"So, do you know how to handle a gun?" Dean asks.

"No." Melody answer.

"Can you fight?"

"Not exactly."

"Are you good at research?"

"Yes, actually. You need to be good at research to get some decent grades in school you know." Dean sighs.

"Seems like we need to train you a bit then. Sammy?" Sam looks up from his computer.

"What?"

"Can you prepare the dungeon? We can train her there now that Crowley isn't there anymore." Dean says like it's the most normal thing to say in the world. But Melody doesn't think it's so normal.

"You guys have a freaking DUNGEON?" she asks, chocked. Dean laughs a little bit.

"Yeah. So? It's a good advantage in our job." Melody just shakes her head. Sam goes out of the room, and Cas comes in. he stops and stares at Dean for one second, then turns his eyes to Melody.

"You will become a great hunter, they are the best trainers." Dean laughs.

"Well, you had some experience. We've never trained someone from scratch before." Cas smiles one of his rare smiles.

"It'll go fine, if you've got some patience. I think it's better if Sam trains her of just that reason, he's got a bit more patience than you." Dean glowers at him.

"It'll go perfectly fine if the princess is a fast learner." Melody interrupts him.

"Stop calling me 'princess'!" Dean smirks.

"I think I can call Sam's girlfriend whatever I want, princess."

"I am NOT Sam's girlfriend!" Melody shouts. "Yet." She adds quietly to herself.

"I heard that." Dean teases. "You know, he likes you, never seen him like this since his last girlfriend, that not was a monster or demon, died. I could always tell him you like him, if you're not brave enough." He says and winks. Melody can feel the blush slowly coloring her cheeks red. Dean smirks even wider. Right then Sam walks into the room. He stares at them, Dean looking like he always does when he is trying to tease someone, Melody blushing and Cas looking at Dean.

"What's up?" he asks.

"Oh, nothing. Just called Mel your girlfriend and she started blushing and shit. No bigge. But I think she likes you." Dean says and smiles big when Sam starts blushing too.

"Just get together already! You like her, she likes you. And she's not a monster or a demon, and I haven't seen you like someone human this much since Jess died. Go on!" Dean says, not teasing this time, just honestly. Then he walks to Sam and pushes him at her. Melody almost falls when he hits her, and Sam has to catch her.

"Now kiss!" Dean says happily, and does as they're told. Melody feels like she's the luckiest person alive. It's just so wonderful. When they step away from each other they turn towards Dean, and sees him dancing around a bit, proud of himself.

"I'm really the love doctor. I now deserve some pie!" then he walks towards the kitchen. He stops at the door.

"Oh, and Sam, Cas thinks you should be the one to train your girlfriend." He says and winks, before disappearing into the kitchen. Melody is the first one to talk.

"Before I agree to start training, you better tell me about all the things that's happened to you three. And I think it's better to ask you. Dean doesn't seem to like sharing stories with people." Sam sighs.

"Okay. But we better take something to eat with us and sit in my room. It's going to take a while, and I don't think Dean would like to hear it all." Melody nods and they walk into the kitchen, where Dean sits, eating pie. He looks at them all the time until they're out of sight. They walk into Sam's very empty room and sits on his bed. He starts telling their story.

"Let's start from the beginning. I was about six months and Dean was four years old when a demon called Azazel came into my room at night. He fed me with demon-blood. When my mum came into my room and saw him, he killed her by putting her on the ceiling and set fire to it. Our whole house was burnt down. That was why my dad started hunting. We travelled for years and while dad was hunting me and Dean was left on the motel we were staying at, and Dean got to take care of me. Whenever he got time, dad trained us. So I basically spent my whole childhood travelling, trying to get some decent grades at a school when we stayed a bit longer at a place, while dad trained us to kill stuff. Until I got to go to college. Dad was so disappointed in me, so I lost all contact with them both. I got a girlfriend, Jessica, but after I came back from a hunt with Dean, our dad was missing and he wanted help finding him, I was almost asleep after the hunt, but was awoken by something dripping on my forehead. It was Jessica's blood. She was stuck in the ceiling, and it was on fire the second after. Azazel killed both my mum and my girlfriend that way. I joined Dean, trying to find our dad since we believed that he had found the thing that killed mum. That was a lot happier time than now…" He trailed off, and Melody looked at him, eyes full of pity and empathy. She felt so sorry for them. And it didn't get better when he told her about the rest. How dean had died, but their dad made a deal to bring him back to life. How Sam had died about one year after that, and Dean had made a deal to bring him back to life and got one year to live. How they and their friend Bobby had tried to find a way to get Dean out of the deal, and how a demon called Lilith had brought Dean's soul to Hell when the year was up. And then Dean was brought back to life by Cas, because the angels needed him. How they tried to stop Lilith from breaking the 66 seals to free Lucifer, how Sam was addicted to demon blood and got manipulated by a female demon called Ruby, and Sam finally killed Lilith and accidently set Lucifer free and started the Apocalypse. How they fought against both Heaven and Hell, trying to kill Satan without doing as the angels said: becoming the vessels of Lucifer and the archangel Michael, which would mean that the both archangels would make Earth a battlefield and many people would die. How Sam said yes to Lucifer when they found a way to lock Lucifer in Hell again, how their brother Adam became Michael's vessel.

