Around 2 AM Dean was regaining his strength. The pain was leaking out of his head and body and he returned to normal.

I have decided to be nice and heal you, but only so you may do me a favour.

Dean sat up on his bed, relieved that he could actually do so. Just hours before he was too weak to talk or move. Though they couldn't do much to help him, the others sat with him until the early evening when Sam and Jael decided they wanted something to eat. Gabriel had managed to convince Jael to take a break for a day or two so she wouldn't exhaust herself. Sam fixed up a salad for himself and Jael (to which Gabriel wrinkled his nose and called him a rabbit) and they all sat down at the table to discuss Dean.

"Someone is hurting him," Sam started, "after he ate the apple, Dean said someone broke his arm. Whatever it is must be causing the rest of his pain, too."

"It is normal for him to have painful side effects from the trials – as you did – but this seems far too severe to be from the trials." Cas added.

"What's hurting him might also be controlling him, " Gabriel said, scooting back and putting his feet on the table. Sam swallowed a bite of lettuce and slapped Gabriel's shoes.

"Get your feet of the table, we're eating."

Gabriel groaned out a "fine" before folding his legs back under the table. "As I was saying, something might be controlling him as well. The last thing he said today was "I'll do it," meaning someone must be inflicting pain in order to get him to do – or not do – something."

"I'm taking a guess that it must be completing the trials, considering he suddenly decided he didn't want to be human anymore." Said Crowley.

Cas's eyebrows creased together. "But who would want Dean to stay a demon, or let alone know about the trials?"

Unfortunately, nobody knew the answer to that.

The Lucifer in Dean's mind was quiet for most of the evening until that moment at two in the morning.

"What do you want?" Dean asked aloud, mouth dry from not talking for ten hours.

Hopefully you have learned your lesson, Dean. Are you going to obey me this time?

Dean nodded hesitantly, then said "Yes" in a more determined manner.

Good. You are not going to question me, just do as I say. You might create some noise, but if you do this right, you'll succeed. First, you need to lock Sam's door so he can't get out.

Dean stepped out into the hall quietly and snapped his fingers, locking Sam's bedroom door.

Now take Jaelynna to the dungeon. Do not make a lot of noise.

Dean teleported into Jael's room and crept over to her sleeping body on the bed. He grabbed a shirt sticking out of her bag and sat on the edge of the bed. All of his movements were slow and cautious, when suddenly Dean lifted her head up and tightly wrapped the shirt around her head, covering her eyes. Jael woke up at the sudden movement and began to shriek, but Dean lifted his hand and she muted, cutting her scream off so it only sounded like a yelp. However, Sam woke easily at the small scream and hastily got out of bed, but soon realized the door was locked.

Sam narrowed his eyes in confusion but began to pound on his door. "Jael! Jael, you okay?" he yelled.

Jael, however, could not hear nor see anything. She attempted to scream but could only produce a faint raspy sound from the back of her throat. She thrashed around in Dean's grasp but he held her tight. He teleported into the dungeon and locked her up with handcuffs onto a chair.

Do I kill her?

Not now. First, destroy the tablet.

Dean went up to the main opening of the bunker where the tablet sat on the table where Jael last left it. Cas and Gabriel (Crowley had once again left) had gotten distracted by Sam's calls and went to him to unlock the door.

"What's wrong?" Gabriel asked once Sam had escaped his room.

Sam paused to catch his breath and then said, "I heard Jael scream and I want to make sure she's alright." The three of them walked into Jael's dark room and saw that she was no longer in her bed.

"I didn't see her walk out, where could she have-" Cas was cut off by a loud crashing sound and a clap of thunder. His eyes widened and they rushed out the hall and just barely saw Dean before he vanished. On the floor lay the tablet of Eden, broken into three pieces.

"He must've gotten Jael." Gabriel quickly deduced. They nodded in agreement.

"Where would he have taken her, then?" Sam asked.

"Anywhere, really. The easiest place he could have taken her would be the dungeon, but that's too-"

"Wait," Cas interrupted, "that's what he wants us to think. He knows we would most likely think he is in a secret far away location, so we'd run off looking for him. He's most likely still here."

Sam and Gabriel nodded. "What if they aren't down there?" Sam asked.

"Then they aren't down there. We'll have to look somewhere else." Gabriel replied quickly.

"Should we split up?"

"There's an odd number, we can't-"

"Come on," Cas interrupted again, "there's no time." He teleported the three of them into the dungeon.

Dean was standing in front of Jael, who still had the shirt wrapped around her eyes.

Kill her! Now!

Dean placed his hand on Jael's head; about to kill her with his demonic smiting, but Gabriel, Sam and Cas jumped out and pulled Dean away.

Fight them!

Dean managed to push Sam and Cas away, but Gabriel was more powerful. "Get Jael!" he said to Sam and Cas as he fought off Dean. Cas got the cuffs off of Jael and picked her up, handing her to Sam. Sam took her back up to her room while Cas helped Gabriel.

Dean attempted to injure Gabriel by smiting him, punching, and kicking.

My brother is more powerful than you, dumbass. Give in, the more you fight, the worse it'll get. You can deal with him later. Sam will be much easier.

Dean stopped fighting. Gabriel and Cas held onto him tightly. Sam came back down shortly. Sam looked at them up and down. "Put him in a devil's trap."

Dean stood in the center of the devil's trap, glaring at Sam. "Seriously, dude? A devil's trap?"

"Dean, you were going to kill Jael! She's traumatized!" Sam snapped. "I can't trust you, this is the only thing I can do." Sam turned around and started to walk out the door.

"Sam-"

Don't say anything. He already doesn't trust you.

Sam ignored him. "I'm going back to bed. " He mumbled, walking out the door. Gabriel glared at Dean before turning around and following Sam.

Cas stared at Dean mournfully, then started to turn around.

"Cas," Dean said softly. Cas didn't want to stop, but he did. He didn't want to look at Dean again after what happened, but he did. "I'm sorry, I…"

"I know." Cas whispered before Dean could say any more. Dean tilted his head in confusion, but Cas turned around and started walking out the door. Dean didn't say anything.

A/N: Okay, just letting you know now: my next update with either be in TWO DAYS or TWO WEEKS. It all depends on what I am doing Monday. This weekend I will be out of town, this week I will be WAY out of town, and next week I will be just a bit more of out of town but less than way out of town. I will have very limited to no internet access during this time.
Oh, I am so excited for the chapter I just finished writing. You'll have to wait for a filler chapter (which will most likely be posted monday) and then wait through the two weeks I'll be gone, THEN you get to read the chapter. Sorry for having to give you such a long wait, though.
I love all the wonderful reviews I'm getting, and wow, I never expected to have so many people reading my fanfiction! Thank you all so much.

ily you all,
-Cameron