Chapter Four- Ride All the Rides!
It had been three hours since entering the park and Sam's level of annoyance with his 'older' brother were at an all time high. They had been on countless rides and so far it seemed that Dean had forgotten that they were on a case at all.
"Woohoo! Sammy! Isn't this awesome?" Dean yelled as he sprayed a family of four with his blaster gun on the River Battle ride, which seemed to mostly be for suited for small children but you wouldn't be able to tell that by Dean. Sam was leaned back in the seat with his phone in a protective baggy trying to research any local lore he could find. The problem was he found too much, the Appalachians were full of legends of different beasts and monsters. The most common theme among all of the lore's was that humans were the main course. So with no clues as of yet to run off of Sam just read and absorbed all he could.
Castiel had his hands on his blaster gun and just looked over to Dean, "I do not feel comfortable shooting small children in the face with a water gun Dean."
"Aww come on Cas its just water! And watch this." He said as he shot a small six year old square in the forehead, the kid started dying laughing trying to simultaneously wipe the water out of his eyes while aiming back for Dean, but the kid missed and ended up soaking Cas' trench coat.
Castiel looked at the water dripping down his front then back up to the child and immediately started firing back. By the end of the ride all three of them were soaked and Dean and Cas had smiles reaching from ear to ear. Sam started to walk towards a machine that you paid a few dollars to blow hot air on you to dry off, Cas stopped him and laid a hand on his shoulder and in an instant Sam was dry. He turned to do the same thing to Dean but he held up his hand, "No, no Cas this is part of the experience, you can't have fun at a theme park without ending up a little chafed and sore" he shrugged and added "hell, you could say that about many things in life." He gave Cas a wink and all but ran to the next ride.
They stood in line for what seemed like forever before finally boarding Mystery Mine. Dean truly seemed like a little kid full of wonder as the ride started out in an old mine full of bats, looking around with his eyes full of wonder. When the ride stopped and fire sprang out in their face before another roller coaster plunge he let out a noise that none of them even thought him capable of.
It seemed as if no ride would go unridden today with Dean, he knew that with Sammy in the mood he was in that this was the only day he could just act like a normal person and let loose. So by the time they reached the Wild Eagle his enthusiasm was at an all time high. But after all the twists, turns, and loops of the ride, and this being their third rollercoaster in a row, even Dean had to take a break. "How about we get some lunch fellas?" he said while smoothing down his windblown hair. Sam's hair by this point was a matted mess and their clothes were in disarray, Sam had stopped at a bench to sit down with his knees between his legs looking green. And then Dean turned to Cas who was standing looking about the park, his hair, clothes and demeanor just as normal as Cas could get. "So Cas, what did you think of that roller coaster?" Dean asked him.
Castiel looked over to him and just tilted his head "it was satisfactory as far as riding an eagle can be I suppose. What is with you humans though and wanting to plunge towards the ground at high velocities?"
Dean just laughed and replied, "Just one of the many mysteries of life Cas."
They walked around for a bit stopping here and there to peek over fences and 'accidently' spray passerby's with holy water at the insistence of Sam. Then a smell hit Dean so strong and so pungent that he took off running without any warning to his companions. "Dean!" Sam shouted but got no reply back, so Sam and Castiel just ran after him. Dean was running with such a strong determination that it was nearly impossible to keep up with him. And then they saw him standing in front of a wooden structure with a wide path down the middle and on either side were what looked like frying pans big enough to lay a child on with sausages, onions, and peppers sizzling inside. Dean had his eyes closed and was inhaling so deeply it was as if his life depended on it. "Really Dean?!" Sam shouted at him, "You had us scared half to death that you had actually seen something important and this, this is what you ran to?"
Dean turned around with a look on his face like a wounded animal "Sammy," he pointed behind him, "Its giant friggin' sausages, they were calling my name with their sweet sizzling voices!"
Sam grabbed Dean by the shoulders and just shook him, "Do you realize that there are people going missing and probably being killed here every single night? Do you understand that we are hunters and we are here on a job to keep anyone else from getting hurt? Grow the hell up man and focus!"
