Welcome back to my Supernatural world. I hope you have had a great weekend and start of the week and are ready to dive back into the story. Here is Chapter 9 "ER Run"
Tea slowly put her foot on the ground. It made her smile that Sam wouldn't let go of her arm as she shifted some of her weight to the injured foot. A hiss escaped from her lips. If Sam hadn't been holding onto her she would have fallen. "No go soldier." Tea pulled her leg up trying to balance on one foot and not lean on Sam as much.
Dean rubbed his chin with his right hand. "What are we going to do now? It's not like we can call Cass and just get him to fix you up like before. Not that he would actually take our call even if he could heal you."
Sam wrapped his arm around Tea's waist holding her close. "We should probably have her checked out." He looked at Dean knowing his brother would protest. "Even if she still has the ability to heal herself if her ankle isn't set right it will heal wrong and cause problems later on."
"I don't know if this is a thing between you two or you just don't realize it, but I'm right here and contrary to popular belief I can hear you." Tea shifted slightly. Her ankle was killing her and she really wasn't in the mood for a three hour discussion process. "I have insurance and can pay. But I'm slightly in need of a car." She flashed a quick smile at the boys.
Sam couldn't help but admire her good attitude even though he could hear the pain that coated her voice. "How do you want to do this Dean?" He switched his sympathetic eyes from Tea to a hardened look at Dean. "I can take her myself after we drop you off at the motel or we could all go together."
Sighing Dean ran his eyes over Tea. He could tell she needed a doctor. She was putting up a formidable front but he sensed that she was ready to break down. "Let's just go to the ER. If we want to change plans we can do it later."
"Sounds great." Tea put her arm up around Sam's shoulders using him as a crutch as they started off. The process was slow and it made Tea's arm start hurting. They were half way through what was Sam's section when Sam insisted, for Tea's benefit that they take a break.
Tea stood balanced on her right leg rolling her shoulder. "I've always wanted a really tall boyfriend. Now I see why it was stupid of me to want that."
Dean laughed as Sam just continued to look at her sympathetically. "You know I could make it easier on you." He stood next to her wanting to take her pain away.
Returning his gaze Tea raised an eyebrow. "How?"
"I could carry you the rest of the way." He held out his arms. "It would be quicker and less strenuous on your right leg."
Tea rolled her eyes. "I still have one good leg. I will be fine." She didn't mind the idea of being in Sam's arms. Actually it kind of excited her, but she hated the thought of looking weak in either man's eyes.
"If I carried you it will take less time to get to the hospital." Sam knew by one of their many talks Tea didn't like being babied which being carried would fall into that category. But he wanted to be able to get to the ER quickly and get her leg set right before anything else could happen.
Sensing that the suggestion would fall on deaf ears Dean clapped his hands together once. "Okay time to head out. Not to sound unsympathetic but really Tea we need to get moving. The Faerie King could still be lurking around and the more time spent discussing useless things the less time we have on closing this case before another boy gets taken."
Sam didn't like Dean's method but it got Tea to see reason. Soon they were on the way again, Tea in Sam's arms bridal style with her back pack slung over Dean's back.
Putting aside the fact that Tea felt like she was dead weight she actually liked Sam holding her. She had wrapped her arms up around his neck pulling herself closer to his chest. Pressed up against it she could feel his well worked muscles relaxing and contracting as he picked his way along behind Dean. It made her blush when she thought about the last time she had been this close to him. Though more than twelve hours had past Tea could still recall how close he held her once they had finished. The pressure of his bare muscled arms pressed against her naked back holding her tightly against his chest as if he feared she may abandon him in the middle of the night.
"Why are you blushing?"
Tea hadn't realized while she was lost in her memories Sam had been steeling glances at her. She was thankful for the discretion of his softened voice knowing Dean wouldn't have heard the question. She looked up at him with big innocent eyes. "No reason."
Sam's chuckle reverberated through his chest allowing Tea not only to hear it but to feel it against her. "Come on, people don't just blush for no reason." His quizzical eyes searched her features. "I won't tell anyone I promise." He locked their gazes together.
"No really I just blush for no reason sometimes." Tea continued her innocent act hoping he would drop the subject before Dean listened in on it.
Not buying her ploy Sam shook his head. "How I wish I could get inside that head of yours. Maybe it would help me figure you out a little bit more."
