The early morning sun had just begun to peak through the curtains in the hotel room when Sam stumbled out of bed in a rather wrinkled pair of jeans and a simple white t-shirt. His eyes opened wide when he reached the tiny kitchen area of the small suite and saw Sage standing at the counter making a pot of coffee. She was wearing only one of Sam's button up shirts and a pair of panties. Her long brown and caramel hair was lied up in a loose ponytail and wisps of hair were falling out already and hanging around her pretty face.

"Sage, it's early. Why are you awake now?" Sam groaned as he ran a hand across his unshaven face and into his wild morning hair.

"We need to get moving before they realize that the werewolf deputy is missing." Sage replied calmly as she poured two cups of coffee. She handed one to Sam who stood on the other side of the counter and took a sip of the other.

"True, we need to go get your stuff from your car anyway." Sam took a long swig of coffee. It was strong, which he didn't mind but it was something that most people wouldn't drink. "Why are you wearing my shirt?"

"It was the first thing i found this morning and i didn't feel like searching for my own clothes in the dark." Sage shrugged her shoulders as Dean came down the hall wearing the same dark jeans from the night before only with a white t-shirt and a leather jacket.

"We leaving?" Dean asked, staring straight at his brother and not bothering to acknowledge Sage at all.

"Soon." Sam replied as Sage pushed a third coffee cup across the counter to where Dean stood. He took it without hesitation and drank it down, fast.

"Stronge. but okay." He nodded, just a slight bob of his head, at Sage who took another sip of her own coffee. Confusion quickly crossed Dean's face as he took in Sage.

"Isn't that Sammie's shirt?" Dean gestured to Sage's upper half, the only part of her that was really clothed.

"Yes." Her response was short giving away nothing. Her bright green eyes traveled over to catch Sam's brown ones. With his face he begged her not to mention the night before. She gave him a beautiful smile full of devilish fun and proceeded to open her mouth regardless.

"I slept with your brother just so you know." She said in a matter of fact that left nothing to be debated.

Dean's features turned to a mask of shock and horror. "You did what?" He directed that question at Sage. "Sam, please tell me you didn't." Before Sage even answered he moved on to Sam.

"Damn Sage! Yes Dean i slept with her last night." Sam sighed, a defeated sound. He trailed his fingers through his long brown hair in a nervous gesture.

"SAM! Why? I knew she'd be a distraction!" Dean was angry. He slammed his coffee mug down on the counter and started to pace across the tiny room.

"It just happened! It's not like i planned it when she saved us last night!" Sam yelled back, getting angry because Dean was angry.

Sage took this as an oppurtunity to get out of the room. She slipped out behind Dean who was still yelling and wondered back into Sam's room. His stuff was all put away nice and clean in a duffel bag by the door. Her clothes were no longer strewn across the floor but laid out on the bed, including the tank top she had left in the living room. She slipped back into her ripped jeans and quickly unbuttoned Sam's collared shirt and packed it into his bag. Sage quietly pulled on her simple white tank top and her black wedge boots and slid her small body into her leather jacket. She grabbed Sam's duffel off the ground and pulled her long hair out of her jacket as she casually strolled back into the main room.

Dean saw her enter the room as she started to reattach her weapons to their correct holsters and put them on her body. He had stopped yelling, instead he stromed off into his room to grab his own bag in preparation to leave.

"Why'd you go and tell him that we slept together?" Sam sounded tired, although he clearly wasn't, as he approached Sage and put his bag on his shoulder.

"It's not fair to keep secrets since we all work together now, so i thought he had a right to know. It's not like it's gonna happen again anyway. That was a one time only deal Sam." Sage him the simple answer that was all truth. She didn't like Sam that way, he was just a friend to her, nothing more but she didn't find it needed to say all that. She didn't think Sam had any true feelings for her beyond friendship anyway.

Sam looked momentarily hurt but he quickly recovered so Sage didn't know if she truely saw what she thought she did in the first place. "That's true, a one time only thing. We won't have sex again."

Dean then entered the room as the last few things were said. "We leaving?"

Sage stood and dusted off her tight jeans as if to remove the whole conversation. "Yeah, we're headed out now. Got to go get my stuff and my car out of the forest."

