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"Sam! Come here" Dean screamed from an unspecified spot in the bunker
"Here where, Dean?" Sam asked, rasing his eyes from the book he was consulting.
No answer, but after few seconds Dean appareared in the library.
"Follow me, I need to make you see something. It's important, come on!"
Sam rolled his eyes, but followed his brother.
"Tadan! Welcome to Dean's cave."
"Isn't this Jack's playroom?"
"Yes, that part over there" he pointed to Jack's play mat and his baskets of toys. "Come on he's 10 months old, he doesn't need all the room and, then, how we could check on him without somewhere to sit on?" He showed Sam the two armchairs "I'm planning to place a couch too, there, where I'll find one."
Sam looked around. There were a foosball, a jukebox with vinyls and a bar.
"A bar, Dean?"
"I like it, it's not like I'm gonna use it like a real bar, you know I only drink some beers every now and then. In the mini fridge, that we don't have yet, there's gonna be soft drinks, juice and sparkling water."
"When did you have time to do all this?"
"When your husband is in Asia. Ye, I checked where Syria is, Sam" he said when he saw his brother's stunned look "When your husband is away, you have a lot of time to spend."
"You could have helped me research"
"Let's give this bad boy a test run, huh?" Dean said, ignoring his brother.
A pawn shop owner, they had saved from a giant green dinosaur plushie, had gifted them a flat screen television.
"Keep the volume down, Jack is sleeping"
"I know my son is sleeping, I put hi-" but a strange noise coming from the TV stopped him from finishing the phase.
Dean and Sam saw some purple flashes coming from the device and then nothing more.
"Dean?"
"Sa-Aah!" Dean jumped backwards
"You're a cartoon" the said in unison
"I'm a cartoon" the said still in unison
"Is this a dream?" Sam asked, but they discarded that option when a big slap on Sam' face turned everything in a Looney Toons episode.
"No, no, no! We need to come back, Jack is alone. If he wakes up, he-"
"Dean! Dean, look at me. Breath. In and out. Okay, we're going to find a way out, okay?" Dean nodded, still with shortness of breath.
"Okay, okay... let's try figuring this out. Maybe it's something angelic? Or maybe the Trickster?"
"You know damn well that he died, Dean." Sam said with a tone that made Dean raised his hands in surrender.
"OK, so what i- Baby?" Dean run away
"What are y- oh, how did the Impala get here?"
"Maybe cause I had still the keys in my po- Sam, I don't think this is our main concern! Okay, this a mystery and we solved them for living, so let's go investigate."
"How?"
"Same as always. We drive." He said getting on the car, followed by his brother.
They stopped when they found a malt shop opened, deciding to starting from there.
"Sam, are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Dean said as soon as he got out of the car.
"I think we're inside Scooby-doo." He said when he saw the Mystery Machine, but Dean was already inside the building.
"Sam, look there! It's the Scooby Gang! Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred and... Daphne" Dean blushed "What? I had a crush on her when I was... younger."
"Had?" Sam teased him.
"Shut up, bitch"
"Jerk."
"Okay, let's go introduce ourselves."
"What? Wh-" but Dean had already approached their table
"Hello, everyone. I'm Dean and this is my brother Sam. Can we sit with you?"
"Yes, of course. There is plenty of space. I'm Fred. These are Velma, Shaggy and Scooby Doo. And she's-"
"Daphne. N-nice to meet you." He sat next to her and placed a kiss on her hand.
"Nice to meet you, too, Dean"
"Cas" Sam said under his breath, receiving a glare from Dean.
"It seems you are celebrating something." Dean said ignoring his brother.
"We do. We just found out that Scooby's been named as one of the heirs to a fortune, left to him by an old Southern colonel. He had saved him from drowning in a fish pond." Velma explained them.
"So now he's dead?" Sam asked looking at the fake newspaper they had given him to read the news.
"Can you excuse us for a second?" Dean said standing up and taking Sam with him before any of them could answered his questions.
"What are you doing?"
"What you doing, Dean? We're supposed to find a way out of here. Remember, Jack, your son, alone, bunker?"
"Of course I remember!"
"It seems you too busy playing with the Gang and flirting with Daphne."
"I'm not flirting with anyone, I'm a married, very happily married man, I'm just being nice. And I'm trying to get out of it! I think that, if we help them resolve their case, we can go away. We should played our parts, like the lasts times we were trapped somewhere."
"Okay, let's go with them."
"Guys, it's okay if we come solving this new mystery with you? We do that too, in our di- city."
"Sure, follow us up to the Colonel's mansion." Fred answered leaving the malt shop.
"I have a pretty fast car, I think your van should follow us."
"We'll see" Fred put in motion and left, leaving a cloud of smoke behind them.