Tea shook her head in return. "I don't even want to be in my head most of the time. Why would you want to? It's a scary place up here, all black and deep and random. Then there are the voices that will play the most random music at the most inconvenient times." Tea gave off a playfully frightened look. "Like in my World Geography class when I was a freshman in high school, they started playing the Harry Potter theme song during a test."
Sam laughed at this. "You have music playing voices in your head?"
"Sure do." Tea nodded. "Like while I was taking the junior TAKS test they were jamming out to DBSK, and not the soft soothing ballads by Dong Bang but the dance-till-you-drop, up-beat, fast pace songs."
"TAKS?" Sam raised an eyebrow not understanding.
"Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills," Tea rambled off easily. "It's a group of standardized tests that all students in Texas have to take yearly. The junior year one is really the only one that matters though, because if you don't pass it then you had to take it again and again until you passed because if you didn't pass you couldn't graduate."
"Sounds like a time when you would need peace and quiet up stairs hu?" Sam chuckled again. He couldn't remember much of his high school career but he did know there were times when he had to push hunting completely out of his mind so he could concentrate on a test or project.
"Yeah and not only were they playing music but how my brain works, especially on a DBSK level if I have watched a music video or live performance of the song, whenever I hear the song afterward the music video or performance plays in my head like a movie. Let me just tell you, it is extremely distracting when that happens, especially some of the live performances I've seen Dong Bang do."
Sam frowned he found something in the pit of his stomach revolting against the idea of Tea watching other guys. He knew she liked this band but before this moment it had never really bothered him. The thought of her daydreaming about them stirred the little green monster inside of hm.
"Would you two hurry up? We are almost out of this place," Dean yelled back at them from a good ten feet ahead. "The faster you come the quicker we can get in and out of the hospital."
Sam moved quicker to catch up with Dean. About two minutes later they reached the edge of the woods and found the Impala where they left it. Sam pushed his jealous thoughts aside as he helped Tea into the back seat and then scooted in beside her.
Dean didn't make a comment about how he felt like a chauffeur as he fired up the engine and rolled down the highway toward Metaline Falls. The medical center was on the way to the motel so the discussion from earlier proved to be useless.
Dean let Sam and Tea off right in front of the doors so that Tea wouldn't have to hobble very far. She blatantly refused to be carried in and threatened to cause a scene if Sam so much as tried it. So once again Tea leaned against Sam using him as a crutch as they made their way into the small hospital.
The nurse at the front desk smile politely at them as they entered. "How may I help you?"
"Hi," Sam gave his politest smile in return. "We are camping at one of the parks down the highway. We had gone out for a hike this morning and my girlfriend here tripped. We are afraid she might have broken her ankle."
"Oh dear." The nurse frowned ever so slightly. "Well you two can sit over there and fill this out and I will get the doctor and fire up the X-ray machine." She gestured to a small waiting area and handed Sam a clipboard with several sheets of paper on it.
Dean met them as they took their seats. "So?"
"Gotta fill this out while the nurse gets the doc and starts up the X-ray machine." Tea took the clipboard from Sam and started filling it out with the pen that was attached to the top of the metal clip part.
"They have an X-Ray machine in a small town like this?" Dean looked surprised.
"We have to, for reasons such as this." A man no older than his mid-thirties walked out from behind the front desk. His jet black hair was combed back showing off his olive eyes under thin eyebrows. He wore a lab coat over heavy denim jeans and a light button down. A stethoscope hung loosely around his neck. "Haven't always had one but since about five years ago accidents got more frequent and we raised the funds to get one for our citizens and visitors." He smiled as he walked over to them. "I am Dr. Gabriel Messer and you must be the patient." The doctor extended his hand to Tea first.
Tea looked up from the paperwork and flashed a smile. "Tea Mosely and yeah I'm the not very smart one who tripped over a tree root." She took his hand.
"You said you three were hiking right?" Dr. Messer shook hands with both Sam and Dean in turn. "For recreational purposes yes?"
"Do you find other types up here?" Dean raised an eyebrow.
"Well there are photography groups that breeze through every once in a while and bird watchers come as well but it is a bit late in the year for many of those." He accepted the clipboard from Tea when she was done filling it out.
"Yes recreationally." Sam shot Dean a glare over the top of Tea's head. "We are camping and wanted to take a hike around today. Unfortunately it didn't go as smoothly as we had planned."