Dean shot Sam a look before heading the door and down the back stairs that lead to the back of the hotel. Sage followed him quietly and Sam closed the door behind them, leaving their room key on the coffee table.

"Where's your car?" Sam asked as he joined Sage and Dean outside the hotel. Sage pointed out into the forest and adjusted her machine gun before setting off on foot in pursuit of her car.

"I'll stay with our car." Sam volunteered as he watched Sage turn around at his words. "Someone needs to get our car and meet up outside of town." Sam shrugged his shoulders and his bag jostled against his leg. "So i'll do it. Dean go with Sage."

Dean clearly wasn't thrilled with the way things had gone but his tossed his bag down at Sam's feet. "Suit yourself, but i'm not carrying my bag through the woods if you're going to the car." He turned on his heel and jogged out to where Sage stood on the edge of the forest amoungst the trees.

Sage thought about Sam's descision to stay with their cr and meet up outside of town. He was clearly hurt by something she had said or done but he couldn't let it get in the way, the three of them were a team. He just needed space.

Sage resumed walking in the direction of her hidden car once Dean reached her side. He didn't say anything until they were almost halfway there by Sage's count. The only sound was leaving crunching under their feet.

"Do you have feelings for him?" Dean asked, his voice shattering the silence.

"Hmm?" Sage was pulled from her mental thoughts and she looked over at Dean. "No i don't. I like him as a friend and a hunter but nothing more."

Dean took a moment to digest her words before he continued. "Then why'd you do it?"

"I'm a hunter Dean. I'm unstable. It's hard to be with someone when you're always on the move. It's been awhile since i've been with a man. You guys came along and we're gonna be together a while. I didn't plan on it, it just happened. We were turned on and we were there. That's how it went. It's not gonna happen again." Sage gave Dean all the things that came to mind when she thought about why she had slept with Sam. "That's not something i do, sleep with someone i just met."

Dean nodded, accepting her answer. "Why Sam?"

"He was there Dean, i already said that. Now i get a question, why do you hate me?"

Dean sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't hate you Sage. I don't want another person to worry about, especially a beautiful woman. Sam's enough and Bobby just died. I don't wanna worry about growing close to someone else only to have them die too. So yeah, i didn't want you to join us. I owe you for saving my life, but i don't wanna worry about someone else."

Sage said nothing for a minutes before her car came into sight tucked underneath a canopy of trees. "That's too bad Dean. I'm here to stay, but i'm sorry. I've lost people to monsters too, it's not just you."

"You said your parents died in a car crash." Dean stopped and looked at her.

"They did. But there crash was caused by the creature they were after on the hunter." Sage said, chipping away just a little more of her past.

Sage resumed her walking and she opened her car door once she got there. Sage drove a black mustang. It was simple but it was slick and and nice. She reached underneath the drivers seat and pulled out her car keys. Dean's face lit up in a way once he saw what she drove.

"Heads up." Sage flung something through the air that landed easily in Dean's hands. "You drive." Those words cleared up the confusion on his face.

Dean eagarly climbed into the drivers seat and slammed the door. "Were meeting up with Sam on the outskirts of town, the usual place is near the welcome into town sign." Dean said as he startbed up the mustang which purred to life.

"Quid pro quo Dean." Sage said crossing her legs and watching Dean's face as he drove.

"You first." Dean spoke while he still looked straight ahead out the windshield as he manovered the car through the forest, back in the direction of the road.

"You clearly don't wanna be close to women. Have you lost a wife?" Sage didn't beat around the bush; she went right into the serious stuff.

"Not my wife, my girlfriend. I had to give her up when I started hunting again with Sam. Well her and her son. It was one of the worst things I've ever gone through." Dean spoke slowly as if he was thinking about how much to tell Sage. She sat patiently and waited for the rest of the story but Dean didn't say anything else about his old girlfriend.

"What about you Sage? Ever lost anyone you loved besides your parents?"

