It was late in the afternoon when the group left the motel and now the sun had long since set.

Somehow the black-haired witch seemed to get on the larger hunter's good side after her asking countless questions on how the Impala worked and the functions of each part. Sam could practically see his brother's head getting larger when Crystal complimented the condition of the car and when he told her how he could rebuild Baby with his own two hands.

Possibly it was the fact that they knew that the girls had to tell the truth, but Crystal had this sort of energy around her that was purely honest whenever she spoke.

Even if it were the simplest compliment, they could tell she genuinely meant it.

'Maybe that's why the demon fell for her.' Sam had thought as he watched the girl carefully eat part of a french fry.

Dean had stopped by a drive-thru on the way, and when the two were hidden from sight, ordered himself his usual cheeseburger and a salad for Sam. Once they got the food, Dean had pulled over to an isolated spot, away from possible prying eyes, and set the trio down.

"So how did you meet that demon anyway?" Dean asked as they all sat and ate their food.

Jess had taken a fonding towards the fresh food like Sam, who happily shared his salad with the redhead while Crystal joyously munched on the first hot food she's had since entering the dimension.

Upon hearing his question, Crystal swallowed the bit in her mouth before answering.

"It kinda started when we were helping our friend Xian get some materials she needed from the store we lived in." she started, "Before we met Kaidan, Jess and I lived in a small market. It was good for us. We took from the sales rack along with loose vegetables and strips of meat from the freezer."

"Crystal was the only one who could walk in there and live." Jess boasted with a broad grin, "Her body can handle being dumped in the North Pole if she wanted to!"

Crystal rolled her eyes at her cousin's outburst but held a fond smile all the same.

"Anyway," she continued, "our friend Xian is sorta like a moth fairy. We're not entirely sure what she is but we didn't want to be rude and ask her. Thing is she didn't have her wings yet. Apparently for her kind, there's two ways to get your wings; the natural way, which has them gradually over time grown, or the rapid approach, which included making a brew of some sorts which speeds up the process.

Xian is older than us by a few years and she was a bit behind with her wing growth." She continued, "So she asked us one day if we could help her gather the necessary ingredients for the brew. Since she's helped us out countless times and was our closest friend, we agreed."

"The downside of that though was that the ingredients were in an area we called 'The Shelves' where the store manager held captured Tinies like us up for sale."

Dean felt his blood boil at the thought of someone openly selling human lives for other's enjoyments. The thought made him glance at his brother, knowing how he was in that sort of situation before.

"We tried to help them before," Jess's voice brought them back to present, "but they were drugged beyond belief. Their eyes…they were just…blank."

The redhead shivered as she recalled the vacant stares she saw the first time they tried to free everyone.

"It was like they had given up home." She murmured.

Silence filled the car as the girls went back to their original home.

"So you went to get the stuff?" Dean asked, breaking their trance.

Crystal shook her head in hopes of ridding the memories.

"R-right," she said, "we got the The Shelves but we weren't expecting the Manager to be working late."

Crystal sighed in embarrassment.

"He saw us," she admitted, "we didn't really have much time. We just ran to the nearest vent…I was able to push Xian and Jess there first with a little magic, but I slipped on my own ice which resulted in me getting caught and stuck in a jar."

She sighed once more, her shoulders slumping with embarrassment.

"Long story short Kaidan stole me from the shop, Jess got caught by Kaidan when she tried to save me, and Xian climbed into the bag trying to save us." She huffed, "Kaidan tried to eat me, draining a bit of my life force, Xian stopped it by stabbing him in the arm pretty hard."

"Kaiju was pretty pissed off, apparently, the shop owner, who we discovered he had shrunk, had given Kaidan a bad name and kept others from selling the guy food for him to live." Jess added, taking a bite out of the lettuce she had, "So he'd been hungry for quite a while; both from lack of proper food and from lack of souls ingested.

Somehow, Crystal manages to surprise the guy long enough for us to make a deal with him. He doesn't eat us, and we'll provide him with Tinies he can suck their souls from." The redhead finished.

"Well," Crystal said hesitantly, "not really."

Dean raised an eyebrow at the girls, "What do you mean? What happened?"

Crystal bit her lip uneasily before she finally spoke, caving in as Dean's green eyes continued to stare down at her.

"He saw that Xian was a moth fairy, which according to him, is a very delicate soul and is rumored to be mouthwateringly good." She looked a bit disgusted having to say that before continuing, "He didn't eat her though because she didn't have her wings. So he agreed as long as he got her when her wings came in."

"We protested, trying to find another way when Xian straight up agreed with him claiming as long as he didn't kill or hurt either Jess or me."

The raven haired girl placed her French fry on her lap dejectedly.

"Kaidan agreed, adding that so he knows that we wouldn't bail out on the deal, all of us had to live with him and if we wanted to leave, one of us had to stay behind."

Jess gave her cousin a sad look of concern.

"Since we couldn't change Xian's mind, we stayed with her." Jess said finally, "It was less than a day when Kaidan's hunger got the best of him. He snatched Crystal up and swallowed her whole."

Both brothers felt their stomachs churn at the thought of someone actually being eaten alive as they looked at the girl who was now playing with her food.

"Wait didn't you say that he shrunk someone before?" Sam asked, recalling how they mentioned that the shop keeper was shrunken.

"I managed to persuade Kaidan into letting him go." Crystal softly voiced, refusing to look at anyone, "Kaidan couldn't turn him back to normal so me and Jess took him to our community where there were a few people who were willing to let a former human into their home."

She smiled a bit, "Jess and I were just talking on how he was getting used to his new life pretty fast."

Dean couldn't help but clear his throat.

"So….he ate you?" he asked, destroying the brief distraction.

Crystal nodded her head, any traces of joy were gone.

"I still remember," she spoke even softer, placing the fry on her bag before hugging her knees close to her chest, "the wetness of his saliva, the tight confines of his throat while being swallowed. The whole time I just kept getting weaker and weaker."

Her eyes were slowly becoming glossy as she recalled the memory.

"I know I always wanted to die for what I did," her voice cracked, burying her face into her knees, her arms covering part of her head, "but actually knowing that I was going to die…I just didn't. I'm pathetic for saying it but never pulling through."

The car was filled with Crystal's soft sobs. No one saying anything as Jess got up from her spot and walked over to her cousin.

Neither brother said anything when she wrapped her arms around Crystal and pulled her into a hug, whispering words that not even Sam could completely hear.