Black
Bras & Strappy High Heeled Shoes
By Tidia, August 2006
Beta: MOG
Disclaimer: Ridley is all about The
Brotherhood and Kripke is all about Supernatural. I do not profit from
either.
Words: 3.908
A/N: I, Tidia, in no way condone
underage drinking or pre-marital teen
sex, but it is TOTALLY something a big brother would do. And Ridley,
school psychologist, says it is an unfortunate fact that a lot of boys
lose their virginity BEFORE 15.
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July in Mississippi was sweltering.
The air conditioner worked all day to bring the temperature in the
rented home to a comfortable seventy-five degrees. There was a
perpetual film of sweat on each of the Winchester men. Their host,
Caleb Reaves, reveled in the hot weather, but even he was finding the
southern heat stifling.
Summers for the Winchesters were
spent on the road from one ghost hunt to another. The boys were out of
school, and John enjoyed the freedom away from a rigid schedule. Caleb
had ‘entertained’ guests for the last week, needing assistance to bring
about the demise of a Chimera. The monster with the body of a goat, the
tail of a dragon and the head of a lion had the ability to breathe
fire, which made it more than a one hunter job. But, he was looking
forward to the end of the gig. There was not a manual entitled, ‘The
Care and Feeding of the Winchesters,’ and Caleb soon realized that
adolescents wanted to eat all the time.
They had returned from the swamp area
near Soso, Mississippi, having lost sight of the Chimera. John was
pensive, formulating a new attack. Caleb went to the refrigerator,
looking forward to a nice cold beer, deferring to the older hunter. He
moved around the bottles, jars and plastic wrapping to no avail. There
was no beer, not even a bottle of wine. Part of the Winchester manual
would have to include a chapter on John and his requirement of spirits
of another sort.
He had tossed the keys to his Jeep on
the dining room table upon arrival. Now, he scooped them up, and kept
the momentum to the door. Sam sat watching Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles, Dean was next to him with his feet on the coffee table tabbing
through a well worn Car and Driver.
“Where are you going?” John asked,
looking up from his notes.
“Beer run,” Caleb replied, shifting
the keys from his right hand to his left.
Dean tossed the magazine, the pages
fanning out on the couch. “I’m coming,” he announced. He glanced over
at his father and received a nod.
Caleb raised an eyebrow. “I didn’t
know I invited you.”
“Yeah, but you were thinking it.” The
young man grabbed his baseball cap and placed it low, over his eyes.
“Can I go too?” The eleven-year-old
raised his eyes away from the television.
“Daaadddd,” Dean whined, craving time
away from his tag-a-long little brother.
“Don’t whine, Dean or else no one is
going.” Reaves had his hand on the door knob ready to exit without any
entourage. But, John had other plans. “No, Sam, you can stay home with
me.” Caleb saw Sam roll his eyes, and choked off a laugh. The boys’
father was not known to be engaging company.
“I’ll be back later, Sammy.” The
youngest Winchester raised his middle finger in acknowledgment.
The humidity of the outside air hit
the two with full force. Caleb could feel his jeans sticking to him.
His dark hair was caught up in a pony tail, keeping his neck cool, but
it wasn’t enough. The Jeep lacked air conditioning, getting moving and
creating a breeze was the only option. Dean settled into the passenger
seat.
Caleb had been looking forward to the
drive alone. However, he considered Dean his protégé, and
therefore hazing was a requirement. It would make the drive lively.
“So, Deuce you getting any action?”
At fifteen, Dean was 5’9” and not
done growing if John’s stature was the measuring stick. Caleb could
sense the young man’s embarrassment.
“It’s Dean, and the answer is
enough.” Dean answered, shifting in his seat.
Reaves gave a low whistle. “Yeah,
tenth grade must be a hot bed.”
The young man remained silent for the
remaining ten minute ride. Caleb pulled into the lot, turning off the
ignition. He held the keys up and placed them in his jean pocket. “I
know what you’re thinking, before you even think it.”
Dean frowned, looking at the older
hunter in confusion. “That demon blood making you insane or something?”
Caleb snorted. He knew what he would
have done at the teen’s age, and assumed Dean would do the same. “Like
you wouldn’t take the Jeep for a joy ride and leave me.”