Sage contemplated telling him that using the same question was cheating but she thought better of it, he was talking to her after all and not ignoring her. "A boyfriend once. He was killed by a vampire like creature, a ventala, who drank him dry and poisoned him over a period of a few days. It was horrible. I've been tracking the creature for a long time trying to avenge his death like I did for my parents but I've lost track of it too many times and I don't know where it is. His name was Tristan."

Dean was the first person that Sage had ever talked about Tristan, well about his death. A couple of her old friends knew about him but their friendship ended shortly after he died and she gave up everything to become a full time hunter. They thought his death was a car accident where he drove off a bridge. Dean was now the only other person who knew the truth about Tristan.

Dean turned his eyes off the forest road around the small sports and looked over at Sage who was staring straight ahead with a dead stare. It was obvious in her posture that talking about Tristan was hard for her.

"What's the worst thing about this job in your opinion?" Sage didn't give Dean a chance to say that he was sorry for her loss. She hated it when people said that because no one knew what it was like to loss someone they loved. She felt that Dean knew exactly what it was like but she still didn't wanna hear him stumble over how sorry he was.

"Losing people. It's unexpected and you can't control it. There's no way to prevent it either. When you fight monsters that most people don't believe in that have unnatural abilities you're gonna lose people you love." Dean had just revealed another reason he didn't want Sage to join them. He hated to lose people.

"What's yours?" Dean really didn't know how to play the game correctly but Sage didn't mind. He was talking to her as a person and not as someone he didn't want to be around. Her questions were good for her to answer too, they weren't just for him.

"Not being able to really grow close to people. If you do you end up having to give them up and that hurts worse than not getting close to them in first place. Tristan was the last person I was close to and really got to know, once he died I decided to keep to myself. You and Sam are actually the first person that I actually want to get to know. I need other people Dean. I can't handle being alone anymore and hunting on my own." Sage felt comfortable talking to Dean even though they were still on rocky ground. She just told him all the things she was thinking about and they seemed to relate to his question. Sage watched his beautiful face to see how he took the things she said.

Dean didn't say anything for awhile. He couldn't figure what to say to her or how to take what she told him either. For the first time since they met, he didn't know for sure how he felt about her. At first he wanted to hate her because she was taking Bobby's place and he hated the fact that Bobby really was gone but now that they were talking, he didn't hate her anymore but he didn't know how he felt about Sage.

"I want you to stay Sage. I know I said I didn't but I take it back. I don't know what to think about you right now." Dean spoke slowly when he told Sage to stay. They had just reached the main road and were only a few miles from the welcome into town sign when Dean said those words to her.

"Really Dean? Are you sure you want me to stay?" Sage looked at him as he drove, his jaw set in a hard line and his eyes straight ahead on the small road out of town.

"Yes, stay with us Sage. You're good and we need you." Dean spoke quickly, he was nervous. He wasn't used to sharing his heart or his mind with someone he barely knew, especially since he feared getting close to people, mostly beautiful women.

Sage nodded her head and looked out the passenger side window. "I'll stay."

Dean said nothing as he pulled up alongside the welcome sign and Dean'a baby, an older black sports car, very close to a mustang. Sam was still sitting inside in the drivers seat, looking over a map. Dean turned to Sage as he parked the car and turned it off. "I'm looking for revenge too Sage, for Bobby's death, I'll need the extra help and it sounds like you might too. Ventala are horrible creatures and it will be hard for you to discover them since you're a woman and they go for men. Sometimes they are in pairs too."

"I know about Ventala Dean, i've done my research. They killed Tristan remember? i wanted to know as much as i could about them. What killed Bobby?"

"Leviathan. Their leader actually, he shot him in the head. He survived for a day in the hospital but he eventually died after giving us a number, coordinates to a field that is the source of a new building, belonging to DickRoman Enterprises."

Dean stepped out of the mustang and Sage was quick to follow, grabbing her bags from the back of the car and tossing them over her shoulder before climbing into the back seat of the other car as Dean crawled in up front beside Sam who folded the map and put it away before driving off down the road back towards the house where the Winchester's were living.

"Wait a minute, are you saying that the leader of the Leviathan is Dick Roman? Millionaire entrepauner Dick Roman?" Sage was shocked as she leaned over from the back seat and put her small hands on the shoulders of both men in front of her.

