Mika was on edge herself, and although she didn't pull a gun out like Dean did, she was gearing herself for any kind of fight that could break out. She wondered when she got so calm about things as she was usually the utter hot head like Natalia could be, but here she was doing the opposite to Dean's actions instead of mirroring them. "Okay, now we're all inside, Nat I think you better start talking with these two. What are you thinking bringing a demon with you?" She questioned. "Before you all think I'm outta my mind, I'm not. They found me at my hotel at the border of Sioux Falls. Annabeth here says there's voices in her head that keep telling her she needs to find Sam and it was her who first told me you Dean are back. Of course, I didn't believe the latter until Mika's text, but I believe Annabeth about the voices. I only found out Cason here is a demon when he got stuck in the hidden devil's trap under the doormat I made. Turns out this one-" she started explaining before gesturing at Annabeth, "Can exorcise a demon out of their meatsuit with her mind because she tried to with Cason. We all found out what he was at the same time. I don't trust him at all but he has proved himself to be insanely loyal to Annabeth, so I don't think he'll be any kind of massive threat...at least for the time being, So Dean lower your gun" she continued, before going into more detail of what she learned during the drive here.

"I'm sorry. I'm not exactly an insider of this little troupe, so I'll abide by whatever decision Sam and Dean make, but why are we even thinking about having any interactions with demons at all that doesn't involve either getting rid of them or out right slaying them?"
Benjamin honestly queried. "They aren't misunderstood people who need a break. They're literal monsters."
"Also, I doubt they're really even capable of changing their morality like people can."
"It's all in the dictionary, the definition of demon is an evil spirit. An evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell "
"And if you want to learn through something more concrete than the dictionary, I have first hand experiences of fighting them for my life, literally, for over twelve months."
His voice was calm but clearly annoyed. He was no longer tense but he was obviously still paying a whole lot of attention to his surroundings, especially to Cason and Annabeth.

Dean kept his gun on Cason for a few seconds as they all filed in. When everyone was seated and Natalia began to speak, he raised his eyebrows and his eyes widened, “And that’s normal to you? That’s not something that you felt the need to find out more about? Nat…she can exorcise demons with her mind. That sounds like…”

“Special children stuff.”, Bobby interrupted, and Dean gestured to him.

“Exactly. I thought all the special children were dead. Sam? I mean, maybe that explains why she fangirled so hard when she came through the door. Can’t you guys sense each other or something? Some weird psychic stuff? No offense…”, he gestured to Benjamin as he apologized.



AnnaBeth continued to stare at Sam, as she sat on the floor near the door, her legs crossed. She didn’t honestly care that Cason was being held at gunpoint at this moment, as he had lied to her. She tore her eyes away from Sam’s face for a second and turned to Benjamin, “I’m not a demon. Apparently he is…and I want to know what the hell is going on here just as bad as the rest of you do. I’ve lived with him for the past four months…”

Cason scoffed, holding his hands up as he stepped to the side into the room. He stepped over near Annabeth and stood with his arms crossed, “I know a bit too much. You can’t kill me, Winchester, and that little pea shooter isn’t going to do anything. So, why don’t you lower the gun.”

When Dean didn’t lower his gun, he rolled his eyes, “Does the name Lilith mean anything to you guys? Huh? Lower your gun…”

Dean slowly lowered his gun, glaring at the demon as he placed it on the table in front of him.

Esme continued to lean against the wall of the room, looking at the floor, not making any sort of move as talk went back and forth between the others. She kept quiet, thinking that she didn’t really have much to add to the conversation at that particular moment. It wasn’t until the name Lilith was spoken did she look up. The name seemed familiar to Dean as well with the way he lowered his gun. She clenched her fists and shoved down the emotions that threatened to push themselves to the surface, but she couldn’t keep the mix of emotions from showing in her eyes.

Her eyes always gave away what she was feeling, no matter how hard she tried to hide them. She then scanned the room of faces before her gaze landed back on Casson. She couldn’t get herself to ask the question that was burning in her mind at that moment, but it was written clearly on her face that she had one. Maybe she couldn’t ask because part of her wasn’t sure she really wanted to know the answer, or maybe she was afraid to know. Then again, it was possible one of the others had the same question she did and would ask.