The younger man nodded, contemplating
the idea that hadn’t previously occurred to him. “I was going to do
that tomorrow.”
“Exactly,” Reaves replied as he
hopped out of the Jeep.
"Hey, Demon Spawn,” Dean yelled out,
“Get some Jose too."
Caleb laughed at the audacity of the
teenager to give him an order. “Yeah, right.”
"Seriously,” Dean threw his baseball
hat at the older hunter, hitting him in the face in order to get his
attention. “You just get beer and Dad will go through it like water. A
little tequila and you'll be able to have a Miller time for yourself."
Reaves confiscated the beat-up Red
Sox hat, pulling it over his own head. “You know, kid, sometimes you’re
smart.”
“And always handsome.” Dean crossed
his arms and reclined back into the bucket seats.
Two cold six packs and two bottles of
tequila later, Caleb and Dean were back on the road. The teen
immediately snatched back his baseball hat. He studied it for a moment
before placing it over his buzz cut hair.
“I don’t have cooties,” Caleb said.
“Cooties? Dude, grow up.” Dean
snorted, moving his head to the right so he could catch the breeze
caused by the vehicle’s momentum.
They drove along the two-lane road to
return to the rented house. Red, shining, string-along lights caught
Caleb’s attention. The Red Caboose was the only bar within twenty
miles. Since being in the small, backwater town, Reaves had become a
regular. He had already passed the building when the idea struck him.
The hunter checked the road before executing a u-turn.
Dean gripped the dash board. “What
the hell?”
Caleb didn’t reply as he pulled into
the gravel lot, parking behind the well worn building. He had taught
the boy to cuss and play cards while his father taught him pool
hustling and demon hunting. The older hunter wanted to make the summer
of 1995 memorable for the teen. The milestones in the kid’s life had
nothing to do with growing up and everything to do with the
supernatural. It was time for something special - birthday and
Christmas all wrapped up in one.
“Why are we here?” The teen asked,
looking at a dumpster that sat against the structure.
“The women in there are gonna give
you the keys to the kingdom.” Caleb smiled, stretching over and opening
the glove compartment. He pulled out some foil packets, and laid open
his hand for Dean to see.
The young man looked at the offering
and then at his friend once more. "Condoms?"
Reaves held one up. “Yep.”
“All right!” Grasping the hunter’s
gift. Dean grabbed one of the foil packets and studied it. “What, you
don’t have the magnum size?"
Caleb frowned at the teen’s retort.
“Hey! You wanna do this or what?” He received a nod. The glove
compartment was open and Reaves was about to replace the remaining
condoms when Dean snatched another one.
The teen shrugged his shoulders. “The
one in my wallet is kinda old.”
Caleb shook his head at the boldness
of the young man. He took in a deep breath, and let it out slowly. John
was going to be livid. He would figure it out eventually, and Caleb
didn’t know if he wanted to be on the hunter’s bad side. "Should I be
doing this?"
"Hell, yeah!" The teen replied
excitedly.
Nervously, Caleb tugged on his pony
tail, feeling the humidity dampening his hair. "That wasn’t directed to
you."
Dean sensed that he was about to lose
the opportunity of a lifetime. He placed his hand on the other hunter’s
arm. "You’re like Ben Kenobi, passing on the ways of the Force. . ."
Caleb laughed. He was about to take a
kid who was still into Star Wars to lose his virginity. He nodded in
agreement with Dean. He was still into Star Wars too, although he
didn’t know if he wanted to be compared to the dead Jedi Master. He had
always considered himself a Han Solo kind of guy. “Okay, Deuce, I’m
going to give you some advice so the bees come to the honey.” He paused
to make sure the teen was listening. Satisfied, he continued. “You need
to be an equal opportunity guy - blond, red-head, brunette it doesn’t
matter. . .”
“But blonds. . .” Dean interjected,
licking his lips.
The hunter shook his head. “Doesn’t
make a difference, you look for a black bra and strappy, high heeled
shoes. Those women, they are feeling good, and you want to make them
feel even better.”
“Black bra, strappy shoes - got it,”
Dean jumped out of the Jeep.
