Dean took one glance at his phone and flipped it open. He hadn't been expecting a call from Bobby so it worried him that he was getting one. "Bobby? Is something wrong?"

Sam glanced up from where he'd been leaning against the bar. They'd stopped at the bar for some relaxation, and to make a few bucks. The moment he saw Dean's phone close he was asking questions. "Dean, what's up? Is everything okay with Bobby?"

Dean nodded. "Yeah Bobby's great."

Sam raised an eyebrow. "Then why the sudden call?"

"Bobby took a trip out of country."

Sam gave him an incredulous look. "And?"

"He might have found something on Harry." Dean caught Sam's distracted gaze and followed it as he pushed past. "Damn it."

"Ruby." Sam said as he got close.

Dean placed a hand on Sam's shoulder pulling him back slightly. "Well don't you have a lot of nerve showing up anywhere near me." He said glaring.

"I just have some info, and then I'm gone." Ruby said raising her hands almost defensively.

"What is it?"

"I'm hearing a few whispers."

"Ooh, great, demon whisperers - that's reliable." Dean bit out.

Ruby ignored him. "Girl named Anna Milton escaped from a locked ward yesterday. The demons seem pretty keen on finding her. Apparently, some real heavy hitters turned out for the Easter-egg hunt."

"Why? Who is she?"

"No idea." She answered leaning back. "But I'm thinking that she's important, 'cause the order is to capture her alive. I just figured that whatever the deal is, you might want to find this girl before the demons do."

"Look, maybe we should check it out." Sam reasoned with Dean.

"Actually, we're working a case, but thanks." Dean said still glaring. Sure the news piqued his interest but he'd rather chew off his own leg than admit that to a demon.

"What case?"

"Uh, we've got leads, big leads."

"Sounds dangerous."

"Yeah, well, it sure ain't goose-chasing after some chick who, for all we know, doesn't even exist, just because you say she's important."

"I'm just delivering the news. You can do whatever you want with it. Far as I'm concerned, I told you, I'm done." She said pushing past Sam toward the exit.

"Wait, wait, wait. This hospital Anna escaped from - it got a name?"

Harry tilted his head to the side giving Gabriel a thoughtful glare. "You're serious?"

"Dead serious." He said holding up his hands and showing his fingers weren't crossed, though to Harry that meant little.

"You have no idea what this is all about either?"

Gabriel shook his head.

"Well that puts a stopper in my plans." Harry admitted.

"How so?"

"Well, as I see it I have a few options." Harry said leaning back in his chair. Gabriel had to admit he did the corporate badass vibe quite well. "Option one ignore the whole mess. I've discarded that as I'll probably be left with the clean up as I often am, one way or another. I could let the demons have her, but let's be honest. They're the ones who'd make the mess in the first place. I could let the angels kill her, but then I'm down one valuable object and bargaining chip. Finally I could step in and take her for myself. There is quite a bit of garnered interest around her."

"You make her sound like an antique."

Harry shrugged. "I have too many options." He said frowning. "And I have no idea what she is either. She could be a hot commodity because she knows valuable information, or she could just be interesting to both sides because she has a rare bloodline. Or maybe she's a great vessel. Holy hell the possibilities are over whelming."

Gabriel just smiled around his chocolate.

Harry rubbed his temples. "I suppose this means I'll have to go see what this is all about doesn't it?" he said voice full of remorse.

"I pity you." Gabriel said mockingly.

"You should." Harry said knowingly. "I'm about to put myself in between angels and demons who are squabbling about whose turn it is with the new toy. The last time I did that I became the subject of interest."

Gabriel nodded. He knew what Harry was referring to. He'd been one of the curious angels back then too. He met Harry's eyes and smirked. The man clearly hadn't forgotten his involvement, but he didn't mention it either.

Harry stood grabbing a coat from the wall. "Well, if I've learned one thing from roughing it with the Winchesters it would have to be 'don't wear your nice clothes'." Harry said pulling on the jacket. "They're liable to come out of the fray looked quite tattered. I'll be heading out now. I don't suppose you want to join me?"

Gabriel shook his head still smirking. "Good luck. You'll need it."

Harry muttered as he apparated away from his office.

