"So, we went to her house and she kicked us out. How do we get to her to talk if she can literally just zapping us away when she sees us?" Dean said as he sat on the hood of his Impala.
The group had driven back to Oklahoma and was currently sitting a few houses down from Eris's house.
"Well, we could try surprising her," Sam said as he walked over and sat by his brother.
"That probably won't work, Eris is hard to surprise." Gabe said as Lucifer whined, "Yeah, planning birthdays was hard."
"You celebrated birthdays?" Dean said, surprised.
"You'd be shocked to know that I wasn't always a dick, we used to be a pretty close family." Lucifer said grumpily.
"Yeah, a long time ago." Gabriel said as Lucifer glared at him.
"Anyway," Sam said, knowing that the two were about to argue again. "We have to do something. We can't just leave Adam there with her."
"Why not, he's safe." Lucifer said, turning his glare to Sam.
"How do we know he's safe? He's with a stranger."
"Eris may be a stranger to you, but she's not to us. And Adam had been gone from the cage for probably a few years, she's probably not a stranger to him either."
"But she's still dangerous!" Dean said, raising his voice.
"There's a difference between dangerous and powerful Dean." Gabriel interjected.
"Yeah, but I guess Eris is both." Lucifer said, looking at his brother.
"Yeah, but only when she's mad at someone. Did she look mad at him to you?"
"No... " said Lucifer and the Winchesters in unison.
"Then your brother's fine." Gabriel concluded.
"Well we still can't leave him there. He's our brother." Sam said, still worried.
"Fine then, let's just go right up to her house then. She'll be more surprised if we just walk right in. Better yet, Daddy dearest can just zapping us in. Let's see how that works." Lucifer said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Chuck?" Dean said, turning to him.
"Fine." He replied, snapping his fingers.
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The group was now standing in Eris's living room, and were alone. They had all expected to see Eris as soon as the arrived, and expected her to come out and yell at them. Instead, the house was quiet, and it seemed like Eris was gone.
"Is she even here?" Dean said uneasily.
"I think so, it feels like it." Chuck replied as he looked around confused.
"Then why isn't she yelling at us?" Lucifer said as he started walking around, looking for her.
"I'm not sure."
"Maybe we should all start making noise. Yelling and throwing stuff." Gabriel said, laughing.
"If we do that then she'll really be pissed," Lucifer said, looking at Gabriel like he was an idiot.
"Well at least she would be out here."
"What the hell are you doing in my house?" Everyone turned around at the sound of the very angry voice, seeing Eris standing by the front door.
"Speak of the devil," Gabriel said as Lucifer glared at him.
"Eris we need to talk to you," Lucifer said as Eris scoffed.
"Maybe I don't want to talk to you."
"You have to!"
"Actually, I don't!"
"Yes you do! You have to talk to us and you have to talk to them!" Lucifer yelled as he pointed to the hunters.
"Why?" she said, putting her hand on her hip.
"Um-" Lucifer was interrupted as Dan walked forward and said angrily, "Because you kidnapped our brother!"
She just stared at him for a moment and then took a step forward. "I did not kidnap your brother!"
"Well then why is he here?" Sam said, a lot calmer than his brother.
Eris sighed and walked towards the couch in the middle of the living room and sat down. "Your brother was stuck in the cage. I know how bad hell is, especially for a human who was alive. He was in there for years, he didn't deserve that."
"So you just swooped down and saved him huh? Well let me ask you a question all mighty savior, why hasn't he been allowed to talk to us? Adam would've at least tried to find us." Dean replied, still angry.
"I'm not holding him here, he can do whatever he wants."
"So you're saying he didn't want to?"
"No, he wanted to."
"Then why didn't he?"
"Because be can't."
"But you just said he can!"
"I know what I said, I can hear myself talking just as well as you can."
Before Dean could say anything else, Gabriel walked over to try and stop the argument. "Eris wasn't named after the goddess of chaos for nothing, she likes making people angry."
"I do not!" She said, acting surprised.
"Yes you do" Gabriel, Lucifer and Chuck said at the same time.
"Well this is a serious conversation so I'm not just trying to make him angry. Maybe if he'd just listen he'd get the answers he wanted."
Dean was about to reply when Eris got a phone call and she answered, motioning for them all to be quiet.
"Hey, what are we having for dinner?" Adam said through the phone.
"I'm not sure, what do you want?" Eris said, turning away from the eavesdropping group.
"I don't really care, I'm at the store."
"Oh, well then get whatever you want, I don't really care either." She replied.
"Wow, you're so much help Eris."Adam laughed lightly. "Fine, if you won't choose. You're making spaghetti tonight." He said in a matter-of-fact tone. Eris smiled a bit and shook her head.
"Sounds good. See you later." She hung up the phone and turned back to the group. "You need to leave before he gets back." She told them.
"The hell we do! He's our brother!" Dean said, growing angrier by the second.
Eris just stood there for a second, looking at Dean with a blank face, before she turned to Sam.
"You were in hell for a while, left your soul there too. How was that?"
Sam looked suprised for a second and then sad, and replied, "like hell."
"Yeah, well imagine that for a few more decades. How crazy do you think you would've been then?"
Sam then realized what Eris was trying to tell him, and turned to his brother, "We should probably go. She's just trying to protect him."
"What the hell are you talking about!" Dean said, offended that the woman in front of him had gotten his brother to side with her.
"Hell! We are talking about hell! Dark, torturous, unrelenting, traumatizing hell!" Eris yelled, and when Dean still didn't seem to understand, Sam turned to him and said, "Adam has PTSD."