VOX Box: Friends Old and New 10
Characters[]
Location[]
- 1-70 W, PA
- November 18th 2015, 2240 Local Time
VOX Archive[]
- [Ambient Filter: engine roaring, wind noise, rock music, various vocalists]
- Dean Winchester: [singing:] No one like you! [pause, hands slapping steering wheel] I can't wait for the nights with you, [pause, hands gripping steering wheel] I imagine the things we'll do, [pause] I just wanna be loved by you! [pause, hands slapping steering wheel] No one like you! [chuckle] I can't wait for the nights with you! I imagine the things we'll do! I just wanna be loved by you... Whew! Great song, eh, Sammy?
- Sam Winchester: [screentap] Huh? [chuckle] Oh, yeah...
- Chuck Shurley: So, Castiel... Are you the first angel to be trapped in Hell?
- Castiel: I... I am not sure I understand that reference.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Dean, look, we've been listening to this for... five hours. Maybe we can listen to something else? Maybe there's a Top 40 station on the radio-
- Dean Winchester: [click, tape ejecting, pause, tape sliding into cassette player] Sam? Please inform the prophet.
- Chuck Shurley: Inform me of what?
- Sam Winchester: Well, house rules, Chuck... [sigh] Driver picks the music, backseat shuts their cakehole.
- Dean Winchester: There you go! [chuckle]
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Of course... I should have known you were going to say that. I wrote that line.
- Charlie Bradbury: [giggle] Just relax, Chuck. It's not that bad... Once you just accept it.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Now my characters are giving me advice.
- Charlie Bradbury: [chuckle] I get it, this is weird for you.
- Chuck Shurley: You have no idea how weird.
- Charlie Bradbury: Uh, maybe not, but this is weird for all of us. I'm sitting shoulder to shoulder in the backseat of a half-century old car between an angel in a trenchcoat and a prophetic novelist.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Yeah, okay, it's a collective weird for all of us.
- Charlie Bradbury: So, like the music, just accept it. Ride that wave of weird.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Okay, thanks, Charlie...
- Castiel: Indeed. There was a wisdom in that, Miss Middleton.
- Charlie Bradbury: Uh, Cas, please... It's Charlie, okay? Miss Bradbury if you're nasty... [giggle]
- Castiel: Nasty? [sniff] I do not believe that odor is mine?
- Sam Winchester: It's, uh, just an expression, Castiel... [pause] So, Charlie, uh... Miss Middleton?
- Charlie Bradbury: Drop it, Sam.
- Sam Winchester: [scoff] I don't think I will. If you're going to be riding with us, I think you owe us some truth.
- Charlie Bradbury: There's not much to say. Middleton is a name I once had... But that part of me is dead, okay?
- Dean Winchester: It's fine, Sammy. She'll tell us when she's ready. Right?
- Charlie Bradbury: [sigh] Yeah... Maybe. I don't know...
- Dean Winchester: And if she doesn't, we'll just ask Chuck to tell us her story. He's good about that, right?
- Chuck Shurley: I, uh, I don't think it's my place to say.
- Sam Winchester: [scoff] Yeah, well, you didn't think that when it came to selling our life story, did you?
- Chuck Shurley: I didn't know you were real. That revelation... It changes some things.
- Dean Winchester: So now that you aren't going to be publishing our stories again, what are you going to do?
- Chuck Shurley: I don't know. You tell me. You're the one stopping me and kidnapping me. What can I do?
- Dean Winchester: You got any other skills?
- Chuck Shurley: No.
- Dean Winchester: Huh, maybe Ellen could use a janitor.
- Sam Winchester: You expect a prophet to clean toilets?
- Dean Winchester: [scoff] What? It builds character. It'll be good for him.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] Oh, joy... Castiel, maybe you could, you know... Whisk me out of here?
- Castiel: No, I do not think I shall. Your life is not being threatened. You are perfectly safe.
- Chuck Shurley: [scoff] I'm being kidnapped, though.
- Castiel: I suspect this is all part of His plan, Chuck. You just need to have some faith.
- Chuck Shurley: [sigh] I knew you were going to say that.
- Charlie Bradbury: Oh, hey, Cas?
- Castiel: Yes, Miss Mid- [pause] Charlie, what is it?
- Charlie Bradbury: I just wanted to thank you for what you did back there.
- Castiel: Could you be more specific?
- Charlie Bradbury: I never thanked you for fixing my carpal tunnel. It's amazing. I feel as good as new.
- Castiel: Ah... Yes... Well... Perhaps I overdid it back there. I only meant to remedy the injuries I caused, I did not mean to mend previous ailments and injuries. Your piercings aren't healed over?
- Charlie Bradbury: Uh... No. No, those are fine...
- Castiel: And your navel? It's still intact?
- Charlie Bradbury: [fabric shifting] Yeah, it's still there. As is my tattoo. We're good.
- Castiel: That is a relief.
- Charlie Bradbury: [pause] Wait, you could make my belly button disappear?
- Castiel: It is possible. The human anatomy is not my area of expertise.
- Charlie Bradbury: Cas...
- Castiel: Charlie?
- Charlie Bradbury: [giggle] Did we just become best friends?
- Castiel: I am not sure. Human social relationships are also not my specialty. I have never had... friends.
- Charlie Bradbury: Well, you can consider me a friend. [giggle] I mean, if you want to.
- Castiel: That should be an acceptable and interesting development. I accept your friendship.
- Charlie Bradbury: Cool. And because I'm your first and only friend, that makes me your best friend, too.
- Castiel: I follow this logic.
- Charlie Bradbury: Awesome. BFFs? [pause] That means Best Friends Forever.
- Castiel: Ah. Well, I do not see how that is possible. Our lifespans are dramatically different and-
- Charlie Bradbury: Just, humor me, Cas. Okay?
- Castiel: Very well. Best Friends Forever.
- Charlie Bradbury: [giggle] Awesome. I've always wanted a confused angel in a trenchcoat to hang out with.
- Castiel: That is a very specific desire to have, Charlie.
- Charlie Bradbury: [chuckle] Yeah, well, it was also a joke. [pause] I do that a lot. You're gonna need to keep up.
- Castiel: I see. [pause] For the sake of our newfound friendship, I will endeavor to be more perceptive in that regard. Please bear with me, though. Humans and angels have different thoughts on what should compel amused reactions.
- Charlie Bradbury: [giggle] Oh, Cas... You crack me up.
- Castiel: For instance, I cannot see why what I just said would cause you to laugh as you did.
- Sam Winchester: [whisper:] Dean, your belly button good?
- Dean Winchester: [whisper:] Yeah, just checked...
- Sam Winchester: [whisper:] Yeah, mine too... Whew...
Trivia and Notes[]
- Part of the Friends Old and New Storyline.
- Story continues from VOX Box: Friends Old and New 9.
- Story continues in VOX Box: Friends Old and New 11.
- The song Dean is singing is "No One Like You" by Scorpions.
- Charlie makes a reference to the song "Nasty" by Janet Jackson.