Still, she couldn’t get her lips to move to form the words, which caused her to clench her teeth in frustration. Taking a deep breath, she finally found control of her lips. Her arms fell to her sides, and she pushed herself from the wall, her eyes never leaving Cason. “Are you in cahoots with her?” she asked, trying to keep her tone even. Her fists remained balled, her short nails digging into her palms. The slight pain was probably the only thing keeping her grounded at that moment.

MIKA, NATALIA AND SAM

The moment Benjamin started speaking, Natalia wished he hadn't opened his mouth just on the reason of she didn't trust anyone she didn't know and she wasn't always the most pleasant person to be around anyway because she had her guard up around her for far too long. She also felt like Benjamin was telling them things they all (but Annabeth) knew far too well already and she definitely didn't want some stranger trying educate her on things she knew more than enough about. Rolling her eyes, she tried to bite her tongue from being snarky with him deciding that if she was going to talk to him, she needed to talk calmly. She let Dean speak first then Annabeth then decided to open her own mouth. "okay 1) We know all about demons and what they're capable of and not capable of. You're not the only one in this room who has had been tortured by them or hunted by them." she started speaking, looking at Benjamin for her first point, "We all have serious history with demons, we're seasoned hunters. All of us, not just my brothers" she added, almost giving the man dagger eyes but not quite. She then turned to Dean, "And 2) Yes I thought to get more information but I also needed to bloody well concentrate on driving here, and as it was I was breaking speed limits to get here in time, so I was getting information when I could." she told him.

Sam agreed that it sounded like a lot like the special children situation that Azazel started, but then it was curious that Annabeth was first brought to Natalia when she was to come to him and Dean. "I couldn't sense anything, it's all news to me" he replied to Dean, "but it does ring a bell to the others that were considered 'special' back when. I find it interesting whatever voices she had lead her to Nat as well. But then it makes me wonder if it was because Azazel knew who Nat was way back when and helped her escape so she would collide with us in that hospital, if whoever is giving Annabeth these instructions also knows of Nat's ties to us" he commented as it couldn't have been a coincidence that they needed Annabeth and Cason to find Natalia first.

Mika was glad that finally Dean was lowering his gun as right now they needed answers and not bloodshed. THough she really wasn't liking the attitude on Cason whatsoever. She did however notice the shift change in Esme when the name Lillith was mentioned, as it caused a shift change in herself. She got morbidly curious and on edge hearing the name. "Wait... THE Lillith?" she asked, knowing that that name never meant anything positive in any manner. She too wanted to know if this Cason was working with the female high ranked demon. She crossed her arms across her chest wanting to know answers immediately.

Dean’s eyes continued to widen as the rest of the room seemed to come to terms with what the demon had said about Lilith. The name alone sent chills down his spine, both from fear and absolute rage. Shuttering and closing his eyes, his world began to spin for a second, as Cason’s voice answered both Mika and Esme, “Ah. There it is…my purpose. Of course I’m not in cahoots with that bitch. I want her dead like the rest of you, I’m assuming.”

Dean continued to breathe deeply with his eyes closed, “What do you know about Lilith?”

“Everything. And…what her connection to this one over here is. It’s a song Sammy knows all too well.”

Annabeth’s head perked up, her eyes still on Sam as they narrowed into anger. Cason continued, “Oh yes. There she is…she…”

Dean stepped forward and punched Cason in the nose, sending him to the floor with a groan and a laugh. Dean shook his hand from the pain and groaned as well.

“Stop with the smartass remarks, asshole. Get to the point. Why are you holding this poor girl hostage?”, he spoke low in his chest, which made Bobby stand from his spot on the couch, prepared to reach out a hand.

“Hostage?! Ha!”, Cason cackled from the ground, spitting a little blood before continuing, “I’m the only reason she’s still alive. See…the only thing Lilith wants dead more than you, which she succeeded at, need I remind you, is all of them. And your sis...well...apparently she's just the easiest bait in the world.”

NATALIA, MIKA AND SAM

Mika saw how the name of Lilith's affected Dean and she just knew he was getting closer and closer to completely losing his temper with Cason, it was just a matter of time before he really lost it. She listened to Cason give the answer they asked for whilst being utterly snarky with it and being a complete smartass. She knew that if Dean or Sam lashed out she wasn't going to fully stop them but no one else in the room needed to know that. She was certain that the ones who would guess her next moves are the ones she considered family, and them alone. Cason's answers were just creating more and more questions in her mind and just as she predicted, Dean lost it and punched the guy right in the nose. She pulled Dean back from Cason as they did need more answers from the demon.

