In Which Dean and Sam take a joyride...

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Sam was giddy. Giddy like a six year old who had eaten a bag of candy and was trying to sit still when he wanted to jump around and bounce off the walls.

Road-trip. He and Dean were going on a road-trip just like old times. They weren't going anywhere on a job. Alec was going to do his own thing for a few days. Just Sam and Dean and the Impala home and the road and Dean's crappy music.

He couldn't wait.

Of course, like any kid on a sugar high, he was bound to crash. But instead of falling asleep, he just sat at the desk at Bobby's and stared at his lava lamp's sparkles floating around while he waited for Dean to wake up so they could go. He kept the lava lamp at Bobby's now so that it wouldn't get damaged when they traveled. It was the only thing he really owned beyond his clothes and the laptop. And he had won it, so that made it special. The sparkles hypnotized him and he drifted off away from being aware of the world, but it kept him from sleeping and having bad dreams.

Demons don't need to sleep. Why do something that was going to make him sad?

So he just stayed like that, zoned out until Dean was ready to go and they could have time together, because Dean still loved him even when he was a bad thing you're not a bad thing Sammy stop saying that and Sam still loved him even if that summoning had hurt and they trapped him and he promised NEVER to do that again.

He just wanted to be a good thing and be with his brothers. Alec and Dean. And Uncle Bobby. And just be happy. And Dean promised him that he would make sure Sam was happy and that was why they were going on a road-trip.

When Dean woke up.

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The grin on Sam's face grew because he knew that was something special that Dean was letting him do and he started to fiddle with the stations, skipping past a few classic rock ones and trying to find something that he liked.

It ended up being a light rock station that happened to play some classic in it's mix.

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Dean could deal with that, and he just continued to drive, drumming his fingers against the steering wheel lightly in time to the music.

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"Are we going to go see things?" Like tourist traps, largest ball of twine...

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"Sure," Dean nodded. "We can, if you want to."

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"Oh, I want to!"

Careful what you offer Dean. You may regret that one.

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Dean laughed. "You tell me where to go, Sam, and I'll get us there."

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Sam thought for a moment. "Can we go to Wall Drug? There's a giant jackalope and they have almost everything there."

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He smirked slightly at the idea of a giant jackalope before nodding. "Sure. Which direction am I going?"

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Sam looked down at his map and gave his brother the directions. "And Mount Rushmore is along the way too."

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"Wanna stop there too?"

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"Yes."

Sam's nose was now firmly in the atlas, flipping back and forth at the suggested tourists stops on the path from there to the grand canyon.

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"Okay then."

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Sam flipped between pages. "Do you know there are four largest balls of twine?"

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"No, but we're only going to see one." Dean would put his foot down there.

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Sam looked up at Dean, pouting. "But I wanna see the difference between all four. Not all of them can be the world's largest."

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Dean gave him a look at the pout. "Where are these things?"

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"There is one in Minnesota, one in Kansas, one in Wisconsin and one in Missouri." He was flipping through the pages. "Though the Wisconsin one is the heaviest, not the biggest..."

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"The one in Kansas is the only one on the way to the Grand Canyon."

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"Can we go to the other ones on the way back then?"

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"We'll see. They're a little out of the way that way too."

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And there are those puppy eyes, Dean. They haunt you in your dreams.

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Dean watched him for a minute before shaking his head. "I said we'll see, Sammy. I didn't say no."

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"Ok."

And off to new topics.

"You know they do tours in the canyon where you can ride a donkey?"

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"I did," Dean nodded. "That kind of freaks me out a bit."

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"You don't want to ride on a donkey?" Sam knew he was too big, but he would have walked beside.