Sam was sitting in the driver's seat of the impala when he heard the flutter of wings, the trademark sound of an angel arriving. Without looking up from the text he was sending to Dean, Sam said, "Hey Cas."
"Sorry darling, wrong angel."
Sam jumped and turned to look in the backseat. He was flabbergasted! His mouth hung open as he stared openly at the angel he thought was dead.
"How, how, h-ow.." Sam stuttered.
"Close your mouth sweetheart, before I put something in it."
Sam snapped his mouth closed and continued to look at the angel. After several awkward moments of them staring at one another Sam spoke up.
"Uh, well, I want to thank you, Balthazar. If you hadn't given Dean and I the Fate killing blade we would never have saved Cas from Lucifer."
"Don't mention it mate. I had a feeling you might be needing that blade before long."
Sam's phone chimed, alerting him to a new text message, most likely a return text from Dean. Sam was suppose to be Dean's lookout and let him know when the owner of the house arrived back home. They knew from watching the homeowner for the past couple of days, that she never left for more than 30 minutes at a time. Which they were fast approaching the closing of that window.
The brothers suspected her of being apart of a coven that was placing curses on the people in the town whenever a member of the coven felt wronged.
Sam looked down at his phone, and sure enough a text from Dean was waiting on him. "Is the coast clear?" Sam looked around and replied back. "Yes. Hurry."
Sam put his phone down and turned back to face Balthazar, but no one was in the backseat. Sam looked around outside, trying to spot the angel. Dean opened the passenger side door and got in, startling Sam in the process.
"Let's go Sam."
Sam looked around one last time and then started the car and drove off.
"Find anything?" Sam asked.
"Nada. Zilch. I mean it was weird, I'm sure she's the head witch, but I found nothing. She has to be practicing at another location."
Sam drove them to the local motel, the Familiar Inn.
"I swear this town is ran by witches with a sense of humor." Dean said under his breath.
The brothers climbed out of the car. As Sam was walking to the back of the impala to get his overnight back out of the trunk he noticed something on the backseat. He open the back door to get a better look. It was a single dandelion.
"What on earth?" Sam whispered.
"Whatcha got there?" Dean asked.
"Weird, it's a dandelion."
Dean's eyebrows shot up. "How in the world did it get there?"
"Uh, no clue." Sam said dropping the dandelion on the ground. He wasn't sure why he hadn't told Dean about Balthazar yet. He felt like something was off. Hell maybe he was hallucinating or Lucifer was in his head again. But even if that was the case, why Balthazar?
The boys grabbed their items out of the trunk and went to check in.
Roughly an hour later Sam was finishing his turn in the shower. He was drying his hair and approaching his bed when he noticed there was a dandelion on his bed.
"Uh, Dean."
"Yea?"
"Did you put that on my bed?"
"Put what?" Dean asked as he was looked over his shoulder to Sam. "Hell no! What gives? Is that thing following you? Do you think the coven is on to us?"
"No I don't think so Dean. Compared to the curses against the rest of the town, it doesn't fit."
"Maybe it's warning." Dean approached the bed. "We should get rid of it. You already touched the other one, so you throw it out."
"Dude! Really?" Sam said sounding peeved. He snatched the flower off the bed and headed for the door. It wasn't until he was several steps away from the room that he remembered he was only wearing a towel. He rushed back to the room. The door was locked. He knocked. "Dean? Let me in."
Dean's face appeared in the window next to door. "Nah-uh. I'm not letting you back in until you get rid of that thing. Bury it for good measure."
Sam looked at Dean incredulously. "This isn't funny Dean. I don't have on any clothes. And bury? What good will that do? Besides," Sam spread his arms out, "no clothes, no supplies. How am I sup-" just then his towel fell.