Sam was continously listening and trying to comprehend what little they were being told, but what was coming next from Cason just made him see red. Not just him either, but Natalia also. The fact that Cason was hinting that Lilith wanted Nat as bait did not sit well with him in the slightest. He was after all the closest to her out of him and Dean. "What do you mean easiest bait?" Sam sneered, clenching his fists tightly, his anger very much now evident. "I ain't anyone's bait asshole!!" Nat spat at him, voice slightly raised, trying her damn hardest to not throw her own punch at him. SHe did however step forward but Sam instantly put his other arm out to stop her, eyes not moving from Cason. He knew if he didn't stop Natalia she would have just killed Cason right there and then just on principle. "You better start giving proper answers or a punch from Dean will be the least of your worries" Sam sneered at him.

Dean huffed as his temper continued to flare at Cason’s words. If the dude wasn’t a demon, he would have had a bullet in his head at that moment. Watching Sam intently, he leaned into Mika, allowing her to nearly hold him up as he processed the fact that he was dealing with Lilith garbage fresh from the grave. Not really a shocker, but overwhelming nonetheless. He lowered his right arm to grip her forearm as he vibrated from a growl that left his chest.

“Calm yourself, Samantha. I’m getting there. Lilith needed all of her children rounded up. That much is obvious. It’s not like when she’s done with her plan that she can afford to have half a dozen nukes floating around. She managed to snuff them all…except one.”, Cason smirked, his face starting to heal from the blow the older Winchester landed against his nose.

Annabeth had been boiling, her breathing getting more and more animalistic as she sat on the floor, glaring at Sam, “You knew the whole time…”

Cason raised both his eyebrows, a little surprised at Annabeth’s voice singing out in the silence. Shockingly she continued and Cason rolled his eyes, “Um…Sweetheart.”

“SHUT UP! I’m talking to him…”, she screamed, suddenly, making Dean jump at the sheer volume of her voice. She reached a hand out, her face read and her eyes fading to a bright white for a second. Cason began to choke, gagging and grabbing at his throat.

“Guys…”, he choked as a drop of blood began to fall from Annabeth’s nose.

“YOU KNEW?! HE SAID YOU KNEW!”, she screamed, the mirror on the ceiling cracking at the sound of her voice, her eyes staring straight through Sam.

“What the hell is going on? Bobby?”, Dean asked, his eyes wide as he tried to decide what was going on. Bobby froze, not sure how to respond to the threat. On one hand, he felt the need to grab her, but on the other hand, he hadn’t spoke to Sam in months.

SAM WINCHESTER, NATALIA AND MIKA

Sam didn't want to be told to calm down, as far as he was concerned this demon just threw out there was a threat out there for his half sister, a half sister he grew up not knowing about until he and Dean were adults and found in a bloody asylum because people didn't believe her when she said she had nightmares of the supernatural. Their father all but abandoned her and her mother to keep her safe and that lead to her mother being killed by a supernatural being she had nightmares about. So naturally when all biases and judgements were over with between her and Dean, he became highly protective of her. He was about to scream about not telling him to calm down when Annabeth started aiming her anger from Cason and onto him. He witnessed as Cason tried to calm Annabeth down but her shouting not only made Dean jump, but made him and Natalia flinch from surprise as well. He saw how Cason started to choke and clamber to get air as he grabbed his throat out of self defence and survival.

"Annabeth I didn't know about you I swear, I only knew that Lilith wanted a load of us 'special' ones together. But I also thought that was a lot of Azazel's doing from way back when. Last time I saw Lilith she was setting her hellhounds onto Dean, sending him to Hell and trying to kill me as well. I somehow survived and she was out of sight. I know very little. I want her dead as much as the next hunter for what she did. Cason is purposely saying things to make you angry. We need you to calm down" he said, trying to defuse the situation, holding his hands out in defence, knowing he needed to handle this with caution or he was about to get a lot of his family into serious trouble.

Natalia didn't know what to do, she knew every time she tried to touch Annabeth she got shrugged off and scolded for doing as such. "Annabeth come on, if you calm down we can explain everything, I promise. But we need you to take a deep breath and calm down. We also need Cason to explain more, so please. We can get you answers by us getting answers" she said making sure to keep her voice soft and calm.

