Sam got out of bed, wondering how he was going to deal with this. They had lost so much, and now they had lost Sera, too, just when they were really getting used to the idea of having her around. They might even have to go kill her, if she hadn't gained enough mental faculties to destroy herself or call on someone who could. He wandered around, looking for where he left his shirt and began to put it on, pausing as he pulled it over his head from a sound coming from the other room.
Was that…laughter? No, it couldn't be. He finished putting his shirt on and listened, and a few seconds later it happened again. Laughing. Dean was laughing. He walked out into the main room and saw Dean leaning against a wall drinking from one of those paper coffee cups, a donut in his other hand. He walked out farther and looked where Dean's eyes were focused, and Sera was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking her own coffee, an open box of donuts in front of her. Dean looked up and noticed him.
"Morning Sammy." Sera turned so she could see him and smiled. She set the cup down and stood up.
Sam took a cautious step further into the room. "Am I dreaming?"
Dean and Sera looked at each other and shared a smile, then Sera turned back to Sam and shook her head. They rushed each other, Sam smothering her with a hug. After several moments he let her go and pushed her away, keeping a tight grip on her shoulders and looking her over like he'd never seen a miracle done before. "But…how…what…" Finally he gave up on trying to decided on a question and hugged her again.
She was the one to push him off this time because she was suffocating in his chest. "Come on, sit down, have some coffee or a donut or something, I'll tell you what I know."
"So after the angel…" Sam paused trying to remember the name.
"Calliel." Sera supplemented.
"Right, Calliel, executed you, you woke up in heaven?" He asked, taking a drink of his latte.
"Right. In Wonderland. Took me a minute to get my bearings, I wasn't used to Divine light anymore and it kind of hurt my eyes. Didn't realize where I was until I heard the music."
Dean was just standing where he had been, drinking his coffee, he had heard this all already. "After that I started wandering, trying to find someone who could tell me why I was there, what had happened, then I ran into Castiel."
"Cas is in Heaven again?"
"He seemed just as surprised as I was to be there. We wondered why the other angels weren't swarming us. You know, for revenge or information or whatever. We talked for a minute until we got a warning signal that they had found out we were there, then he touched me and sent me back to Earth. All healed, no Leviathan corruption. There wasn't anything about me being bit or dying in the history I remember, but it's possible it just wasn't important enough to record."
"It was important to us," Sam said, which made Sera smile.
"The important thing that came from this is now we know what they're after. Sort of, anyway. After they take out Earth they plan to enter Heaven and devour the angels, but they can't get there without me. So pretty much all we have to do is make sure I don't get bitten again."
"Why does it have to be you? Why can't it be just any angel?"
"Because not every angel has the juice to get them there. Do you know how hard it is to get someone physically into Heaven? It takes a lot of energy. They thought that they'd be able to control Castiel when they were in him but he fought them so hard they couldn't gain full control for more than a few minutes. Then after he returned the souls he was useless to them except as a vessel."
They were all a little uncomfortable with talking about Cas like that. Sam took another drink and then leaned onto the table. "So, what, you just showed up this morning with donuts and coffee?"
"Actually I got here last night, really late. You were asleep so I told Dean first. When he felt me sit on his bed he tried to stab me, it was cute."
Sam glanced at Dean like he had done something wrong. Dean stopped in the middle of taking a sip to say, "What? Not my fault you passed out."
Sera looked between them. "Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, fine." Sam said, but his expression left a very clear message. He was tired of the angels playing favorites with Dean and he thought it was happening again. Sera plucked a donut out of the box and bit into it, trying to make the silence a little less awkward by using eating as an excuse.
Dean walked in to the room he had been using, mostly to see if he had left anything behind, only to find Sera in just a pair of black panties. Her back was to the door, but when she heard him come in she covered her chest and turned. "Hey," she said, like nothing was up. She walked over to the bed and picked up her dress, turning her back to him as she stepped into it and pulled it up.
"Are we almost ready to go?" She asked, but he didn't answer. She turned to look at him and he was looking away. "You can turn around now, I'm mostly decent."
"Sorry," he said as he turned to face her.
"It's fine, Dean. It's just skin."
Really nice skin, he thought to himself. He shook himself back into consciousness. "Yeah, car's loaded up; we're just waiting for you."
"Sorry, all of those straps and holsters were tricky to get off." She turned her back to him, "Can you zip me up?"
Dean took a cautious step forward and slowly zipped up the back of her dress. She immediately bent down to pick up her other clothes, shoving them into her bag. Dean, for the sake of his own sanity, took a few steps back. "So…I'll just go…start it up…" He cleared his throat and immediately turn and ran. Sera smiled as she stood and turned. She slung the strap from her bag over her shoulder and stepped into her shoes, walking out of the room.
"Don't ever get tired of listening to the same songs over and over?" Sera asked, leaning forward between the two front seats because apparently angels don't need seat belts.
"I do," Sam said, "but it's the only music Dean will listen to, and since he drives most of the time it's his call what we listen to."
"Well, I'm tired of listening to Zeppelin. Honestly, I was sick of it before you started. I never really got along well with them."
Dean's eyes got big, "You've met them?"
"Met them? Honey I basically made them. I'm the Angel of Song and you think I don't know Zeppelin?"
She leaned back a bit and ran her fingers through her hair. "If you don't find something else to put it on I will."
Dean opened the CD compartment and pulled out a random one. He handed it to Sam and Sam switched out the discs. She smiled as Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want" began to play over the speakers. Dean obviously wanted to change it but he couldn't, for fear of what Sera might change it to if he did. She sang along, and after a couple of seconds Dean did too, causing Sam to look at him like he had lost his marbles, and then Sam started singing too. They had no idea what the hell was going on but Sera was enjoying herself making them do it. By the end they were all enthusiastically screaming the lyrics.
"I am everything you want,
I am everything you need,
I am everything inside of you that you wish you could be,
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time,
But I mean nothing to you and you don't know why!"
