"Oh I know plenty about demons. I'm here for a girl.", Poe muttered to the man in front of him. The man mentioned being a psychic which piqued his interest. The Winchesters were just part of the plan, it seemed. Of course they were. It seemed that everything led back to the Winchesters.

"There's a girl. She's supposed to be coming here. Blonde, about yay high.", he described the person he was looking for as he watched Sam Winchester leave with a girl matching the exact description. He couldn't approach them. The younger Winchester was dangerous, almost as dangerous as his brother. If he was attached to the girl in some way, getting her away would be a struggle. Kicking the dirt under his boot, he turned back to the man. "I'm Poe."

"Nice to meet you Poe, my name is Benjamin."
"If you don't mind me asking, would the Winchesters know why you're here?"
"It looks like you're here because you're following a lead."
"Well, it looks like it to me because I'm psychic. It probably wouldn't look like it, exactly, to a lot other other people."
Benjamin waited to see if Sam or Dean were annoyed he was talking so much.

Esme tried to collect herself as she waited for Dean to say something, but her thoughts had drifted too far into her lost family members. Yes, a good amount of time had passed, but it still hurt terribly. She fought the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. She hated showing weakness and this side of herself. Dean’s hushed voice brought her back to the present, but she hesitated at his words.

She could see that she touched on something that both made them emotional, but wondered if something else was there. She didn’t have the chance to finish her thought, because he suddenly pulled her into a hug, causing a gasp to escape her lips and drop her phone. After the initial surprise wore off, Esme almost collapsed into his embrace.

She wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tight, then rested her head against his chest as he placed his hand on the back of her head. Then his words broke her. She lost her hold on the tears she was holding back. It was as if his gentleness, soft words, and her sleep deprivation had broken open the floodgates of her bottled emotions.

His words echoed in her mind, and she could still feel the kiss on her head, which brought a smile to her lips and made her relax. “I couldn't ask for more.” she whispered in response. Esme hadn’t noticed that they had moved beyond the wall and were now within eyesight of the other women. She was looking in the opposite direction, seeing nothing but a wall and Dean’s arm.

“Do you still have it?” she asked after a moment of silence. She was genuinely curious to know if he still had what she had given him before they parted ways. If not, it was alright, it wouldn’t upset her. What really mattered to her out of everything was that he still remembered her and had accepted her into their group.

Poe shifted his weight from one foot to the other, feeling weird about just letting Sam Winchester leave the parking lot with the girl he had with him. She fit the description.

"It's nice to meet you Benjamin."

Poe stopped at Benjamin mentioning his psychic powers and smiled brightly. He then gave a laugh from deep in his chest, "Oh that's great! A Winchester, a fugitive, a psychic, and let me guess, a gaggle of women surrounding Dean Winchester."

He shook his head as he chuckled and placed a hand on his Jeep, trying to make a decision on whether to follow the younger Winchester or to tackle the hotel room.

@ActRaiserTheReturned

MIKA AND NATALIA

Mika tried to believe Natalia that it was just Dean being nice to someone he used to know as a kid and was getting used to seeing them again after so long, but after she had gone four months without him, grieved him for all that time she couldn't help but get suspicious and have that twang of jealousy creep into her heart and mind. She knew deep down she didn't have to worry about Dean being unfaithful, they had quite literally gone through hell and highwater to find each other again and stick together. They grew up together, but becuase she lost him twice due to one reason or another, she was terrified when someone else came on the scene. She knew there were times when he slept around when she was technically out of his life, pretending to be someone else, and that jealousy all began there. She didn't blame him for it before because he thought she was Kenzi, the cousin of herself, but now there was no excuse in her mind.

Suddenly Dean and Esme both ended up in full view of herself and Natalia and Natalia instantly winced whilst thinking 'oh shit...' before looking at Mika, seeing her almost go red and green all at the same time. Hearing what they were saying together didn't even help either and Natalia knew that Mika's mind instantly was going to 'she's one of those girls he slept with'. "Meeko...don't...it's nothing, remember it's nothing. He came back to you, don't do anything ra----" she started to warn when Mika ignored her completely and lost her shit before she could even finish her sentence.

"you've got to be bloody kidding me!? Are you serious right now!? You lied about how you know her! She one of those bed notches you had!?" Mika practically screamed at the two of them, mostly at Dean before storming off, her hands visibly shaking, opening the hotel room door and slamming it behind her before leaning against the hallway wall and desperately trying to not burst into tears.

