Previous part of Tremors.

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"Bobby can do that, I"m staying put, I don"t care if you"re in or out, I want to know what the situation is as well as you do." Dean stated firmly.

"Same here, there"s plenty of time to check out a few places."

 

 The day progressed slowly for all concerned; they sat around, lazed around, at one point Dean climbed up in the bed with Sam to watch some TV when Bobby went out for a newspaper and some fresh coffee. The orderlies cam and took Sam away for his tests at about 11:45 and that meant that Dean and Bobby had to sit and wait, and wait, and then wait some more. Some time around 4:30 they brought Sam back to the room and quickly transferred him from the wheelchair to the bed. Where as soon as he lay back he was asleep, the doctor came around about 7pm to give them the news from his tests.

 

"Well there is some good news," Robertson started. "There are no more fluid pockets or bleeding that was evident from the MRI or the CT.  The EEG showed me some rhythms that are worth my taking a further look at and he did seize during the strobe part of the test, which is why he"s sleeping now, that"s part of the seizure pattern. So you need to be educated in the event he has a seizure while you"re around. " With that the Doctor sat on the foot of bed facing Bobby and Dean. 

 

"When he seizes or starts to seize, make sure he doesn"t fall on anything that can injure him. Once he is down or if this happens in bed, turn him on his side, that will keep his air passage open, the seizure will only last a few moments, if however, he seizes and repeats the process a few moments later or if his seizure lasts more than five minutes, call your emergency services. Also he may void his bladder during a seizure do be prepared to help clean him up, but don"t make a big fuss over any of it. The last thing that a seizure patient wants is to be mother henned. They need to be assured of their independence. But reassured that you are there to help them."  Robertson stopped and looked at Sam who was blinking slightly as he woke u p.

"That was a bad one doc." He said understating the obvious.

"Actually it wasn"t as bad as it feels, you did seize but it was more of an absence seizure than a full grand mal.  You did spasm and jerk but mostly you lay there trembling with your eyes shut." The doctor explained. "Your surgery wounds are healing at a very nice rate and we should be able to get you into a simple dressing soon. I understand you had your first shower today, I"m sure that probably felt like heaven. Sponge baths are ok but nothing beats soaping down all over and having the water pounding on you. " 

 

"So how much longer is he going to be in here?" Dean asked the doctor.

"With any luck which you seem to have a disgraceful amount of," He turned to Sam, "You should be able to be released by Friday or Saturday."

"That"s only a week away, are you sure about that?" Dean asked.

"He"ll heal better away from the hospital for now, I want y"all to stay in town for a few weeks until we are sure which way his health is headed. And I"ll want to do another MRI and EEG before I formally dismiss him as a patient. But I highly recommend you get a neurologist lined up as soon as you get home." Dr. Robertson ordered.

Dean and Sam nodded at that. The doctor checked his vitals and then excused himself from the room.

 

"You didn"t ask how soon before I can go hunting, why?" Sam asked Dean.

"Well first I"m not the only one who could do the asking and second, Sam I want you as near 100% as possible."

"Yeah I don"t want to hold you back." Sam said morosely.  Dean reached out and grabbed Sam"s wrist right as Bobby rose.

"Damn it boy, you ain"t gonna hold him back, you"ll be a danger to yourself out there. What are you going to do if something ends up hunting you and you have one of them seizures? Not a pretty mental picture is it?"

"Sorry Bobby but I can"t help but feel a little down right now okay?" Sam said crossly.

Bobby looked at Sam, "I know that son, but you can"t let yourself be wrapped up in pity right now. You"re alive and that"s something."

Sam leaned back against the pillow, "I know and I really am glad to be alive, but I also want to be more than just a fucking mental crip. And you have to face it guys, until I get these seizures under control, that"s exactly what I am."

 

"Bobby why don"t you go and check out those clubs, I"ll talk with Sam some more okay?" Dean said.

"Sure, it"s 8:15 now, I"ll be back about 11 or so." Bobby assured them both.

Bobby left feeling down, but determined not to let it show, with that Dean crawled up in the bed and lay down next to his brother, cradling him on his arm. 

"You know that was really unfair to Bobby." Dean started.

"Well maybe right now I don"t feel like playing fair." Sam returned.

"Talk to me babe." Dean urged.

Huge tears formed in Sam"s eyes and he started, he talked and cried for the better part of an hour. Their conversation consisting of Dean"s not urging Sam out of his pity, but walking with him through it.  Finally Sam curled up against Dean"s side and wept.

"You feel better now?" Dean asked as he heard the sniffles and coughs that signified that Sam had got most of the poison out of his mind and system.

"Not really, I"ve got a pounding headache," Sam said, Dean pressed the call button. "And I"ve been a shit."

"Only a little one." Dean said smiling down at his brother.

"Yes" the disembodied voice of the nurse came through the speaker over the bed.

"We need something down here for a headache."

"On the way."

"Thanks" Dean said then turned back to Sam. "You"ve got every right to feel the way you do, but you can"t give in to pity, that"ll choke you."

