Next Day.
Rose had left the house for a while...Damon and Stefan were playing mediator between Elena and Katherine. That was after Katherine of course decided to play with their minds. Rose figured it'd be good if she wasn't there while they talked. She headed to get a coffee and do some searching on Eve.
She sat down at the nearest empy table and pulled out her phone.
Bela. Dean greeted. I assume you're calling with new information. Sam and I are close to Virginia...we'll stop in to discuss things.
"Well nothing on the Eve front actually...but Elijah's dead, thought you should know."
You guys killed him? You happen to ask him anything about our issue?
"No, Elena was in danger, as were the rest of us. Damon didn't want to risk it. It turns out he can't die...unless you leave the dagger in his heart. So he's 'dead' in the cellar."
Safe to assume all alphas...originals, whatever...are the same and can't be killed other than with that knife?
"Orignal vampires at least, I don't know the lore on other creatures."
Great. More to add to the list of freaky shit to deal with this week. I mean, why the hell can't we get close enough to cut their heads right off...
"No idea. What do you mean more? Eve creating new species again?"
Nope, angel problems.
"You're serious...there's more besides Castiel here?"
Well yeah. For the record the rest of them are dicks. Anyways, Cas asked Belthazar for help, and he decided to have way to much fun with it. You won't know it ever happened, but he unsank the titanic...and then went back and sank it again.
Rose nearly spit out her coffee.
"I'm sorry...what?"
Don't ask.
"You tell me this and then tell me to not ask? Why the hell would an angel do that? For fun?"
Um well Cas wanted more humans to be on his side for some heavenly war, but instead of saving more people in our time Belthazar decided he'd go unsink the Titanic because he hated the movie, thus creating 50 more people.
"It wasn't that terrible." Rose stated.
That's what I said.
"Rose didn't answer him, she was too busy laughing.
What? I watched it for the naked part. Dean said defensively.
"Of course you did."
Shut up. We're on our way, I'm waiting for Sam to grab some food.
"Good. Katherine's free, and she's worse than I ever was...who knows what she's up to."
"Katherine, the century old ex doppleganger now vampire?"
"Yes."
Can we tell a difference between her and Elena or are we going to have to guess.
"No, you'll know."
Good. See you soon. Dean said, and hung up.
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A couple hours later Rose returned to the house. She didn't see Damon anywhere but then she heard something come from the basement.
"I wanted out of the tomb. It didn't matter who paid the price, of course I knew you'd die." Katherine told Damon.
Ouch. Was that how she used to sound? Rose wondered. She sounded so cold.
Katherine passed Rose as she came into the hall.
"So, you're Damon's new plaything huh? Cute. Must suck knowing you'll never have his heart..." Katherine started.
"You know what's cute, you trying to mask your insecurities by being a bitch, sorry sweetheart you don't affect me, I've been where you are. It's sad you care for no one but yourself. What I am to Damon is a friend, and that's good enough for me."
Katherine glared at her. Rose had a feeling that Katherine would have attacked her had Damon not came into the hall. Rose smiled as Katherine sauntered away.
"Ignore her." Damon said.
Rose laughed. "I will. So, the Winchesters are on their way here to catch up on things."
"Great. Thought we were free of them."
Rose rolled her eyes. "Any help they can offer will be good for us. Not like they're coming over here for a friendly chat."
"I guess so."
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Damon and Rose were standing around the study doing research when Katherine walked back in.
"What you up to?" She practically purred. Rose had no problem showing her annoyance, Damon managed to stay indifferent.
"None of your business."
"Are we pouting? How am I supposed to help you if you won't tell me what you're doing?"
"You're not." Rose suggested.
Katherine shot her a dark look. Rose smirked.
"Can you tell me where a bunch of witches were massacred a couple centuries ago?" Damon asked her.
"No."
"Then you can't help." Damon assured her.
The doorbell rang.
"Expecting company?" Katherine asked.
Rose went to get the door and ignored her.
Katherine took this time to try and grab one of the journals Damon was reading. He smacked her hand away, but she tried again until finally he shoved her across the room, staying on top of her to prevent her from moving. He really wanted to just rip her heart out...
"If it's any consolation, I'm glad you're not dead."
Rose walked back into the room followed by Dean and Sam. She'd filled them in a little bit on the way in. Katherine stood up and noticed them.
"Bringing in more people now? Atleast they're hot...yummy." Katherine said, giving the boys her best flirtatious smile.
Rose glared at her again.
"Ignore her." Damon told the brothers. "Don't touch them." he then told Katherine.
