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Part 27:
Dean stared at her in shock.
"You didn't. Kae - Why would you - how could you -?"
She sat down on her bed and reached for her brush where she'd set it on the bedside table and began running it through her hair. "We need Lucifer in that cage. I didn't see another option...and I tried to take him up on the contraception deal he tried to sell me on before Carthage, but he wouldn't do it."
"Kae -"
"He promised you wouldn't get hurt," she told him. "If I kill off demons that oppose him, he'll make sure you -"
"Damn it, Kae!" Dean shouted angrily, shoving his bag off of the table they'd been sitting at before. "I told you -"
"I know what you've told me!" she screamed back. "You told me to make my decision based on my own needs, not to do it to save you. Well guess what? I need you too, you jackass, and if that means dealing with Crowley then so be it!" She took a shaky breath and crawled into her bed. "Good night."
The next day they headed for a hospital west of Henderson that was dealing with part of the swine flu epidemic. Kae held her mask to her face and watched as Dean and Sam spoke quietly with one of the doctors.
"Well?" she said when they walked back over to her.
"They went from having zero cases to over seventy - in a day and a half," Sam told her.
"Same time those statues started crying." Kae frowned. "Damn it."
"I'm sorry, what was that?" the doctor Sam and Dean had been speaking to had overheard their conversation.
Dean stared at her. "What was that?"
She looked at Kae.
"Did you just say a bunch of statues started crying?"
"What?" Kae arched an eyebrow. "That's crazy."
"Who would say that, huh?" Dean added. "Crazy people."
"Exactly." Sam nodded.
"Which we are not." Kae said quickly.
She was pretty sure they were all holding their breaths in anticipation as they waited for whether or not the doctor would accept their story.
Finally she just rolled her eyes and sighed. "Just get us some more vaccines."
"Lemme guess - another steamin'-hot pile of swine flu."
"Nothing gets by you, does it Bobby?" Kae said dryly. She, Sam and Dean were back on the road, leaving town. Dean had called Bobby to give him an update, and now had him on speaker phone.
"Doesn't make any sense Bobby." Sam said. "Pestilence touched down here, I'm sure of it."
"But why is he dealing them soft serve like swine flu when he's got the croatoan virus up his sleeve?" Dean questioned. "I-I-I don't get it."
"Doesn't matter what the sick son of a bitch is doing." Bobby responded. "What matters is this is the fourth town he's hit - That we know of - and we're still eating his dust. Did you guys get anything? We got even a snowball at a probable next target?"
"Uh, no pattern we can see," Kae said reluctantly.
Bobby sighed. "Okay. Hold on." pause. "Well, as far as I can tell, he's still heading East. So...head East, I guess."
"East?" Sam and Dean said in unison.
"Bobby, we're in Western Nevada. East is practically all there is." Kae said with a sigh.
"Yeah, well, you better get drivin'."
"Say I've got an idea." Kae and Sam both swore loudly as Dean momentarily lost control of the car, swerving toward the side of the road before he slammed on the breaks.
It was Crowley.
Sam quickly handed Kae Ruby's knife and she lunged at the demon, only for him to disappear from the seat next to her.
"Did you get him?" Dean asked angrily as he put the car in park and the three got out.
Kae shook her head. "He's gone."
"Attempting to kill your boss, Kae." Crowley shook his head from where he now stood by the trunk of the Impala. "That's not going to look very good on your resume, I'm afraid."
"Fuck you," she retorted as she handed the knife back to Sam. Bad idea though, she realized as Sam stalked toward Crowley, knife raised.
"You want to talk?" he said angrily. "After what you did to us?"
Crowley looked indignant at that. " After what I - what I did to you?! I gave you the colt!"
"And you knew it wouldn't work against the devil!" Dean snapped. "You nearly got some good people killed!"
"I never -"
"You set us up," Kae snarled.
Crowley rolled his eyes. "Who you take on the ride is your own business! Look, everything is still the same - we're all still in this together."
Sam scoffed. "Sure we are." he attempted to stab Crowley again, only for him to teleport a few feet away.
"Call your dog off - please." Dean glared at him.
"Give me one good reason."
"Pestilence?" Crowley looked from Kae to Dean. "Didn't my new little pet tell you -"
"Don't call her that!" Kae's hand slid gently over Dean's shoulder, not restraining him, but at least giving him her support - and a subtle message that they did need the demon. "What do you know about Pestilence?"
"I know how to get him. That's got your interest, doesn't it?"
Silence. Sam looked over at Kae and Dean, who were staring at Crowley in a resigned manner.
"Are you actually listening to this?" he said incredulously.
"Sam -" Dean started, but his brother cut him off.
"Are you friggin' nuts?!"
Kae glared at him. "Sam like it or not we need him -"
"Shut up all of you!" Crowley snapped, and the three rounded on him. Look...I swear...I thought the colt would work. It's an honest mistake. It's all part of the learning process. But nothing's changed. I still want the devil dead. Well," he amended, "one thing's changed: now the devil knows that I want him dead. Which by the way makes me the most buggered son in all of creation."
Kae rolled her eyes. "I'm sorry, I missed the part where we're supposed to give a damn?"
"They burned down my house!" Crowley cried angrily. "They ate my tailor! Two months under a rock, like a bloody salamander! Every demon on Hell and Earth's got his eyes out for me! And yet...here I am...Last place I should be - in the road, talking to you lot, under a friggin' spot light!" The light overhead went out in a burst of sparks at his words. "So come with me. Please. Do you want the horsemen rings or not? Yes I know all about that," he added at seeing their surprised expressions. "Shall we?"
"You want me as your personal attack dog?" Kae scoffed. "You're crazy."
Crowley rolled his eyes. "Maybe, but if you want Dean to survive this - if you want any kind of protection, then this is how we're going to do it. Last chance."
"Okay. Fine."
Crowley grinned and passed her a file.
"What the fuck is this? I'm not killing for you until we get Lucifer back in his cage." she said, confused.
Crowley shrugged. "Call it unofficial training. You're going to interrogate this one. He's Pestilence's right hand man."
"Why can't Sam or Dean do it? Why me?"
"Dean would rip him to shreds in a second and Sam - well let's just say they've got history."
"What kind of history?"
"Hell no!"
"Look we want Pestilence, and this is the best way to get him!" Kae glared at the brothers. "It's not like I'm asking for either of your permission." she held out her hand. "So either give me the keys to the Impala, or I'll just hotwire a random car I find down the street."
Sam looked at Dean incredulously. "You can't possibly be okay with this."
"Why do you think I'm not givin' her the keys?" Dean retorted. "Kae, there are other ways to go about this -"
"Oh okay, I'm sorry is there another option we've got because if so you guys didn't share it with me!"
""Okay just shut up all of you!" the three rounded on Crowley. "Look if you want Pestilence then I take Kae and we go and get him and bring him back."
"No!" Sam exploded. Dean was silent as his brother rounded on him. "Dean?" No response. "You can't tell me suddenly you're okay with this?!"
Dean shrugged. "She's right. She doesn't need my permission. And how else are we gonna nab the son of a bitch?" He walked over to Kae and took the knife out from the inside pocket of his jacket before handing it to her. "Be careful."
She nodded and held out her other hand. "What no car keys?"
He snorted and shook his head. "Like I'm gonna let you take my car alone."
"Asshole." she tried and failed to hide a smile. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
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