"Keep up Abby" Dean called over his shoulder as they walked
"I'm trying" she responded "God damn it!"
Dean stopped and turned around "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Abby exclaimed "What's wrong – take a look around us Dean" she sat on the grass at the side of the road "I have no freaking idea how Judy Garland wore these things" she pulled a shoe off and rubbed her toes "They're killing me, I'm going to get blisters"
"I don't remember her taking them off in the movie" Dean pointed out pulling her hand off her foot and looking at the red skin where the shoe had rubbed "That's going to hurt"
"Ya think" Abby threw him a look that said 'duh' before pushing the shoe on
"Why don't you flatten the backs of them down, wear em like sandals?"
"And if we have to run?"
Dean shrugged "Only a suggestion"
"Yeah well unless it's helpful please keep it to yourself"
"You know what, this would be a hell of a lot easier if you weren't being such a bitch" Dean half yelled "We're stuck in some weird ass friggin dream world with munchkins and witches, now witches I can handle, but freaking munchkins? That is one too far" he threw his arms out "Look around Abby, all that's here are fields and a yellow brick road, and I've already done the singing thing, I aint doing it again"
"You're shouting about it like this is all my fault, well newsflash Dean this is not my fault. I don't know what the hell happened but we're here and we have to get home, and so far it looks like we have to go with the flow"
"Go with the flow, okay so as much as I hate it I'll go with the flow, but no more singing and dancing! I aint down with that lions and tigers and bears crap, okay so don't expect me to buy in to any of that pansy ass crap. You want someone to do that, you should have had Sam here not me"
"Oh because you are all so masculine Dean" Abby glared before sighing "Look, we're stuck here until the end, I know you have issues with me Dean, but lets just get through this together and then when we get back home we'll talk" she walked towards him "We'll sort out whatever it is that's going on here okay?"
"Fine" he spat back
"Fine" she replied in the same tone "Now can we please just slow it down a little"
Dean sighed and offered her his hand "Come on Dorothy Gale. You know I'd hate if anything happened to you"
"Why Dean, did you just have a moment with me?"
"You mention it to anyone and don't think I won't hurt you" he spoke his eyes forwards as her hand touched his and they laced their fingers together
"My lips are sealed"
"Good, keep them that way for a while would ya, you're constant yammering is giving me a headache" he tugged her arm as he stepped forwards "Keep up"
x---x
"Now which way?" Dean asked as they stood in the middle of some cross roads
"That way is a very nice way" a voice spoke
Dean looked unnerved at the voice "You say something?" he asked Abby
"Nope" she replied
"Great, well not that I mind but uh, you know cross roads and all, they kind of make me a little anxious" Dean spoke as he looked at the other roads around them
"Speak for yourself" Abby muttered seeing the scarecrow "Hey" she elbowed Dean and nodded towards it "You think?"
"I hate scarecrows" Dean groaned as the arm of the scarecrow moved
"It's pleasant down that way too" the scarecrow stated "Of course people do go both ways" his arms crossed to point down both roads
"You have got to be kidding me" Dean muttered as Abby slowly walked towards the scarecrow him following behind
"Did you say something?" Abby asked as she approached watching as the scarecrow shook his head then nodded
"Hey buddy you want to maybe make your mind up?" Dean asked
"That's the trouble. I can't make up my mind. I haven't got a brain only straw" the scarecrow explained
"How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" Dean scoffed
"I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?"
Abby nodded and glanced at Dean "Yeah I guess you're right, they do"
Dean caught her glance and frowned "Not cute"
"I thought it was" Abby smirked
"You would" Dean sighed groaning as Abby hopped over the fence into the field "Abby"
"Okay scarecrow, how you doing?" Abby asked
"How do you do?" the scarecrow replied
"Eh not so bad"
"Oh I'm not feeling at all well" the scarecrow complained "You see, it's very tedious being stuck up here all day long with a pole up your back
"Sounds nice" Dean said flatly "Can't you get down?"
"Down? No, you see I'm... Well, I'm"
"We'll help" Abby smiled
"Oh that's very kind of you" the scarecrow announced "Very kind"
Abby walked behind him and tried to unfasten him to let him down
"I don't think" she griped as she tugged at the rope "Ugh I can"
"Of course I'm not bright about doing things, but if you'll just bend the nail down in the back maybe I'll slip off" the scarecrow explained
"Oh" Abby looked again "I can't see a nail"
"Oh for crying out loud" Dean stepped forwards and instantly grabbed the protruding nail, bending it easily causing the scarecrow to fall to the ground "How hard was that Abigail?" he shot her a look
The scarecrow fell off the post and he began stuffing some of the straw he had lost back into his coat "Whoops" he laughed "There goes some of me again"
"That not hurt?" Abby asked
"Oh no, I just keep picking it up and putting it back in again"
"Oh"
"My it's good to be free" he fell over on to Abby who squealed
"Abby" Dean moved over to where the two landed in a heap "You okay?"
