Weekend off (likely_evil, reporter_chloe, horsewoman_lana)

[winchesterjerk]

Dean had been pondering how to get around to talking about a weekend off - not that he deserved time for himself, at any rate, but nothing else was quite pressing, so he might just as well - when Sam tried to angle the conversation towards going somewhere that didn't involve a case. Which got Dean's attention right up, enough to ask where

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[likely_evil]

Sam, meanwhile, was with his laptop checking his e-mail, and in particular his online blog. He found the e-mail that notified him of the anonymous comment and hit reply.

How about today?

He then took a sip of his coffee as he checked out the local news. "You know, this town seems to be a source for a lot of activity in the last 7 years..."

[likely_evil]

... it got old fast. And Sam was one day going to summon Bela back from the dead just to kill her again for that.

"Hi," he said back to them both, smiling at Lana.

He agreed with Dean too... the not splitting up bit. The naughty bit - that was really more Dean's deal. But until these girls somehow showed that they weren't witches looking to sacrifice them to some kind of pagan god, he and dean had each other's back.

[reporter_chloe]

Chloe glanced over at Lana, and giggled again, then glanced back at the brothers. "We might have, yeah. Favor for a favor, you know?" Hot guy for hot guy. She added, silently. It was like an exchange. A nice little exchange. And looking at the brothers now, Chloe was pretty certain she wouldn't have minded being hooked up with either of the brothers... or both, even. Just not at the same kind, cause that would be kind of bad wrong...

Chloe cleared her throat, jolting herself from her thoughts. She glanced back at Lana. "What do you think, Lana? Is here good, or should we go elsewhere?"

[feltalone]

It was a funny thing, what they'd done, and she certainly hadn't expected them to pair each other with brothers, especially not considering the fact that she'd told Dean she'd go for Sam. Chloe knew her too well, but then, they were like sisters themselves.

She looked back at Chloe, a small amount of mischief dancing in her eyes. "Well unless you have plans you're not telling us about, here is as good a place as any."

[winchesterjerk]

There were plans. About walks on the beach. They could wait till after pie food was had, though. And until non-witchliness was verified. Well, actually they could all drive down. Obviously. Company pleased with each other or some shit like that.

Dean cleared his throat and grinned. "In case we're stayin', I could use a good native guide in what's good for eating here." He had, after all, the list of items not permitted to him and food featured on it. Not that the diner had tacos. He had to choose carefully.

[likely_evil]

"No, no plans besides food and seeing where the day takes us." Sam moved a bit to allow the girls to be able to sit down. And Sam had no idea that Dean and Lana had talked about him in that regards either. might be good not to burst that bubble.

[reporter_chloe]

Chloe laughed softly as she moved to take a seat next to Dean. "I can tell you right now, the two best things you'll find in this town are coffee and pie. My best friend's mom makes a killer apple pie, but she's... kinda not in town at the moment." She paused, thinking. "I should really ask for her recipe... and then find someone to teach me how to cook."

[feltalone]

Lana took a seat next to Sam, and at the mention of Clark, she felt her heart sink a little, but listened quietly, grinning at Chloe's joke about her lack of cooking skills. Truth be told, she was still in love with him, but that relationship was very over. They were very wrong for each other.

Chloe would really be the only one to tell that anything less than happy was going on her heart and mind at the moment. After all these years, they'd learned each other's subtleties and could pick up on the underlying things no one else would know were even there.

[winchesterjerk]

"You said the magic word, sister. Pie it will be, then." Dean's eyes flickered at Sam - not that he wouldn't pay attention if he saw Lana was upset, but on the other hand, sometimes the best way to get past a hard moment was to distract. It worked most of the time. Even with him.

He leaned back, his arm going lightly over the back of the seat, and quipped in his brother's direction, "as long as it's not sausages, right?"

[likely_evil]

Sam rolled his eyes at his brother. "Be careful, Chloe. Feed Dean pie and say you will make it for him, he might never leave you alone."

He gave Lana a look, wondering if there was something wrong. She had gotten quiet suddenly. Sure, she was smiling, but Sam lived with Dean who smiled even when he was falling apart.

"What about you, Lana? Got any special family secrets?"

[reporter_chloe]

Chloe noticed the look on Lana's face, and felt bad for mentioning Clark.

But that faded away as she glanced at Dean, and quirked a brow. "Sausages?" She laughed, a bit of mischief playing behind her bluish-tinted eyes. "And if I'd known 'pie' was the magic word, I would have said it sooner."

She looked over at Sam, a small smirk on her lips. "I'm not sure that'd be a bad thing."

Her eyes moved back to Dean, a bit of a flirty look in her eyes.

[feltalone]

Lana turned her head toward Sam, noticing the look he had given her. Somehow he'd noticed her shift in mood, but she tried to play it off.

"There's really no such thing as secrets here. It's called Smallville for a reason. Look in the right places and you could probably piece together my life story."

[winchesterjerk]

"Ooh now you be careful with that kinda talk, Lana. Make that enough of a challenge and he might take that up and do it." This time, no jibes about research as a sickness, nope. Not directly. Just light chat, ok? Also, with Sam focusing on Lana that way, his brother was getting that something was happening between the two. That didn't necessarily welcome prying, at least not from his, well, clumsy paws, about some things.

Dean looked sideways at Chloe, one corner of his mouth hitching up. She was pretty, and courageous if willing to learn to make pie and everything. Well, and investigate extraordinary things. "Pie's good." Trying to get him not want to get away, more dubiously so, but hey. Take what is at the moment. "What's the pie flavor of the day, in Smallville, then?"

[likely_evil]

Sam laughed a bit at Chloe's response. She was bubbly and cute, and would suit Dean well.

Then he shot his brother a look. He realized that Dean was saying it as a retort for his joke to Chloe about the pie. But still.

He did lean back in his chair and smirk at Lana. "And which places would these be?"

[reporter_chloe]

Chloe laughed softly at the exchange between Sam and Lana, and then her eyes met Dean's again. "Well, I don't know about a 'flavor of the day', really. The apple really is the most popular. Personally, though, I kind of have a preference for cherry."

[feltalone]

Wow, that had to be the most charming look any man had given her in a long time. She gave Sam a small, warm and genuine small. "Well I'd say the most reliable source, other than myself, of course, would be Miss Chloe Anne Sullivan." She glanced briefly at Chloe before looking back at Sam. "But you could probably ask any random person you might run into and I'm sure they could tell you something."