Caleb got out slowly. The teen was
having an adrenaline rush. The dark haired man had witnessed the
reaction before, after hunts. “They know me at this bar. You need to
act twenty-one.” The teen squared off his shoulders and removed the
grin from his face. He looked older. Dean didn't have the luxury to be
gawky. The teen needed his body to perform; he needed to rely on it
during hunts. In temperament, the kid was more grown up than his
father, taking the responsibility of raising Sam.
They entered the bar, and Caleb got a
welcoming nod from the bartender. An old ‘80’s tune was playing in the
background. There was a light crowd for the early night hour, but it
was midweek. Caleb held up his hand, gesturing for two beers, and
ushered Dean to the dark corner table where he wouldn’t draw attention
to himself. Reaves left the teen at the table, while he fetched the
beers from the bartender. Two Budweisers were waiting for him. Caleb
placed a ten dollar bill on the glass covered counter top.
He gestured to the girl in the corner
who he had become acquainted with upon his arrival in town. He stared
at her as she walked over, a friend in tow. Her name escaped him.
Briefly, he touched her mind. Mac would say that he had breached some
ethical duty of psychics, but Caleb applied the cafeteria doctrine to
his adopted father’s lessons; he chose which ones worked for him, and
those that didn’t.
Dean was studying the bar’s lack of
ambiance, enthralled with an old black and white picture of a tractor.
The teen perked up when he saw Caleb returning with two petite blonds
and the drinks.
“These are some friends of mine.
Karen,” Caleb gestured to a girl who had her hand possessively on the
hunter’s arm. “And Stella. This is my brother, Dean.” The teen stood
up, and pulled out a chair for Stella. Karen took a seat next to Reaves.
"I didn’t know you had a brother."
She looked at Caleb with a big smile of promises and inferences that
they knew each other well.
The older hunter took a swig from his
beer, feeling the icy coolness go down his throat. "Yep, there's Bobby,
me and Dean."
"Hey,” she said too loudly, drawing
the attention of the rag tag patrons for a moment. “B, C, D, what
happened to A?"
Caleb slowly grinned, and watched as
Dean lifted the beer to his lips. "Yeah, it's actually John, bastard
son.”
The teen began to cough, putting the
beer down to cover his smile at his father’s expense.
Reaves continued the insult. “Addle
brained too. We don’t like to talk about him."
Karen brought the corner of her lips
down to an exaggerated sad face, "Sorry."
Dean stared at his companion. Stella
was a well-endowed woman, her black bra peeking out. His eyes kept
drifting to her breasts. He smiled at her, looking into her eyes with
all seriousness. “You must be a model. You look like Claudia Schiffer."
The teen leaned back in his chair, lifting the front legs off the
floor, giving himself enough of a view to see Stella’s shoes. She was
wearing black, strappy, high-heeled shoes plus the black bra. Dean knew
he was going to get lucky tonight. So caught up in the thought he
teetered on the chair, almost falling before bringing the chair forward
with a hard thump.
Stella giggled, and flipped her
shoulder length platinum blond hair back. "No, I work as a cashier at
the pharmacy."
The hair flip was all the
encouragement Dean needed. The three beers helped too. Caleb overheard
snippets of the conversation, and shook his head at the bravado behind
lies.
"Two years in the Marines."
"Oh, the Marines. . ."
"Got the scars to prove it."
"Can I see them?"
"Maybe later."
Dean gave a quick glance over to
Caleb. The older hunter understood it to be a signal. The teen was
ready to make his move. Suddenly, Reaves felt pride. He had influenced
Dean’s confidence in women, especially one seven years older. “You
wanta dance?” Caleb heard the teen ask.
Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive
played on the juke box. There was another couple dancing on the uneven,
pine wood floor. Dean brought the girl in close, one arm wrapped around
her neck and the other holding a beer as he kissed her. She molded her
body against him. Before the end of the song, he was leading her out
the door.
Forty-five minutes later Dean
reappeared, without his baseball cap, but with a wide smile showing his
rapture. He held Stella close.
Caleb glanced at his watch. The two
hunters had been gone for hours. Reaves would have to write a work of
fiction if they were going to come away unscathed from facing John
Winchester. “You ready to go?”
Dean lifted his finger, gesturing he
needed one more minute. He scooped Stella in his arms and gave her a
deep kiss. The platinum blonde nervously pushed her hair off her face.
