When we made our way to the impala Dean greeted the car as though it could understand him.
"Hi baby." He said as he opened the trunk to get the things ready we would need to kill the ghoul that had been tormenting this town for the past eighty years or so.
He looked over at me to see a wide smile spread across my face.
"What?"
"Nothing Dean I think she likes when you talk to her." I smiled again as his cheeks turned slightly red.
"So what's the plan?" Sam asked as Dean was putting quite a large machete into a duffle bag to cover his reddened cheeks.
"It seems the best route to go is good ole decapitation Sammy."
He was looking for other large weapons so that we could all get the ghoul with one hit.
"Cas do you think you can figure out where the crypt is so we don't have to spend hours looking for it?" Sam looked at me wondering if I was still able to help since my last visit to heaven.
"Yes, I will look right now." Before Dean or Sam could say anything else I was in the woods near on the outskirts of town. It was quiet and I couldn't understand why nature seemed to be so still today. I looked around to see just the tree line and a few stones but no signs of a crypt. I started to walk and I opened my senses to see if the crypt was hidden under the debris of fallen leaves gathered over the years. About fifteen feet where I stood I heard a noise, it sounded like a muffled scream. I cloaked myself and made my way to where the noise came from. I found a sink hole that had been covered by leaves, the scream came again but this time it was clearer cause I was where the sound had come from now, I made my way down the sinkhole. The sinkhole wasn't that at all it was just a large amount of leaves and dirt over the entrance to the crypt that opened up to a vast room filled with alcoves in the walls so that the unnamed could be buried together. I continued to look around remaining cloaked, as I moved to look into one of the alcoves I saw a beam of light shine down from a shaft up above. Then I saw what most people would see as a simple person moving around in the dark, but not me I saw his true form, he was the creature that Dean and Sam were looking for. I pushed forward following the ghoul down a corridor, I could hear him talking to himself.
"This one is trouble."
"I know but there is nothing we can do now, she has found our home and now she knows what we are. It won't be long until there are hunters after us, we've lived here for too long to let someone mess it all up now."
It seemed that Sam's theory was wrong about it being a ghoul acting alone. I now saw that there was a much smaller person there in the corridor a young boy, as he stepped into another beam of light.
"Please! Just let him go I will do anything just don't harm him!" the cries were coming closer and I could see the woman who was pleading with the ghouls. She was in her mid-thirties and her hair was short and brown, tears streamed down her dirt covered face marking her face with the line of tears. I came into the chamber now listened to her pleading hoping that Dean and Sam were already on their way.
"Let him go!" she sobbed.
"Quiet." The larger ghoul spoke slowly and made its way over to the woman who I could now see was bound to the wall behind her.
"If you hadn't come looking this wouldn't have happened…" he said has he leaned into her and began to smell deeply at her scent.
"That's my sister's son! I will not leave him here with you!" she spat.
"Ha! You ignorant fool! That is not your nephew; he has been dead for weeks."
The look on the woman's changed from one of fight to one of abandonment. The small ghoul who had looked now like the woman's nephew came up to her and looked her in the eyes.
"Oh I remember you… or at least I remember what Tyler remembers." He let out a small chuckle as the woman burst into tears.
"What have you done with my nephew!?"
"Ha-ha, we ate him and your sister, it wasn't even difficult." Said the one who looked like Tyler.
"We are the things that go bump in the night." Added the taller one as he leaned in again for another whiff of his latest meal. I could take it no longer, I know that I was out numbered but I could no longer allow these foul creatures torment this woman especially when one of them was wearing the skin of her dead family.
I revealed myself to the room.
"I will no longer stand for this." I said calmly as all he eyes in the room towards me.
"What the…" before the small ghoul could finish his train of thought I was in front of him. I placed my hands on either side of his head and twisted his head off. The other one started to run towards the entrance from which we both came as the woman bound to the wall began to scream extremely loud. I made my way down the call and came to the entrance. The ghoul had made it outside and was making a run for it, I appeared outside just as the body of the larger ghoul fell to the ground. Dean was standing there with his machete and Sam beside him, Dean looked upset.
"What the hell Cas! Where the hell were you? You said that you were going to go find it not start this off solo."
I could hear the frustration in his voice; I looked at Sam and said.
"Sam there is a woman who is bound in one of the chambers as well as another dead ghoul, it seems there it was a pair and not solo like you originally thought." Sam just gave me a nod and began to make for the entrance of the crypt.
