"All I ever wanted was a teddy which was big, real, and talked. But now he's sad all the time." She frowned, "Not ouch sad, but ouch-in-the-head sad." She leaned into the eldest Winchester who was kneeling beside her, "He says weird stuff, and smells like the bus."

"Um, little girl…"

She glared up at Dean, "That's not my name!"

His brows raised at her but Angel quickly caught her attention, "What's your name, sweetheart?"

"It's Audrey."

"Audrey. That's pretty." Angel smiled, "I'm Angel. That's Asa, and those two are my brothers Dean and Sam." Audrey looked at the three men before her attention was back on Angel, "So Audrey, can you tell us how your teddy became real?"

"I wished for it."

"You wished for it?" Asa repeated, earning Audrey's eyes, "Where?"

"At the wishing well."

Dean opened the bedroom door again but this time Teddy motioned to the TV with his liquor bottle, "Look at this." He chuckled sadly as he turned to a supremely weirded out Dean, "You believe this crap?"

Dean shook his head dumbfounded, "Not really."

"It is a terrible world." He abruptly turned to Audrey, "Why am I here?!"

Audrey yelled back, "For tea parties!"

"Tea parties?" He wailed as guns started firing on the TV, "Is that all there is?"

Dean, wide eyed and thoroughly creeped out, stepped out of the room and closed the door softly.

"Audrey, give us a second, okay?" Audrey nodded at Sam and walked away as Angel stood, "Okay. Are we… Should we… Uh, are we gonna kill this teddy bear?"

Dean reeled, "How?"

"Uh, we could try shooting it first. If that doesn't work, burning it's probably our best bet." Asa answered then frowned at the looks he was getting, "What?"

"How do we even know that's gonna work?" Dean pressed with a scowl, "I don't want some giant, flaming, pissed-off teddy on our hands!"

"Yeah…" Angel sighed deeply, "Besides, Teddy here isn't our core problem. It's whatever brought him to life." She turned back to the little girl and called her over, "Audrey, where are your parents?"

"My mom wished they were in Bali, so I think they're in Bali."

"Okay, well sweetie…" She frowned, "I'm really sorry to break this to you, but… your bear is sick."

"Yeah…" Sam nodded, "He's- he's got…"

Dean interjected as he fumbled, "Lollipop disease."

Asa frowned, "Lollipop disease?"

"Lollipop disease." Dean repeated with a strained nod, "It's not uncommon for a bear his size. But, see, it's- it's really contagious."

"Do you have anyone you trust that you can stay with?" Angel asked her, "A family member or a friend? Gotta be a grown up like us."

She nodded, "Mrs. Hurley lives down the street."

"That's great." She smiled, "Why don't you stay there for a few days while we handle Teddy, okay?"

"Okay."

"Oh, and Audrey?" Dean called as she walked away, "Where is this wishing well?"

Back at Lucky Chin's Chinese Restaurant…

As the four hunters arrived, the same little boy they saw running from bullies threw a coin into the fountain before leaving.

Dean turned to them, "Think it works?"

Angel sighed as she studied the structure, "Got a better explanation for manic-teddy back there?"

"Well, there's one way to find out."

Angel frowned when Dean took a coin out of his pocket, "We just got done talking to a boozed out living teddy bear and you wanna throw a coin in the deep end? Sound like a good idea to you?"

"You gotta better idea?" At all of their blank silent looks Dean shrugged, "Then it's the only lead we got."

As he got ready to throw it Sam cocked his head, "What are you gonna wish for?"

"Shh!" He admonished as he threw the coin in, "Not supposed to tell."

A minute didn't pass before a delivery guy walked into the restaurant and hollered, "Somebody order a footlong Italian with jalapeño?"

Dean grinned, "That'd be me."

Later on the four of them sat at a table as Dean devoured the sandwich, "I think it works." He shrugged, "I was pretty specific."

"The teddy bear…" Asa sighed as he leaned back in his chair and shook his head, "The sandwich…"

"Not to mention." Angel slid over a newspaper article about a man who won millions of dollars via the lottery, "Biggest jackpot like… ever."

Sam motioned to the couple Asa had noticed earlier, "I'm guessing that."

"Well…" Dean cocked an eyebrow at the nerdy man being fed sushi by a very attractive woman and nodded, "That definitely goes on the list." He turned back to them shaking his head, "What are we supposed to do, huh? Stop people's wishes from coming true? I mean, it sounds like kind of a douche-y thing to do."

