says he doesn’t lose things and they start to bicker again. Bobby interrupts them by asking what happened next. Dean tells him there was one more victim, a research scientist.

We see the research scientist walking to the parking lot when his attention is caught by a watch that shines through a sewer grid. He bends down and puts his hand through the grid to try and grab the watch. Then we hear some kind of growl and the research scientist starts screaming. Blood splatters onto his face.

The boys are breaking into the morgue.
Dean opens the compartment containing the victim’s body and removes cloth covering the research scientist’s remains; very few remains at that. Apparently his office was at Crawford Hall, the same place as the professors death and the frat boys close encounter. Sam spots something and asks Dean to pass the magnifying glass. It’s a belly scale from an alligator.
“It’s a classic urban legend. A kid flushes a baby gator down the toilet, and it grows huge in the tunnels.”
Dean’s argument is that no-one ever really found one, they’re not real. Sam replies neither are alien abductions. They decide to call Bobby.

“We decided to search the sewer anyway”, Sam tells Bobby. “So we split up, each taking one end of campus.”
“Did you find anything?”
“Yeah, I found something”, Dean replies, “just not in the sewer.”

Dean lifts a manhole cover and finds himself on the street. He walks back to the Impala and discovers that its 4 tyres are flat! “Son of a bitch! Sam!” he shouts after finding a bill clip with his brother’s initials. He enters the hotel room, Sam is already there. He demands to know if Sam thinks its funny? Sam asks what.
“The car!”
“What about the car?”
“You can’t let the air out of the tires. You’re gonna bend the rims!”
Sam says he didn’t go near the car, at which Dean produces Sam’s bill clip.
“Hey, give me back my money!” Sam says.
“Oh, no, no. Consider it reparations for, uh, emotional trauma.”
“Yeah, very funny. Now, give it back”, he says trying to grab the money.
“No.”
“Dean, I have had it up to here with you.”
“Yeah? Right back at you!”, and they start fighting on the bed.
“Get off me!”
“Give it back!”…

“Okay, I’ve heard enough", Bobby stops them. Dean says that was it anyway, as Bobby showed up about half an hour later. Bobby looks at them both and says he is surprised at them.
“Sam, first off, Dean did not steal your computer.”
“But I…”
“Shh!” and Bobby motions him to shut up. “And, Dean, Sam did not touch your car.”
“Yeah”, Sam confirms.
“And if you two bothered to pull your heads out of your asses, it all would have been pretty clear.”
“What?” Dean asks.
“What you’re dealing with.”
“ Uh...”
“I got nothing”, Dean answers.
“Me neither”, Sam adds.
“You got a trickster on your hands.”
“ That’s what I thought”, Dean says.
“ What?!” Sam exclaims. “No, you didn’t.”
Bobby explains that they were his biggest clue. Tricksters create havoc and mischief, it knew they were onto him and turned them against each other. They are like demigods, immortal and can create things out of thin air, then make them vanish just as quick. They tend to target the high and mighty. When Bobby tells them tricksters generally appear as human, the boys realise who the trickster is.

We see the janitor flipping through issues of Weekly World News containing articles such as “An alien made me its love slave”, “An alligator terrorizes sewer workers” or “Cannibal madman chainsaws family”. He stands up to go to eat and despite all the food on the table, he says something is missing. That’s when two scantily dressed women appear out of thin air.

The next morning, the boys go back to Crawford Hall. The janitor apologizes for “dragging a little ass” but he had a pretty lively night. Dean answers that they won’t be long, they just have to check a couple OF offices up on 3. While they’re going up the stairs, Sam pretends he has forgotten something in the car’s trunk and Says he'll join them later. Dean and the janitor continue on their way up the stairs but, instead of going back to the car, Sam goes downstairs to search the janitor’s locker, where he finds an issue of the Weekly World News reporting about a cheerleader taken by aliens.

A little later, while leaving the building, Sam tells his brother that just because he reads the Weekly World News doesn’t mean he’s their guy. After all Dean reads it too. Dean is insistent it is the janitor, Sam thinks they need more proof. Dean says they eat sweet food but Sam says he didn’t find anything sugary. They start to argue again. In the end Sam says he’ll go to the janitors house to see if he can find anything and tells Dean to wait till he gets back.

Of course, Dean doesn’t do what his brother asked him to and, after dark, he goes to Crawford Hall alone. He’s going upstairs, a stake in hand, when he suddenly hears Barry White’s song “Can’t get enough of your love, babe”. He puts the stake in the inside pocket of his jacket and heads for where the music comes from, that is the lecture hall. On the platform, under a disco ball, there are two women sitting on a bed.
“We’ve been waiting for you, Dean!, one of them says while the young man is coming up to the platform.
He knows they’re not real and says so. They tell him it will feel real, they’ll even give him a massage. He struggles to refuse.
“They’re a peace offering”, says the trickster who’s sitting in the tiers. “I know what you and your brother do. I’ve been around a while. Run into your kind before.”
Dean says he can’t let him keep hurting people. The trickster is indignant, says they had what was coming to them but he like Sam and Dean. He asks for enough time to get to the next town. Dean says he can’t let him do that. The trickster says he doesn’t want to hurt Dean but he can. Dean replies that he like the trickster style – he was most impressed with the slow dancing alien – but he can’t let him go. Too bad says the trickster, I like you, but like Sam said, you shouldn’t have come alone. Dean agrees, then we hear the lecture hall doors opening, Bobby and Sam entering, each a stake in hand.
“That fight you guys had outside…that was a trick?” he asks Dean who confirms.
“Hmm. Not bad”, he admits and Dean takes the stake out of his jacket. “But you want to see a real trick?”
Suddenly, a man with a chainsaw appears behind Sam and attacks him. As for Dean, he tries to stab the trickster but the janitor is well defended by the two young women who, well, throw him about a bit! While Sam succeeds in overcoming the man with the chainsaw, Dean is sent against the first row of tiers. That's when he notices the stake on the floor. Sam, who sees it as well, bends to the floor to grab it and while the trickster says: “Dean...Dean, Dean, Dean. I did not want to have to do this”, Sam throws the stake to his brother, who stabs the janitor.
“Me neither”, Dean replies. The man with the chainsaw and the two young women vanish. Dean removes the stake from the body of the janitor who falls dead on one of the seats.
Dean asks if Sam and Bobby are ok before they all leave.

As they exit the building Sam starts to thank Bobby, who says they should really get out of there before someone finds the body. Bobby gets into the back of the Impala. Dean and Sam look at each other.
“Yeah. Look, Dean, um...I just want to say that I’m, uh...Um...”
“Hey. Me too.”
“You guys are breaking my heart”, Bobby says getting out of the car. “Could we please just leave?”
And the boys at last get in the car, Dean driving and Sam shotgun, and leave.

Meanwhile, in the lecture hall, the inanimate body disappears, and as for the janitor, he’s still alive. Yes, Dean didn’t really kill the trickster, it was just an illusion.