"How long does it take for someone to wake up from this?" the voice was fuzzy and quiet.
"It can take up to a week for a normal human," this one was more gravely.
"Good job I'm not just human then," Tannia mumbled and moved gingerly, realising she was in a bed and covered in a blanket. She opened her eyes to see Sam sat in a chair next to the bed, and Castiel stood by the window of the room, both of them staring at her, "well that's not creepy," she said a bit louder and cringed as she pushed herself onto her arms and slid up the bed to lean against the headboard, dropping her head back and closing her eyes as she rested a hand on her chest where Cas and Dean had felt her soul.
"How do you feel?" Sam asked gently.
"If you'd get the number of that truck, I'd be very grateful," Tannia replied as her hand glowed blue for a few moments over her chest, "otherwise, just peachy," she sighed in relief and looked around the room she was in, it looked like a cabin. She turned to Sam and Cas and raised her eyebrows, "where are we? I thought I'd come to on the side of the road."
Sam looked scandalised, "dude! No. Why would we just leave you there? I mean, Dean kinda wanted to but I wouldn't let him, and Cas felt guilty," Tannia looked at Castiel who shrugged sheepishly, it was a weird look on the angel, "so we brought you here. It's a hunter's cabin."
"'Hunters' as in deer and birds or us?" Tannia asked looking around the room again.
"Us," Sam said, offering her a bottle of water which Tannia reached for gladly, taking a couple of small swigs before handing it back and sighing, "so you really have a lot of powers the same as Cas?"
"Yeah, healing being the main one," she grinned and cringed, "it's a fun one to explain if I get picked up by doctors, so I do my best to not be anywhere near them."
Castiel's lip twitched into a smile and Sam grinned as they heard the door downstairs open, "that's Dean back with food, hope you like Chinese," Sam said standing up and stretching.
"Well now I just feel spoilt," Tannia said, carefully swinging her legs out of bed and standing, noticing how Cas and Sam leant towards her as if ready to catch her before she waved them away and followed them down the stairs and into a living room with a fire in the grate.
Dean was pulling boxes out of a bag on the table and glanced up as the three of them came into the room, "so, sleeping beauty awakens," he said tightly.
"Where?" Tannia asked glancing around, "why did no one tell me we're in the Grimm tales?" Sam sniggered and Dean seemed to relax a bit, "oh, you mean me? Dude, I'm flattered," Tannia winked and laughed.
Dean rubbed the back of his neck and smiled slightly, "sorry about that."
"S'fine," Tannia waved her hand dismissively, "did you guys leave my bike behind?"
"No," Cas said, "it is outside, I brought it with us. Your bag is on the sofa."
Tannia nodded and wandered to her bag, "what, you guys didn't go through my stuff?" she said in surprise as the lock on her bag was intact.
Sam looked scandalised, again, and spluttered so Castiel answered, "no, a breach of privacy would be too much after the soul fiasco," as Dean sheepishly turned away. Tannia nodded and pulled a key on a chain out of her top before opening up her bag and pulling out a leather-bound book.
"That your journal?" Sam asked with interest, his face smoothing out and looking curious as Tannia nodded, undoing the knot tying it together with one hand before flicking through it and passing it to him at a page titled 'Witches'.
"Dean said you wanted the info I have, it'll take a while to go through unless I summarise for you, but if you still want it, there it is."
Sam eagerly dove into the book as Dean passed out the food, carefully propping the book open on the table as he broke apart his chopsticks and began to eat, Dean passed Tannia a carton of food with a pair of chopsticks and a teasing grin without asking if she wanted a fork and dug his own out of the bag, complete with plastic fork.
Tannia pulled apart her chopsticks and rubbed them together to remove the splinters before opening the carton of food Dean had passed her and began eating easily with the chopsticks, hearing Sam snort at the look of 'well fuck you then' on Dean's face and catching Castiel's lip twitching in amusement.