"It may be douchey but think about…" Angel leaned forward, "Since when does shit like this end happily-ever-after? Usually it ends with some poor schmuck being zipped up in a body bag."

"I don't know. It's a damn good sandwich." Dean eyed her as he took another bite but her look never wavered, making him sigh, "Alright, fine. We'll put a hold on the wishing till we figure out what's going on."

Angel nodded, "Glad you're on board."

Quickly a chinese waiter approached their table with a smile, "Uh, gentlemen, lady." He nodded at the four of them before motioning to the sandwich, "I'm sorry. We don't allow people to eat outside food here."

Dean swallowed the bite he had in his mouth, "Well, I am certainly not gonna eat the inside food here." He laughed lightly as he reached into his pocket, the other three following suit, "Health department. You, my friend, have a rat infestation. We're gonna have to shut this place down under emergency hazard code 56C."

The waiter paled, "Rats?!"

After they cleared the restaurant out, and drained the fountain, Dean started sweeping up the coins.

"Typical fountain, plaster Buddha. Nothing I can see."

"Yes, nothing." The waiter nodded quickly, "We keep a clean place here."

"Sir…" Angel turned to him with a smile and gently took his arm to lead him away from the three men, "I'm gonna have to ask you to leave during the preliminary investigation, okay?" She patted his arm, "Thank you."

"Oh, come on." Dean grinned between the three of them before flipping Sam and Angel a coin each, "Aren't you two a little bit tempted?"

Sam chuckled, "No." He promptly handed the coin back to Dean, "Wouldn't be real. I wouldn't trust it."

"I'd rather not test my luck further than i already have, D." Angel tossed her coin back to Dean as well, "It's bad enough you've already thrown a coin in there. Somehow that's gonna come back and bite us in the ass."

"I don't know." Dean shrugged at her, "That bear seemed pretty real."

"He seemed real, yeah." Asa came to stand beside Angel, "He also had some major mental issues, if you failed to notice."

"Understatement."

Dean ignored them, "Come on." He turned to Sam, "If you could wish yourself back, you know, before it all started… Think about it. You'd be some big yuppie lawyer with a nice car and a white picket fence. And you two." He turned back to Asa and Angel, the latter giving him a look that said proceed with caution, "You two could have a normal life together. Maybe start a family and have your own white picket fence. I saw you with that little girl, Angie. You're a total natural when it comes to kids."

"That's because I had practice with you two. I should be a natural." Angel shifted awkwardly, avoiding Asas curious eyes that were now studying her, "And anyway, it's not hard to talk to kids. You two just clam up if the conversation doesn't involve a demon or a pretty face. Also, must I repeat the obvious? We don't know the consequences of using this thing."

"She's not wrong." Sam nodded in agreement before shrugging, "And anyway… that's not what I'd wish for if i did use the fountain."

Dean raised a brow, "Seriously?"

"It's too late to go back to our old lives, Dean." He shook his head, "I'm not that guy anymore."

"I'll bite." Angel studied him closely, "What would you wish for?"

Sam stayed silent for a second before he met his sisters gaze head on, "Liith's head on a plate." He raised a brow, "Bloody."

Angel nodded slowly as she and Dean both studied the loathing in Sam's eyes and expression.

"Okay." Asa cleared his throat, "Uh…" Something caught his eye and he leaned over the fountain to move some pennies out of the way, "What is that?"

"Some kind of old coin." Sam leaned down next to him followed by the other two, "I don't recognize the markings."

Dean tried to pick it up with all of his strength but the thing didn't budge, "Damn."

Sam smirked, "Lift with your legs?"

Dean grunted again with the force of trying to pick it up, "Is that little mother welded on there?"

"Huh…" Angel smiled at them as she straightened up, "Bright side? This part could be fun."

After retreating to the Impala momentarily, the four of them came back to the restaurant with hammers and crowbars at the ready. The owner took instant notice and he panickedly followed them to the back area with the fountain. As Dean leaned over to start using the crowbar on the coin he panicked even more.

"Hey, hey, hey, what is this?!" He yelled, "You are gonna break my fountain!"

"Sir, I don't want to slap you with a 44/16, but I will."

Angel and Dean looked at Sam curiously at that. He shrugged lightly as the owner glared at Dean one last time but backed off.

Sam nodded at him, "Alright, thanks."