"That's what i'm saying. Leviathan got Dick Roman and he's in charge now. He's untouchable and he shot Bobby." Dean set his jaw in a hard line and clenched his fists.

Sage said nothing. Leviathan had more influence than she thought. Dick Roman that was huge. He was basically in charge of the country, the businesses anyway.

"What do you know about Leviathan Sage?" Sam asked her as Dean continued to fume and plot his revenge on Dick Roman.

"Apparently not very much. I know that they are immortal and there is no way to kill them. If they eat you they can become you and that they bleed black ooze." Sage bit her lower lip and glanced over at Dean who wasn't even paying attention to the conversation, at least it didn't appear that he was paying attention.

"We know more. They can mimic you without having to kill you, if they have your DNA they can make themselves look like you. A couple of them did it to Dean and I a couple months back. They ran rampent killing people and video taping it so everyone would think we were the killers. They still would except when we were arrested they came into the jail and the sheriff saw what they could do. We made it look like we died so no one would look for us anymore." Sam retold their story of one of the worst times of their lives.

"What else do you know?" Sage asked. Since she was going to be working with the pair, she needed to know all the things that they knew, mostly about Leviathan since they had more experience than she did. Sage had never come across one of the creatures, or at least she didn't think she had. It was hard to tell when they looked human most of the time.

"We haven't figured out how to kill them yet but there has to be a way. We have discovered to injury them pretty bad. Cleaning supplies that contain amonia, it burns them pretty bad, they will eventally regenerate but it stops them briefly. They can be shot and stabbed but it doesn't really do anything. They only other way to stop them for awhile is to take off their head. Not only that but Lucifer doesn't even like them and he doesn't know how to kill them even though he would like to take out Dick Roman just as much as Dean would."

Dean grunted at that statement but flipped open an old black journal. Sage looked over at him but she couldn't tell what was in it.

"How do you know Lucifer doesn't want anything to do with the Leviathan?" Sage turned her attention back to Sam who was answering her questions.

"Wow, Dick Roman really does think that he's above the most evil man there is, the devil himself." Sage chewed on her fingernail as she thought about the new information that Sam gave her.

"What's Dick planning?" Sage wondered out loud, mostly to herself.

"Bobby was shot while he was investigating one of Dick Roman's factories. It appeared he was experimenting with some kind of chemical goo, he was putting it into the turducken sandwiches at Biggerson's, it turned people into man eating zombies after getting them addicted to the sandwich in the first place. Everyone ate it, including Dean who almost got turned into a zombie himself had we not caught the goo in the sandwich. We suspect he might be trying to create more Leviathan, but we don't know for sure. Bobby knew more than we do and he died with that information. The only thing we know are coordinates." Sam explained what had happened at the factory and with the sandwiches.

"The cooridinates to the empty field that now belongs to Dick Roman Enterprises."

Sam looked at her. He had no idea how she would have known about that since she just now figured out that Dick Roman was the leader of the Leviathan.

"Dean told me about it." Sage shrugged.

Sam shot Dean a look across the seats.

"Yeah i talked to her you moron," Dean remarked as he rolled his head over to look at Sam, "I don't hate her Sam, i told her i want her to stay with her in fact." Dean went back to looking out the window as the ladnscape passed around them on their way back to the house where they lived.

Sam shook his head. "Anyway, his assistant, some woman i don't know, and a couple other guys were surveying the land. Dick's gonna build something there, something big, and it's not gonna be a good thing."

Sage quickly pulled her hair up in a ponytail and glanced over at the man who so recently shared some of his most private feelings with her. Sensing her gaze, Dean looked over and held Sage's intense eyes with his own.

"What are we gonna do about Dick Roman?" Sage asked the question to Sam since he had been answering all her questions but her kept her bright green eyes hooked on Dean's.

''We need to do more research on the Leviathan and Dick Roman and his company. We can't proceed until we know what to do. We need a way to kill them and we need a way to get close and figure out their plans without ending up like Bobby." Sam spoke out loud as he thought while he answered Sage's question. He continued to drive and didn't notice Dean and Sage staring at each other.

