Dean and Cas knocked on Angie's door within minutes.

"Hello!" she said brightly when she answered.

"Hey, Angie. Do you have a minute to talk with us?" Dean asked.

"Uh, sure…but I already talked to two other agents," she said, frowning.

"We know, ma'am. They sent us with a few follow-up questions," Dean answered, and Angie stepped back to let them in.

She sat down with them in her living room.

"So we heard you went to New Zealand over Christmas?" Dean asked.

"Yes, my family lives there. Are they okay?"

"Fine, yes, as far as we know. Did you have anything strange happen to you there?"

"No, of course not," Angie said, but Cas tilted his head at her.

"You're lying," Cas stated, and Angie turned her stare to him.

"No I'm not!" she said, looking offended.

"Your leg is jumpy. You twitched at the question. And you will not look me in the eyes," Cas said.

"Angie? What happened? We need to know," Dean said, moving to the edge of his chair.

She shook her head like the two of them were crazy, and kept her arms folded tightly against her chest. Cas moved slightly, and she raised her eyes to meet his peaceful and content stare. She seemed to deflate under his gaze, but looked terrified.

"I never meant to hurt anyone, please believe me," she said, her head dropping into her hands.

"That depends on what you tell us," Dean said firmly.

"I…okay. Look, I'm not exactly popular here. I talk weird, I read a lot…"

"So?"

"So that's how this started. I was out in the yard at mom's house during break, and I saw this man by the edge of the woods…at least, I thought it was a man. But he wasn't. It was a Maero. By the time I realized what he was, it was too late."

"How did you survive?" Dean asked, and Angie sighed.

"He saw my shirt. It had the name of the University on it…he told me if I'd take him back to the campus, he'd kill other people instead of me," she said.

"You did it?" Dean asked.

"No! Well, not really. I told him no way. I couldn't let him hurt other people to save myself. But then he-he said I was really brave, and as long as I brought him back, he wouldn't kill anyone. Just animals. And he said he'd only hurt people who had been bad to me. He gave me this stone thing, and disappeared. I wanted to throw it away, but I just…couldn't. You don't know what it's like for me here. I'm awkward…I tried out for the cheerleading squad when I came back from Christmas break. I thought I did really well, but they just laughed at me," Angie's eyes welled at that. "I heard them talking after tryouts. They called me a nerd, said I was just too ugly to be on the team."

"I get it," Dean said. "People suck. But you went all hoodoo on them for it?"

"I was going to. I got the stone out, and he appeared. But I saw him and I couldn't do it. Yeah, they're bitches, but I couldn't kill them. He said he'd just scare them. And he did, for a while. He'd kill animals instead. That was before he attacked Mia though."

"Mia?" Dean asked.

"My old roommate. She was the first to be attacked physically. We got into a stupid fight over something. I don't even remember what it was. She walked out, super pissed, and he jumped out at her. I yelled at him to get him to stop, but when he saw me, he started attacking her. I tried to hit him and I dropped the stone. He picked it up and disappeared. I was on my way back from visiting Mia in the hospital the night he attacked me. I thought for sure he'd kill me, but he said he wanted to make me hurt. He told me he could live off animals, but he was going to keep hurting people just to show me what I had caused. That I was just stupid and ugly, that's why I didn't have any friends."

Angie broke into tears at this point, sobbing into her hands with her shoulders heaving.

Cas crossed the room in two strides and sat next to Angie. He wrapped his arm around her and let her cry. He stroked her hair until she was able to sit up and breathe clearly again.

"You are not stupid, Angie. Just naïve," Cas said. "You are not ugly, either. I have seen many, many hum-people- in my years. Only souls can be ugly, and yours is not."

"Thank you," Angie sniffed, and squeezed Cas' arm gently.

"Okay, Angie. Where is he?" Dean asked.

"I don't know, but he always attacks people by the edge of the forest. He only attacks women though."

"We know the perfect girl."

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"You want Anna to do what?" Sam asked loudly.

