Chapter 13

                                    

                                          
I headed back to the motel to work with the new information and the evidence that was found around the last dead body. 
"Leftovers," Dean muttered while holding the bone and inspecting it.
"Yeah, bite marks. Looks like a ghoul." Sam said to Dean. Jack turned to me and Castiel looking all confused.

"Oh, a ghoul is a monster that feeds on the dead," Castiel said to Jack. "They can take the form of whomever they've eaten. Decapitation kills them." He explained to Jack.
"Yeah, or bashing their brains in," I said and Dean tossed the bone to Cas

"So like a... zombie shape-shifter?" Jack said and I nodded.

"Pretty much, yeah. And he could have tunnels all over that graveyard." Sam explained to Jack how the ghoul works and goes around.

"But if it could be anyone, how do we find it?" Jack said turning to me.
"We look at all the possibilities of who could it be and then we find always a way to know for sure," I said to the Nephilim.

"Can I just say I'm getting real sick and tired of fighting things that look like other things?" Dean said to us while drinking a beer.
"Maybe the ghoul is this Athena." Castiel offered as a possibility, Jack nodded standing next to the Angel.

"Yeah. A ghoul who owns a mortuary. That's smart, but..." Sam said to them trying to put it lightly it wasn't her. 
"No. She's got access to the bodies before they're ever in the ground. Anything she wants, she would just take. She doesn't have to dig 'em back up." Dean said cutting to the chase and jumping straight to the point.
Jack sits down next to me grabs my laptop and starts typing stuff.  "I think I found something. I tracked the plates on the stolen truck from the crime scene, and I went through the city's traffic camera footage and looked. This is it. From yesterday, before the deputy was killed." He said to us.
"Well, then, who's drivin'?" Dean said as he kneeled and zoomed in on the traffic camera footage to see the driver.  "Holy crap. That's Dave Mather." Dean said to us.
"Who?" Cas asked confused.
"Cowboy. Outlaw. One of the Dodge City gang." I said knowing well enough, that being around Dean made it easy to identify Western roles.

Dean pulls Dave Mather's photo down off the wall. "He was one of the greatest gunfighters ever. I mean, he died in 1886, which makes this a little weird, but..." Dean laughs—mysterious Dave Mather. I'm gonna get my boots on. One of the best gunslingers ever! Whoo!" He said leaving.
"Well Jack, I am impressed," I said to the boy. "You are learning Faster than Cass did," I said to the Nephilim as he gave me a big goofy smile.
"So our ghoul ate some Old West gunfighter and stole his face?" Dean said.
"That's what it looks like," Sam answered as we were packing our stuff.
"Smart choice of body, ready to kill one a cowboy ghoul," I said to Dean.
"I was born ready Marvy." He replied to me.
"I think I've seen him before. There was a picture at the mortuary. He's Athena's boyfriend." Jack said looking at the footage closely.
"Well let's pay the girl who is dating the dead a visit," I said.
We got on the Impala. I sat in the middle between Cass and Jack. The Impala pulls up outside the mortuary. Jack and Cas stay in the back seat, while, I, Dean, and Sam get out.
"All right," Dean said.
"So what do we tell Athena?" I asked them curious.
"Well, we keep it simple, tell her the guy she's banging eats dead people, and we're here to kill him. Or we could lie." Dean said sarcastically to me.