SAM WINCHESTER

Sam decided with his free hand to quickly send a text to Ruby to meet them at the diner opposite the hotel, figuring that if anyone was as good a palce to start asking questions, it was with Ruby, he did though still listen to everything that Annabeth was saying, as he grabbed her hand after their hands brushed together. "it's okay i get it. I didn't know what was happening to me for the longest time as well, Dean was scared of me for a while, we got into many a fight over it before he had my back every which turn. It's perfectly normal to have the feelings and thoughts you have and we'll get you your answers" he told her. "But what you can do is essentially you can exorcise the demons from their bodies and send them back to Hell" he told her as he headed to the diner across with the street with her.

Dean smiled down at Esme’s hair, kissing the top of her head one more time before pulling away from her. He pulled his arm up in front of her face, and lowered his sleeve to show his wrist. The bracelet she had left with him, a simple string wire bracelet, still around his wrist.

“It made it to hell and back, apparently…”, he laughed, just before Mika stormed into the area, causing him to instinctively jump and push Esme behind him. His free left hand resting against the small of her back behind him, while his right hand came up to try and fend off Mika’s potential rage. Hell, he was tempted to try and put furniture between them.

“Jesus Christ Mika! It’s been years…I…Mika…son of a bitch…”, he stammered at Mika as she screamed. He froze a bit as she stormed off, not knowing whether he should follow her or not. Turning back to Esme, he searched her eyes for a bit of forgiveness.

“I’ll be back…”, he whispered, kissing her forehead for more forgiveness before running to the door as it slammed in his face, causing him to flinch. He flung the door open, stepping out into the hall with a huff, finding Mika there.

Pinching the bridge of his nose, he stood in front of her, “You wanna tell me what the hell happened back there?”



Annabeth held his hand tightly as they walked across the street, watching him text someone. She was curious, but didn’t ask questions, as she didn’t know his contacts or how they could help. Her eyes went a bit wide when he mentioned the demons and what she could do to them.

“I can do what?”, she asked, thinking back to Cason and the black smoke. She raised her free hand to stare at her palm in awe, now knowing what the heat was, and why. Sighing, she stepped up to the door of the diner and reached for the door handle.

Ruby looked down at her phone, rolling her eyes as she sat in the near empty diner. It was closed, but a few people still lurked, none of them demons. Her interest was piqued as Sam and a mystery blonde approached the door.

Her eyes turning black at the sight of the girl, she groaned, “Dammit, Sam…”

Esme couldn’t help smiling when Dean kissed the top of her head again before he pulled away. As he did, she released him, letting her arms fall to her side. She watched as he lifted his arm and pulled his sleeve down to reveal the wire bracelet on his wrist. Her smile grew when she saw it. “Who would have thought…..” she said with a laugh before Mika stormed in, cutting her off.

She jumped in surprise just as Dean pushed her behind him protectively and kept a hand on her back, which she wasn’t expecting. It was a strange feeling having someone protect her from another. She couldn’t see Mika from behind Dean, but she could hear the rage in her tone, which caused her to wince. Notches? She thought. Her eyes widened as she realized what she was getting at.

She thinks Dean and I…… she trailed off in her thought. She was about to speak out, but Dean had tried talking to Mika before she could. She winced again as he stammered as Mika screamed at him. She remembered earlier how Mika stuck close to Dean and seemed to calm him when no one else could. She had thought little of it at the time, but now she couldn’t deny it.

There was definitely something between them and she had apparently stirred up some jealousy in Mika. She felt terrible now. She didn’t want to come between anyone and mess anything up between them. That was the last thing she wanted. She took in a breath when Mika stormed off. She hadn’t realized she had been holding her breath. When Dean turned to face her, her face and eyes held a soft look.

“It’s alright. Go after her.” she told him softly. Esme’s eyes closed when he kissed her forehead, then opened as he ran for the door. She flinched just as he did when the door slammed in face. Once he was out the door, she walked over to a chair, wiping the tears from her cheeks as she went, before she sat down. She placed her elbows on her knees, then put her face in her hands and sighed heavily. She now wondered if she should stay or leave. Would her being there put too much stress on things?

NATALIA WINCHESTER

Under any other circumstances she would have jumped in to stop the argument between Dean and Mika, but it wasn't exactly the first time this sort of thing had happened between the two of them. She also knew better than to get in Mika's way when she had it in her head Dean was being anything but faithful to her. SHe winced as Mika accused Esme, someone they didn't even know of being just another otch on Dean's bedpost, a bedpost they didn't have any claim to as they rarely remained at Bobby's. Yet the way Dean was being with Esme did come across as suspicious, that much she did have to admit, so as much as she didn't agree with Mika adding 2 and 2 and coming up with 5, she could see why she would have done that. Even she flinched as Mika had slammed the door shut in Dean's face before turning her attention to Esme and seeing how much Mika's behaviour had clearly hurt the woman. "Word of advice?" she began saying, "Ignore Mika. She's touchy at the best of times and this isn't the first time they've argued, not about women necessarily, but yeah...it's what they do. They hash it out and instantly make up again." she explained.