“Call me,” she mouthed. “Soon.”
Reaves guided his charge out the door
and to the Jeep. Happiness and a goofy smile made Dean shine under the
night sky.
"I love this Jeep. How she stretched
over ...Man, she was flexible. I love this roll bar. You know I think I
want to marry her." The teenager rambled on, reaching to touch the roll
bar.
Caleb laughed, wondering if Dean
would be able to rein in his emotions before they reached home base.
"Alabama is a county away. But, she might have a problem with the age
difference."
"I didn’t hear her complaining." Dean
retrieved his baseball cap from the backseat, and placed it low on his
head. “Plus, she’d only be the first Mrs. Winchester.”
“The first?” Reaves snorted, as he
turned the vehicle onto the road.
“Yeah, I mean I am not a one woman
man.” Dean rubbed his chest.
“You don't have to marry them all,
Dean.” Caleb rolled his eyes at the teen’s misinformation. The
statement seemed to reflect the religious man in the brotherhood.
“Pastor Jim is just making that shit up about burning in hell.”
Dean tipped the brim of his baseball
hat up. “No, I was thinking about what Bobby said.”
Caleb slowed down so he was within
the posted speed limit and glanced at the teen. “Don’t ever listen to
Bobby. The guy looks like Cooter and has a blow up doll in the closet.”
The young man chuckled heartily.
Reaves couldn’t remember the last time, if ever, that Dean was so
uncollected.
"Thanks Caleb." The teenager sighed.
Reaves gave a slight nod, and pressed
down on the gas pedal again. He looked out at the endless road ahead.
"Yeah, you’re the annoying brother I never really wanted,” he admitted.
"So,” Dean looked away from Caleb,
but his words still could be picked up on the wind, “Sam's turn in 4
years."
"Nope,” Reaves replied. A piece of
his hair had gotten lose from the elastic, and danced in front of his
face. “It's a job for a brother."
The teenager nodded. "So what's Sam
to you?"
"My nerdy nephew," the older hunter
replied. "You might want to wait until he's 17."
They both laughed. Dean stood up in
the Jeep, his arms out wide as he yelled out to the sleeping town.
“WOOHOO!”
And Caleb laughed at the teen’s joy.
He was happy and free with the big boys, and still young enough to
collect fireflies with his brother. Reaves got caught up with the heady
feeling that lasted until they saw John Winchester waiting on the porch
of their rented home.
“Let me do all the talking. . .” he
said quietly, as Dean got the now warm beer and tequila from the back
seat. He handed one six pack and bottle to Caleb and carried the other
one himself.
Unfortunately, Dean’s cocky swagger
was not helping the situation.
“Where have you been?” John growled,
blocking the path to the door.
“Beer run.” Caleb did not meet the
Winchester patriarch’s stare. He glanced down at his watch as if just
noticing the time, but also using the turn of his wrist to show John
the tequila. He hoped it would be a peace offering. “They ran out of
beer so we had to fine another place.”
“Ah-huh, not believing the bullshit,”
John took the beer and tequila from his son. He placed a hand on Dean’s
chest studying him. “Try again,” he ordered his son.
“Hey, did Sammy go to bed?” The teen
grinned at his father, trying to diffuse the situation.
John closed his eyes and wiped a hand
down his face. Caleb knew the reaction meant they had been discovered.
"Yeah, four hours ago,” The older hunter took a step to the side to
allow his son to pass. “Go to bed, we’ll talk about this later.”
The eldest Winchester watched his
normally level headed son skip up the stairs. He shook his head.
Gathering his anger again, he gestured to Reaves to follow him inside.
John placed the beer on the kitchen table. He opened the bottle of
tequila and took a drink. “Jesus, Caleb.”
Reaves deposited his load on the
table too. He pulled out a kitchen chair and sank down, bending his
tall, lanky frame. “I’m not the second coming, Johnny.”
Winchester exhaled loudly through his
nose. “To my kid you are.” He studied the tequila label. “What were you
thinking?”
Caleb shrugged his shoulders. “I
figure you let the kid drive a car. . .”
“He isn’t licensed!” John interjected
in exasperation. “And he only drives in an emergency.”
