The next time Lena saw the Winchester brothers was when Bobby called her. He was pretty vague on the phone but she could tell by his voice that whatever they needed her was very important. "I got here as fast as I could", Lena said quickly to Bobby after he opened the door to the siblings "so what was so important you couldn't properly tell me over the phone?"
"Follow me", Bobby said and led the two of them into the front room. Lena stopped dead in the doorway when she saw a blonde woman tied to a chair.
"Oh boy", Nathan muttered, eyeing the possessed lady.
"Oooh you've brought in a witch. I'm trembling in my shoes", Meg mocked. Sam and Dean shot Lena quizzical looks.
"What's she talking about?" Dean asked.
"Nothing", Nathan replied sharply "Just a demon running its mouth".
"Nate, I can't keep it from them any more", Lena murmured to him.
"You sure?" her half brother whispered back.
"Very sure", the witch confirmed "besides its easier to save the woman with magic" she glanced at the Winchesters "I'm sorry", she said earning confused looks from both. She raised her hand and her eyes turned blue.
"What the hell?" Dean gaped as Lena started to chant.
"Regna terrae, cantate deo, psallite domino..."
"What is she?" Sam muttered staring at Lena as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Tribuite virtutem deo…"
"My sister is a witch", Nathan told them.
"She's a WITCH?!" Dean exclaimed.
"Yes she is", the brunette gritted out "but if you do anything to harm her so help me I'll kill you", he threatened. Sam and Dean took a step back at the anger on his face.
"Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incuriso infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, onmis congregatio et secta diabolica. Ergo. Perditionis venenum propinare. Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciae" a wind starts to blow through the room, ruffling clothes and hair "Hostis humanae salutis. Humiliare sub potenti manu dei. Contremisce et effuge. Invocato a nobis sancto et terribile nomine. Quem inferi tremunt. Ab insidis diaboli, libera nos, domine. Ut ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias, libertate servire, te rogamus, audi nos" the chair starts to slide around the circle "Ut inimicos sanctae ecclesiae humiliare digneris, to rogamus audi..."
"Your father isn't dead!" Meg cried through the pain.
"Lena wait", Sam said and she paused.
"How do we know you're telling the truth?" Dean demanded, still seething from Nathan's revelation about the young woman whom he considered a friend.
"You don't", Meg answered.
"Lena continue", Dean ordered.
"A building!" Meg gasped "Okay? A building in Jefferson City".
"Missouri?" Dean asked "Where, where? An address!"
"I don't know", Meg insisted.
"And the demon – the one we're looking for - where is it?" Sam questioned.
"I don't know! I swear! That's everything. That's all I know", Meg told them.
"Finish it", Dean said to Lena who nodded.
"Lena please don't", Meg begged "if I leave, she will die!"
"No, she won't. I will save her", Lena assured the demon.
"Not without great cost to you. I can already see its taking a toll", the demon said.
"Why do you care?" Lena asked.
"You're one of the good ones Lena, just like your mother", Meg answered. Lena shoved back the tears that had threatened to rise for those words. "Do it Lena, I'm ready", the demon said. Lena lifted her hand and carried on chanting until Meg threw her head back, smoke pouring out through her mouth.
"Get her onto the floor", Lena said to Sam and Dean as Meg's head dropped down, blood dripping from her lips "Bobby get some water and blankets".
Bobby rushed off while Dean and Sam untie Meg. They laid her down on the floor. "Thank you Lena", she whispered.
"Thank me when you're properly healed", Lena said. She took a breath and held her hands out over Meg's chest and started to chant once more.
"Lena…stop", Nathan said, seeing his sister's nose start to bleed. The witch just ignored him, wiping the blood away and carried on with what she was doing. Suddenly she fell backward, away from Meg. Nathan being the closest one, grabbed her. "Oh you silly girl", he sighed. He couldn't be mad at her because this was what she was like. She always put others before herself.