"It's got nothing to do with you. Their history is complicated to say the least. When you would have met Dean, Mika was presumed dead. He knew her as Kenzi at that point. I don't know the full story even now, but I've been told enough. Basically they've lost each other a few times and have done all they could to find each other again. You're not the first person to give him something either. So seeing Dean be that close and affectionate to you? It'll trigger Mika's insecurity." she finished explaining hoping it would be of some reassurance to the woman.

MIKA CHAMBERS

She ignored the fact she could hear the door open and Dean exiting the room to follow her before she looked at his steel toed boots in front of her which just made her look up at him. "I could ask you the same damn thing. What's with all the affectionate touching with her?" she asked him, anger in her dark brown almost black eyes but not only anger, but also hurt and pain. "I JUST got you back in my life Dean and then suddenly I see you all over her, is this some kind twisted way of paying me back for what I did as Kenzi?" she added, tears threatening to spill from her bottom eyelids.

SAM WINCHESTER

Sam smiled softly as Annabeth tried to comprehend what he just said she could do with her mind, whilst keeping her safe beside him as they headed across the street and to the doors to the diner, where he saw Ruby already there waiting for them through the glass windows. He gave her the look to get rid of the black eyes before he entered the diner with Annabeth and over to Ruby. "Thanks for coming back" he said to Ruby finally.

Dean rolled his eyes slightly at Mika’s anger, having been down this road with her a million times. He sighed heavily, and lowered himself to the floor in front of her, sitting with his legs crossed. He placed both hands on his knees, leaning forward to try and meet her eyes better.

“I’m not allowed, now to comfort someone? I met her when we were teenagers. It was honestly the worst time of my life, and…well…she was a very needed moment of normal. We never had sex, which you know, for me is not normal. We just needed each other…”, he muttered, being gentler than he normally would with her. There was no way she wasn’t in a world of pain, seeing him again after…well, Hell. They were all a little shaken up over it, still.

He leaned forward a bit more, placing a finger on her chin, before kissing her lips lightly, smirking to try and lighten the mood, “Besides, I thought it was you that said labels were for suckers. I die and come back to a softy? Surely not…”



Ruby took a second to let her eyes turn back to their human brown shade, staring up at Sam with a glare and then over to the girl she only recognized from the APB hell had put out.

“Do you have any idea what you’re doing? Sam…”, Ruby started. But Annabeth jolted forward, not having noticed the demons black eyes. She stretched a hand out, for Ruby to shake. This took Ruby aback, narrowing her eyes as if the girl was joking, “Um…”

“Hi! I’m Annabeth. You can call me Anna…”, Annabeth chirped, feeling safe enough with Sam to introduce herself. Ruby stared at the hand in front of her and frowned, knowing exactly what this girl was capable of. Carefully, she stretched a shaky hand out and shook hands with her, giving a relieved sigh when nothing happened.

“Ruby. Nice to meet you. How did you find her?”, Ruby asked Sam, her face still holding a bit of fear as she pulled her hand away. She bit her lip, wondering if she should tell the girl, or just report the news back to demons for some brownie points. She decided on the former, “She’s Lilith’s second…all of Hell is looking for her, and you’ve met her before. I have to go.”

She then stood up, picking her bag off the floor as if to leave.

Esme sat there with her face still in her hands as she listened to Natalia tell her to ignore Mika and then explain how it was between Dean and Mika. Natalia’s words didn’t really make her feel all that better. She was beginning to feel sick to her stomach as she listened. Esme didn’t look up from her hands until Natalia had finished talking. She really had no words to reply to Natalia with about what she had just told her. Her mind had gone completely blank.

She knew she wasn’t the only one to give Dean something. That wasn’t news to her. It was just something she had done to show her gratitude for his help and friendship. She looked away from Natalia and ran her hands through her hair. “This might be anything new for them, but I don’t want to be the cause of tension between them.” she told her. “Maybe it was a mistake for me to come here.” she said, mostly to herself as she took to her feet.

“Even if I wanted to see if he was truly back from the dead…….. Maybe I would have been better off not knowing the truth and continuing things on my own.” she continued, still mostly to herself. She was now getting a headache and the feeling that everything was closing in on her. “I…..I need some air.” She needed to think about things, but her mind had become muddled. She rushed to the door, opened it and dashed out, letting it close behind her.

