My Home Is Always With You {6}

Chapter 9: "Clap Your Hands if You Believe"

They interview some people in Indiana and some people think it's aliens and some don't. This one lady for example says, "Of course it's not UFOs. It's Faires." Dean says, "Fairies? Okay. Uh, well thank you for your input." Sam says, "What flying saucers not insane enough for you?" The lady says, "What newspaper did you say you worked for?" Sam says, "Look, if you want to add glitter to the glue you're sniffing, fine. But don't dump your wackadoo over us, we'd rather not step in it." Winter grab's Sam's arm and says, "Okay, we're done." Sam then continues to say, " The only thing you're missing is a couple dozen cats, sister." Winter keeps dragging Sam away and says, "Yeah. It's a blood sugar thing. My apologizes." Winter and Dean both glare at Sam and Sam says, "What?" Dean says, "'What?' You have to ask? Right, yes. You do have to ask." Sam says, "Look, I'm sorry, but this is all a big joke. We're not taking this UFO crap seriously?" Winter says, "ET is made of rubber, everybody knows that. But there are four legitimate vanishings in this town. Something's going on." Dean says, "Sam, by the way, it's not the lady's fault she took the brown acid." Sam says, "Yeah? So?" Dean says, "Empathy, man. Empathy. I mean, the old Sam would have given her some wussified, dew-eyed crap." Sam says, "Old Sam had a soul. Was a soul. Whatever." Dean says, "Right. Yes. And-- But you don't. Or aren't. Whatever." Sam says, "Right." Dean says, "Right. You don't care." Sam says, "Well--" Winter cuts Sam off and says, "You have to care." Sam says, "About what, exactly?" Winter says, "About everything, Sam. About being human, at least." Sam says, "Look, guys, you obviously care a lot and that's great. But I can't care about what-- what I can't care about, you know? What do you guys want me to do, fake it?" Dean says, "Yes. Absolutely. Fake it. Fake it till you make it." Sam says, "What happened to you wanting me to be all honest?" Dean says, "Hey, you wanna be a real boy, Pinocchio, you have to act the part." Sam says, "I was faking it. Ever since we got back on the road together. I was picking every word. It's exhausting." Dean says, "Okay. All right. But until we get you back on the soul train... I'll be your conscience, okay?" Sam says, "So you're saying you'll be my Jiminy Cricket." Dean says, "Shut up. But, yeah, you freaking puppet. That's exactly what I'm saying." Then they talk to Mr. Brennan. Dean says, "Mr. Brennan?" Mr. Brennan says, "Hmm?" Sam says, "We're with the Mirror, we'd just like to ask you--" Mr. Brennan says, "What? Is this about Patrick? Patrick's gone." Dean says, "Missing, right, yes. That's what we wanna talk to you about." Mr. Brennan sighs and Winter says, "Now your son was the first to disappear." Mr. Brennan says, "First to be taken." Winter says, "Taken?" Mr. Brennan gets up and says, "Get out. Out." Dean says, "Mr. Brennan, who do you believe took your son?" Mr. Brennan says, "You people can't help me. My boy is never coming back." Sam says, "You sound awfully sure." Mr. Brennan says, "Excuse me?" Sam says, "You know something you're not talking about." Dean says, "Okay. All right." Mr. Brennan says, "You know what they say, 72 hours. After that, the odds of finding a missing person drop to nothing, right?" Winter says, "Well, every case is different." Mr. Brennan says, "It's been weeks." Dean says, "Right. Listen... call us if anything comes to mind. Come on." They then leave Mr. Brennan's and Sam says, "What do you guys think?" Dean says, "I think he's hiding something." Sam says, "Me too." Dean says, "Okay, Sam you watch the watchmaker. See what happens when the sun goes down. I'll check out the crop circles." Sam says, "Okey-dokey." Winter says, "Okay, dad, can you drop me off at the motel?" Dean says, "Yeah. Oh, Sam, do not engage with, maim, or in any way kill Brennan. In fact, I don't you making any judgement calls. Anything happens, call me." Sam says, "You know, Jiminy, I was on my own for a whole year. I did fine without you." Dean says, "Yeah, I don't wanna know your definition of fine." Later, Winter gets a knock on her door and opens it to find Dean. Winter looks at his appearance and says, "What happened to you?" Dean says, "I'll tell you about it with Sam." Winter nods and they go to his room and Dean opens it up to find Sam having sex with a woman. Sam says, "Dean." Dean says, "Dude, what the hell?" The woman says, "Oh, that's Dean? Sam, they brought your brother back." The woman gets dressed and leaves, but not before saying, "It's all right, Sam. I so totally understand. You need time as a family. But it's just-- what were they like?" Dean says, "They were grabby, incandescent douche bags. Good night." The woman says, "Too soon." Dean says, "Okay." Dean then closes the door and sighs. Sam says, "You're upset." Dean says, "I was abducted... and you were banging Patchouli." Sam says, "I didn't think she smelled that bad." Dean angrily says, "I was abducted by aliens." Winter says, "You were abducted by aliens?" Dean nods and says, "Yeah." Sam says, "I was looking into it." Dean says, "I was gone for like an hour." Sam says, "An hour?" Dean says, "Most of that was walking back to town." Sam says, "I think your watch is off. You've been gone all night." Dean says, "What are you talking about? No, I haven't." Sam shows Dean the time and he says, "Four a.m.?" Sam says, "Yeah. UFO timeslip. That actually falls in line with a lot of abduction stories." Dean says, "Nothing's 'falling in line." Sam says, "Here. Drink. Good." Dean says, "Thank you." Sam gives Dean more alcohol and says, "Yeah. Now... come on. Talk to us. What happened?" Dean says, "Well, uh... there was this, uh-- God help me, guys, there was this bright white light." Then Sam put's his hand on Dean's knee and says, "It's okay. Safe room." Then Sam takes his hand off and Dean continues to say, "And suddenly I was, uh.... I was in a different place... and there were these beings, and they were too bright to look at. But I could feel them pulling me towards this sort of table." Sam says, "Probing table." Dean says, "God, don't say that out loud." Sam says, "Right. Uh, so, what did you do?" Dean says, "I went crazy. I started hacking and slashing and firing. Heh. They actually seemed surprised. I don't think anybody's ever done that before. Yeah. I had a close encounter, guys... and I won." Winter says, "You should take a shower." Dean says, "I should take a shower. I'm gonna take a shower now."