Chapter 30: Winchester, Western Ranger

I groaned falling onto a soft bed still covered in mud and blood closing my eyes enjoying a moment of silence after hunting a bunch of ghouls in an old abandoned graveyard. They had been munching on local teenagers who wandered in there to get lucky but I was able to dispatch them before it got out of hand. I even got a number from one of the boys but I threw it away since even I wasn't stupid enough to have unprotected sex in a filthy graveyard.

I felt the vibration of my phone in my pocket pulling it out saying, "Yellow?"

"You busy?" Dean asked curiously as I looked down at my clothes saying, "Depends on what you're going to tell me."

"We are at Bobby's, Sam and I want to go back in time to the western period." He said making me smile appearing beside him dressed like a cowgirl saying, "Well shucks I can never turn down a cowgirl position."

"You're not going." Dean said while I pouted, "But you said…"

"Just wanted to see if you'd dress up and you didn't disappoint." He said smirking while I scoffed crossing my arms saying, "We were about to call Cas and not sure what shape he'll be in."

"Ah yes, the babysitting job again." I said while he nodded as Bobby walked in saying, "You look like an idiot."

Dean prayed to Castiel when an angry-looking woman appeared as I said, "You're not Cassy."

"Clearly, I'm his lieutenant, and you're that demon he keeps talking about." She said giving me a disapproving look while I said, "Man you sure do have a stick up your ass lady."

"Castiel shouldn't be spending so much time with any of you, he has an important job to do in Heaven and you guys are a distraction." She said seeing anger build up inside of her as a voice behind her said, "Rachel enough."

"Castiel." She said warningly but he looked her in the eyes saying, "You may go I can handle this."

She gave me one more glare before disappearing as Dean went over his plan of going back in time to retrieve phoenix ashes to kill Eve the creator of all monsters. Castiel agreed to let them saying he would give them 24 hours and after that, they'd be trapped which they agreed to. With a touch of his fingers, they were gone and though slightly wounded he appeared to be fine.

"What are you wearing?" he asked finally while I sighed changing back to normal clothes saying, "Disappointment, that's what I was wearing…"

Castiel turned towards Bobby saying, "I'll be back before the time is up to get them."

Suddenly he was gone again leaving me alone with Bobby as I said, "Shall we have a beer whilst we wait?"

Bobby caught me up to speed on Eve and everything they knew so far about her while I listened sipping on my beer. I was happy he got his soul back but felt unnerved knowing that Crowley was still out there plotting and scheming wondering if maybe he let Eve out in the first place.

After a few hours, a flutter of papers caught our attention standing up seeing Castiel looking weak putting up a ward with his own blood as he began falling to the ground but I caught him.

"Cassy, what happened?" I asked worried while he said, "Rachel betrayed me, said she was going to come after you so I stopped her first."

He fell unconscious against me as I looked up at Bobby hearing him say, "Well that's not good."

We placed him on the couch in the study room, I stayed by his side seeing his wound wasn't healing as fast as it usually did. All Bobby and I could do now was wait and hope he had the strength to bring Dean and Sam back. I told Bobby there was no use pacing around and to get some rest for a few hours as he begrudgingly left upstairs leaving me along with Castiel.

"I'm sorry Evelyn…" Castiel said quietly all of a sudden making me look over at his face saying, "What are you sorry for Cassy?"

"I should have stayed longer when we got Heaven's weapons… you were hurting and I left you alone sooner than I wanted to." He said looking into my eyes before wincing and closing them saying, "I'm also sorry for not pushing Meg away, I know it was wrong of me."

I felt my lip twitch brushing some hair out of his face saying, "It's okay Cassy… I know you've got a lot of work to do and I'm glad you knew that was wrong."

I felt him put his hand into mine as I squeezed it lightly watching his eyes flutter closed again laying my head against his chest enjoying the rise and fall of his breathing happy to have this moment of peace for once.

"What do you mean you don't have the juice to get them back?" Bobby said irritated as Castiel sat beside me on the couch still in pain saying, "My injuries I sustained drained my power to heal them I won't be able to get them back on my own. We need to act quickly because we are coming up on the 24th hour."

"Well, how can we get your mojo back then?" Bobby said looking at him concerned as Castiel looked over at him saying, "Your soul… I need to touch it."

"Man doesn't even buy you dinner first." I muttered chuckling lightly seeing them both look towards me shutting my mouth defeated.

"Why do you need to do that?" Bobby asked while Castiel said, "Souls are untapped energy it will give me the boost I need but it's very dangerous so I must be careful… or you'll explode."

"That doesn't sound very comforting." Bobby said while Castiel insisted that it was the only way to get the boys back so Bobby reluctantly agreed.

"Take your belt off." I said pointing to it while he gave me a funny look saying, "I ain't taking my pants off for this."

I laughed saying, "Maybe some other time no I'm saying you may want something to bite down on."

Nodding he took his belt off while Castiel pulled up his sleeve looking over at the clock as I gave his shoulder a reassuring squeeze looking towards Bobby saying, "Keep your legs and arms in an upright position until the hand has left your chest."

Watching him glare at me for a moment Castiel began easing his way into his chest hearing a muffled scream from Bobby. I put my other hand on Bobby's shoulder steadying him seeing his fists tighten turning white but he kept as still as possible.

Suddenly Dean and Sam appeared as Dean held an empty vial as I said, "So where are the ashes?"

Once Castiel fully removed his hand from Bobby's chest he leaned back onto the couch while Bobby was panting in pain. Sam went over to make sure he was okay while Castiel just appeared to have the wind knocked out of him.

"Damnit, I just needed a few more seconds." Dean said while Bobby replied, "You mean I just got probed by an angel for nothing?"

As if on cue a knock at the door could be heard as I strolled over seeing a postal worker holding a very old package.

"Is Sam Winchester here?" he asked causing Sam to walk to the door while the guy talked about how this package was meant to be delivered to this address today.

Sam closed the door reading the note before quickly opening the box seeing a vial as I said, "Well I'll be damned... Looks like it actually worked out for once."