Dean was cooking some burgers for Dinner when Sam came in and said: "So get this..." Instantly Dean knew Sam had found a case, it was the only time Sam ever said that phrase. "There's a possible Wendigo case up in Wisconsin."
"Wendigo?" Dean said grinning. "That should be easy." He held up his flaming hand.
"That's what I thought, we could use this case to practice our powers," sam replied. "You for targeted burning of a moving creature, and me for reading specific peoples minds for specific information, so we don't have this whole people think we're crazy when we say something completely relevant..."
"You mean like when we're on a Demon case and we mention Sulfur and people look at us like we've just said we'd like their first born child as a blood sacrifice," Dean said.
"Wow, Dean," Sam said. "That was- a rather strange analogy."
"Yeah well," Dean said. "It's true."
"Not debating it," Sam said.
"We taking Adam with us?"
"The Twerp should be healed up now."
"Where should you take Adam, Bitch, Jerk?" Adam said, as he walked into the kitchen. (Both older brothers muttered "Twerp") "When are those burgers going to be done, Dean?"
"Just a few minutes," Dean said as he flipped them over.
Sam glanced at the burgers, Dean made great burgers and Sam was kinda hungry. He turned to Adam, his back to Dean. "We've found a case, wondering whether you want to go with us?"
Adam looked between his brothers. "It's been 7 weeks, 'course I want to go with you."
So the next day the three brothers set off. Dean was driving, Sam was in the passenger seat and Adam was sat in the middle of the back seat. Skies on Fire by AC/DC blasted from the stereo. It was a roughly 8 hour journey from Sioux Falls to Rose Lake (where the Wendigo killings were happening) and they weren't going to do it in one leg. They had spent the morning at Bobby's just practicing their powers, making sure they could use them. Then finally they left, but unless Dean, who was already kind of tired from his practice, was going to relinquish the keys to Adam or to Sam they needed to stop half way there. So about 4 hours into the Journey, when they came to Minneapolis, they stopped in the cheapest motel they could find.
The next morning they left as early as they could. Dean, as always, drove. Sam was researching the area around the lake and the most likely place to find a Wendigo. He couldn't really find any really suitable areas, the closest he could find was the "caves" around the Bear Caves State Natural Area. "Worth a shot, right?" Dean asked when Sam told him.
"Yeah, I mean if it's not there then we can always look for some abandoned buildings that could be where this Wendigo is?"
"You been brushing up on your lore, twerp?" Dean asked.
"Well, I did have a month with nothing to do..." Adam justified. "Jerk."
Eventually the three arrived at Rose Lake. The first thing they thought they would do is have a bit of a look around, pose as tourists. After getting basic knowledge of the Lake area, where most of the killings were happening, they moved on to the caves. Here a smaller amount of killings had happened and the remains of people that went missing in the closest Lakes had been found here. Again, after gaining a basic knowledge of the area the brothers set off for a motel.
After arriving there, they got a room with two queens and a sofa bed (they played rock, paper, scissors for who got the sofa bed (Dean lost)). Once settled in the room the brothers discussed what to do next. Sam suggested going to talk to the victims, may be posing as grief counselors so they can get them to open up (Dean thought it would be easier to go Fed. "We go Fed all the time Dean, and anyway, Bobby's washing the suits.") Dean grudgingly agreed and then they went to bed.
The next morning they arrived at a witness's house, a college student whose boyfriend had disappeared when he went to get them something to eat. Michael, and his boyfriend Ross, had been on a date at the lake when Ross had disappeared. Sam knocked on the door. Michael opened the door, with a tear stained face (Ross had disappeared two days ago.) "Hi, Michael. We're grief counselors, we've been sent to help you."
Michael wiped his face. "Okay, er... come in?"
"Thanks," Adam said.
"Er... why are there three of you?"
"I'm just the driver, these two don't have cars of their own, and they aren't driving my Baby!" Dean said, he wasn't having any of this touchy feely, chick flicky grief counselor crap.
They played the role of counselor well and Dean just kind of sat there and watched.
Sam got all the information they needed from the inside of Michaels mind and the brothers moved on to the next witness, this one a girl whose sister had been taken.
They repeated the process over and over until they had all the information they needed.
That night, back in the motel, Sam and Dean came up with a plan of attack. They were going to enter the Bear Caves State Natural Area late, wait around until no one was in the area, if they had to force some people to leave with their FBI badges. They went in with flame throwers, for Adam and Sam, and raised hands, for Dean.
Once they were sure there was no one in the park, they started systematically searching the caves. Eventually they found what they believed to be the correct cave, the remains of Ross were scattered around the floor, and started to search the area.
Dean lifted a blazing hand towards the remains, in lieu of a torch, and examined Ross's watch. "Damn either Ross or Michael are loaded this watch is expensive."
"You know Dean, I'm surprised you didn't freak out when we met Ross," Sam said.
"Why would I freak out?"
"I don't know, because he was checking you out?"
"He was checking me out?"
"Yeah it was pretty obvious, I mean, even for those who can't read minds," Adam added to his older brothers conversation.
"Why would I freak out?" Dean said. "The goods are there, why not admire them?" Dean wasn't fooling Sam with his outward calm attitude. Sam could read the internal battle Dean was having with himself and the fact that he was freaking out inside made Sam chuckle. But what surprised him was that the freak out wasn't about Ross liking him it was about the possibility of him liking Ross back. That right there is where Sam cut the line. He focused on ignoring Dean's thoughts. He didn't want to know what gay fantasies went through Dean's head., especially since they had drifted towards the angel. "Can we get back to the case now?"
"Whatever," Sam and Adam said.
The Wendigo decided to make an appearance then. Sam had been nearest the entrance to the cave. Sam got thrown across the cave. He hit the wall. He crumpled at the base. Adam and Dean were instantly at arms. Dean's hands were flaming. Adam's flame throw was up.
The Wendigo attacked.
Flames filled the cave (luckily Adam took cover).
There was a wail.
The Wendigo seemingly exploded.
The flames died down and Dean was stood there grinning like a mad man. "I did that!" He said like a five year old showing his father their drawing.