Nodding Dr. Messer knelt down in front of Tea's chair. "Well let's have a look." He waited for Tea to pull her pant leg up then gingerly moved his fingers of the purpled flesh.
Sitting as still as possible Tea clenched her jaw to keep herself from crying out in pain. The doctor was being gentle but it still hurt a lot. Sam put his hand on her shoulder to show that he was there for her which earned him a pained smile and a mouthed 'Thank you.'
"I don't believe it's broken, just badly sprained but we should do an X-Ray just to make sure." He stood up and offered Tea a hand to help her up. "We have a wheel chair if you want to use that to get to the room. It is just down the hall."
Tea looked mortified at the idea of being pushed in a chair. "No I'll be fine." She used the doctor's hand and Sam's shoulder to help her into standing position.
Sam stood up after her holding onto her elbow to continue to support her. "Would you like me to come with you?"
"We generally don't allow anyone other than family," Dr. Messer hesitated. "So unless you two are siblings it is against our policy to allow you to come with us."
Frowning Tea stared at the man. "But he's my boyfriend. I don't see why it would be a problem." She was trying to see if she got the same feeling from him as she had gotten from the waitress in Colville but she wasn't getting anything at all from the doctor.
"As long as you give consent I guess it would be okay to make an exception." The doctor didn't seem so sure but he ushered Tea and Sam to follow him anyway.
"I'll just stay here and wait then." Dean called out from his seat as Sam helped Tea along following the doc. He picked up one of the magazine that littered the table and flipped through it without actually paying attention to anything on the pages.
The nurse came back out to the desk with a smile. Dean looked at her out of the corner of his eye taking in her long muddy brown hair that fell over her face and slightly pudgy cheeks. Her eyes were averagely brown without anything unique about them. Through his travels Dean had met plenty of girls just like this one. They were all from different small towns here or there and were doomed to stay there for the rest of their lives.
"So do you like camping?" The nurse's voice was soft and unusually high pitched. "Or were you just getting away from the city life?"
Dean looked up respectfully looking her in the eye. "Yeah camping is fun. My brother and I are here more for the hiking than camping. We are novice hikers and if we could devote more time to it we would but you know how working goes. This was the first time we let anyone else come with us. Mostly it is just brotherly bonding time." He really didn't like lying, doing so made him feel dirty on the inside, not that her would ever tell anyone, but after years of hunting he could spin a lie and recite it just as easily as telling the truth.
"Oh really?" She leaned against the edge of the desk with her elbows propped up and her chin cupped in her hands. It gave Dean the impression that she didn't get out much if at all and would drink up any story he chose to weave. "Are you from mountainous areas? What got you into hiking?"
"No I'm not. As for what got us into hiking it was our dad." Dean paused; even lying about John struck a chord inside of him. Every time he thought of his father he couldn't help but remember how John had given up his soul to save his eldest son from death. "His family was from Northern Colorado and they hiked. Dad got my brother and me into it when we were young but since we grew up away from mountains it was hard to be as adamant as good ole Dad was."
The nurse nodded briskly. "Sounds fascinating. I just love hearing stories from visitors. You know small town and all; people don't really get out much."
Dean had figured as much on his own. "So what do you think about the kidnappings." Though lying came easily to him, he found the longer he lied to someone the harder it was to keep track of reality verse the words he had spoken. He also found that sometimes it became difficult to keep the lies straight.
Widening her eyes in surprise the girl shrugged her scrub clad shoulder. "It's horrible for the parents. But everyone is talking about them. They are the most eventful thing to have happened up here in close to half a century." She looked away ashamed of what she said. "But it really is sad. The most recent boy, Leon Tyler, is one of my sister's students."
Nodding Dean switched his eyes to Sam and Tea making their way back to the waiting room "So?"
Tea sat back down next to him with Sam folding himself in the seat next to her. "Have to develop the X-rays which Dr. Messer said wouldn't take long." She sighed heavily hating that she was hurt. She had always disliked being sick or getting hurt because it made her feel weak and useless.
Minutes passed by in silence until Dr. Messer walked back out with the X-ray in hand. "Good news is you didn't break your ankle, it's just badly sprained like I said before but you'll need to wrap it and use crutches for at least two weeks. But you will be as good as new within the month. Unfortunately that means you can't do any more hiking for a while."