"I managed to win back my mind from Lucifer for a few minutes. I opened the opening to the Cage, and threw myself and Adam in it, locking both Lucifer and Michael in the Cage, and none of them has came out yet… Adam!" he says, looking like he just remembered something very important.

"We forgot Adam in the Cage! We have to get him out of there! I'll finish our story, and then we need to make up a plan." Then he continued telling her about how Dean had gone back to live an normal life with a woman named Lisa and her son Ben, and how Sam had gotten out of the Cage, but without his soul. How he had joined their grandfather, letting Dean go on with his life. How dean had found out that Sam's soul was missing, how they got Death to bring it back. How they opened Purgatory and let out the Leviathans, and created chaos. How Cas became the vessel to the Leviathans temporary, and then died. How Cas came back, but didn't remember anything of his former life, and then remembered and lost his mind and went to a madhouse, and how an demon called Meg took care of him, how Bobby died, how they found tablets from God that could help them with their work, how they killed the Leviathans and Cas and Dean got stuck in Purgatory. How Dean got back, but Cas was left behind. How they helped an prophet named Kevin hide from the demon Crowley, who was also the King of Hell, while Kevin tried to translate the tablets. How Cas got back, but an angel called Naomi controlled him and trained him to kill the Winchesters, without him remembering their meetings, but slowly becoming more determinated to kill them. How he almost killed Dean, but got free from Naomi's control, just in time to heal him. How Cas got manipulated to help an angel called Metatron collect things to a spell, and Metatron locked the angels out of Heaven, and Sam was in a coma after three trials to purify Crowley. How Dean tricked an angel into him to heal him, how the angel turned out to be one of the bad guys, Cas lived without his grace, Kevin got killed and how they put the angels back in Heaven.

"And that's it, we just got the angels back, and then we met you." Melody feel more sorry for them than she'd ever felt for anyone and hugs Sam. Then he jumpes of the bed and runs out of his room, shouting: "DEAN! CAS! WE NEED TO TALK! I KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO NOW!" and Melody runs after him. She realizes that Sam has talked for hours and that it's in the middle of the night. Dean runs out of his room, half asleep. Cas sits in a chair in the living room. Deans rubs his eyes.

"What the HELL are you shouting about!? I need my beauty-sleep. And why are you two still fully dressed?" Dean sounds a bit irritated, but Melody thinks it's probably because he's still half asleep. Sam answers.

"I told Mel our whole life-story, that took a while. And I realized something. We forgot Adam in the Cage. He is still there, with Lucifer and Michael. We need to get him out of there." Now Dean is totally awake.

"How could we forget Adam? He is our freaking brother! Cas, any idea how we can break into the Cage and free Adam, without dragging Satan or Michael out with us?" Cas looks surprised that they ask him, but answers.

"First of all you need to get to Hell. Then you need to talk to Death. He has the key, as you know very well. Only one of you can get inside. Then it's just all about luck. Grabbing Adam's soul and run for all you're worth and hope that they won't catch up with you." Dean nods, and begins pacing back and forth thinking. Soon he talks again.

"I will go. I've been to Hell before, when I rescued Bobby's soul. And you're still not fully recovered Sammy, and an angel would draw to much attention in Hell." Sam stands up.

"Hell no! You've been to Hell way to many times, Dean! I'll go, because, as you said, an angel would draw to much attention." Castiel starts protesting.

"You are the Winchesters, you're Hell's most wanted. You wouldn't make it all the way to the Cage. Yes, I will draw attention to myself, but it'll be harder for them to kill me." Melody sits calmly in her chair and starts talking.

"Well, I might as well join the self-sacrifice-club too then. If you two is Hell's most wanted, and Cas would get attacked by demons as soon as he sets his foot in Hell, I might as well go. I'm not a Winchester, and certainly not an angel. I'll draw the least amount of attention to myself, and if you give me some basic training before I go, I think I'll make it. And in the Cage… I can run like hell if I have to." Sam stares at her, with a mixture of fear, anger and concern.

"Mel, NO! I won't let you go to Hell the first thing you do as a hunter!" Dean nods intensively I agreement. But Cas agrees with her.

"If you two learn her how to shoot and stab demons, then she can get all the way to the Cage and back. She is the one of us most likely to make it out of this alive. No one in Hell knows who she is, so they won't notice her. She should go." Melody leans back, satisfied.

"See? Time to go to the dungeon then." Dean and Sam glares angrily at Cas, but doesn't say anything. They get some guns and a knife and goes to the dungeon. She follows them. When they step inside the dungeon Dean looks around, approving of Sam's "training center".

"Look at this, Mel. You're going to master the skills of fighting in the same dungeon where the King of Hell was once prisoner. And by once I mean like… a few weeks back." Sam hands her a gun.

