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Part 5:
Thankfully, when Cas transported Kae back to Moline, he didn't stick around. She was glad for that, because part of her wanted very badly to pull a Lucifer and blast him into a million bloody pieces. She restrained herself though, because her abandoned groceries and the fact that Skylar was still alone in her car would bring unwanted attention, and anyway, her son was more important than revenge against an angel of the Lord.
Thankfully, after managing to talk another shopper out of calling the police, Kae drove home, where she promptly put Skylar to bed and stored the new groceries in their appropriate places in the small kitchen area. Not long after that, she went to bed.
A few hours later, around one in the morning, her phone rang, startling her awake. Kae yawned and groped around blindly for her cell phone on the bedside table.
"Hello?"
"Kae? It's Bobby." she blinked tiredly and sat up on the mattress.
"Bobby? What's up?"
She heard the old hunter sigh on his end of the line.
"Crowley."
"Crowley?" she frowned. "What'd he do now?"
"Remember how he was supposed to give me back my soul once we put Lucifer back behind bars?"
"Let me guess," Kae groaned. "He didn't." she let out a long sigh. "Well I don't know what I can do to help, Sky's still sick...did you try Sam or Dean?"
"Yup. Turns out they're headed to their next case. Wisconsin."
She rubbed at her eyes and sighed. Fuck. "I'll leave in the morning. Should be there by two if traffic's good."
"Alright. 'Night, Kae."
"G'night Bobby."
"Alright," Kae muttered the next morning as she buckled Skylar into his car seat. "I know you don't feel good, sweetie, but we gotta go help Bobby with something important."
Skylar looked up at her, his tiny face screwed up in an annoyed expression that could have rivaled Dean's. He was a slight shade of green, though Kae had given him the medicine the doctor had prescribed, and she was praying it got them up to South Dakota without painting the back seat of her car with baby vomit.
"Bobby hasn't seen you in a long time," she smiled. Talking seemed to keep Skylar calm, which was a plus. "He came to the hospital when you were born." she set the diaper bag on the seat next to Skylar's car seat and then put her suitcase, which not only contained her clothes and toiletries but Skylar's as well, onto the front passenger seat. "Daddy was scared and he called Bobby and asked him to come see us." Kae sighed, not sure why she was telling Skylar this when he didn't understand what she was saying. "Alright, let's hit the road, buddy."
They reached Sioux Falls around two-thirty because Skylar got sick and Kae needed to make an emergency pit stop to get him changed and clean out the back of the car (actually only the back of her seat since Skylar's car seat sat behind her.
The good thing was no projectile vomiting, so she remained vomit-free.
When they finally reached Bobby's, Kae was ready to sleep for hours. She parked in the drive, making sure to leave room for Bobby's car in case he needed out, and got Skylar's car seat unbuckled and retrieved their bags before heading up to Bobby's front door and knocking on it.
It only took a few minutes for him to answer.
"Kae," he greeted, a tone of relief evident in his voice.
She tried to smile, but she was in desperate need of at least an hour long nap, and Skylar needed changed and fed.
"Hey Bobby."
Thankfully, he seemed to pick up on her distress.
"Guest room's still where you left it the last time you were here," he said gruffly, stepping aside to let her in. "Need me, I'll be in the basement."
Kae merely grunted in reply and headed past him for the stairs.
An hour and a half later, Kae awoke, changed Skylar again and fed him a small snack, and then decided to see exactly what Bobby was up to in the basement. She guessed it was more than likely nothing baby appropriate, so she quickly set up a barrier of pillows around Skylar on the bed so he wouldn't fall off.
"I'll be back in little bit," she promised, as she set up the portable baby monitor she'd brought with her on the dresser and tucked its partner into the back pocket of her jeans and headed downstairs.
When she reached the steps that led down to the basement, she could hear someone, or something, screaming.
What the hell?
"Bobby?" she called, pulling her knife out of her side jean pocket and headed down the stairs. "Everything okay?"
When she got downstairs, she saw Bobby standing next to an old burlap sack in a metal tub, its opening revealing the contents to be human bones. The bag and the bones were both burning, the flames slowly dying down.
A woman dressed in a black, knee length dress with long blonde hair was tied to a chair in front of him. She had severe burns across her collar bone and shoulder.
"What the hell's going on here?" she asked, noting the flamethrower in the old hunter's hands.
"This is new," the woman scoffed, "You're banging Dean Winchester's whore?" her eyes flashed bright red. "Well I can see the appeal. If you and your honey are ever up for a threesome, give me a ring."
Kae gave her a cold smile. "Sorry, my cell service doesn't include Hell. Besides, demons aren't my type." she looked at Bobby. "What do you want from her?"
"Name," Bobby answered, "More specifically, Crowley's."
"Crowley's?" Kae was surprised. "What in God's name does that have to do with getting your soul back?"
"I'll explain soon as this one spills the big secret," Bobby said shortly, and he fired the flame thrower at the bones, setting them on fire. The crossroad demon let out another scream of agony.
"You don't know what he'll do to me!" she cried.
Bobby's face remained impassive. "Right now you'd better worry about me."
"You don't get it," she protested, "He's the King."
Bobby rolled his eyes. "King of the Crossroads. I've heard the speech." he fired the flame thrower at the bones again and the demon groaned in pain.
"No. King of Hell."
Bobby stared at her for a moment, and shut the flame thrower off, setting it aside. He glanced at Kae, who just shrugged.
"If you're thinking of banging her now, I would advise stabbing her afterward," the demon smirked. "Unless you're in to necrophilia. That happen with your wife?"
Bobby went to grab the flame thrower, but Kae dove forward and seized it before he could even touch it. She quickly reignited the pilot and fired it at the bones, setting them ablaze.