Her breath caught in her throat when she saw Dean and Mika were talking in the hall. “Hellfire!” she muttered. Esme then walked past them as quickly as she could, not making eye contact, to get to the stairs and outside.

MIKA CHAMBERS

As Dean sat down on the floor and leaned forward, she glanced her eyes toward his green eyes before glancing back down again. She remained silent as he spoke, explaining how he met her during one of the worst times of his life and she couldn't help which of those times it was. Hearing him say he was merely comforting Esme made her feel like such an asshole for flying off the handle at them both, mostly him but both of them nonetheless. Then she felt his hand touch he chin and lift her head up to make her look at him, which she did and let him peck her lips, which she also returned. She smirked but ever so slightly, and there was still an essence of sadness and confliction in it as he said what he did next. "I just...I lost you once Dean, some may even say twice, I'm terrified I'm going to lose you again" she admitted. "In these last four months since you've been gone, we've all changed. Losing you to Hell completely destroyed me because I knew this time round I couldn't bring you back, no matter my efforts. I love you Dean and just...seeing you with another woman like that, when that's all I've ever wanted for months? It hurt so much" she admitted, a tear falling down her cheek.

She barely even noticed when Esme left the room and muttered under her breath before heading down the stairs to get some air. She knew she had been an utter bitch to the woman and she would have to apologise but that didn't mean she was going to fully trusting of her that easily. She may not trust the woman to not want to take Dean from her, but she knew when she had to apologise for her actions and would own up to that when time came.

NATALIA WINCHESTER

Natalia heard the woman out, letting her speak and she shook her head thinking leaving wasn't going to solve anything but even if she did leave Mika HAD to apologise to her. She knew she could be a bigger bitch than Mika at times, but even she could see Mika was way out of line for snapping. As much as she was thankful for being with her real family and having somewhere she felt she belonged, times like this made her seriously question why she was part of it. It also brought home all the more why she considered Sam her favourite brother, or at least the brother she was closer to. "You don't have to leave Esme, Mika will chill out eventually. Losing Dean really fucked her up mentally" she told her, but it seemed her words were going on deaf ears as she watched Esme get up and exit the room. Sighing she leaned right back and laid on the floor on her back, staring up at the ceiling and running both hands down her face, "This bloody family!" she complained.

SAM WINCHESTER

With Ruby making her eyes go back to a normal brown colour Sam discreetly sighed with relief as he walked over with Annabeth and was about to answer Ruby when Annabeth surprised not only her, but him as well by her suddenly introduction. It was like a completely different person was next to him, which seemed to trigger a broken flash in his mind of a broken blurry image, one he couldn't work out at all. Mentally shaking it from his mind, he looked at Ruby as she told him who she was, making him look between Annabeth and Ruby a couple of times before focusing on Ruby, "Wait what?" he questioned, grabbing her wrist but not tightly, "Don't go... we both need questions answered. Like if you know who dragged Dean out of Hell for one" he asked her, "So please, just stay for five minutes" he requested of her. "Annabeth is of no threat to you" he added.

Dean nodded his head at her, making sure to take in every word while she seemed diffused. By now, he was used to diffusing Mika’s bombs, and it was honestly refreshing. He smirked, “I know. But I’m human…mostly. I think. I mean… I feel pretty human. I don’t like to see people hurt, not with everything I’ve seen…”

He chuckled and picked up her hand, kissing her knuckles, “I’m here. I don’t plan to die any time soon, if that’s alright with you. But I have to ask you, until we figure this out…try to take a deep breath. If you need to reach out and punch me in the face, to make sure that you know where I stand, trust me, I’ve had worse.”

He scoffed once again, leaning forward to kiss her lightly, missing that human connection after all that time in Hell. However, before he could touch her, a loud ringing began. He covered his ears, groaning as it grew louder. Windows, fire alarm cases and picture frames in the hall began to shatter, even breaking the door’s glass nearby. Laying on the ground in the fetal position, Dean screamed through the rumbling before it finally stopped, leaving them in silence, and Dean still huddled like a baby.

“Dean?! Mika?! What the hell was that?”, Bobby asked as he sprinted toward them from up the hall, bag in hand.

@Chulance - here’s a slight mention of Castiel…and we’re about to go to the barn]



Ruby turned, looking down at Sam’s hand on her wrist, and then turned to look at Annabeth to judge her facial expressions. From what she had gathered from the intel she had about the Second, touching Sam was dangerous. When the girl simply stared at her innocently, she narrowed her eyes, “What’s wrong with her? I mean, I heard she was…altered, but she seems powerless.”

