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Part 32:
When Kae woke up later, she found herself tucked against Dean's chest, one arm lying over his chest. She sighed and looked up to see him smiling at her.
"Hey." he said quietly.
"Hey," she whispered. "What time is it?"
He glanced at the clock beside the bed. "Around six."
Kae nodded and snuggled against him as she tried and failed to supress a yawn. "Dean?"
"What?"
"Was I...okay?" Sure Kae wasn't a virgin, but hell, none of the guys she'd ever been with had been as good in bed as Dean had been.
"You were fucking fantastic." he replied easily. She sighed and sat up, hugging the sheet to her chest. "Kae?"
"You...uh, you used a condom, right?" she asked as he sat up and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah." he frowned, not understanding what she was getting at. She gave him a significant look and then he got it. "Oh. It didn't break."
"You're positive?" she asked.
He nodded.
"Yeah. Where's this coming from?"
She shook her head. "Forget it."
"Hey." he tucked two fingers under Kae's chin and forced her to look at him. "Lucifer isn't gonna kill me 'cause we had sex." he cocked his head to the side. "I thought this was what you wanted to do."
"Not if it got you killed." she said quietly.
"Hey, what've you been telling me all along, huh?" he waited for her to answer, but she just looked at him, confused. "You say you can handle him. I can do the same...and so can Sam."
"Who are you and what have you done with Dean Winchester?" she asked, and he gave her a devious look before pulling her back down onto the bed with him.
"We don't have to leave for another hour...or three." She laughed and let him kiss her tenderly on the lips. "What do you say to round two?"
Kae grinned.
"Fuck yes."
It took two more hours for them to actually make it out of bed, and over an hour in the shower together, so Dean had technically been right when he'd guessed it'd take them three hours before they left Mason City.
Kae was in the middle of drying her hair when Dean got a phone call and hollered to her that he'd take it outside. Ten minutes later, she was done and had finished packing up her bag when Dean walked back in.
"Sam?" she asked.
He nodded.
"Yeah. Said Niveus went awesome. Virus is destroyed. We put Lucifer in the can and its lights out on the apocalypse." he walked over and grabbed their bags. "You ready?"
Kae nodded.
"Let's go."
Three hours after leaving the motel, Dean and Kae reached Bobby's home. They found Sam waiting for them in the yard.
"Hey." he greeted as they climbed out of the car.
"I'm in." the words tumbled quickly from Dean's mouth, and Kae stumbled backward in suprise. When she looked at Sam, he looked taken aback.
"In with...?"
Dean shifted his weight uncomfortably from foot to foot. "The whole 'up with Satan' thing. I'm on board."
Sam's expression turned skeptical.
"You're going to let me say yes?" Kae didn't blame him for not believing - not when Dean had been so vehemently against the idea when it was first proposed.
Dean shook his head.
"No." he replied. "That's the thing. It's not on me to let you do anything. You're a grown - well, overgrown man. "If this is what you want, I'll back your play."
"That's the last thing I thought you'd ever say." Sam said, relieved.
Dean shrugged and looked at Kae briefly before back at Sam.
"Might be. I'm not gonna lie to you though. It goes against every fiber I got. I mean, truth is...You know, watching out for you... it's kinda been my job, you know? But more than that, it's... it's kinda who I am." he explained. "You're not a kid anymore, Sam, and I can't keep treating you like one. Maybe I got to grow up a little, too. I don't know if we got a snowball's chance. But... But I do know that if anybody can do it... it's you."
Sam nodded.
"Thank you."
Dean studied him for a moment. "If this is what you want," he said. "...Is this really what you want?"
Another nod.
"I let him out. I got to put him back in."
"Okay. That's it, then."
Dean turned away from them and headed for Bobby's front door. Sam looked questioningly at Kae, and then yelled,
"What no apology for her?"
Kae laughed at his indignant expression.
"It's okay...he's cool with me too...we talked about it." she walked around the car and patted his arm. "So let's go pin down the devil, huh?"
He groaned, but agreed and they followed Dean up to the house.
"Okay so tell me again why we're headed out to some warehouse to pin down some rogue demons that aren't Satan."
Up in the front seat of the car, Sam and Dean exchanged a look before Sam answered her.
"Demon blood." he responded. "It'll keep me from exploding when Lucifer's inside my body."
"Gross." Kae pulled a face.
"Just wait til you have to drink it," Sam muttered, but she didn't hear him.
Later, Sam and Kae waited outside the warehouse while Dean and Cas (who'd joined them when they reached the location) tracked down the demons they were looking for.
"Do you love him?"
The question caught Kae off guard, causing her to turn her head so fast that her neck cracked, and she swore loudly.
"What?"
Sam was staring at her intently. "Do you love him?" he repeated.
"What? Dean? I..." Kae trailed off and stared down at the ground. "Sam -"
"Kae, don't make me ask again." he said softly.
"I don't know him." she answered. "Outside of hunting, he's a fucking complete mystery. I mean...I don't even know his favorite color for crying out loud...but I...Yeah. I love him."
Sam considered her for a moment, and then nodded.
"Do something for me then?" he asked.
"What?"
But before Sam could respond, Dean and Cas headed out of the building toward them, each carrying two gallon jugs filled with dark red blood. The sight made Kae nauseous.
They put all four jugs into the trunk of the Impala and then Dean walked over to meet Bobby, who was parked a short distance away. Kae followed him.