"We'll be right there the whole time," Dean explained. "She'll be fine."

Sam sighed over the phone.

"I know she said she wants to do this, but I don't think she knows the danger," Sam said quietly.

Anna apparently heard him anyway, and a sudden shout rang out so loud that Dean had to hold the phone away from his ear.

"I'm doing it, dammit, just let me find some comfortable shoes!"

"Dude, did she just cuss?" Dean smiled, and Sam chuckled.

"Yeah, she did. Looks like we've corrupted another angel."

"Former angel!" Anna yelled out again, and Sam laughed before growing quiet on the line.

"Look, Sammy, I know it's not the best plan. But I'd rather it be one of us than another student. We can at least fight him off. Bobby said a dagger washed in pig's blood will do the trick," Dean said.

"I'll head to the butcher's right now. See you all when you get back. Want to grab dinner?" Sam asked.

"Thanks, but I think Cas and I will do it alone tonight. You and Anna have fun," Dean said, and he ended the call. "Come on, Cas. Let's scout the area really quick, then I say we go back to that burger place for the 'You're-Bacon-My-Heart' burger."

The scout of the area took most of the afternoon. Dean and Cas found some more dead animal parts, and were able to track the trail of the blood back to a clearing in the sparse forest. The trail disappeared at the clearing, and they could find no further clues about where the creature could have gone.

"We'll just have to try and lure him out tonight," Dean said. "I don't like the idea of hanging around here without weapons, even if the damn thing only attacks females. Maybe it could still smell the female I was yesterday or something."

"I highly doubt that," Cas said, and his stomach gave a gigantic rumble.

"Jesus, Cas, was that your stomach or the monster?" Dean said. "Let's go. I'm starving."

They found their way back to the Impala and drove the few miles to a place called Queenie B's Diner. Dean held the door open for Cas, and both of them slid into a booth to order their bacon burgers. A young Asian woman came out to take their order. She grinned widely at Dean, putting her hand on his shoulder as she introduced herself and winking slightly.

"What will it be, sweetie?" she asked.

"That bacon burger sounds perfect," Dean said with a smile.

"Ooh, that's good," the waitress said, writing their order on a notepad. "There's an awful lot of bacon on there. But something tells me you know how to handle your meat."

Dean took the innuendo in stride, not even blinking at the comment.

"Well, thank you…Lyla," he said, reading the nametag on her chest, and she giggled. "My boyfriend here will have the same thing."

The look on Lyla's face moved from flirtatious to embarrassed in seconds.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," she said, flushing crimson, but Dean just laughed.

"Don't be. I'm flattered," he said, and she hurried off to place their order.

"I cannot believe you just did that," Cas said, face hidden in his hands.

"What?" Dean asked.

"Admitted I am your boyfriend. You never would have done that when we first got together," Cas said, raising his head and smiling.

"Hey, now, when Bobby said he knew you and I were together, I didn't deny anything," Dean reminded him.

"Yeah, but you didn't point it out. That makes twice today you have been flirted with and either touched me or called me your boyfriend. It is unusual," Cas said.

"I'm not good at expressing my feelings, Cas, you know that. But I figure, I'm happy. You're happy. Who cares where that happiness comes from? We got to take it where we can, because God knows we don't get it very much."

"Dean, I love you," Cas said, reaching across the table to hold his hand.

"Yeah, I know Cas. I love you too," Dean said, grinning widely.

"No, Dean, I mean-," Cas began.

"Burger time!" Lyla appeared with two platters heaped high with fries and the most bacon on a burger that Dean had ever seen.

"Awesome! Thanks," Dean said, and Cas pulled his hand back to allow the platters to be set in front of them.

Lyla left them to their meal, and Dean looked up to Cas.

"What were you saying?" Dean asked, but Cas just smiled and shook his head.

"We will discuss it another time," he said, picking up the burger.

Dean nodded, and took what probably equaled a quarter pound of sandwich into his mouth in one bite.