"We can't just waste her with a head shot?" Dean asked Kaylee once they were back at the hotel. Kaylee was sitting on the bed sharpening her knives and didn't even bother wasting her breath with a response because she knew Sam would.
"Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks" Sam said making Kaylee smile amused.
"You're telling me there's no lore on how to smoke them?" Dean asked annoyed, pacing the room while Sam sat on the other bed.
"No, we're telling you there's too much. There's 100 different legends on the walking dead, but they all have different methods for killing them. Some say setting them on fire" Kaylee explained.
"One said -Where is it? Right here… feeding their hearts to wild dogs" Sam continued.
"That's my personal favorite" Kaylee added amused.
"But who knows what's real and what's myth?" Sam finished as if Kaylee hadn't spoken and he joined Dean at the small table in the middle of the hotel room.
"Is there anything they have in common?" Dean asked.
"No, but a few said silver might work" Sam explained with a sigh.
"Silver's a start" Dean said happily while Kaylee groaned from her bed.
"I hate when we have to use silver" She explained as she saw the boys look at her confused because of her loud groan.
"But now how are we going to find Angela?" Sam asked laughing at Kaylee slightly.
"We got to figure out who brought her back" Dean said simply.
"Any ideas?" Sam asked Kaylee who shrugged.
"I think if it's not her dad, it might be that guy, Neal" Kaylee explained casually.
"Neal?" Sam asked confused.
"Yep" Kaylee said simply and the brothers shared an annoyed look at her lack of information.
"How'd you come up with that?" Dean asked with a sigh and Kaylee grinned at them.
"Well, you got your journal, I got mine. 'Neal's a real shoulder to cry on. He so understands what I'm going through with Matt'. There's more here where that came from. It's got unrequited duckie love written all over it" Kaylee explained pulling out Angela's journal and reading from it.
"But that doesn't mean he brought her back from the dead" Sam argued and Dean nodded at Kaylee.
"Hmm, did I mention that he's professor mason's T.A.? Has access to all the same books" Dean offered to help prove Kaylee's theory.
"Let's go" Kaylee said reattaching some of the knives to her and putting other back in her weapons bag. They left the hotel and drove back to Neal's house. The boys kept watch as Kaylee picked the lock on the door.
"Hello? Neal! It's your grief Counsellors. We've come to hug" Dean called out as they walked into the dark, empty house. Dean pulled out a gun.
"Silver bullets?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, enough to make her rattle like a change purse" Dean said as they walked through the house.
"Just don't be touching me with that shit" Kaylee muttered softly as she saw dead plants in the living room. They found a closed door that no doubt lead to the basement.
"Unless it's where he keeps his porn" Dean said sarcastically before Sam opened the door and Dean and Kaylee went down first. Dean had his gun drawn and Kaylee was prepared to turn if needed.
"It sure looks like a zombie pen to me" Dean said as they saw and empty basement.
"Yeah. An empty one. You think Angela's gone after somebody?" Sam asked having to duck slightly because he was so tall.
"No, I think she went out to rent 'beaches'" Dean said sarcastically making Kaylee roll her eyes but grin amused.
"Look, smartass. She might kill someone. We got to find her, Dean" Sam argued.
"Yeah. All right, she clipped Matt because he was cheating, right?" Kaylee asked.
"Yeah" Dean said simply.
"Well, takes two to, you know, have hard-Core sex" Kaylee offered winking at Dean.
"You know, it did see that Angela's roommate was... broken up over Matt's death. I mean, like really broken up" Dean said thinking back to the crying girl he talked to back at Angela's house. They left Neal's house and drove towards Angela's place. As they were driving Kaylee heard screaming and knew it was coming from the house. Without even waiting for the car to stop she jumped out of the speeding Impala and ran into Angela's house to find Angela choking Lindsey and about to stab her with scissors. Kaylee shot the zombie with silver bullets but it didn't slow her down, just made her run from the house angrily. Dean ran past Kaylee and went to chase her as Sam pulled Lindsey close to him.
"I got you. I got you" Sam said to her comforting her.
"Damn, that dead chick can run" Dean said walking back inside.
"What now?" Sam asked worried.
"I say we go have a little chat with Neal" Kaylee said annoyed as they left Lindsey at hers once making sure she would be okay and jumped back into the car.
"Next time, warn me before you bloody jump out of a moving car" Dean said annoyed as he took off down the road. Kaylee shrugged from the backseat.
"I heard her screaming and just reacted" She explained not sorry at all about scaring Dean.
"So, the silver bullets, they did something, right?" Sam asked curiously.
"Yeah, something, but not enough. What else you got?" Kaylee asked leaning forward between the two seats.
"Um, okay, besides silver, we have 'nailing the undead back into their grave beds'. It's mentioned a few times. It's probably where the whole vampire-Staking lore came from" Sam explained as he read from John's Journal.
"Their grave beds? You serious?" Dean asked.
"Yeah" Sam said simply.
"How the hell are we gonna get Angela back to the cemetery?" Kaylee asked thinking about the fact the dead chick probably wants her to die now so she could be used as bait.
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"What are you guys doing here?" Neal asked as they went and found Neal at the school, studying.
"You know, I've heard of some people doing some pretty desperate things to get laid, but you, you take the cake" Dean said as they walked into the room.
