They made it to the convent, having followed the rumors and the whispers and the police sightings as well as having a few phone calls with Bobby. Dean had vanished; the angels had him who-knows-where. Kat wasn't going to let that stop her as she pulled up beside the orange vehicle. Alyssa was resigned to whatever happened here, whether the Apocalypse was unleashed or not. The goal right now was to save Sam. He was just walking through the doors as Kat hopped out of the car.

"Hey Ruby, you little skank!" she shouted, drawing her gun and firing. One of the bullets pierced her shoulder and the woman whirled with a hiss, eyes flashing black.

Sam turned towards them, shock evident on his face as Alyssa raced towards him. Kat fired another bullet at her, smirking as it left a smoking patch in Ruby's jacket. They had been dipped in holy water and then covered in salt. It would be painful, but not unbearable and certainly distracting. Alyssa yelped as she ran into solid doors, the whole set of them closing as Ruby locked them shut. This would have to be a good old fashioned exorcism between the two of them, Kat knew, watching Ruby suspiciously. Alyssa had the passage memorized, and stored in hand -just in case. If that didn't work, they had enough salt in the back to trap her if their timing was absolutely perfect.

"Well, well, well," she sneered. "I suppose I'm supposed to feel honored, Kat. You came back to let me finish you off like last time."

"Oh you wish bitch," Kat snapped. "You caught me by surprise last summer. If you think I'm that easy you're sorely mistaken."

"Ha! Considering I did kill you, I would say you're that easy. And from what I've heard, I think most of the hunters would agree with me."

Kat fired another bullet at her, this time aiming for her head. Her target hit right on the dot. Ruby's head leaned back for an eerie moment before she straightened, the wound healing, leaving a little smoke floating. Her eyes black and murderous, she advanced on Kat. She waited for the right moment before she attacked, managing to get her arms around the other woman while Alyssa started to recite the exorcism. Ruby howled and fought like mad, breaking away from Kat's hold even as Alyssa finished it.

"You think," Ruby laughed, barely winded, "that something like that would work on me? I took preparations for that eventuality long ago sweetheart."

And just like that, she whirled and turned on Alyssa. But the other woman was prepared as well, her knife flying to her defense just as she had been drilled. Kat hated having to do it, to turn her back on Alyssa and run to the car to grab the bag of rock salt they had bought on the journey over but it was necessary. She returned to find the two of them battling; other than the few rips and tears in Ruby's clothing it was hard to tell if the other woman had even wounded her. By the cuts and tears that Alyssa wore, it was a pretty safe bet that she was just barely able to hold her own.

Kat cut a hole through the bag, spreading a large circle around them. It would have to do, for now. It wouldn't hold Ruby forever, and although she could clearly see what Katherine was doing, she was unable to leave her back exposed to Alyssa. She was pretty decent with the knife. But Ruby was slowly and surely working her way towards the salt edge. Kat dropped down once the circle was made, grabbing chalk and starting to draw the pentagram of the Devil's Trap. Alyssa leapt back from Ruby's sudden sideswipe, a crimson stain spreading over her arm. She fumbled, moving back, careful to make sure no blood ruined the delicate work that Kat had been doing.

Ruby scoffed. "You really think this will hold me?"

"I don't see any rescue on your way," Kat sneered as she pulled back from the trap.

"Oh kitty cat, you gotta learn how to bite. Because Sam's opening the final seal as we speak. He's coming," she crooned. "Oh he's going to be here, and I'm the one who brought him." She laughed and Kat could feel her hairs stand on end.

From within the convent, she could see a bright light that kept on expanding. Somewhere in there, was Sam. And unknown to her, was that Dean had just broken through the inner doors to come and stand beside his brother who had learned from Zachariah just what he had done. Ruby's laugh seemed to echo endlessly around them. The windows blew out, showering them in a rainfall of glass. She could see Dean and Sam leap out, staggering towards them. Although the light was blinding them, even this far away from the altar room, Dean caught sight of Ruby first. He raced over, the knife in his hand as he stabbed her clean through her heart.

Kat smiled softly. It was good to see Dean back in action. Alyssa was clutching her arm, her jacket wrapped around it as Sam hesitated, waiting back. Suddenly the light got brighter and the ear-splitting beep intensified. Kat nearly crumpled, her hands flying to cover her ears -

House of Wolves

When Kat came to, she was at Bobby's with no recollection of how she got there. Bobby seemed just as surprised to see her. What had happened to the others? And what was that bright light? She looked around, stumbling onto the couch when she realized that neither Alyssa nor the Winchesters were with her.

"What happened?"

"I have no idea," she whispered, wrapping her arms around her. Whatever it was, wasn't good. "I don't think they stopped the seal from breaking, though."

Bobby looked as grim as she felt, turning away. He turned the radio on and the news slowly started to trickle in, about the suspected but unconfirmed terrorist workings in Ilchester, Maryland. And then the environmental anomalies started happening. They heard from Dean first, and Sam was okay and with him. Bobby left in a hurry, leaving Kat to manage the place. She sent Alyssa a few messages, but the woman never messaged her back. Something must have gone wrong with her cell phone during… during whatever it was that had happened to them.

When she got the call, from the hospital, her knees buckled and she felt fear. A fear far deeper than she had known she could feel. Kat didn't work with people. The last time she was this scared, was with Dean when he was dying. And she knew she could do nothing for him. This time though, it was Bobby, in the hospital and going for surgery and the way Dean's voice shook. It was Bobby. She dropped everything she was doing, locking the place and hotwiring one of the old Junkers, taking off to St. Martin's Hospital.

