"Hey, Bobby," Dean answered the phone.

"What are you working on?" Bobby asked.

"Cas and I were just looking up an archangel to help with his God hunt, but it turned out to be a bust."

"There are some Apocalypse signs in Oklahoma you might want to check out. Hail storms and fire."

Dean relayed the info to Cas. "There are probably demons there," Castiel said.

"Wanna check it out with me?" For all his pronouncements of being alone and happy, Dean knew it wasn't true. He was the type of person who had to be around other people. His parents were dead and Sam was off somewhere. Bobby was in a wheelchair and couldn't help him hunt. Cas was probably the best he could do.

"Might as well." Cas had never been depressed before. He was an angel and didn't have emotions until lately. So, he didn't really know what he was feeling. But like Dean, he didn't feel like being alone.

"We're on our way," Dean told Bobby and hung up the phone.

"How did Bobby find out about that?"

"Didn't ask. Probably the news," Dean answered.

SSS

Sam and Jessica went out to dinner. Jessica wanted to hear the whole truth about Sam's life and figured her parents didn't need to hear it.

"So, you grew up hunting ghosts and demons?" Jessica asked.

"Yes, that's why I never wanted to talk about my family.

"I would have understood."

Sam laughed. "You understand now because you've come back from the dead. You would have thought I was crazy."

"You're probably right. So, where's Dean?"

"He's off hunting somewhere. I recently quit hunting."

"Why?"

"I did some really stupid things. I became addicted to something. I'm dangerous. I need to stay as far away from demons as I can."

Jessica decided not to push it. Sam was being very forthcoming with her and if some stuff was still too difficult to talk about then she would respect that.

They walked outside after eating.

"Dean," Sam said when he saw Dean and Castiel walking up to them. "What are you doing here?"

"Bobby sent me. Is that Jessica?"

"Hi, Dean," Jessica said.

"Is she human?" Dean asked Castiel.

"As far as I can tell. She's not a demon or a shapeshifter."

"Who is this?" Jessica asked.

"Castiel. He's an angel."

"Really?" Jessica asked. That sounded a lot better than the rest of the stuff Sam had been telling her about.

"What's going on, Sam?" Dean asked. If his stupid brother had sold his soul, he was going to kill him.

"Apparently Jessica is a gift from Lucifer—for letting him out," Sam admitted. He wasn't going to let Dean send Jessica back, though. Normally, he wouldn't dream of accepting anything from Lucifer and he certainly wouldn't have asked him for anything, but not that Jess was back, she was going to stay back.

"Huh," Dean said. This was a difficult situation. They couldn't "return" this gift, but who knew what accepting a gift like this would cost later.

"So, you're here for the demonic omens?" Sam asked, changing the subject.

"Yeah, how did you know about that?"

"I'm the one that called Bobby about it."

"Are they because of you, or Jessica?" Dean asked.

"I don't think so. They started before we got to town," Sam answered.

"What are you doing here?" Dean thought to ask.

"This is where I'm from. I wanted to see my parents," Jessica answered, feeling left out of the conversation.

"Sam! Dean!" they heard from behind them. They turned to look.

"Hey, guys," Dean said, recognizing his dad's friends. They had only hunted with them a few times, and then predictably, John had done something to piss them off and they hadn't seen them again.

"We were in the area and Bobby said you might be able to use some help. He also said Sam was off limits," he said as he looked towards Sam and a girl.

"Yeah, I'm out. You guys have fun," Sam said and left with Jessica.

"What was all that about? We could really use all hands on deck?"

"He's out. It's personal," Dean said. He didn't know these guys well enough to let them in on what was going on.

"Let's go find some demons," Rick said.

"Sounds good. Cas, why don't you go look into that thing we were just talking about?" Dean suggested. He wanted to get to the bottom of this Jessica thing as soon as possible.

"I don't know who this guy is, but like I said, all hands on deck," Rick said.

"Go," Dean said, and mouthed, walk away. He didn't need these guys freaking out when Cas just disappeared.

"I'll be back when I've found something out," Castiel promised and walked around the building until he was out of sight.

"What's more important than this?"

"It's related, OK? Let's go."

SSS

"There's demons inside," Dean whispered. "Let's split up. Reggie and I will go this way. You and Steve go that way."

They all nodded and went their separate directions.

"What are you going to do with that knife?" Reggie asked.

"This is a special knife. It kills demons."

"Really? I've never heard of such a thing."

"As far as I know, it's the only one," Dean said.

"Where'd you get it?"

"Long story."

The conversation ended when they came upon some demons. They started fighting with them, and Dean stabbed a couple, while Reggie started exorcising.

SSS

Rick and Steve came upon some demons themselves. "Did we see you talking with Sam Winchester? Any friend of Sam's is a friend of ours."

"What are you talking about? Sam's a hunter. He's not a friend of demons."

"Oh, he's our best friend. He let Lucifer out and started all this."

Rick wasn't falling for this for a second. "Yeah, right. How would he have done that?"

"He drank demon blood and used his demonic psychic powers to kill Lillith and break the last seal, freeing Lucifer."

Steve took advantage of the demon's distraction of conversing with Rick and began saying an exorcism.

One of the demons walked up to him and stuck his hand through his chest and pulled his heart out.

"No!" Rick yelled and tackled one of the demons. He stabbed him with a knife, which did nothing except cause blood to flow. He remembered what the demon had said about Sam and demon blood and killing a demon. He quickly recited an incantation some once taught him to knock demons out. Then he cut the demon and collected the blood.