~Dean's P.O.V.~

We drove for what seemed like a few hours and still no sign of Laura anywhere. Jess sat in the back, anxiously looking out the windows to look for Laura, Sam was there trying to help her keep a level head.

"This is getting us nowhere!" I announced with more emotion than I intended to show. "Laura's not anywhere up or down this street. I'm starting to think that she is actually in trouble, and if that's true then we need to figure out a way to track her. Maybe Cas can use some angel mojo he has to find her. Either way we need a plan."

"Dean, wait pullover!" Jessica yelled hurriedly from the back, I stopped the car and almost instantly she was out of the car and picking up something off the street. "These are Laura's headphones, maybe they fell out of her pocket."

"This means that she's really in trouble." Sam echoed all our thoughts. I looked toward the street, thinking, looking for clues. Then it flew out at me, like a clown in the middle of a forest.

"Tire tracks heading up to the curb." I pointed to what had caught my attention. "The sons of bitches jumped her!"

"Who jumped her?" Jess asked me as she walked closer to see the tracks better in the dim light.

"Demons," Sam said as he stood up. He was rubbing something between his thumb and index finger. "I found some sulfur where her headphones were."

"Don't demons just kill people?" Jess asked with fear in her voice.

"Not if you have something they want." Sam replied wiping his fingers on his pants.

"Laura could possibly still be alive. We should follow these tracks to see where they lead." I suggested as I sat back in the drivers seat.

"What would they want with her?" Jess asked as she climbed in the passengers seat.

"Possibly, her blood." Sam answered.

"What do you mean her blood? What about her blood do they want?"

"She has demon blood in her. I have it in me, too. That's what gives us our psychic abilities."

"Demon blood?! So you're both part demon?" Jess pointed back and forth between Sam and I.

"No, just the people with the psychic abilities. I don't have any demon blood in me." I reassured her. Though she didn't look reassured at all.

Later we stopped at a motel in Boulder City, Nevada. We looked for Laura for an hour. She was no where to be found in Nipton. I figured the closest city they could have taken her would be Vegas. Most demons like large populated cities to hide in, too many people for anyone to notice anything strange. I left Sam and Jess at the motel while I went to the bar to ask if anyone had seen Laura. I got a picture from Jess to show people.

"Have you seen this girl?" I asked the bartender.

"No sorry, haven't seen her. Is she your girlfriend?" she asked back, leaning forward and obviously trying to distract me.

"Y-Yeah, she is." I replied before I could think of anything else. The bartender looked disappointed in my answer then she shook her head. "Thanks anyways. If you do see her, could you give me a call?" I handed her my number.

"Sure thing, handsome." she winked at me and went back to serving and flirting with the other customers.

I walked out of the bar into the busy late night city life. I walked a couple blocks trying to clear my mind to think of where they could have possibly took her, but I couldn't get Laura off of my mind. Everything reminded me of her.

'What am I doing? I can't be acting like this. Her life is on the line right now.' I thought to myself as I walked back to my car. I turned the radio on and REO Soundwagon's song 'Can't Fight This Feeling' was playing. I angrily pushed the radio off.

"Angry about something Dean?" Cas's voice came from the seat next to me. I hadn't expected him to be there and almost jumped out of my seat when I heard him.

"What are you doing here Cas?" I sighed, trying to show him I wasn't ready for bad news at the moment.

"I talked to Frea."

Cas had my attention now, I turned to him and waited for him to explain. Cas didn't catch on, just stared out the front windshield with that same scowling expression he always had, like he was always confronting the bigger problem in life. "And...what happened?" I asked

"She hates your very existence, that much is clear."

"Yeah thanks for the news flash captain obvious."

"So I told her I'm working alone, she seemed the tiniest bit satisfied that I had not gone there on your behalf, however, it wasn't enough."

"You mean she refused to help?"

"I believe her words were, and I quote, 'The world can burn in hell for all I care.'...unquote." Cas continued looking out the windshield as he talked.

