As Dean and Sam go to leave the next morning, they find Vespa waiting against the Impala for them. Ezra narrows his eyes at them - they're green this time - and rumbles threateningly in his throat. Vespa nudges him sharply with her toe.
"Relax" she tells him, "You know why we're here."
Ezra huffs, but settles his chin on his front paws without further complaint. Vespa rolls her head around to the brothers.
"You're welcome."
Dean raises an eyebrow. "For?"
"For you two were never at the scene."
The brothers exchange a glance, then Sam speaks:
"So, what happened?"
Vespa shrugs. "I felt like paying my respects to Lucius and found a couple of guys dropping a match in his grave. Naturally, I ran at them with a stick, but one of them clocked me in the jaw. By the time I came around, they were long gone."
"Thanks" Sam nods. "Don't worry about it" she mutters. She looks morosely at the ground. Ezra whines with a sympathetic look, and Sam frowns in concern.
"You okay?"
"No" she says and kicks at a random pebble, "I'm pretty sure I'm heartbroken."
"Why?"
She sighs. "I told Roderick. About everything." She glances at Ezra, whose ears are flattened with concern. "Mel, Lucius... Ezra. He knows about it all."
"So?" Dean asks, and she raises her eyebrow at him.
"So, how would you feel if whoever you lost your virginity to looked at you like this?" Her eyes widen in shock, then her brow puckers in confusion, her eyes narrow and her lip lifts in disgust, and finally she shakes her head and makes a soft, negative "Tch!" She turns as if to walk away, then leans dejectedly against the Impala.
Sam purses his lips. He has to admit, if Jess had ever looked at him like that, he wouldn't have known what he'd do.
"So, what are you gonna do now?" Sam asks. She sighs again.
"Well, just in case Roderick decides to go to the police with this, I'm gonna hit the road."
Sam then notices a small packed rucksack, a fireplace poker and a length of thick iron chain leaning against her far leg. Ezra drags himself to his feet with a groan. Vespa's mouth quirks up at that and she pats his shoulder comfortingly. The action makes a thought occur to Dean.
"Hey, isn't this the part where you offer us your dog in gratitude?" he asks with his usual bastard smirk. Ezra makes a noise that sounds almost exactly like "Hmm?" Vespa looks at his like he's just announced he's pregnant.
"Yeah, I'll trade him for your car and your cache of weapons" she scoffs. Dean reels.
"Hell no!"
"Good" she says decisively, "Glad we understand each other." She turns around to face them fully. "Look," she covers her sternum with her right hand, "you guys saved my life, and I will never stop being grateful to you for that. But," she raises her finger, "I also lied your asses out of a grave mutilation charge. According to me? We're even."
She fits the chain and poker like a sash around her torso and slings her bag across her shoulders before pulling herself onto Ezra's back.
"Y'know, Winchesters," she says thoughtfully, "I kinda hope we end up runnin' into each other again in a blue moon or so. Hopefully under better circumstances."
Sam chuckles in spite of himself, and Vespa beams.
"Well, until then." She gets weirdly serious for a minute. "Good luck, Winchesters. With whatever it is you're doing."
She and Sam hold gazes for a minute. She looks away first. "Well," she looks to the left, "westward, ho."
They watch Ezra trot off for a minute, the Sam speaks first.
"D'you think we'll ever see her again?"
"God, I hope not" Dean almost stomps around to the driver's side. "And hey," he asks as Sam opens his door, "what was that look? When she was talkin' about virginity?"
"What?" Sam asks, "I'm not allowed to be sympathetic?"
"All right, that's it," Dean decides, "You. Whorehouse. Tonight. No arguments. You're gettin' laid if I have to roofie you myself!"
Sam scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Your concern is touching, jerk."
"Ah, you know you love me, bitch."
Dean flips on the radio to a station that is so not his usual. The opening chords of "Hungry like the Wolf" have just started playing. They exchange a confused look.
"Oh, she is so dead" Dean punches the buttons for the right station, "Nobody plays with baby's buttons!" He guns the car out of the lot.
Vespa and Ezra join in a giggle before they turn on his heel and disappear into the Hanging Hills.
A/N: Well, that's that. I never intended this to be a very long story, it was kinda supposed to read like an episode of the show. As for why Ezra's eyes change color, people sometimes report that the Black Dog - any Black Dog - has different eye colors between sightings.
And not for nothing, but when I first wrote this out, I wasn't entirely sure about the notion that Sam did lose his virginity to Jess. I wouldn't be all that surprised to find out that he lost his virginity to Dean, but I highly doubt that was the case in any canon, head, fan or legitimate.