“Oh. No. I can exorcise demons with my mind…”, Annabeth muttered, causing Ruby to raise both eyebrows and look up at Sam. Annabeth noticed her fear and grew concerned, “But you seem like a friend. So…”

“I’m going to keep this short”, Ruby quipped, pulling her arm from Sam’s grip, “She’s Lilith’s second. She’s essentially a failed experiment that shouldn’t be alive. Her being with you is bad news, but not that shocking. You’re like a magnet for her kind…and she’s the last one.”

As she finished the sentence, she had an idea cross her mind, and grabbed Annabeth’s arm, roughly. She pulled her sleeve up and stared at her wrists, nodding.

“And she’s exactly who I thought. If that’s the case, I’m out. You know where to find me. This is going to be above my pay grade, just like Dean. Whatever pulled him from Hell has more power than any demon.”, she turned to leave, before spinning slightly, pulling a piece of paper from her pocket. She hesitated, and then handed it to Sam, placing a hand on his chest, “If you want to work, there’s a demon at this location…He’s a heavy, but you know what to do.”

Esme had made it down the hall and to the door that led to the stairs. She had just pulled the door open and was about to step through when it felt as if an earthquake had hit. The shaking was so bad it knocked her off her feet, causing her to land hard on her ass in the stairwell doorway. The door then slammed on her, forcing a muffled groan to escape her lips as it forced air from her lungs.

She got her breath back quickly and collected herself and noticed a slight ringing, but assumed it was from the door slamming on her. The door was quite heavy when stuck on your ass with everything shaking around you, but she didn’t really attempt to open it since it was protecting her from the shattering glass in the hall. The only glass to shower her was from the door that had her pinned.

At Dean’s scream, she leaned her head back to find him, only to have everything settle before she could focus on him. She then saw him on the floor in the fetal position, then Bobby run up to him and Mika. She didn’t hear what he asked because she had pulled her head back behind the door and was trying to push it open. Esme finally managed to push it open enough with her left arm to get her legs under her so she was on her knees.

Then threw her whole left side into the door to open it even more and get to her feet. She stepped away from the door and into the hall, letting it close behind her. She grabbed her right upper arm with her left hand before she gently shook most of the glass from her hair. Then made her way to those in the hallway ahead of her. “You two alright?” she asked.

MIKA CHAMBERS AND NATALIA

Mika couldn't help but smirk the tiniest bit when he went off on a ramble about how he thought he was mostly human before the smirk disappeared as he said about not wanting to see people hurting after everything he's gone through. She did get it, she got it more than she would probably ever let on. She even felt ever so slightly ashamed she treated Esme in such a manner but that she would never admit. She let him take her hands and kiss her knuckles, a familiar action from him that was very welcome. She never realised how much she took the simplest of touches or signs of affection from him for granted until he was gone. She nodded at his request to just remember to take a deep breath if she was going to get angry with him, thinking it was the least she could do. "I'm sorry Dean...I do trust you" she told him.

As he leaned forward a bit more she welcomed what he wanted to do, leaning forward as well but then they got yet another disruption in what felt like an utter earthquake coming out of nowhere, but Dean covering his ears and screaming like a banshee from the pain of what he was hearing. She quickly shielded her head as photo frames and glass began to shatter and fly everywhere, throwing herself over Dean to protect them both. She felt the odd bit of glass scratch her arms as it flew over them but she didn't care. All she could do was hope that it would be over soon, and luckily for her it was. She leaned back up off of Dean and saw the damage of the shattered glass and splintered photo frames made to her arms, but it was Dean she was more worried about. "hey..hey its okay, it's over" she tried to reassure him when she suddenly heard both Bobby and Esme running up and calling out to them. "We're fine....I think" she told them both, trying to pull Dean up a bit.

When the rumbling and shaking happened Natalia quickly dived for some kind of cover wondering what the hell was going on. She knew she needed to get to the others outside the room but with everything going absolutely beserk around them, she didn't know if she could make it safely. So she did all she could and waited it out before finally clambering up onto her feet and running to the hotel room door opening it and seeing everyone crowded round Mika and Dean. "What's going on?!" she asked them all, her tone conveying the unspoken question of 'I defiitely didn't just imagine that shitshow then?'

