"I didn't kill the guy in the mine! Neither of us did!" Tom called out for about the thirteenth time within the hour. He, as well as Aline (a tactic just to see if they would blab about how exactly they would tell their story to Axel while he watched on the other side of the two-way mirror. The only things they'd talked about were the last few hunts she'd went on with Sam and Dean), was sitting on a chair in the Harmony PD's interrogation room.

Axel paced behind them, waiting to see if either one of them confessed to what they clearly didn't do.

"I know that somebody wants you to think that we did, but we didn't!" Aline added.

"Relax," Axel said, sitting in a chair across from the cousins. "We'll talk about that in just a moment." He sat there for a moment, staring at them. "So...why are the both of you really back in town?"

"You know why," Tom said.

"No. I don't know why someone would miss their own father's funeral, their only living uncle's funeral, when their best friend and ex-girlfriend went to it, but show up to sell the only thing that daddy and uncle left them."

"If you really must know, I actually was in the area for Uncle Eli's funeral. With Sam and Dean. I asked them if we could drive to the church since we were close by. Plus, we had just wrapped up a case," she stated.

"The three of you travel a lot for your job?"

Aline nodded.

"What's your job then?"

"FBI. Except we're taking a little vacation because I wanted to at least visit this town one more time."

Axel's brow cocked in disbelief. "FBI. If I recall correctly, it wasn't your dream job. You wanted to be a journalist."

"Dreams change. Especially when some wacko tries to kill you on your way back from work."

"When?"

"Four years ago. St. Louis. Sam and Dean saved me. I've since returned the favor, and we've been working together ever since. We're about as close as me and Tom, to be honest."

"What was the case that you finished?"

"That's classified." It was a ghoul going rampant in Wheeling, taking random people from a certain bar. Luckily, she and the Winchesters managed to gank it without any major injuries.

"Maybe I should ask Sam and Dean what it was."

"They'll just tell you the same thing I did."

"Then tell me why neither Sarah or I never saw you at the funeral."

She was silent for a few minutes as she leaned forward, putting her elbows on the table and narrowing her eyes at Axel. "All you need to know is that some crazy person was doing crazy crap, and it caught the attention of our boss. We caught him, he's rotting in jail, end of story. And, in case you haven't heard, we aren't selling the mine."

"In fact, we've decided to stick around town," Tom threw in.

"I'm only gonna be able to stay for five months before Dean and I get reassigned to a different team."

"True."

Axel leaned forward and glared at them both. "And why is that? Staying, I mean," he asked.

Tom remained quiet for a moment, sharing a look with Aline, before smiles curled onto their lips.

"You know she only settled for you. Right?"

"My God." Axel laughed. "What the hell did you just say tome?" he asked.

Aline leaned forward with a smirk, that mindset of mentally torturing Axel subconsciously playing in her head. "Sarah," she clarified. "Settled. For..."

She didn't get to finish before Axel's fist was connecting with her jaw, followed by Tom's, and the table they had just been sitting at went flying across the room. Axel went forward and tackled both cousins to the wall, one hand grasped tightly on their shirts.

"You stay the fuck away from my wife!" Axel yelled at them. "Both of you! You hear me?" That's when Martin burst in and separated Axel from the cousins. "You both stay the fuck away from my wife!"

"Axel!" Martin yelled. "Axel, calm down," Martin said.

"Lock them up, Martin! Lock their asses up!" Axel yelled.

Aline and Tom rubbed their sore jaws and checked each other for other injuries.

"I can't do that!" Martin yelled. "The miner foreman confirmed that both Tom and Aline were stuck in that cage when they came down." He paused for a moment to allow Axel to take it all in. "Somebody else was down there. Maybe two somebodies. And after what we found in that box a couple days ago, I guarantee you that they were looking for another heart to give to..."

She froze at the mention of the box, remembering her nightmare from the night before she talked with Sarah. Harry and Red Hood had put Irene's heart in a heart-shaped candy box to give to Axel. Tom glanced over at her and took her hand in his reassuringly. She had mentioned the nightmare to him on the way back to the motel.

"That's great," Axel said as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "That's fuckin' wonderful." He walked out of the room and slammed his fist against the wall.

Both cousins stared at him for a moment.

*~*~*~*SPN/MBV*~*~*~*

Aline, Tom, and Ben got out of the police station sometime later. The younger two were angry. Very angry.

Ben spoke while they walked in the street. "Won't be long before Axel locks you both up for good."

"Just because Axel wants to think that we did it doesn't mean that we did. There was someone else down there," Tom answered.