Mika held onto Dean, feeling him shake from everything that was going down. She was just angry over everything she was hearing and knew if they could stop this from getting any worse then they needed to do exactly that. "They're right..we can all get answers if we all just take a deep breath and calm down." she chimed in a little bit, using her free hand to rub Dean's back to try and calm him down.

“Hey…listen to my brother, okay? You said this guy had lied to you, right? You didn’t even know he was a demon and you’ve lived with him for how long?”, Dean stammered, stepping forward, picking up his gun once again from the table in front of him. He held it under the table and pulled the hammer back, “Just…relax. Sammy isn’t the bad guy here.”

“But they said you are like me!”, AnnaBeth sobbed, showing her weakness. She was terrified. She tightened her psychic grip on Cason’s throat for a second, before dropping him onto the floor violently, “I hear voices in my head. They…they told me to find you.”

“Okay. We’ll start there…”, Dean whispered, his shaky hand still gripping his gun.

“This is touching, really. The way you guys talk people down is adorable, but we should go…”, Cason croaked out. Rolling his eyes as Annabeth stepped closer to Sam, “What? Five seconds ago you were ready to kill him and now you believe him? Give me a break…”

“He hasn’t lied, yet. You’ve lied to me since we met.”

“And how do you know that?”, Cason answered, rolling his eyes again, before coughing a bit of black smoke from his throat.

“I can see it in his eyes.”, she whispered, her white colored eyes turning back to blue, as she reached out and wrapped her arm around Sam’s for protection. Cason scoffed, throwing his hands up.

“Fine. You’re welcome for keeping you alive…but…you’re their problem now.”, he muttered, his eyes almost teary as he stepped back from them all. He reached a hand up and snapped his fingers, disappearing.

“Son of a bitch! Why did you tell us he could do that?!”, Dean yelled, running to the spot where Cason had been standing, his gun in his hand. Annabeth cowered next to Sam, her hand tightening on his arm, not saying a word.

Esme closed her eyes and took in a slow breath at Cason’s answer. She had grown tired of his smartass remarks and smug attitude. The way he acted as if they couldn’t do anything to him because he had the answers they needed was infuriating. The more he spoke, the more she wanted to punch him in the face.

She opened her eyes just as it happened. Dean had punched Cason square in the nose. It was as if he had read her mind and it was a beautiful site to see even if Cason did laugh about it. As she looked down at Cason, she saw Bobby rise to his feet in response to Dean’s tone out of the corner of her eye.

Then Mika pulled Dean away from Carson so he wouldn’t go after him again. After a few more words, Natalia and Sam were now moving in on Cason. His vagueness on everything made her want to kick him in the face at that moment, which she easily could have. She couldn’t help but give a nod at Natalia’s and Sam’s words.

She wholeheartedly agreed with them. When AnnaBeth broke her silence with yelling, Esme nearly jumped out of her skin and backed away from Carson as he coughed. She backed up even more when the mirror above them cracked. Esme looked at AnnaBeth as the others were trying to calm her down. But it didn't seem to be working.

She was playing right into Carson’s words. She didn’t know what to do. This was one situation she had never found herself in. She closed her eyes tight and balled her fists even tighter. She was about to lose it, until things finally calmed down a bit. She opened her eyes as AnnaBeth talked calmly to Dean and Sam.

Her eyes shifted to Cason as he spoke once more, then disappeared with a snap of his fingers. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” she said in almost a growl. This was getting to be a bit too much for her, her head felt like it was spinning. She staggered away and rested against the wall behind her.

“I’m sure it won’t be the last time we see him.” she almost whispered, mostly to herself. She grabbed her head and looked over at AnnaBeth, who was now clinging to Sam.

Benjamin
"Well, if Cason is the only real threat we have to worry about, it doesn't look like he can stop all of us."
"A powerful psychic, demon blooded Humans and hunters aren't anything to scoff at."
"So um, what's the plan now?"
"Cason's probably gonna tell his boss about everything now."
"Oh, and Annabeth, I could sense the demon blood. Hence, why I accused you of being a demon." Benjamin seemed a little distracted.
"So, Lilith. This Lilith demon, Lucifer's right hand. . . erm, woman?"
His mind wandered. "I'm not an idiot but I'm only an amateur hunter. I don't have a lot of experience tracking down, trapping and killing demons."
Closing his eyes, Benjamin gets a headache and puts hand to his temple, before staggering to the ground.
Managing "Dean. . ."
"Mister Winchester. . ."

