Sam came into the motel room dumping the bags of food on the table. When Sam was at the diner, he didn't have a clue what to get Dean. Usually Dean has double cheese burgers however Sam didn't want to get that because if Dean is that small, that burger would be overwhelming for him. So in the end Sam got him a normal cheese burger it would still be big for him but at least it won't tower over him so much.
Sam was nervous, how was he going to react seeing his now little big brother. "Relax don't freak out when he arrives. Dean probably feels stupid being a size of a doll and he would feel very vulnerable. It's now my job to protect him." Suddenly the phone rings, without looking at the number Sam immediately answers it."Dean you ok"
"Um no it's Ethan"
Sam signs "What do you want?"
"Just checking in seeing if there is any updates, want to make sure that we are still working together." There was a pause "Well Sam is there anything."
"Um"
"Don't think about lying to me I need to know."
"Ok fine. I found my brother."
"Brother what the one who you said was your partner"
"Yeah"
"I assume his name is Dean."
"Yes"
"Thought so that was the first thing you said on the phone...if your brother has been found has Lucy been found...is she alive?"
"No I haven't found Lucy yet. Dean escaped."
"From where"
"The toyshop"
"Toyshop?"
"Ethan, the person who was taking all those people was Mabel."
There was pause. "Mabel what toyshop Mabel"
"Yeah her"
"This is isn't funny."
"I'm being serious do you think I would joke about something like this."
"Wait so hang on your saying she was the black hooded figure I saw that night."
"Yes"
"Jesus Christ why would that witch do that?"
"Ethan"
"How did your brother escape?"
"Ethan"
"What has she been doing to them? What has she been doing to Lucy?"
"ETHAN" The phone then went silent "Ethan slow down."
"I'm sorry I need to know what happened."
"Ethan, what I am going to tell you now please don't freak out."
"Why would I freak out?"
"Because what I found out even freaked me out a bit."
"For God's sake Sam tell me."
Sam didn't know how to put this to him, he knew this was going to freak Ethan out, it would freak anyone out. Sam decided to go straight to the point "Mabel has been turning people into a size of a doll and keeping them in her toyshop."
There was long pause. Sam knew what the reaction was going to be. "SHE DID WHAT!"
"Turned them into a size of a doll. Dean told me his about five inches tall so the others must be that height as well." Sam then heard heavy breathing coming from the phone "Ethan I know it's a lot to take in."
"A LOT TO TAKE IN OF COURSE ITS A LOT TO FRIGGING TAKE IN. LUCY IS FIVE FRIGGING INCHES TALL."
"Ethan calm down"
"HOW THE HELL CAN I CALM DOWN THAT OLD HAG HAS SHRUNK THE ONLY WOMAN I CARE ABOUT."
"I know Ethan how do you think I feel knowing my brother is that size as well."
"YEAH BUT SHE WON'T BE ABLE TO DEFEND HERSELF SHE WILL BE SO VULNERABLE OH JESUS SHE COULD GET KILLED BY A FRIGGING ANT."
"Umm I don't think she would be able to get killed by an ant. An ant would be smaller than her."
"BUT STILL LUCY IS IN DANGER I NEED TO GET TO HER I'M GOING TO THAT TOYSHOP."
"No you are not. I told you I'm a hunter it's my job to handle this. Trust me Ethan I will save Lucy and return her to normal."
"I want to come with you then."
"Not happening Ethan."
"Where are you?"
"I'm in the motel working on a plan."
"Ok on my way."
"Ethan no..." Before Sam could finish his sentence the call ended. "Damm it Ethan" Sam thought. There was then a knock on the door. Sam rushed to the door and opened it. At the door stood a teenager with a grin on her face and a handbag in her hand.
"Sam Winchester" she says.
"Yes um you must be Vanessa."
"Indeed I am and I have to say you are hot like your brother."
"Vanessa...no." a voice came from the handbag.
