It took about twenty minutes to set all the bodies on fire, the vamps lit up fast then burned down quick. The werewolves we ended up sticking into a car and setting it on fire to make sure nothing would be left. We grabbed all the cell phones to have Felicity go through them, then got into our cars and left. Fortunately none of the bullets that hit Baby hit anything important, we'd have to report Dig's rental stolen at some point because it had bullet holes in it, Oliver had hid their rental behind some trees so it was unscathed.

Sam, Coyote and I didn't talk as we made our way to the nearest hotel. I'd already decided that Coyote and I were getting a room, screw hiding the fact that we were together, I needed her and I could tell she needed me.

Gerald had called Sam and said Teresa and Star should pull through and they were scattered in groups of two or three between various hotels. Sam told him that we'd been contacted by who we thought were the monsters behind all of this and that if we didn't get in touch within forty eight hours that Dig would contact him. Gerald tried to argue about it but Sam shut him down by saying that we'd caused this mess, we'd clean it up and that they'd been pulled in far enough as it was. Gerald couldn't really argue that fact so let it go.

I also decided fuck cheap motels and pulled into a Sheraton. Oliver had decided to go get stitches since all his usual medical supplies were back at Starling, Coyote's gash was just a deep graze and Sam's cut wasn't that deep. Dig and Roy followed us to the same hotel and grabbed rooms for the three of them and I got two rooms right across the halls from each other for Sam and I. Coyote threw a different shirt on before we got out so no one would see blood, shifted her hair more to the front and put on sunglasses so it covered the bruise on her face. We ended up with first floor rooms that were fairly close to the lobby and she hid her limp well enough to not attract attention.

I opened the door for her and helped her to the bed. She sunk down onto the covers and smiled, "Almost as comfy as the one back home."

"That was the plan." I told her. The rooms had coffee pots in them so I filled a pot with water to heat up for tea. "Be back in a minute. Going to check on Sam."

She laid back and nodded. "I'm good for now."

I gave her a quick kiss and ducked across the hall. We'd given each other key cards for our rooms just in case. "Hey, you good?" I asked as I walked in.

"Yeah, going to clean up and dig through Magnus's stuff again. See if I can find anything else out about these things. Wish you'd gotten more info."

"Yeah, me too but she was calling the shots. Think Felicity will be able to figure anything out?"

"Not much gets past her, you know that. I'll start plugging phones into the laptop so she can hack them and upload the data. May not get anything before we're supposed to be there though."

"If it doesn't have to do with that bitch we're meeting, pass it on to Gerald. Let's just focus on what's in front of us, deal with the rest afterwards."

"Got it."

I turned to leave.

"Wait."

"Yeah?" I stopped and turned to face him again.

"Thanks for being okay with giving that key to Dig. I wasn't sure you'd go for it."

"You were right and it gave Dig a mission. Hunters can't afford to have that knowledge vanish again for who knows how long. I'm going back to my room, she needs me. Call if you need something or find anything out."

"Sure thing."

There was enough water heated up to make a cup of tea by the time I got back to our room. "What herbs do I need to use?" I asked.

She sat back up, "Hand me my bag, I'll get them."

"No, I said what ones do I need to use. You've got them labeled, I saw that back at the other hotel. Now which ones." I wasn't about to let her move around on that foot and I had to keep busy somehow, I didn't want to dwell on what could happen tomorrow.

I saw her start to get stubborn about it, Coyote's too much like me, we're not good with letting people help us out. Then it faded and she smiled, "All right. I actually have some pre-mixed anyway. Dig into the small purple pouch and pull out the one marked with a W and S, for wounds and swelling. There's a tea ball in the front pocket. Pour the herbs in the tea ball and let it steep for three minutes. If you want to make a compress for my ankle, look inside the yellow bag for the plastic bag marked sprains. I tried to plan for everything. The cloth for the compresses is in the same yellow bag. Just get it wet and put the herbs in it. I'll take my shoes off."

"Got it." I followed her instructions, got the compress around her ankle and a mug of tea into her hands after that. Once she was all settled in I kicked my shoes off, laid down next to her and grabbed the room service menu off the nightstand.

"Room service? Really?" She asked. "Not exactly standard hunter operating procedure."

"Neither is staying at a Sheraton, you didn't question that." I pointed out.

"Of course not. If I'm going to be bedridden, it's not going to be on some shitty ass cheap motel bed."

