2007...
Dean rubbed his sleep-weary face and looked over at Sam and Alex's beds. Sam seemed to have burrowed so far into the covers, you couldn't even see one inch of his big Sasquatch frame. Alex, on the other hand, had kicked off every single blanket in the night and was wearing her iPod. His mouth quirked into a smile when he noticed that her thumb was close to her slightly open mouth, though not quite in, as if it may have been at one point in the night. Suddenly, he stood up, and decided that they looked way too comfy, and pile-drive landed onto Sammy's bed. But, when he landed, instead of connecting hard with Mr. Muscles, he landed on... bunched up blanket...
"Sammy?" he frowned, yanking at the sheets beneath him. "Sam!" he yelled towards the open bathroom door.
Alex yawned, pulling her headphones out. "What's happening?"
"Sam..." he frowned, holding up Sam's cellphone, which was still on the nightstand.
"He left without his phone? He doesn't do that even just to go to the soda machine." Alex frowned.
"Right... Go get dressed." Dean said, rushing over to his duffel...
"Wait." Alex said, yanking out a map and throwing it onto a table.
"Alex, we'll navigate from the car." he said impatiently.
"Dean, we don't know where we're going." she said just as impatiently, and pulled her wand from her pillowcase.
Dean eyed the action with suspicion, folding his arms as she grabbed a book and started flipping pages rapidly.
"I need to learn a spell for turning to the page I need." she muttered, and Dean smirked a bit; she was just as impatient as he was.
Finally finding what she needed, she waved her wand tenatively over the map. "Reperio Exigo Locus Sam Winchester." she said, carefully enuncinating each word.
A tiny spark seemed to hop out of her wand, and then landed on the map. The entire map set ablaze, and Dean yanked her back quickly.
"What the hell, Alex?!"
"I was trying to do a scrying type thing to find him!" she said defensively. "Better that than just running around like chickens with our heads cut off!"
"You set the place on fire!"
But, just as suddenly, the fire went out, leaving only a tiny, odd shaped piece of the map. Dean walked over to it, poking his fingers in the general area as if making sure the fire wouldn't come back, and then picked it up.
"Huh... okay, that's handy." he said, petting her on the head a bit. "Come on, we're going to a place called... Cold Oak." he said, squinting down at the map. "Get dressed, and see if we have another map so we can actually find it..."