The next morning I was the first to wake up. Cas was sleeping in the lounge chair next to the bed. I guess angels do sleep. I threw the warm covers off and stood up while the cold air surrounded me. It made me shiver and I hugged my arms with my hands moving them up and down to keep myself warm. I bent down to pull my bag out from under the bed and fumbled through my clothes until I found my hoodie, pulling it over my head and slipping my arms through the sleeves. I let out a sigh of relief as the warmth slowly came back to my body and I was fine again. Then I had to go and look for my jeans, for I was stupid enough to not wear anything but boxers in the winter. It's difficult to pull on pants when your entire leg is shaking, plus the pants themselves are cold. Once I got them on and rubbed my thighs to make it warmer I went over and lightly pulled the blanket Cas was using up further around his shoulders making sure he was warm. I brushed my teeth and took Sammy's laptop to look for something to preoccupy myself until we had a lead on, well anything really.

After an hour or so I heard sleepy grunting from Sam as he rolled over wincing at the sunlight coming through the window. "Uhhgh, the light hurts." he grumbled under his breath rolling back over. "Rise and shine!" I yelled, which also woke Cas up. His eyes flickered open quicker than a cat getting water sprayed at him, and he nearly fell out of his chair.

"Whahh i'm up i'm up! What happened?" he said startled. After his heart rate slowed down he said with a heavy sigh, "I was supposed to watch over you guys, so far I seemed to have proven i'm terrible at it."

"Cas, you don't have to watch over us we're fine." Sam said. "Oh, I understand." Cas responded. After a long silence, I had to break it. "Who's hungry? I know I am!"

We got into the Impala and drove to a diner just down the road. Everything is close to motels, so it was convenient. It smelled like breakfast walking in, and I breathed it in. "Ahhh, nothing like the smell of food to wake up your senses in the morning." Sam and Cas were too busy being tired to care much for the aroma. We took a corner table and Sam whipped out his laptop and started typing away. A waitress came over and asked what she could get us. "I'll have the special, side of bacon and a coffee." I said. Sam didn't want anything and Cas just asked for a cheeseburger and orange juice. It took about five minutes to get the food and I was starving. "Mm, this is really good." I said and took another bite. I swallowed and asked, "So what are you looking for?" Sam looked up from his laptop and replied, "Anything that would be considered unexplainable around this town, making sure if there's any sign of angels. Seeing how they're looking for Cas we need to keep him as far away as possible from Metatron's little lookouts."

"What do they want with Cas?" I asked

"Cas is a good leader,and the other angels will follow him. The ones that don't agree with Metatron. If he get's a hold of Cas and makes him go to the "dark side", he'll have all of the angels on Team Douche. And god knows what he'll do when he rules all of heaven, and the angels." We continued the conversation and I finally finished eating.

"Well then let's make sure he doesn't get him." I said. Cas didn't respond but instead was too busy still eating. I got up, "Cas you gotta finish that, we have to go." He looked up at me with a confused face, "Bubhm i'm nahm donm?" he said with his mouth full of cheeseburger. "You sure do eat slow for only ordering a small meal." I can tell he was trying to swallow his food as quickly as possible after I said that and get as much bites as he could before we left him behind. "I'm savoring it." he said. I rolled my eyes and left a tip on the table while Sam packed up the laptop. Cas got up, took one last chug of his juice and put it back down, then wiping his mouth with a napkin he pulled out of the container. "I'm ready." he said, and we left the diner and got into the car. I turned the key once everybody was in and the music came blaring through the speakers, which startled everyone so I had to turn it down. I turned the heat on to let it get warm and in the meantime talked about where we had to go next.

"I think we should go back home, to Lawrence." Sam suggested as he looked straight ahead and then turned to me.

"Why? So we can go through all that again, are you crazy?! I vowed I would never go back there,at least not back to Lawrence. Bad things always happen there, and I can't... I won't…" I trailed off and Sam just looked away. "It was just a suggestion, Dean." he said as he looked down. There was a long silence as neither of us looked at each other. I kinda felt bad for Cas because he was just awkwardly sitting in the back not saying anything either, which thinking about it made it more awkward because this was a personal topic. "Fine, fine we'll go. But i'm not going back to the house." I backed out of the parking lot and Sam took the map out of the glove compartment. We turned down the road and headed for home.

