Sam pulled the rambler into an abandoned gas station.

They got out, and started looking around for someone to help them.

"Hello?!" Dean shouted. Gabriel volunteered to go search the dilapidated looking roadhouse.

"Helloooo?" Gabe called, "Anybody home?!" He looked around at all the weird stuff in this convenience store, like animal pelts, and age-old jerky. "Yuck," he mumbled, and went out. "Nope, nobody in ther-" "You come here uninvited!"

A man stepped out out of nowhere in front of Gabe, and he jumped. "Ah! Who are you?" he asked, backing up to his friends.

"Name's Ash. I run this house. Sign says closed, ya know."

Sam frowned. "Yeah, we were looking to buy some gas. We can't get to the cabin if we don't fill up, ya know?" Ash raised his eyebrows. "Huh. Going up to the old cabin, are ya?"

Dean nodded slowly. "Yeah… it belongs to our uncle." Ash nodded, the hair in the back of his mullet swishing. "Well, I've seen plenty come and go… but ever since the war of heaven and hell…"

They all looked confused out of their minds. "Which war?" Jessica asked. "You know damn well which war!" Ash snapped, and Jessica huddled into Sam. "Is that the war of the great fictional storybook land?" Crowley mocked, "With princesses and dragons and such?"

Ash glared at Crowley. "You mocking me, boy?" "You were disrespectful to my friend." Ash regarded Jessica with a scoff. "That whore?"

Sam suddenly lost all air of calm, and stepped forward into the guy's face, towering above him. "What did you say?!"

Gabriel and Dean split them up, and Ash just chuckled. "Whatever. You'll all be gone soon, so why should I care?" Cas looked up from the pump at the camper, frowning at this. "Let's go everyone," he suggested, and Sam tossed a couple of bills at the man.

Crowley hung back for a second. "Well, good luck with your business endeavours sir. I hear the rotary telephone will be coming out around here sometime soon, that's going to be big!" he mocked, and walked over to the rambler. "Bloody imbecile…" he muttered as he got in.

Ash watched them drive off on the dirt road, and picked up a phone inside the shop.

"The kids have passed through the gate. They have come to the killing floor. Get the monitoring systems ready- they approach the cabin."

The six kept driving until they got deep enough into the forest, and found Bobby's cabin.

"Wow," Jessica said. "This is awesome!" Gabriel exclaimed, running in, and the rest followed. The place was nice- and they had it all to themselves.

"So. Who wants to go for a swim?" Sam asked, and they all chose rooms. Sam and Jessica took one together, Dean took one that just happened to be next to Castiel's, and Crowley and Gabriel took the remaining two rooms.

Dean set his stuff down on his bed, and found a painting hanging on his wall. He frowned as he saw what it was. There was some creepy family in it, portrait style. But one of the little girls was holding a shaving razor, and there was carnage on the floor in front of them.

Dean chuckled. "Yeah, I don't think so," he muttered, and took it down.

Just then, he jumped as he saw Castiel through the wall. There was a glass, like a window or something. But… it seemed as though Cas didn't know Dean could see him.

"A mirror window," Dean said to himself, grinning, "Cool!" He watched Cas intently stare at himself in what the latter obviously saw as a mirror. Dean felt a butterfly sensation as he looked into those blue eyes…

Oh.

OH.

Dean winced as Cas began to take off his shirt, and he looked away. Then looked back. Then looked away. But… his lean frame was so enticing…

He watched a little bit, but Dean finally had to put a foot down when Cas began to take his pants off as well. He banged on the wall.

"Hey! Hold up."

They all went into Cas' room.

"Woah… this is amazing," commented Jessica. "You know, we should make sure there are no more of these in the other rooms," Dean remarked, smirking, "Cause you know how much Crowley loves to watch you two go at it," he said to Sam and Jessica, who blushed.

"Oh, I love nothing more than to watch you lot get busy. I've nothing better to do with my life," Crowley quipped, rolling his eyes and going back to his room.

Dean went up to Cas. "Hey, um… you wanna switch rooms? You might feel a little better if… ya know… you had the window instead…?" Cas nodded, looking relieved. "Thank you very much, Dean."

Dean nodded, and moved his stuff.

When he got to the new room, Cas looked over at the window of the mirror, and saw Dean taking off his shirt as well for swimming.

He bit his lip. This guy's muscles were freaking god-like… oh god, Castiel thought, am I… he looked down, and back up frantically. Yup.