It hadn't taken long for Sam to find out that Anna Milton was indeed real, and she was indeed missing. They tracked her down to her church and from there things had gotten…complicated. They hadn't counted on demons popping out of nowhere. Powerful ones at that. They'd been lucky to escape relatively unscathed. Well, if you didn't count the stitches in Sam's arm and Dean's dislocated shoulder.

It hadn't taken long to get to the cabin Ruby had hidden Anna in. Sam only hoped that didn't mean it would be easy for the demons to find as well.

"They're coming!" Anna said in a near panic startling them all from their thoughts.

"Back room." Dean said leading Anna away while Sam and Ruby began grabbing things to defend themselves.

"Where's the knife?" Ruby asked checking the bag over again.

"Uh…about that." Dean said rubbing his neck.

"You're kidding." She said venomously.

"Hey, don't look at me." Dean said raising his hands and looking in Sam's direction. Ruby followed his gaze and directed her glare at Sam instead.

"Thanks a lot." Sam said sarcastically in Dean's direction.

A knock at the door wasn't exactly what they'd been expecting. Sam and Dean shared a glance. Sam nodded moving forward, gun drawn. He grabbed the door knob and pulled it open quickly revealing a slightly disheveled Harry.

"Oh please." He said looking at Sam's gun. "Put that away. You're going to hurt yourself."

Dean blinked. Harry looked dramatically different without the business suit. He was wearing dark jeans and a light blue button down. "What are you doing here?" Dean ground out suspiciously.

Harry smirked. "I heard you're hiding a sec…" Harry's eyes stopped on Ruby. He whistled lowly. "The Winchesters hanging out with demons. What has the world come to?"

"Answer the question." Dean pressured catching Ruby's nervous look.

"Well, you see. I've heard that you found that girl who has been clogging up the information channels for the past few weeks." Harry said buffing his nails against his shirt. "I figured, hell, why not figure out what all the buzz is about."

The door, which Sam had closed upon Harry's entrance, burst open. A moment later Castiel and Uriel rounded the corner.

"Fantastic." Harry snorted. "All of my least favorite people in the same room, well…most of them. This ought to go swimmingly."

Uriel focused on him immediately. "You shouldn't be here."

"Uriel, focus." Castiel reminded the other angel.

"Please tell me you're here to help." Dean said stepping forward. "We've been having demon issues all day."

"I can see that." Uriel supplied eying Ruby. "Care to explain why you have that stain in the room?"

If Ruby had looked uncomfortable upon Harry's arrival she looked damn near ready to bolt now.

"We're here for Anna." Castiel said focusing on Dean.

"Here for her…like, here for her?" Dean asked blinking back surprise.

"No, they want to take her to dinner and a movie." Harry snapped sarcastically.

"You're not going to help her?" Sam said in that overly trusting way of his.

Harry rubbed his temples.

"No, she has to die." Castiel said bluntly.

"Die?!" Sam's voice pitched up an octave.

"Move." Uriel said trying to go past Dean.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I get that she's been wiretapping your angel chats, but that's no reason to gank her."

"Don't worry. I'll kill her gently." Uriel said with a sadistic smile

"You're some heartless sons of bitches you know that?" Dean bit out.

"As a matter of fact we are. And?" Castiel questioned.

Harry laughed whole heartedly at that confusing everyone in the room. "Ah…sorry." He said placing a hand on his own chest and breathing deeply. "Keep going. It's cute."

Castiel frowned uncomprehendingly. Uriel made a move to pass again but Sam blocked him. "Anna's an innocent girl."

"She's far from innocent." Castiel corrected.

"What's that mean?" Sam said straightening to his full height even if he didn't think it would intimidate and angel.

"It means she's worse than that abomination you've been screwing." Uriel supplied. "Now give us the girl."

"Sorry. Find another one. Try Jdate."

"Who's going to stop us? You two? Your demon whore? The blasphemer in the corner?" Uriel said grabbing Ruby and throwing her into the wall.

"Oh. Blasphemer." Harry said nodding, a hard glint in his eyes. "Original."

Castiel advanced on Sam as Dean took on Uriel. "Oh, I'm going to enjoy this." Uriel said punching Dean in the jaw.

