Natalie and Sam looked around them. The room had old fashioned wooden cabinets and tables. The floor had white marbled tiles and on the green walls were photos of Dean and his newlywed wife, Ashley. Sam`s eyes dart around the room confused as to why or how they were in Dean`s house. then suddenly he heard a familiar voice from behind him.
"hello Sam," Castiel spoke, in his deep monotoned voice.
Natalie and Sam turned toward Castiel. Sam looked at Cas with disbelief.
"why did you bring us here?!" Sam asked, his voice filled with irritation. "Adam needs to be stopped! He is going to go after innocent people if we don't stop him!"
"Dean asked me to do what I could to help you." Cas replied. "Your daughter had come here very upset, she had said that something had attacked her mother and she was scared that it would hurt her father as well. Of course, Dean wanted to try rush over to aid you in your fight. But Penny threw a fit when he tried to leave, so he prayed to me to help you instead. We didn't know the situation, all we knew was that someone or something became a threat to the two of you."
"where is Dean?" Sam asked impatiently. His mind was focused on the hunt, no one else was getting hurt if he could stop it. "we need to make a plan, we need to stop this! We can't just sit around here and- "
but before Sam could finish his next sentence, he felt Natalie gripping tightly onto his hand. He looked over to her and could see she was in pain. She could hear her breathing heavily and her hand felt clammy.
"Nat, are you okay?" Sam looked at his wife with worry and concern.
She didn't respond, instead she just looked down at the ground as she ran her figures through her curly short black hair. Sam quickly brought a chair over to her. He kissed the top of her head.
"You're gana be okay. just sit down and tell me what's wrong." Sam spoke, his face frozen with fear.
she sat but still wouldn't speak. Sam caressed her hand and put his right hand to her check, he could feel the sweat dripping down her face. sweating like crazy.
"Nat…. please…" he begged. "what can I do to help you?"
"I…I don't know…." she replied, her voice sounding strand as she tried to speak. ". I just feel a little dizzy…. But I'm okay- I'm fine."
her face was becoming slightly paler then usual and there was a lot of dry blood covering her face and on parts of her body, there was no doubt she had lost a lot of blood in the attack. She may have been going into a hypovolemic shock caused from the loss of a large amount of blood. Without a word, Cas walked closer to her and placed his hand on her head. In an instant her wounds were gone and her face gained back its color. Sam smiled at her happily, then embraced her with a kiss. She considered Sam's eyes and smiled as she placed her hand on his check. Her blue eyes then shifted and looked at Castiel with surprise. she had never been healed or even knew Cas could do that. she slowly got up and walked toward Cas and hugged him tightly.
"thank you, Cas." she spoke simply. "your always there when any of us need you." Natalie added.
"the Winchesters are a family worth protecting." Castiel replied with a slight smile.
Natalie looked toward her husband.
"you still think it would have been a good idea to stay and fight, Sam?" She asked sarcastically. "if we would have stayed I would have died. Any warrior needs to know when to stand down, when to leave the fight for another day."
Sam nodded, feeling guilty for being carless. He worried more about the fight, so much so that he didn't even think of how it could have affect her.
"your right." He agreed.
"Talk to dean, make a detailed and thought-out plan. Then take on Adam." She told him.
He hugged her softly and then kissed her.
"I'm so sorry, Nat, I shouldn't have been so thoughtless. Honestly, I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you. "
Then he looked over to castiel.
"thanks." he spoke.
Natalie and Sam walked into the living room. Penny was asleep on the couch, a small blanket covering her body. Dean sat in his favorite arm chair watching TV. On the floor was a Monopoly board game, the pieces all over the board and the money in different, messy piles. Sam chuckled at the thought of Dean being forced to play a board game with Penny. He hated childish games, yet Penny was the kind of kid who took every game seriously. She hated to lose and loved to win.
"so, you guys lived." Dean commented, as the couple sat on the couch across from him.
"thanks to Cas, he transported us away just in time." Natalie replied.
"I figured you guys would need some help." Dean revealed. "I know Sam hasn't been hunting in a while, I thought his skills might be a little rusty."