"Huh. You were right." Dean said to Rose. "Big difference." He was of course referring to what Rose had told him, that he could tell right away that she wasn't Elena.
Katherine looked up at the door. Damon spotted Stefan.
"What did they have to say?" Damon asked about Stefan's chat with Luka and his father.
"Isn't she gone, or dead yet?" Stefan asked, looking straight at Katherine.
"Oh come on Stefan, for the last time I'm here to help. Can we skip the hostility?"
He ignored her, and turned to Damon and the rest of the people in the room.
"Elijah had no weapon to kill Klaus...but beleived if you had someone who could channel enough power they wouldn't need one."
"The kind of power you get from a spot with a hundred dead witches?" Damon asked.
Stefan nodded.
"Witches?" Dean asked. "So we have to deal with witches?"
"Not the kind you're used to dealing with." Rose told him.
"Seems to be the story of our lives as of late." Sam said.
"I'm serious. Bonnie's good...she has her powers by birth, not from demons." Rose said. She knew what Dean was worried about, she'd run across witches a few times in the past. Witches who were making deals and worshiping demons to get their powers.
"Awesome." Dean said sarcastically.
"I'm going to go out and fill them in...trade information." Rose told Damon. "We'll be back."
"Okay." Damon agreed.
Rose and the boys left.
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Mystic Grill
Rose, Dean, and Sam sat down at one of the tables.
"I take it you didn't want to use one of the rooms in the large home of theirs because you didn't want a certain vampire hearing?"
"If you mean Katherine, than yes. She doesn't really need to know what's going on. Damon already knows the location of the burial grounds...he's just keeping it from her. She also doesn't need to know you're a hunter...my guess is she'd try to kill you in your sleep...but who knows she'd probably like to play with your mind first."
"You don't believe her about wanting to help?" Sam asked.
"No. Damon's warned me plenty about her...and I've heard enough from stories to know to stay away from her."
"On to business. We need to kill Eve, you need to kill Klaus." Dean stated.
"I haven't found anything yet...but if I can get ahold of some of my old items I used to use I could probably find her location for you."
"Well no use doing that until we find a way to kill her."
"You're gun won't work?" Rose asked, referring to the Colt.
"Don't think so...but we need to be sure."
"I'll look into it again."
"Ok. About Klaus...Stefan talked about channeling power. Maybe we could get Cas, he's got to have more power than any witch you guys have." Dean suggested.
"Yeah well he's not been so fast to respond." Sam argued.
"True."
"Has to be worth something to try though right? After all, the faster we take care of Klaus the faster I can be more help to you with Eve. Cas asked me to help...and honestly I really want this all to be over. I miss being human." Bela said.
"What?" Dean asked.
"Your angel friend...he said he could turn me back, and asked that I help with the whole purgatory thing."
"Figures." Dean said. Sam nodded.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked.
"Should have known you'd have an ulterior motive than just being helpful. Cas made you a deal for your humanity?"
"Now wait just a minute...he offered turning me back after he saved me, so I told him that if saving me came with some sort of deal he should just let me die."
"Right..."Sam said.
"It's hard to understand really...it couldn't be more obvious that you care about Damon...but us, just the same as always right? Don't know why I'd think you would ever want to help us because you gave a damn."
"Wow Dean, that almost sounds like jelousy." Rose quipped. He gave her an incredulous look. She continued. "Look, I'm telling the truth, I told you no more deals. Sure, I want to be human again, you of all people should understand that. Yeah, Castiel telling me he could make me human sounds great, but it's not the only reason I'm helping you. We need help with Klaus, you need help with Eve. I'm certainly not under any delusions that you could trust me ever again, but I'm not going to try and defend myself either."
"Fine." Dean said. "I can't promise Cas will be able to take out Klaus...or that the Colt could. I meant what I said to you when we left a couple weeks ago though. You're going to have to earn our trust...but for now let's just stick to the job."
"I can agree to that." Rose said. Dean and her both looked to Sam, he nodded his agreement whether he was happy with it or not.
"Good." Dean sighed. Maybe he'd overreacted to Rose telling him about Cas asking her to help...he was pretty skeptical of her still though. Better than Sam though. Even though Sam had made some really bad decisions over the years he was the one being hardest on Bela. It was strange.
Sam's phone rang.
"It's Bobby. I'm going to go take this." Sam walked outside.
"You know I always thought you would be the one to hold a grudge against me the most after what I did...he's surprising me." Rose said.
"Yeah, he'll get over it." Dean answered.
"I doubt it...he probably blames me for you going to hell."
