"Sam, check on Teresa and Star," I said. "Oliver? How's the arm?" I pushed aside what had just happened and the overwhelming urge to follow that damn wolf thing and take it out. People were hurt and who the hell knew if Cas was ever coming back.

"It went through the muscle, just need stitches," he replied.

"Coyote? You okay?"

She nodded, "Just a gash. Rolled my ankle, not bad, just hurts like hell."

"Anyone else hurt?"

Gerald looked around at everyone else shaking their heads, "Just some bumps and bruises. We got damn lucky they were crappy shots and Castiel managed to blind them for a few seconds. Nice job on Gordon you two."

Just hearing Gordon's name pushed me almost too far, I managed to shove it back down. "We need to torch all these bodies or they might just come back again."

"Answers best be coming damn soon Dean." Sarah said.

"Now?" Sam snapped, "Rick's fighting with his wolf side, Teresa and Star need an ER visit, we're surrounded by trashed cars and corpses and you want to talk about portals to other dimensions? Get your priorities straight! Gerald help me get them into your car. You hit up the nearest hospital. Dean, you, Dig and Roy start cleaning this up and keep an eye on Rick. Coyote, you and Arrow should get looked at too. The rest of you, get clear of this mess and holed up somewhere fast. Whatever that thing saw you can be damn sure it's relaying everything it saw to someone else. Hide. Now. Dean and I will get you all the answers you want later."

"I'll help with the clean up, this is just a scratch," Oliver replied.

Coyote leaned against Baby, "Yeah, same here. You guys take off."

I almost argued with her when Rick stopped growling and his eyes went back to normal. He tried to sit up while looking wildly around, "Oh God! Did I..." Fear and self-loathing crossed his face while he tried to figure out where he was.

"No, you didn't eat anyone," I answered. "Roy hit you with the net before you took two steps. Sorry about the hands, you were trying to claw your way out of the net. What happened?"

"I don't know," he said, "That wolf, it just got inside my head somehow and I felt it, like on the full moon. I...I'm sorry."

"Not your fault," Sam countered, "Teresa's hit pretty bad and Star's got a bullet in her leg. We're taking them to the ER, you want to go with or have someone here take those bullets out?"

He was pretty shaken up, I got the feeling he wanted to get as far away from here as possible, "I'll go with."

"All right. You sure you're over it?" I asked.

Rick nodded, "Yeah."

"Gerald? Let's do this."

Gerald and I shifted Teresa and Star to the back of his car, Sam helped untangle Rick from the net and he got into Gerald's front seat. The rest of them loaded up into their bullet ridden cars.

"I'll let you know how they are and tell you where we all hole up," Gerald said before he pulled out. "All things considered, glad you guys were with us on this."

"Thanks," I said as I backed away from his car. He drove off, the rest of them followed, leaving Oliver, Roy, Dig, Sam and Coyote and I there to deal with the aftermath. That's when the bottom fell out and I had to lean against Baby to wait for everything that had just happened to sink in. It looked like a slaughterhouse, blood and guts littered the ground around me, smoke was still rising from the cars that Oliver and Roy had taken out, I could still hear the screams echoing in my head. It was the worst combination of Purgatory and what I'd done and seen when I'd still had the Mark. I don't usually get queasy over shit like this but after a year of not being elbow deep in blood and hacking off heads I wasn't used to it anymore; wasn't used to that iron and bile scent of blood and internal organs spilling out onto the ground, the sight of empty eyes staring up at me from heads that were feet away from their bodies. Any of it. As hard as it was hitting me, Coyote was taking it even harder. She'd never been exposed to this level of violence, not first hand anyway. Her eyes swept back and forth across the carnage as she tried to keep her breakfast down and figure out where to start on cleaning this mess up.

I walked towards her, as much as I wanted to feel her in my arms it felt wrong to bring love into this scene. "Hey, sure you want to help out with this? We got it, really."

Our eyes met and I got to see her push her shock and horror away, "Yeah. I'll be fine. Let's just get it done. Are you all right?"

"Barely, if there'd been more of them I probably wouldn't be. At least Gordon's out of the picture now."

A phone started ringing, all of us looked around, "Not any of ours?" Sam asked.

"No." Dig replied, "It's coming from behind that car." He pointed to one of the cars that was still smoking. "We going to answer it?"

"May as well. Might learn something," Roy said then jogged over, disappeared behind the car and then we heard his voice, "Hello? No, hold on."

He came back around the car, the phone held away from his ear and a warning on his face, "She's asking for the Winchesters."

