“Forty Whacks”
A drabble of 100 words
By December
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Warnings: None
Summary: The Winchesters meet a real celebrity. Response to
100_ghosts week #32 prompt "axe to grind."
Sam lights up like a kid on Christmas when he figures out who the spirit is. Dean comes this close to asking for her autograph and almost forgets to duck as the axe thunks into the wall above his head. Finding her grave is child's play.
How that particular axe ended up in in the Coopers' garage is anyone's guess. The Coopers certainly couldn't say. But it was the chant that woke her up, recited by little Jenny Cooper, jumping rope in the driveway.
Dead or alive, she always hated that chant. Her chant. "Lizzie Borden had an axe ..."