Hello my dears. I would like to thank Raheem, Perdition Raiser and giawinchester for the lovely reviews. I would also like to thank those of you who have followed and favoured since my last update.

So I know this is a very short chapter, but I hope you like it all the same.

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Sam sat back from his computer and reached for the beer which had gone warm. He wished it was something stronger, but beer was what he had. It had taken him a few hours of hacking and manoeuvring before he had been able to access his own medical records, but the file was now staring up at him from the screen. He turned his eyes once more to it in the vague hope that maybe the words had changed in the last few minutes. But no, it was still there as it had been before.

The patient was beyond medical help. There was nothing else that could be done for him. Basically it was saying that it was in the hands of god, or his brother and king of hell. Damn it Dean, why? Why go down this route again? He had been ready to die, sure he hadn't wanted too, but if he had, he would have been okay with that. But no, Dean just couldn't let him go. Dean couldn't live without him, and that was what this was all about. Not saving his life or that shit. No his brother just didn't want to be alone. Well he wasn't alone now anyway, he had Cas. So him making a deal with Crowley really didn't mean a fucking thing did it? Then there was the question of just what kind of deal they had made. He knew Crowley wasn't stupid, there was bound to be some sort of stipulation if anything happened to him so it wasn't like he could summon and kill the bastard to free Dean.

Then of course there was the fact that Crowley had been talking to Dean that morning. Surely if they had a sell your soul in x amount of years there was no need for conversations. Maybe Dean had made a deal to help him instead? I mean at the time no one knew Cas was human, surely Crowley would have realised that if Dean sold him his soul Cas would just go to hell and bring him back, right? Was that what Dean had been counting on when he made the deal? That Cas would pull him again? Of course the former angel could do jack shit about it now. Did Cas even know? He doubted it. If he did he imagined Cas would have more than likely beaten the crap out of Dean for his stupidity, especially if his reaction to Dean's behaviour tonight was anything to go by.

Of course Sam was only speculating, the only way he would get answers to his questions was to confront his brother, but he also knew he needed to do it when Cas wasn't around. Which considering how Dean and the former angel were almost glued at the hip, it was practically a non-existence time. He was going to have to wait until he could corner Dean at the bunker, because he needed to know just what Dean had given up for him. He needed to know so he could fix it somehow. Maybe Crowley would take another deal with him instead? Something where none of them ended up in hell? Maybe they could just work together? Oh man, was he really considering working with the king of hell just to release his brother from hell? But he knew the answer to that. Dean had done this for him, he would do anything he could to save him in return.

Damn it Dean.

Right, what Sam needed to know was exactly what Dean had done. He needed to know it all. Then he could work on the rest. With that though he closed his computer and made his way to his bed. If he was going to have to have this talk with Dean the next day, he was going to need to get some sleep. He would have to be top of his game to get the truth, but get it he would. That was not in doubt in his mind. He would find out what it cost to save his life, and he would make it right.