Chapter 6 continued…Very Good Advice
Scene: Inside the Impala before dawn still in the woods
The brothers are very tired and it's very dark still so they decide its best to wait it out till morning before they attempt storming the castle gardens.
Bobby: "This is a suicide mission! How are we ever going to find our way through that labyrinth of gardens? No telling how many guards the Queen has in there."
Sam: "We don't have a choice Bobby. I have to face her eventually no matter what."
Bobby scoffs and shakes his head.
Bobby: "Do you really thing you can kill her?"
Sam: "Maybe not, but I can kill that beast of hers at least that will help get us out of here."
Dean: "Yeah, about that Sam. Maybe I should do it. You're not the best sword fighter and..."
Sam frowns at him and interrupts.
Sam: "Like you are?"
Dean: "I'm better at it than you."
Sam rolls his eyes
Sam: "Yeah, right. Look, Dean I can handle this okay. It's just another monster; we've faced plenty of them before."
Dean frowns back.
Dean: "None like this. I don't want you to go in there without knowing what we're truly up against Sam."
Sam sighs feeling tired and anxious
Sam: "I'm tired of arguing okay. Let's just get some sleep and pick this up in the morning."
Dean sighs too and then he hears his stomach growling.
Dean: "I'm hungry."
Dean reaches over Sam and into the glove compartment to see if there is any left over food.
Dean finds nothing inside so he slams it shut.
Dean: "I've gotta eat something man. I can't sleep on an empty stomach. I'll have nightmares."
Sam rolls his eyes at his brother's stomach.
Sam: "Just relax Dean."
Dean looks back at Castiel, but Castiel is already started to worm his way out of the backseat.
Bobby helps to push Castiel's big caterpillar body through the Impala door.
Dean: "Now where are you going? "
Castiel: "I need some air your car is stuffy. I am going to go sleep up in that tree over there."
Dean turns his head to look at the huge oak tree and notices strange symbols carved into the bark.
Dean: "You're going to sleep in a tree?"
Castiel nods and finally pushes his caterpillar body out the door and starts to slither over to the giant oak tree.
Castiel: "Until I get into my cocoon it is the next best place to sleep."
Dean: "I don't think that's a good idea what if you fall out of it?"
Castiel: "I won't fall. I'm an angel. This is not my first time tree ride."
Dean stares at Castiel confused and slightly freaked out by the sick twisted notion of angels humping their grace trees that appears in his head.
Bobby: "Let him go Dean, it gives me more room back here to stretch out."
Bobby props his legs up on the back seat of the Impala leans his head back against the window and then covers his eyes with his hat to take a nap before the morning hunt.
Sam steps out of the car for a moment to get some much needed fresh air after the long drive to the Queen's castle.
Dean: "You see any food out there Sam?"
Sam: "Dude, enough! There is no way we're going to find food out here at this time of night."
Dean frowns at Sam.
Dean: "I can find food anywhere anytime Sam. Just watch me!"
Dean gets out of the car and shuts the door.
Bobby rolls over onto his side to get more comfortable and to try to sleep ignoring the two dummies outside arguing like two chicks on their periods.
Dean looks around the forest and down at the garden below. He sees lots of flowers and trees in the garden, but none with any fruit on them.
Dean starts walking down the hill towards the garden maze.
Sam immediately follows him worried Dean will get lost by himself in there.
Sam: "Dean, are you nuts you're going to get yourself killed going in there alone."
Dean: "Look, whether we die tonight or die in the morning doesn't matter Sam, either way we're screwed. I at least want one last meal before I die thank you very much."
Sam sighs, but he too feels his stomach growling and he doesn't want Dean going in alone.
Sam: "Fine, but I'm going with you. This way it's still dark maybe they won't see us right away. We'll be able to search for Alice and dad too."
Dean: "Yeah, about that Sam. I know you want to protect that little girl I mean I get it, but are you sure she can be trusted. I mean she is the reason you'd got suck into this place right? How do you know she is not working with Lucifer?"
Sam glares at him then huffs.
Sam: "Dean, she is a little girl!"
Dean: "So was Lilith, what's your point?
Sam: "I made a promise and I plan on keeping it that's my point! You want to argue about whether she can be trusted well whether she can or can't she is not the only one in this place that needs help. The Mad Hatter said."
Dean interrupts Sam.
Dean: "The Mad Hatter said…he's freak mad Sam! They all are. This entire place is full of supernatural weirdoes who will sell us out to the Queen in a second if they can save their own necks. We've got to fend for ourselves and get back to planet earth. I've had about enough of this place! I want out!"
Sam: "Then leave Dean! You know I'm a freak too so maybe I belong down here with the rest of them. So just go! If you don't want to help me then I'll find my own way out. You can solve Castiel's riddle and escape with Bobby."
