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First section is after Jump the Shark. The bottom part of this chapter is after Rapture.

PS: Rating bumped up here a little, I apologize for a few instances of strong language. I try to keep it out so that the rating is decent for everyone, but I just felt that with Dean's anger towards later half of this chapter, he wouldn't be holding his tounge.

Queens. NY. Bela's Home

It had only been 24 hours since Bela Talbot had arrived home, and she'd enjoyed sleeping in her own bed. It'd been a few weeks since she'd left the Winchesters. She'd looked into a few leads trying to find out what seal Lilith would try to break next, but she found nothing. She'd decided she needed a break and went back to Queens.

She'd had a glass of wine and was reading in bed, and not anything related to hunting. She was actually hoping it would help her sleep. It was close to midnight when Bela thought she heard a noise outside. She made her way down the staircase, the gun from under her pillow case was in her hand. She raised the gun and made her way to her door, but she didn't hear anything and nothing seemed out of place. She went to check the lock on the door, but felt that someone was behind her. She quickly turned around, gun in hand ready to shoot whatever was in her home.

"Talk about bringing back memories." the intruder said.

"Dean. Are you crazy I almost shot you!"

He laughed. Bela slowly put her gun down.

"What are you doing here?"

"Just in the area."

"Yeah right. Dean, I talked to you 5 days ago. You were halfway across the country."

"Let's just say I needed a break. Thought you might be able to help."

"Alright Winchester I don't believe you came here for just a booty call? What's wrong?"

"Long story. Can I tell you later?"

She nodded. She walked towards the island counter and put her gun away, then wrapped her robe further around herself as she started for the stairs.

Dean stood there watching her walk away. She got to the first stair and turned around. "What?"

"Nothin."

She laughed. "Don't tell me you're actually waiting for me to invite you upstairs?"

"Well, that'd be the gentlemanly thing to do." he teased.

"Sweetie you're no gentlemen." she smirked.

"Ouch. That hurts."

"I'm heading back to bed. You have a few seconds to catch up or I shut the door in your face." she said, grinning. Then preceded to walk up the narrow staircase. Dean wasted no time, but he didn't just follow her in.

"Ah what are you doing?"she yelled as he grabbed her around the waist, then picked her up.

"Helping you out milady."

She pretended to be annoyed at his fake propriety. He didn't put her down until reaching her room.

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An hour later.

"So, you going to tell me what's going on?" Bela asked as they lay there in bed, both enjoying the comfortable mattress and silky sheets that were cool against their now heated bodies.

"It's late. Don't you need sleep?" he asked.

"Stop trying to change the subject."

"Sam and I...well we found out several days ago that we had another brother...Dad kept it a secret, to protect the kid."

Bela looked at him in surprise. "Did you meet him?"

"Not really...we thought so, but no."

"What do you mean?"

"Means the kid we met...wasn't really him. He was a ghoul. Him and the other one he was working with lured us in as revenge against Dad."

"So then, you didn't really meet your brother? Where is he?"

"Dead. They killed him before we even got to town."

Bela sighed. Dean and Sam never caught a break.

"Sorry."

He shrugged. "Didn't know him I guess."

"So, that's not all. You're not telling me everything."

"No, it's not anything...I just, well Sam and me didn't really see eye to eye on this one. The boy we thought was our kid brother...I knew Dad wanted to protect him, so I thought that was the best idea. To get him out of there and protect him from the monsters."

"Okay..."

"Sam...he told the him everything, about the ghosts, demons...all of it. Granted, the kid was really a ghoul but still."

"You think he should've kept him in the dark?"

"He was innocent, well he would've been anyways. This life is all I know, all I wanted to do was to be like Dad. Now...I'm more like Mom. I wish I could've been more innocent, unaware of all this. I think Adam...that was his name...well I think Dad was right to protect him."

"And you wish he'd protected you too?"

"You've said it yourself Bela...that you'd rather have had a normal life."

"Well, my life was never normal...but no you're right. If there had been another way, demon free, of getting away from my father I would have rather taken that path. Then again, I may not believe in fate but I feel like I'm supposed to be here for some reason."

He smiled down at her.

"Guess so."

"So, you came here because you needed a break from Sam?"

"I don't know...not just him really, the whole thing. I'm just tired. The hits keep coming."

She nodded. "Yeah...but you have to fight. We can't let Lilith win."

"I know. Just so you know, I have to meet back up with Sam in the morning. I'll probably be gone when you wake up...just in case you were worried I'd left you or something."

She laughed. "Oh please like I'd worry about that. Getting you to leave me alone is the hard part." she teased. Now it was him who laughed.

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Coffee shop. Ohio.
A couple weeks later.

Bela had been rummaging through research for a while, and had tried contacting Dean a couple times the past few days. He hadn't answered. She shut down her laptop and grabbed her mug of coffee. It had been a long weekend, and on top of that she'd worked out for an hour earlier in the day. Dean would laugh if he knew, but she certainly wasn't one to leave herself unprotected.