"Try to hit that paper-doll whit three bullets, as near the heart as possible." She nods, loads the gun with instruction from Sam, aims and fires away. She is surprised that all three of the bullets made holes nearly right in the middle of the heart. Dean starts applauding.

"You'll become one hell of a hunter! But you won't need the gun in Hell, you can't kill a demon with an ordinary gun. Therefore, you need to know how to fight with a knife." He hands her a knife that looks pretty cool.

"The only knife in the world that can kill demons. Except for angel blades." Dean says.

"We're going to start with throwing things at you, to see how fast you can react and stab the things. After that we are going to pretend to attack you, and you will have to defend yourself and try to kill us, but not actually kill us. I don't think Cas would approve." Sam explains. They back away from her, and without any warning they start throwing stuff at her. She manages to stab almost everything. When they're out of stuff to throw, they look at her, impressed. And then Dean runs right towards her. She dives and slides on the floor between his legs, fake-elbowing him in the crotch, then she places the knife at his neck, signaling that he is dead, then she pretends to kick Sam and he throws himself on the floor. She jumps onto his chest, pretending to run the knife trough his heart.

"You've got some real talent, little princess." Dean says, very impressed. Sam nods.

"But what if I lose the knife and then get attacked?" Melody asks.

"That's what we're going to test now. If you can fight with just your fists." Sam replies. Melody nods.

"And now you can really hit us, it's not like we're not used to it." Dean says and laughs. Then he runs towards her again. Before he reaches her, she kicks his crotch for real. Not too hard, but enough to make him fall to the ground. Sam attacks her from behind, but she elbows him in the stomach, and he immediately let go of her. She hits Dean in the face, to prevent him from recovering, then she finds a bit rope and tie Sam's hands behind his back, then slaps him. Then Dean attacks her, holding her hands behind her back so she can't hit him, and it makes it difficult to kick him to. She dives backwards, which results in her dragging his hands with her, between his legs to, and that makes him unable to do anything, so she kicks the back of his knee to make him fall to the floor. He let go of her hands and she takes the opportunity to breathe a bit, before feeling rope around her neck. Sam is free and pretends to try to strangle her. She grabs the rope, pushing it as far from herself as possible, which means a few millimeters. She remembers that her head is about up to his chest, and smashes her head backwards, and Sam is out of breath, and she escapes the rope.

"I think that's enough." Castiel stands at the door, looking at them with interest and wonder very visible in his face.

"I think she's ready. She beat both of you, and you are the Winchester-brothers, hardly anyone can beat you." Dean slowly sits up, head in his hands. He apparently hit his head hard in the floor when he fell.

"Yeah. I certainly won't try anymore." He looks at Melody.

"Thanks, Mel. I think you killed the few brain cells I had left." At those words Cas walks to Dean, putting two fingers at his head. Dean stands up, as he never had been hitting his head at the floor.

"Thanks, Cas." He says. The angel doesn't reply. He looks at Sam instead.

"Are you okay, Sam?" Sam nods.

"Yeah, just need to catch my breath. Thanks."

"I'll prepare some hex bags, that hopefully will make her look like a demon if someone notices her. Then we can plan on how we are going to get her to Hell." Then he disappears. They go to the library and sits down. Cas is back half an hour later with an small ball of fabric, filled with something.

"Carry this with you in Hell." She nods and takes it. Cas sits down, looking at Sam and Dean.

"I'll let her take my angel blade. In case she loses the knife she's going to need another weapon, and besides the knife an angel blade is the only thing that will work. How will we get her to Hell?"

"There are demons that can take people that ask for it to Hell. We better find one of them. How is she gonna be able to find Death?" Sam asks.

"I fixed that." Cas says, holding up another ball of fabric.

"Just set fire to this one. That will take Death to you. I marked it with a red ribbon, just to make it easier to keep them both apart." He hand Melody the other bag too. The three guys spend the rest of the night searching for a demon willing to take her to Hell, while she prepares for going there. She changes clothes to a pair of jeans that's easier to move in, a pair of black boots, a tank top and a hoodie. She grabs a thigh-holster for the knife. She hides the bags in her bra and hides the angel blade inside the hoodie. When she's back with them again, Dean eyes her outfit, and seems to like it.

"You look like some badass hero or something about to rip your enemy's throat up or something."

"Maybe I am?" Dean laughs.

"But now to more serious stuff, we found one demon. Cas is going to take you to him now, and then you will be back to the same place as you disappeared from." Sam says. Melody nods and Cas stands up. Melody hugs Sam, and Dean says: "You better stay alive down there. It'll cause me some serious trouble getting both you and Adam out of there if I have to." and laughs. Then Cas places one hand on her shoulder and the fly away. They find the demon, and Cas tells him what they want. The demon looks thoughtfully at them.

"okay then. I'll take you to Hell. But you only have 48 hours. If you're not back to where I leave you by then, I'll go back without you." She nods. Castiel looks at her.

"Good luck, Melody."

"Thanks, Cas." And then she's gone.