"I never liked Fred." Dean said pissed off, staring the car and following the van.
At the mansion, there were other five people, four relatives of the Colonel and his lawyer who announced that who would have been able to spend the night inside that hunted house, would have received ⅕ of the $1 million inheritance. When the lawyer left, the four relatives, the Scooby Gang and the two hunters went inside their room.
Dean, who had spent his whole childhood watching that cartoon, knew exactly what was about to happened and that the lawyer was in fact a lying crook, so he was confident that in a short time everything would be resolved and that they would be back at the bunker in no time. He could enjoy that little adventure without guilt feelings.
"What are you wearing, Dean?" Sam asked when his brother exited from the bathroom with a purple nightgown and a funny pom-pom hat.
"It's called a sleeping robe. Between you and me, it's freakin' comfortable, it's like I'm wrapped in hugs."
"Do you miss Cas?" Sam teased him
"Yes, expecially those special things he does to m-"
"Oh, shut up!" Sam said rolling his eyes
"You asked." He faked a smiled.
In few minutes, Fred, Shaggy and Scooby fell asleep so Dean decided to make himself a giant sandwich, fishing from the reserves of his new swallower friends.
"So now... what do we do?"
"We wait, Sammy. In the middle of the night, we'll find out that cousin Simple's missing, the Scooby's are gonna think that it's a ghost, but really, it's just the lawyer Cosgood Creeps in disguise."
A screamed ripped through the silence of the night.
"Told you. Now, let's go solving this mystery and let's go back home to Jack."
But, being their life, the whole thing turned out not to be so simple. The monster, a ghost, was real and it was really killing the people in the house.
"Dean we need to do something" Sam said when they remained alone in the room with the body "This is not a normal Scooby episode, we were not sent here for a merry adventure with your favorite cartoons, there is something underneath."
"I know, Sam" Dean was moving his leg and hand weirdly "It's just that I don't-I don't understand. I was sure-"
"Are you having another panic attack? Okay, I'm here, I'm- what Cas does when you're not okay?" Dean raised his eyes on Sam eloquently
"Oh, come on. I'm sure there is a chaste version."
"What? Sam! I meant he hug me and kiss me."
"I can do it... Sammy's version. Which is nothing but big brother Dean's version." Sam hugged his brother, squeeze him tightly to get his body blocked from shaking. "We're gonna go back home, safe and soundly, to Jack and Cas." Sam whispered in his brother's ear.
After some minutes, Dean was much better and they separated.
"Okay, let's join the others" Dean said and they left the room.
The two hunters and the Scooby Gang had gathered in the living room to decide what to do, when Scooby and Shaggy screamed, pointing to the large window behind Dean and Sam's back. The mystery person entered, in the dark caused by a power leap, bringing with them rain and wind.
"Cas?" Dean said as soon as the light returned on.
"Dean!" Cas went hugging his husband "Finally I found you. Hi, Sam."
"Hi, Cas."
"Do you know this man?" Velma asked.
"Yes, he's my husband, Cas." Then he turned to the angel and asked "What happened? When did you come back? Jack!"
"Calm down. I came back, well I don't really know, the time seems passing weirdly here. I came back, I looked for you in the library, then in our rooms, I checked on Jack, he was sleeping peacefully, and then I went in Jack's playroom"
"I've told that is Jack's playroom" Sam told Dean
"And there there was a TV I've never seen before and you two were inside that, talking with, well, them" he pointed to the Scooby Gang. "I was watching you and, a second late, I saw a sort of purple flashes and then I was in this weird land, with a dimension less."
"We're inside Scooby-doo, babe! You know the cartoon we watch sometimes?"
"The one with the red girl you like."
"Exactly. No! I mean I don't like her, I had a crush when I was younger."
"But you told me about your dream i-"
"Cas, not the moment"
"What dream?" Asked Sam curios a second later.
"Sam, I think we have more important issues right now. The flashes we saw are the same we saw when we were fighting the giant dinosaur killer."
"A giant dinosaur killer?" Asked Daphne approaching them.
"Ye, it's not a real thing, it's just..." Dean started.
"It's a book. We are writing. 'The giant dinosaur killer in love'. It's for our son."
"You have a son?" Daphne asked happily
"Yes, Jack, he's 10 months old."
"Oh, cutie pie. Next time we met, you should bring him too. I'm Daphne, by the way." She shook his hand "Those are Fred, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-doo."
"I'm Castiel." He shook the hands with everybody. "What's going on in here?"
"A ghost killed a man." Sam started to explain.
"Ghosts don't exist, big, broad-shouldered boy." Velma said and Sam made a confused face.
"We should tell them that gho-" Cas whispered in Dean's ear
"No, Cas, we can't, but we can protect them. Let's divide, one for one or two of them." He answered in low voice "Okay, everybody, I say to divide and search for clues. I'll team up with Daphne."