Kat was the one who took Bobby home, in his wheelchair and helped him sort out enough of a path to function. She also gave him all the space he needed, which it turned out was a lot. But she didn't mind. She was half waiting to hear from Dean, or Sam or even Alyssa. Bobby said the boys were on their way to River Pass, Colorado to help Rufus out. She didn't press him for more information, instead sticking around to make him eat and stop him from living in a drunken stupor much as he seemed prone to do.

Alyssa found herself in River Pass when she came to, in the back seat of a flipped over car. It took her some time to kick her way out, but she managed it. After a day spent wandering around, trying to get cell service, she was attacked. Jo tackled her to the ground, pinning her there before splashing a bottle of what had to be holy water onto her face.

"Oh thank god, it's really you," Jo whispered, hugging her tightly.

What was going on? A day ago she had been in Maryland and now she was somewhere else entirely. But Jo's face was a friendly one, and that was more than she had even expected. She wrapped her arms around her friend and the two of them caught each other up with the current situation as they returned to what Jo called "base camp" and someone named Rufus, who was the head honcho of this non-possessed posse.

Rufus went through the same process with her before he recapped on everything Jo had just said. From the sounds of it, things were getting to be quite ugly around here and Alyssa had been very lucky that the demons hadn't taken her. She rubbed her arms, trying to disspell the fear that was creeping up on her. She wasn't going to let it control her. She was left to look after the townspeople that were left, a ragtag bunch of armed innocents. But she did her part, even as she and the others could hear the scuffle that was going on outside the building.

And then, the two hunters returned, dragging an unconscious Sam between the two of them. "He's a demon," Jo said firmly, as they hauled him upstairs.

Alyssa leapt from her chair, rushing upstairs after them. She paused at the entry, watching as they bound Sam up. Some part of her wanted to tell them to stop, but the memory of his recent vampirism sprang to mind. It was going to take a lot of work to get past that, if it was something Sam had moved past. What happened inside the church? There were over a million questions she wanted to ask him. Had his blood drinking turned him into a monster -a demon? What was Dean going to do? Or Kat? How could they kill Sam -especially if that was the situation.

When he woke up, Alyssa was downstairs helping ration servings of food out to the ragtag group of people. Dimly she could hear Sam's cries and pleas for Jo and Rufus to stop and listen to him. And then it was silent again. Her hands shook as she finished serving the food and she took as little as she could, sitting down by herself as she ate. Jo and Rufus emerged, settling themselves among the survivors. As the night wore on everyone went to bed; Jo assigned Alyssa to guard Sam, since she and Rufus were needed to monitor the sentries. Apparently they had caught them falling asleep far more often than was prudent.

Sam was just beginning to wake up when Roger came to relieve her. She went back to the small cot she had claimed for herself and sleep came easily that night. However, the next day was spent on watchful alert. Fear and tension was easily felt between all of them as the demons raced towards the house, taking cover behind the Impala. She heard the pipe bombs go off and she lined up her shot, shooting and aiming to kill. Until the gun was knocked from her hands by Jo.

"It's War," Jo said softly, looking out the window. "He's making us hallucinate that we're all demons when we're not. Sam and Dean are going to stop him."

"It's… It's really the Apocalypse, then," she whispered, following Jo's stare.

"You didn't know?"

Alyssa shook her head. "I was with Sam and Dean, they wound up somewhere else, I guess and I appeared here." She smiled bitterly.

"Well, I've got your car back in Conneticut, if you want to drive it again. What'd you ditch it for, exactly?"

"I didn't. I didn't leave it…willingly. I can't really explain." How was she supposed to explain angels? Jo didn't need to know everything. Anyways, it was unlikely enough that Dean had stopped to explain everything. Because they had failed to stop it. What a mess.

"Well that's good to know. You should've phoned though, we were thinking the demons had got you." Jo turned to her, "I was really worried," she added with a scowl.

"I'm so sorry. I've been... I was busy, caught up with the Winchesters and everything. It's no excuse, I know. I didn't even think of it."

Jo sighed softly, hugging her. "Mom will be so glad to see you too."

Alyssa hugged her friend back. She could just imagine Ellen's joy once she had thoroughly scolded Alyssa. Not that she didn't deserve it, after everything they had helped her with and her carelessness. But that was okay. It was nice to be surrounded by these two women who she considered to be her family. Since her old one would never see her again... this was okay.

Sure, she wished she could have gone home and escaped the demons hunting her and the angels invading her personal space but she didn't see it happening anytime soon. Home was a word she didn't really know, as much as she kept trying to build one. Her fate was something to be understood, considering all she wanted to do was live a normal life. Perhaps it wasn't in her cards, but that didn't mean she would stop trying. For now, sticking around with Jo and Ellen would probably be the best choice she could make.

She would have a way to keep in contact with the Winchesters and how Sam was doing without interfering with their business. For now, that would have to do.

"They did it," Jo enthused as the men and women started lowering their weapons, looking around in confusion.

Of course they did, Alyssa thought to herself. Slowly, her cell started to go off as message after message flew in. They were all from Kat. She hurriedly typed out a response without bothering to look and see what she had typed. Kat would probably end off adventuring with the boys or something like that.

I guess I should have just said I'd try to get the next chapter up by the next day XD sorry guys. Well here it is, a little late but finished.

I've been wanting to write Alyssa and Kat into season 5 episode 4 for a very long time, so I've been looking forward to it. I hope you will as well, and that no one is too disappointed that I'm probably going to skip right into it.

Thank you for the reviews :) Again, if there's anything in particular you want to see let me know. I don't know if you want me to deviate from the plot of the show or if I should stick to it as I have been doing -personally, I'm not really sure where I want to go with it yet.