NATALIA, SAM AND MIKA

Sam could feel symapthy and empathy for Annabeth, no matter how much he felt he had changed emotionally since he lost Dean in those four months. "I am...was..I don't really know to be honest. I've not had visions for a while" he replied to Annabeth but he did know that if he drank demon blood, particularly from Ruby then he could exorcise demons with his mind like her, but he wasn't going to go into that just yet with his brother, sister and someone who he practically considered a sister-in-law even though Mika wasn't, he was close enough to her to see her as such. He looked over at Cason when he just had to interrupt what they were talking about, him deciding that he was going to leave this confrontation to Annabeth and not insert himself, like Cason felt was necessary. He got taken aback ever so slightly when Annabeth eventually walked back to him and held onto his arm for protection, but he got what she was doing and didn't try to shake her off or the sort. What he did find utterly curious was it seemed that Cason was clearly getting genuinely emotional over it all and before they could stop him, he let himself out of the room.

Natalia was about to go stop Cason from possibly doing something stupid, not knowing if he was going to teleport or make an attack move, but it was too late. He was gone and Dean was beyond pissed off about it. "Don't yell at her Dean, the girl didn't even know the guy was a demon until just before we left for here today. It's not like any of us a 101 manual for every single demon in the universe is it?" she told him back, knowing that no matter how angry they were over everything and how few answers they had gotten, directing their anger onto Annabeth was not the route to take. She sighed wondering what the hell to do now, when Benjamin spoke up with his thoughts out loud to them all and she found herself shrugging. "Well our family still need answers for what brought Dean back from Hell, Something tells me Cason won't be running off to any bosses. He's a smartass, snarky son of a bitch but there's definitely more to him than just being a demon lacky to someone else." she remarked.

Mika nodded at everyting that was being said by everyone. She didn't believe for a moment that it'd be the last time they'd see Cason, she also didn't think he was the type to be a blind dumb lacky for someone else. he had too much snark to be that kind of demon in his eyes, but whatever angle he was playing she couldn't figure out just yet. She tried to keep Dean calm in her own way by walking up to him and attempted to slowly and softly remove his gun from his hand for everyone's sake. What she wasn't expecting was Benjamin to suddenly hold his head and ask for Dean. "I think what we need to do, is have Dean and Sam talk in private and us lot sort out everything else and try and see what's happening with this guy-" she said, gesturing at Benjamin. "I agree, I need to speak to my brother...alone" Sam agreed, before glancing down at Annabeth, "You can stay with Nat and Mika. They're trustworthy" he told her softly. He would have added Esme but quite frankly he personally still didn't know who she truly was, only Dean did and Dean hadn't acknowledged their past yet.

Benjamin looked at Dean. . . "Mister Winchester." He whispered, as the vision flooded his mind. He shifted uncomfortable on his feet as he saw something he couldn't understand. "Why do you have wings?"
"This vision feels like I'm on some kind of drug."
"I need to sit down." Disoriented, he sat down on a bed.

((Benjamin just had a vision about Dean, and he wants to tell you what he saw.))

Dean calmed, relaxing his shoulders and allowing Mika to take his gun. He sighed loudly, pointing a finger at Annabeth as if to tell her something else. However, as he relaxed, he saw how terrified she was, and if he knew his brother…Sam was now her savior as long as she was scared and showing humanity. He dropped his hand to his side, and turned to Mika and Nat.

“I agree. I’m sure my brother has some questions. I have a hell of a lot of questions…”, Dean started, before Benjamin interjected again causing Dean to narrow his eyes, “Wings? What like a dragon or something? I mean…”

He laughed, tongue between his teeth and glanced at Mika, before letting his face fall, “Why don’t you get some rest, buddy…I’ll give you one of our cards and you can go grab you a room. See if these visions are stress or something.”

AnnaBeth gripped Sams arm a little harder as he spoke to her about going with Mika and Natalia. She could feel his heart beating through the veins in his arm, and it was hard and fast. She narrowed her eyes in confusion at the irregular heartbeat and released him.