Aline clenched her jaw, one thought coming to mind. Maybe she was getting a bit restless from the small vacation the brothers (more Sam than Dean, Dean had admitted) had insisted upon, but she was sure Harry, along with someone else (maybe a demon that discovered him?), haunted the mine.

"Yeah, Harry and some other nutjob with a DC obsession. You don't stop saying that. But how? Why?"

"I don't know, Ben," Aline answered honestly. "Maybe to finish what he started ten years ago."

"If I were you two, I'd grab your buddies and get the hell out of town."

Both cousins shook their heads, not agreeing.

"No. No, we're not running this time," Tom stated, leaving no room for arguments. "We're gonna find them."

Tom and Aline opened the doors of his truck (they had ridden to the station in it after she reassured Sam and Dean that she'd be fine) and got in.

"If you don't find either of them, I'm betting they find you."

"Or you," Aline answered back.

Ben didn't say anything and, after a last look towards him, the cousins left.

*~*~*~*SPN/MBV*~*~*~*

That night, Tom, Aline, and the Winchesters (they had insisted upon coming, and both cousins agreed) drove down to the mines in the Impala. Tom opened the doors of the infamous tunnel with an iron crowbar while the three hunters held guns loaded with salt rounds and iron crowbars (flasks of holy water and demon knives in their pockets), along with flashlights.

Aline had told the boys her theory, and none of them objected the idea or gave evidence that proved otherwise. That was why they had the salt-loaded guns, iron crowbars, and holy water on them.

But they didn't get in. Both brothers tried picking the lock, but they were about as unsuccessful as Tom was. The four of them turned around and walked a little while Tom looked for the tablets in his coat.

"Since we know where his body is, we could burn his bones," Sam suggested. "Maybe it'll stop Harry from haunting the ones who have something to do with this place."

"But what about the demon?" Aline questioned. "We don't know who it's possessing since it's and body are covered by the Red Hood costume."

"We'll focus on getting rid of Harry first. Then we'll worry about the demon. Sam and I'll burn the bones. You two make sure no one comes out of there. If it's the demon, exorcise it," Dean replied, earning a nod from Aline. "That means stay here."

"Right."

"We'll keep the car here."

The brothers then walked toward Harry's resting place. Once they were gone, Tom looked over at her.

"How are you gonna exorcise it? Wouldn't it hurt you?" he inquired, popping two pills in his mouth.

She pulled a tape recorder out of her pocket, a pair of headphones wrapped around it. "Bobby recorded it for me, and he gave this to me when he found out what I am," she replied. "I bought the headphones, though. I don't want demonic earwax in my ears. Cool, right?"

Before he even answered her, Tom turned back to the door, his face paling and his eyes widening in shock. She followed his line of sight and saw it.

The door was open.

Fear.

Aline quickly pulled her gun out of the back of her jeans, and they both aimed their flashlights toward the inside of the tunnel.

Nothing.

Tom raised his light to see above the tunnel before nudging his cousin. That was when she saw what he saw: a light in the forest. They both lowered their lights and watched, Aline's heart beating faster in her chest. Then the light disappeared, surprising her. They glanced at each other for half-a-second before running towards the light's direction. When they were at the place where the light was, Aline looked around them.

Somewhere in the back of her mind, a voice reminded her of the fact that Dean had said to stay in front of the entrance of tunnel five.

Just then, her eyes fell on someone, pushing the voice all the way to the back of her mind. She and Tom kept on running, hoping to catch the person.

Suddenly, they came in front of an old cabin. Her grip on her gun tightened when she heard the sound of a twig cracking. She whirled around to see, but no one was there. She lowered her gun slightly (but not her guard, a hunt six months ago taught her the repercussions of that mistake), and she and Tom came closer to the cabin's door. They both glanced at each other, wondering if they should open the door and enter, and they entered. While inside, they moved while she searched for threats, her gun raised. Tom lowered his crowbar to rest at his side.

There were a bunch of pictures on this one wall, but she ignored them.

Her ears pricked at every sound until she was sure no one else was there with them. She lowered the gun before her eyes fell on an opened heart-shaped box of chocolate with a rat beside it, freezing for the second time that day.

The box was lying on an unmade bed by the stairs.

"Tom," she said, her voice no louder than a whisper compared to her loud heartbeat. "Look at that."

He looked down at the box and moved closer to it as the rat scurried away. Aline followed right behind him, putting her gun back in her jeans. He knelt down on the bed, placed the crowbar beside him, and picked up a card.

It was a Valentine. With a smiley face in a red heart and everything.

He opened it and read it, his eyes widening as he handed the card to Aline. What was written on the inside shocked her to her core.

'To Axel. Be Mine 4Ever. Love, Megan.'