They ate quietly for a while before Sam started grilling her with questions about the things in her journal.
"Ok, in the most basic terms," Tannia said after swallowing her food, "Elementals always come in groups of four, so you've got fire, water, air and earth; if one of them dies the group gain the powers of whatever element died in the sense of that power goes into the body of the nearest living one of their group. If three of them die the remaining one either goes mad and pretty much explodes with the force of power roiling inside them or they can distribute them to three new people. Apparently it's not an easy task," Tannia frowned in sympathy as Sam gawked slightly, "and if all four of them die at once, then the element powers just latch onto another group. Witches like me, the run of the mill kind, are born into families normally, same as any other kid, but they have weird things happen around them from birth, then when they're about five they get taken or sent away and get trained in their magic."
"Like 'Harry Potter'?" Dean asked with a snort through his food.
Tannia grinned, "less trains and secret castles, but essentially, yeah. Faery and Shadow witches tend to be born in families of the same kind, so theirs is kinda a familial trait."
Sam nodded with a 'huh' and asked to flick through the rest of the journal, Tannia shrugged her approval as she chewed another mouthful of noodles and Dean moved her journal so he could see it too.
Castiel was sat next to Tannia on the other side from Sam and he raised his head from staring at the table to stare at her, Tannia raised her eyebrow at him and gave him a questioning look, "how is it that until I touched your soul I could not sense you?"
Tannia squirmed slightly as Dean's head snapped towards her and Sam let out a huff, "well, we're kinda born with sigils on our bones, and in our blood, as weird as that sounds. Magic is a natural thing and it protects us wherever we go. But those of us who are less inclined to help and more likely to hinder aren't as hidden."
"So, what, if we come across someone who wants to hurt us Cas will be able to tell?" Sam asked, leaning back in his chair.
Tannia nodded, "in the sense of he'll feel uneasy around them, but more 'cus he can feel bad things radiating from them rather than 'cus he can't sense them at all," she smiled apologetically at Cas. "How long was I actually out?"
Sam glanced at his watch, "about four hours, took us two of those to get here and then you just kinda lay there looking a bit too dead for my liking."
Tannia pulled a face, "sorry to have been a burden," Sam spluttered against her apology but she held up her hand, "I'll get on my way then, thanks for not leaving me at the side of the road," she stood up and flipped her journal closed before Dean put his hand on top of it. Tannia glared at him.
"Woah, so you're just gonna up and leave?"
"Why shouldn't I? I've told you what you need to get by."
Dean glanced at Sam who was giving him a weird look before moving his hand off Tannia's and shrugging, "I guess I feel bad for the whole," he waved a hand at him, Cas and Tannia's chest, "thing. If you wanna stick around a bit and y'know, gather back your strength the least we can do is look out for you."
Tannia blinked at him and looked at Sam and Castiel, Cas was staring at Dean, who was glaring at Tannia, and Sam shrugged, showing he was fine with it. Tannia sat back down slowly and took a drink of water from the bottle Sam had given her earlier before shrugging and leaning back in her chair, "I'm fully healed, benefits of magic," she said waggling her fingers about, "but its been a while since I worked with people, so I guess it won't do me any harm seeing as I could get some decent pointers from you guys," she grinned.
"Cool. There's only two bedrooms in this place though, so you'll have to share with Sammy," Dean said while flicking open her journal again.
"That's cool, I'll sleep on the couch," both Tannia and Sam said at the same time, earning them a weird look from Dean.
"The couch ain't that big," Sam punched his arm lightly as Tannia raised her eyebrows and laughed, "ow! Okay I got it jeez I was making a joke!"
"You take the bed upstairs," Sam said glaring at Dean a second longer, "I'll sleep on the couch. I wouldn't feel right making you sleep on that thing."
"How long are we gonna be here?" Tannia asked, glancing at Dean who mumbled 'about a week, I dunno' "well then its only fair we take it in turns, from the look on your face that thing isn't very comfy," she said nudging her head towards the couch against the back wall. Sam cringed and nodded as Tannia chuckled.
