10. In which there is a pillow fight

As soon as Ruby hears about Dean's mysterious healing incident she insists on checking it up with various contacts, Jo, of course, insists on going with her. There is a long argument where Ruby says Jo will only slow her down and Jo says she's not letting a demon work on her own and that she might need backup. Jo wins and if Sam didn't knew better he'd think his demon friend has a soft spot for the girl, he has never been allowed to come with Ruby on any of her solo jobs. The girls checks out immediately and takes off in Jo's car to hunt down whatever healed Dean.

The next few days are spent on researching their other main objective; finding demons that can lead them to Lilith. Sam spends hours in front of the computer trying to find something useful, it goes slow, not only because he mixes it with research of mysterious miracle healing but because Dean is very poor help.

His demon brother is absorbed by practicing his demon mojo, he throws pillows around the room (often at Sam), sets fire to the digital clock by the bed, plays some kind of magic game with Kira and makes the toilet flush itself. Sam stands it for a while before he starts stopping the pillows and throwing them back at Dean with his psychic abilities. By the time Dean has to give up, Sam's been practicing this a lot longer, the room looks like a bomb went off.

This incident doesn't do much for the research but Sam finds himself less uncomfortable around his brother, Dean has changed, he knows that, so has he, but maybe it's not as bad as he first feared. He still knows how to have fun, or at least how to pretend to, Sam gets a feeling Dean is partly fooling around just to cheer him up and it's makes him smile as he goes back to the computer.

"You found anything on that Lilith bitch?"
"Would go faster if I had some help", Sam replies but he doesn't put any real force behind the words.
"Hey, I'm working", Dean says and waves with their dad's journal which he has apparently been reading in when he hasn't been terrorizing Sam.

"I don't think dad can help us find the closest demons today… try the yellow pages."
"Cute Sammy, I'm looking into this healing thing, just helping your demon girlfriend to find something useful."
"Ruby's not my girlfriend."
"Whatever, I'm not finding anything anyway, could be a witch I guess, seems the only thing that can do something like that is some kind of spell."

"I haven't found anything very good either, I've googled supernatural healing in a bunch of different ways and except fake faith healers and wicca pages I just keep getting up one word, angels."
"Angels?"
"I told you I didn't have anything, it's not that I don't believe in angels, I do, it's just that…"
"Why would angels heal a demon?" Dean says almost like he's talking to himself and Sam is surprised that his brother even seems to consider the possibility.

Dean grabs every chance there is to do more research on angels but the lore is somewhat divided and he can't find anything on how to get in contact with them , except praying, and that is simply out of the question. He tries to remember what other demons said about them while he was in hell but he can just remember that they were coming for him. As it turns out Sam finds signs of demonic activity before Dean finds anything useful on angels. Sam tries to call Ruby a couple of times before Dean dials Jo's number.

"Not a good time Dean", Jo says as she picks up after half a signal. He hurries to give her the coordinates.
"That's where we're going", he pauses. "What's going on over there? Ruby's not answering our calls."
"There was some complications and we lost her phone. Just kill him already!" she ads urgently to a third person, Ruby he assumes, a fact that is confirmed at the demon's response.
"No, we'll have to talk to him first."
"What? But the job was… Never mind, Dean, we'll be there, let me call you back."

Dean doesn't know whatever to be amused or worried when Jo hangs up, after a second he settles for amused, few things worry him nowadays, actually the only thing that worries him is Sam's and his own safety.
"Seems like they've gotten themselves in some kind of trouble", he says, assuming Sam will be worried even if he's not, however this just earns him a smile.
"They're tough, they'll be okay, let's just go hunt Lilith."

It feel's good to be behind the wheels of the Impala again, it's an eight hour drive and Dean loves every minute of it, he feels free, alive, it's perhaps the feeling he missed most while he was in hell, love, goodness, it was things he forgot what they felt like and he is only just now starting to have an idea, but freedom, that was something he always longed for.

When Ruby and Jo comes back the brothers have already checked in to a new motel, and the strategically meeting begins over dinner.
"So what did you found on your little field trip?" Dean asks as they wait for a waitress.
"A crazy witch and a very dead demon thinks it might be an angel", Jo says and orders a hamburger and a huge plate of French fries.

