Comfort Crowd Δ SPN [ 1 ]

135. GARTH KILLED THE TOOTH FAIRY

Dean is leaning against the Impala and checking his phone while the girls sit on the hood of the Impala.

"Heads up." Sam calls, handing Dean a drink. He has a bag of food and a three more drinks in a carrier. As he walks to the passenger side of the Impala, he gives the girls their drinks.

"I caught wind of a case on this police scanner. Sounds like our kind of thing." Dean says.

"I wasn't even gone ten minutes." Sam says.

"Okay. That matters why?" Dean asks.

"I don't know, Dean. How about because you haven't said a word to me since Prentiss island? And now, what? You want me to shut up and ride shotgun and act like nothing happened?" Sam asks.

"You want to talk about Benny? Fine. Let's talk." Dean says.

"Okay. How about he's a vampire?" Sam asks.

"He's also the reason Oph and I are topside and not roasting on a spit in Purgatory. Anything else?" Dean asks.

"Don't pretend I don't get it. I know you had to do what you had to down there." Sam says.

"I highly doubt you get anything about Purgatory." Dean says.

"But you guys are out now, and Benny's still breathing. Why?"

"He's my friend, Sam."

"And what about my friend, Amy? She was what? Cause you sure as hell didn't have a problem ganking her."

"Well, I guess people change, don't they? We let that werewolf Kate go, didn't we?"

"She was different. She-- you think Benny's different? He tell you he's not drinking live blood or something? And you believe him?" Sam asks and Dean shrugs. "Wow. Okay. You know, you're right. People do change."

"Yeah. I got a vampire buddy, and you turn your phone off for a year." Dean says.

"Don't turn this on me."

"Look, Benny slips up and some other hunter turns his lights out, so be it."

"But it's not gonna be you, right?"

"You coming or not?" Dean gets in the car.

The girls get off the hood of the car, Libby getting in the backseat. Ophelia stops at Sam.

"I'm sorry he isn't, uh... tolerable sometimes." Ophelia says.

"You don't have to apologize for him, Ophi." Sam says.

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The four Winchesters and Garth are at a bar and sitting and eating. Dean and Sam are sitting on one side of the table with Ophelia across from her dad and Garth across from Sam. Libby is sitting at the end of the table between Sam and Garth.

"There you go." The waitress gives Garth another plate of wings, taking the empty one, though a few of the other empty ones remain on the table.

Sam has a salad and Dean has a burger. Ophelia has chicken strips and Libby has nachos.

""Mmm. Thanks. Keep 'em coming." Garth tells her.

"All right." She nods and walks off.

"So, Dean, give me the skinny. Where were you this past year?" Garth asks, his mouth full of food.

"Why don't we save what I did on my summer vacation for another time?" Dean suggests.

"Aw, come on." Garth protests.

"All right. Oph and I were in Purgatory." Dean states, taking a sip of beer.

"Like the Purgatory Purgatory?" Garth asks.