Ah I know this is really late but I really have had one hell of a five days. I am glad that I have been able to cut it where I did. Thankfully this one is a bit longer than the others so I hope that will make some of you happy. Welcome to Chapter 11 "Talking on the Phone"
And with that the three split up. Tea and Sam headed down the edge of the highway across the Minipond and to the other side of town. Dean on the other hand just walked along Main Street enjoying the sun trying to dry everything up after the hard rain.
As they walked Tea would spot something, stop in her tracks and snap a picture of it. The first time actually gave Sam a start. He hadn't let his guard down by any means, but hw as less alert than he would willingly admit.
The two had been walking at a swift but meandering pace down the highway which held no cars at all coming or going. Sam was looking around like a guard he had stepped up to be. Checking every which way except at Tea herself he spied their surroundings. Then all of a sudden Tea wasn't next to him.
Spinning around quickly he searched for her only to find her several feet back with her camera to her face. A sigh of relief passed through his lips. He wasn't sure if he was more relieved that she was with him or that he had escaped the flack he would have gotten from Dean if Tea had been taken on his watch.
Tea checked the picture she had taken then looked up to see Sam staring at her. She smiled brightly at him, quickly closing the distance between the two she held out the camera. "Look," she sounded so cute and young which accomplished making Sam laugh affectionately at her.
Sam looked down at the LED screen to see a cluster of tree branched with a bird's nest nestled safely among the wood and leaves. Inside of the nest sat three baby blue jays. "Aw cute." Sam never thought those words would come out of his mouth unless in a sarcastic tone and toward Dean.
"Thanks!" Tea turned off the camera. "Wana head on?" She looked at the bridge ahead of them.
The two walked along together until Tea stopped Sam in the middle of the bridge. "Ooo this is awesome. Stand at the edge I'ma get a picture of you."
Sam couldn't help but laugh. He moved back to the barrier. Leaning against the side he couldn't think of another time that he had posed by himself. It made him feel weird to be standing there while Tea focused the lens pointed right at him.
"Hey can you put your arms out along the barrier?" Tea watched as Sam did what was requested. She smiled at how amazing he looked in the light with his own beautiful smile gracing his face. "Awesome." Tea snapped the photo, checked the LED then came back toward Sam.
With a smile Sam too the camera looking at the photo she took of him. It was really a great picture. "You really do have an eye for setting. I think the guy in the middle could be better though."
Tea shook her head. "You know I don't think I've ever met two brothers that think so differently about themselves than you two. Dean thinks so highly of himself but you... you seem to not like yourself at all." She giggled. "You are just as good looking if not better looking than your brother."
Sam looked away not wanting her to see him blush. "I don't see it." He looked out over the Minipond to see the beautiful cleared sky. "So heading on then?" He turned to catch her staring at him once again. "What?" For some reason he was self conscious about how he looked and if his hair was a mess or not.
"Nothing," Tea spoke with a head shake. "Let's go there's got to be a lot more to see."
And so the two headed on across the bridge. They spent several hours walking around and talking.
Mean while Dean had been walking around but then decided that he ought to do something pertaining to the case that his brother and he were supposed to be working on. So he forced his least favorite part of the job on himself and went to the library in town. Sure they couldn't get up the road to Metaline Falls but he was pretty positive that he could still be able to find something on the missing boys or if this sequence of events had ever happened before.
After about twenty minutes of searching through old newspapers, that hadn't been put onto a computer, his mind started to wander aimlessly. Another ten minutes of such wandered by and then he gave up. He replaced the papers where he got them before leaving the library to start walking around like he said he was going to do once again.
He strolled around not really paying much attention to anything in particular. As he was passing by an old man in his wheel chair, he remembered he had to call Bobby. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out a cell phone and speed dialed Bobby's phone.
" 'Bout time you checked in." Bobby answered on the second ring. "How's the case going?"
"Actually it's at a standstill at the moment." Dean hated having to say that. "There's been a whole bunch of rain in this region and the road up to Mataline Falls is closed down. The sheriff says it will be anywhere from three to five days until they can open the way up again."
"Well that's just great." Bobby sighed. "So what, you are stuck in Ione? You know one of the boys went missing from there as well."
"Yeah I know." Dean ran his hand down his face. "We have another problem... er well kind of." He didn't think Tea was much of a problem at all. Mostly she was just a hitch in their everyday case work. Though on the other hand she could turn into a problem, in the past the brothers had come across pretty little girls that had ended up being a pain in their rears.
"What did you two boys do this time?" Bobby growled. He had grown accustomed to having to clean up the brothers' messes on occasion. "Please tell me I don't have to come all the way to Washington to clear up your blunder."
"I take offence to that." Dean gave off a mock hurt voice. "Anyways we haven't done anything. But Sammy had a vision at around midnight this morning about four demons wasting this girl." He paused trying to think if that was the right time of the vision or not.
"Sam doesn't get visions anymore," Bobby growled. "He hasn't since you made that damned deal three years back."
"I know." Dean sighed heavily. "But he had a vision about this girl Bobby. Four demons are after her."
"Then why ya talken' to me about it you idget? Find the girl, exorcize the demons, and be done with her." Bobby couldn't help but think that half the time he was the brains behind the whole Winchester operation. "We have enough to deal with already."
Dean nodded knowing Bobby couldn't see. "Well I guess the good news is I've... we've already found her." He paused. "Right after Sam's vision we picked her up off the side of the road, she was hitch hiking."
"Sounds peachy." Bobby didn't sound like he cared all too much. "Anything else?"
"Not that I can think of." Dean sighed. "By the way what has put you in such a cranky mood today?"
"Oh you know this damn chair and high places. I don't have your freakishly tall brother around to get me things." Bobby sighed back. "Don't you worry I'll be fine."
