Fic: Hotel Blues

[brightly_lit]

Title: Hotel Blues
Author: brightly_lit
Rating: G
Word Count: 500
Characters: Sam, Dean, hotel clerks
Genre: gen, slice of life, humor, brief outside POV
Summary: The hotel room was nice ... too nice.



Author's Note:

This story was inspired by a recent roadtrip I took with septembers_coda. Driving past a really cruddy-looking hotel, we nonetheless imagined it would look a-ok to Sam and Dean, and the plot of this little fic emerged ...

(If only the hotel we ended up staying in that night had been as nice as all this!)





Sam stopped short as he stepped inside the door, and Dean right behind him fell into him, cursing. “This is a nice hotel room,” Sam noted, proceeding on into the place, with its not-that-offensive artwork on the walls, suddenly unconsciously mincing his steps to avoid dirtying up the relatively clean carpet with his old, filthy boots.

“Yeah,” Dean agreed as he tossed his bag onto his bed--his eye, too, caught. “Check it out; this whole section of the bed is practically level.” He ran his hands over the spot experimentally.

Sam eyed his own bed, baffled. “Yeah ...,” he agreed awkwardly. “Check it out; my bed doesn’t even sag in the middle.”

They both stood there staring at this unprecedented phenomenon for a long moment, before trying to shake it off and go about their business. Sam took out his laptop and set it up on the distractingly unmarred, not-dusty surface of the table, and sat down in the chair, which didn’t squeak. Dean went into the bathroom and let out a quiet shout. Sam was on his feet instantly. “What is it?” he demanded.

“Nothing,” Dean mumbled, emerging looking sheepish. “Nothing, just ... the towels match! Kinda threw me off.”

Sam frowned and went in to see. Dean was right. They weren’t frayed, they weren’t discolored; they were even ... fluffy. Sam felt them suspiciously. “How much did you pay for this place?” he asked dangerously.

“The usual,” Dean insisted. “Just the same as always.”

After feeling the towels intently a few more seconds (truth be told, they were so luxuriously soft, it was kind of hard to take his fingers off them), Sam let it go and turned around--only to catch sight of the roll of toilet paper. “They folded the toilet paper!” he burst out. “Into a little triangle!”

Dean dashed into the bathroom beside him, where they both stared at the dainty little point that made something so prosaic look almost ... elegant.

Sam turned an accusing eye on Dean, who looked away nervously. “Demons!” Sam exclaimed furiously at last. “Demons run the place. That’s what this is, isn’t it??”

“I dunno; I was just so ready to lay my head down, I didn’t really care where. I didn’t smell any sulphur or anything ....”

Sam sighed audibly, slapping closed his laptop and putting it away. Accordingly, Dean grabbed his own bag and they headed out, with one last, lingering look at the beautiful hotel room that actually smelled ... kind of good. They got in the Impala and peeled away as the management stared after them wonderingly.

“Didn’t those boys just pay for their room with cash?” the mom of the mom-and-pop place asked her husband.

“Sure did,” he replied, equally baffled.

“Was there something wrong with the room?” she fretted. “Maybe I forgot to fold over the toilet paper ....”

Comments

[fanspired]

Awwwww. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm kinda laughing, but I'm leaning toward crying . . . :) . . . :(

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Aw, hon. I hope it ended with laughter, or at least happy tears. <3

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Aww, boys. How much must their life suck that things the rest of us take for granted seem like demonic omens to them? Funny, but also kind of not. Well done!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear! As if having to stay in cruddy hotels everywhere they go isn't sucky enough. Our poor boys ....

[freya922.livejournal.com]

Ha! Adorable. This is too funny. The crap motel is so iconic, it's hysterical to see what happens when they stumble into a hotel that's actually kinda nice.

Didn't stay long, did they? *snort*

There's this awful little motel in my town that I refer to as the "Sam 'n' Dean motel because it's exactly what they were both expecting in this story!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

They walk in and walk right back out--cos it was disturbingly nice!

Haha, the "Sam 'n' Dean motel"! That's sooo exactly what popped to mind the instant I set eyes on the place that inspired this story. They probably wouldn't even bat an eye--maybe it would even look uncommonly clean to them. :-[]

Glad you liked. <3

[zara-zee.livejournal.com]

Lol. Non-lumpy beds, fluffy towels, toilet paper folded to a point. Yep. Clearly demonic! :)

And poor confused Mom fretting about the toilet paper point. Nice light-hearted fic! Enjoyed it. :)

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Baha! Yes, along with crop failures and flickering lights, they're the surest signs of demonic activity!

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

That's so funny, but also really sad - like Dean knowing his dad was a demon because he praised Dean. The boys are kind of trained to not have anything good in their lives.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Especially these past couple of seasons--it drives me nuts about the show, actually, the unrelenting persecution of our boys. :-(

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. How do they even cope?

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's awesome.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

;-D

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

Aw, you should have let them stay!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Poor boys ....

[zelda-addict.livejournal.com]

And to think, they could have just walked back to the front desk and dropped a casual "Christo" and stayed! XD

Good job.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, back in their light-hearted early days they probably would have, but nowadays they don't seem to consider even for a moment that it might be something innocuous ... because it usually (or never) isn't. Poor dudes ...

[frozen_delight]

This is hilarious! Nicely done!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear! :-D

[emebalia.livejournal.com]

It's sad that every time something nice happens to them they wait for it to backfire. And it usually does.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Right?? Alas, in the world of our show, Sam was probably justified in making that assumption ...

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Hee! Love it. ♥

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear! <3

[gatorgurl94.livejournal.com]

Funny and sad all at once. Nicely done!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you!

[nindevotee.livejournal.com]

Rofl :D. Poor boys-not trusting a good thing happening to them.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

It seemed too good to be true, I guess ...

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Perfect! You balanced the humour and sadness so well here.

It's says so much that the boys don't trust or believe that they deserve something good in their lives. *sniff sniff*

Thank you for sharing :)

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I really was aiming more for humor, but I guess Sam and Dean's lives are just so inherently sad, it made me sad when I was done with it, too. :-(

So glad you liked. :-)

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yeeeeah... if only our place had been so nice! I would've been happy with level *floors*, let alone level *beds*.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Even if the beds had just, you know, involved mattresses! And you could get to the bathroom without having to duck so far down.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Heehee, that's gorgeouly funny, but kind of sad too.
The poor boys driven away by the imaginary fluffy towel and toilet paper demon!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Baha, yes! Those demons LOOOVE cleanliness and fluffiness, evidently.

Glad you liked. <3

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same reaction as everyone else. That was quite amusing but also, so sad! Why can't they ever have nice things/experiences?

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, WHY CAN'T THEY?? At least this season has been a little less unrelenting with their misery, thank heaven. (Adorable icon you've got there!)

[matchboximpala.livejournal.com]

It's from Yonderland -- my new (2nd) favorite show!