Late that night, Kayla was listening to the conversation going on in the kitchen. She slept through the first part but the voices woke her up and she moved closer to the door; by her best guess she'd say Dean was speaking with Castiel.
"I'm not here to perch on your shoulder, there are larger concerns."
"Larger concerns? People are getting torn to shreds down here. And by the way, while all this is going on, where's your boss? If there is a God."
"There is a God."
"I'm not convinced."
He tilted his head. "Kayla."
Dean turned and saw Kayla sitting up against the couch.
"I can stay out of this, you don't have to zap me with the knock out touch."
"No, of course. You're welcome to join us."
She stood up and approached them with a bit of caution, but mostly in quiet amazement. Was this really an angel of God? "Are you Dean's angel?"
Dean sighed, he could tell by the tone of her voice she was already bought into this God and angel crap.
"I'm Castiel, we didn't get a formal introduction. I'm sorry." He looked at Dean. "I like her, she shuts you up."
He grimaced.
"The rising of the witnesses is one of the sixty six seals. The seals are being broken by Lilith."
Dean nodded, that would make sense. That crazy bitch just kept popping up. "She did the spell, she rose the witnesses."
"And not just here, twenty other hunters are dead."
"She sure knew which witnesses to pick." Kayla said. Witnesses hunter's had failed, made them a perfect target.
"Lilith has a certain sense of humor." Castiel agreed.
"But we put those witnesses back to rest."
"It doesn't matter, the seal was broken. Think of the seals as locks on a door."
"Ok, last one opens and…"
"Lucifer walks free."
"Lucifer." Dean spit out mockingly. "Lucifer is just a story they tell in demon Sunday school."
"You met one of his sons." Castiel pointed out.
Well Dom was honest, she'd give him that. "Is that why the angels are here? To stop Lucifer?"
He nodded towards her. "That's why we've arrived."
"Well, bang up job so far. Stellar work with the witnesses."
"Dean."
"Nah they should have been here."
"We tried, there are other battles. Other seals, some we'll win some we'll lose. This one we lost."
Dean scoffed and Castiel stepped towards him. "You think we should just follow you around? There's a bigger picture here. You should show me some respect. I dragged you out of hell, I can throw you back in."
"No no," Kayla put a hand on his shoulder but quickly pulled it back. "Sorry." Do angels not want to be touched? She didn't know. He looked confused by her apology. "He doesn't mean anything by it."
"Kayla." She didn't have to defend him.
"Thank you, for saving him. From both of us."
He glanced to Dean. "You should listen to her." Then he was gone, with only a soft echo of what sounded like beating wings.
"Yeah, you should listen to me."
"I'm going back to bed."
"You've really got an angel Dean, like, your own personal angel."
"He's not my angel, he's just my pain in the ass."
"Baby."
He saw her expression and knew there was no arguing, she was already convinced this guy was the real deal and was awe-struck by the work of God. She even apologized for touching him, like he was some kind of celebrity. He sighed quietly.
"I'll try to be nice enough to him so he won't want to throw me back into hell."
She smiled. "That's all I ask."
"Let me ask you something." He glanced in at Sam to make sure he was still sleeping. "Since when does Sam bring random girls back to the room?"
"Um..." She was a little thrown off by that one, as far as she knew Sam didn't bring random girls back to the room.
"There was a brunette in her underwear when me and Bobby found him in Pontiac, she answered the door."
"A brunette?" She got a little queasy thinking about that one, she had suspected but...surely Sam wasn't sleeping with her. "I um, didn't know he was." And that was an honest statement, there may have been information left out, like the fact that the brunette was Ruby, but honest nonetheless.
"Huh. Guess it'd be kind of awkward to have them over when you were there." He smirked.
"Yeah I would guess so."