{5.6} 𝙸 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙵𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 2

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HOSPITAL

The Girls Father is lying in a hospital bed. A Nurse offers him a glass with a straw. He waves it away.
Sam is in the room with a notebook and pen; he leaves. Dean is in the corridor, talking to another Nurse, whose name is Jen Fremont.

"Well, I, uh, appreciate that, Nurse..., He reads her name tag. Fremont." Dean Says

"Please—call me Jen." She Says

"Oh. Jen it is." Dean Says

Jen smiles at Dean and leaves. Sam clears his throat. Dean turns to him, clapping once.

"What's up with Toothless? Cavity creeps get ahold of him?" Dean Says

"Yeah. Close. He wrote up a description." Sam Says

He reads from his notebook.

"Five foot ten, three hundred fifty pounds, wings, and a pink tutu. Said it was the tooth fairy." Sam Says

"So he's obviously whacked out on painkillers." Dean Says

"Maybe. Whatever it was got past locked doors and windows without triggering the alarm." Sam Says

"Come on. Tooth fairy?" Dean Says

"And it left thirty-two quarters underneath his pillow. One for each tooth." Sam Says As Dean nods.

"Well, I will see your crazy and raise you some. There's a couple of kids upstairs with stomach ulcers—say they got it from mixing Pop Rocks and Coke. Another guy...his face...froze that way." Dean Says

"What way?" Sam Says

Dean looks in all directions, then pulls out the sides of his mouth and crosses his eyes. He holds it for a moment and lets go.

"He, uh, held it too long, and it—it stuck. They're flying in a plastic surgeon." Dean Says

"So, I mean, if you add all that up..." Sam Says

He hesitates. Dean raises his eyebrows.

"I got nothing." Sam Says

Sam starts walking down the hallway past Dean, who turns around to walk alongside him.

"I thought sea-monkeys were real." Dean Says

"They are. They're brine shrimp." Sam Says

"No, no, no, I mean like in the ads. You know, like the sea-monkey wife cooks the pot roast for the sea-monkey husband, and the sea-monkey kids play with the dog in a sea-monkey castle—real. I mean, I was six, but I believed it." Dean Says

"Okay." Sam Says

"Point is...Maybe that's the connection. The tooth fairy, the Pop Rocks and Coke, the joy buzzer that shocks you—they're all lies that kids believe." Dean Says

"And now they're coming true. Okay, so whatever's doing this is—is reshaping reality. It has the powers of a god. Or—of a trickster." Sam Says

"Yeah, with the sense of humor of a nine-year-old." Dean Says

"Or you." Sam Says As he walks off. Dean follows.

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