The first thing she'd done when she was 18 was get herself into self defense right, and that happened to be with an older hunter who taught her everything she knew. Bela'd even been thinking of hunting full time, to try to get to Lilith so she could get out of her deal. However, after a year of hard work, Lilith wasn't going to let Bela anywhere near getting out of her deal. She'd warned Bela not to try to weasel her way out...Bela didn't listen. Lilith killed Bela's mentor, sending her a message to back off. So Bela complied...and started using what she knew of the supernatural to make money. What she'd grown up learning was that money was power. Maybe it wasn't really true, but it was what she'd experienced. So she sold things, stole, and cheated her way to becoming one of the best thieves out there. She had held hope that if she couldn't hunt down Lilith, maybe she could deal or buy her freedom. In the end, fighting would've been the better option.

Now though, Bela made a deal with herself, that she wouldn't stop fighting until Lilith was dead. And having Dean as a partner in all this made it better.

She was brought out of her thoughts and memories by the ringing of her cell phone.

"Hello." she answered.

"Bela."

"Bobby? What's wrong."

"Dean's on his way back here with Sam...he needs you to come over here. How far away are you?" Bobby asked. He seemed worried.

"A few states away. Probably 14-15 hours, maybe less if I don't stop at all."

"Alright. Dean said they'd be here in 6. Just get here."

"Is he okay? What's going on?" she asked.

"He'll explain...all I'll say is it's about Sam, and it ain't pretty."

She sighed, and put her phone down when she heard Bobby hang up.

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Bobby's

Bela arrived and made her way into the house, only to hear yelling from somewhere below. What the hell was going on? She made her way to the door to the basement, only to find Dean and Bobby were actually in the study.

"Hey." she said. "Care to fill me in?"

Dean looked like he was ready to break out into a rage of some sort. Bobby just nodded, and left the room to give Dean a chance to fill her in. So Dean started talking, and filled her in on what had happened with Castiel, Castiel's vessel Jimmy, and Jimmy's family.

"So he's back now? Castiel?"

"Yeah. Except he's different...you know he was starting to give a crap about us, but after he came back he's not the same. He just walked away, and whatever he intended on telling me before all this started, he didn't. So we got no clue as to what he needed to tell me. I think it was about the seals, or Lilith...who knows."

"Okay...well you caught me up on the angel problem. Now tell me what's going on with your brother, and why is he yelling down there?"

Dean let out a shaky breath, just thinking about it was making him want to tear something apart. He tried to keep it together long enough to fill her in.

"Sam is...well for starters he used his demon mojo again."

"Okay...not the first time, what's changed?"

"He was stronger than before...and you wanna know how? Because he's drinking fucking demon blood!" Dean yelled.

Bela was pretty sure her jaw almost dropped at that...almost. "You saw him?"

Well, that explains Alastair's demise. It had definately been Sam.

Dean nodded. Bela looked at him, and could see how much pain Dean was in mentally. If she hadn't come to know him, the Dean standing before her would make her squirm. Had it been last year, after hell, Bela might've been afraid of him at this moment. But she wasn't, so she walked closer.

"So Sam was yelling because he's pissed you caught him?"

"Sam is yelling at us to let him out...of the panic room. We tricked him into it and locked him in, trying to get him to detox. He's a little mad right now."

Bela wasn't sure what to think. Sam was drinking demon blood, using more power than before, and now was acting crazy? Just great. On top of this, Castiel went rigid and abandoned them?

"So what exactly is your plan, to keep him in there until he sees how wrong it is? What if he doesn't?"

"I don't know. Hadn't got that far."

They heard Bobby's phone ring, and then after a moment a little bit of gruff yelling on Bobby's part. "Call me again and I'm gonna kill you."

Bobby walked back in.

"What was that about?" Dean asked.

"Rufus."

Bela remembered him. The hunter she'd paid off and given the false information to so she could get the boys attention.

"Okay...what'd he want?" she asked. At the same time Dean spoke up too.

"What's up with Rufus?"

"He knows...about Sam."

Dean shook his head.

A few second later, the phone rang again. Bobby frowned.

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"Those seals you were looking into, they're breaking. Rufus found more...a bunch of stuff happening all over the place." Bobby said, the first part directed at Bela. Bobby told them the days events Rufus had passed on to him.

"Wait, that's four seals in one day?" Bela questioned.

"Yeah, they're breaking, fast."

"How many left?" Dean asked.

"There can't be too many." Bela answered. "After what I'd found, with no knowledge of stopping them, and now these four added to the list definately not many at all."

"Where are your angel buddies now?" Bobby asked tiredly.

"No clue." Dean said.

Bobby left the room again, heading downstairs to make sure Sam hadn't killed himself or anything.

Dean started walking towards the back door.

"Where are you going?"

"I need air."

She nodded, thinking it best she leave him alone.

"Thanks for coming so fast." Dean said suddenly.

"Of course. Not to be negative...okay, I've always been a little bit of a pessimist really...but I'm not sure we can pull this off. And with your brother out of the game and no angels, what could we possibly do to stop her from breaking all the seals?"

"It's okay...you're right. I just don't have a damned clue. And I'm more worried about Sam right now than Lilith and her friggin' plan. I don't know how much more I can take right now."

She gave him a sad look. Dean never went out without a fight, this wasn't a good sign. He turned back around and walked out the door. Bela sat down on the sofa and let out a sharp breath.

End Chapter.