Chapter 7

Cas was watching the priest silently as Dean started pulling out his phone. Sam chuckled and snatched it from Dean. He gave Sam a pouty look. Sam just shook his head and stuck it in his pocket.

"When's this gonna be over?" Dean whispered, internally screaming. He was so bored, but he didn't want to tell Cas that.

"When you stop complaining," Sam replied. They stayed silent for the rest of the sermon. At one point, Dean was sure Sam was praying with the rest of the congregation.

When the church service was finally over, Cas simply smiled at Dean and started heading back to the Impala. The three boys got in the car and headed back home. When they got there, a car was parked in their driveway. It was a pickup truck. That must be Ellen.

The three walked in and there were two women standing at the kitchen counter. One was a smaller, younger blonde and the other was a brunette, older, and looked pretty tough. "Jo Harvelle," the blonde introduced, holding her hand out for one of them to shake.

"Dean Winchester." Dean took Jo's hand and shook it. There was no hiding how completely awestruck he was. "That's Cas, and that's my brother Sam."

"Oh, it's nice to meet you, Cas and Sam." Jo smiled and finally escaped Dean's grip. She pulled a root beer off the counter. Dean guessed she had probably been drinking that before they for there.

"Where have you boys been?" The woman, who they now guessed was Ellen asked them. The question was just waiting to be asked.

"Novak Church," Cas stated. It was the one of the few churches in town. It was one of the nicer ones.

Ellen sighed and looked at the three boys. "Tomorrow you're showing Jo around. Now go and do homework or something."

The trio went upstairs, but Dean snuck a look at Jo before leaving.

The next day at school, Dean showed Jo around, starting with the office. As soon as he walked in, Nick Fury, Dean should've guessed, approached Jo and started talking to her. They talked about her being new and soon enough, he assigned someone to show her and another girl around. Dean was forced to class and the two girls started talking.

Jo found out the other girl being shown around was named Charlie Bradbury, she was really into LARP and she loved Harry Potter. At the end of the tour, they decided to LARP together in the park on Friday.

At the end of the day, Sam caught Thor alone. Immediately, Thor began apologizing.

"Whoa, slow down, Thor. I thought you were with Harry," Sam said, trying to pull a poker face of his own.

"Well, neither of us actually like each other. Steve and Tony set us up. We're actually just faking it though. Please, don't tell them."

"Why would I tell them? They're assholes. But yes, I forgive you. And maybe we could date in secret?"

"That's a great idea. I heard there was a LARP event every Friday. Want to go this Friday?"

"Sure." Sam smiled and pecked Thor on the cheek lightly before leaving to the Impala. Soon after, Thor left to find Tony and Steve.

That night, all any of the teens could talk about was LARP. Dean and Cas overheard Natasha and Clint talking about it and now Dean, Cas, Sam, and Jo were all on Dean's bed, talking about LARP.

"Cas is going as an angel, I'm going as a knight," Dean stated to the rest of the group.

"I'm going as a wizard and Thor's going as a knight," Sam told them.

"I'm going as queen's hand, Charlie is going as queen," Jo announced. "Now who's this Thor and how close are you two?"

"Wait, you're back together with Thor?" Dean asked, excited now more than before.

"Well, yes. But we're secretly dating because Steve and Tony can't know and no one associated with them," Sam replied.

"Got it," Jo and Dean said. Cas was watching silently the whole time, not sure what to say. It was a bit strange for him. Seeing them already getting along with this new girl. He was a bit scared of her at first, but he was getting used to her. She was quite nice, but she was also really tough. She was coming to him as a mix of most of the good things and a few of the bad things.

Over the next few days, Charlie and Jo started getting closer. They were both playing the same kind of game. Jo would flirt with Charlie, the ginger girl would blush and vice versa. They got to know each other a lot better, too. They shared a deep love for "the Hobbit". For different reasons, but still. When Charlie first found this out about Jo, she quoted the first paragraph of the first chapter. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

Charlie simply adored "the Hobbit". Not the movie, but the classic book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Probably much more than Jo did. She would always be awestruck as to how much the other girl knew about "the Hobbit". Jo guessed she probably could quote the entire book if she asked her to. That's just how passionate Charlie was about that strange and wonderful book. She had seen the movie, of course, but she didn't like it half as much as the book. She didn't like all the fangirls who liked it just because of how sexy the men in it were or something idiotic like that. She only liked the classic fans of the book because that was who she was. A classic fan.