Sam and Dean came back from doing their research to find that the body of the robot, whom Sam pointed out looked like it was one of the Cybermen he'd seen at the Cybus technology booth,, was still lying in a smoking heap in the parking lot of the motel they were staying at. Luckily the motel was surrounded by abandoned buildings and factories that had already closed for the night, and the motel's clientele were sketchy enough that no one had called the police, which meant they could clean things up enough that they wouldn't need to answer any awkward questions. After a couple of minutes of debate, they decided that it was probably better to try and drag the "cyberman" into the motel room than to leave it out in the open.

The thing weighed much more than either of the two Winchesters had expected (as they had reasonably presumed that it was probably mostly composed of something light, like plastic, or maybe some sort of light weight aluminum. Something that wasn't necessarily very durable, but made for speed or so that it could be easily carted from expo to expo. This wasn't the case, as it was built more like a tank than what it was billed as. Sam wondered if they were possibly something that had been secretly designed as a weapon.

It took them almost an hour to half drag, half carry, half push, the hunking piece of metal into the hotel room without leaving a long, obvious metallic skid mark in the pavement that lead to their room.

It was only after opening the door, dramatically tossing the robot into the middle of the room, and taking a few minutes to catch their breaths that they finally noticed that the guy who had broken into the motel room, the man who Castiel had oh so very clearly stated would not wake up for another couple of hours, was not only awake, but UNTIED.

Dean almost said something along the lines of "why'd you even have us tie him up if you were just going to untie him as soon as we left the room, do you how much work it takes to tie all those knots"

But Sam beat him to the punch.

"Um, What's going on?"

Castiel looked a little surprised that Dean and Sam were there already, but mostly he looked like they'd walked in on him watching porn. For about a half second Dean was worried that they'd just walked in on him having some sort of weird angel mind sex.

"Your, errr friend here, was just explaining the situation to me."

after a couple of minutes of shared, awkward silence the man smiled uneasily and offered a hand that no one shaked, then pulled out a an ID wallet from his pocket.

"Doctor John Smith, Forensic Scientist with the Scotland Yard on loan to the FBI for the remainder of this case"

Dean looked at his creditionals, which, as far as he could tell, were authentic (which wasn't saying much as the only time he'd ever seen them before was when he was going through Bellas apartment)but he could have sworn he'd seen it flicker a little out of the corner of his eyes.

After the awkward silence continued to outstay it's welcome, decided to continue rather than wait for the boys to make the connection.

"The Technology Expo disappearances? You two are the two agents that I'm supposed to be working with correct?"

Dean blinked a couple of times, then regained his composure, and proceeded to try to bullshit his way through fooling this guy.

"Um Well Yes... I'm agent Hendrix and this is agent Walsch, I'm sorry about errr"

"Knocking me out and tying me to a chair?"

"Yeah, about that. We had no idea you were going to be meeting up with us at our motel, we thought we were supposed to meet you at the expo."

"Quite alright, Quite Alright. To be honest, I had only been planning on waiting for you in the parking lot, but then, well..."

He shrugged glancing over at the cyberman.

"So what can you tell us about this case?" Sam asked.

shrugged, and then smiled.

"To be honest, not much, I just got off the plane yesterday, and I was told you two were going to be briefing me on the situation when I got here."

"Well...errr" Sam mumbled before Dean cut him off

"We want to know what you already know before we give you anymore details."

looked a little confused, glanced quickly at Castiel, and then sighed looking a little frustrated.

"From what I've heard a lot of top scientists have been going missing at this expo as well as several others. So far, it seems like there might be a connection to the Cybus Technologies group which is the only exhibitor that has a booth at all of the expos that said scientists have gone missing"

He glanced at the robot on the floor. "and judging by the cyberman on the floor we were right"

"Whelp it looks like you're pretty much on the same page. Sam why don't you and compare notes while I talk to our associate here" Dean pushed Castiel out the door and slammed it behind them.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Cas?" Dean growled under his breath "I thought you said you were going to watch the guy not have a chat with him. What the hell did you say to him any way?"

Castiel gave Dean a look that was somewhere between embarrassment, and shock.

"I simply explained the situation to him"

Dean raised an eyebrow, Castiel may have been a bit of a badass when it came to fights, but he was a pretty bad liar.

"Uh huh. And how did he take the whole 'demon possessed robot' thing?"

"I only told him the parts of the situation he needed to know."

Dean switched eyebrows , and thought about asking for an elaboration, but decided against it.

"Ok, whatever, but why is he up and moving around. I thought he wasn't supposed to be awake for another couple of hours."

"That's because I woke him up"

Dean's eye twitch for a few seconds before he started massaging his forehead.

"Ok, so why, exactly?"

"I've determined that he is not a threat, and we will need all the help we can get."

"wait a minute 'we'?"

"Yes, the situation is much more serious than I had previously thought. I've tried contacting the other angels in my garrison but something seems to be blocking me.. I might need to try to find them."

"Castiel, how bad is it?" Dean asked

Castiel didn't replied, just looked more scared than Dean had ever seen him.

"I won't be gone long" he said quietly

then he was gone.

A new chapter :D