“Where will you be?”, she asked him. The severe anxiety she felt, leaving with what seemed to be two regular humans when she was beside someone that seemed to understand her was immense. She changed her stance to let her eyes wander to Mika and Natalia, and the angry man…Dean, “I’ll go with them, but I don’t want to be alone with him, your brother.”

MIKA, NATALIA AND SAM

Mika couldn't help but raise an eyebrow when Benjamin started muttering about what he was seeing in his vision, wondering what the hells he was on about. Wings? On Dean? That was to her the most obsurd thing she had ever heard. If it was her benjamin was tlaking about she sort of could see it, but with Dean she couldn't at all. She didn't know if said vision was to be about the future or what, but it was certainly curious even if they didn't have a moment free to truly think about it. As Dean glacned at her with a smirk after his dragon or something comment, she couldn't help but match his smirk before letting it disappear from her her face and return the seriousness of the situation at hand. "Dean's right, get some rest in a room that won't have one or several of us constantly chatting and disturbing you. Like he said, it could just be stress related or something" she suggested.

Sam felt Annabeth's grip get tighter which made him turn properly to face her and place his free hand ontop of hers to try and relax her and calm her down, sensing that she was getting severely anxious, something that he knew if either of the girls could understand, it would be Natalia in particular, but both would be able to sympathise with Annabeth. "It'll be okay I promise. You've already met Nat and as much as she acts all hard, she's a softie really and Mika is like another sister to me. You can trust them both, I promise. I won't let you be left alone with Dean. I'll just be in this room but on the other side of the wall there in the other half of the room." he explained to her, gesturing exactly where he would be. When she said that she would go with the girls, he nodded and gave her reassuring smile. "You'll be safe with them both and I'll be right back" he said once more before gently peeling her hand off of his arm.

"He's right, you can trust us" Natalia replied walking up to Annabeth, "And if you ever get scared by Deano there we'll put him in his place. If he listens to anyone it'll be Mika. You've seen for yourself how much he calms down when she's there" Natalia smirked kindly, trying to make some smart ass quip to try and lighten the mood. She then looked at Esme "You wanna hang around here with us or what? I'm aware I probably interrupted you're moment of break back in Sioux Falls" she commented, partly feeling bad for that.

Esme only caught bits and pieces of the conversations going on around the room as she willed her head to stop spinning. She knew AnnaBeth was clinging to Sam and that it was suggested the brothers had some time alone to talk about things. She just barely caught what Benjamin said about his vision. Wings? What could possibly have wings? She thought to herself as she stood there, still holding her spinning head. After many deep and slow breaths, she mostly regained herself and could stand up straight once again.

She could now fully focus on what was going on and being said. When Sam suggested AnnaBeth go with Natalia and Mika because they were trustworthy, she didn’t feel offended for being left out. Sam didn’t know who she was, like most of them in the room. Then again, there really hadn’t been a moment for her to introduce herself properly with all the chaos that had gone on when she met up with everyone. Esme’s attention fell on Natalia as she spoke to AnnaBeth about fearing Dean and them putting him in his place.

She couldn’t hold back the laugh that escaped her, it was clearly a smartass remark to lighten the mood. When Natalia addressed her, she gave a small smile. Sure, why not? It’ll give us a chance to get to know each other.” she replied, pushing herself off the wall. “And don’t worry about it.” she added, seeing that Natalia felt bad about disrupting her rest. “I’ll catch up on rest at some point.” she finished with a smirk.

Annabeth nodded at Natalia, removing her hand from Sam’s arm. She smiled lightly at the comment about Dean, instantly trusting Natalia a little more. Honestly, she wasn’t normally this skiddish, but since the visions had started…she was just so scared. Add that to having a solid lead on what the visions could be, in Sam Winchester, her mind was a bit scrambled.

She then looked at the other woman, Esme. She couldn’t quite feel her out, but maybe if they spent some time together, things could change. She gave her a small smile and a nod. Anything but being too close to Dean. She let her hand drop slowly down Sam’s arm to his hand and released him completely, stepping toward Natalia.

“Don’t leave?”, she asked, turning briefly back to Sam. She had a lot of questions for him, as well. But he seemed slippery.

Dean reached over, grabbing Mika's hand gently.