They spent the rest of the night talking about the things in Tannia's journal and the different things they'd hunted over bottles of beer and the fortune cookies from the Chinese. Tannia laughing a bit too much when all three of them read 'a new friend comes your way' and Dean looked very confused and mumbling about it being a duff batch.
Dean started to yawn and stood up, "well I dunno about you guys but I'm off to bed. Cas?" Castiel stood up and followed Dean upstairs. Tannia raised her eyebrow and glanced at Sam who'd cringed.
"I really hope you have earplugs. You're gonna need them," he said to her questioning look.
"Or, y'know, I could just put a soundproof barrier around the room they're in," Tannia shrugged and flipped through John's journal, which, much to Dean's displeasure, Sam had insisted on sharing with her. Sam blinked and shrugged, mumbling 'that too' and went back to questioning her about the things she'd hunted.
Tannia woke up with the sun streaming through her window, and quietly got dressed before creeping downstairs, unsure as to whether anyone else was awake. She peered into the room Dean and Cas had claimed through the key hole on the way past and saw the two of them asleep in the bed.
When she reached the foot of the stairs she pulled on her bike leathers quietly, then eyed her way through the living room to see Sam lying on his back with his arm over his eyes and tried to guess the best way to get to the front door. She began to creep around the back of the couch when Sam's hand grabbed her arm and she stopped herself from breaking it by grabbing the back of the couch.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sam asked quietly, moving his arm so he could look at Tannia out of the corner of his eye, "I thought you were fine staying." Tannia blushed slightly as he released her arm and sat up and rubbed the back of her neck embarrassedly. "You realise Dean would just find you again if you decided to bolt, and when he did he'd probably shoot first and ask questions later."
"That requires you to find me, I've got a few tricks which mean you wouldn't," Tannia huffed and jumped over the couch to sit on it as Sam swung around and waved his hand at the spare seat, "why would he care? You guys have your team and I work on my own. I only said that to keep him happy last night. Besides it's not like he'd miss me, I ain't exactly 'lass of the hour' with your big brother."
Sam shrugged and moved to the kitchen to put the kettle on the stove, "there's not much I can say to discourage you, 'cus that's the truth really. But it'd be nice if you said goodbye first," Sam grinned at her while leaning against the counter.
"You make it sound like I'm some sort of one night stand who's trying to sneak away with the walk of shame," Tannia rolled her eyes as Sam spluttered, "chill, its just an observation," she sighed and stood up, pulling her bike leathers off and folding them onto the table she'd picked them up off and flopping back onto the couch as Sam watched her.
"So, what, you were really gonna leave if no one caught you?" he said, turning back to remove the kettle just before it started whistling, glancing toward the stairs but not hearing anything.
Tannia nodded and shrugged as he handed her a cup of coffee, she blew on it distractedly and glanced around the room properly as Sam sat down at the table instead of the couch. Tannia dropped her head onto the back of the couch and sighed. "You guys have enough bad things to deal with without Dean constantly checking to see if I'm on your side," she said quietly.
Sam opened his mouth to reply but heard someone stumbling down the stairs and Dean swear loudly, he saw Tannia smirk but brush it off her face quickly as Dean rubbed his eye with the heel of his hand, wandering into the kitchen with his top off and jeans missing a belt. "I thought I smelt coffee. Sammy, you're a saint," Dean said, clapping his hand on Sam's back and causing him to splutter around the mouthful of coffee that he'd just taken. Tannia laughed and sipped at her own slowly as Dean collapsed next to her on the couch.
"Sorry if me and Cas kept you up last night," Dean said, his eyes twinkling in a way that definitely said he wasn't sorry.
"S'ok, it's not exactly hard to soundproof a room," Tannia grinned back, waggling her fingers at him again and laughing as Dean frowned and Sam snorted.