Dean's face hardened and he gave Sam a hard stare, "Yes Sam I'm aware that the world is shit, but nothing happens here until night time, I'm sorry I'm trying to bring out the fun likable side in you. You haven't even tried to give today a chance! Until we have dinner with Dolly this is our time, our time! Act like you have some feelings inside of you other than angst and depression!" He grabbed Castiel by the arm, "Come on Cas let's get us some food." Sam watched as they showed their VIP card to the cashier and walked towards some picnic tables with two giant sausages on buns. He just stood there and watched with his brows furrowed.
Cas walked over to grab some napkins and walked up to Sam. "It is my understanding that sometimes humans get really wound up in their life and in their problems that they take a break from time to time to go somewhere to have fun and regain their happiness" he gestured to the park around him, "this seems like a great place for fun, and you seem like a human wound up in life and problems." And with that he walked back over to Dean.
Sam did feel bad for giving Dean such a hard time about this whole trip. They had been through a lot lately, and when have they ever just been able to smile and laugh without looking over their shoulder for their problems to catch up to them? They deserved this vacation as Cas tried to point out, so with that Sam put his phone in his pocket, pulled out his wallet and bought himself an insanely greasy huge sausage and walked over to the picnic table where Dean and Castiel sat. Dean was just finishing up his food but Cas was still staring at his, sometimes acting like he was about to go in for a bite before pulling back at the last second confused. "Dean, my mouth, it is not made for food of such proportions."
Dean smiled and looked over to the angel amused. "Just squish it down a little Cas."
"Yea and if you need some mustard you can always just scrape some off of Deans chin over there." Sam added giving Dean a smirk.
Dean wiped at his face with a napkin and gave his brother a knowing smile. While waiting for Sam and Cas to finish up Dean stared at the park map "You know I think we should really go check out the part of the park set up to seem like the 50s, I really think a monster could be lurking there." Dean winked at Sam. "Especially this ride here" he pointed to the map, "seems like the perfect place for a monster to be hanging out." Sam caught on to what Dean was trying to do and just hid his smile behind a very large pull from his drink.
After throwing away their trash they made their way to the Jukebox Junction and got in line for the Rockin' Roadway car ride. When they were finally at the front of the line Dean leaned over to Cas "hey Cas, you mind riding this ride for us, and getting a good look around for any freaky deaky stuff?"
"And why won't you two be going on the ride as well?" Cas asked with confusion in his eyes.
"Ahh, well Sammy's not really into rides as you have probably caught on to, and this ride…this ride scares me to be completely honest. We need you Cas, please."
Cas nodded "I can do this for you Dean".
When it came to be his turn the ride operator gave him a very strange look. Dean leaned into him "My friend here is 'special' and all he's talked about all day is riding this ride." The operator gave him a look and nodded for Castiel to advance.
"Don't worry, all of Gods creations are special" Cas said as he patted the ride operator on the back as he advanced in the line.
Dean and Sam sprinted out of the line to run around to the sidewalk where they could get a very good view of the ride. They held their breaths until Castiel came around the corner and the brothers started laughing so hard it took everything in them not to fall to the ground. There Castiel went with his usual stone set face, his hands gripping the wheel of a bright pink car that was so small Cas' knees were almost level with his eyes. The brothers literally had tears in their eyes they were laughing so hard. They finally managed to put on a straight face when Castiel walked over to them. "That was merely a joke wasn't it? You are not afraid of the ride and you sent me on it merely to laugh." Cas said with the slightest undertone of anger in his voice, well as close to anger as Cas could get anyways.
"We're sorry Cas, but that," Dean pointed to the tiny cars rolling slowly by "was the funniest thing I think I have ever seen in my life!" Dean started to shake with laughter all over again.
Castiel looked between the brothers and softened his tone "well, at least I didn't vomit like Sam did."
Sam stopped laughing along with Dean and looked to Castiel who had a slight smirk on his face, "Cas, did you," he looked at Dean with his eyebrows raised "Did you just burn me?" this started another round of laughter between the brothers that only intensified when they saw that Cas obviously didn't understand the meaning behind why Sam thought he'd 'burned' him.
The rest of their time leading up to dinner with Dolly was spent with Sam actually having fun, Dean riding even more rides and tracking down some pie, and Castiel, well being Castiel about everything. Finally they walked to the building containing Dolly's office and knocked on the door, ready to get down to business.