"Cas…please…" Sam begged, but Castiel didn't stop and merely tapped the taller man on the forehead knocking him unconscious. Castiel stopped when he saw Harry standing in front of the door.

"I do not wish to harm you." Castiel said obviously meaning he wanted Harry to step aside. Castiel's head dipped to the side when Harry made no move to stop his advance. "Why are you here?"

"Curiosity." Harry said a snide smile working its way onto his face. "It's my one personality flaw."

A bright light filled the room and suddenly Castiel, Uriel, and Harry were gone.

"What the-?" Dean said blinking. Dean moved toward the back room seeing Sam stir. "Anna?" Dean's eyes grew wide at the sheer amount of blood covering the dresser in front of her.

"Are…are they gone?" she asked, seemingly in shock.

"Did you kill them?"

"No. I sent them away." She said sounding a tad unsure. "Far away."

"You want to tell me how?" He asked anger spiking.

"That popped in my head." She nodded to the mirror attached to the dresser where a sigil was drawn in her blood. "I don't know how I did it. I just did."

Dean shook his head taking Anna's arm. The cuts weren't terribly bad but she'd been lucky she hadn't killed herself. The amount of blood on the dresser was scary. "Come on." Dean said helping her stand. "We'll get this cleaned up."

Both Winchesters were suspicious of Anna. She knew way too much. It was no wonder the angels wanted her dead, but Castiel had said she wasn't innocent. What had that meant?

And then there was Harry. He'd shown up without any explanation and vanished just as quickly. It raised questions about his origins if a sigil meant to ward off angels affected him.

"So what do we do?" Sam asked propping himself up on Bobby's kitchen table. They'd made the short trip there so they could be, 'safe', as Dean had called it. Sam wasn't sure what the panic room would do against angels.

Dean shrugged. "We could call that psychic friend of Bobby's, see what she can do."

"I don't know how I feel about involving even more people in this Dean." Sam said with a frown.

"What choice do we have Sam?" Dean asked popping open a beer. "We need answers and no one else can get them. It'd be nice to know why she went bonkers in the first place."

"Why don't you just ask me to my face?" Anna asked standing in the doorway.

Dean felt like slapping his hand across his face. "Nice job watching her." He spit at Ruby who rolled her eyes.

"I am watching her."

"No, you're right. Anna is there anything you want tell us?" Sam took over. He was always better with the whole nice routine anyway.

"About what?"

"The angels said you were guilty of something. Why would they say that?"

"She doesn't know."

Dean had his gun out and pointed towards the speaker in half a second.

"Impressive reaction time." Harry said stepping into the kitchen's lighted area. "But if I have to tell you Winchesters not to point your guns at me one more time today I'm going to end up breaking one of your wrists."

Dean glared but slowly lowered the gun. "How did you find us so fast?"

Harry took two steps forward and stuck his fingers into the pocket of Dean's shirt. He withdrew them a second later holding a small business card.

"How many of those things do you have?" Dean asked, disgusted that Harry had gotten close enough to slip something on him without his knowledge.

"You realize that if you find the right printer business cards only cost ten dollars for about three hundred." Harry said shaking his head. "I'd hook you up with the number of my printer, but somehow I doubt 'hunter of the supernatural' would come across with flying colors when you hand out your contact info."

"I don't mean business cards!" Dean said indignantly. "I mean magical…tracking…you know what…never mind. What are you doing here?"

"Did you come to kill Anna?" Sam asked suddenly a bit nervous. He doubted he'd get off with a simple tap to the head and unconsciousness if they fought Harry.

"Kill Anna?" Harry said placing a hand on his chest in mock indignation. "Why it's like you think I'm a heartless villain or something."

"Or something." Dean agreed under his breath, but if the glint in Harry's eye was any indicator he'd heard.

"No, I didn't come to kill Anna." Harry spat out. "I came out of curiosity. You see all of my information networks are just buzzing about this 'Anna' chick. So I thought I'd pop by and see what it was all about. Clearly it was a waste of my time though." He said with a roll of his eyes.

"What do you mean?" Anna asked staring at him in a way that made him uncomfortable.

"I mean that you're much less 'spectacular' than I thought you'd be." Harry huffed. "Honestly you wouldn't be worth the effort of trafficking. There're very few demons I'd trust enough to deal with and none of them would be particularly interested in you."