My palms hit the dashboard, not only was Laura missing but we now had no way of destroying possibly the badest demon mother there was. "Great." I muttered under my breath. "How are we supposed to kill Eris the alpha demon then?"

"You mean before she raises all of hell against humanity and destroys the human race that god created then marches to the doors of heaven and declares war on angels and demon kind alike?"

I looked at him like the answer was obvious. "Yeah. Before life as we know it ends would be nice."

"My only idea would be to raise the archangels to smite her."

"How in the hell do we get an archangel to kill her? We could be ants for all the attention they pay us."

"If the archangels understand why god created the human race in the first place maybe we can get them to protect god's creations. All angels serve god perhaps we could use that as leverage."

"Okay but how do we get in contact with an archangel?"

"I'm on it." Suddenly Cas was gone and I was alone in my car again.

It was too quiet so I turned on the radio, Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas was playing. Accepting the music and grateful for something else to come to my ears besides misery I turned it up.

I drove back to the motel to tell Sam and Jess the news, but I found them asleep, in the same bed. They both faced opposite walls of the room. I just sat down on the other bed, not really wanting to sleep. All I wanted to do was make sure Laura was back and safe with us then kill that son of a bitch, Eris. My thoughts soon put me to sleep.

~Sam's P.O.V.~

When we all woke up and had packed our things, we headed out to Dean's impala to begin the search for Laura, again. Dean had that far away look again, I could never read his face or understand what he was thinking when he makes that face. We searched all over the city for her, flashing her picture at almost any person who could've ever had contact with her but still nothing. One time we almost got recognized when I stepped into a convenience store and the T.V. was showing the playback of that time in Albuquerque, luckily we got out of there before anyone could figure out who we were.

Dean seemed to be getting more upset by the minute, Jessica had mostly tried to keep a level head, she told us places Laura would've automatically came to if she was wandering the streets. Out of us all Jess knew Laura best and we figured if Laura was on the streets by some dumb luck we could try and check the places that seemed most likely she would go. But after a whole bunch hoopla Dean suggested we resort to calling Cas.

"Worth a try, if we can't find her Cas might be able to." I agreed and so I began to pray, "Castiel...we could use your help on this." No sooner had I begun speaking then Cas appeared in the back seat next to Jess.

"You called?" Was all he said.

"Cas we need your help to find Laura, you know the girl from the motel in Nipton. we think demons got her and we need your help to find her." Dean told him.

Cas scowled again, his eyes squinted and his brow furrowed, "The one with the brown hair right, taller than her friend?"

"Yes." Dean answered him expectantly.

"I can't seem to get a fix on her location. The most I can do is the last spot she was unprotected."

"Wait, protected? From what?" I ask.

"Anti-angel runes. It's a small street near the motel in Nipton, I'm assuming you've checked there though?"

"That was where we found her headphones and where we found out she had been jumped by demons." Dean said. "Son of a bitch!" He slammed the steering wheel.

"Perhaps now you can focus on the task at hand?" Cas waited for an answer however Dean and I waited for him to explain. "Finding a way to kill Eris." He leaned forward and spoke the words as though they were obvious.

"And what Cas you want us to leave Laura?" Dean asked him.

"Is saving one human life more important than saving all of the world and heaven?" Cas seemed to think the answer was simple but Dean looked infuriated.

"We are not going to leave her to the demons! She's a psychic, like Sam, and that means they are mostly likely using her for unpleasant things!"

"What if they're using her to get you to go after her?" Cas said plainly.

"So?" Dean countered.

"Dean, don't get too over your head trying to save her. We need to focus on killing Eris and frankly this girl," Cas spat the word girl like it was poison, "is distracting you."

"You did not just go there Cas…" Dean said threateningly.

"When you're ready to search for Eris with me, call me I will be waiting." Then Cas was gone. I looked over at Dean and noticed his face had gone red, his lips pursed. Everyone was silent in the car until Jess spoke up.

"Maybe we should find another motel and start searching for her in the morning?" Jessica's voice was small and almost not there.

"Yeah." Dean said and started the car.