"...stunt demons inside, just like you said." she heard Dean say when she'd reached them.
"Did you get it?" Bobby asked.
"Yeah. All the 'go-juice' Sammy can drink."
"You okay?" she asked, surprising both men. Had the situation not been so serious she would have laughed her ass off at the way Dean swore and looked around wildly at the sudden interruption.
"Not really." Dean said when he'd caught his breath and she put her hand to her mouth to stifle any giggles in danger of breaking free. He looked at Bobby. "What do you got?"
"Not much. These look like omens to you?" Bobby showed him and Kae some newspapers. "Cyclone in Florida, temperature drop in Detroit, wildfires in L.A."
Dean frowned as he leafed through one of the newspapers.
"Wait. What about Detroit?"
Kae grabbed the paper from him, ignoring the indignant stare he gave her as she rifled through the pages.
"Temp's dropped about twenty degrees," she read, "but only in a five-block radius of downtown Motown."
Dean stared at the paper intently and then nodded.
"That's the one. Devil's in Detroit."
"Really?" asked Bobby as Kae gave the paper back to him. "As far as foreboding goes, it's a little light in the loafers. You sure?"
Dean noddded and turned to head back to the Impala.
"Yeah, I'm sure." he said.
Kae slept for about a third of the trip to Detroit. She could hear Sam and Dean talking quietly, and tried to keep still as she heard Sam (at least she assumed it was Sam as Dean had to pay attention to the road), turn around in his seat.
"Do you love her?" he asked quietly.
"What?" Dean replied, clearly caught off guard - what had they been talking about while she'd slept? "Kae?"
"No, Cas," Sam said sarcastically, and there was the faint sound of him turning back around in his seat. "Of course Kae."
Silence. Kae tried not to move, breathe...or even think as she waited for Dean to reply.
"She's part demon you know...and all the shit she's been through - I mean, shouldn't you know a lot about the person you wanna spend the rest of your life with? Like I don't know - besides hunting?"
"Like?"
"I dunno...favorite color?"
"You two are fucking made for each other," Sam muttered. "You didn't answer my question."
Kae risked cracking an eye open and watched the two nervously.
"I...yeah."
If she had been able to in that moment, Kae could've done a cartwheel. Instead she kept quiet and listened intently because Sam was talking again.
"This thing goes our way and I...Triple Lindy into that box...y-you know I'm not coming back."
Silence.
"Yeah, I'm aware." Dean finally answered.
"So you got to promise me something."
"Okay yeah."
Kae exhaled and opened her other eye, thankful that neither Winchester could see her in the rearview, given that she was lying across the back seat. Neither knew she was awake and listening.
"You got to promise not to try to bring me back."
Dean looked at him incredulously. "What? No, I didn't sign up for that."
"Dean -"
"Your hell is gonna make my tour look like Graceland. You want me just to sit by and do nothing?"
"Once the Cage is shut, you can't go poking at it, Dean." Sam tried to reason. "It's too risky."
Kae had to agree with Sam there.
"No, no, no, no, no. As if I'm just gonna let you rot in there."
"Yeah, you are. You don't have a choice."
"You can't ask me to do this," Dean said pleadingly.
"I'm sorry, Dean." Sam retorted. "You have to."
"So then what am I supposed to do?"
Sam sighed and slumped back in his seat.
"Take Kae some place safe...make sure if she's pregnant, it's not mine." he rolled his eyes at whatever expression Dean gave him. "Oh come on. I saw the looks you were giving each other when you got back."
"I used a condom."
Sam groaned exasperatedly.
"TMI, man. And anyway, those can break - even if you didn't notice it." He quickly picked up where he'd left off. "If she...wants it with you, you go and you - you have barbecues and go to football games. You go live some normal, apple-pie life, alright? Promise me."
Dean didn't respond.
When they finally made it to Detroit, Sam, Dean and Kae followed Bobby and Cas into a dark alley in the area where the temperature drop had occured. Bobby scouted the area and then returned.
"Demons," he informed them. "At least two dozen of them. You were right -" he told Dean, " - something's up."
"More than something," Dean said tersely. "He's here. I know it." he made his way back over to the Impala's trunk and opened it.
Kae watched Sam walk over to Bobby and speak to him quietly. It made her heart break a little as she realized that he was saying good-bye. Sam hugged Bobby tightly and then spoke to Cas before walking over to her.
"You ready for this?" he asked.
She forced a smile.
"Yeah. Totally."
He chuckled. "Sure. As ready as I am."
"You think he'll take the deal?" she asked.
Sam shrugged. "Honestly? I don't see why he wouldn't. He won't get in my body either way. Kae?" his voice turned soft, and she looked up at him.
"Yeah?"
"Take care of my brother," he told her. "Please?"
She smiled and hugged him.
"You know I will, Sam." she replied.
Dean cleared his throat and they broke apart. Sam took a deep breath and walked back over to the trunk. Seconds later, Dean walked away, over to Kae and wrapped an arm firmly around her waist.
"He didn't want me to watch him drink the blood." he said quietly.
Kae wanted to ask why, but decided if Dean wanted to tell her why, then he would when he actually wanted to. Some time later, Sam shut the trunk lid on the car and stalked past them, toward the street.
"Okay let's go," he said, his tone cold.
Kae looked at Dean questioningly, but he nodded silently and they hurried after Sam.
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