Ah another Chapter down! Surprisingly I didn't have it finished for today to be able to post it up. I had to write most of the end of it, which is one of the main reasons why it is so short. I've been on a mission trip for the past 5 days (which is why the previous chapter came out a day early) and (also surprisingly) only thought about the story once. So I hope you enjoy the rather short chapter "Photography"
All three walked back to the motel together and headed up to their room not knowing what else to do.
"Well I'm going to go walk around." Tea went to her back pack and pulled out a camera case. Inside was a fairly nice digital Olympus with a removable lens. "Maybe go across the Minipond and see what's going on over there."
"Oh so what you're really saying is you wana check out if the hotel across the pond has any vacancies so you can get away from us." Dean sat on his claimed bed looking over at Tea. "You can just tell us you don't want to stay with us, we will understand."
With a roll of her eyes Tea screwed on the Olympus's lens. She held it up to her eye to look through the viewfinder and swept it around the room so it didn't look like when was focusing on anything in particular. What she really wanted to do was snap a few pictures of Sam. "Actually I'm documenting my hitch hiking travels if you wanted to know." Moving to the window she zoomed in on a bird in the tree across the street. Quickly she hit the shutter button, with a click it closed then opened in no time capturing the cardinal on the camera.
She pulled her Olympus away from her face and turned on the LED viewing screen. She hit the picture button and thumbed through her other photographs until she found the one she just took.
"Wow you took that from here?" Tea jumped in surprise. Sam who had been across the room fiddling with a silver laptop that looked several years old was now standing right next to her. He looked down at the red bird amidst green leaves. "That thing's got crazy zoom qualities."
Tea nodded. "Yeah well..." Not knowing what to say she panned the zoom out and then with lightning speed snapped a picture of Sam without even looking. "It can also do this."She found the startled looking picture of him that only held half of his face in it. "It normally looks a lot better but that was a bit spontaneous." She smiled up at him before deleting the photo.
"So you like photography?" Sam raised an eyebrow. He hadn't pinned her as the artsy type. But then again he had only just met her. "Or at least like it enough to have a rather expensive camera."
"Yeah it's a fun hobby." Tea smiled. She scooted around him going back to the camera case and pulling out a polishing cloth. "If I thought I was any good I'd probably look into it more and try to make a living off it but I don't." She unscrewed the lens placing the actual camera in the case then started cleaning the lens. In the cardinal picture there was a smudge that shouldn't have been there. At first she just thought it was the window but the same blotch showed up in the picture of Sam so Tea figured it was time to give the lens a once over.
"I thought the cardinal looked pretty good." Sam followed her. "Can I look at your others?" He gestured down to the camera.
"Be my guest, just don't laugh at me." Tea continued to wipe the lens down.
Sam picked up the camera gingerly and hit the photo button like he had seen Tea do. He flipped through the pictures. They were of different places, mostly of nature with a person here and there. He paused on one of two boys with a younger looking Tea in between. "Are these your brothers?" Sam turned the camera for Tea to see.
"Yes sir." Tea barely looked at the LED screen. "The one in the Astros hat on is Jared and as much as Jensen hated it, he's the shorter one."
"I know how he feels." Dean commented from the bed. "Been shorter than Sammy for years and he had never let me forget just how much shorter I am."
Sam smiled sheepishly continuing through the pictures. He stopped again when he got to one with Tea and another girl's faces smooched together. "Who's this?"
Tea glanced at the photo. A smile broke out across her face as she put down both lens and cleaning cloth. "That would be my best friend Ren and I on out senior class trip to Disney World in Orlando."
"Wait you've had that camera since your brother was alive?" Dean looked over. "You've kept really good care of it."
"No, Jensen had his own camera then. I just put the j-peg on my memory card." Tea giggled. "I got my camera for my seventeenth birthday just in time for senior year." She picked up the lens running the cloth over it once again. "That picture was taken two weeks before he shipped out." She swallowed down the lump in her throat. "He claimed he needed it to remember Jared and me by."
Sam nodded. He finished flipping tough the pictures all the way until he got to the cardinal she captured moments ago. "You are actually really good Tea." Sam smiled down at her. "So why do you take pictures?"
"I don't really know. I just like doing it." Tea held out her hand for her Olympus. She accepted it sweetly before screwing the lens back into place. Looking though the viewfinder she panned the room to see if the splotch was gone.
Quickly clicking a picture of Dean splayed out on the bed she pulled it away to make sure. Smiling she looked at the picture finding that she had in fact cleaned the lens thoroughly.
"Did I look good?" Dean smirked wildly having realized what she took a picture of. He rolled his shoulders standing up and walking over. "What am I asking? Of course I look good why wouldn't I?"
Tea chuckled before deleting the photo. "Someone, not mentioning any names or anything, but someone has an over inflated head."
With a laugh Dean shook his head. "Well you know..." he brushed off an invisible speck of dust on his shoulder. "So you really want to get out of here?" He didn't really know how great of an idea it was to allow her to go wondering around this strange town all by herself, especially when they didn't know where the four guys out for her head were.
Rolling her eyes Tea clapped the cap over the head of the lens to protect it. "If I really wanted out of here, wanted away from the two of you, I wouldn't have even considered getting a room with ya'll." She smiled. "I just want to walk around and see this place, don't ya'll?"
"Actually that sounds pretty cool to me." Sam smiled back at the youngest. "You don't mind if I were to come along with you do ya?"
Tea nibbled her lip. She really didn't mind at all except that she did kind of want to be on her own. She normally was when she went photographing. "Not at all, as long as you don't object to the possibility of being photographed."
Sam laughed. "Sounds good to my ears." He looked over at his brother. He could almost hear the thoughts ringing through his brother's mind knowing they mirrored his own about not knowing when or where Tea's possible murder was going to take place. "Are you going to stay here or come along?" He didn't know why but there was a nearly silent thought in the back of his mind hopping Dean would let the tow of them go off alone.
Dean sighed; he really didn't know which he would rather do. He didn't think that looking around at birds and trees was a very entertaining idea, but he also didn't want to stick around in the room on his own. "I think I will take a walk around on my own," he announced his decision finally.
"Okay... are you sure?" Tea glanced at the oldest. It wasn't that she really wanted him along or anything but she for sure didn't want him to know she would rather it just be her and Sam. "I don't mind if you join us too." She really didn't like lying but also didn't want him to know the truth.
"No really I'm fine on my own. You two go and take your pictures." Dean could probably think of about a bazillion different things he would rather do than go with the two younger ones to take photos. "I will just scope this place out, see if there is anything else going on around here."
Ah an now it is time for the review that I've gotten!
K.T.: hehe thanks, I'm glad it was funny because it so needs that aspect to be a true Supernatural story. And also thanks for the compliment of not having any criticisms. I think that is one of the nicest reviews I've ever gotten because it means that this is a really good story. As for Sam and Tea, well I don't like it when people just jump head first into a relationship, I think to form a good one it takes time which is what I'm trying to give them. (even though not even a day has gone by yet.)
Well on that note this is where the preview for the next chapter would go but well I haven't actually written it yet because I was really busy last week. I will have more written by tomorrow or the next day and will update this chapter with a preview for the next when I get a good bit of it typed.
But for now I hope you have enjoyed everything so far. Thanks for the reviews and I hope there is more to come!