"Go easy on her", Meg whispered to Sam and Dean's attention "she is one of the good ones. And your father is at Sunrise Apartments". Her eyes fluttered shut. Dean checked her pulse and was glad to feel that it was steady.
Bobby came back into the room with a blanket and glass of water. "Lena overdid herself, didn't she?" he asked setting the blanket of glass down.
"Yeah she did", Nathan confirmed.
"You knew what she was", Dean stated angrily "Why the hell didn't you tell us Bobby?"
"Wasn't my place to say", Bobby told him "and before you decide to interrogate that girl because of what she is, reconsider it".
"Why? She kept this a secret from us!" Dean exclaimed, angrily.
"Lena had a very good reason for doing that", Sam said calmly.
"Oh really? Enlighten me Sam", Dean demanded.
"We're hunters Dean. She was afraid that if she'd told us, we would kill her", Sam explained.
Dean's brows raised "seriously? She really thinks that we would kill her?" he scoffed.
"Of course you would", Nathan spat, shifting his hold on Lena "like your brother said, you two are hunters. It's in your nature".
"I-I…I need some air", Dean abruptly stood up and stormed out of the room.
"I wouldn't do it", Sam said, quietly to Nathan "I couldn't".
"I believe you", the other hunter said. He wasn't stupid, he could tell that Sam cared about Lena.
"I'm gonna go talk to your brother. See if I can get some sense into him", Bobby said. He got up and left the room.
"I'll help", Nathan said "can you look after her?" he asked Sam.
"Of course", he replied. Nathan gave him a grateful nod and handed his sister over to him before he left. Sam carefully gathered Lena up in his arms, took her over to the couch and laid her down on it.
"I won't let Dean hurt you, I promise", he vowed.
~outside~
"Nothing you say will make this ok Bobby", Dean said when he noticed the older man approach "she's a witch. Nothing will change that".
"So what you're gonna kill her?" Bobby demanded "because she can't change what she is?"
"No! I…I don't know!" Dean grasped his hair, frustrated. John had raised them to hate anything supernatural. To find it. Hunt it. Kill it. But now he was faced with the revelation that someone he knew was part of the supernatural community and he didn't know what to do. "Meg said she was one of the 'good ones'. What does that mean?" he questioned.
"My sister is a white witch", Nathan spoke up "She doesn't do black magic and she doesn't hurt people".
"What about her eyes? The turned blue!" Dean exclaimed.
"Some witches eyes turn that colour when they use magic. White Witches to be specific. Dark/Black Witches' eyes turn red when they use magic", Bobby told Dean. Dean huffed, this wasn't helping him at all. It was only making it harder. "I can't tell you what to do but I will warn you that if you try to hurt Lena in anyway, not only will Nathan stop you, but I will as well. That girl has been nothing but decent to me and to you boys. Plus she's kept the promise she made years ago" Bobby turned to head back into the house but glanced back at Dean "oh, and your brother would stop you as well. He's got a thing for her". Nathan shot him on last glare before he too went back into the house.
Dean watched him leave before he tiredly rubbed a hand on his face. Of course his brother had a thing for Lena. That had been pretty obvious. And that pretty much clinched it for him. He wasn't going to kill Lena despite every instinct that had been drilled into him since he was a boy was telling him to do it.
He squared his shoulders and went back inside the house. "How's she doing?" Dean asked his brother.
"She seems ok. I don't know how long she'll be unconscious though", Sam answered "what about you?"
"Yeah, I'm fine", Dean answered "what about Meg?" he asked Bobby who was now tending to the blonde.
"Lena's pretty much healed her up so she's gonna be fine after she gets some rest", Bobby replied "you two better get moving to wherever your dad's been taken".
"But –" Sam started.
"Bobby and I will keep an eye on my sister and Meg", Nathan cut in.
"Don't to forget to take this with you", Bobby added, going over to a shelf and grabbing a book from it "Key of Solomon, you might need it".
"Thanks", Sam said and he and his brother left.