SPN Drabble: Rollover

[mamapranayama]

Title: Rollover
Author:mamapranayama
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
word count:~400
Summary: This is a milestone worth celebrating.

A/N: dizzojay mentioned that it was the Impala's birthday the other day over at spn_bigpretzel, so I came up with this little drabble:

Rollover

Dean’s kept a close watch, his eyes drifting to the dashboard every couple of minutes as they drove through western Iowa.

He knew this day would be coming for some time now and his excitement grew with each passing mile. Sam didn’t seem to have a clue that the event was even approaching and was sleeping in the opposite seat, oblivious.

 Then finally, it happened.

Dean eased the Impala off of the side of the road, bracketed on both sides by tall stalks of soon to be harvested corn. There wasn’t much else to see out there and on a normal day, he would have been loathed to stop out in the middle of nowhere like that, but this was a momentous occasion – one that called for a little celebration and recognition.

As soon as the car came to a stop, Sam jerked awake, blearily looking around in confusion, “Where are we? Why’d we stop? Something wrong with the car?” He asked.

Dean beamed at his brother, “Nothing’s wrong with the car – this car is awesome.”

“Then why are we stopped out here?”

Dean pointed to the dash, more specifically, to the odometer, “Take a look at that!”

Sam leaned over and looked, then raised his eyebrows at Dean, “Whoa … I guess that is kinda cool. I dunno if it’s stopping-in-the-middle-of-a-corn-field-in-Iowa cool, but … I suppose it’s worth noting.”

‘000000’ the odometer read, and Dean couldn’t be prouder of his baby -- she had rolled over, surpassing all of the possible digits in the meter and starting back at the beginning.

“Damn straight it’s worth noting,” Dean agreed with a broad smile. He pushed open his door and stepped out of the car, walking back to the trunk. Curious as to what his brother was up to, Sam got out of his seat as well and joined Dean at the back just as he was closing the trunk with two beers in his hand.

Dean handed a beer to Sam then twisted the cap off his own bottle. After Sam had his open, Dean held out his bottle in a toast of sorts, “To our girl’s millionth mile.”

Sam grinned as if he finally understood the significance of the occasion. Clinking his beer bottle against Dean’s, he added, “And many more.”

The End

Comments

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

Of course she's had that many miles! How many times has she been back and forth across the county? And of course Dean would notice!

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

I imagine that Dean would have been pretty proud of his car for achieving this. Thanks for reading! :)

[mandraco.livejournal.com]

Awww... This is so adorable and sweet and yay. =)

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading! :)

[mdlaw.livejournal.com]

Awww, sweet m :)

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

Dean would notice everything about his baby. Such a great celebration. This has such a great awwwwww factor. I love this.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading! :)

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

So perfect! Thanks for posting!

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading and commenting! :)

[carocali.livejournal.com]

Love that! I wait for those milestones all the time. Great idea for a drabble! :D

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm thrilled you liked it! :)

This might force me to violence :)

[hezio2.livejournal.com]

OMG the Show really ought to do this! REALLY it's just so f*cking perfect!
I just might tweet the idea to Jim Micheals because this is so fricking inspired.
This is cannon. I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Re: This might force me to violence :)

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Heeee! That would be awesome! Thanks so much! :)

[antrazi.livejournal.com]

So sweet.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Great job; that would be such a great milestone for Dean and our girl, of course he should celebrate it :)

x

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

He would, wouldn't he? Thanks so much for reading! :)

[prufrock-26.livejournal.com]

Awwww, Yes. Totally a noteworthy milestone -- and of course Dean would wait and watch and then throw a party. (Poor clueless Sam....it seems he will never understand the Awesomeness that is Metallicar.)

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reading this -- I'm glad you liked it. :)

[mountain-born.livejournal.com]

A million miles and still going strong!

She's a Winchester, all right.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

You said it! Thanks for reading! :)

[reading1066.livejournal.com]

I love that he said "our girl's millionth mile." :) And that Sam then understood and joined in the celebration. Awesome.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reading and for commenting -- I appreciate the feedback! :)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

now that's a milestone worth celebrating. :D and i absolutely believe that dean would.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- you know Dean would be pretty proud of his car for making that far. Thanks for reading! :)

[bluestar3317.livejournal.com]

Loved this! It speaks to me because I recently took a picture of my odometer when it rolled to 100,000 miles. Thanks for sharing. =)

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reading! :)

[rince1wind.livejournal.com]

Wow! Yay, Baby!

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading! :)

[embroiderama]

That would be such a significant moment for Dean! ♥

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

I would be a quite an achievement for him, wouldn't it? Thanks for reading! :)

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yay for the Imapala. She's not going to quit while there are Winchesters that need her!

Lovely and I hope she's not too depressed where ever she is while she waits for her family to come home.

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

I hope they bring the car back soon -- she's got to miss her boys. Thanks for reading! :)

[spiritcoda.livejournal.com]

wow.. that was cool drabble.. I just loved it.. and how Dean just seems to be so excited and sam so oblivious to it...
Great work as always.. damm they should do that on the show...

[mamapranayama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! :)