Sam
He had just been thrown for a loop.
This guy Harry every one was talking about had almost killed Ryce.
When he found her, she was sitting on the hood of the car.
"What's this about you almost being killed?" He snapped at her.
"I told you I was here when it happened." She said quietly without looking at him.
"Yeah but you never said anything about almost dying." He snapped at her. She shrugged her shoulders before speaking.
"You never asked." Like that should keep her from tell him. He scoffed. "This is serious Ryce." He snapped.
Her face fell and he felt bad. All he did any more was yell at her.
It just seems like she is more interested in this Tom character than she was in finding Dean.
"Is it really?" She asked sarcasm in full swing.
"Wow Sam thanks for pointing that out to me." She said snidely at him sliding off the hood of the car.
"Look Rye I won't pretend know what's going on with you. But you need to talk to me" He said pleading with her.
He didn't think she would answer. She had her back to him when she spoke.
"This place is to me what Lawrence is to you and Dean." She said quietly. Well whatever he expected it wasn't that.
"I thought that maybe I had found a home here once," She gave a nervous little laugh.
"Maybe even someone to share it with, and then Harry destroyed it."
Ryce
No that wasn't true, she was a hunter. She had no home other than the road.
Had been that way all her life. But she could hope couldnt she?
She figures that's why she gets Sam and Tom so much.
You live your life a certain way for so long and it's not like living anymore.
Despite all that she had managed to fall in love twice.
Have a baby and a friend that was more like a sister.
She counted her self among the lucky.
"I can't be here anymore." She said walking away. Thankfully, Sam didn't follow.
She wandered around this town that made her feel like she was stuck in between two worlds. When it became too quiet, she knew she was no longer alone.
"Hello Anna," she said to the angel that always seemed to be on her shoulder.
"Hello Rycelynn," She spoke in soft tones as always.
"Why is all this happening?" She needed to know this was killing her. She heard the angel sigh before answering.
"You are being tested."
"But why, I don't understand." Anna looked at her then.
"You will be there at the final battle, heaven needs to know that you can be trusted." Was this a joke?
"Are you telling me that heaven did all this as some stupid fucking test? That those dick with wings put Dean in Harry's path so he could get possessed!" Ryce yelled.
Anna just nodded.
"So my loyalty was in question?"
"Everyone's loyalty is in question Ryce."
"So what happens to Tom after all this?" She asked quietly.
"It will be okay Ryce I will take care of him." Anna reassured.
"As much as I would like that to comfort me, it doesn't." She heard Anna sigh again.
"Do you trust me?" Ryce thought for a moment.
She did trust Anna more than she trusted Castiel. (Not that she didn't like Castiel she did he was nice for an angel.)
Which is funny considering Anna was a renegade.
"Yeah I do."
"Then Tom will have my protection."
"Thank you Anna now I can do, what needs to be done." She whispered to herself the angel now gone.
She did trust Anna; she wasn't someone who just took orders. Ryce liked that about her.
Sam
He just wished he understood what was going on with her.
Maybe he should make a call to Jo. She understood Ryce better than anybody did.
He dialed her number. "Jo here." She replied sleepily.
"Hey Jo it's me Sam, sorry to wake you." He said.
"No it's okay what's up?"
"Do you know what's going on with Ryce?" He heard her sigh before she answered.
"I'm not sure if I should answer that." Well he didn't expect that.
"Why the hell not!" He asked angrily.
"It's not my story to tell Sam," she sighed again.
"Look all I'm going to say is that she and Tom have some major history together. Be patient with her okay cowboy." He could understand history.
"Yeah okay thanks Jo."
"It's all good. Sam she will tell you when she's ready and knowing her like I do it will be when it's all over with." She said before she hung up.
None of this was making him feel any better. Well there was nothing he could do about it.
So he didn't speak to her when she walked into the apartment they had rented. And he didn't comfort her when he heard her crying.
He didn't sleep until he heard her even breaths telling him she was asleep.
