Sam found some research giving them an approximate spot of where to look. A comet was spotted landing nine months before Anna was born near the town where her mother lived when she got pregnant. At the same time, a meteor was seen in Kentucky, where they believed the grace landed.

When he found a local miracle in Union, Kentucky they drove overnight to find an Oak that grew full size in a six month period. Anna said it was definitely where the grace had landed, but that someone had taken it.

That night she started hearing them again.

"Guys, the angels are talking." They all stopped to look at her.

"What are they saying?"

"It's weird, like a recording. A loop. It says: Dean Winchester gives us Anna by midnight, or…we hurl him back to damnation."

"Well then." Kayla headed for the door.

Dean shook himself from the idea. "Where are you going?"

"To find Cas, and tell him where she is." She threw her hex bag on the table.

"Kayla." Sam sounded surprised but she didn't see why.

"You heard what she said! It's Dean or her," she looked at Dean. "And you are not going back for her."

"Kayla we can't just give her to them."

"I'll deliver her on a silver platter if they want it! You're not going back to hell because of a decision she made!"

Dean lowered her voice, she was really upset about this. "Baby calm down."

Now she looked at Anna. "Did you think that you could disobey a direct order from God and everyone up there would just be fine and dandy about it? You knew there would be consequences, why does he have to suffer for it?"

"Kayla it's…"

"No, she right." Anna told him and looked to Kayla. "You're right."

"Well aware." She walked out the front door.

"I'll talk to her." Dean followed her outside. "Kayla take your hex bag."

"No. Let them find us."

"They're bluffing, they won't send me back. They wouldn't have gotten me out just to send me back."

"And maybe they'll get you out again, maybe they think you need a reminder."

A shudder ran through him with that, he really didn't want a refresher course. "Okay but handing her over, that's just not what we do."

"I think what we do has changed, a lot."

"We'll find a way." He kissed her softly and gave a reassuring smile. In reality the whole thing scared the crap out of them, he was not looking for another trip downstairs.

Just after dark Dean was outside looking over angel lore. Kayla was still pissed and had resigned to a quiet spot in the house with Ruby, cooking up who knows what kind of plan to turn Anna in. He needed a little space himself and decided to do the solo research. After awhile Anna came up behind him.

"Hey," he tried to sound optimistic. "Holding up?"

"Yeah, a little scared I guess. I wanted to thank you, you guys didn't have to help me out."

"Let's skip the whole, thanks for trying speech huh? Participation trophies suck ass."

"It's not your fault, maybe I don't deserve to be saved."

"Don't talk like that."

"I disobeyed. Lucifer disobeyed. It's our murder one and I knew it. Maybe I gotta pay."

"Yeah well, we've all done things we gotta pay for."

She sat on the trunk of the car next to his paperwork. "I gotta tell you something. You're not gonna like it."

"Okay, what?"

"About a week ago, the angels were talking about you, about what you did in hell. Dean, I know." She reached out and touched his face. "It wasn't your fault. You should forgive yourself."

"Anna I don't want to…I can't, talk about that."

"I know, but when you can, there are people that want to help. You're not alone. That's all I'm trying to say." She stood up and looked at him for a moment, then leaned in and kissed him.

"What was that for?"

"You know, last night on Earth and all that."

"You're stealing my best line." He glanced towards the house. "But I can't."

She smiled, a little sad. "I know."

"I um," he was suddenly uncomfortable. The idea of sleeping with an angel was more than appealing and he knew where his weaknesses were. "I should go inside." He quickly gathered his materials and went into the house.