"That's unfair," Dean mumbled into his mug.
"Sorry sweetie, you're gonna have to try a lot harder to mess with me if you wanna ruffle my feathers," Tannia smiled sweetly as Castiel flickered into the room.
"But, you do not have wings," Cas said while glancing at Dean, Tannia laughed and Dean just rubbed his hand over his face.
"I like your sense of humour, angel," Tannia chuckled when she got her breath back, Castiel's lips twitched slightly and Sam grinned from the kitchen, "so, seeing as I'm apparently stuck with you guys, what's the plan?"
Sam joined them in the living room and unfolded a map, pointing out the direction they've been taking over the past month and watching as Tannia pointed out the towns she'd seen them in, it turned out to be a lot more than five in total, which Dean snapped at her.
Tannia shrugged, "well, y'know, I wasn't exactly gonna tell you I'd been in that many places with you, seeing as the majority of those you guys were there when I pulled into town then moved on to somewhere else, its just these past five that you guys have shown up in after me," she said dragging her finger through the towns in question, "but you guys aren't tracking anything in particular? Just drifting about and killing whatever's messing with the locals?" she frowned as Sam nodded and Dean raised his eyebrows at her.
"OK spill, what do you know that we don't?"
Tannia pulled a face at his tone but stared at the map, following a path but not saying where it went, "I got sent over here 'cus apparently something was up. I've ended up on the same path as you guys for so long I figured you were hunting it too, save for when I thought you were hunting me, but apparently you're not," she shrugged and chewed her bottom lip gently in thought.
"So you gonna tell us what you've been sent to gank?" Dean asked impatiently after the silence stretched on for a couple of minutes.
Tannia grinned and glanced at him as Sam snorted in amusement, "dude, she can rile you up better than I can, I think she should stick around so it's fairer on me."
"He's just easy to rile up," Tannia said with a mischievous glint to her eye, "but I bet I could get under your skin too, gigantor," Sam narrowed his eyes at her as Dean smirked, "but, yeah, what I've been tracking, I'm not entirely sure what it is, the guys who sent me over here were pretty vague as to what it could be. Someone said demon infestation, someone else said a vamp nest, and then others just shrugged when I asked what I'd be hunting but said to be prepared."
Tannia then relayed how she'd been briefed on a disturbance around an area she pointed to on the map; Sam frowned at the scale of the area she pointed to as she shrugged and said it was vague but that's all she'd been given, so she'd been travelling that way and picking up hunts on the way so she didn't get bored.
"Could it be some of those witches you said preferred to work with demons?" Castiel asked from behind her, Tannia blinked and shrugged.
"It's a possibility."
"Why aren't there any omens?" Dean asked, shooting a proud glance at Cas, "I mean, whenever something big's going down there's always omens, right?"
"Witches don't tend to show off like demons and angels, no offence," she flicked her eyes to Castiel, "we just pretty much get on with stuff and then melt away again, I mean, you guys didn't actually notice owt was off with me till I told you what I was, did you?" Sam shrugged at Dean as he narrowed his eyes.
"So how do we get this over with?"
"Same way you would with normal humans," Tannia shrugged, "no need for silver bullets or anything fancy like that," she frowned, "as long as they've not been stupid," she went quiet and stared at the map without saying anything else for a few minutes as Sam and Dean exchanged uneasy glances.
"Stupid like…?" Sam prompted and Tannia blinked.
"Oh, sorry, stupid like… Like putting certain barriers up around themsen to stop bullets and the like harming them. If that's the case then you'll need swords that have been hand crafted, the barriers only count for weapons that have been created in factories and bullets of any kind."
Dean blinked as Sam gave her a look that said 'that was simplified for our benefit wasn't it?' and she shrugged. Tannia then went on to explain what should be looked out for if it was a coven of witches who'd joined up with demons, while Sam got his laptop out and did a few searches, humming slightly as he closed the lid down and reported that there was nothing like what Tannia had suggested happening around the area.