"Perfect, so it will be the three of us." Fred said hugging Daphne and Dean from behind.
"Sam and I will check the attic. I mean...unless you're too scared."
"I'm not. Let's go."
"So it's me, you and old Castiel, here, Scooby"
"Wonderful. I once led armies, and now I'm paired with a scruffy Philistine and a talking dog"
All the three groups had a close encounter with the ghost: Velma and Sam found some toys recently used in the attic and when they tried to investigate more, the ghost attacked them; Dean, Fred and Daphne found a secret passage in the library, but, when they arrived in a dark room, they had been immediately put on the run by the ghost before they could find out where they were; Scooby, Shaggy and Castiel, well, they basically found the ghost in the lobby and the run away terrorised, expecially the younger ones. They all found each others and they tried to lock themselves in a room.
"We had almost stopped the ghost. Dean had him by the thigh." Daphne said, while they heard the monster trying to enter the room.
"He what?" Asked Cas
"It was dark, I thought I was touching Daphne! I mean... I-I wanted to make sure she was fine, I was trying to place a hand on... her shoulder." Dean said scarlet on the face
Dean was interrupted, in his attempt to explain himself, by the moster who entered inside the room, spreading destruction until Sam and Dean found the way to make it run away, stabbing it with iron candlesticks.
Explaining to your favourite cartoons characters that monsters are real and that there is one who's trying to kill them is not easy, but the gang took it pretty well and they started to prepare a trap for the ghost.
"Dean?" Cas called him in the middle of the fine tuning of the plan
"Yes, babe?"
"Can we talk for a second?"
"S-sure." He smiled awkwardly
They moved from the others and entered inside a small room.
"Did you and Daphne did something?"
"What? No, Cas! When would we find time to do something? We were with Fred the whole time."
Cas said nothing, he just looked at him
"And on top of that: why should I have done something with another person? I'm very in love and happily married with you."
"Sometimes I think I'm not enough for you."
"What are you talking about? Who puts these ideas in your head? Sam?"
"Sam did nothing. It's not the first time I've thought about it and if you'd preferred to see other people, I'm... I'm okay with that, if that makes you happy, but still makes you want to stay with me."
"Okay, hear me out, babe: I love you, I married you, I'll marry you other thousand times. You and Jack are the most important people in my life, along with my brother, and I don't need anyone else. I think there's nothing wrong with open relationships or multiple partners of stuff, but it's not for me, not after I met you and made you fell in love with me."
"With your Righteous Man's powers?"
"With my Righteous Man powers, yes. So, can we still talk about our crushes or you prefer we stop doing that, does it makes you uncomfortable?"
"We still can." He smirked "I love you" Cas placed his hands around Dean's neck and kissed him.
"I love you too, so much. By the way, our exception still stands."
"If I ever have a dream with Sam I will never, ever have to tell you."
Dean mimic a gagging and Cas rolled his eyes, but laughed.
"Guys, we finished the trap. Now we need the bait." Fred said when they returned in the library with the others.
As always Shaggy and Scooby became the bait, but this time Cas joined them. A team is a team forever, or at least for a whole night. With the usual series of unforeseens, typical of the friends duo, they managed to capture the monster and Dean, Sam and Cas managed to trap the ghost in a room, within a circle of salt.
"It's a... child." Cas was the first to talk when the big scary ghost turned into a small boy.
"Why are you trying to kill us?" Sam asked, confused.
"I'm not, I don't want to. The bad man is making me."
"What bad man?" Castiel asked.
"He's name is Jay."
"The dude from the pawnshop." Dean said to Sam and made a head movement that meant 'I'll explain later' to Cas
"When I died, my soul was tied to a pocketknife that my dad gave it to me. It meant everything. When Jay found me, he used me to... sometimes, I get so angry, I break things, hurt people, but I don't want to. I just wanna see my dad again."
"I'm sorry. It was wrong of him to do that. What's your name?" Cas said kneeling down to be at the same height of the kid, even if there was the salt barrier between them.
"Alex"
"Hi, Alex. I'm Castiel. And those two are Dean and Sam" he pointing to the two hunters.
"Alex, if you get us back to the real world, we can set you free." Dean promised him.
"Really?" The kid turned his sad expression in a hopeful smile.
"I swear on my baby boy."
"You're a dad?"
"Yes, we are" he said pointing to Cas "Jack is at home, all alone, so we need to go back there as soon as possible."
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"
"Hey, we know. Don't worry." Sam took the word "Can we make us a favour first?" The ghost boy nodded.
They used the boy to let the story finishing like the episode Dean had seen, with the evil lawyer who was pretending to be a ghost to terrorize all the heirs and took the $1 million.
