Int. Wes’ Apartment – Night
The apartment is small and has that bachelor pad feel with sparse
furniture, juvenile posters, and game systems. Wes is sitting on the
recliner in the living room, beer in his hand. The TV is on quietly,
but Wes’ eyes are closed. Hope enters the living room, tray in hand.
She asks if Wes is sleeping, and Wes says he’s just resting his
eyes. Hope tells him she thought he’d like a snack, and Wes opens his
eyes to a roasted chicken complete with garnish. Wes tells Hope she
didn’t have to do that, but Hope counters that she wanted to.
Hope’s expression is cloudy, there’s more to what she’s saying than
that. Hope adds that she had to. With a bright smile, she continues
saying because she loves Wes, more than anything. Wes winces and pats
the recliner, asking Hope to sit down for a minute.
Hope obeys, and Wes inquires as to whether Hope is truly happy or
not. Automatically, Hope responds that she loves Wes more than
anything. Wes nods, he gets that , but he wants to know more and
returns the I love you, but adds that he wants Hope to start doing some
things that make her happy, that made her happy before.
Hope says she’s try harder and will start right away on that. Wes is
frustrated by this point and tells Hope that’s not what he meant. Hope
can’t take the Wes’ unhappiness and she pales, letting out a gasp of
horror. She drops to her knees at Wes’ feet, and desperately begs him
not to be angry with her—she’d just die if he was.
Wes informs Hope that he’s not angry with her. Hope immediately
switches gears, and starts crawling up Wes’ body. She tells Wes to let
her make it up to him, let her make it right.
The door bell rings and Hope gets up to answer it. She returns a
second later with Sam and Dean in tow. Wes takes in his visitors with
barely noticeable surprise. Hope chides Wes for not saying he had
called the florists for the wedding. Wes can’t contain his confusion,
but Hope ignores it and simply tells her man that he’s the best. She
kiss the top of Wes’ head and jogs off to get her wedding folder.
Sam and Dean study the framed coin collection hanging on the living
room wall and exchange a look. Dean asks Wesley how’s it going and Wes
tells him that it’s Wes, not Wesley. Then proceeds to say that he
thought the brother’s were from the Health Department.
Sam chimes in that they’re florist, just on the side. Dean loses his
patience and says they’re with the FBI, and on Thursday they’re Teddy
Bear doctors. Wes is totally baffled and Dean says that it doesn’t
matter who they are, what matters is that they know.
Wes is confused, and Sam points out that Wes’ a coin collector. Wes
explains that his grandfather left them to him. Sam and Dean sit on the
couch across from Wes, and Dean asks if Wes happened to lose any coins
lately. Or maybe not so much lose as drop it into the wishing well at
Lucky Chin’s. Wes says that he doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Hope returns with a thick file and stack of bookmarked magazines.
She sits at Wes’ feet, spreading it all out on the coffee table. She
tells Dean and Sam that she has a lot of ideas, but they don’t have all
the money in the world. Hope laughs, eyes sparkling when she looks at
Wes and proudly declares that Wes is between jobs which means more time
with her.
Hope turns her attention back to the folders, turning pages. She tells the
Winchester brothers that she’s thinking of something Japanese or
Ikebana. Dean says that yeah, he’s totally seeing it. And Sam locks
eyes with Wes, but addresses the question of how the two people met to
Hope.
Hope gushes that it was the best day of her life. She says its the
funniest thing because they both grew up in the same town, went to the
same church, same school, and she never really got to know him, not by
name at least until last month. It was like she saw him for the first
time, and Wes was glowing.
Wes squirms as her story continues, and interrupts asking Hope to go
get some coffee. Hope jumps up immediately to go retrieve the coffee,
but instead of running to the kitchen right away, she gives Wes a long,
drawn out French kiss. Sam and Dean watch awkwardly. Wes’ words are
muffled as he tries to talk through the kiss, and tell Hope to go to
the kitchen.
Hope darts off with her mission and Sam and Dean both level their
gazes at Wes. Sam tells Wes that they know, so he might as well tell
them the truth.
Int. Wes’s House – Later
Wes is holding a coin frame in his hands. One coin is conspicuously
missing. Wes informs the Winchesters that his grandfather found the
coin in North Africa during World War II and brought it back with him.
Grandpa always told him that it was a real wish granting coin, but that
no one could ever use it. Wes says that his Grandpa was all he had and
when he died, Wes thought he’d just give the coin a shot.
Sam gets up and informs Wes that now he’s gonna just wish it back.
Wes tells Sam that no, he’s not. Dean stands up next to his brother,
both boys looming over Wes. Dean warns Wes that if he doesn’t stop this
, something bad is gonna happen to him. Sam interjects that the
something bad is like well, them. Wes looks them over, and Dean lifts
his jacket, revealing the gun tucked in his waistband. Dean says that
he really wishes Wes would come with them.
Ext. Impala – Night
Sam and Dean are escorting Wes to the Impala. Wes looks back
nervously at his house. He tells the brothers that he can’t be gone for
too long, Hope gets sort of crazy lonely when he’s away. Dean tells him
to get moving.
Int. Impala – Night
Dean’s driving, Sam’s shotgun and Wes is in the back bitching. He
argues that so what if his wish came true, its not a bad thing. Sam
points out that Wes’ isn’t the only wish to come true. The well works
for anybody now. Dean chimes in that would be the reason the entire
town is going nuts.
Wes asks why, and Dean tells him that the coin is cursed. Wes
counters that the coin works. Sam interrupts and says that the wishes
go south, all of them. Dean asks if Wes would really define his
relationship with Hope as functional, what he really wished for.
Wes says that he wished she’d love him more than anything. Sam asks
how Wes thinks that’s going, and if that seems healthly. Wes counters
saying its a hell of a lot better than when she didn’t even know he was
alive.
Int. Lucky #1 Chin’s - Night
Wes approaches Hope with a look of rising horror. Hope brightens as
he gets closer to her, ‘cause that’s all she cares about and all she
wants—just to be near her man. Wes asks Hope if she really wished a man
dead. Hope replies that she loves Wes more than anything.
That does it, Wes loses it and demands that Hope stop saying that.
Hope breaks, sobbing, and tells Wes that it’s true, more than anything,
and more than life. She begs Wes not to hate her. Hope collapses in
Wes’ arms and he comforts her, but his face is saddened.
Wes tells her that its okay, he’s going to make it okay. Hope looks
up, her eyes full of love and Wes kisses her tenderly. He steps back,
and goes to the well, removing the coin. There’s a low rumble as the
cursed magic ebbs away.
Wes turns around and looks back to the beautiful woman, blinking
like she’s waking from a dream. He calls out Hope’s name, but Hope acts
like she doesn’t even know who he is.