Sam rolled his eyes.
"I could have still taken him down, hunting isn't something you forget." Sam argued. "It's like instinct to me."
"You can keep telling yourself that." Dean replied sarcastically.
Natalie chuckled, she kissed her daugthers head. then Penny`s eyes opened as she hugged her mom.
"your okay!" she cheered. "lets go get ice cream to celebrate! Uncle Dean always has junk food in the kicthen!"
Penny grabbed her mother`s hands and leads her into the kicthen.
"So, what attacked you guys?" dean asked.
Sam then explained the situation to his brother, he told him about Adam and everything he had said.
"so, our demon brother wants revenge and is planning to kill anyone we have cared about?" he questioned with disbelief.
"basically." Sam replied simply.
"son of a bitch." Dean murmured. "How the hell are we going to even know who he will target first?"
"Or who he will target? I've been living in this town for five years, I made friends with the people here and Natalie and I both have jobs where we are meeting new people and making connections."
"what about all the people we saved and hunters we have befriended? What about Ashley and Natalie`s families there our families too now, so he goes after them too?"
"I don't know he wasn't very specific. But he did say he was starting with the wife's." Sam told him.
Without a word, Dean went to the closet and got his black leather jacket. "let's go. Hopefully we can get to her before Adam does."
"we can't just leave Nat and Penny, there in danger too!"
"what about Ashley?! If he goes after her, she shouldn't have to fight alone!"
"I know, but they need me too."
Sam thought for a moment.
"they can come with us." Sam suggested.
"so, you want to bring them to the people who are trying to kill them?" dean questioned not understanding his brother's logic.
"they would be safer with us then they would be alone. They could come along and wait in the car as we go to check on Ashley. Then if anything comes for Nat and Penny, they can call and we can easily rush out to help them. They`ll be right outside, easy."
Dean sighed, not knowing what to think.
"it's your call, Sammy." Dean replied.
Sam nodded.
"I think it's our best option." Sam replied. As he began to walk to the door.
"but what are you going to tell, Penny Lane?" Dean called out.
Sam hesitated, as he placed his hand on the door to the kitchen.
"I'll think of something." Sam spoke. He entered the kitchen and saw Penny`s face covered in ice cream, as Natalie sat next to her trying to clean up Penny`s face. Sam smiled and sat down across from his daughter. Penny excitedly jumps out of her seat and runs over to same
"dad, you`ll never guess what happened in school on Friday!" Penny shouted with enthusiasm.
"what happened?" Sam replied trying to match her excitement. He picked her up and sat her down on his lap.
"in school Mrs. Evans said that starting next weekend each one of the kids is going to get to have a turn bringing home the class hamster. He is cute and his name is chubby! Katie had a hamster once and it could do tricks maybe we can teach chubby to do tricks! If I do a good job taking care of chubby can we get another dog, but a puppy because puppies are so cute! And…"
As Penny continued to talk, Sam looked at his wife with curiosity.
"how many bowls of ice cream did you give her?" Sam asked Natalie.
"I gave her one. She helped herself to three more bowls when I was on the phone with my mother."
Sam chuckled.
"daddy, listen!" Penny called out. "we should get a bunch of pets before I take home chubby so then chubby will have friends."
"we`ll talk about it later at home, Pen." Sam told her. But really, he just hoped she would forget about the whole pet thing. "but right now, the three of us are gana go with Dean to pick up Ashley."
"why?" Penny asked.
"well Ashley hasn't seen you in a while and she really misses you, so dean thought it might be fun to surprise her at her new job."
"that sounds fun!" penny replied excitedly.
"but we might get there really early so if that happens you and your mom are gana have to wait in the car for a while. But when we come out the four of us will go eat somewhere and you can tell Aunt Ashley all about school and your friends."
"okay, I'll go get my jacket." Penny told him. She climbed off Sam`s lap and went into the living room. Sam went to follow her but Natalie grabbed his arm.
"what's really going on, Sam? Is Ashley in trouble? Is she hurt?" she asked, sounding worried.
"as far as we know she is fine. but we want to keep it that way." Sam simply replied.