"We have to go after her!" Madison had spent the last four hours trying to convince their siblings to launch a rescue mission.

"Mom told us to stay here." Levi reminded his twin. "We need to wait for Dad and Uncle Dean. They'll know what to do."

"But she could be hurt." Madison countered.

"I'm scared, Maddie." Seraphina clutched her sister's hand tightly.

"I know, Sera." Madison hugged her sister and smiled reassuringly. "We'll be okay, though."

"How do you know?" Seraphina looked up at her sister, unshed fearful tears in her eyes.

"Cause I'm the oldest." Madison replied.

"By four minutes!" Levi huffed, throwing one of the pillows from the bed at his sister's head.

"Four and a half!" Madison threw the pillow back at him. "We don't know when Dad's going to be back and Mom could be hurt."

Seraphina started to wail loudly at the thought of her mother in danger. Levi shoved Madison as he moved to comfort his little sister. "It's okay, Sera. Mom's going to be okay."

"I want mommy." Seraphina sobbed, sniffling.

"Sera?" Dean's voice was outside of the bedroom. Madison unlocked the door and yanked it open, letting out a sigh of relief when she saw her uncle and father. Dean checked them for any wounds and asked, "What's wrong with her?"

"Mommy's in trouble." Seraphina cried and started to hyperventilate. Dean collected her in his arms and rubbed her back, trying to calm her down.

"Your mom is going to be just fine. She's one of the toughest hunters I've ever met." He made Seraphina look in his eyes and she sniffled, wiping her nose on the back of her hand. "Nothing's going to hurt your mom. I promise."

"Where's Dad?" Levi asked. No sooner were the words out of his mouth than Sam appeared in the doorway and let out a sigh of relief. Madison gave him Alex's gun and the twins hugged their father.

"Are you three okay?" Sam asked, performing the same check that Dean had a few minutes prior. Seraphina had rested her head on Dean's shoulder, still sniffling softly. Her eyelashes fluttered sleepily. Levi and Madison yawned as well. They had been up since early that morning and it was well after dark now. They were stressed, tired, and hungry. "You guys should get some sleep."

"We're hungry." Levi tugged on Sam's shirt.

"We can handle that." Dean shrugged then looked to Sam for confirmation. "Right?"

"Yeah." Sam nodded.

Two hours later, the children were fed, bathed, put into clean pajamas and put in bed. Seraphina crawled into bed with Madison and snuggled with her sister as Sam kissed their foreheads and turned off the lights. When he went to Levi's room, his son was reading a comic book. "Hey buddy. You need to get some sleep."

Levi put the comic on his nightstand and crawled under the blankets. "Mom's going to come home, right?"

"Of course she is." Sam sat on the edge of Levi's bed. "Why would you think she isn't?"

"Because the angel who took her was a bad one." Levi replied in a small voice. "He was going to hurt us if she didn't go with him."

"Levi, I will never let anything bad happen to you." Sam promised. "The same goes for your mom and for Uncle Dean. We all love you and we're always going to be here to protect you."

Levi smiled and Sam tucked him in, standing so he could turn off the light. "I'll see you in the morning, buddy."

Sam joined Dean in the library and accepted the beer his brother handed him, sitting down in a chair with a loud sigh. Dean was on his phone and hung up after a few minutes. "The kids okay?"

"Yeah." Sam ran a hand through his hair. "They're worried but okay. Levi said it was a bad angel who took her. One that threatened the kids if she didn't go with him."

Dean clenched his phone tightly in his palm at the thought of his nieces and nephew being hurt. "Do we know who the angel is?"

"Not yet." Sam replied. "We could ask the kids to describe him but he never said a name."

"Does Lex still have her phone?" Dean asked.

"I already tried to turn the GPS on." Sam dug her phone out of his pocket and tossed it on the table. "She left it here."

"Do we have any lead?" Dean snapped, rubbing his face with the palms of his hands. "Any at all?"

"You think you're the only one going crazy just sitting here, Dean?" Sam asked with more venom than he intended. "She's...everything to me and those kids and I'm sitting here drinking a beer? Whatever you're feeling, multiply it by a million and that's how I feel."

Dean looked at his brother and didn't see Sam Winchester, hunter extraordinare. He saw Sam Winchester, worried husband and father, someone who deserved to have Alex back in his arms. It was hard to notice the signs but Dean knew where to look. He knew his little brother well enough to see the unshed tears in his eyes, pulling the label off the beer bottle, the little hitch in his breathing when he worried about Alex. Not hunter and cambion Alex. The mother of his children and the love of his life Alex. Dean finished his beer and stood, pulled on his jacket. He put a hand on Sam's shoulder and squeezed it comfortingly. "I'll get her back, Sammy. I promise."

-0-

"You should eat." Lucifer prompted Alex as she sat in the restaurant. She was trying to ignore the bodies scattered around the floor and tables. Only a waiter and the kitchen staff had been spared. "I did keep these people alive, after all."

"Sorry. The dozens of innocent humans you murdered took away my appetite." Alex spat.

"Regardless, I'd be a bad host if you didn't eat." Lucifer smirked from across the table. He gestured for the waiter to come take her order. The poor man was shaking so badly he could hardly write.

"Let him and all the kitchen staff go," Alex demanded. "I'll make my own food."

Lucifer chuckled. "Charming as always, Lexi mine. But I'm afraid the answer is no. Now, order or I'll kill them all."

Alex clenched her jaw and let out a breath before turning to the waiter. "Cheeseburger and a cup of coffee."

"R-r-right away." The waiter stammered and disappeared.

"Now you're being a good guest." Lucifer smiled at her and she stuck her tongue out at him like a petulant child. "Come on, Lexi. Enjoy yourself. I've spared no expense."

"How did you get out?" Alex asked.

"All in good time." Lucifer sipped demon blood from a wine glass. Alex's burger and coffee arrived and Lucifer gestured to her food. "Eat, dearest. You'll need your strength."

"For what?"

"Time travel, of course." Lucifer raised his glass in a toast to her.