Dean slowly turned around to end up face to face with...
"Geezus Sam!"
"Uuh...it's nice to see you too?"
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Well his house and family gave us a cold trail, so we figured we'd try here. Have you guys found anything?"
"Yeah some sulfur and that Mr. Hot Shot starting hitting it big time a couple months ago. About the same time we guess Nero turned up top side this time around."
"Alright...so any clues as to where he might be holding up?"
"Unfortunately know. Guess we should see who else locally had a spring in their business over the past couple of months."
They all left to head back to the motel and do some digging.
"Ok...so we know that Nero likes great and powerful people...what else do we know?" Bobby asked.
Cass couldn't help but let her mind wander to when her and Dean first ran into him to later send him back to hell.
****FLASHBACK
"I'll go look in the rooms in the back, you check out these up front." Dean said to Cass as he started to head to the back of the house.
Cass made a face at him behind his back. For someone who was only 14 he sure was bossy. And just because he was six months older than her, made him feel like he WAS the boss of her...at least on hunts...no she took that back. He felt the same in real life sometimes too. Like who she could hang out with or even talk to. It was pretty annoying. Just as she was getting lost in her thoughts she heard a scuffle from back where Dean was. She wasted no time to find him pinned against the wall by a tall man with dark hair and icey blue eyes.
"Put him down...NOW!"
"My my...such a pretty young thing...don't you know better than to bring girlfriends when hunting?"
"Shut up you piece of..." Dean said through a choked hold that only got cut off by this demon tightening his grip.
"Such language! And in front of a lady! Tisk tisk."
"I'll show you a lady," Cass said as she swept kicked him off his feet. Dean fell to the ground as Cass jumped on top of the demon to try to stab him with her blade. The demon blocked the blade by bringing his arm up as leverage against Cass' s arm.
"Enough of this." He flung Cass across the room and she bounced off the wall. Struggling to get herself up, the demon lifted her up and caught glimpse of her amulet.
"Such an interesting young girl you are...you're strength and now this..." He said as his fingers grazed the amulet only for it to burn his fingers.
"Hmmm...the name's Max by the way...and what name do I get to call such a beautiful creature as you? "
"Don't worry about her name you son of a bitch, but you can call me Dean, " Dean whispered into Max's ear right before he was about to stab him only for Max to leave in a cloud of smoke.
"Damn it!"
"You know he'll be back."
(A month later)
"Alright, we know he's here...now where," Dean said as they entered an old warehouse.
"Well well. If it isn't my two favorite young hunters. Dean, if I recall correctly and I never did get your name beautiful."
"Why not come closer and I'll tell you." Cass said, ready to grab him when he got close enough.
She blinked and he was right in front of her. "Is this close enough gorgeous?"
"Perfect," she replied as she grabbed one hand with hers to flip him over to be sitting on top of his back and grabbed his other hand as well. "NOW DEAN!"
Dean started to say the incantation to send Max back to hell. Max tried to get his hands out of her grasp, but found his hands wouldn't let go.
"No! What is this?! I'll be back! And when I do...I'm coming for BOTH of you!" And with that he was sent back to hell.
Cass fell over after it was over and Dean ran to her side.
"Cass! Are you ok?"
"I told you he wouldn't be able to resist...and the henna worked like a charm."
Dean looked down at her palms with devil traps drawn on in henna ink.
"Yeah, lucky for you...Come on. Let's get back."
****End Flashback
"He's attracted to me," Cass said recalling her last encounter and all previous encounters with him.
"We are NOT using you as bait," Dean said. He knew it would work, but that's what scared him.
Sam and Bobby felt the same as Dean, but no one wanted to allow her to use herself as bait as either.
"You're all quiet because you KNOW I'm right...he can't resist, especially with his latest offer." Still none of them wanted to agree.
"It's MY decision. I NEED to save Emi, even if I need to do so alone...so...you guys can either agree to let me do this and help me or I'll do it by myslef."
"Damn it girl. We all want Emi back. This...this is just too damn risky..." Bobby said. He knew she was right, but couldn't imagine losing both of them, even though, if they did lose Emi, they would be losing Cass in a sense.
"It's not anymore risky than Dean making a deal with a crossroads demon or Sam saying yes to Lucifer..."
"And look at how well it turned out for them idgits! And now you wanna try something just AS crazy?!"
"...I have to at least try..."
"Since I know we can't stop you, I'm behind you." Sam said, only to receive a glare from Dean.
"Me too," Bobby said decrepitly.
"Am I the ONLY one who hasn't lost my mind?!" Dean said getting frustrated that he really had no other choice at this point. He was getting lost in all his thoughts of what could go wrong. It would kill him if Cass turned to be something he had to hunt and kill...but he wouldn't let her go through this alone either.
"Fine...BUT we need a REAL plan for this. We need to look at from five different possible angles so nothing goes a way we don't want it to."
Cass looked at him with so much thanks that he only felt better for a split second.
After everyone was asleep Dean snuck outside.
"Castiel...I need you...I don't know what to do...I can't lose Cass again and I have a really bad feeling about this plan...please...please help..."
