"So what aren't you telling us?" Dean asked as Bobby and Missouri put the Winchesters up on the couch. Bobby swiveled round to face the brothers as he asked, "What do you mean?" Sam sighed. "Give it up, Bobby. We know there is something you are hiding from us and it has to do with Tyler and the fact that she's in Purgatory right now." Missouri went back into the kitchen to get her guests some food, leaving Bobby to answer the questions by himself. Convenient that.
"Tyler is in Purgatory, because she wanted to save Castiel," he said. "And we let her do it because she is the only one we know of who actually has a fighting chance in there." Dean frowned. "But why, Bobby? Why would she risk herself for an angel she doesn't even know, and why is she the only one who has a fighting chance?" Bobby harrumphed. How am I gonna explain this to those idjits without giving away what Tyler has kept hidden all her life? It's not my secret to reveal, if it ever gets revealed.
"She wanted to help him, because she's a very empathetic person. She feels for him, guys. She wouldn't wish Purgatory on anyone, least of all an angel and a friend of Team Free Will, so to speak. She knows something about being somewhere you don't want to be." The brothers looked at each other, questioningly. "You make it sound like she knows Purgatory," Sam remarked. Bobby shook his head. "She doesn't know Purgatory, but she knows about pain. And that is a big part of Purgatory, or so I've been told by Missouri."
Missouri walked back in with a plate filled with sandwiches and put it on the salon table. She straightened and looked the brothers in the eye. "Tyler is...special. And the thing that makes her special is the reason she might be able to get Castiel and herself out of there." Dean sighed. How is that in any way revealing? "You're being cryptic, Missouri." "For a reason. I cannot reveal what isn't mine to reveal. All you have to know is that Tyler is fighting for her life and the life of your friend right now. "
"Will she succeed?" Sam asked. "I mean, how much of a chance does she have, realistically." Bobby and Missouri both flinched at the word realistically. "It's about ten percent, if we account for the two of them." "TEN PERCENT?" the Winchesters cried out in unison. "And what if she brings more ...people?" Sam asked. Bobby's brow furrowed. "Why would she need to bring anyone else? Purgatory is the place where monsters go when they die. Castiel is the only good person there."
Dean shrugged Bobby's question off. "That doesn't matter. We don't know what she's dealing with over there." Missouri caught his drift and closed her eyes. "With every person she brings with, her chances of making it decrease. If she were to attempt to bring someone else back besides Castiel, well...she'd be as good as dead." Sam scowled. "Let's hope she hasn't made any friends."
Their nervous laughter did nothing to hide the anxious feeling that had started burning a hole in their guts.