Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 191

"And you just left us to fend for ourselves?" Gabriel asks as if he's more offended than he is. "Et tu, Brute."

"I assumed Lucifer would notice and follow," Michael explains. "And that you were all too satisfied getting lost to listen when I told you where to go. I figure I'd either bring you there, or I'd get there myself and ride it without you, and probably be done before you got here, so I could ride it with you again. Now come on. I didn't wake up early so we could just stand around all day."

Michael leads the way to a huge white oddly-shaped building that they all assume is this so-called Space Mountain. Finally, they ask the question that should have occurs to them earlier.

"So... who takes Alex?" Claire asks, holding the baby to her chest.

"Ooh, can I?" Castiel asks.

"No," Dean says immediately.

"But —"

"You're just trying to get out of riding it."

"Yes, yes I am," Castiel replies. He's really not a rollercoaster fan, and he'd be more than happy to skip the ride to hold Alex.

"Well, stop it. You're riding with us. You don't have a choice."

Castiel crosses his arms but doesn't argue, because he knows it's pointless. Dean will get his way, one way or another. He always does.

"I'll take her," Lucifer volunteers. "You guys go have fun. I'll just chill out here and wait and probably walk around and soak in the magic."

"Awesome." Claire says, handing him the baby. She presses a kiss to his cheek. "You're the best."

The rest of the group heads inside, where they spend what feels like ten minutes just walking through the cue.

"Is this how long the line gets during the day?" Castiel wonders aloud.

"Probably," Dean says. "The sign said, what, fifteen minute wait? It can get up to, like, two hours on busy days. 'Specially when it breaks down, 'cause I guess when that happens, they try to fix it without telling you, but if they give up, you get a little paper FastPass to go ride a different ride."

Castiel stares at him with wide eyes. "If it breaks? How often does it break if they've figured the whole system out? What if it breaks while we're riding it? Why are we even riding something that breaks a lot?"

"Chill," Dean says with a light laugh, putting a hand on us back comfortingly. "It's not dangerous. Sometimes it just freezes, and they turn the lights on and you walk away. No one gets hurt." Dean pauses, then adds, "Well, the people who waited for a couple hours and didn't get to ride may be a little butt hurt, but that's about it."

"But what if this is the time someone does get hurt?" Castiel asks.

"Cas, it's okay," Dean assures him. "No one's gonna get hurt. We're just gonna ride it and have fun and everything is going to be okay."

Castiel swallows hard and nods. For the entire walk to the ride, he fiddles with his hands, trying to distract himself from the fact that he's about to ride a rollercoaster that breaks a lot. Who thought this was a good idea?

Finally, it's time to ride. The carts are arranged in two groups of three, each in front of the other. Sam sits in the very front, followed by Gabriel, then Samandriel. The second half of their cart is Adam, Dean, and Castiel in the very back.

The cart begins to move down the track, stopping to check seatbelts, and then they're off. Castiel balls his hands into fists, which makes him feel a little better, but he's still nervous, despite the cart moving at just a walking pace. They stroll through a tunnel, where the walls flash red, almost like they're in a futuristic device for teleportation or time travel.