"We need to keep you a secret," Dean spoke up, finally pulling his eyes away from Sage, "We should keep you a secret from Dick Roman and the rest of the Leviathan. When it comes time to confront him, we'll have the upper hand if he still only thinks there are just the two of us. He doesn't need to know that we gained another hunter who is even better than Bobby."

Sam nodded and looked in the rearview mirror at Sage who was biting her thumbnail as she thought about the conversation.

"You're right. If Dick knows that Sage is with us, he'll step up his measures. We don't need him thinking that we have yet another target besides the two of us." Sam reasoned as he turned onto another street, a smaller less traveled street.

"Does he know about me? Dick Roman i mean, does he know about me?" Sage whispered as she looked out the windshield in front of her.

"I don't think that he does. You've never come into contact with any Leviathan as far as you know. Dick Roman isn't looking for every hunter, alot don't even now about the Leviathan in the first place. He'd only after s because we're trying to bring him down and we know more about his operations than we should. That's another reason we don't want him to know about you, he doesn't need to be after you too. That's why we're not going after him until we know how to kill him and the others." Dean said. He closed the old black journal and put it away in the duffel bag at his feet.

"Oh, another thing you should know about Dick Roman and the Leviathan. They can kill themselves, Bobby's seen it happen. Dick Roman was displeased with one of his men, a doctor, because it was his fault the formula didn't work and turned people into zombie cannibals. He put a bib on him and made him eat himself. That's the only way that they will die so far, if they eat themselves or eat each other." Sam remembered what Bobby had told them shortly before he was captured by the Leviathan.

"Dick made the doctor eat himself?" Sage sounded disgusted and totally confused.

"Oh yeah. He's a bad dude." Sam said as he looked for a road sign. "Hey Dean?"

"Hmmm?" Dean looked over at Sam.

"Is this the right way to get home?"

Dean opened up the map again and traced it with his finger. "Yeah, it appears to be."

Sage laid down on the back seat and crossed her ankles over each other. She rested her head against the door of the car and closed her eyes.

Sam looked in the rearview and saw that Sage was lying down. She was asleep within minutes.

The car was quiet for awhile, the only sounds came from the tires on the road.

Finally, Sam spoke, quietly so Sage wouldn't wake up. "You like her, don't you Dean?"

Dean didn't say anything for a long time. He ran his hand over his face and stared out the window. "I don't know Sam, I might. I only wanted to hate her because in a way she's taking Bobby's place as our third hunter. I don't hate her, i might like her, but i don't know. I don't wanna get close to someone only to lose them , i've done it and it sucks!"

"You're gonna have to get close to her regardless. She's staying with us Dean, you even told her that."

"I know what i told her and i know that she's staying. i just don't know how i feel about her yet. I talked to her earlier, in the mustang and she told me things about her that no one else knows. I told her things like that about me too. It's easy to talk to her Sam. I like to talk to her. She's different. I wanted to kiss her Sam." Dean whispered that last part as he glanced at the girl in question asleep on the back seat.

"Why didn't you?"

"For fear of losing her Sam! She has the same fear. A Ventala killed her boyfriend a while ago, his name was Tristan, since then she's afraid to get close to people because she doesn't wanna lose someone like that again!" Dean got angry with Sam for pushing the subject.

"You'll never know if you don't try."

"Just drop it Sam!" Dean yelled and looked out the window again. "I thought you liked her anyway."

Sam shrugged. "I think she's beautiful but i don't like her like i think you do. Besides after we slept together she told me she didn't like me that way and she wasn't interested in anything more than a friendship from me. I've seen her look at you Dean, there's something there." Sam's voice was quiet, he was hoping that Dean would calm down if he was calmer.

"You slept with her Sam, how can you tell me that you don't like her and she doesn't like you." Dean was yelling but he was still unhappy.

"I kissed her Dean, she didn't kiss me. The only reason we slept together was because it had been awhile since we were with someone that way and it was easy to be turned on. There was no emotion behind it except for lust. What did Sage tell you about it? i'm sure you asked her."

"She said basically the same thing. That she didn't like you that way, but the lust was there and you were there and it was convient." Dean sighed.

