None of us said anything at first. Then Coyote broke the silence, "Can we trust you to not lie or deceive us in your answers about Mairyn and the plan to kill hunters? Honestly, this whole switch of allegiances just feels wrong to me, although I can feel the wolf part is fine with it."

All four of them nodded, "Mairyn abused her position as pack leader, we only followed her because we had no other choice," Einar stated.

"Okay but if we send you back to Purgatory, you'll be right there with her again. We will kill her," I pointed out.

"Perhaps not," Audun said. "It is a big place and if we stay away from her we won't be forced into her pack again. We have a chance now because you freed us from the bonds. That is more than we have had in centuries. We were once honorable humans and tried to be honorable wolves. We used to hunt animals, not humans. This gift from Fenris was to be used to help us survive not to destroy others. We remember that even if she does not."

We all felt that there wasn't any lie to what either of them said. They didn't seem to hate her, but they sure as hell didn't want to be around her. I guess since they knew how she was before they could forgive her.

"We want to stop her, stop the vampires and other things that escaped along with us," Raelyn added, her thought was so soft I barely heard it. "When we were alive we avoided the bringers of death, the cursed, the inhuman. Even in Purgatory we would keep our distance, until Gordon and that portal. We have all been tainted by what Mairyn has done, we wish to in some way negate that taint."

Coyote looked at the rest of us, none of us said a word. We all knew where the wolves were coming from. She looked back at the four of them, "How many are left? Where is she going? What was the next step?"

Audun nodded, "Four other wolves, made last year. She will return to the staging area. The next step was to find a way to draw out the group of hunters that you sent away after you killed Gordon. She assumed, incorrectly, that only one or two of you would survive the rebirth, she would claim you and you would be forced to betray your friends."

I almost didn't catch the rest after that first statement, "You said made last year? How long have you been out?"

"Close to two years."

Sam and I just stared at each other, this was so not good.

"Our bones were in different places, as you can imagine." Audun continued, "So it took several months to gather together. Mairyn went first,then she would go to roughly where we thought our bones would be, send a Reaper with a human to us in Purgatory, we would do the spell, join her then move to the next spot. I do not know what the Reapers were getting out of this exchange but they seemed content to help. Once we were all together she and Gordon recruited monsters who were here and a few others came through from Purgatory to help as well. We fed carefully to not attract attention. Gordon trained us on how to hunt you and gather information as to your whereabouts. She turned a few new people along the way to gain knowledge quicker on how this world worked. Some were hunters that you know, not well from the information we gathered but they knew enough. We were aware of your...what is it called? That system you use.."

"Email?" Sam asked.

Double down on this shit not being good at all. We were going to have to track down and kill every single thing that had been involved in this. There was just no way around it. The entire pack bond was vibrating with how jacked up this was. We all knew it, feeling it magnified through everyone else's brains wasn't the least bit helpful either.

"Yes. Email. We had no direct knowledge of it though. The hunters we turned weren't really that involved. They just knew it existed."

That made it a little better, but not by much.

"How many monsters are helping?" Coyote pressed.

"Maybe another thirty or forty. Not that many. Most were too scared of Sam and Dean to join. I now understand why."

Somewhere between the words thirty and forty Sam and I both started growling.

-Hunt?- It wanted out.

-Hunt...soon...- I had to force the word soon out. They'd been here for two years, spying on us, learning - they could have taken Coyote out, Sam, Gerald, Roy...

-Threat. Must protect.- It wasn't just the hunger. Audun and the others looked away from Sam and I, showing us their throats.

"Settle down! Please!" Coyote's voice was strained, beyond strained. I felt it rising within her too. Scraping at the bond, trying to get out, to bring death, shred, rip, tear, end all threats and protect all of us.

Oliver stepped in between us and the other wolves, he tried to stare Sam and I down but the pack rank wouldn't let him so he averted his eyes and started talking, "Dean, Sam. I never truly understood what you had been through until now. I've caught glimpses of it since that green wall, and this, what's happening now, I'm still trying to catch up, to process, but you need to focus. Remember what Fenris said, how long we have before he can't help us any longer. We need to stay sane enough to kill her. The rest of monsters we can hunt down later, or the other hunters can. Mairyn and her remaining pack are the true threats, not the monsters they recruited. They can be killed with the weapons we have, she can't. Please, if you two give in the rest of will lose it as well."

"Dean..." Sam's snarling voice, "Every step in rebuilding an engine. Tell me."

The answers came from the rational part of my mind and they came fast. As I listed them off, down to timing specifications for Baby's engine the wolf in both of us receded bit by bit. Once we started calming down Coyote's strain faded as well. Oliver's whole body had been tense from the moment he stepped in front of us. He was technically challenging the top three members of the pack, but he'd had to do it and it saved all of us in the end.

"Thanks," Sam said.

Oliver walked back to where he'd been standing, "Sure thing. Now let's find out where she is, take her and the rest of them out and go from there. Strategically speaking we could probably track her on our own now that we have these heightened senses. There is five of them left though so it could get dicey. Coyote, do you have any idea how to blend Audun and the rest with us? Personally I don't feel all that comfortable taking any of them with us, but I can't deny the whole dominance thing that seems to be coming into play here. We could use the boost in numbers."

"I won't force them to kill her," Coyote replied, "That's what she did. I'm sorry but we can't leave you alive," She added. "We have pushed a lot of boundaries with the hunters already, plus the fact that we are technically monsters ourselves now. I can't take more risks, I have to protect us." She put a lot more force and power into her words. "Tell us where she is." I could tell she was fighting hard against the need to protect them. The wolf side saw them as possible packmates now that they weren't threatening us. It was pretty black and white about things.

"The four wolves you killed," Audun said without any hesitation at all. "They were some of the strongest in the pack. The ones that are left are much weaker. When they come against you it is possible that you may be able to pull them from her without much of a fight. The ones that were loyal to her are dead now. The staging area is six miles north, northwest of here. There is an abandoned cabin at the end of a river. The rate we run, you should make it in about thirty minutes if you go full speed. You will be able to scent her for several hours since she was bleeding." He rolled over onto his back, stretched his neck out completely and the other three followed suit. "I understand why you do not trust us. I would have the same feelings if I was in your position Alpha. Your pack needs all it's strength and no distractions from us. Send us back, pack should die together. Thank you for not forcing us to kill. Use our bodies to feed your wolves. We will no longer need them. Please make sure we can never return to this time again, that way we cannot be forced to kill more innocents."

This went against the way all of us did things. We didn't take out people, or monsters, who were surrendering and defenseless. They just laid there. This was cold killing, killing I didn't want to do, I'd done enough of it. Roy felt sick to his stomach from what I could tell and Sam was in basically the same place as me. Oliver was trying to summon up the desire to do it and Coyote, I could feel her start unraveling. She'd been so strong but between the wolf side telling her to protect, the fact that she'd never killed something in cold blood and the sorrow that was coming from Fenris she was reaching the end of what she could handle.

Audun and Einar looked up at us and sat up. Audun forced his eyes to meet Coyote's then he snarled,"Let us help you, help us."

Next thing I knew he and Einar were flying through the air straight at Coyote.

-Protect!-

I let go, I had to.

The wolf took over. My claws sliced through Audun's throat before he got within striking distance. He didn't make a sound as he hit the ground. Hunger flooded my mind, shoving away any disgust at the feel of my fangs ripping a gaping hole into his chest, snapping through ribs and finally devouring his heart.