SAM WINCHESTER

Sam was going to answer what he knew but Annabeth took it upon herself to answer for herself which he let her do so. After all, she knew more about herself than he did after all, even if the familiarity of her was starting to kick in but not understand why. As Ruby just looked at him with wide eyes to Annabeth's annoucement of what she could do, he nodded and shrugged to the woman before listening to what Ruby had to say. He gave her a disgruntled and exasperated look when she commented on how he seemed to be a magnet for people like Annabeth whilst also giving her the look that perfectly said 'oh come on...give me a break'. He hoped she wouldn't insist on still leaving, but that was proven wrong when she yanked her arm from his grip, watched as she took a look at Annabeth's wrists then declared she was out.

He thought he wasn't get any other answers, but Ruby gave them to him making him feel at least relieved she said it was no one Hell bound who yanked Dean out and brought him back. It didn't give him any other answers, but it was something...a tangible lead they could go from at least. With the paper being pulled from her pocket and shoved onto Sam's chest, he instinctively grabbed ahold of it, glancing down at it then back at Ruby. He nodded at her words, "Thanks" he simply replied to her letting her escape from a situation Ruby clearly didn't want to be in. He then looked at Annabeth, "Guess we should head back to the hotel" he suggested. "I'm sorry about her...she can be...touchy at times" he then apologised.

Dean was shivering, the memory of digging himself from his grave flooding back into his head as the familiar sound pierced his ears. His ears were both bleeding, a small drip landing on Mika’s hand as she pulled him up. He groaned under her, trying to shake himself out of the intrusive thoughts enough to speak.

“I um…That was the same thing that happened to me at the gas station…”, he whispered, looking down at all the glass in both his and Mika’s hands and arms. He grabbed her hands, looking them over, “Oh no. Your hands…”

He was in shock, his hands shivering so hard that he could barely hold onto her hand, showing the trauma he was able to push down most of the time. He looked up at Bobby with questioning eyes.

“My guess? Whatever pulled you out is trying to get you back for some reason.”, Bobby replied, his face sympathetic, “The girls can clean up here…why don’t we go find out what this thing is? Take a second to get yourself together.”

Bobby knew not to baby Dean. Hell, he was the one who taught the boy to push down his emotions, if they got in the way, until he was drunk.

“I’ll go wait in the car.”, he muttered, crunching over the glass in the hall as he walked toward the door.



Ruby quickly exited the diner, her boots clacking on the floor as she disappeared into the darkness without a single word more. Annabeth turned back to Sam, staring up at him and then at the paper.

“She seemed nice enough. At this point, I’m not really surprised that people don’t want to be around me. I almost killed my boyfriend.”, she muttered, shrugging her shoulders a bit. She smirked, and pointed at the paper, “Didn’t she want us to go…there?”
Her eyes faded to white suddenly as a small rumble was felt under their feet. It was a reaction she had no control over, as she looked toward the hotel. Flashes hit her mind, more flashes of a school, a man in a trench coat, black eyes, and then blood.

Gasping, she came out of the visions, and her eyes changed back to normal, “Um…Sorry…”

As Esme stood there, she unconsciously gripped her injured arm as she watched Dean, causing her to wince and force herself to relax her hand. He seemed to be traumatized by what had just happened and soon realized he had it worse than all of them when she saw the blood coming from his ears. Her eyes traveled around the hall as Dean spoke about going through this once before.

She couldn’t imagen what could cause such a disruption. Her attention switched to Bobby as he spoke, only being able to nod silently at his assumption. “He’s right. Take a moment to collect yourself. We can take care of things here.” she told Dean with a warm smile. She watched as he left for the door, her thoughts drifting to what could pull someone from the depths of Hell and back to Earth.

She shook her head to clear her thoughts and to find something to clean the mess with, but stopped when she saw and heard Natalia. “I’m still trying to figure out that myself.” she told her. “Whatever it was, has to be some powerful force.”

MIKA AND NATALIA

The moment a bit of Dean's blood from his ear dropped onto her hand, Mika looked down and just wiped it off as it was no big deal, but did inspect his ear by eye briefly as she let Dean tkae his time to refocus his mind and come back round to them all. Hearing that this was what he experienced at the gas station before he found his way to Bobby's, Mika looked on at him shocked but sympathetic. She shook her head as he grabbed her hands and made a comment on them, "Don't worry about me Dean, it's nothing I can't handle" she tried to reassure him so he didn't feel like he had to worry about her. Yet she also could see that shock was very much setting in for him, keeping ahold of his hands to try and give him a sense of security.

She too looked up as Bobby gave his guess of what could have done this and nodded. It honestly made sense that whatever pulled him from Hell was the very same being trying to get his attention in the most excruiating way possible. She helped Dean up onto his feet as Esme spoke to him about dealing with what was here, then for Natalia to come out and ask what was going on. "They're right, but I ain't leaving you and Bobby to summon whatever this is alone, I'm coming with you two. Nat can stay with Esme" she suggested back. "But come on, lets get you cleaned up at least and try and help you out of the shock before it sets in too much" she added. She didn't want to baby him but she didn't want him to think he had to deal with alone either.