Dean rolls his eyes and glares at his brother.
Dean: "Shut up like I'd leave you here to die! Get real! Just forget it Sam, I'm not going without you!"
Sam: "Then stop trying to talk me out of helping these people. I caused this mess. Lucifer is hurting them because of me just to get to me. I'm not going to run away from this or him. So stop complaining and follow my lead on this one."
Dean opens his mouth to say something else sarcastic, but pauses deciding to let it go for now.
Sam starts to walk again trying to get off by himself away from Dean so he can think.
Dean thinks to himself, "He is so damn stubborn! Lucifer wants to ride Sammy's meat suit and it's like he doesn't care about that. How can someone so smart be such a dumbass! Well I'm not going to let him get himself killed just because he feels guilty about setting Lucifer free. He's no good to anyone dead. I just wish I could find something to eat so I would feel less tired."
Dean follows Sam as he goes down the hill towards the maze, but stays a safe distance behind Sam not really wanting to talk to him at the moment. He looks around for berries or anything to eat.
Alice Cooper sees the brothers walking in the woods. He waits until Sam is out of sight then he cautiously approaches Dean from behind.
Alice Cooper: "Dean!"
Dean: "Whose there?"
Dean grabs a long stick off the ground and holds it like a baseball bat ready to swing.
Alice Cooper: "It's okay I'm not one of them!"
Dean: "Then who the hell are you?"
Alice Cooper steps closer into the moonlight so Dean can see his face.
Dean gasps in total shock to the great Alice Cooper standing before him. He drops the stick and stares like a deer caught in headlights.
Dean: "Holy hell! You're Alice, Alice Cooper!"
Alice Cooper: "Yeah, I know."
Dean stares at him.
Dean: "But…but, how? Why?"
Dean can barely form a sentence he is so excited to meet his one of his favorite rock idols of all time.
Alice Cooper: "Look, we ain't got time for shooting the shit man. You're in a heap of trouble son."
Dean suddenly becomes far less excited and begins to frown again. He notices Alice looks cut up, bloody, dirty and very tired looking.
Dean: "Are you okay? You should sit down Mr. Cooper. What happened to you?"
Alice Cooper shoots Dean a faint smile then slowly lowers himself down onto the ground and leans up against a nearby tree.
Dean crouches down beside him waiting to hear what Alice Cooper has to tell him.
Alice breathes heavily very tired and dehydrated.
Alice Cooper: "Just call me Alice, kid. And yeah I could use some water bad."
Dean jumps back up to his feet like a hyper kid.
Dean: "Wait here, I'll find you some Mr. Cooper!"
Alice Cooper silently nods as he tries his best to keep from passing out from exhaustion.
Dean quickly runs through the woods looking for a nearby stream he passed by earlier to get Mr. Cooper something to drink. He is so excited about meeting Alice Cooper he forgets to go tell Sam.
So Sam keeps walking ahead and through the wind in the woods he hears music. The tune reminds him of a song from Wonderland that always made him feel connected to Alice when he watched the movie as a child. But, it also makes him feel even guiltier about letting Lucifer free.
He sings softly under his breath the song as he walks towards the Castle gardens.
Sam: "I give myself very good advice Well, I went along my merry way I give myself very good advice Will I ever learn, learn to do the things I should?"
But I very seldom follow it
That explains the trouble that I'm always in
"Be Patient," is very good advice
But the waiting makes me curious
And I'd love the change
Should something strange begin
And I never stopped to reason
I should have known there'd be a price to pay
Some day, some day
But I very seldom follow it
Will I ever learn to do the things I should?
Dean sings one of his own favorite songs still upset about missing out on the Alice Cooper concert, he sings one of the rock legend's famous songs as he heads towards the stream.
Dean: "Looks like all your laws are broken, all your lines are down
And all your officers are shook up babbling little clowns
Looks like all your powers gone; it's sprayed upon the wall
In blood and spit, it spells out your inevitable fall
And all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience
Yeah, all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience
Now all your complex little schemes that form your master plan
Are scrambled up and that is something you just don't understand
A cyclone of confusion rips right through your holy troops
The very thing that weakens you gives power, gives me juice
And all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience
Yeah, all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience
Take your laser microscope and try to find an answer
No antidote or drug to cure our special strain of cancer
It spreads its revolution wide from cell to cell to cell
Your kingdom's like your body, it dies and goes to hell
And all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience
Yeah, all the hungry outlaws have taken up a stance
Simple disobedience."
Dean scoops up water into a flask he keeps in his jacket then heads back towards the tree where he left Alice Cooper.
