"Oh look you're up." Sam said looking up from his book and seeing me walk down the stairs.
"Where is Dean?"
"Went out for a couple beers."
"That doesn't sound like him." I said sitting on the couch next to him.
"Then you don't know my brother." He chuckled closing his book and setting it on the side table. "So how did you sleep?"
"Fine." I yawned sinking into the couch cushion. "Much better than sleeping shacked to the ground."
"Yeah seems that way. When the warriors figured out my powers they shacked me as well. Dean broke me out and that's when they detained him and tried to kill me."
"Did Dean ever try to find you?" I asked turning to him.
"A couple times but I hid myself very well. I didn't want to be found because I knew if he found me the warriors wouldn't be far behind. He trusts them so much even more than me. The only reason he called me in the first place is because he knew the warriors wouldn't help him with this. They hate your kind."
"Yeah I know the feelings. Sometimes I wish I didn't have them either but wishing isn't enough. Why am I such a big prize Sam?"
"I'm trying to figure that out myself. Been researching with these books but haven't found anything yet." He said rubbing his eyes.
"Dragon books right?"
"More like textbooks from when I was in high school. This whole thing has got me thinking; I never thought you dragons actually existed anymore. This is pretty much the first I have heard about your kind in centuries. I don't know anything at this point but I will do the best I can."
"If you hate our kind so much why are you helping me?"
"I told you that already. I did this for my brother." He smiled getting up and going to the kitchen. "You hungry?" He asked opening the refrigerator.
"Starving…" I said trailing off and got up off the couch.
"Well you have certainly got your strength back." Sam said getting some eggs out of the fridge. "How about some scrambled eggs?"
"You're going to make me breakfast?"
"More like a midnight snack; why is that weird?" He asked turning on the burner.
"No not at all." I said sitting at the kitchen table. "Where did the food come from?"
"I went shopping while you slept."
"So did you grow up here?"
"What gave it away the fact that I have a room upstairs?" He chuckled.
"Well that and the fact there is family pictures everywhere. If you guys can't feel anything how do you feel love for your brother?"
"We have souls and know our family. We have to protect them as best as we can. That's what our love is, protection."
"Real love feels great." I smiled.
"Have you ever been in love before, Rikki?"
"Never IN love but I have loved. I love my parents and I love Dean but no IN love."
"Well Dean loves you in a different way. So really no IN love?" He asked putting the eggs on a plate and handing it to me.
"Are you trying to say Dean is in love with me?" I questioned picking up my fork.
"As much as someone can be in love with your kind. I don't get it." He said sitting across from me at the table.
"Are you going to eat?" I asked taking a bite of the scrambled eggs he put in front of me.
"Our kind doesn't have to eat or sleep to stay alive. The feelings do a number on us. Turn us almost human; your kind is the closes thing to human."
"No because all humans have freedom. Not all of us do."
"You want freedom but do you know at what cost that will come?"
"No but wouldn't you do the same if it were you in my situation?"
"I have already been in your situation and I now have my freedom. The cost was losing my family, the life I knew and my future. I did however gain a new family one that understood who I am and helped me in every way they possibly could."
"See and your still alive and well. You have some of your real family back. Dean is willing to do anything for you."
"Yeah because that poor sap has feelings." Sam chuckled picking up my empty dish and walking it to the sink. "So what's on today's agenda?"
"What am I allow to do?" I sighed watching him clean my dish in the sink.
"Anything you want except meeting up with people and going to places Spencer knows about. How about we go to the carnival?"
"What's a carnival?"
"A place with salty, sweet and greasy foods; mostly greasy. Crinkly rides that are built in a day and all local people man everything."
"Sounds sketchy."
"Oh it is. Let's go." He smiled grabbing his coat and walked out the front door.
"But Sam-Ugh!" I said pushing my chair out from under the table and walked out the same door. "What about Dean?"
"Oh he will call me once he comes home and realizes we are both gone. No reason to leave him a note." He said opening up the door to his black Dodge Charger SRT8. "It will be fun." He smiled getting in his car and closing the door. I opened the passenger side and got in as well.
"Nice car." I said putting on my seatbelt. "Are you going to put on your seatbelt?" I asked as he started up the car.
"Nah I don't deal with seatbelts. Pain in the ass they are." He chuckled as we rolled out of the driveway.
We arrived at a field with lots of flashing lights, screams, laughs, smells I have never smelled before and a big wheel that people were sitting on. "What is that?" I questioned pointing to the big wheel as we both got out of the car.
"It's called a Ferris Wheel." Sam chuckled. "It's cute how naïve and innocent you are."
"Give me a little bit of a break. I have been locked in a castle since I was three." I laughed pushing his shoulder.
"You ever heard of a roller coaster?"
"No what's that?"
"I'll show you." He laughed again grabbing my arm and running toward one of the rides.
"First time?" Said a man who was latching Sam and me into a cart. "Don't worry this ride is fun and I guarantee afterwards you will be begging to go on another one just like it." The man said walking over to what I assumed was the control panel. "Have fun." He smiled pushing a button and the ride was off. We started by going up several feet in the air.
"Sam I don't like this." I said watching the cart being pulled up by a chain.
"Are you scared?" Sam asked looking at me.
"A little I have never been this high be-FORE!" I screamed as we descended down at a racing speed. I just closed my eyes and screamed until I felt our cart come to a complete stop. I quit screaming and opened my eyes.
"And that's it. Did you have fun?" The man smiled pushing a button and our seat restrains unlatched.