Natalia nodded at Esme's words, "Okay, well I'm not imagining what just happened so that's.....something" she shrugged. "Mika, Esme, get him inside I'll hold the door open coz right now he's in no fit state to be in a car. Bobby will wait" she told them both.

SAM

Sam gave Annabeth a somber smile at her words of nearly killing her boyfriend. He didn't believe she would have done but then how could he truly be sure about that? He looked down at the paper she was pointing at and nodded, "so it seem yeah" he replied, before looking at her as she got a vision, her white eyes giving him flashbacks of Lilith, making him realise that Ruby really wasn't lying. He placed a cautious hand on her shoulder waiting for her to come back to reality, which she did. "You okay?" he asked her, walking out of the diner with her as casually as possible.

Dean nodded slowly as they helped him up and into the room. He lightly shrugged them off, looking around at his own hands and arms that were full of glass and mostly just cut up. His hands were still shaking, which was nothing a bit of whiskey couldn’t fix. His mind then went back to Mika telling him she was going to summon this thing with he and Bobby. She shook his head, “Mika. I don’t want you getting involved with whatever this is. We have no idea what we’re walking into, here. It could be literally anything…”

He stepped into the room again, looking around at how shattered everything was. To his happiness and surprise, the whiskey Sam had in the room was still sitting on the table, knocked over but still intact. He stepped over to the table and picked the bottle up, as well as a plastic cup nearby, his hand shaking so hard he could hardly hold it still.

He poured a bit into the cup, spilling more than he poured, and took a drink with a long sigh. They were going to kill this thing, or at least find out what the hell it wanted. But the idea of coming face to face with this thing, and possibly going back to hell, which he remembered every detail of was terrifying.

“We um…we really shouldn’t leave Bobby in the car. He’s ready to…to go…”, he shivered out, his nerves slowing a bit with alcohol. He held up his arms and shrugged, trying to look tough, “I’m fine. Really.”



Annabeth nodded at him asking if she was okay. She shook her head free of the last of the vision, and took a deep breath, his touch calming her like usual. As they left the diner, she realized where the school was, based on the visions and voices in her head. Turning toward the direction she felt, she turned to Sam.

“Any idea why she would send us to a school that is literally down the road?”, she asked, pointing toward a school sign directly down the street from them.

She could feel the power coming from within, and she decided against telling Sam. Instead, she brushed her hand against his arm, and took a deep breath, “Do you have anything to kill them with? I mean…I can do it."



Samael stood in the cafeteria of the closed elementary school, stretching his wings as he stared around at the demons near him. He hated working with these disgusting animals, but it was a means to an end. The quicker he could take care of the problem, the quicker he could get back to heaven, and worry less about them…and more about himself.

Yes, he was petty. It was part of his charm.

He smirked as a demon stepped up in front of him, thoroughly brainwashed to work for him, for the time being, “Did you make sure the doors were unlocked? I want to make this as easy as possible.”

“Yes, sir. They should be arriving soon, and we will take her…should be quick and easy, considering. I have some guys who have been watching the girl. She doesn’t have a clue who she is, or what she is, as far as we can tell.”, the demon explained, his face blank as he spoke. Samael nodded, laughing with a bright smile.

“And the Winchester?”, he asked.

“They left together, but it’s the younger of the two. We can dispatch him, quickly, and without any of your kind to back him up.”, the demon explained, fear on his face as he did so.

“Do not underestimate his effect on your kind. Trust me. I’ll be back to care for the poor boy, but not a hair on the girl’s hair shall be harmed…got it?”, Samael snapped, causing the demon to nod, “Good. Deal with it, and bring her to me alive. I want to watch the life drain from her eyes…you know…for the prophesy.”

With a flutter of wings, he disappeared.

Samael

Samael stood in the cafeteria of the closed elementary school, stretching his wings as he stared around at the demons near him. He hated working with these disgusting animals, but it was a means to an end. The quicker he could take care of the problem, the quicker he could get back to heaven, and worry less about them…and more about himself.

Yes, he was petty. It was part of his charm.

He smirked as a demon stepped up in front of him, thoroughly brainwashed to work for him, for the time being, “Did you make sure the doors were unlocked? I want to make this as easy as possible.”