"Oh this just keeps getting better and better," I said, "I'll take it."

Roy handed me the phone.

"Yeah, this is Dean. Who the fuck are you?"

A sultry laugh came through the phone, "I see the reports of your temper are rather accurate. I'm pleased you and Sam survived, I've been waiting to meet you." Her voice was oddly accented, soft but there was a power to it that I couldn't place, for some reason I felt this compulsion to listen and not argue with anything she said. I fought it though, that's one thing I have a ton of practice doing, fighting compulsions.

"About that. I thought the idea was to capture us, not kill us. Plans change?"

I heard a low growl, "You brought new weapons into play and I misjudged certain degenerates. They chose to let fear rule them instead of strategy. Vampires have always been weak willed creatures. Killing you was never the plan, killing hunters however, well that's an entirely different story."

"Are you the one that screwed with Rick?"

"Technically yes."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"You'll have a chance to find out. Meet with me, you, Sam and the ones who are currently clustered around you trying to hear our conversation. They all intrigue me and it's been centuries since I've been intrigued."

Which meant she was watching us from somewhere close by. "Since you're so close by why don't you come join the party?"

Sam's eyes went wide, Oliver started scanning the trees, so did Coyote. Dig and Roy fanned out to either side to just in case something came at us.

"You have work to do and should probably rest up. I want you to be on the top of your game when we meet. Tomorrow, sunset. McClatchy Park. Go to the main entrance, there will be someone there to tell you where to go. They'll be an innocent, so try not to kill them. Save your strength for my pack and I. Enjoy your victory, for now. Oh and if the angel returns before then, leave him out of it. He'll just be banished again."

"How the hell..."

"Since you kindly removed Gordon from my to kill list I'll share this with you," she interrupted, "If you think your presence in Purgatory made waves, imagine what an angel's did. Then, dwell on the fact that the Leviathans and some others are older than many angels are. Do you honestly think no one there knew how to banish an angel? I know you have a rather low opinion of monsters, but that's because you've only dealt with bottom feeders, half breeds and the mutated, deformed versions of what we really are. Ponder that while you incinerate vampires. Until tomorrow."

She hung up and that clock in my head that had been counting down to a horrific event, well it stopped cold. That call was the set up for it.

"Well?" Sam asked.

"Tomorrow, sunset, bitch wants to meet with all of us. She's from Purgatory, probably an Alpha or something close to it, hedged around her being the one that screwed with Rick. You all decide what you're going to do. I'm going to set Gordon on fire."

I didn't want to talk about it, much less think about it. I tucked my gun back into my waistband, grabbed the salt and gas out of Baby's trunk and seconds later the acrid smell of soon to be crispy corpse filled my nose. "Fuck you bastard, stay the hell down there. I only wish I could gift wrap you for Crowley. Purgatory's too damn good for you." I dropped the match and watched his body shrivel up and turn into dust. There was no smell of burning flesh, guess vamps burn a lot faster than people. That'd be handy, we could clear out a lot faster. Once he was a pile of ash, I scattered it and walked to the next corpse.

Coyote limped up next to me, "Babe? Everyone's in."

A thought hit me and I turned around, "Dig, go home. You have a kid."

He straightened up and got pissed, "No. You need the help."

"Fuck that! Your loyalty needs to be to them, not to us. You want Sara to grow up without a Dad or even worse, if they turn you, you want to spend your life worried about ripping them to shreds?"

He took a step towards me, "Oliver and I had this out years ago Dean. I'm in."

"No!" I dropped the gas can and got in his face, "I don't need your blood on my hands."

"Guys!" Sam got in between us. "Hold up, Dig wait. Dean, calm the hell down." He dug the key for the Bunker out of his pocket. "Dig, listen to me. The knowledge in the Bunker, the hunters need it and I need to know that it will be passed on if something takes Dean and I out. Dean's right, you have a family but that's not all, none of the hunters know where the Bunker is, you do. Take this, guard it with your life and if we don't come back give it to Gerald and take him there. Please."

All Dig's anger just vanished, I cooled down too. Sam was right and Dig immediately understood. This was something that military people would do, the Bunker's a resource that was more important than us and soldiers understood the concept of protecting secrets and passing them to the right people.

Dig took the key, put it in his pocket and nodded. "You have my word. I'll make sure it gets to the right people."

"Thank you," Sam said.

"Just make damn sure that the only person I'm giving this to is you," Dig replied. "Let's clean this mess up and clear out."