Notes: Thank you to SINslayer for the advice, I'll be splitting it up into series of stories =) And to WinJennster, I had the same thought XD

Next story has been started! This one is in the last leg of editing, going to be a nice 11 chapters in total (the last two chapters are a bit longer), but I'll be posting the next story right after so you don't have to wait a whole week for the next "episode".

Disclaimer: I don't own anything here =(

CHAPTER 9

"…hang a left there and then it's about 30 paces. You'll see where it was buried," Dean finished.

"And I'll have my goods. Well then, been a pleasure as always Winchester."

"Sure." Dean was ready to move on.

"Hmm." Ruby looked a little impatient herself. But both parties remained where they were. The awkward pause got to Dean first.

"Well this has all been a real hoot, but I would appreciate you guys…you know, going away now." Sam shifted nervously at Dean's side. Ruby and her men didn't budge. A small twisted smile started to form on her face.

"You see Dean, I would love to get going, but you happen to be holding a lot of money in your hand, and I seem to be holding a lot of advantage here. It would be a real shame for me to just ignore that and move on. So I'm going to have to ask you to hand back the money. I'm sure you understand." She and her men all pull out guns and point them at the brothers.

Dean tried to make his face look as angry as possible as he tossed the coin bag back to Ruby.

"There's no need for violence here Ruby. You have your money and your location. You can point those guns elsewhere."

Sam looked at his brother in outrage, "You can't do this, Ruby."

"Oh but Sammy, I can do whatever I want when I'm holding all the cards." The smug look on her face made Sam's fists clench.

"Are you sure about that?" At Dean's change in tone, Ruby whirled around to look back at him.

"Am I sure I hold all the cards? Of course. You don't think I would take precautions when I know the Winchesters are coming?"

This time Dean and Sam smirked. After clearing his throat, Dean smiled and pointed to the man to Ruby's left. A second later the man lay dead on the ground with a hole through his eye. Dean pointed to the man on Ruby's right, and he fell in the next second. Ruby finally started to look panicked and that made Dean's day. He sauntered up to her with his cheeky grin and held out his hand while Sam kept a gun pointed at Ruby's head. She groaned and placed the bag back in Dean's hand with a little more force than necessary.

"Fine Winchester, you got me. You get a gold star to pin on your ass. But I wouldn't ask for my help again."

"Wouldn't dream of it sweetheart. But since I am such a fine, upstanding gentleman, I think I'll let you keep the goods anyway. That is because I do the job. I get paid. And that's all."

Finally a victory today. He looked at his brother who just gave him bitch face # 23. The "Fine, you were right." Face. Dean took great happiness and comfort in that face.

Anna and Gabriel were standing in one of the hallways of the ship talking. Anna looked very serious and Gabriel just looked distracted.

"You can't just let him drop them off in Whitefall. That place is filled with treachery. They would be sold off to the Garrison within the day!" Anna might have been furious, but she kept her tone to that of one fitting for a companion. Gabriel knew that she was very much less than happy however.

"You think I don't know that!? I'm not going to leave them alone. I will stay with them if I have to. I can keep them safe. I still have a few tricks up my sleeves." Gabriel seemed a bit annoyed at Anna's attention. Of course he had his brother's best interests at hand. If Dean did decide to leave his younger brothers on this dust ball of a planet, then Dean would find himself one pilot short as well. If that's what he wanted, then Gabriel would find a way to keep his brother's safe, damn the Captain. This was Gabriel, taking control of the situation and doing what was right.

"I know you have your tricks Gabriel, but you are only human…"

"oh sister, you have no idea what I am or what I'm capable of." Anna didn't have time to respond to such a statement when Chuck's voice was heard over the comm.

"He, he took Castiel." He sounded panicked, like usual, but there was a desperate pitch in there that made Gabriel sprint into action, but was stopped by the sound of the proximity alarm.

"Oh fuck, not now!" Then he sees Balthazar run towards him. In a way that only brothers could do without speaking, Balthazar let Gabriel know that he would find Castiel, and that Gabriel should make sure the ship, with all of them on it, were safe.

And the two ran off on their missions.

Balthazar runs through the ship in a controlled sort of panic. He knew that if he lost control of himself, he could make a mistake that could end up hurting his little brother, like he had done before. This train of thought urged him to go faster. He would never lose a brother again.

Finally he spotted Uriel moving silently through the hold with Castiel gripped in one arm, and a gun shoved into Cassy's spine. Balthazar was relieved to see that his brother still looked unharmed, but he was fucking furious to see how scared his brother looked. The dirty gag choking him did nothing but fuel his anger even more. And he didn't wait another minute to jump down on Uriel from the stairs, kicking the gun out of his hand and freeing Castiel in one go.