He grabbed his swim trunks, which were still wet from the last use, and that put out the fire in his pants after watching the spectacular grooves in Dean's chest. He was part of the college basketball team, so…

Then, Dean started to take his pants off, and Cas looked away quickly. "Oh… um… er…" he mumbled, and put the painting back up, even though it thoroughly creeped him out.

They all exited their rooms, and went out to the lake together.

"CANNONBALL!" Gabe shouted as he jumped in, and Dean jumped in after him.

"Holy shit, this is cold!" Dean said, shivering. Gabriel laughed. Crowley dipped a toe in. "Haha. This is so, inexplicably not happening," he said, and Dean booed him. "Come on, Crowley, you can't pass up a chance to lake swim!"

Crowley just smirked, putting on his dark sunglasses. "Oh, who said I wasn't coming in?" He then took out a blow up floatee, the full lounge mat type, and blew it up, pouring a drink for himself and getting on, floating out to the middle. Gabe and Dean just watched him, smiling at their friend's natural behaviour.

Sam and Jess made it up to the dock, and Sam peeled off his shirt. "Let's go," Sam said. "Yeah… maybe I'll just catch some sun for a while," Jessica said as she took off her sundress to reveal a purple bikini.

"Come on, Jess!" Gabe shouted, "It's nice and polar, just for you!" Jessica laughed. "You guys enjoy. I'll keep Cas company over here." Cas was sitting with his feet in the water, reading a book.

"Hey, what is that?" Sam suddenly said. They all turned. "In the water out there, what is that?" Dean looked behind him, and so did Gabe apprehensively. "Dude, what the hell?" Dean asked, "Stop it!" "No, no, I'm serious! It looks just like… my girlfriend!" he said, pushing Jessica in.

She landed in the cold water with a scream, and came up to the surface, shivering. "Oh my god, I hate you, Sam!" she shouted, and Sam laughed. "Oh, there's something else in the lake!" he called, and jumped in. "It's a gorgeous man!"

Jessica climbed onto his shoulders. "I'm so gonna kill you!" "No, don't kill the gorgeous man… we're endangered!"

Dean chuckled as he watched them roughhouse in the water, and decided to swim to shore to visit with Cas.

"Hey," Dean said to him, and tousled his hair a little to get the water off. Cas looked up, and smiled, bookmarking his book. "Whatcha reading?" he asked, and Cas turned the cover side up. "Homer's the Odyssey." Dean raised an eyebrow. "You got a thesis or something on that?"

Cas laughed, and sound that made Dean churn inside. "No, I actually find Greek mythology very interesting." Dean hummed, looking over his shoulder at the big book. He could never read something like that for fun. He didn't really like reading in the first place. But he wasn't about to tell Cas that.

"Yeah," Dean said, "Uh, I like the one about that guy, um, Jason and the Juggernauts?"

"What you basically just said, is Jason and the large trucks, you bloody imbecile," Crowley pointed out snarkily as he floated past them. Dean glared at him, and Cas looked down, smiling. "That's alright if you didn't know the name. Jason and the Argonauts is a good story."

The two sat, then sort of looked at each other, then looked away again.

"So, uh, you on any teams at school?" Dean asked, and Cas shook his head. "No. I prefer to sit quietly on the stairs or in the library just reading or working." Dean nodded.

"How about you?" Cas asked. "Yeah, basketball team. I'm the captain, actually." Cas nodded, and felt himself smile. That's why his chest is so sexy, he thought to himself, blushing at the thought.

They turned slightly, and looked at each other, this time not turning away. Dean's eyes dropped down to Cas' lips, and Cas leaned a little closer….

"HEY YOU TWO!" they heard, and a large splash of water hit them. They turned to find Gabriel swimming by. "Get in the water, or I'll pull you in!"

Dean and Cas both laughed, and Dean got back into the water, giving Cas a little smile before he rejoined the others.

"Alright people, betting windows are open sesame!" Rufus called, turning to everyone in the room. "Come place your bets here!" Frank grumbled, and everyone started piling in, examining the board full of monsters.

"Hmm," Charlie mused, fanning herself with a wad of cash, "I think I'll bet on the Wendigo," she said. "Wow. No vamps for you this year?" "Nah, I think I'll change things up a little bit, see if that gets me anywhere."

Frank bet on the Djinn, and Rufus bet on the Rugaru. "Again?" Frank asked, and Rufus nodded. "I can feel it Frank," he said, "I know I'll get to see a Rugaru this year." "Come on, Rufus, why would you want to? They're horrible, and vicious!"

Rufus shrugged, and put their names up on the board.