Watching the smoke of my cigarette usually gives me some confront, but not today.

"Hello, Josh" Said Margo, she is the waitress in this dump that people calls a 'restaurant'

"Hello, Margo… The usual please" I say, faking a smile, while she walks away to the kitchen. I've stayed too long in this town, as a hunter I want to go away, but there is always a part of me that want to stay, I look thought the windows and wonder how they don't know about those things that lurks in the darkness. Sincerely I envy them.

"Thank you" I say, while she places my plate with scrambled eggs and bacon on the table. It's been two days already I was supposed to meet with another hunter, Jerry the mouse.

"Hey Big J!"

"Jerry" I say in a low tone "You are late, way too late"

"Sorry about that" He said with a big smile, Jerry the mouse is a short hunter and when I say short I mean it, he is almost a midget… A clever nickname right? He sits on a chair facing me and he smiles again "I've run into some difficulties on the road"

"Difficulties?" I ask putting my cigarette out in the ashtray "A Demon again?"

"Yes" He says opening his case on the table, I eat my eggs slowly; I have no hurry now that Jerry is here "I think they've been tracking us down all the way to Kansas"

"Those fuckers" I mutter in a low tone, Jerry smiles again, he knows I hate those demons because they are sneaky "Do you have it?"

"Yeah, a magical claps-knife" He laughs and put it on the table

"What is so funny about it?" I ask taking it on my hands, his eyes turn black and I realize this isn't Jerry. "I see" I say smiling, I should've known that they got Jerry

"Aren't you afraid?" It asks me

"Should I?" I say smiling; Demons think they are smarter than hunters "You are the one that should be afraid"

It laughs "It's true what they say about you" It makes a dramatic pause and get his face close to mine, may I say…It really needs to take a bath "You are suicidal, like your old man"

I laugh, it's really funny how it's thinks it's knows me. I guess by it confused face, I puzzled it. I stand up after putting my clap-knife on my pocket "Come on, let's settle this on the road"

"NO!" It's screams and twists his open hands towards me, I guess it tried to throw me against the wall, but it didn't work.

"Heads up, Jerry" I say pointing to the celling where I placed a devil's trap, I never get tired of drawing those things "it's a trap!" I mock it, I guess it didn't like it, I was lucky that the inn was empty this afternoon, I could paint it and nobody noticed it there.

"YOU!" It screamed furious "RELEASE ME!"

I smile while reading my book "Exorcizo te, immundissime spiritus, omnis incursion adversarii, omne phantasma, ominis legio, in nomine domini nostrum Jesu Christi eradicare, et effugare ab hoc plasmate Dei"

"Stop!" It screams "If you exorcise me, Jerry will die!"

I stop and clean my throat "So what?" I continue smiling, Jerry maybe dead already "I'm a hunter"

"You idiot!" It screams desperate "He is your friend!"

"A demon with conscience, that is a new thing to exorcise" I laugh, Jerry is dead, nobody can smell that rotten and still be alive, I realized as he stepped close to me "Ipse tibi imperat, qui te de supernis caelorum in infeora terrae demergi praecepit. Ipse tibi imperat, qui mari, ventis, et tempestativus impersvit." I watched while it twisted and shouted like an animal, I stopped and lit my cigarette.

"You son of a bitch!" It screamed again "When I come back, I'll tear your heart out"

"Good luck finding it, demon" I say smiling "Audi ergo, et time, satana, inimice fidei, hostis generis humanis, mortis adductor, vitae raptor, justitiae declinator, malorum radix, fomes vitiorum, seductor hominum, proditor gentium, incitator invidiae, origo avaritiae, cause discordiae, exitator dolorum;"

"There will be others, Josh…" It says grasping for breath "They know what you are up to…"

"Good" I say "Then, they can start to fear me" I smile and its face twists again "quid stas, et resistis, cum scias. Christum dominum vias tuas pedere? Illum metue, wui in Issac immolates est, in Joseph venumdatus, in sgno occisus, in homine crucifixus, deinde inferni triumphator fuit"

"My brother will come for you; he will kill you… many times"

"Sequentes cruces fiant in fronte obsessi. Recede ergo in nomine Patris et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti: Da locum Spiritui Sancto, per hoc signum sanctae Cruci Jesu Christi Domini nostri: Qui cum Patre et eodem Spiritu Sancto vivit et regnat Deus. Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen"

As soon as I finished, it smoked out of Jerry, leaving his body on the chair "Big J" He said smiling, he was badly hurt

"Jerry?" I asked, it was surprising, he was alive…. Barely "Hang on!" I said calling 911 "I'll call an ambulance"

"Big J, they are after you…" He struggled with words coughing blood on the floor

"I've already dealt with Demons before, Jerry" I said after giving the address to the lady over the phone "There's nothing new about them"

"No…" He said smiling full of hope "Angels… Are after… You"

I laughed and helped Jerry to walk thought the door "There's no such a thing"

"Yes…" He said coughing blood again while I rested his back against the wall "They are looking for a tracker, a good one"

"You are just hallucinating, Jerry" I said a little uncertain, Fuck! Angels? How do I kill those things?


"I'll have to tell you Mr. Coin…" Said the doctor padding on my shoulder "He may not make it through the night"

"I see" I say sitting on a bench after the doctor went away, Jerry is dying, I guess I could call some favors with some others hunters, presuming they are alive. He is a fellow hunter after all "I'm sorry, Jerry"

"Tough night, hun?" Asked a girl next to me, she is pretty, I breathe deeply "That tough, hun?"

"My friend is dying" I say, but really Jerry is not a friend of mine, he just sells me some good hunting material

"I see, look" She says placing her hand on my shoulder "If I said I could heal him?"

"I would say, only a miracle could save him now" I said looking at her eyes, she is different; she looked purer than any girl I ever talked to

"I could heal him" She said smiling 'Demon!' I thought and smiled, I'll play along and kill her like a good hunter would do, at least like a smart hunter

"How can you when the doctors couldn't do a thing?" I already know the answer, a deal right? My soul for his life, when did demons become so clever to make deals on the waiting room of an ICU? A perfect place, Demons… Like I said sneaky.

"I'm an angel" She says, I was surprised "Don't be afraid, we need you Jeremy"

"How do you know my name?" I asked, I never used my real name since I became a hunter, people called me only 'J' because there was the way I wanted to be known as hunter

"We know it all Jeremy, what happened to your Father, your mother and to you" She continued and her eyes sparked blue for a second "We can save your friend if you track down a man for us"

"So you know I'm a hunter" I say, I'm in disadvantage here, I know nothing about angels "And a good tracker"

"Do we have a deal?" She asked me smiling; I looked at her for one second 'I need to buy time, until I know what is going on'

"Yes" I said, for now I'll play your game, but could her be an angel? How is such a thing be possible? "Heal Jerry first"

"No" She said chucking softly "If we heal Jerry we won't have nothing to bargain, Jeremy"

"Then will you let him die?" I asked, I should've know that this is no angel, maybe it was a demon after all, I could stab her with a silver knife and run, or play along and kill it after trapping it

"No, we'll heal him, but not fully"

"So do your thing" I said standing up, I felt like a pawn in a greater game

"We already did" She said "Now you do your part of the deal"

"Yes" I muttered, I always hated to be ordered around "Why can't you track him down?"

"He is hidden from us" She continued showing me a video of a man in a trench coat "His name is Castiel"

"Castiel?" I smiled; he looked harmless "Is he dangerous?"

"Very dangerous, he already killed many of us" She said sad; I hid my smile, so this Castiel Guy knows how to kill an angel? I guess I just made a new friend.

"I know where this Laundromat is"