"You know something that you're not telling us." Sam caught on.

Harry blinked. "Well I do now." He said with a shrug. "I had my suspicions before but they were definitely solidified when I saw her, and-" He cut off giving Anna an odd look when she placed a hand on his face. He hadn't really been paying her attention and she had crossed the small space between them while he'd been talking.

"Uh…Anna?" Dean said giving the two of them an odd look of his own. "You want to explain why you're feeling the British guy up?"

"You can't see it?" she asked pulling her hand back slowly. Harry stepped away eying her warily.

"See what Anna?" Sam asked glancing between the two.

"His real face."

"His real face?" Dean scoffed.

Anna just nodded. "Like with Ruby and the other demons. I could see their true faces…and I can see his."

"So he is a demon!" Dean said leveling his gun again.

"No!" Anna said shaking her head. "He's not. I don't…I don't know what he is." She admitted.

If scowls could create storms there would be a tornado in Bobby's kitchen courtesy of Harry. "Fun as this has been kiddies I think I'm gonna jet. I've had enough weird for one day." And he was gone just like that.

Dean heaved a sigh. "What the hell is going on!"

"Anna what exactly did you see when you looked at him?" Sam asked curiously.

"Light." She said at first as if thinking about how to describe him. "It was beautiful."

"Like an angel?" Sam asked hopefully. They'd been trying to peg down what the guy was for so long. Maybe he'd been an angel the whole time.

She shook her head. "No…and yes." She said frowning. "It reminded me of the light I saw coming from the angels…but different. It seemed kinder."

"Kinder." Dean scoffed. "Well, he didn't want to kill you, maybe he just toned down the angel juice."

Sam shook his head at his brother. "He seemed to know who Anna is though."

"Yeah. He also said he had demon contacts. The guy's bad news Sam."

"Dude…Ruby." Sam said gesturing to the demon in the room who held up her hands obviously wanting no part in the argument. "Maybe, but we could just-"

"Forget it Sam." Dean said taking a swig of beer. "We're calling that psychic chick…Pamela or something like that."

Sam scowled. "Fine."

Sam blinked. Anna was an angel? A freaking angel? She was being hunted by her own kind, and for what? Disobedience. If that was a sin punishable by death Sam should be dead a thousand times over by then. He disobeyed everyone eventually. Hell, didn't everyone?

"So we're stuck in the middle." Dean summed up nicely.

"It's a battle between heaven and hell and we're holding the prize." Ruby said throwing up her hands. "We're just begging for death right now."

"I'm sorry." Anna said looking a bit sheepish.

"Maybe we could ask Ha-"

"For the last time 'no' Sam!" Dean cut Sam off. "Why are you so hell bent on getting the guy's help anyway?"

"Because he's not on either side Dean!" Sam countered. His voice was louder now, not willing to be silenced by his older brother. "And he's helped before! Maybe he'll help again if we give him the chance. Why are you so scared to ask him for help!?"

Dean blinked, before leveling a fierce glare at Sam. He opened his mouth to argue only to stop when Anna spoke.

"He's right. We should ask for help. I'm not sure he will help, but it's worth a shot. He usually remains neutral."

Dean blinked. "You know what he is?"

Anna nodded. "He's less of a 'what' and more of a 'who'."

"Alright, and?" Dean bit out when she didn't continue.

She shook her head. "Perhaps afterward, but he's more likely to help if I haven't told you."

"Why?" Sam asked curiously.

"He likes his secrets." Anna said looking apologetic. "There's a reason he doesn't tell people."

"Whatever." Dean said waving a hand at Sam. "I'm guessing you've still got his magic card?"

Sam looked hesitant to admit that he did, but he pulled it from his shirt pocket. Dean gave the thing a dirty look. "Harry Potter."

A minute passed. Then two more in complete silence. "Guess he's not coming." Dean said trying not to sound as happy as he felt.

"Guess again."

Dean jerked but had sense enough not pull his gun.

"What do you blundering idiots want?" Harry asked stepping nearer to the cabin where the light could hit him. He was wearing his suit again. "I was about to take a plane to Russia for a business conference. Now I've had to cunfund an entire airline staff into thinking there's a passenger on the plane when there isn't."

