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Sam woke with a groan. Motel beds were the worst and somehow he always managed to get the bed with the springs that dug into his back.
He turned his head and his eyes landed on Dean's untouched bed.
Dean hadn't been the same since coming back from Purgatory, he had been quiet and subdued and all of this Benny business had just made it worse.
Late last night he had said he was heading out to pick up some beer for them both. That had been almost close to midnight.
Sam pulled himself up into a sitting position, swinging his legs around to the side of the bed.
As he did, there was rattling of keys in the corridor outside and the door was suddenly pushed open.
"Morning Sammy," said Dean with a grin, flinging the motel room key down onto the table.
Sam opened his mouth, ready to ask his brother where he had been all night, when a slender figure appeared, silhouetted against the doorframe behind hm.
"Hello Sam."
"E-Elba!" said Sam, suddenly pulling the sheet over himself, trying to cover up his half naked body in the presence of the former angel. "What are you doing here?"
"I gave her a call and asked if she wanted to hang with us for a while," uttered Dean.
"In the middle of the night?" asked Sam with a bewildered frown, but Dean shot him down with a look.
"We were going to get some breakfast, you comin'?" said Dean, coolly skimming over the question.
Sam looked between the pair for a moment before finally answering. "Yeah, I'll be out in a sec."
Dean gave a nod, before ushering Elba back out of the shabby motel room.
Sam sat for a while, a little bemused.
He hadn't seen the former angel in about a year and he was surprised that she was one of the people Dean had gone to so soon after his return from purgatory.
Sam gave a smirk. He had a good idea why.
Shaking his head he got to his feet, grabbing his toothbrush and heading into the bathroom.
Sam strolled into the diner and his eyes settled on his brother and Elba, in a booth on the far side of the room. They were sat side by side, pouring over the menu, giggling at each other like schoolchildren. Dean's arm was draped haphazardly over the back of Elba's seat, their bodies turned in towards each other.
Sam smiled to himself, shaking his head.
They had no idea, did they?
Dean looked up as his younger brother approached. "Hey Sammy," he said with a grin, "Elba here says she can eat more pancakes that me."
Dean glanced at her and raised his eyebrows.
Elba gave him a playful shove. "What, you don't believe that I can?"
Dean cocked his head at her as Sam slid into the seat opposite the pair. "I believe that you'll try," he said nudging her back.
The pair grinned at each other as Sam rolled his eyes.
They definitely had no idea, he thought to himself, as the waitress appeared at the table.
For two days, Sam endured the giggling, until he finally snapped.
The trio were holed up in a shabby motel room, researching a case which involved the murders of three farmers and a missing girl who a local boy had sworn he'd seen levitating above her home.
Elba had a room next door to the two Winchesters, but at the moment, she was here sat on Dean's bed, a book propped open on her lap, as the older Winchester sat at her side.
Dean had spent the last thirty minutes, pointing to things in Elba's book and making comments about them, causing the pair to burst into bouts of laughter.
Sam who was sat at the table in the corner of the room, violently turned a page in the parchment text he was reading, in annoyance.
He gritted his teeth as another wave of giggles floated over from Dean's bed.
That was it.
"Will you guys quit it!" Sam yelled loudly, causing both Elba and Dean's smiles to disappear from their faces as they glanced up in shock.
"Quit what, Sammy?" asked Dean, leaning forwards, his eyebrows knitting together.
Sam swung around in his chair to face them. "I'm just saying, if you two want to quit flirting and perhaps maybe do some research, it would really help."
Dean cocked his head as Elba gaped.
"W-We weren't flirting," said Elba staring wide eyed, eyes flickering between Sam and Dean. "W-We were just studying, right Dean?"
"Just ignore my brother, El. He just thinks he's being funny," said Dean shooting Sam a look. "…. but he's soooooo not."
He turned back to Elba but her face was still a picture of fright.
She got immediately to her feet, her book toppling to the floor. The boys stared up at her.
"I'm so sorry," she said grabbing her jacket from the bed. She looked at Dean, tears pricking at her eyes. "I-I never meant-"
But before she could finish her sentence, she had fled from the room and slammed the door shut behind her.
The sound of the door reverberated for a long moment. Dean slowly turned towards his brother and got to his feet.
He was angry.
"What the hell are you playing at?" he said pointing his finger threateningly at Sam.
Sam crossed his arms across himself defensively. "No, what are you playing at Dean? Do you forget that that girl is an ex-angel and the girlfriend of one of your best friends."
Dean scowled, his nostrils flaring. "You have no idea, Sam. FYI, if anything she's his former girlfriend. And if you remember, Cas just left her. You have any clue what that did to her? How much it broke her?" Dean stared down at his brother furiously. "All I'm doing is being there for her when he wasn't."
And with that Dean stormed out of the motel room and into the cool night air.
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