So Sam told them from the very start. How he and his brother were hunters, and that his brother was the human who drove the car. How his dad was what got them started. How when he was still a kid, a witch put a curse on him while their dad was out on a hunt. How his family thought he was dead and tried to catch the witch for revenge.
The girls didn't say anything as Sam described what his life was like adjusting to the sudden change before suddenly finding his brother again many years later.
Sam waited in silence, more than a little uneasy with the news he gave them, until something struck him; he'd never asked how they got there.
"How did you guys come to this dimension?" he asked them, "I mean, from what you told me, it sounds like your lives were pretty good there."
At that, Crystal winced and started fiddling with the ruby around her neck.
"That's actually my fault." She admitted.
"Kaidan has a few spell books and being the one for some reading material, I was able to drag one off the shelf." She explained, "I found one spell called 'world-hopping' but it didn't have a description on what or where it meant."
The girl sighed as she leaned forward and rested her head in her palm.
"I never fully realized that I mumbled when I read." She sighed, "Jess just came back from a scavenge and heard me mumbling the spell. She tried to stop me but by the time she reached me, I was already done."
The room seemed to grow colder, so much that Sam could see his breath, causing Jess to sit up.
"Ami don't let it get to you." Jess said gently, quickly walking to Crystal's side and taking her hand.
Sam stayed quiet as he shivered, at least grateful that it was gradually getting warmer.
"Sorry Sam." Crystal apologized, "Like I said, I can't really control my emotions and my magic is linked to my emotions."
Jess sighed as she stood up, her hand resting on Crystal's shoulder.
"Maybe you should head back Sam." She huffed.
Sam blinked at this, confused.
"You have been here a while Sam." Crystal agreed, "I'm sure your brother's worried by now at what's taking so long. Jess would've if it were me."
The man looked around, nothing in the home showed any sign of what time of day it was. Their conversation couldn't have gone that, long could it?
Movement from the girls caused Sam Winchester to look up and see Jess walking to the washcloth, reaching on the opposite side where Sam could not see, and produced another bag hand-sewn to look like a backpack.
"What's going on?" he asked as Jess handed the backpack to Crystal.
"What's it look like?" Jess retorted, raising an eyebrow at the man, "We're going with you to meet your brother."
Both Crystal and Sam appeared alarmed with this news.
"What?" both of them asked.
Jess rolled her eyes at the two.
"Think about it," she started, "you guys handle with so much more supernatural than either Crys or I have seen in this world. What if you guys some sort of clue to at least help us find a way back."
Hearing this, Crystal seemed to consider the suggestion, even if they might meet a hunter. A human hunter at that.
"Sam?" she looked at the man uneasily, "It's your call. D-do you think you and your brother could help us find a way home?"
He looked back and forth between the two.
"What about the spell you used?" he asked, "Don't you guys have the book?"
Crystal shook her head sadly.
"For starters, it was left behind in our world when the spell was cast." She told him, "And secondly it wasn't our size. It was Kaidan's. If it did tag along, it didn't land where we did."
Jess sighed as she ran a hand through her curls.
"Honestly I hope that it stayed in Kaidan's loft." Jess admitted as she leads the others out of their home, making sure that the door was sealed shut to keep dust and bugs out of their residence.
"I mean," she continued, "if it did follow us, someone could easily get their hands on those spells. It doesn't matter if the person is human or some demon-dealing-witch, knowing Kaidan, those spells were most likely VERY powerful."
Sam had to agree with Jess's reasoning, if a demon or a witch were to get ahold of power like that, who knows what kind of stuff they could do.
"What did you find in that book anyway?" he asked Crystal, staring at the girl curiously.
She shrugged, "Increasing one's wealth, cursing one's enemy on different levels; one even went as far as making sure they had a life-time of bad luck."
"Still," she continued, tilting her head to look at Sam, "with all the studying I've done with Kaidan's books and before meeting him, I've never heard of an irreversible shrinking spell."
"Must have been some demon to let her be that powerful that's connected to your soul." Jess said, averting her eyes to hide the concern she admittingly had for the hunter.
"I mean, Kaidan can shrink his victims," Crystal admitted surprising Sam, "but he eats them right after. Even he doesn't fully know if the spell is permanent or it'll end after some time."
Jess looked at her cousin, her brows furrowed at a thought.
"But he shrank the shop owner though." She stated, "And he's still our size."
"I kinda forgot about him." Crystal admitted, "Last time I saw him he seemed more relaxed than when he was a giant. Even saw him courting Miss Angie."
"The woman that lives in that garden?" Jess asked, intrigued, "Really? I was starting to worry if she would find a man in time."
"Wait back up a moment," Sam interrupted, "you're telling me that your boyfriend," he pointed at Crystal, "shrinks humans?"
The girls had momentarily forgotten that they were with Sam and looked a bit embarrassed with how they were gossiping.
"Well yeah." Jess said, "He doesn't do it often, says it takes quite a bit of energy to do those kinda spells."
"We made him promise to only shrink those who have wronged the innocent." Crystal tried to reason, "It's the same as the deal Jess made with him on the deal Jess made with him on the matter of Tinies she's brought to him."
Even as she tried to explain, Sam could see how the matter was disapproved of by her. He sighed, brushing his hair away from his face. It was hard for him to accept that these two girls were willingly giving a demon humans as sacrifices. Yet from Crystal's reaction, she was more so the forgiving side and very reluctant on the matter of human sacrifice.
Still, Sam wasn't sure how he completely felt on the matter. Nor was he sure how his brother would react to all this news.