"There's not much I can do..."
"What do you MEAN, there's not much you can do? We need help getting rid of a demon, a bad ass one...and you CAN'T help or you WON'T?"
"She has a role to fulfill..."
"DAMN IT CAS! I THOUGHT WE WERE PAST THAT CRAP!"
"I...I am afraid that I cannot intervene..."
"That's BULLSHIT Cas! AND YOU KNOW IT! WHY help us to just THIS point?! What makes THIS point SO different?!"
"Hell needs a new ruler Dean...one that will be just...and Nero will not, but Cass..."
"FORGET THAT CRAP! SHE IS NOT GOING TO HELL! IF SHE GOES TO HELL I'M GOING RIGHT BACK THERE WITH HER! DO YOU HEAR ME CAS?!"
"Dean...you can't be so irrational..."
"IRRATIONAL?! I'M! BEING IRRATIONAL?! You're the one back to being so concerned to with the 'almighty plan' and I'M the one being irrational?! We've fought how many battles for you, changed how many 'destinies' but THIS ONE you're stuck on...WHY?!"
"It's hard to explain..."
"NO Cas! Either you're with us or against us on this one...and I can only hope you're still with us..."
"Dean...I..."
"Just save it Cas...unless you're going to help, just go..."
And with that Castiel was gone. Dean could only hold onto the last bit of hope that Cas would save her if need be, but it felt like he was trying to hold onto grains of sand that were slipping through his fingers. He was startled out of his thoughts by Cass coming out of the room.
"Hey..." she said.
"Hey...what are you doing up?"
"I could be asking You the same question." Cass walked over to Dean and wrapped her arms around his neck. "We'll be ok you know that right?"
"Honestly? I'm not so sure..." Dean started to feel the ache in his heart thinking of losing her for good.
"Hey..." Cass held his chin in her hand to make him look at her. "I promise. I'm NOT going anywhere...no matter what the outcome...can you just promise me something?"
"Anything."
"IF...If I do end up in hell...get me out. I know it's selfish of me to ask...but I'm terrified and..."
Dean stopped her worry filled ranting by placing a kiss on her lips. "I SWEAR I would never rest until I did...but you're not going to hell, so we don't have to worry about it, ok?" As soon as he said it, he had never felt more determined to make sure that he wasn't going to lose her again.
"Ok..."
They just stood there wrapped in each other niether one of them wanting to ruin the calmness of the moment no matter how quickly their worlds were spinning in their heads.
"Come on, let's get to bed," Cass said as she started to lead Dean to the room.
"I have a better idea," Dean said as he started to lead Cass to the impala.
"Where are we going?"
"You'll see"
Dean pulled up to the diner down the street, "Wait here a minute." He came back out with a couple of hot drinks and something in a 2 small boxes. He drove for a few more miles just outside of town to come to an empty field and parked right in the middle.
"Come on."
Dean went around and opened her door to pull her out and then all the items along with a blanket from the back seat and laid it out on the grass for them to sit and lay on. He patted a spot on the blanket right next to him to motion for her to sit with him.
"I know how much you don't really love the city because it blocks out the stars, so I thought we could come out here and make a wish on a few of them."
"You're too sweet you know that. Under that tough hunter exterior, you're all mush."
"Yeah, well don't let word out. I got a reputation to protect ya know." He said with a wink back at her.
"Uh huh...so what do you got for us here?"
"Well I got us some hot chocolate and of course...SOME PIE!"
Cass let out a laugh, "You and your pie!"
"Hey! Don't be jealous of the pie!"
"Oh, but I am jealous of the pie. I've never seen you look at me the way you look at pie," Cass said with a fake pout on her face.
"I look at you like I could ravage you, but also care for you tenderly...pie...pie I look at like I could just devour it..."
"And why not just devour me?"
"Well...if you insist."
Dean didn't get anxious like he normally would, instead he took his time. Slowly undressing, tracing, memorizing every mole and freckle on her body as if it were to be the last time he would get to see any of it. He placed gentle kisses all over learning a couple new spots along the way. Although the pace was slow, their hearts felt like they were running a marathon. The passion, the heat, the connection they had was unbelievable. They laid curled up together after just gazing at the stars and enjoying the silence of the field.
"Look! A shooting star! Make a wish babe!" Cass said excited to have witnessed one.
"Ok. I wish..."
"Shh!" She said as she placed a finger over his lips. "You can't say it out loud or else it won't come true..."
"But how will it come true if no one but me knows what it is?"
"Someone's always listening Dean...to what's in your heart...which I love listening to. Sometimes when you're asleep I just lay there and listen to your heart beat."
"And why do you do that?"
"Just reminds me that this is real and not some dream."
He placed a kiss on her forehead and hoped that someone was listening to his wish...his wish that everything would work out for the best tomorrow, that Emi would be saved and Cass wouldn't end up in hell.
If only they knew how right Cass was...someone was listening...
Ok you guys. Hope you liked it, already have the next chapter in the works. Sorry if this one seemed so short. It's just easier to get them out to you guys in decent time if I keep them a little bit on the shorter side. :)
