Chapter Five: P, B, and J.
Dean rummaged in the kitchen, putting together a few sandwiches. He looked at the little figure of the girl sitting in the kitchen, looking like a dwarf in front of Sammy. Sammy looked tired. Lately, the toll of saving the world showed on him. The matter with the British Men of Letters had shaken them all. Dean hated the lot of them.
The girl, Reina looked at him, making sandwiches ready, and suddenly winced. "Hey, Dean?"
"Yeah?"
"You wouldn't happen to have anything vegetarian? Or – or just chicken?" She asked, almost apologetically. "Please, tell me you're not a vegan." Dean pointed the butter knife towards her, rolling his eyes.
"I – I was vegetarian, but I began to eat Chicken and eggs. No meat beyond that. I just can't." She sounded so sorry. "You've never had Bacon?" Dean felt the horror of it in his bones.
"Nope." She now smiled a little smile, some secret joke in her smile. "I'm so sorry. If there are eggs, I'll just make some boiled eggs." She stood up.
"That's ok. I'll just make you a P-B-and-J." Dean shrugged his shoulders, "It's peanut butter and –
"Jelly Sandwich. I know." She smiled. "Thanks, Dean." Sam, who was at the fridge getting something to drink, seemed amused at their conversation. "So why vegetarian?" Dean handed Sam his plate and moved to the table with their plates.
"I'm a Hindu," She took a bite of her sandwich, "This is awesome. I've never had this either."
"You've got to be kidding me." Dean was horrified. "Oh Dean, I've tasted Peanut Butter before. But I just didn't like the kind I had. We didn't use it. I like Jam – I mean Jelly more." She was now openly laughing between the bites at Dean, and he didn't seem to mind it so much.
"Ok, so being a Hindu means being Vegan?" Dean spoke as he ate. "Well, roughly yeah. Some sects eat fish, who lived near the coast - But it's all diluted now – more and more Hindus eat meat without any rules, because that's just the way things are now."
"So why haven't you tried anything other than – chicken?"
"Can't. The cow is a sacred animal, can't eat it. Pig, don't like the idea. I wanna try seafood though – but nothing that looks gross." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Dean?" A call sounded from outside. Reina jumped in her seat, turning towards the boys.
Dean stood up and walked towards the call.
"Bobby's back." Sam answered the look on her face as they both followed Dean out of the kitchen.
Bobby was not happy. First, there was zero news about Lucifer. Second, the damn angel Castiel wasn't answering his phone. Third, the boys had somehow caught a girl from another universe.
Being back wasn't such a bad thing, Bobby thought. But he had made peace with his death. He'd accepted that he was gone. He was finally settling into his heaven. And then suddenly, he was lying on the ground near a startled Dean, who explained that some Darkness brought him back. He knew he was just grumbling like he always was, but he was secretly very happy to be back with his boys.
"So, what's your universe like?" Bobby settled down in a chair, opposite the girl, Reina. She had timidly come forward to shake his hand and looked at him with a strange look in her eyes. If he didn't know any better, he would have said the girl recognized him – knew him, from long ago.
"It's uh – just normal, I guess. I'm sure that my universe doesn't have magic or monsters, but I could be wrong – like all those people here who don't know. Supernatural, the story of Winchester boys, is a TV show there, and it's quite popular. I, uh," The girl stole a glance at Dean, blushed, and continued, "I watched it quite recently, and I'm a fan." She asserted the last word with defiance, daring anyone to cross her.
"So, you just appeared here?" Bobby looked for any reference for a thing like this in his head, but other than boys jumping to another universe, nothing else came to.
"Yeah. There was blinding golden light, I couldn't see for a few seconds, and when I opened my eyes I was standing here." She sounded calm, but Bobby saw her fists were clenched. She was clearly freaked out but didn't want to show. "I – I need to ask - "Yeah?"
"Is it okay if I stay here with you guys? I – I don't know how or why I came here, and till Cas can send me back, I –
"Of course, kid. You can stay here. Where else are you going to go?" Bobby suddenly felt sad, looking at the lost girl. "Thanks, Bobby. Thank you, boys, - I mean, Sam and Dean. I'm sorry." She bowed her head. "I'm just so used to calling you the boys."
Sam laughed a short laugh, while Dean stared strangely at her. Bobby had to smile too, looking at this awkward situation. "Look, now that you're staying here, why don't I show you to a room." Sam offered. She nodded and followed Sam out of the library.
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Dean turned to Bobby once Reina and Sam left the library. "Bobby? Do you –
"Believe her? I don't know, Dean. I don't feel like she's lying." Bobby stared after the way the girl had gone. "Why would she lie about such a thing?"
"Yeah well, what are we going to do about it?"
"About what?"
Dean walked over to the table, flopping down on the chair, taking a long swig of beer. "About her. Sending her back. Cas isn't –
"Answering his phone. I know." Bobby waved his cellphone. "I tried calling him too."
"If he can't send her back –
"We'll get to that when we come to it," Bobby said, moving to stand near Dean, "Right now, I'm more concerned with putting back Lucifer in the cage."
"No leads, Bobby. Anything else on the radar?"
"For now, everything seems quiet. I haven't spotted any cases, not any that we couldn't pass off anyway. Crowley seems to be lying low, Rowena's in the wind. We're having what comes nearest to a break for a hunter." Bobby shrugged. "You should take it."
"What?" Dean looked up, two fingers on the neck of the beer bottle. "Take rest. Take a break. You've been through a lot." Bobby's heart broke for the kid.
"Rest." Dean scoffed. "We do have a case, Bobby."
"Where? What case?" Bobby couldn't remember Sam telling him about any case over the last phone call.
"Right here." Dean nodded his head towards where Reina was now.
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