Twelve

Dean woke up to a few beautiful fairy handmaidens staring at him and one was treating a minor injury he'd sustained scraping his arm on the rocks under the river water. On the bed next to him was Puck, who was just beginning to wake up and had a wrap around his shoulder from where the arrow had been pulled. The white wrap was starting to turn red from the blood he'd lost. Sindri was across from them, standing against the wall. He'd only suffered bruising and one cut running from his cheek to his chin where he'd fallen. He had his arms crossed and he was staring at his commander and Dean. Puck groaned as he sat up and immediately he pointed a finger at Dean and tried to practically jump him. The nurses stopped him though much to Dean's relief.

"This is your fault," Puck exclaimed. "You're the one who made her come along!"

"Well as I recall you also did nothing to stop her," Dean retaliated. He was getting sick of this. "So if we're blaming people here I blame you more than anyone else."

"You incorrigible simpleton," Puck yelled, staring daggers at Dean. Both of them were at a standstill since they'd both managed to stand from their beds. "Take that back!"

"I won't take back the truth," Dean replied. "You're the one who let her come with us and she got captured yah asshat!"

"That's it!" Puck growled and started towards Dean but Sindri intervened and stared Puck down.

"Puck," Sindri calmly said. "I have never spoken back to you in all my millennia of service to you. I have never defied you or deceived you. Now I am asking you to listen to me for once. You are behaving like a spoiled child and I want it to stop. Arguing with Dean will not bring your sister back. Acting with him will. Now Dean clearly has the weapon that will kill this beast of burden and you have the knowledge of these lands. Only by working together can you be successful in bringing the princess home and killing this Basket Woman."

"I refuse to work with the human." Puck replied adamantly.

"Listen buddy," Dean broke in front of Sindri. "I'm gonna set the record straight. I'm not after your damn crown. I don't want it. Quite frankly I don't give a damn. I came here because kids were being taken from the town I'm staying in and they were being taken here by that Basket bitch. I came here to stop her not argue with a little twat whose only goal I'm pretty sure since I got here was to eliminate me. Now while we sit around with our thumbs in our asses your sister could be getting prepped for cook time right about now so do you want to waste your breath and hers arguing with me or do you want to save her?"

"Fine." Puck muttered and grabbed his shirt from the nearby chair. He'd been stripped down to his under armor and socks. He reached for his boots next and tugged them on. He grabbed his sword and re-sheathed that too. He turned to face his only warrior left from the day's excursion. He'd been told of the others' demise and Puck felt a twinge of anger in response to their death being due to the Basket Woman. Dean walked out of the room first, grabbing his things along the way.

"I'm so glad you see it my way." Sindri smiled like he'd just let Puck in on the biggest secret in fairy history.

"Put a sock in it," Puck replied. "If you're wrong about him I swear..."

"What you'll kill me too?" Sindri chuckled. "Puck I thought you agreed long ago that your obsession for the crown wouldn't become just that, an obsession. You've let it consume you to the point that the man offering to help you return your captured sister has become a competitor to you."

"My father believes him to be the chosen one," Puck sighed. "I've just worked so hard for this and my father sees none of it."

"You heard Dean," Sindri said, grabbing his sword and sheathing it on his belt. "He doesn't want your title. He wants this to be over as much as the rest of us do."

Sindri left the room too, leaving Puck alone with his thoughts.

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"We've given him ample time," Bobby said to Sam as the two locked and loaded. They were about to head out to find Dean. They'd given him a few days to come back and so far he hadn't. The natives were getting restless as Bobby had put it and they needed to get the kids back. "Now we gotta go rescue that idjit like usual."

"Hey be nice Bobby," Sam put his gun into the back of his pants. "He volunteered to go to never land to save the kiddos we're going because we have to."

"Yeah," Bobby threw his backpack over his shoulder and turned to look back at Sam. "Cuz he's an idjit."

Bobby swung open the door to the motel room and was beyond shocked to see who was standing there before them. Sam couldn't think of a single word to say either.

"I'm coming with you." Mike said to them as he stood with his pistol in hand.

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Shorter chapter I know, but there's action coming up soon and secrets are going to be revealed.