"I told you she didn't like me like that." Sam said.

Sage stirred in the backseat but she didn't wake up. She just rolled over and sighed in her sleep. Dean looked over the seat at her and watched her a minute.

"She likes you Dean, i know she does." Sam tried again when he noticed Dean watching Sage.

Dean didn't say anything else to argue the fact. In truth, he liked to think that Sage would like him.

The rest of the ride back to the house was silent except for breathing. Sage was asleep and Dean was once again looking throught the black journal and thinking about his revenge on Dick Roman and occasionallly of his conversation with Sage in the mustang earlier in the day. Sam just drove silently, thinking about different cases and how Sage had come into their life in the first place and saved their asses.

Sam pulled up in front of the house and Dean looked up from the journal before replacing it back into his bag and climbing out of the car. He headed up to the front door and drew his gun before he went inside. A few minutes later Dean reappeared and motioned Sam inside. Sam grabbed his own bag and climbed out of the car before he opened the door and shook Sage's shoulder. She slowly woke up and opened her eyes. Sam was once again shocked by ust how bright green they were.

"Welcome home," Sam said as he reached for her bag on the ground and swung it over his shoulder.

Sage sat up and grabbed her weapons off the car floor before she slid out of the car. "Thanks Sam."

She looked over at her new home. The house was small but it was inconspicious and there weren't any surrounding it. It looked cozy, but the fact that it was owned and occupied by two guys who hunted monsters and weren't home very often probably made it messy.

She followed Sam up the small porch steps and into the living room of the house. She was right it was small and kinda messy but also cozy. Dean was already sitting on the couch and drinking a beer with his feet propped up on the table. He raised his beer in her direction before flipping on the tv to watch the news.

"Want one?" Sam was in the fridge and held a beer in his hand.

Sage shrugged as she set her weapons down on the kitchen table. "Why not."

Sage went down and set on the couch beside Dean. Sam joined her on Dean's other side and passed the beer to her, already uncapped. She took a sip. Beer wasn't really Sage's type of drink but it seemed it was the only one they seemed to have and she needed something to drink after her night.

"Oh my god look at that asshole!" Dean slammed his beer bottle down on the coffee table and pointed to the tv. There was Dick Roman on the news, talking about some huge event that he was hosting at his house with some major players in the fiance and business game not to mention a select number of VIP and some VIP passes to be sold on the internet for a ton of money. The news caster was talking about how it was an event for some charity or another that Roman was starting.

Sage rolled her eyes as she watched the news cast. She took another sip of beer. "What does he hope to gain with his charity?" She wondered out loud.

"I don't know," Sam said as he took another sip of beer. "He could want the money for use in his evil Leviathan plans that we don't know about for sure."

"He could be planning to turn more people into Leviathan at the gala party thingie. Maybe that's the whole point of the party in the first place. Turn more high up men into Leviathan for his army." Dean added his two cents into the conversation.

Sage almost choked on her next sip of beer. She turned to look at Dean. "Oh, shit."

Sam's look was just as horrified as he turned to look at Dean too.

"What?" Dean downed the rest of his beer. "Aw shit."

"Does he even have any Leviathan that need better bodies than what they have? Does he really have a need for those higher ups, those fiancial and other business guys." Sam said.

"We don't know who Dick Roman, does or doesn't have and who he does or doesnt need. All we know is that he wants people that are high up on the scale and have alot of knowledge. This party is the perfect place to get people that are perfect for he needs. They are smart enough to be extremely useful to him, but not enough to overthrow him as the leader." Dean mused as the news broadcast about Dick Roman came to an end.

"When's the party? We need to know how much time we have to work with before this showdown." Sage said. This new thing with Dick Roman and the Leviathan causing her to feel a need to quickly finish her beer.

"Next month, the end of next month actually, the last saturday." Sam said, reading off the screen on a laptop that was laying on the table.

"So we have about a two month time window to work with. We need to get inside that party to make sure Roman doesn't do anything." Sage said, putting her empty beer bottle on the table.