Sam knew that voice straight away "Dean"
"Yeah I'm in here Sam." Sam snatched the handbag off the teenager and rushed inside.
"Hey that's my favourite handbag could you be a bit more gentle with it." Vanessa says as she walks in the room. Sam put the handbag down on the table and looked inside. Looking back at him was his shrunken brother. This is was weird yet fascinating to Sam it was like he was looking at a miniature replica of his brother. He had the same hair, same clothes, and same broad shoulders.
"Take a picture it will last longer."
The voice snapped Sam out of his thoughts and he blinked his eyes "Sorry it's just weird seeing you..."
"Weak and vulnerable yeah I get it."
Sam shakes his head "No its just weird seeing you so...um...small."
"Well its weird seeing an gigantic version of you. Jesus you were tall as it is now this is ridiculous." He then signs "Anyway are you going to get me out of this bag or not."
"Um yeah sorry." Sam reached in and made a grab for his brother. He heard his brother's yells in his fist. Sam then put him down on the table.
Dean looked up and scowled at him "Do I look like a toy that you can just grab."
"Well yeah you kind of do Dean."
Dean frowns at his brother "Ok you got a point but I still deserve some respect so pick me up a bit more gentle next time."
"Dean I'm sorry I'm just not used to this."
"It's fine Sam just don't do it again."
"So now what." Vanessa says.
Sam turns to her "Thank you for what you did but you need to go now and forget about all this."
"What are you serious I just got here."
"You done what you needed to do I can do the rest from here."
"Sam"
Sam looks down at his brother "What"
"It's true she's just got here she told one of the members of her family that she's gone to see her friend. They could be suspicious if she comes home quick."
Vanessa folds her arms "Your bro is right Sam."
Sam signs "Can't she go to her friend's now."
"Sam just let her stay she's not harming anyone."
"Dean, are you sure."
"Yeah I'm sure she's ok she's a good kid."
"Ahem I'm not a kid." Vanessa points out.
"Alright fine she can stay for a little while" Sam says as he goes to the food bag. "Um Dean I got you a burger it's ok if you don't finish it."
Dean's mouth starts drooling "Give me the burger Sam I'm starving."
"Ok ok hang on." Sam puts the burger on the plate and starts cutting it into small pieces.
"Um Sam what are you doing?"
Sam gives him the isn't it obvious look "I'm cutting your burger" his brother furrows his eyebrows causing Sam to chuckle "Dude don't tell me you were thinking of eating it as a whole burger." His brother shrugs. "Dean you wouldn't be able to do one bite." Dean groaned he can't even eat a burger normally now. "I can't wait to get back to my normal size." He thought. "Here you go." Sam says as he puts the plate in front of him. Dean immediately dug in to the food. Sam chuckles "Whoa you were definitely starving." Vanessa sat on one of the beds and takes off her leather jacket. Sam frowns at her "Sorry I didn't get you any food I didn't realize you were staying."
"Its fine I had dinner back at home."
Sam goes and sits on the other bed still keeping his eye on his brother. Dean noticed his brother was staring at him. He turned and scowled at him "Do you mind."Sam swallowed an apology and turned to look at Vanessa.
"Wow who would have thought Mabel taking all those people and shrinking them. I thought she was nothing but a harmless old lady."
Sam nods agreeing with the teenager "Yeah" he then signs "No wonder she was acting so weird when I was looking around the shop."
Dean looks up to him "You went to the shop."
"Yeah I went there to look for hex bags or something that could be linked to the hooded figure."
"You must have gone there shortly after I escaped."
"So is Mabel a witch?" Vanessa asks.
"Yeah sort of" Dean answers.
"Dean what did you mean when you said Mabel wanted to give you guys a better life."
"Well you know Lucy, Mark, Andrea they all been having an tough time and as you know Mabel is fully aware of that so she takes them shrinks them to a size of a doll and she looks after them."
"But she hardly knew you."
"I know but she told me that apparently when we came in the shop that day. She sensed that I looked liked a type of person that has been through a lot of pain so she felt that I deserved that so called better life she offers."
