Next Chapter, hope you enjoy. Sorry if I repeated some stuff from the actual episode, I tried to change things up but this one kind of moved the storyline forward and it needed to be written this way. Thanks for reading, please R&R! :)

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Motel Room.

It had been another couple of months, and they'd again been driving frum hunt to hunt never slowing down. Dean still was trying to ease his guilt. And the tension between the boys had seemed to get worse for some reason. Things escalated last week with one of their cases when they were pitted against each other by a Siren. Dean hadn't forgotten about it...especially since Sam seemed to be keeping things from him again. Dean had hoped by telling Sam about hell that everything between them would be out in the open. Unfortunately it wasn't.

Bobby and Bela continued working on their research of Lilith and the seals. Unfortunately they hadn't found a hell of a lot, until this case anyways.

Now they were on a case that seemed just like just one of the strange happenings in their lives...until now. On top of it being wierd with people not dying and reapers being gone, Alastair showed up to kick them around a bit. Well, mostly just Dean. Somehow it turned into another argument between the brothers.

Dean was laying on the motel room bed holding an icepack to his head, since Alastair thought it would be fun to send Dean through one of the tombstones.

"Sam keep your secrets, but don't treat me like an idiot."

"What? I'm not keeping secrets."

"Yeah, right. Whatever...so you called Bobby?"

"Yeah."

"And?"

"Well, I was right. After I called earlier he and Bela talked, and reapers aren't just gone...they're missing."

"Why?"

"Demons...if they sacrifice a reaper tomorrow night, they break a seal."

"Great. We really need to talk to a damn reaper." Dean said.

"How?" Sam asked.

"Only ghosts see them right? Well then what if we can become ghosts?" Dean suggested.

"How hard did you hit your head?"

"Seriously Sam, it could work."

"And how to you suggest we do that?"

"You said Bela called Bobby? Well lets call her up and ask her. Pamela supposedly taught her a few things on all that psychic crap right? We can see if she'll do it."

Sam sighed. "This is stupid."

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"No. Absolutely not."

"Oh come on." Dean said. "You're supposed to be helping with all this seal breaking crap anyways."

"Yes, and I did help. I gave Bobby all the intel I had, and I've been running around for months figuring things out."

"Bela..."

"No. Look Dean even if I wanted to, I couldn't. For starters, I'm good at what I do, but not that good. I don't have the abilities to pull that off...and second, I'm several states away I'd never make it there in time."

Dean sighed.

"Then what do we do?" Sam asked.

"I don't know. Look I'm finishing up and I'll give it my best go at making it out there...I'm not promising anything. So for now, you two be big boys and figure this out."

"Yeah, fine." Dean said. "How you doing anyways?" Dean asked her.

Sam gave him a strange look. Why was he asking Bela how she was?

"Uh...I'm fine Dean. Why?"

"No reason." Dean spit out.

"Right...well goodbye boys." She said, hanging up quickly.

"What was that?" Sam asked.

"What?"

"You just tried to make random conversation with Bela...and you're acting all weird."

"No I'm not."

"Right...you guys hooked up at some point didn't you?"

"No." Dean said fast.

"Uh huh, now who's lying?"

"Whatever, just go do something useful...I'll call Pamela."

"You're calling Pamela?"

"Yeah, she's closer and can get here in time."

"Okay fine."

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Later Pamela showed up, she wasn't all that thrilled to be there, but did it anyways. She thought they were totally nuts...she wasn't wrong.

A few minutes later she did her spell as Dean and Sam's bodies lay on the bed. The boys, in ghost form now, left to find Cole, a young boy who was the last to die. They had no idea what they were in for.

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Sam and Dean had found Alastair and one of his demonic assistants, who'd captured the reapers. One of them wasn't unfamiliar to Dean...it was Tessa. She'd been the one to try to take Dean's soul back when he was dying...right before John traded his life for Dean's.

As they fought Alastair, Sam disappeared. Dean finally freed Tessa.

Dean ran around looking for Sam, but Alastair found him. Before Alastair attacked him, a blinding light flashed before him, taking Alastair away and leaving Dean by himself.

"Dean."

It was Castiel.

"What the hell just happened?"

"You and Sam saved a seal. This was a victory."

"Yeah, and where were you in all this?"

"We couldn't get inside...the demons had it protected from us."

"It wasn't Bobby that Bela talked to, or that Sam talked to. It was me. I intercepted and gave her the information, when she called me back I then called Sam back."

"Why?" Dean asked, confused.

"After last time we saw each other I didn't think you'd be receptive to helping us. And you always do the opposite of what I ask."

"So what now? Everyone starts dying again?"

"Of course Dean, it's the order of things." Castiel told him, and then disappeared.

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Motel Room

Dean awoke in the room thanks to Pamela's incantation. However, he was shocked to see Sam standing over her. There was blood everywhere.

"What the hell happened?" Dean yelled out.

"Demons." Sam said.

"Damn it." Dean cursed out loud.

They knew they wouldn't be able to get Tessa to not take her.

"You don't deserve this." Sam said. "We're so sorry."

"Save it. Just tell Bobby to go to hell for introducing us." Pamela said, breathing ragid.

Dean looked down, more guilt piling into that head of his. It never stopped.

Pamela pulled Sam closer, and whispered something to him. She then told the both of them goodbye as her eyes closed and her breathing slowed to a stop.

Dean wanted to hit something.

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Dean was pissed. They'd just salted and burned Pamela's body and said goodbye, after calling Bobby to tell him. His phone rang on the way to the car.

"Yeah." he said gruffly.

"I take it you're back from ghostland? Castiel appeared...said the seal was saved."

"Yeah whatever. He also said it was a victory. People dying isn't a victory."

"What's wrong Dean?"

"Pamela. Demons attacked while we were gone. She didn't make it."

Bela sighed. Damn, she liked Pamela surprisingly enough.

"Where are you?"

"Still in the same town, we salted and burned her, gave her a small memorial, we're leaving now."

"I'm still driving towards you guys. Let me know where you end up. Castiel acted as if I need to stick a little closer since these seals seem to be popping up faster now."

"Yeah fine." he said. He just wasn't in the mood to chat.

"Alright...Dean, I'm sorry. Look it wasn't..."

"Don't okay? Don't say it wasn't my fault, I called her here."

"Then I won't." she agreed. She didn't really agree, but Dean wouldn't change his mind.

He hung up. She did the same.

End Chapter.