"We ask the questions and you answer or you end up deep fried!" she shouted over the demon's screams and the roar of the flames. "Crowley's name! Now!"
"Okay, okay," the demon gasped and Kae pulled her finger off of the trigger. "MacLeod. Fergus MacLeod. I swear. We call him Lucky the Lepruchan behind his back."
"MacLeod's Scottish, Einstein," Bobby replied.
The crossroads demon glared at him. "You got what you want, now send me back."
Bobby grabbed the flame thrower from Kae. "I -"
Send her back? To Hell? Kae still remembered Brady's taunting her with the knowledge of the demon who killed her father. Surely this demon knew who had done the deed as well.
"Wait," Kae interrupted, watching her closely. "You know Crowley's real name, so you must know lots of things. Here's one for you - Daniel Thomas. Bit the dust four years ago. Demon attack. I want that demon's name."
"Kae we can figure that out later," Bobby said evenly, "It's like she said, I got what I wanted."
"Yeah." Kae snapped. "You did, and now she's going to give me what I want."
"But that's not all you want, is it, honey?" the demon smirked up at her. "Not only do you want the demon who killed your daddy, but you want the other wraith that killed your pretty little brother and your sister. You want to be a good mother to that delicious looking little boy, but you doubt yourself. You think you're going crazy." she laughed at Kae's stunned expression. "I know everything about you, Kae - no dice unless you got somethin' I want."
Kae took the flamethrower back and fired it at the crossroad demon's bones. She screamed in agony as her body became engulfed in flames, only stopping as the flesh of her meatsuit melted down to nothing but a few bones among the ashes that scattered around the chair to which she had been tied.
"Well there's one thing I wanted," she said flatly, blowing out the pilot on the flamethrower and tossing it to the floor before she stomped back up the steps, leaving Bobby staring after her.
"Everything okay?"
It was late afternoon and Kae had just finished feeding Skylar. Bobby had disposed of what was left of the crossroads demon, and, deciding to leave Kae alone so she could cool off, had gone about what seemed to be his regular routine: answering calls from other hunters that were working cases. His neighbor, Marcy had brought him a peach cobbler and an offer to watch some scary movies.
"I'm fine." she said flatly.
"Kae, I watched you torch that crossroads demon." Bobby said. "You enjoyed it."
"No I didn't. She wasn't going to tell me jack, Bobby." Kae bounced Skylar on her knee. "I was scared. She got in my head. Crossroad demon like that doesn't know jack at her pay grade, unless someone tells her she oughta know it."
"You're thinkin' they sent that particular demon on purpose then."
Kae pursed her lips. "I know they did...and maybe they know something I don't." she sighed.
"About the voice." Bobby said. "Kae you're not crazy. Maybe it's Hell just screwin' with ya. Revenge for Lucifer or something."
"You and I both know if Hell wanted revenge on me for helping put Lucifer back, they'd get a whole lot more creative than just taunting me about my personal life." Skylar started to cry at the same time that someone knocked on the front door. Well, knocked was putting it lightly. Whoever it was, was pounding on the door. " Shit. Um, I gotta go change him. You good?"
"Sure." Bobby got to his feet and headed for the front door.
It didn't take Kae long to get Skylar situated and when she came back downstairs, she found Bobby gone. When she found him, he was out back with a black man. He was taller, but about the same age as Bobby. He stood to the side as Bobby used a mechanical digger to break the concrete ground. A body bag lay nearby.
"Bobby?" she said cautiously, but he didn't hear her over the noise, and she immediately stepped back inside to protect Skylar's hearing. Once the hole was finished, the old hunter turned off the machine and got out, and she went back outside"Bobby what's going on here?"
"Rufus here," he gestured to the other man. "bagged himself an Okami."
Kae arched an eyebrow. "An Okami? Those are only in Japan, aren't they?" she looked at Rufus. "Where'd you shiv it?"
"Billings," he answered.
Kae's eyes widened. What the hell?
Bobby looked at her. "I got this," he said. "You wanna see if you can figure out what Sam and Dean are tracking in Wisconsin? I'm close, but we gotta take care of this."
Kae nodded, watching as Rufus shouldered the body, and then tossed it into the concrete grave.
"Yeah, I'll uh, get right on that."
Kae sighed and rubbed her eyes as she looked over the books in Bobby's study. So far all she knew about the monster was what Bobby had told her: chests cracked open, and there was a strange claw that Dean had sent a picture of to her cell. Once Bobby had taken care of the Okami issue, he returned to help her look. They stayed up late into the night, pausing only around eight so Kae could put Skylar to bed, make a food run, and then at intervals when he woke she would have to attend to him.
"Fuck, I can't look at this anymore." Kae said finally at four in the morning. "I gotta sleep. I'm sorry, Bobby."
"Don't worry about it," he replied with a yawn, "I think I'll head up in a bit. We can check out the library tomorrow and see if they got anything 'cause I don't see anything here."
"Cool," Kae yawned. "'Night, Bobby."
"'Night, Kae."
The next morning, Kae woke to find the Sioux Falls sherrif, Jody Mills and an FBI agent leaving Bobby's home.
"Bobby what the hell?" She said as she tried to keep Skylar from pulling her hair.
"Nothing you need to worry 'bout." he answered. She noted how exhausted he looked; had he even slept? "Called Dean. Told him it's a Lamia."
Kae's eyes widened. "You sure?"
"Positive."
"But those are only in Greece."
"I know." Bobby sighed. "But we got a new problem."
"What's that?" Kae asked.
"The Okami Rufus and I buried," Bobby explained, "It's not dead."
Kae cocked her head. "What?"
Alright so this one was gettin' a bit too long so I had to split it. More coming soon in the next chapter! Hope y'all liked it. Reviews are welcome. No flames please. Constructive criticism is welcome.