Tea nodded solemnly. "I won't sir." They wrapped her ankle and gave her two crutches for her to use. As they headed out Tea hated how Sam and Dean both seemed to be taking extra care of her. Sam hadn't wanted her to take the stairs that were right outside of the hospital leading to the parking lot.
"Would you be careful?" Sam sighed heavily as Tea messed around with the crutches as she made her way toward the Impala. "You could hurt yourself more if you fool around instead of walking right."
Tea balanced on the crutches with her legs in the air. "Sam chill out. I've been on crutches before and half the time the ground was wet so it was easier to lose control." She smiled brightly enjoying herself. If she had to use them then she was going to have fun with it. "If I have to use both of them why can't I have fun with it?" She hadn't wanted to take both crutches but Dr. Messer insisted and Sam agreed with him.
Dean laughed at the two. "Let her be Sam, she's just joking around." He got to the Impala and opened both driver's door and the rear door so Tea could climb in. "If she gets hurt it's her thing."
Sam sighed and let it be. "Fine." He continued to walk with Tea but left his comments to himself. He helped her get into the car and walked around to get in the back seat with Tea.
Climbing into the driver's seat Dean chuckled. "So you've been on crutches before Tea?" He pulled out of the hospital parking and drove toward their hotel.
Tea giggled. "Actually it was another stupid thing that I did." She fiddled with the zipper on her bag. "My boyfriend at the time was really big into BMX biking. There was an unoccupied set of lots in the back of my neighborhood with sand dunes and what not. Well we rode our bikes around there you know like the real thing, having races and what not. Well I went up on once that twisted real quick to the side then down and I fell off messing up my knee." She smirked. "I was on crutches for about a month."
"During school?" Sam questioned.
"Yeah and my class room was upstairs. But I got out of class early and was able to use the elevator plus my boyfriend felt really guilty about it." She grinned at the memory. "I also go to carry around my backpack to classes because I couldn't carry my books."
The remainder of time it took to get to the motel stretched into silence. Sam helped Tea out of the car ignoring her protests. Without actually talking about it they all walked to Sam and Dean's room. Tea sat down on Sam's bed ignoring his questions of her being okay or if she wanted anything. "Looks like Cass came and went." Dean held up a closed jar of dried vervain. "He really doesn't want to talk to us does he?"
"Guess not." Tea shrugged. "But at least we will be able to see the Faeries when we go out tomorrow."
"What do you mean we?" Sam eyed her. "No offence Tea but there is no way that you can walk around the woods tomorrow."
"Yeah gimpy, you will just have to stay here tomorrow while we go hunt this damn thing." Dean smiled jokingly at Tea.
"Gimpy?" Tea sent a smiling glare at him. "The last time someone called me that they got a crutch to the rear end." She lifted one crutch and shook it at him. "Just because you are a guy and probably could beat me up doesn't mean I still can't hit you."
Dean laughed sitting on his own bed rolling the jar of vervain between his hands. "I am so scared of you Tea." He shook his head still laughing. "You wouldn't even be able to get me so that you could hit me"
"Your sarcasm is useless. You should be afraid of her." Castiel appeared out of nowhere as he was accustom to doing. He walked to stand in front of Tea.
And enter Cass but who knows what will happen with that? Does he know who/what Tea is? You'll just have to wait and find out.
To the reviews!
K.T.: Yeah Aubree is a weird dude! You'll just have to wait and see all that he is in on. Remember he supposedly gave Sam the vision and started this whole thing as well as everything and everyone has a place and a reason. (mwahahaha!) As for Dean yeah you know him, always making jokes and what not. (Must stay true to the characters)
So randomness right now but I was looking into one thing or another and my lil sis asked me about Jensen. Well I checked on IMDB looking at our oh so hot fave older brother, and found that he was once on a show called Wishbone. Now I don't know if you know what that show is but its kind of corny from the 90s and about a dog. Pretty much a 30 minute history lesson. Anyway I just had to see what Jensen looked like so I searched around and finally found the episode on youtube. I watched it all the way through only to be greatly surprised. It was really cool seeing him, he looks pretty different from Dean and sounds so... off from what you can hear him sound like now, if I hadn't known who he was supposed to be I wouldn't have recognized him. So just to inform anyone who favors Jensen or wants to see what he looked like from 96. The episode is called Viva Wishbone. See if you can spot him.
So now I have to say goodbye! Love you all and will be back sometime on the 15th to bring you a new chapter!