"Watch her, okay?", he asked, looking her straight in the eyes, "I hate to say it, but she may be a key here..."

NATALIA, SAM AND MIKA

Esme's laugh at her quip about Dean didn't go amiss on Natalia and was glad that someone in the room found it funny, even if no one else who was near enough to hear it laughed. She thought Sam would but it seemed all she got was an eye roll that said to her he was thinking 'here we go again', but not in a negative manner. With Esme replying, she was glad that the woman actually agreed to hang out with the three of them whilst the boys had their little heart to heart chick flick moment or whatever it was they wanted to do. "Fine with me" she gave the woman a small smile back before turning back to Annabeth and Sam, where she was glad that her remark got the small smile from the woman and it was enough to let her let go of her half brother.

Sam shook his head at Annabeth, "I won't leave you I promise. For a start my baby sister here won't let me leave again. I'm literally just going to talk to my brother and come straight back into the room." he reassured her, finding that this girl seemed to have so much innocence in her even after everything she had had just dumped on her. He just hoped whatever was next to come to her, it wouldn't complete destroy that. He waited for Dean to finish talking with Mika before walking over to him, "Lets chat on the other side of that wall." he suggested.

At the feel of Dean's hand in hers, Mika looked at him and gave him a reassuring smile, "Don't worry I got this. She'll be fine with us. I'm not completely awful with kids" she smirked, before pecking his lips, having wanted to do that ever since she realised it was really him that came back. "And I agree with you. I think she might be too, but we'll take it cautiously" she told him, before letting go of his hand and looking up at Sam as he walked over to them both, "Don't kill each other for me please. No fisty cuffs, no raised voices, and for love of my sanity please just be grown ups about whatever you two walk about" She said to them both, half teasing, half being serious. "I'll leave you both to it" she then add, before walking over to the girls. "Hi, I'm Mika" she introduced herself to Esme and Annabeth the most.

As talk went back and forth, Esme moved off to the side, finding a chair to sit in. Since it was clear, the brothers wouldn’t be in the same room as them while they talked. She thought she’d get comfortable. Upon reaching the chair, she almost collapsed into it, feeling every muscle in her body relax. This caused her to sigh heavily as she stretched out her legs and crossed one ankle over the other.

She then had an afterthought about sitting down, but it was too late now. She was far too comfortable to get up now. She would just have to make sure she didn’t fall asleep in the middle of a conversation. She had done it a few times before and neither ended pretty. When Mika came over and introduced herself, Esme looked up to meet her gaze and gave a warm smile. “It’s nice to meet you, Mika.” she replied.

“I’m Esme.” she added, leaning forward and holding out a hand to shake. She would have stood to be a bit more formal, but her legs felt like rubber and she wasn’t sure if she could stand back up.

Dean was surprised by the small kiss but smiled anyway. At least one thing seemed sane, in all this. He followed Sam away from the girls, wanting to reach out and grab the younger, yet much larger man as he pushed them both toward their conversation area. Once there, he placed his hands on his hips.

“What the hell is going on, here, man? I mean...that was a lot. I just came back from Hell and that still made my head hurt.”, he closed his eyes tightly only to open them and peer up at his brother, “Something ripped me out of Hell. And...whatever it was left this.”

He pulled his arm from his jacket, pulling his tshirt sleeve up and revealing the handprint scar.

—-

AnnaBeth watched Sam walk away, her hands fidgeting as she did so. He looked oddly familiar, on top of everything. But considering she remembered very little about her childhood, even if they had met before...she probably couldn’t pinpoint it. Tearing her eyes away as he disappeared with his brother, she turned to the girls and took a deep breath.

“I’m AnnaBeth...um some people call me Anna. I’m sorry for what happened back there. Believe it or not...that’s new.”

She gave a nervous laugh. Just as she did so, her face went blank as a vision came across her mind. She was in a school, and she couldn’t breathe. The face in front of her, belonging to the person holding her off the ground by her throat, was not familiar. But the voice ringing out her name in the back ground was...

Sam.

She heard a snap, before her mind pulled her out of the vision like a wormhole, whispering the entire time.

“Should have known...Destruction follows the Winchesters...The end. This is the end.”

Coming out of the vision completely, she realized she was breathing heavy and her eyes were burning. Blinking, she looked around at the women. She was still safe...