"So what's in this better life package?" Vanessa asks.
"Well from what I saw, they were all in boxes on the shelf and they were all asleep because she gives them sleeping pills. Then when they are awake, she puts them in a doll house and makes them socialize with each other."
Vanessa shakes her head "That's crazy."
"We have seen worse." Sam says.
"Um actually Sam this goes up the list for most screwed up situations we have been in."
"Dean, most of the screwed up situations we have been in is always something happening to you. Look at the time when you got turned into a teenager."
"Oh when I had to go through whole hormone stage again yeah that was unpleasant but you have been in screwed up situations as well. Look at the time when you swapped bodies with a nerd and when Bela took that rabbit's food so all you had was bad luck."
"Ok but I never died every frigging Tuesday or caught ghost sickness that made me scared of a cat."
Dean laughs a little "At least I never had a love potion making me fall in love with Becky and marrying her."
"Well that was a bit better than getting my ass kicked by a little fairy. What did you say it had Dean it had nipples right."
"Ahem I did quite good with that fairy. I killed it thanks to the microwave."
"You even became an old man."
"I was trying to help Bobby I'm usually good at poker I don't know what happened that day."
While the brothers were bickering with each other, Vanessa was sitting there with her mouth dropped open she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Who the hell are you guys." The brothers paused and looked at her. "Fairies, ghost sickness, swapping bodies. Seriously who the hell are you guys?"
"Um we're hunters. We hunt the supernatural." Sam answers.
"Oh"
"Oh is that it" Dean says.
"Well what else can I say oh my god hunters' wow that's awesome. I bet it's not though."
"Your right there." Sam says.
"In my opinion the things you guys have been saying right now makes the job hunters sound so messed up."
"Couldn't agree with you more Vanessa." Dean says.
"So I assume you are taking Mabel down."
Sam nods at her "Yeah and find a way to get everyone back to their normal size."
"Yeah I hope you find that solution as soon as possible Sammy. I'm getting fed up of being this size."
Vanessa giggles "I think it suits you."
Dean glares at her "Once you see my six ft self you won't be giggling then."
"Oh come on Dean you were a good doll for my little sis."
Sam frowns "What"
"The plastic food and all that. He was my little sister's favourite doll. She was actually planning a wedding for him and Barbie."
Sam couldn't help but laugh at that. Dean blushed with embarrassment "Sam not funny."
"I'm sorry Dean but I kind wish I saw that." Dean scowls at him and folds his arms.
"His cute when his angry as well." Vanessa says. She then received another glare from Dean causing her to giggle even more.
Sam's laughter turned into a cough and he tried to calm himself down "Ok I got a plan."
Dean turns to him "What's the plan?" Sam was about to answer until there was a knock on the door. Dean frowns "Who the hell is that?"
"I think I might know." Sam says as he stands up and walks to the door. He opens it and sees Ethan."Ethan"
"Hi Sam no time for chit-chat I need to know the plan." Ethan says as he barged into the room.
Sam closes the door and folds his arms "Ethan let me deal with this."
"No I want to help." He then paused when he saw a young woman sitting on the bed and a five inch man standing on the table. Ignoring the young woman, Ethan went straight past her and picked up the man. Ethan raised him in the air and examined him "Is this your brother Sam?"
"PUT ME DOWN" Dean yells.
"Put him down Ethan." Sam orders. Ethan ignored him and continued examining the older Winchester.
"Are you deaf. Sam said put him down." Vanessa says.
"This is mad" Ethan says to himself "This is what Lucy is like."
Dean glares at him "I'm sorry but who the hell are you."
Sam clears his throat "Dean, meet Ethan Parker the man who cheated on Lucy Green."
Dean eyes him up and down "Oh so you're the cheater."
Ethan glares at Dean "Why did you leave her behind when you escaped?"