"Oh, I see, all about you then."

"Well, yeah." She laughed and leaned against my shoulder so she could see the menu. "That turkey guacamole sandwich looks good."

"Yeah, I'll go with the chicken ranch sandwich, with a bunch of sweet potato fries and some beers. Let me see what Sam wants." I called him.

"Hey, haven't found anything yet."

"That's not what I'm calling about. Ordering room service, grab your menu and tell me what you want."

A couple of seconds passed before he answered, "Room service?"

"Why is this such a complicated concept for people?" I answered. "Yes, room service. Now pick something."

It took him a minute, "The bacon ranch burger, mashed potatoes and get me a side salad."

"You and your rabbit food. No problem. When it gets here I want you to turn off the laptop, come over here and hang out. Maybe watch a movie or something."

Coyote just stared at me and I could picture the look on Sam's face.

"Uh what? Why? Felicity thinks she can track down where the calls were coming from, maybe we can hit them before tomorrow."

How to explain this. "Sam, listen. Let me tell you about the phone call. That wolf didn't just happen to be there, trust me. It had to be following those vamps somehow. Either that wolf or the chick I talk to managed to get inside Rick's head, and knew we were all standing there. Remember, the first batch of vamps thought Gordon was in Montana. She knew enough to call a cell phone that we were standing by, knew our names, knew about Cas and I being in Purgatory, straight up said that if Cas came with us he'd just get banished again. She called Gordon and the rest of the monsters we hunt bottom feeders, half breeds and fucked up versions of the real things. No way in hell we catch this chick off guard. She said she had a pack. Did you see how big that wolf was? Even if silver bullets work you know how much harder it will be to hit the heart if they're in that form, not human."

"Okay so?"

"So we've got a day and a half, I think we need to rest up, eat real fucking food, relax then hit it full force tomorrow. Tell Felicity to take a break too. Her computers can run all the searches on shit on their own. We just took out over twenty monsters, plus Gordon. Cas is who knows where, doing who knows what. Hell for all we know, Heaven's finest could be hunting him down. I don't intend to go into whatever this thing is tomorrow on shitty sleep and stressed out. Not with you and Coyote next to me, not anymore. Did that for too many damn years, made too many mistakes because of it. Downtime Sam, we need some."

As I'd explained things Coyote had grown more and more surprised at first, but by the end she was nodding along with what I was saying.

"You sure you two don't want to be alone?" Sam asked.

"She's drinking tea and got a compress on her ankle, we're both starving. It's family time, not crazy sex time."

"Uh..all right." I could tell he was still trying to process the whole idea of me not strong arming my way into the next fight. "Call me when the food gets there then."

"You bet." I hung up, then used the room phone to place our order, hung up with them then looked at Coyote. "Well?"

"You think this chick can get inside all the werewolves' minds?"

"Wouldn't be surprised. Could be how she knew where we were and what happened. The Alpha vamp had a psychic link to other vamps and we ran across an Alpha shifter who could feel his offspring too. If this is the Alpha wolf it would stand to reason that she has the same ability, plus wolves are pack animals to begin with." And with that another thought slammed into my head, "Shit! Rick! If she can get in his head she'll know where everyone is staying." I called Gerald.

"Dean?"

"Where's Rick?"

"In surgery."

"Do not, under any circumstances tell him where the others are and you may want to send him home. We think this Alpha wolf chick can get inside his head and dig around for things, like where everyone is."

"Goddamnit!" Gerald snarled.

"We've been tossing around ideas, I know from experience that other Alphas could do that. He should go see his family anyway, get them somewhere safe till we deal with this."

"What the hell happened to simple hunts?"

I had to laugh, it sounded pretty bitter though, "Welcome to Sam and mine's life for the last decade or so. Starting to understand why we play things close to the chest?"

"Yeah, all right. I'll get him on the road home once he can function. Teresa and Star are still under too. I'll call you when I know more. This thing you're heading into, sure you don't want extra hands?"

"I appreciate the offer but I'm backing Sam on this. This chick wants us, usually that means they want to try to convince us to join their side, we say no, then they try to kill us, shit hits the fan and hopefully we make it out in one piece. Sam and I have done this dance once or twice before. If you guys come she'll just take you out no questions asked. Trust me. Just stay put and wait for us to contact you."

