Bobby arrived the next morning and made his first stop by the hospital where he found Dean asleep in the waiting room. He kicked the bench Dean was sleeping on, jarring him out of his slumber. He looked up through sleepy eyes and saw Bobby standing over him.
"Oh Thank God, Bobby, you're here." Dean said getting up and giving Bobby a hug.
"How's Amber?" Bobby asked getting right to the point.
"The doctors haven't let me back to see her yet. Bobby, she's not good….this demon that possessed Cas….tried to rape her and nearly beat her to death. She's still unconscious and they don't know when she'll wake up." Dean said tears welling up in his eyes.
Bobby wrapped Dean in a hug, both of them trying to come to grips with the reality of the situation.
"Mr. Allensworth?" a nurse called from behind Bobby.
"Yeah.." Dean responded quickly sniffling and drying his eyes.
"We have Amber in a room now, I'll take you to see her." The nurse said.
"This is her uncle, can he come too?" Dean asked.
"That's fine, sir, just follow me." The nurse said.
Dean and Bobby followed the nurse down the hallway and around the corner to a row of patient rooms in the back of the hospital. She stopped at a room at the end of the hallway and opened the door leading Dean and Bobby in.
There she laid, broken and bandaged, in a deep sleep. Her head wrapped tight, only a few lingering long light brown curls peeking out from underneath. Her eyes, deep purple and swollen, matching her cheeks as well as her lips that held deep cracks and seams. Bandages covered the parts of her body that weren't hidden by her hospital gown. Only stray tracks of bruised skin could be seen.
Dean was taken aback by the damage. So much she had endured, for so long, her body tested to the limit.
"How could we have let this happen?" Dean said as tears started streaming down his face.
"You couldn't of known something like this was gonna happen, son…" Bobby said solemnly placing his hand on Dean's shoulder as they looked down at her. "This was just an unfortunate accident…"
"Yeah, I know but Cas told me that he had a dream that some dark figure was trying to kill her…I should have paid more attention, taken more into account, I should have done more to protect her." Dean sobbed.
"Dean, we need to focus on freeing Cas from this demon and pulling her back from this…..Cas is gonna need us…now more than ever….when we get him back, he's gonna have a hell of a time handling all this and he'll need as much support as we can give him. I'm scared to death of his reaction when he sees her like this……it'll kill him." Bobby explained his own eyes shrink wrapped with tears.
Dean gently grabbed Amber's hand and held it. "We're gonna get Cas back…..I swear to you."
"She's in good hands….I'll stay here with her. You and Sam need to work on pulling Cas free of this demon." Bobby said ushering Dean out the door. "I'll let you know if anything changes."