"Yeah. Sounds tiring." Dean scoffed.

Harry's eyes narrowed. "It's not particularly. Dealing with you, however, I find exceedingly draining. It takes concentrated effort to dumb down my sentences enough for you to understand them."

"Dean." Sam warned when it was obvious Dean was about to snap back.

Harry turned his gaze to Sam. "Why did you call me?" he asked with a frown. "And it had better be a good reason or I'm going to get angry."

"I would say 'you wouldn't like him when he's angry', but I already don't like him now." Dean spat out.

Harry snapped his fingers. "Hush now. The grownups are talking."

Dean opened his mouth to respond only to find he made no noise.

"That's not…permanent…is it?" Sam asked nervously.

"No, but I could sever his vocal chords if you find you like the change." Harry offered with a grin. "I find it quite soothing myself."

Dean glared.

"We were hoping you'd help me." Anna finally spoke up.

Harry turned his attention on her. He seemed to consider it for a minute. "I don't work for free sweetheart." He said crossing his arms. "Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you get a freebie. Or perhaps I should say because you're an angel."

"What do you want?" Sam asked confused.

Harry paused to consider it. "Well, in all honesty while you Winchesters are all the hype information wise you're not exactly rolling in items I'd like to acquire." He said pausing and then smiling wickedly. "Although I've heard you've recently come by a dagger that can kill demons. Now that's something that could fetch a hefty sum."

"No deal James Bond." Ruby said stepping forward. "The idiots lost the knife, and even if they hadn't I wouldn't let them give it to you."

Harry's smile faded just the slightest bit. "Big words coming from the biggest traitor in hell. Do you know how many demons would pay untold sums just to know where you are?" He asked stepping forward and tapping her on the nose. "Consider it good faith that I haven't sold you out already. Yes, I noticed you trying to slink into the background earlier. You really must work on hiding that ridiculous stench that seeps off of your kind. It's stomach turning." He sneered.

Ruby looked good and wary now. Just what he wanted.

"Is there anything else?" Sam asked with a sigh figuring Harry would tell them no and then disappear.

Harry turned a smile on him. "I'm feeling generous tonight Sam." He said splaying his hands. "I'm willing to rehash our old deal."

"The ring?" Sam asked confused.

"What ring?" Ruby asked warily.

"Oh, you'll know which ring. Trust me."

"You can't mean that ring." Anna said eyes wide.

Harry smiled. "Indeed." He said rubbing his ring finger.

"Then."

"Yes." Harry said cutting her off.

"Would you stop talking in riddles!?" Dean yelled and then seemed surprised that he could talk at all.

Harry turned amused eyes on him. "They're hardly riddles."

"If you want Sammy to get this ring for you you're gonna have to tell us more about it. For all we know handing it to you could mean the end of the universe or something." Dean said angrily.

"Oh hardly." Harry scoffed. "I've owned it before and you still exist don't you?"

At their disbelieving looks Harry sighed but shrugged.

"You won't find the ring yet. It's not even on Earth." Harry started.

"Where is it then?" Dean asked.

Harry glared. "Hell. Don't interrupt me again unless you enjoy being unable to speak." He watched Dean rub his throat before continuing. "In a few months the seals will fall."

Sam let out a gasp that Harry chose to ignore.

"When they do you'll end up looking for four rings. I only want one of them. Its stone is white."

"Why is the ring in hell?" Dean asked warily.

"It's sealed up down there with its temporary owner." Harry spat the last two words as though he'd tasted something foul.

"Lucifer?" Sam asked fearfully.

"No." Harry answered blankly. "Death."

That garnered a few astonished looks.

"Alright." Harry said waving his hand. "That's enough story time for now. Do we have a deal or not?"

"Yes." Sam said slightly unsure. He'd been positive last time as it had been Dean's soul in the balance. Anna was different, but he couldn't let her die if he had the power to stop it right?

"Fantastic." Harry said with a smile. He snapped his fingers and Anna clutched her chest emitting a squeak of pain.

"What was that?" she said clutching at her ribs.

"Enochian sigils." Harry said with a shrug. "I doubt you'll need them once you've relearned how to control your power, but for now…" He shrugged. "They'll ward you from angels."