"Good." Dean smiled. Bobby had pretty much been the only real fatherly figure he had ever known since his own father had been obsessed with killing the Yellow-Eyed demon for most of his life. But Bobby had taken care of Dean and Sam when John had to go on hunts and couldn't afford for whatever reason to keep the young boys with him. "We will come by after all this is finished."
"Sounds good." Bobby's rough voice softened. "And Dean... lay off the girl, don't go trying to get her to sleep with ya, it always complicates things."
Dean rolled his eyes. "I'll remember that. See you later Bobby." He flipped his phone closed before Bobby could reply.
With a shrug he pushed his phone into his jacket pocket. Half of him had wanted to say that it wasn't him that Bobby needed to worry about this time. Tea really had no eyes fro Dean in the least bit. Though if Dean had to bet on it he would say Sam was the more likely choice for sweet innocent Tea.
Not that Dean cared all that much. But thinking about his brother and their little damsel that they had to save from distress, he pulled out his phone once again, wondering why he even had put it up. Pushing and holding the number for the speed dial to his brother's cell he held the phone to his ear.
"Yes?" Sam answered after a couple of rings. "Have you gotten bored and realized you should have come with Tea and me after all?"
"Oh would you shut up?" Dean growled. Sometimes he hated just how well Sam knew him. "Are you two still off taking pictures of each other?" Though there were plenty of times, like in a fight when it sure as hell was very useful and had saved one or the other's life on many occasions.
"Actually we found a coffee shop and Tea insisted on getting us something to drink." Sam smiled. "And I wasn't taking pictures. I have been protecting her from four demons."
"Who have yet to rear their ugly heads." Dean finished off his brother's sentence. "I'm sure you have enjoyed protecting her hu?"
Sam knew exactly what his older brother was insinuating. "What have I said about using the upstairs brain? You know the old saying 'if you don't use it you lose it.' You're going to need it especially in this line of work."
Dean rolled his eyes. "I could say the same about you and your down stairs brain Sammy." He knew prodding Sam about his sex life was like stepping out on a paper bridge over a hundred foot drop. "You got to use it too."
Sam sighed he could clearly remember the last few girls he had ever really felt enough for to want to spend the night with them more than once. As the count was running all three were dead. The most recent had tricked him into jump starting the apocalypse and to add insult to injury gotten him addicted to demon blood. "I thought we had an agreement a long time ago about staying out of each other's sex lives."
"I'm just saying little brother that 'all work and no play makes..." Dean started to say.
"Makes Jacky a dull boy.' I know." Sam finished off the quote knowing it was one of his brother's favorites.
"Actually I was going to say Sammy but you catch my drift." Dean smirked very well knowing how much he was pushing his brother's buttons. "Anyways I'm serious Sammy boy." He also knew how much his brother disliked the nickname but could never give up calling him by it every once in a while. "Just tell me and I can go and sleep out in the Impala for a night or two."
"Is there anything else you want Dean?" Sam sighed heavily. He caught sight of Tea's pony tail as she talked with the guy behind the counter of the café. "Or did you just call to bother me." Through the window he saw Tea giggling at something that was said. For some reason something angry stirred in the pit of his stomach.
"Well Bobby says hi and that he misses your height." Dean started off teasingly. "Other than that, yeah I'm bored and was wondering where you and Tea were."
Sam nodded looking away from Tea hoping the feeling in his stomach would go away. "Did you tell Bobby everything that has happened? And what does he think about it?"
"Yes," Dean answered, "he thinks we should get the four bastards, exorcize them and then give Tea the boot."
Sam frowned. It's not that he didn't agree with sending the four demons back into hell, because he did, anything to get four less of hell's bitches off earth was a good idea in his book. But he wanted to know why four demons were after the seemingly normal Texan they had found on a lonely Montana highway. "Don't you think we should keep her around? I mean even after the exorcisms."
"Ah and now you are thinking with the right brain." Dean smiled brightly. "I knew you liked her more than you would let on."
"Not using the brain you are thinking with." Sam wished his brother acted more maturely on a regular occasion. "What I mean is, if there are four demons on her tail won't other come even if we get rid of these? I mean come on; four to one is pretty hefty odds just to ice a defenseless girl."
"We don't actually know if she is in fact defenseless as you claim." Dean shot back. He could see Sam's point though. Demons tended to work on their own unless they were working for a higher up demon. If that was the case Tea was in a shit load of trouble.
"Dean I saw her murdered for no apparent reason in a hotel room and then left to rot." Sam finally looked back to watch Tea grab up their cups and start toward the door. "Look we can talk later."
"She's coming out isn't she?" Dean laughed. "Well you two have fun." He stretched the word out longer than it should have been. "And like I said I..."
Sam never gave Dean the chance to finish his sentence, though he knew what his brother was going to say, because he hit the end button on his phone and put it in his pocket right as Tea was walking out.
Hehehe I really am enjoying writing this and am glad that I've kept it up because for some reason in the past once I've posted I kind of stop writing after a while. Though this has kept going for some time! So for the review from my most loyal reviewer!
K.T.: Ah you make me smile! I love getting your reviews! Thank you very much about getting the boys personalities right. I have five seasons and several books worth with them in it so I've tried my hardest to get their personalities right. I'm glad you feel its going slow cause I really don't want their relationship rushed. I am trying to get into Tea and her life because no one knows about her while hopefully everyone knows Sammy and Dean. And I really go enjoy your reviews, also if you said the chapter stunk I would take your advice and hope to make the next chapter a lot better.
Once again I am truly sorry but I don't have any previews for the next chapter. I really am a terrible person and I am very very sorry. I will try my absolute hardest to get the next chapter with a preview. I love you all! Thanks for reading!