After that the hunters and the angel had greeted their new friends, Dean received a hug from Daphne and style tip from Fred, Sam a kiss from Velma and Cas hugged his new friends thanking them to the lessons they had taught him, the little boy let them return at home. Dean and Cas run inside Jack's nursery, but everything seemed fine, even because they found out that their permanence inside the TV had lasted 20 minutes, the length of one episode of Scooby-Doo.
"How's Jack?" Sam asked when they returned in the Dean's cave.
"He's sleeping, peacefully." Cas answered.
"That was the coolest thing that's ever happened to me. And that includes the Cartwright twins" Dean said enthusiastic, free to give vent to his excitement now that he knew his son was okay.
"What did you do with the Cartwright twins?" Cas asked and Dean realised what he had just said.
"I-they- I... I'll be right back."
He almost run outside the room and returned, not looking at Cas, with a blowtorch, that he gave to Sam and a sledgehammer that he used to destroy the TV and find the pocketknife.
Alex appeared in front of them.
"Time to go, Alex." Dean said
"What about the bad man?
"Don't worry about him." Sam said "We'll take care of him" he turned on the blowtorch.
And they did. They called the police and the bad man was led away in handcuffs. Sometimes monsters are just shady real estate developers, which can be taken care of by the police.
"It's not fair. I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids." Jay said, angrily looking at the three men.
"He said it! He said the line! Did you hear it, Jack?" The baby was strapped to his daddy's chest, asleep. "Scooby Dooby Doo!" He added, looking in front of himself like there was a camera recording him, trying to imitate Scooby's voice, moving, then, Jack's little hands with the rhythm inside his head.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked, looking around and seeing people looking and pointing at them.
"Well, I mean, at the end of every mystery, Scooby looks into the camera and he says-"
"Dean"
"Yes, babe?"
"You're not a talking dog" Cas rolled his eyes
"I know that. I... babe, where are you going?"
Cas and Sam left, walking towards the car.
"Okay, but I-I do look cool with the ascot, right? Babe? Right? Jack likes it!" He looked down and saw that the tissue of the ascot was covering the baby's head. "Or maybe not." He untied the thing from his neck and walked towards Baby.
They went back home. Jack woke up as soon as they entered the kitchen's bunker.
"Hey, buddy." Jack smiled at Dean with his four little teeth. "Are you hungry? I think you are." He placed him into his high chair "Look, Jackie, papa's coming with the good stuff."
Cas had yogurt with piece of stawberries in a bowl in his hands.
"Here comes the little bee" Cas said taking some yogurt and fruit on the little silicone spoon.
Jack opened his mouth and moved his hands on the high chair tray.
"Is it good? Yes, it is"
"Pa pa pa"
"Yes, baby, papa is giving you the yummy food. You're so smart."
"Dean?"
"Yes, love?"
"Who are the Cartwright twins? When we were in the car, I looked upon Google and I found out that is the name of a Canadian little baseball team."
Dean was confused by the informations and then he connected the dots.
"Oh my Chuck! Did you think I was referring to a whole baseball team?"
"Maybe meeting them had been a very exciting experience and-"
"Cas, my experience with the Cartwright twins had been of a sexual nature. And no, not with a baseball team... even if the idea is not that bad, we could putting something on stage... let's mark it. The Cartwright twins were two actual, very beautiful, twins with whom I had a very pleasant night, and morning after, in the period in which Sam was at Stanford. Dad left me alone, obviously, and I had not any case, so I went out celebrating and I found this two older girls" Dean giggled, losing his look in the distance, lost in his memory.
"Dean?" Cas snapped him out of his head
"S-sorry, I was- never mind." He returned playing with Jack's little hands.
"You said you are not interested in having other partners, but you would like to have a threesome?" Cas said after feeding the little boy the last spoon of food
"With a man?"
"Or with a woman"
"You don't like women."
"I don't like them that way, it's true, but she could have intercourse with you, while I watch."
"Cas.... you can say things like that while we're feeding Jack." Hearing his name the baby made some cute sounds, the mouth all covered in yogurt and strawberry mash. "Ye, you, our little cock-blocker."
"Dean..." Cas reproached him, but smiling
"Let's clear this little man." Dean picked Jack up from his high chair and the three of them moved inside the bathroom. "I'd like to. One day. Maybe. For now, I'm perfectly fine this way." He added, to answer the initial question, opening the water to clean Jack.
Cas left a kiss on his cheek, caressing his hair.
"Oh, I haven't asked you: how did the trip in Syria go?" Dean asked when they left the bathroom.
"I succeeded to collect the fruits from the Tree of Life."
"Awsome Cas, perfect, we're always closer."
"There is a thing I should said to you, though"
"Tell me."
"I think I'm... technically married to the djinn queen now.
"What?"