It was storming earlier and with no t.v/netflix I was left to reading as a way to distract my niece/get her to fall asleep.
This idea came during that.
Enjoy!

I pictured Sam around 8 for this.


The room lights up as lightning strikes and I try to hold back my wince as the thunder rolls over head.

"Tell me a story?" I look up at Dean as we lay in bed of our darkened room. The power long ago lost to us. At least our roof isn't leaking this time. I shift closer, knowing Dean will chase the memories away.

"A story?"

"Yeah, you know. Story, fable, novel, myth, anecdote, tale."

"Tale?" Another bolt of lightning brings Dean's smirking face into view for a second. "I can do a tail." Pulling me closer, he shifts and I rest my head on his chest. Hand running through my hair I feel him take a deep breath.


Fury said to a mouse,

That he met in the

house, 'Let us

both go to law:

I will prosecute

you.- Come, I'll

take no denial;

We must have

a trial: For

really this

morning I've

nothing to do.'

Said the mouse

to the cur,

'Such a trial,

Dear Sir, With

no jury or

judge, would

be wasting

our breath.'

'I'll be

judge, I'll

be jury,'

Said cunning

old Fury:

'I'll try

the whole

cause, and

condemn

you

to

death.'


"Dean!" I tap his chest laughing. "That's not what I meant."

"Hey, you're the one who said tale." Sighing his hand slides from my hair to scratch the back of my neck. "From the beginning?"

I nod and close my eyes. Lips turning up into a smile as Dean starts reciting "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from the beginning. I'm asleep before they even finish the caucus race.


My niece had a copy of this in her closet. She made it farther then Sammy did but I really wanted to say caucus race. Have you ever been in one? I have!

**Poem is not mine. It is the Mouse's Tale poem from the book.