"But how?" Dean spoke up from inside the fridge where he grabbed 3 more beers. "Dick knows both Sam and me. We wouldn't be able to get in that place without setting off major alarm bells." Dean climbed over the back of the couch and took his place between the two on the couch. He gave them each their beers and the three of them cracked them open on the edge of the coffee table.

"He's never met me before." Sage piped up taking a sip of her second beer. The taste was starting to grow on in a way that she couldn't explain.

"No way in hell Sage, you're not going anywhere near that party. We don't know how to kill Leviathan yet." Dean looked at her and shook his head. "No way."

"I've got to agree with Dean on this way. There is absolutely no way that you're going to that party. We don't want you in a room full of Leviathan and future Leviathan victims." Sam switched off the tv and turned his eyes on Sage.

"Guys i have to go. If i don't we won't know what Roman is planning to do and i'm the only one who can go, you both know that. I promise that he won't find out about me."

Both guys sighed. "You're probably right and we need to know all we can about his plans." Sam spoke running his hand through his hair.

"Sam!" Dean looked at him totally shocked. "You can't let her go! He'll figure her out and then he'll kill her!"

"In order to bring him down, she has to go to that party. He wouldn't be throwing it if he didn't have a reason." Sam tried to reason with his brother.

Sage nodded and finished off her second beer. "I have to go Dean."

Dean clenched his fists. He thought he was gonna lose Sage after barely having her in his life. "Fine. But you have to promise that you won't go anywhere near Dick Roman."

Sage looked into Dean's brown eyes as she spoke. "I promise i won't go near that asshole."

Dean nodded once, looking as satisfied as he could with a decision he didn't agree with. He chugged the rest of his beer. "I'm going to shower and then im going to bed." He pushed himself off the couch and went into the hall at the other side of the living room. There was the sound of a door being shut and then water running.

"Dean doesn't want me to go huh?" Sage pulled her legs up onto the couch and tucked them underneath her.

"No he doesn't and i don't either but i know it's the only way to know Roman's plans." Sam stretched his arms and laid them across the couch.

"i wouldn't do it if i didn't have to. i don't like Roman either. I'm gonna need to find a dress and some tattoo cover up as well. It wouldn't be too good if i showed up with a hunter's mark on my wrist." Sage reached over subconsiously and rubbed her wrist with the tattoo.

"Yeah that's true, if you forget to cover that up, it won't be a good thing. How's you arm doing?"

"Hmm?" Sage looked up at Sam.

"You're wrist. Where you cut yourself to prove that you weren't Leviathan?"

"Oh right. I havent looked at it since Dean bandaged it up." Sage slipped off her jacket and draped it across the arm of the couch. She looked at her arm and unwrapped the bandage that Dean made for her out of a strip of his shirt. She unwound and looked at the slash mark. It was red and there was dried blood on and around the wound. It was partially scabbed over. "It'll be fine once i wash the blood off."

Sam looked over at her arm. "You sure?"

"I'm a hunter Dean, i've had alot worse in my time." Sage shrugged and used the the strip of shirt to rewrap her wound. "How's your chest?"

"Check for me?" Sam looked at her and helped her tighten her bandage.

"You won't come on to me will you?" Sage smiled and lightly punched him in the arm.

"No i won't." Sam laughed too.

"Alright."

Sam pulled his shirt off and put it in his lap. Sage moved closer to him on the couch and took the spot where Dean was sitting before he went to take his shower. Sage lightly ran her nimble fingers across the slash marks on Sam's chest.

"Ouch, doesn't that hurt?"

"Eh, sorta, but it's okay, like you said i've had worse."

"You're gonna have to wash it but it looks okay." Sage said as she sat back on the couch.

Sam pulled his shirt back on and nodded. "i'll shower in a little bit once Dean's out."

"Hey Sam?" Sage looked at him with her piercing green eyes. "That old black journal that Dean had in the car, what was it?"

"It was a journal that belonged to our father. It contains all the cases that he's ever worked and some that he never got around to that we did together. It also has all the information on all the creatures that our father knew about. It's like the bible to Dean and i, we've always had it and it goes everywhere with us."

"So it's like your monster dictionary." Sage said.

The water in the shower stopped.