"Well that's that idea shot down, any other ideas, princess?" Dean asked rubbing his hand over his face and scowling at the ceiling, Tannia frowned at him and went to reply but CastielS cut her off.
"Perhaps it is the case, but they have not started whatever they plan to yet?" Dean glared at Cas as Tannia's frown turned to a look of surprise which she directed at the angel, "Dean, you saw Tannia's soul," Tannia flinched slightly, "so you know she is of a trustable nature, perhaps we should give her the benefit of the doubt?"
Dean grumbled and left the room ad Tannia murmured a 'thank you' to Cas, who bowed his head and flitted out of the room saying he was going to check the surrounding area and gather some firewood.
Dean stomped back into the room a few minutes later as Tannia and Sam were discussing routes to take to get to where they were going. "If they've not started anything yet I don't see why we have to rush," Dean mumbled as he twisted the top off a beer bottle and took a deep swig, moving to stand next to Sam and look at the map as Tannia paused and shrugged.
"It's up to you, man, but once it starts it'll all hit at once. Its not like a demon thing where there's fuckloads of build up to give you chance to get there, you need to stop it as soon as you can, preferably before it all kicks off."
"That's why you were trying to leave this morning?" Sam asked, then cringed as Dean exploded.
"You were WHAT?"
Tannia pulled a face and threw a quick glare at Sam, "I was trying to leave to get back on whatever wild goose hunt I've been sent on. My supervisor wouldn't have shipped me over here if there wasn't something that I needed to check up on."
"So what, you got sent out here alone? What, are you some kind of fucking super witch and you've not told us that either?" Dean glared at her, Tannia stood up and returned the glare, clenching her fists slowly.
"If I was I'd just bust your chops right here and now and leave, but in case you've forgotten my soul is 'too pure' to hurt someone just 'cus they're being an arsehole."
Sam jumped up and quickly placed himself between the two of them as Castiel flickered back into the room, "hey, enough already," Dean carried on glaring at Tannia.
"Cas, did you know the witch was aiming to leave?"
"Yes," Cas nodded, "I saw no need to stop her as she is no danger to anyone save those she is hunting."
Dean turned his glare to Castiel briefly then looked at Sam, "so, why'd you stop her?"
"Curiosity," Sam bit back, "I'm as worried about all this as you but at least I don't go around waving my macho-ness on a stick which reads 'asshole'," Tannia snorted and folded her arms, looking away from Dean and inspecting the door frame to the stairs.
"I did not see such a flag," Cas said while frowning, causing Tannia to laugh and Dean to stare at him with a very confused face. Tannia shook herself and the last of the tension left her body.
"Seriously, I love your sense of humour," she said, grinning at Cas as she moved to help him put some more wood into the fire.
Dean threw a pillow at Sam who snorted and jumped back into being awake, "keeping you up, are we?" Tannia grinned from behind her beer and went back to talking with Castiel. Sam grumbled about the couch and flopped his head back again, "well you're gonna have to man up 'cus she," Dean pointed to Tannia, "is apparently a flight risk so you're having to sleep on that again tonight."
"Sam can sleep on the bed," Tannia said, glancing at the younger Winchester, "I don't need much sleep. More than an angel of course but not as much as you guys. If you're that bothered I'm more than happy to be babysat by you guys in turns," she finished with a grumble.
Dean looked between the other three in the room and shrugged, "fine, I'll take first watch and Cas can take second. Sammy can get his beauty sleep," he huffed out a surprised breath as Sam launched the pillow at him and it hit him in the side of the head, making Tannia laugh and Castiel quirk his lips into a smile. Sam stood up and bid the rest of them goodnight as he walked up the stairs and they heard the bedroom door close. Dean stared at Tannia and she wriggled slightly under his glare.
"If you have a question you can ask it you know, I'll answer if I can," she mumbled and curled up in the chair she was sat in, flicking her gaze to Dean who softened his glare and coughed.