"Cas… what were you thinking?" Dean walked over to me and placed both his hands on my shoulders and gave me a look over, seeing if I was hurt.
"Dean, I am not a wounded bird. I am a celestial being." Dean looked into my eyes and pulled me into a tight hug.
"I know Cas, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't scare me when you disappear like that. What if something happened to you?" His voice became soft as he came to his fear of me being hurt.
"That is just something we both have to deal with, when you go hunting I will worry about you as well but I have faith in you Dean. I know that you can handle anything."
"Cas I trust you but I don't work alone I have Sam, and I have you."
"I'm sorry Dean it won't happen again." He gave me a squeeze and gave me a kiss on the forehead.
"It better not." He said with a smile, which let me know that we were okay and he was no longer upset with me. He let go of me and we started to make our way to the dead ghoul that Dean decapitated with his machete. I picked up the head as Dean began to drag the body back to the crypt by the feet. We were met at the entrance by Sam who was holding onto the newly freed woman who looked like she was in shock.
"Did you get anything out of her Sammy?" Dean asked as he dropped the body back into the crypt.
"No she just keeps talking about Tyler." He said as she looked over at Dean and I.
May I?" I asked the woman as I reached my fingertips to her head.
"Tyler was her nephew, the ghouls ate her sister and her son. She was out here looking for him because they hadn't found his body only her sisters and she would talk to her sister who told her that Tyler would be out in the clearing. She came here to find anything that would help her find Tyler but she stumbled upon the crypt and the ghouls occupying it. The ghoul I killed in the crypt was disguised as Tyler, he was about ten."
Dean just looked at me realizing that I was indeed not a wounded bird. I looked over at the woman and at Sam.
"This woman has been through a lot Dean, the ghoul wearing disguised as her nephew spoke to her about his fate. Would it be okay to make her forget that part?"
Dean looked at me and gave me a small nod, Sam looked somber but relieved that she wouldn't have to live with those images of her dead nephew speaking about his horrible death at the hand of ghouls. Once again I gently placed my finger tips to her forehead and she went limp in Sam's hands.
"Sammy why don't you drop her off at the hospital and make something up if you need to." Dean looked back to me and said.
"Me and Cas will burn the bodies."
Sam looked at us and said.
"Alright I will be back in an hour or less." And he scooped the woman up into his arms with ease and began to make the trek back to the Impala.
"Show me the where to take him." Dean said gesturing his hand towards the entrance.
I lead the way with the ghouls head hanging from my hand, we turned down the corridor that opened up into the chamber that I had killed the smaller ghoul.
"Damn Cas…" Dean had spotted the body that lay crumpled on the floor and its head a few feet away from when I tossed it.
"I couldn't handle the way he was speaking to the woman, rubbing it in about her nephew as he wore his skin!" I heard my voice reverberate against the cold walls. Dean looked at me and I could see that he understood what I meant.
"It's okay Cas, you got him, you did good." We smiled at each other and worked the rest in silence. Once Dean lit the booklet of matches and throw it on the bodies of the monsters we made our way outside. When we got back to the road we sat down on a fallen tree and Dean picked my hands up and gave it a kiss.
"I love you Cas." He laced his fingers in with mine and he smiled that beautiful smile of his.
"I love you too Dean." And as I was about to lean in to lay my lips against his my stomach betrayed me and let out quite a loud rumble.
Dean just laughed and kissed me anyway.
"If you'd stayed back we all could have gotten something to eat."
"You and Sam didn't eat?" I suddenly felt extremely bad for making him and Sammy skip their meal so that they could come find me.
"It's fine, you're the one who sounds hungry anyway!" Dean laughed again and looked at his watch it was now three o'clock and I know he had to be just as hungry as I was.
"We'll stop to grab a bite on the way back to the hotel when Sammy picks us up. What do you want to eat?"
"The only thing that I have eaten while in the vessel is hamburgers." Remembering the time where Jimmy's appetite for beef was almost insatiable.
"I quite enjoyed those." I said a bit embarrassed.
"If it's a burger my little hunter wants then a burger he will get." Dean exclaimed with over enthusiasm.
"I thought I was your angel?" I let out a laugh before I felt the pressure of Deans perfectly soft lips against mine, I couldn't help but smile and I could feel him smiling as well.