"Okay, who are you guys?" Neal asked confused.
"You might want to ask Angela that question" Kaylee said simply as she leant against the door frame.
"What?" Neal asked.
"We know what you did. The ritual...everything" Sam explained.
"You're crazy" Neal muttered and Kaylee laughed.
"Your girlfriend's past her expiration date, and we're crazy?" Kaylee asked amused but stopped laughing when Dean glared at her.
"When someone's gone, they should stay gone. You don't mess with that kind of stuff" Dean said making Kaylee look at him sadly, understanding why he was so messed up over this hunt.
"Angela killed matt. She tried to kill Lindsay" Sam snapped.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Neal lied and Kaylee rolled her eyes.
"Don't lie to me. You stink of Zombie girl" Kaylee snapped before Dean stormed around and picked Neal up.
"Hey, no more crap, Neal! This blood is on your hands. Now, we can make this right, but you got to tell us where she is. Tell us!" Dean shouted at him.
"My house. She's at my house" Neal lied once more and Kaylee noticed the dead plants and the zombie stench coming from not only Neal but… somewhere else in the room. Dean watched Kaylee curiously and followed her line of sight to the dead plants.
"You sure about that?" Dean asked and Kaylee got an idea.
"Listen. It doesn't really matter where she is. There's only one way to stop her. We've got to perform another ritual over her grave to reverse the one that you did. We're going to need some black roots, some scar weed, some candles. It's very complicated, but it will get the job done. She'll be dead again in a couple hours" Kaylee lied and Sam looked at her confused before understanding.
"I think you should come with us. I'm serious, Neal. Leave with us right now" Dean said firmly.
"No. No" Neal said weakly.
"Listen to me. Get out of here as soon as you can. But most of all, be cool. No sudden movements. Don't make her mad" Kaylee whispered to Neal before turning to Dean and Sam.
"Let's go" She said and they left the room and drove to the cemetery, digging up the grave once more.
"You really think this is gonna work?" Sam asked Kaylee as they stood by the cemetery lighting candles.
"No, not really. But it was the only thing I could come up with" Kaylee explained laughing slightly before hearing a noise nearby. Kaylee stood up cautiously as Dean and Sam cocked their guns and went to scout the cemetery while Kaylee remained at the grave. Sam turned around quickly pointed his weapon at Angela.
"Wait. It's not what you think. I didn't ask to be brought back, but it's still me. I'm still a person. Please" Angela begged before Sam shot her in the head. Sam bolted towards the grave before being tackled to the ground and Angela jumped on his back. Dean shot her again and she rolled off Sam. Dean shot her two more times before she fell back into the grave. Kaylee bolted and jumped down in the grave within a blink of an eye.
"Please don't" She screamed before Kaylee stuck a silver stake through her, pinning her to the coffin. Kaylee jumped out of the coffin.
"What's dead should stay dead" Dean said walking up behind Kaylee. They then covered the coffin back up with dirt.
"Rest in peace" Sam said as he patted the last of the dirt back onto the grave.
"Yeah, for good this time, okay?" Dean added.
"You know, the whole fake-Ritual thing, Luring Angela into the cemetery… pretty sharp" Sam complimented Kaylee.
"Thanks" She said as they gathered the shovels and walked back towards the car.
"But did we have to use me as bait?" Sam asked and Kaylee laughed.
"Dean's idea" She said simply.
"I figured you were more her type, you know? She had pretty crappy taste in guys" Dean joked.
"I think she broke my hand" Sam muttered.
"You're just too fragile. We'll get it looked at later" Kaylee joked before seeing Dean had stopped and was looking at Mary's grave site.
"You want to stay for a while?" Sam asked softly.
"No" Dean said simply before walking back to the car and putting the shovels in the boot. They left the cemetery and left town before Dean pulled over on the side of the road and got out.
"Dean, what is it?" Kaylee asked worried as they got out as well and all three of them leant against the front of the car, Kaylee in the middle.
"I'm sorry" Dean apologized softly.
"For what?" Sam asked.
"The way I've been acting. And for Dad. Well, he was your Dad, too. It's my fault that he's gone" Dean explained softly, Kaylee grabbed his hand in hers.
"What are you talking about?" Sam asked confused.
"I know you've been thinking it. So, have I. Doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Back at the hospital, I had a full recovery. It was a miracle. And five minutes later, Dad's dead, and the colt's gone. You can't tell me there's not a connection there. I don't know how the demon was involved. I don't know how the whole thing went down exactly... But Dad's dead because of me. And that much I do know" Dean said, his voice full of self-loathing.
"We don't know that, not for sure" Sam tried to say but was cut off.
"Sam... You, Kaylee and Dad... You're the most important people in my life. And now... I never should have come back, Sam. It wasn't natural. And now look what's come of it. I was dead. And I should have stayed dead. You wanted to know how I was feeling. Well, that's it. So, tell me. What could you possibly say to make that all right?" Dean asked tears in his eyes as Kaylee pulled Dean into a hug and hearing him sob silently into her shoulder, hiding his face in her neck made the tears she was holding back, slide down her cheeks. Sam stood next to them helplessly as he placed a hand on Kaylee's shoulder and hugged her from behind.
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