"Sorry, I'm just used to girls coming into this group and either dying or fucking everything up," Tannia scoffed and glared at him slightly, "I'm not saying that's what you're gonna do," Dean leant forward and put his arms on his knees, "but with a track record like we've got you can't fault a guy for being wary."
Tannia regarded him quietly then nodded, "yeah, I guess you can't be blamed for that," she smiled softly and watched the fire flickering in the grate.
Cas glanced between them and stood up, "I will leave you to your, bonding," and then flickered out of the room, Dean looked appalled and gaped like a fish as Tannia laughed behind her hand, trying to stifle it to not disturb Sam.
"That… He didn't…" Dean floundered, causing Tannia to laugh harder and give up trying to stifle it. After a few moments she managed to calm down and wiped at her eyes.
"I get it, its fine, awkward angel politics and all that," she waved her hand, "not the first time I've dealt with them, and hey, I like that one, he's a lot less stiff than the others," she chuckled again.
"Yeah well hands off, that angel's taken," Dean said with a frown.
"Dude, I wasn't meaning it like that, I get that you and him have a thing, you don't exactly hide it," Dean blushed and took a swig from his beer as Tannia smiled smugly, "I guess he just thought that seeing as you were pulling the stick out of your own arse he'd leave you to it so you'd not feel like you had to keep the macho bull up," Tannia grinned and finished the last of her beer.
Dean pulled a face at her but smiled, "yeah, probably. I might've been wrong about you, y'know."
Sam stumbled down in the morning to find Tannia curled up in the chair with a blanket over her, sleeping comfortably and Cas reading through her journal.
"I thought she didn't need sleep?" Sam whispered with a grin. Castiel shrugged and didn't take his eyes from the pages he was scanning, turning a page as Sam made coffee and pushed some bread into the toaster. When the toast popped back up Tannia jumped into wakefulness and looked around blearily, giving a very confused glance to the blanket and Cas, who was now staring at her.
"When Dean and I swapped watch you fell asleep, so I put the blanket around you and read your journal, I hope you do not mind?" Tannia shook her head and rubbed at her eyes with a yawn.
"Looks like that soul trick took more out of me than I thought," she mumbled as she stood slowly and stretched, making a satisfied noise as she flopped back onto the chair and jumping slightly as Sam stuffed a plate of toast and a cup of coffee into her hands. "Um, thanks," she said, grinning at him as he went back into the kitchen to make his own. "So, are we staying here for a few more days or moving on?" she asked after eating one of the slices of toast and Sam joined them back in the living room.
Sam shrugged as they heard the bathroom door bang and Castiel disappeared, "I have no clue, but please soundproof the bathroom," Sam cringed as Tannia laughed and assured him it was done.
Dean jumped as he felt Castiel's hands on him in the shower, then smirked as Cas trailed his hands down his body and cupped his ass from behind him, "mornin' to you too," he mumbled as Cas squeezed slightly and stepped against Dean's back, the angel rubbing his crotch into Dean's ass and causing him to gasp as he felt the angel hardening as he did so, "eager, are we?"
Cas leant forward to whisper in Dean's ear, "am I not allowed to wish you good morning?" then proceeded to nibble down Dean's neck, causing him to groan happily.
"Well, when you put it like that," Dean grinned and tipped his head out of the way to give Cas better access. Castiel reached around to the wash bag on the shelf, and took out the lube that Dean had stashed there, Dean grinned and thanked his brain for always thinking about sex. Cas dropped some onto his hand and pushed his fingers into Dean's ass crack, smoothing around his hole and pushing in with two fingers gently, causing Dean to both hiss and moan at the same time, "yep, eager," he murmured as he widened the stance of his legs and Cas started stretching him slowly.