Reaves raised his eyebrows, trying
hard to hide the chuckle that wanted to escape. It was funny how people
could put a spin on the truth to justify their actions. An emergency
consisted not only when John was wounded, but when he was too drunk to
find his way home. “He doesn’t need a license for what he was doing.”
Caleb cleared his throat. “Ahh, what gave it away?”
“Dean smelled like cheap perfume and
that shit-eating grin on his face.” The older hunter took another swig
of tequila. He opened his mouth and exhaled the heated liquor. “Tell me
he used protection.”
“Yeah, the first time, definitely,”
Caleb nodded.
“Reaves!” John barked, slamming the
bottle on the table, causing the beer to jump to a rattled attention.
Caleb reached for the tequila bottle.
“Yes, he did, no one’s making you a grandfather any time soon.” He took
a mouthful, and passed the bottle back to the older hunter. “How old
were you?”
John shook his head and grinned.
Caleb jutted out his chin in
persistence.
The eldest Winchester relented,
“Seventeen.”
Caleb bowed his head, but still
laughed. “Well, I guess Dean broke the Winchester family record.” He
knocked twice on the blue Formica table top. “I was 15.”
“And look how you turned out.”
Reaves sobered at the insult. He had
overcome adversity and taint to be a semi, well adjusted person. No one
could take away his strength of character. “Great, if I do say so
myself.”
John leaned against the kitchen
cabinets. Caleb knew he purposely was not taking a seat at the kitchen
table so that he could continue to scold the younger hunter. “My kid
could do a lot better for a role model.”
The younger hunter ran through the
list of men in the brotherhood in his mind. “He could do a whole hell
of a lot worse, unless you want Dean to be a priest?”
John paused for a moment. “Maybe
Sammy,” he said thoughtfully.
“You wish!” Caleb exclaimed
incredulously. “Once puberty hits that kid. . .” Reaves let the thought
trail off, trying to imagine a grown up Sam. He couldn’t see past the
baby fat just yet.
The older hunter took another
mouthful of tequila, placing the bottle in the crook of his arm and
groaned. “Why are you threatening me?”
Caleb didn’t know if the tequila was
helping or if John was just being rational about the inevitable loss of
Dean’s virginity. Looking at the bottle, down by a quarter of its
amount, Reaves deduced it was the liquor.
"You're corrupting my kid."
"Thought demon hunting did that."
Caleb sat straighter in his chair. “Sex is good, clean fun, well most
of the time. Sometimes a little. . .” Reaves thought about the time he
was with the twins in Nebraska. He really needed to go back to Nebraska
soon.
“You’re thinking with the downstairs
brain not the upstairs brain.” John murmured then snapped his fingers
to bring the family friend back to the present discussion. “What’s done
is done.”
Reaves noticed the beer on the table.
He grabbed the carton, and brought it to the refrigerator, breaking off
one of the bottles, and placing it in the freezer to immediately chill.
“Gonna tell Mac about this?”
“I might,” John swirled the bottle of
tequila, and set it down.
Caleb rifled through the cabinets,
looking for a quick snack of potato chips. The cabinets were bare. He
returned to the freezer, pulling out the cool beer. He hit the top
against the kitchen counter until the cap popped off. “Hell, Bobby took
me to this dive in Montana my first time and told me to have at it.”
“Bobby?” John sat in the seat vacated
by the younger hunter.
“Well, you think Jim was going to
volunteer?” Caleb took a drink from the bottle, and swallowed it,
feeling refreshed even though the Budweiser was not perfectly cold.
“No.” John rubbed the stubble on his
chin with a grin. “There’s going to be no living with him.”
Caleb wondered again, how well his
friend knew his own children. Dean was growing up, and his confidence
and cockiness was something that needed to be cultivated to help
protect him later. Maybe it was Reaves speaking from experience or the
sinking knowledge that in being the protector of the Winchester family,
Dean would face many challenges that could break him. “He’ll be fine.
He’s living every American boy’s dream - fast cars, fast women, and
violence.”
The older hunter stood up, stretching
and yawning. “You are never taking my kid to Alabama either . . .
probably end up getting him married.”
Caleb smirked, feeling tiredness
overtaking him. “Funny, that actually came up.”
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