"Great." Dean said caustically. "But what about the demons?"

"You think they have a good way to find her?" Harry scoffed. "The only way they're finding her is if she sends the invitation. I may have agreed to protect her but I can't take away free will. If she wants them to kill her I say good riddance."

"Guys." Anna said hand floating up to her head and interrupting whatever Dean was about to say. "The angels are talking."

"What are they saying?" Sam asked wide eyed. It couldn't be a coincidence that they'd started talking right after Harry had hidden Anna right?

"It's a message. Like a loop." She said frowning. She opened her eyes and fixed Dean with a stare. "It says Dean Winchester gives us Anna by midnight….or we hurl him back into damnation."

Harry grimaced. "Troubling news." He clapped his hands. "Well, we'll be on our way won't we Anna." He held out his hand to her.

She stared back with shock.

"You agreed to help!" Sam argued.

"I agreed to help Anna." Harry countered. "Which is best done with her out of sight. I do wish you the best of luck climbing back out of hell though Dean. Wretched place, could do with a few less hooks."

Ruby scoffed. "As trustworthy as a demon." Then she was kneeling on the ground writhing.

"I take insult to that." Harry said eyes blazing.

"Stop." Sam pleaded stepping in front of Ruby. "Please."

Harry blinked and Ruby fell onto her hands panting. "Cute Sam. Sticking up for the one who will lead you into damnation. Cute."

"I'm staying here." Anna said garnering Harry's attention.

"I don't think so love." Harry said swinging a small bag back and forth.

"Is that our hex bag?" Dean asked looking at the thing warily.

"That it is." Harry said pocketing the small bag. "You see Anna. It makes my job much easier for you to be in a safe room."

"I don't care how easy your job is." She said crossing her arms. "I got the Winchesters into this and I won't leave them now."

Harry let out a sigh. "Of course not." He tossed the hex bag to Sam. "I assume you're staying in the ramshackle cabin? Fantastic. I'll be inside ramming my head against a wall until the danger comes."

Three of the four left watched him swagger off toward the entrance. Dean's eyes were glued on Ruby. He was itching to put a few bullets in her, but he knew it wouldn't do anything to the demon inside the meat suit.

"What did he mean?" Dean asked still focused on Ruby.

"You're going to have to be more specific sparky." Ruby said when she realized his eyes were on her. "That guy's a bag full of crazy. It's not like I'm in tune with his deeper meanings."

"He said you'd lead my brother to damnation!" Dean said accusingly. "Or did you just happen to forget that little tidbit?"

"Dean calm down." Sam said placing his hands on Dean's chest when he made to lunge for her. "We don't know what he meant. Maybe he's wrong."

"He didn't sound like the type who's wrong often Sammy!" Dean said glaring at his brother for defending the demon.

"Yeah? Well he also said that the seals would break Dean!" Sam snapped back. "The angels and us. We're all trying to stop that!"

"Now's not the time to fight amongst ourselves." Anna said placing a placating hand on Dean's shoulder. "We'll have plenty of time to deal with this later. For now we should get inside. I'm sure he's warding the place despite what he said."

"Great." Dean said shrugging off the angel's hand and stalking angrily toward the door.

Harry sat in an overlarge arm chair rubbing his temples. No one had said a word to him since reentering the cabin, but he could feel Sam's eyes burning into his back every once in a while. He dutifully ignored the man in favor of the blissful silence which had permeated the air.

He counted himself thankful that, at the very least, the morons he'd agreed to protect hadn't gone gallivanting about inviting demons in to find Anna.

He let out a sigh as the large doors that took up and entire wall flung inwards. Castiel and Uriel stood in the doorway. Uriel looked a little too smug for Harry's liking. It just so happened Harry's chair had been facing their direction too so he got to see the angel's over dramatic entrance. He would give it a three out of ten. It needed work. It lacked a snappy one liner or explosion.

"It's good to see you again Anna." Castiel said nodding in Anna's direction.

"How did you find us?" Sam asked confused and glancing over at Harry.

Harry raised his hands in mock surrender. "The sigils are working. Don't look at me." Harry said with a surprising amount of disinterest.

"Dean?" Sam said taking in his brother's guilty look.