"Yeah, thats right." Sam took another swig from his second beer.

Dean opened the door to the bathroom and came back into the living room. He was wearing the same thing he did last time, dark wash jeans and his chest was bare except for a small towel he had over his shoulders. His hair was still wet.

Sage sucked in her breath. Would she ever get used to seeing Dean without a shirt, his nice, muscular chest totally revealed to her eyes?

"Don't feel like going to bed yet. Got any movies?" Dean grabbed another beer and sank down on the sofa, not bothering to put on a shirt.

"Probably some on tv." Sam reached for the remote but Dean grabbed it up before Sam was even close.

"Thanks for taking the remote you dick." Sam punched him in the arm while Dean flipped the tv on.

"You think that hurt?" Dean hauled up and punched his brother right back in the arm.

They laughed. It was like nothing changed between them even though Sage was now a part of their group.

"You pick something Sage." Dean turned to her and passed her the remote. She took it and their fingers brushed before he turned to Sam and punched him again.

She scrolled through the guide before finally finding some action movie about a spy who had been kicked out of his agency but he went rogue anyway.

"I bet you shoot better than he does." Dean said as he motioned toward the tv as the spy was engaged in a gun fight with someone from his old agency. The comment was directed at Sage.

She smiled. "I'm pretty sure i do too." She pushed Dean lightly and he laughed and pushed her back.

The movie ended while the three of them were pushing each other and laughing. they didn't notice the film was over until the action music came on and the credits started to roll. Sage grabbed the remote and turned the tv off stopping the music instantly.

"I think i'm gonna head to bed." She stood up and grabbed her jacket off the couch and her weapons off the table. "Where am i sleeping?"

"I'll show you. You can have my room and i'll take Bobby's old one." Sam stood and walked off down the hallway. Sage followed him into a room that contained a queen size bed, a closet, and a dresser with a lamp. There was a fan on the ceiling.

"You sure you don't care if i take your room?" Sage set her duffel bag down on the ground and her guns and knives on the dresser.

"No, i don't care Sage. It's no big deal. We're gone so much anyway." Sam shrugged and put his hands in his pocket.

"Okay." Sage laid her jacket on the only chair in the room while she sat down on the bed to take her boots off.

"Sage? Do you like Dean?" Sam asked his question quickly, like pulling off a bandaid.

"Of course. I like you both. You're great friends." She smiled and took her hair down for bed. She shook it out and put the hair tie down on the dresser.

"That's not what i meant Sage. I meant do you have feelings for him, beyond friendship?"

A door closed somewhere else in the house. Dean had gone to bed and he shut the lights off in the rest of the house.

Sage stood up and shut the door. "I just met him last night Sam, just like i met you. I only just talked to him today."

"That doesn't mean that you can't have feelings for him Sage. It's not like you have to know someone for very long for that."

"Why do you wanna know if i like Dean?" Sage sat back down on the bed.

"Because within the 24 hours that we've known you, i've seen you look at him. I think you like him Sage. And for the record, i think he likes you too."

"Maybe i do like Dean." Sage admitted. "But i haven't been close to someone since Tristan and he died, especially a guy."

"You know that Dean won't admit it as a fear, but he's afraid of losing people too. That's why he doesn't like close to people."

"He told me that when we talked in the car. Quid pro quo."

"It's just Dean and i now. Everyone else in our family is dead. We have you now, but it's just the three of us."

"That's alright. You and Dean are now the only family i have too." Sage sighed and ran her fingers through her hair.

"Why don't you try to be with Dean?" Sam asked as he picked up her hair tie and played with it.

"I want to give it time. i want to get to know him better. It's only been a day Sam and it's not like either of us is going to go anywhere."

Sam nodded and replaced the hair tie on the dresser. "That's true."

"Goodnight Sam." Sage stood up and lightly kissed his cheek.

"Goodnight Sage." Sam smiled and closed the door behind him as he left and went to his new room.

Sage stripped down to her panties and put on her black pajama pants and a plain aqua tank top. She crawled beneath the covers of her new bed in her new house and turned off the light. She was glad that she had the guys now, meeting them was the best thing that happened to her for a long time.