"I had no choice I needed to get out of there so I can make contact with Sam so he can go and rescue them. Anyway even If I wanted to rescue them, it would have been hard for me, they were in boxes on a shelf."
"What" Ethan says "She's in a...holy shit." Ethan then let go of Dean in shock. Dean screamed as he fell but luckily Vanessa caught him.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH." Dean shouts out.
Sam went up to Ethan and pushed him on to the bed "MY BROTHER NEARLY BROKE HIS BONES BECAUSE OF YOU."
"I'm sorry I was in shock." Ethan says "Lucy is being treated like shit right now and I'm just sitting here doing nothing."
"Sam why did you get Ethan involved with this?" Dean asks.
"I didn't, turns out Ethan was there on the night when Lucy got taken so he believed it was something supernatural so he started investigating before we did."
Dean looks at the young man "You never told the police."
Ethan shrugs "What's the point they wouldn't believe me and I wanted to be the one to find her. I want to make up for what I did to her."
"Ethan I told you so many times let me and my brother deal with this we're hunters."
Ethan laughs "How can he seriously help you."
"His Dean Winchester no matter what state his in, he can always help me." Dean felt touched by what his brother said and he couldn't help but smile at that.
Ethan then looked at the teenager "Who is this?"
"That's Vanessa." Dean says "She help me get to my brother."
"Oh...um... well hi."
Vanessa frowns. "Bit late for a hello now you have been ignoring me since you came in."
"Sorry I'm just worried about a woman I care about."
"I understand."
Ethan then looks at Sam "What's the plan?"
Sam signs "Ok tonight I'm going to go to the toyshop. Dean is going to show me where the missing people are so I can rescue them. Then I will get Mabel and make sure that there will be no more people being shrunk. After that we will find the spell that will turn people back to their normal size."
"Good plan" Ethan says "So what do I do?"
Sam looks at him "You are going to take Vanessa home."
"What" Ethan and Vanessa say in unison
"I barely know this guy." Vanessa says
"Well you don't exactly know us." Sam says.
Ethan shakes his head "I want to come with you."
"No Ethan please if you want to do something good then take Vanessa home I want none of you involved with this."
"But I want to help as well." Vanessa says.
Sam turns to her "What happened to bringing Dean here and going home forgetting everything."
Vanessa stands up "I can't do that I feel like you should let me and Ethan help the more people we have, the more we can take Mabel down."
"She's just an old lady. I'm sure she can't do much." Sam says.
"But she could be smart." Vanessa says "Just because she's old that does not mean she might be stupid."
Dean signs "We aware of that but me and Sam have defeated a lot of supernatural beings. I'm sure we easily deal with this one."
"What if she shrinks you Sam then what."
Sam shakes his head "I'm sure that won't happen."
"You sound very confident." Ethan says.
"Yes I am confident because I know that Mabel can be taken down." Sam then put his hand on Ethan's shoulder "Look Ethan I know you want to help but something has only got to happen to you or Vanessa and I would be responsible for that. I don't want to feel like that so please just take Vanessa home and you go home and wait until everything has been dealt with."
Ethan folds his arms "Are you sure you can do this?"
"My brother can do anything." Dean says.
Ethan mumbles to himself and then nods "Fine I'm putting my total faith into you guys but if you screw this up there will be trouble."
Dean puts on his most confident smile "We won't screw it up."
Ethan looks down at him "You better not otherwise you will be under my shoe." He then looks at Vanessa "Come on we better go."
Vanessa shakes her head "No Ethan we should help."
Ethan shrugs "Well they say they can do it so we will just have to wait and see."
Dean gives Ethan a stern look "You better take her home don't do anything that you will regret."
Ethan gives him a really look "You think I'm that bad why would I pick on an innocent girl."
"You cheated on an innocent woman." Sam points out.
"I TOLD YOU IT WAS A MISTAKE I DON'T EVEN LOVE IVY I LOVE LUCY AND ONLY LUCY."
"Ok time is ticking you better take her home. Vanessa will tell you her address."