"You call this fun?" I questioned as Sam and I exited the ride. I watched as some people ran off with smiles to another ride, some ran to the trashcan to throw up and other got in line again.
"Oh come on it wasn't that bad." He said as I looked up at him. "Okay, okay how about I make it up to you."
"How?" I questioned sitting on a bench next to that screaming metal death trap. I looked across from me and saw a stuffed duck. It was gray, so furry looking with a black bill and two big beady black eyes.
"I know." He said walking over to the stand that the stuffed duck was hanging in.
"Welcome sir." A woman in a red striped shirt and green apron said as Sam walked over to the stand.
"I would like one ball, please."
"Rarely anybody can knock down the bottles with one ball." The woman said in surprise.
"That's all I will need." Sam said winding up the ball with his arm and threw it with as much strength as he could. The bottles didn't just fall but two of three shattered. "See only needed one." Sam laughed.
"Wow, okay what prize did you want?"
"The stuffed duck." Sam said pointing to the duck that caught my eye.
"Good choice. Have a great night." She smiled handing him the stuffed duck. He putting the money down, walked away from the stand and came over to the bench I was still sitting in.
"So we good?" He smiled handing me the duck.
"We are good." I smiled back getting up off the bench and followed after him to another stand. "What are we doing now?"
"Well it wouldn't be a real carnival experience without funnel cake."
"What's funnel cake?" I asked as the line started to move.
"It's like a big french-fry covered in powder sugar." Sam smiled as we got to the front of the line. "One funnel cake, please." Sam smiled as he paid the man and we went to go sit down at a picnic table next to the funnel cake stand.
"I don't think I want to eat that."
"Why? It must be better than the food the castle provided." He said tearing a piece off and putting in his mouth. "Come on." He said tearing off another piece. "Just try it."
"Fine." I said grabbing the piece and breaking off a smaller piece and put it in my mouth. Sam just started laughing. "What?"
"Nothing it's just funny that you don't know how to be a kid."
"I never really had the chance."
"Hmm, so how is it?" He asked eating another piece.
"It's good." I smiled eating the rest of my piece.
"Alright well I want to take you on the Ferris wheel. It's fine I promise it goes very slow."
"Do I have a choice?" I asked swallowing my piece of funnel cake.
"Not really." He chuckled getting up and throwing the rest of the funnel cake away. "Don't make me pick you up and carry you." He said walking back over to me.
"Okay but promise me you will not make fun of me if I get scared."
"Never." He smiled as we walked to the Ferris wheel. "So who is this Alan kid that Dean was talking about. I heard he was a real pain."
"Yeah he has no respect for anyone in the castle really because he thinks they won't really harm him. He thinks he is to valuable. As a dragon and all." I said as we stood in line for the Ferris wheel. "He really isn't that bad when you get to know him though. He is just full of hate and he shows it to everybody who could have taken him from his family. Most of us don't know who kidnapped us on our third birthday. I only know because he sort of came out and said it."
"Spencer?"
"Yeah." I sighed as the line moved an inch toward the loading station.
"Why would the head of the council and the head of the cloaks kidnap you personally?"
"Well he wants to marry me for some reason. I think it's to get back at my mother; he has the power to do so."
"Why would he want to get back at your mother?"
"She chose your brother over him."
"Wow Dean you sly dog." He chuckled. " Wait but if Dean was chosen how come he isn't married?"
"Well then she fell in love with the man the council picked out for her, my dad. It seems my mom got around."
"So Dean has a thing for you but he was with your mother? As in with your mother?"
"Yeah."
"Ah Dean really?" He said mostly to himself. "That's sick on so many levels."
"My mom did give him her blessing. I guess she thought if anybody was going to be able to marry her daughter it was going to be someone she trusted. She didn't want me with Spencer and was furious when she found out."
"I bet she was. That's such a crazy turn of events."
"I'll say." I said as we boarded the Ferris wheel.
"Wait how old are you?" Sam asked as the Ferris wheel started to ascend.
"I'm seven."
"Seven?! But you look so much older like if you were in your twenties!"
"I know. Dragons are fully matured at the age of seven. That's also when our powers have come in all the way and we start training. We are kidnapped at three only because that's when our powers start to come in but we are still pretty much harmless." I shivered as a gust of wind blew through the gondola.
"You cold?" Sam asked putting his arm around me. He was so warm and his hand started rubbing my arm creating friction. The Ferris wheel came to a stop when our gondola reached the top. "It's okay this is normal." He said seeing my slightly scared face.
"It's beautiful." I said looking up at the sky that was a field stars.
"There okay; if you want to see some real stars you should see some shooting ones." He smiled looking up at the stars as well.
"Not that, freedom. For miles and miles. I wish others of my kind had the same."
"Yeah but like you said wishing isn't enough. You have freedom now and soon you will be able to give it to others of your kind. It's all a waiting process. Have patients Rikki." He said as the operator of the Ferris wheel let us out of the gondola. I heard his cell phone ring. "Hello?" Sam asked to the other person on the phone. "Yes I have her. We only wanted to have a little fun. Yeah fine I will bring her back." He sighed hanging up the phone.
"Was that Dean?" I asked as I followed him.
"Of course. I told you he would freak and call me. It's not like I left you alone. I was here protecting you the whole time. Isn't that what he call me here to do?" Sam said opening up the door to his car and got in. I got in the car and put my stuffed duck in the back seat and put my seatbelt on. Sam started his car and again didn't put on his seatbelt.
I don't own Supernatural, Dean or Sam but everything else you do not recognize from the show is mine.