"Let me see that." Dean took the hammer from Asa, "I got an idea."

He lined the crowbar up with the coin and readied the hammer. Once he hit the crowbar the only thing that happened was the hammer broke. The top of the hammer flung past the owner who put his hands up in shock.

Dean looked at the broken handle of the hammer in shock, "Damn!"

"Coins gotta be magical." Angel mused, "Don't think it's gonna be as easy as we thought."

"Boy, I'd say." Dean scoffed, "I think it's hoodoo that's protecting the well. I don't think we can destroy this."

Sam took out a notebook and pencil and ripped a piece of paper from the notebook to trace the coin.

"Here." He handed the paper off to Angel, "You guys look into this."

"Where are you going?"

Sam shook his head as he began to walk out, "Something just occurred to me."

"You two deal with this." Angel handed the paper over to Asa, "I'll go with him."

Back at the rec center…

"Sammy…" Angel followed Sam through the halls curiously, "Why are we here?"

He quickly shushed her and pointed to the ground where wet footprints were appearing in front of them leading to the women's shower room. They rushed into the room behind the invisible figure where a blonde woman, wearing only a towel, stood in front of the mirror. Sam grabbed the figure's shoulder to reveal a naked teenage boy. He stared at them in shock and shame.

The woman swung around, "Ah!"

"Don't worry, ma'am." Sam held up his badge, as did Angel when she got over her shock at what was happening, "We're with the health department." Without comment the woman quickly bolted from the room as Sam glared down at the kid, "So, you can turn it on and off, huh?"

"How…" His eyes flickered between them, "How did you know that I was-"

"Wait, hold on." Anger filled Angel's eyes as she pierced him with a scowl, "You seriously dropped a coin into a wishing well and wished to be a better peeping Tom? What the hell is the matter with you?"

"N- No. No. N- No." The kid stuttered, trying to laugh off his shame of being caught, "That's crazy."

Sam exhaled sharply, "Put on some pants." Sam poked him in the chest hard, making the kid flinch, "And stay visible."

Angel pointed to the door when the kid didn't move so he hung his head and took his leave, "O- Okay."

Once the two of them walked back into the motel room they could hear vomiting sounds coming from the bathroom. Angel and Sam looked at eachother oddly before Asa walked over to them.

"He's been in there the whole time you've been gone. Think it's the sandwich."

"Dean?" Sam called as the toilet flushed, "You alright?"

"The wishes turn bad." His strained voice could barely be heard, "The wishes turn very bad."

"Gee…" Angel pursed her lips as her voice filled with sarcasm, "I wonder who predicted this happening after meeting the manic depressive Teddy?"

"Not helping, Ang!"

"The coin was Babylonian." Asa explained as Dean shuffled out of the bathroom slowly, "It's cursed. We found some fragments of a legend."

Dean turned back to the bathroom when a small gag escaped him, but returned, earning a snicker from Sam, "I'm good." He took a steadying breath, "The, uh… the serpent is Tiamat, which is the, uh, Babylonian god of primordial chaos. I guess their priests were working some serious black magic."

"They made the coin?"

"Yeah, to sow the seeds of chaos. Whoever tosses a coin in the wishing well, makes a wish, it turns on the well. Then it starts granting wishes to all comers."

"But the wishes get twisted. You ask for a talking teddy…"

"You get a bipolar nut job."

"And you get E. coli." Angel snatched the beer he got out of the fridge before replacing it with a bottle of water, "Stay hydrated, doofus. You don't want to upset your stomach more than you already have."

Surprisingly he didn't argue, instead taking a long drag from the bottle, "Mm."

"This thing has turned more than one town upside down over the centuries. It's even wiped a few off the map. I mean, one person gets their wish, it's trouble, but everybody gets their wish…"

"It's chaos." Asa nodded at Sam, "Any way to stop it?"

"Yeah. One way. We got to find the first wisher." Sam and Angel each rolled their eyes at that, "Whoever dropped the coin in and made the first wish, they're the only ones who can pull it back out and reverse the wishes. So for now, we've got a couple of nutso dreams come true, but once the word gets out about the well, things are just gonna get crazier and crazier."

Back at Audrey's house…

A blackboard read 'Life is meaningless. Signed T. Bear.' as Teddy stood before it wailing. He put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Some of the stuffing blows away through a hole in his head but Teddy remained living.

"Whyyyyyyy!"