"Yeah I'm good"
"Did I scare you?" the scarecrow asked
"No, I'm... I'm good" Abby shrugged it off as Dean picked her up
"But I didn't scare you?"
"No, you didn't"
"I don't know" Dean muttered softly to Abby "Scared the crap outta me"
"I didn't think so" the scarecrow sighed as a crow hopped onto his shoulder grabbing some straw and flying off "Boo! You see, I can't even scare a crow. They come from miles around just to eat in my field and laugh in my face" he sighed and put his head in his hands "Oh I'm a failure, because I haven't got a brain"
"What would you do with one?" Dean asked before slapping a hand to his face "He's gonna sing aint he?"
"Yup" Abby chuckled
"If I had a brain I could" the scarecrow smiled before breaking into song. Abby and Dean steadying him every so often
"With the thoughts you'll be thinkin' you could be another Lincoln, If you only had a brain" Abby joined in
"Dude" Dean looked at her with a weird expression to which she shrugged
"Life would be a ding-a-derry. If I only had a brain!" he finished his song
As they're sitting on the side of the road a crow flies down and picks up the straw that's in the road before flying off. The scarecrow runs into the field and finds the straw, grabbing it and stuffing it in his coat. He falls and lands on the road.
Abby grabs a handful of straw and goes over quickly stuffing it back into his jacket
"I'm sure if the scarecrows back home could do that, the crows would definitely be afraid" she told him
"They would?" the scarecrow asked
"Sure because everyone needs another living scarecrow" Dean stated with a shudder causing Abby to look at him weird
"Where's home?" the scarecrow asked
"It's a long way from here Einstein" Dean sighed
"We just want to go back, so we're going to the Emerald City to see the Wizard of Oz to help us" Abby added shooting Dean a look
"You're going to see a wizard?" the scarecrow questioned
"Yeah" Dean huffed a laugh "Never thought I'd say that"
"Do you think if I went with you this Wizard would give me some brains?"
Dean turned his laugh into a cough when Abby glared at him
"I don't know, but even if he didn't you'd be no worse off"
"Yes, that's true"
"Maybe you'd better not. We've got a witch mad at us"
"Just a regular day in the office" Dean nodded
Abby continued "You might get into trouble"
"Witch?" the scarecrow asked "Huh, I'm not afraid of a witch. I'm not afraid of anything, except a lighted match"
"Yeah can't blame you for that one Haystack" Dean commented
"But I'd face a whole box full of them for the chance of getting some brains. Look, I won't be any trouble, because I don't eat a thing. And I won't try to manage things, because I can't think. Won't you take me with you?"
Dean looked at Abby "He remind you of Sam?" he asked
"What?" Abby looked at him weird
"You know all puppy dog and pansy assed?"
"No" she told him "He doesn't"
"Hmm" Dean thought "He reminds me of someone" he snapped his fingers "Cas"
"Your angel?" she asked as he nodded "How the hell does he remind you of an angel?"
"Not eating, not human, doesn't know too much"
"Dean Castiel knew a lot" Abby sighed "You still see him?"
"Not for a while now" Dean shrugged "Bigger things probably"
"So, what are we going to do?"
"Well" Dean scratched his head "If we have to follow the story then he's gonna have to come with us"
"Good point" Abby sighed
"Alright Haystack get your things, we're shipping out" Dean told the scarecrow who looked at him with a blank face
"You can come with us" Abby confirmed
"Hooray! We're off to see the Wizard!" the scarecrow exclaimed gleefully as he stumbled
"You wanna get your sea-legs first Haystack" Dean sighed helping him up
"I'll try, really I will" he stated
"Yeah well don't hurt yourself" Dean muttered
"To Oz?" Abby asked
"To Oz" the scarecrow nodded
Before they both started singing:
"We're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz, if ever a Wiz there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz there was, The Wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because, because, because...
Because of the wonderful things he does.
We're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!"
"Someone please shoot me now" Dean mumbled as he followed them down the road