"Which is about what I have found", Sam responds and asks for a chicken salad.
"Which means we have absolutely no idea what it is, there's no such thing as angels", Jo says and Ruby starts to shake her head.
"I've told you, it's not impossible, I've never seen an angel, but as the talk goes, they might exist", Ruby says and then tells the waitress she won't have anything.

"I've never seen one either but while I was downstairs I heard the talk, angels invading hell. I think I heard Meg mentioned Lucifer being an angel once, and that's what the lore says too right? They definitely exists, what I can't understand is why one would heal me."

"What makes you so sure one did?"
"Nothing, it's just… This might sound weird, but the feeling when it healed me, it's not hard to believe it might have been an angel…" He doesn't tell them about the glowing light inside him, no need for them to know before he knows what it is.

Dean notices the waitress staring at him with an impatient look and is suddenly reminded that he hasn't actually eaten anything since he got back from hell, that has to be corrected immediately. He orders a cheeseburger and the waitress leaves the table in a hurry, all signs suggesting she wants to get away from this weird company as soon as possible.

"We'll have to check out some kind of summoning ritual", Ruby says. "There's an old church somewhere here, if I remember correctly they have a library, we could check it out. Next question, what have you guys found?"

"There were demonic omens over the town, means some major player's here, right? There's some missing kids too, but we can't be sure it's connected." Sam explains and the girls nods along.
"We have to assume it is", Jo says and takes her hamburger and French fries that the waitress just comes back with, She starts eating on the hamburger but passes the plate with all the fries to Ruby and Dean suddenly realizes she ordered it for the demon.

"We'll find out, one thing's sure, there's definitely other demons in town, I can feel them", Ruby says as she absently chews on her free food.
"Yeah, me too, it's like a smell or something…" Dean says as his cheeseburger and Sam's salad arrives.
"Which means Sam and Jo has to check it out, they'll smell us if we get to close."
"Great, they'll go check out the demons, we'll go check out the church", Dean says and takes a bite of his cheeseburger.

"Wow, this is spicy!"
Ruby chuckles at that.
"It's the salt, it's probably not much on it but you're a, what? Four days old demon, you're sensitive."
"Very funny", Dean says before his eyes falls on the fries that Ruby snacks on, covered in salt, he takes a deep breath, picks one up and eats it. He's close to spitting it up but goes for the beer to wash it down instead.

"How can you eat this stuff?"
"You get more resistant, it's just really spicy", Ruby says and takes another one.
"That's why you never eat anything else?" Sam asks and Ruby nods, she smiles but Dean knows eating those amounts of salt has got to hurt her, and he takes a moment to wonder why she would eat them in that case, then again, he knows how pain makes you feel alive.

"Your plan won't work by the way, the one where you and me go to the church together, don't like you like that."
"Get to the point Ruby", Sam says with a sight as Dean gives Ruby his most evil look and Jo laughs.
"He won't be able to get in, holy ground, I can make it with a slight nausea, but he won't be able to take a step inside the walls. That renders you quite useless Dean", she says with teasing voice.

"No need for that Ruby", Jo says and Ruby immediately shuts up and returns to her food. Dean just reaches for his jacket, won't be able to eat the cheeseburger now anyway, his mouth still on fire since the salt. He has just started to leave the table when Ruby breaks the awkward silence.

"Dean"
He considers ignoring her but stops anyway.
"It normally takes hundreds of years to make a demon, you just took forty, you're a rare case, if not unique. I thought you might be different, turns out you seem to have all the common demon weaknesses, but there still might be some rules that doesn't apply to you."

Dean simply nods before he leaves the diner, he might be more different than anyone suspects, he has to find that freaking angel, he's sick of not knowing anything, he feels himself getting angrier by the second.

Said" freaking angel" follows him from a distance as he walks back to the motel and takes the impala for a ride out of town, waiting for the right moment to reveal himself, even though he knows he shouldn't.

The new episode made me sad, I feel sorry for the boys, poor things. Review to make me happy again?