The gun skittered across the floor and ended up a good ten feet from the now struggling pair of men. And Castiel backed up into a corner of the room, his eyes wide with terror. He had never seen Balthazar so angry. He hoped that his lean brother could outfight the mountain of a man that had been holding him too tight earlier.

Walking back to The Impala, Dean had a sort of skip to his step that Sam just rolled his eyes at. But Sam was happy that things went right for Dean for once. Maybe this good mood of his would push him to let Gabriel and his brother's stay on the ship for a while. Or at least until they found a better planet. Sam's hopeful thoughts were squashed like a sandwich at the bottom of a kids backpack when he saw Meg's face as she caught up with them. Sam had never seen her looked this scared, or scared at all. She usually just had her "I'm above the feeling of fear" attitude that even Sam had to respect. She went right up to Dean to deliver whatever bad news she had.

"Just got a call from Gabriel. That ship followed us. The gorramn croats followed us."

Aw shit. They must have been hungry after all.

The fight between Balthazar and Uriel continues. Uriel is using all sorts of dirty tricks and jams his elbow up into Balthazar's gut. As he falls the ground after the hit, he spares a glance at his brother. Castiel has come out from his corner a bit and is moving his hand towards the gun hesitantly. It's almost like he senses his brother's gaze as he looks up as if to ask if this is what he wants. Balthazar isn't able to send him any kind of encouragement as Uriel beats him down again.

However, it didn't seem that he had to. Uriel, believing that he could safely go for the gun now, turned to it only to find it missing. He swivels around to see Balthazar standing up, gun in hand, and Castiel looking serious and no longer scared in any way behind him.

"I wouldn't move if I were you." The rage that had fueled Balthazar before had not even begun to dissipate. He held the gun steady as he kept it pointed at Uriel's head.

"Listen to me boy. Are you really sure you want to kill a fed? In cold blood? I know what you did to save your brother and I know that even though you have a bad history, you are no killer."

Anna supporting a stumbling Bobby come into the hold and take in the scene. Normally both of them wouldn't stand for this kind of violence, but this fed was not helping his case by taking Castiel.

"I don't want to hurt anybody. I have a job to do. To uphold the Law. There's nowhere you can take him that the law won't find. Nobody's going to hurt him... unless you hurt me."

He started to move closer to the brothers.

"I said don't move!" Balthazar looks like he is about to pull the trigger. Anna and Bobby both hold their breath. But he is stopped when he feels a warm hand on his shoulder. Castiel moves up beside him and smiles gently and squeezes his shoulder.

Gabriel was very busy up in the bridge. Keeping an eye on the radar as the croat ship loomed closer and closer as well as trying to get one of the on shore crew to finally respond to his calls!

"Where the hell are you guys! Now is not the time to sight-see!"

Uriel broke the moment so fast that it seemed like he transported from one end of the room to the other and he grabbed Castiel from beside Balthazar and used him as a shield from the gun. But instead of being scared like before, Castiel looked disturbingly calm at this. His face showed no emotion at all. He didn't even struggle.

His brother, Anna, and Bobby had all moved forward as soon as Castiel was in his grasp, yelling at Uriel to let the boy go. That it was over. He didn't listen, just pulled tighter against Castiel.

"I'm not playing around with you anymore! If anyone makes one mo-"

Bang

Suddenly a gunshot rings through the hold, and Uriel falls to the ground dead. Castiel only blinks as blood splatters over his face. Anna and Bobby look to Balthazar, horrified that he would dare shoot so close to his brother, but Balthazar was looking at his unused gun in confusion.

They finally looked towards the ramp of the ship where their Captain stood with a smoking gun. His face was grim, but determined. He strode forward sparing a glance at Castiel, then tossing him a handkerchief. Castiel caught it deftly.

Balthazar rushed over towards his brother grabbing the token form his hand and started to wipe away the gore from his face like a kid who just ate red colored ice cream.

Satisfied, Dean shouted loud, "Gabriel! Honey, we're home! Let's get this party started!"

Sam and Bobby then pull the fed's body over to the ramp, and dumping him unceremoniously onto the dust below.

The ship closes up its doors and lifts off the ground.

Hmmmm, I've been pondering how I am going to handle smexy scenes further into the series. As far as I know they don't allow those on , but I've seen them anyway…..*sigh* I shall figure it out later.