fun in space | rick sanchez

14. big trouble in little sanchez

"Well, what are we going to do?!" Summer asked, a heavily worried tone in her voice.

"We're going to live our lives until we die. Possibly by vampire. More likely auto accident or heart disease, but possibly vampire." Rick replied as if it was obvious, Cas gave a small shrug and look of agreement. "More likely at my hands if you keep making fun of my height, darlin'," Cas added on.

"Grandpa Rick, couldn't you, like, use your super knowledge to turn yourself and Cas into teenagers and come to our school and help us hunt the vampire down?" Summer asked excitedly. "Um, wow," Morty replied.

"Yeah, pretty specific pitch, Summer." Rick said, "I probably could turn myself and Cas into teenagers and hand out in the zit-covered, hormone-addled, low-stakes assworld that is high school. But here's my reverse ask, why in the fuck would I ever do that, ever? And how dare you even ask me that? And why aren't you more ashamed of yourself?" Rick finished and Cas glared at him, kicking his shin as if telling him to play nicer.

"Dad!" Summer exclaimed. "Be ashamed of yourself, sweetie," Jerry said, not focusing at all.

"Jerry! Do you know what you just said to our daughter?" Beth snapped and Jerry quickly apologized claiming he wasn't paying attention. "To a conversation about vampires?!" Beth asked, bewildered by her husbands excuse.

"Clearly, I didn't know it was about vampires, because I wasn't paying attention, which you would know if you ever paid attention to me," Jerry fired back and Cas' watched with an amused face as the couple went back and fourth at each other. Cas' spare room was unfortunately right next to Beth and Jerry's bedroom so that left her getting to hear them argue pretty much every night. So much so, she decided cuddling up with Rick on his cot, that was much smaller than her futon, was the solution to avoiding their arguing at night.

"Jesus christ! Will you fix your marriage or get a divorce already?" Rick suddenly interrupted.

"Well, we tried a couples therapist," Jerry responded.

"That's Earth Therapy. You might as well ask a horse to fix a merry-go-round. I mean, he'll try his best, but mostly he's just going to get horrified." Rick said, "I know a place off-planet with a 100% success rate. Cas can drop Summer and Morty off while I take you there."

"Well, we want to make it work, if we can," Beth said. "It's just-" she was cut off by Rick quickly grabbing her arm and pulling her up.

"Then it's settled! No need to pack," Rick pulled Jerry up as well and shoved them out the door after tossing Cas the key's to Jerry's car. Cas' eyes widened at her boyfriend tossing her of all people the keys. "Do you think mom and dad are, you know, gonna get a divorce?" Morty asked.

"I think it's okay to dream, Morty." Summer stood up, "I'm gonna go make some wooden stakes."

"I think it was a bad idea to let me drive anything with more than two wheels," Cas commented and Morty let out a worried noise before getting up from the table as well.

"I can't believe you did this," Cas mumbled as she walked through the halls of Morty and Summer's high school. Next to her, stood a much shorter version of Rick, which he called himself 'Tiny Rick'. "All though, I will say, it's nice having you be shorter than me now," She chuckled as Rick rolled his eyes at her. "Little weird having my 60 year old boyfriend in the body of a teenager but..." Cas grumbled, trailing off.