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A/N: I wish I was an artist, there are so many images in the past few chapters I would love to illustrate. In the mean while, enjoy!


Dean and Sam arrived shortly after they got the women out of the ground, fighting their way through the crowd of officers and deputies to catch Anna in a tight hug. Derek, carrying a blanket he'd snagged for her, found himself watching as she reunited with her brothers. For Sam, there was a hug and kiss to his cheek as she spoke to him. For Dean, there was a slug to his shoulder followed by an even tighter hug that turned into a comforting embrace.

Derek was struck by how soft the two of them appeared, for a brief moment it was as if all the sharp edges he'd seen in Dean and suspected in Anna had blurred as they came together. "Derek," Hotchner said.

Derek looked at him, "What, oh, yeah," he held up the blanket, "I'll let Anna know we need to get her statement."

"Right," Hotchner said. "Remind her that she needs to go to the hospital as well."

Derek nodded and headed over to where the Campbells were talking, in the half light of the surrounding vehicles, "Anna," he called.

Anna turned, stepping back from her brother enough to do so, but close enough that his arm could stay around her waist, "Agent Morgan," she said, "Glad to see you found me."

"Thanks to Dean," Derek replied, "and again, you can call me Derek."

Anna glanced at Dean with a little smile that he returned, "I'll try."

Dean frowned as Anna shivered and shrugged off one of his jackets, "Here," he said, throwing it over her shoulders.

"I brought a blanket," Derek said, "and Anna, when the ambulances leave, you are to go with them."

"Why?" Dean and Anna asked in unison.

"For one, you need to be checked over by a doctor to make sure you're fine," Derek replied, "You look fine, but it's standard procedure." He glanced at Dean and Sam, "We also need your statements."

Anna opened her mouth, a belligerent expression coming to her face, but Sam blocked her mouth with an innocuous grin, "If she misses the ambulance, we'll drive her." His smile stayed bland even as both of his siblings glared at him.

"I have your word on that," Derek said, looking at the three of them.

"Of course," Dean said.

Sam yelped and pulled his hand away from Anna's mouth, "You licked me."

Derek shook his head, "Morgan!" Reid called.

"Don't miss your ride," Derek told Anna before heading to see what Reid needed.

Anna glared at Sam as a nurse wheeled her into the waiting room, "I don't like you very much," she told her little brother.

"My heart bleeds for you," Sam said, "but at least we know you're fine now. Not to mention the fact that your friends are still tying up loose ends at the crime scene."

"I don't like you leaving without eating something," a doctor said as he joined them.

"We're going to get something to eat," Dean said, "as soon as we get Anna discharged."

"Some place with pie," Anna said, standing up from the chair moments after it stopped. "I know this place, has the best pie ever." She paused, "They even do a mean Greek salad too."

Dean slid his arm over her shoulder, "Let's go then, the Impala's this way."

"Shotgun," Sam said instantly.

They filled out the paperwork the doctor insisted on, including AMA forms, and walked out of the hospital together. Dean said, "How did you get caught?"

"I was in the van with my camera," Anna replied, "just taking some pictures before I freed the last guy. He hit me from behind." She glanced around for eavesdroppers, "As the ritual continues, Lihannon can, and does, gift her followers with power. That's what he got me with, a levinbolt."

"That's nasty," Dean said, "I was wondering about that part."

"I'm not sure what happened to my camera and my phone," Anna said.

"He kicked them under the dumpster," Sam replied, "broke the camera, but the phone was fine."

"Ah," Anna replied, "well, when I woke up, I was in that hole with the other women. I'd found some mention of an alternate ritual in this journal I found, and with all of us there, I knew he was going to use it."

"Bobby found that," Dean said, "he called and told us. He also told us that a woman consecrated to another God or Goddess couldn't be possessed."

"My version said the same," Anna agreed, "but I've seen other studies that don't mention that."

"How could you be sure one of the others wouldn't be the vessel," Sam asked as they reached the Impala.

"Maurine," Anna said as she slid into the backseat, "is a devout Catholic, she was sealed as a child and again as she entered adulthood. Kristina's old school Baptist while Lara is a born again Christian, they've both been baptized. Nora is Hebrew."

"So they all had God to protect them," Sam said.

"Yes, but what happened during the ritual." Dean demanded.

"When he finished chanting the first spell," Anna said, "she was there. I could see her. She had long, curly blond hair and blue eyes and she was exceptionally beautiful. She was standing on the far side of the wire cage, staring at me. Then she reached out to pass through the wire, and flames came up at the edge of the cage. Then another woman appeared, wearing chainmail that looked like fire, and a helmet to match. In one hand she held a dagger, and she said something, I think it was Celtic. The first, she must have been Lihannon, she hissed and her mouth became full of sharp teeth just before she was obscured by blue smoke. The smoke drifted for a bit, but this light appeared when it tried to enter the other cages, and finally it shot upwards through the wood and away." She leaned forward, "Turn left up here, ok?"

"Sure," Dean replied.

"Anyways, that's when the unsub fell on me," Anna concluded. "He was stunned, so I flipped him off me and then, I sat on him." She punched Sam in the shoulder, "All those times you jumped on me came in handy, Samsquatch."

"I take it that some of this is going to be left out of your report," Sam commented.

"Pretty much anything referring to the supernatural," Anna replied. "I do intend to include six pages of occult information in there. The diner's up here on the right, Dean."

They pulled in at the diner and climbed out, as they headed for the door, Dean said, "Anna, are you sure you want to do this? I mean, it's your first case and you were kidnapped and used in part of a very dangerous Pagan ritual."

Anything else Dean might have said was stopped by Anna's fist impacting with his nose.