"I'm sorry." He said not meeting anyone's eyes.

"Why?"

"Because they gave him a choice. They either kill me….or they kill you." Anna said gazing knowingly at the other two angels in the room.

"I always did like ultimatums myself." Harry added a bored look on his face. Dean shot him a glare which he smiled at.

"I'm sorry." Castiel started.

"No you're not. Not really. You don't know the feeling." Anna bit out rather harshly eliciting a low whistle from Harry.

"Hitting below the belt this early? Play fair Anna, you should know angels have emotions. After all, they caused you to fall didn't they?" Harry said finally standing. The chair he'd been occupying vanished into nothing. "I prefer to think that you're all just emotionally retarded. IE you have no idea what the feelings mean." He wiggled his fingers to emphasize.

Castiel was giving Harry a curious look. "You must not interfere. We have-"

"Orders?" Anna cut in.

Castiel nodded.

"Don't you touch a hair on the poor girl's head."

Harry turned to the room's newest addition and groaned. "Not you." He said lip curling in disgust. He stood corrected as well. Apparently the morons had invited demons to this little shindig.

"How dare you come into this room you pussing sore." Uriel spat.

Harry rolled his eyes. Well that statement had certain clarified why the angels hadn't had a snappy one liner. Clearly their wit had shriveled and was in danger of turning into dust.

"Name calling. That hurt my feelings...you sanctimonious, fanatical prick." The demon quipped back.

Harry had to admit he'd choose the demon's side if this was a war in insults. "Now, now girls. You're both very pretty." Harry said patting the air and earning a snort from Dean despite the situation. "But if you wouldn't mind leaving I'd appreciate it. You see, I've decided Miss Anna here would make an interesting acquisition."

"Mr. Potter." The demon said rounding on him as he tossed an injured Ruby to the side. "What an…honor. I haven't seen you since you were on my rack downstairs. Fun times."

Harry glared. San and Dean turned amazed looks on Harry. The guy was a walking mystery and only more seemed to be added as time went by. "Alistair." Harry greeted cordially despite the glare. "If you'd kindly go fuck yourself I'd be happy to move on with my life. As far as I recall anyway you never really got far on the 'breaking me' bit."

Now Dean's eyes were locked on the demon.

"You know who we are." Castiel said stepping forward and directing his speech at Alistair and his demon buddies. "And you know what we will do. I won't say it again, leave or we will lay you to waste."

"I think I'll take my chances." Alistair said drawing his eyes from Harry to the angel.

Harry rolled his eyes as Castiel took a few steps forward and laid a hand on Alistair's head. Uriel ran forward, none too gracefully, and began to fight the two lackeys the demon had brought along. Castiel had his hand pressed against Alistair's head for several seconds before he realized it wasn't doing anything. Astonished eyes took in the fully intact demon in front of him.

"Sorry kiddo." Alistair said shoving Castiel to the ground. "Why don't you go run to daddy."

Harry rolled his eyes at the whole charade grabbing the second demon which Uriel hadn't gotten around to yet. He twirled a dagger in his hand before plunging it into the base of the possessed man's skull. He watched as the sparks signifying the demon's death spread through the body before he retrieved the weapon wiping of the blood on the man's pant leg.

"Potestas inferna, me confirma. Potestas inferna, me confirma!" Alistair chanted shaking Castiel with one hand held snuggly to the angel's forehead. Harry could see the unfocused look in Castiel's eyes signifying that the exorcism would begin to work its magic soon.

He spotted Dean looking about frantically for a weapon eyes flicking to Castiel worriedly. Harry found that curious. He hadn't thought that the Winchesters got along with the angels. Particularly after this display. He grabbed the back of Alistair's shirt and tugged him away from Castiel allowing the angel to fall back and take deep breaths.

"Alistair."

"Harry." Alistair greeted with a smug smile. "It's been a while since we've had the time to play. We should make up for that."

"I have a better idea." Harry said smiling and shoving his hand forward. The moment it touched Alistair's body black smoke billowed out of the man's throat. "Go to hell."

"Close your eyes!"

A blinding light filled the room. Harry blinked turning to the source. He squinted as the light seemed to reach its brightest point before fading. He let out a sigh but took Anna's disappearance as his cue to vanish.