Vanessa puts her hands on her hips " I can get a bus home I don't even need him to take me home."
"We just have to make sure you don't try and follow us." Dean says.
"I guess their right Vanessa come on I got a car outside."
Vanessa puts her leather jacket on and grabs her handbag. She mutters to herself as she follows Ethan outside to his car. Sam was standing at the door with Dean standing on his palm. Vanessa turns and waves at the brothers "I wish you luck." The Winchesters smile at her as she gets into the back of the car while Ethan gets into the driving seat. The engine purred as Ethan reversed out on to the road and drove off.
Sam went back in the room and closed the door. He placed Dean back on to the table and picked up the plate with the left over's on it. "Do you think they will be ok?" Dean asks.
"I'm sure Ethan will do as his told."
Dean signs "Sam"
"Yeah Dean"
"I'm sorry about what Mabel did to me."
Sam looks down at him "Dean it's not your fault you didn't see that coming. I didn't even see that coming."
"I feel really useless at this size."
Sam bends down so he was eye level with him "You're not going to be this size for long. I'll sort this out."
"It's been tough Sam . One minute I'm coming out of the bar like I usually do almost every night then suddenly everything is towering over me even a teddy bear."
Sam gives him a sympathetic look "I know it must be overwhelming for you but your still alive and to be honest if I was in your shoes right now I don't think I would be able to handle it. This is why your strong Dean no matter what gets thrown at you, you are always able to put up with it."
Dean shakes his head "I couldn't handle the Mark of Cain."
"Well that's understandable no one can put up with that. When I removed the Mark of Cain from you that was the best thing ever." Dean looks down. Sam lifts Dean chin up by using his finger "Now listen stop feeling sorry for yourself we got a witch to take down."
Dean nods "Yeah let's take that bitch down."
"When was the last time you washed your jacket Sam." Dean says.
Sam looks in his pocket and scowls at him "Who's been in charge of the washing."
"Um...I have been busy."
"What drinking and eating all the time yeah that's a lot of work."
"Hunting Sam hunting."
"I hunt as well Dean but I still do the washing."
"Yeah whatever Sam get the door open." Sam crouches down and starts unpicking the lock of the toyshop. Finally the door was open. Sam stands up and gets his gun out. The toyshop was dark and quiet. Sam gets his brother out of his pocket and looks at him.
"Where are the people?" Sam whispers.
"In the storage room behind a painting but they are behind a secret door you need the key."
"Where's the key?"
"I think Mabel has it."
Sam signs "Perfect."
"I guess we better find Mabel first." Sam walks to the door to the storage room and opens it. The storage room was exactly how Sam saw it last time. He walks up to the desk top and places Dean on it. Dean looks down at desk top "Well this brings some memories."
"Wait here I'm going to look for Mabel."
"Sam"
"What"
"Watch out for the cat."
"Oh um Lulu."
Dean frowns "Lulu"
"Mabel said that's what the cat is called."
Dean shakes his head "She didn't say that to me. She told me her cat was called Lucifer."
"You serious."Dean nods. "Why the hell would you want to name your cat after the devil."
Dean shrugs "God knows she said that her cat reminds her of Satan."
Sam shakes his head "Ok that's not normal."
Dean suddenly saw someone approaching Sam behind "SAM LOOK OUT." Sam turns and gets hit on the head. He falls on the floor. Dean runs to the edge of the table and looks down "SAM YOU OK" there was no answer.
"His unconscious. He will wake up eventually."
Dean knew that voice he looks at and glares at her "Mabel"
"Good to see you again Dean. You been a bad boy escaping from me." She then raises something in her hand. "I have to say I think a baseball bat is now my favourite toy."
"You're not going to get away with this."
"Oh but I have." She then looks down at the younger Winchester "Your brother is quite a tall boy I think we should sort that out."
Dean anger turned into worry "No don't you dare."
"There's nothing you can about it Dean Winchester." She points at Sam and starts the chanting.