“Yes, sir. They should be arriving soon, and we will take her…should be quick and easy, considering. I have some guys who have been watching the girl. She doesn’t have a clue who she is, or what she is, as far as we can tell.”, the demon explained, his face blank as he spoke. Samael nodded, laughing with a bright smile.

“And the Winchester?”, he asked.

“They left together, but it’s the younger of the two. We can dispatch him, quickly, and without any of your kind to back him up.”, the demon explained, fear on his face as he did so.

“Do not underestimate his effect on your kind. Trust me. I’ll be back to care for the poor boy, but not a hair on the girl’s hair shall be harmed…got it?”, Samael snapped, causing the demon to nod, “Good. Deal with it, and bring her to me alive. I want to watch the life drain from her eyes…you know…for the prophesy.”

With a flutter of wings, he disappeared.

Hera
Hera, currently a CEO of a successful fashion beautique waited in a very beautiful area of Heaven, waiting for Samael. With his approach, she tapped on the table. "It's a wonderful place here, nice and peaceful, beautiful, almost like my sense of style. I'd dare say it approaches the wonder and majesty of Olympus in my hey day. Thank you for the invitation, but why am I here? Everything's quiet for now. Zeus is away, as are all the other gods, for the moment."
Hera waited for a response from Samael, absent mindedly tapping the table with her rose colored finger tips. She was not dressed for style at the moment, but for comfort. However she clearly had some kind of make up on, were it not for that fact it would seem like she was waiting for her date.

Esme nodded to Natalia and helped Mika get Dean into the room. As they made their way into the room, she could feel how badly he was still shaking, but said nothing. When he lightly shrugged them off, she watched him for a moment as he looked at his shaking hands, then went for the whiskey. She took this moment to cross the room to the “Privacy wall” and knelt down and carefully dug through the debris for her phone she had dropped earlier as she listened to Dean talk to Mika.

She had to agree with him that what they find could be literally anything. She gave a hiss when a shard of glass cut her finger as she moved it off her phone. She intently brought her finger to her mouth before picking up her phone with her other hand. She stood to her feet just as Dean took his drink. Esme looked at him as she took her finger from her mouth, seeing his wheels turning before he spoke of Bobby and that he was fine.

She sighed as she closed the gap a bit between him and the two women, putting her phone in her pocket. “You sure?” she asked as she watched his tough act. “Because you really don’t look like you are.” she continued. She studied him, watching his nerves calming from the whiskey.

MIKA AND NATALIA

Mika gave Dean the look of 'you ain't changing my mind' when he refused to let her go with them to summon whatever it was that was causing so many problems for Dean. "Dean, if you think for a single moment I'm staying here you got another thing coming. You know how stubborn I can get, it's not worth fighting me on this. I'm coming with, even if I remain out of the way when you and Bobby summon this thing. But I'm coming" she told him as she got the help from Esme to then guide him back to the room.

As Dean lightly shrugged her and Esme off of him as they got back into the room, Mika couldn't help but frown slightly disapporovingly but knew it was hardly surprising that he did such an action. Instead she looked down at her own arms and hands and pulled out what glass she could, feeling thankful none of it went in deep which would result in more scarring than she already sported on her body. She watched Dean carefully as well, seeing how much he was shaking as he tried to pour himself some whiskey and drink it to calm his nerves.

When he finally turned to them and said they shouldn't linger here, she rose an eyebrow at him as if to say 'seriously?' whilst Esme expressed vocally what she was thinking. She may not fully trust the woman but she was at least glad that they were thinkin the same thing on this matter. "She's right, you're not alright. You're far from alright, Bobby can wait but before you're going anywhere you need that glass removed from your hands" she insisted, backing Esme up.

Natalia had followed them all into the room and as much as she didn't want to agree and hang up on her half brother, she couldn't help but do exactly that. "That makes three against one Dean because I agree with them" she pointed out. "I can message Bobby to wait five minutes whilst Mika at least sorts you out." she added.

SAM WINCHESTER

Sam was glad that she seemed to be okay, but there was still a litte bit of worry about her. He glanced where she was pointing making him glance down at the address on the paper then back up at where she was pointing again before making a little 'huh' noise in acknowledgement of how close the address truly was. "Not fully sure but if it's Ruby, it'll be a good reason. I wouldn't be surprised if it was demon related so try and stay out of trouble and behind me. I know you can clearly look after yourself but I don't want you getting hurt either" he explained to her.

"I've got a little plan up my sleeve, I just need you to trust me though okay?" he replied to her question, knowing that normally he would take any kind of weapons he could with him to keep up the ruse but something told him he would be able to do what he needed to without too much judgement from Annabeth. "Lets get going" he told her, walking towards the school.