Castiel grinned and mouthed over Dean's shoulder, adjusting his angle and curling his fingers inside Dean, causing him to shudder and let out a loud moan as he brushed carefully around the knot of muscle inside him and then flicked the top of his finger over it. Cas pushed in a third finger and stopped moving, watching as Dean groaned and rocked back onto his hand, urging Castiel to move with a breathless moan of "please Cas."
Cas poured more lube into his hand and stroked himself a couple of times before lining up with Dean, who'd shrunk down as he parted his legs and braced his arms against the wall, then pushing into him in one go, causing Dean to hiss again and the two of them to still as Dean adjusted. Dean shuddered as he moved his hips gently to signal to Cas to move.
Cas pumped in and out of Dean slowly, making sure he was fully relaxed before snapping in suddenly and causing Dean to throw his head back and moan loudly, which made Castiel groan and make the same move again. Dean moved to lean on one hand and brought his other hand to his own cock, stroking in time with Cas and applying the same flicking technique he used to get Cas off. He hummed in pleasure at the noise Castiel made when he clenched around him, a half-choked moan of his name sneaking out from his lips.
Cas leant forward and bit at Dean's shoulder, and Dean moaned loudly as he came over his hand, feeling Cas' rhythm judder as he did the same with the pressure too much around him.
Dean came back to himself to Castiel washing him down gently and smiled before turning around, pinning Cas against the other side of the shower and kissing him gently. Cas sighed happily and kissed him back, winding his hands gently around Dean's waist as Dean cupped his cheek and stroked across his cheekbone before taking the sponge off Castiel and turning him around to wash his back, massaging into his shoulders and making Cas hum happily.
They wandered downstairs after drying to find Sam and Tannia in a heated conversation about the merits of knowing different banishing symbols and exorcism chants. Dean rolled his eyes and threw the kettle onto the stove, realising it might not be a bad thing that the witch could block the sounds of him and Cas going at it if it meant that Sam wouldn't glare at him all day.
Dean flopped down next to Sam with his coffee and flicked his gaze between him and Tannia as they batted different phrases backwards and forwards between them, raising his eyebrows at Castiel who was watching them both with his head tilted, occasionally adding his own thought to their conversation. Dean shook his head and closed his eyes, sliding down in his seat and letting his mind drift slightly as the conversation tailed off, both Sam and Tannia seemingly happy with whatever mumbo-jumbo they'd been talking about.
Tannia stood up and stretched, "you guys mind if I go for a run?" Dean opened his eyes and looked at her in surprise. "I've been cooped up inside for too long, I'm antsy," she pulled a face at him.
Sam stood up, "give me like 5 minutes and I'll come with you," he said, heading to the stairs to get changed.
"Wow, you guys really don't trust me not to bolt, do you?" Tannia mumbled as she rummaged through her bag to get a pair of shorts and a different shirt, swapping the shirt with her back to Dean and turning around while pulling her hair into a ponytail. Dean was gaping slightly. "Oh, sorry, yeah, Yorkshire, no shame," Tannia said waving her hand at her t-shirt, "though those two don't necessarily go hand-in-hand," she grinned and dashed up the stairs to change into her shorts, leaving Castiel quirking his lip at Dean in that look which would be someone else laughing hysterically.
Sam walked back into the room in joggers and a t-shirt and glanced at Cas, "what did she say to make him that amused?" Dean just blinked and shook his head.
"Sammy, that girl is too comfortable with us," he said as Tannia wandered back into the room and threw her jeans at her duffel, still grinning.
Sam looked between them and shrugged, leading the way to the door and calling back over his shoulder, "find something good for dinner, dude, take-away gets boring after a while," before following Tannia onto the road and the two of them set off at an easy pace, disappearing around the corner of the house and into the woods around the hut.
Dean shook himself out and looked around. "So, we've the place to ourselves, what do you wanna do?" he grinned and turned around to Castiel standing right in front of him, and suddenly Cas' lips were on his and biting at his bottom lip. "That's what I thought," Dean grinned again.