"Remember when I said I wanted to know the full story about your past?" He asked.

"Yeah?"

"I'm starting to reconsider." There wasn't a single ounce of sarcasm in his voice, he was being dead serious.

"Don't blame you. Talk to you later."

"Yeah."

We hung up. I set my phone down, put my arm around Coyote and pulled her close. "Don't suppose I can convince you to stay here tomorrow because of your ankle?"

She put her empty mug down and gripped my hand tight, "No."

"Figured as much." If there was ever a situation where I wouldn't have minded Gabriel screwing with time, this was it. I'd be happy with an endless loop of Sam's birthday party that seemed like it happened a year ago, not a few days back. I didn't have that option though, so I made the best of what I had.

"I love you," I told her, then I ran my hand down her cheek and kissed her. People talk about timeless kisses, especially chick flicks, I always blew that off as a stupid movie thing, at least until she and I got together. We'd had several over the years, the one the night of the sweat ceremony ranks pretty high on that list. That one saved me in a lot of ways, our night in the Bunker when I'd finally admitted what I wanted was another one, but this one was in a whole other category. I'd used the last night on earth thing to get with a few chicks in the past, Anna, for example. Well, she'd used that on me, either way the outcome was usually the same. I'd drop my walls just enough to feel what I'd buried deep down, refused to let myself see as a possibility in my future and make a connection, even if it was fleeting, with someone else. When it was over I'd put the tough guy mask back on and go do some insane, world saving, life threatening thing and never see them again.

None of that applied this time, I'd given everything I had left to Coyote, there was no tough guy mask to put on anymore. Just me, the real me. If her and I survived this we'd be on a cruise ship celebrating something neither of us ever expected to have in our lives. An actual, honest to God, full blown, romantic relationship. That's why a goddamn volcano of emotions hit me as I tasted a bit of blood from a small cut on her lip. I could lose her tomorrow. Lose everything, and it scared the shit out of me because I knew, just knew, if I did there'd be no coming back for me. Not this time. There'd be no fucking point to any of it anymore. It'd rip Sam to shreds, I knew that and that had always made me hold on before, but this was one loss I wouldn't make it back from.

My heart started racing and I couldn't seem to get close enough to her. "I can't, I can't..." The words just came out, I didn't want them to, I just wasn't able to stop them.

She pulled back from me, took one look, put her hands on either side of my face and locked gazes with me, "Babe? Babe! It'll be fine. We'll make it through."

I could stare at her eyes for hours, "No, we won't, I should have never stayed, never let this happen." My chest was tight and an ice cold sweat broke out on my skin. What the hell was wrong with me?

"Dean, breathe."

For some reason seeing Lisa in the hospital room after I had Cas wipe my existence out of her mind came back to me. God how that hurt! Her and Ben staring blankly at me, after everything we'd shared. What if tomorrow night it was Coyote's empty eyes looking at me, not some monster? Just the thought of it tore me apart.

"Dean! This is not helping."

"I know...I ..." I couldn't stop the thoughts.

"Listen to me, I will not die, you will not die. I'm a Shaman remember? If something like that was going to happen I think I'd know. Will something fucked up happen tomorrow? Probably, but we are not going to die. I promise."

"What if they just aren't telling you?" I didn't want to believe it, I knew how this usually ended up.

"They told me that Badger was going to fight me all those years ago, that was hardly life or death. They told me about Leaping Deer, they've told me a lot of things over the years. If I was heading to my death, they'd probably mention that. I don't think I pissed them off by doing this instead of staying home. I know you don't have faith in your God but trust my guides. Please."

That made me feel a little bit better, her guides had helped us both out in the past. "Sorry, just..."

"I know." She kissed me again, I chose to lose myself in that instead of the fear. Once that kiss ended she ran her hand through my hair and smiled. "If you think I'm passing up an endless assortment of food, drinking expensive alcohol on the deck of a boat and some adventurous sex in public places, you don't know me all that well."

That successfully re-routed my thoughts to something a lot more interesting, "Sex in public places? Did I miss something here?"

"Ships have pools, you're on board for days at a time. Full moon? Late night adventures? Catch up here Babe."

"Oh..I, wow. I think I need to research this cruise thing more. A whole lot more."

She slid her hand down my chest, "Yes, I think you should."

I was just about to reply when there was a knock at the door, "Room service."

Talk about crappy ass timing.