"I told you, even if you hadn't stolen the Colt, nothing would have stopped me from dying."
She nodded. "You're different." She stated.
"How's that?" he asked. Although she was right.
"We used to be able to trade quips faster than anyone...I feel like that's gone. Your not as witty as you used to be."
"Neither are you..." he countered. She gave him an annoyed look. "Okay, I don't know, I'd like to think I am...maybe I'm just tired." he said.
"Of the job?"
"Maybe. It's been neverending. When we first met I was just a hunter with several months left to live. Our lives have been turned upside down quite a few times since then."
"I've missed a lot...I stopped following the hunter world."
"It's probably for the best." he told her.
She nodded. "Seriously though Dean...what's been happening?"
"Bela that would take like a month to fill you in on everything that's happened since we saw you last, well last as a human."
"I've got time." she said when it was clear Sam wasn't coming back in.
"Don't you need to get back?" he asked.
"I'm in no hurry to deal with Katherine...pretty sure she'd murder me the first chance she had me alone just for the hell of it."
"We've got the Colt...want her taken care of?"
Rose laughed. "Maybe later. If she really is being helpful the last thing we need to do is lose another person who wants to help kill Klaus. You sweetheart are avoiding my question."
"Maybe I don't wanna talk about it."
"Give me the short version."
"Fine."
She smirked, clearly having won.
"Should we go outside?" Dean asked.
Rose looked around, hardly anyone was around.
"We're good, I'll be able to tell if people are hearing too much. Start talking."
"Right...where to start..."
"Lilith?" Rose suggested. "You told me she was dead when I asked earlier."
"She is...but not without a price. She wanted me in hell for a reason...and she needed Sam alive for a reason."
She gave Dean a look that asked him to keep going, so he did. He hesitantly told her about breaking the first seal, Lilith breaking the rest of them up until Sam broke the final seal by killing Lilith, and releasing Lucifer."
"Lucifer...the devil? You're serious?"
"What, you came to terms with Cas being an angel..."
"I know but the bloody devil? Wow."
Dean nodded. He'd reacted about the same way when Cas had told him about the seals and Lucifer.
"Sorry...go on." Rose said.
Dean went on to tell her about the angels and that he and Sam were vessels, and then about Sam sacrificing himself.
"He's alive though. Castiel save him too?"
"Crowely actually." Dean answered. Rose nodded, of course. Crowley was using the hunters to get creatures to question. Dean continued. "Granted he screwed up and pulled Sam out without his soul...so we spent a couple months getting that back...and that's after Sam had been back a year and had been hunting without me."
"Without you...why?"
"I was keeping a promise. Sam had asked me before he died that I stop hunting, go try to live a normal life. So I did, for a year. Guess I just couldn't stay away once Sam came back into the picture."
She laughed a little.
"What?" Dean asked.
"Sorry...I'm trying to picture you living normally."
"Yeah I know...but I did...9 to 5 job, family..."
"What? You failed to mention you started a family..." Rose said surprised. She mentally scolded herself afterwards...she sounded rediculous. Why would Dean having a family bother her?
"I didn't...I was staying with this woman I had been with a few times and her son. They were always the picture of a family that I would want, and I guess for a while I thought I could have that. I was wrong."
"Were you? You can't have both?"
"No...didn't work out."
"Sorry."
"Better for them...hell better for everyone. Sucks but it's the job."
"I don't know Dean, I'd like to think we all deserve a bit of normality. I mean, I'm never going to be that girl who dreams of a normal family or anything because that's never been in the cards for me...but after all this is over, I wouldn't mind having my own home and not dealing with all this supernatural crap."
"I tried, guess it just didn't suit me."
"Bobby has his own place." Rose countered. "Maybe that's something to think about...living a little in both worlds."
"Yeah, we'll see."
Sam finally came back in.
"Bobby has a few cases for us...what seems to be an angry spirit problem in Ohio, or a shapeshifter in Tennessee. Take your pick." Sam said.
"Well I guess that means we're hitting the road." Dean said. "Call us if you find anything, as usual. If Klaus comes into the picture let us know...won't hurt to atleast try the Colt on him."
"Except maybe piss him off even more if he survives it." Rose stated.
"True." Dean said. He put down a couple of dollars to cover their coffee, then stood up to follow Sam out to the car.
Rose was still a bit overwhelmed by everything he'd told her. There was a reason Dean was a little different...sadder, older too. He'd been through hell both literally and mentally the last few years. Her life wasn't easy on the run...but it didn't even compare to theirs.
End chapt.