It started getting dark and I had to turn on the headlights. Cas was sleeping on his back in the backseat with his head turned towards the front, his trench coat laying on top of him as a blanket and my pillow I lent him(that I actually stole from one of the motels a long time ago) under his head. His knees were slightly bend and off to the side because the backseat was almost too small for him to lie down. Sam was asleep as well, next to me with his head leaning up against the window, arms crossed and hair halfway covering his face. He would grumble in his sleep every now and then when we'd hit a bump in the road but he'd never wake up. I guess he was used to it. I however was still awake, stopping time to time to pick up a coffee or one of us had to use the bathroom and get a snack. I rolled down the window leaving a crack so we could get some fresh air seeing how the heat was running. It felt stuffy especially when we'd been in the car for hours. Those long hours turned into morning and we were soon back in Kansas.

I turned into the parking lot of the first motel I spotted that looked fairly decent and rolled up the windows. I woke up Sammy and he rubbed his eyes and ran his hands over his head, pushing the hair back from his face. Me and Sam got out and I went to the other side of the car to open the backseat door. I shook Cas's leg and he woke up. He covered his face with both of his hands and slowly ran them down stretching his face downward as if whipping the sleepiness from it, and then rubbed his eyes until they were awake. He sat up and opened the door getting out on the side his head was at. We all went into the waiting room and I booked another room with two beds. "Can I book another one for the night?" I asked the lady at the desk. "Why would we need another room?" Sam asked. "Because i'm not having Cas sleeping in chairs everywhere we go, the guy deserves a decent nights sleep." I shot back. "Dean,you don't need to do that, i'm fine." Cas said. He's such a humble person but i'm not letting him sleep in a friggin chair. "Well what's done is done, you're getting a room whether you like it or not." He didn't argue back seeing how he knew it was pointless.

That day we didn't do much, we went to a bar, ate, drank the usual. Went back, looked up information and chatted. It was rather an unproductive day. But at night my mind was daydreaming, things I wished could have been different. I guess being back in our home town made me wish we actually had a different life. What things would be like if mom didn't die or if I let Sammy go to college to be a lawyer. I sat up because it was pointless trying to sleep with all these thoughts. I looked over at Sam who was already asleep again, and decided to sneak out. I took one of the robes from the bathroom and opened the door quietly. I walked through the hallway and went to Cas's door. I tried knocking quietly and after a minute the door opened as far as it could because he had the chain on it. "Dean?" he said quietly. He closed the door and opened it again after the chain was taken off. He knew why I must have been there because he didn't ask me why I was. I sat on the bed and he came over to sit next to me.

"Can I sleep here tonight?" I asked and Cas nodded his head still staring at me with a sympathetic expression. We layed on our backs, talking all night about being back here and my thoughts as he just listened, until we fell asleep. I woke up finding us facing eachother, our heads were inches apart. I kissed him on the forehead lightly so he wouldn't wake up, " Thanks for listening." I whispered, and got up to ordered breakfast for us. After it came I woke him up, and he rubbed his eyes. We ate and then I went back to my original room to wake up Sam. He usually is the last one to wake up anyways. After I told him I already ate he gave me a confused look for a second but brushed it off ordering himself some breakfast. After he ate we got packed up and were just about to leave to tell Cas the same thing.

I opened the door when a man was standing there, "Hello Dean." was all he said and I knew he must be one of Metatron's men. I know an angel when I see one, all dressed nicely. So I went straight for my angel blade, but he threw me up against the wall and with his angel force crap leaving the blade lying on the floor by the door, out of my reach. "Dean!" Sam yelled from over at the bed, he was still packing at the moment and saw me. But he too was thrown against the wall. "Now, i'm only going to say this once. Where is Castiel?" he said sternly. "Go to hell." I said. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Cas by the door, he quietly grabbed the blade and cut his hand. The angel sighed, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. All I want is to do my job and turn Castiel over to Metatron. Now if he's not with you, where is he?" Still off to the side I can tell Cas has finished the angel repel symbol that he used to make with his blood. "Hey assbutt?" he called. The angel looked over and Cas threw his hand on the symbol and the angel vanished with a blinding light and me and Sam closed our eyes tightly and fell to the ground. "Are you guys alright?" Cas asked afterwards. "Yeah,we're fine." I said. He hugged us both at the same time, him in the middle. Poor Sammy being tall as he was had to bend down to his level a bit. "I apologize for getting you two in the middle of this mess, but thank you for helping me." he said as he pulled back from the group hug. "It's fine, we'd do anything for a friend." Sam said reassuringly. Cas gave a small half smile and I swung my arm over his shoulder and said, still catching my breath, "Welcome to Kansas."