Sam sniffed, and wiped his eyes against Dean"s shirt.  "I owe Bobby an apology."

"Yes you do, but even if he is miffed he understands better than you think the why of what you feel." Dean said quietly.

 

A soft knock on the door followed by it opening admitted the evening nurse Emily. She came over with a syringe and alcohol swab and as Sam offered his arm she grinned and said, "Fraid not sweetie, I"m afraid this one is a butt shot." Sam grimaced and rolled towards Dean, his hands grabbed up Dean"s shirt as the medicine was injected.

"Give that a little bit to work and you should be all right." She said brightly.

"Thanks." Sam replied.

 

It was about midnight when Bobby returned to see both Sam and Dean together in the bed with Sam asleep on Dean"s shoulder. Bobby walked over and sat down as Dean raised the beds head up a bit more so he could look at Bobby.

 

"Any luck?" Dean asked

"Yeah I separated about two dozen urban cowboys from their money; we"re up about three grand." Dean"s eyes widened as he gave the figure.

Sam woke slowly and stretched he looked up at Bobby and the first words out of his mouth were "I"m so sorry."

"Huh?"  Bobby asked genuinely confused for the moment. He was riding pretty high on a beer buzz Dean could tell.

"About earlier and what I said, you"ve been great to be down here, and I acted like an ungrateful shit." Sam said looking at him.

"Only a little bit of one." Bobby agreed with a rough smile. "Don"t fret over it. You"re in pain, you got handed this shit sandwich on a silver platter and you deserve a little pity party. Just don"t make it a permanent one."

"Oh hell no." Sam said as Dean pulled him close. "My big brother threatened to whup me like a red-headed step child if I even go there." Sam said with a long Texas drawl.

"Well for what it"s worth, that hotel we"re in down the road, I went and told them the situation and they are going to let you keep the room you"re in for $400 a month with full maid service." Bobby said giving them some relief.

Then Dean looked at Sam and then to Bobby, "You don"t mind sharing the room with a couple of incestuous fags?"

"You shut the hell up boy, you ain"t too big I can"t whip." Bobby said irritated. "Of course I don"t mind sharing the room; just leave me a sign when you boys want to play so I don"t walk in you. Hell that"d be like you walking in on John and Mary."

Dean grimaced, "BOBBY, you so didn"t have to go there."

 

Then Bobby straightened a little in the chair, "think I may have us a local case to work, and it"s paying type of a case. There"s a cowboy I met in one bar on Booker that has a haunting going on at his place. It"s one of the older Houston homes, he says there"s something in the basement and it"s attacked him once already. He"s willing to pay $1000 to get rid of it."

 

Dean grinned, "Sounds like a winner."

"Yeah well you got the winning spin in this game of spin the bottle, this guy heard of you through the grapevine, he"s somehow kin to those Complin people you helped out." 

 

"Okay." Dean said, "When does he want to meet?"

"Tomorrow, noon, and yes he did give me the address." Bobby grumped, "I ain"t entirely senile yet."  He said in a near whisper.

"Nah not enough gray hair yet." Dean mentioned then pushed at Sam"s shoulder, "Let me up ya damn sasquatch, my arm"s falling asleep." Dean said with mock astringency which Sam right through.

Sam did move allowing Dean to extract himself. He stood then and stretched mightily working his arm and shoulder joint.

"Well want to flip to see who stays tonight?" Dean asked.

"You"ve been at him all day, give him a break." Bobby said quickly.

"Him would like a say in this as well. And yes, Him agrees that Dean oughta get his ass back to the hotel  and get some real sleep."  Sam said good humouredly.

Dean nodded, gripped Bobby in a hug which he endured, then gave Sam a kiss and was gone.

 

"I"m waiting till I hear that damn Chevy"s muffler in the breeze before I even start talkin." Bobby said.

"You don"t think he"d fake leaving do you?"

"Is grass green!" Bobby retorted.

 

In a moment Bobby sighed, "Son we got to have us a talk. Dean is taking on a lot of cases solo here lately.  Has he talked about this with you at all?"

Sam dodged the question slightly, "We"ve talked some on, mostly what you"ve already heard, but it"s like he says I can"t go out until I"m back in fighting trim, and that may not be for a while. So I"m going to be piled up in the house for now. Hey one thing I was thinking about, I read about this the other day, their called Seizure Dogs, dogs that can actually tell when a person"s about to have a seizure and warns them so that they can get to a safe place."

Bobby nodded, "You look that information up, we may be looking about one them for you."

Bobby looked at Sam then with a querulous expression. "You don"t look like you"re sleepy. Hell I figured you"d be sacked out by now."

"Nah, all that sleeping I"ve been doing must"ve caught up with me." He reached over on the nightstand taking up the deck of cards. "Cut you for the deal?"

 

The morning found Dean at a local restaurant finishing his breakfast and watching the incoming cars and trucks for some sign of the vehicle that Bobby described to him in a text message that he found that morning.  It seemed like an hour had passed  when suddenly the blue and white Chevy pickup pulled into the lot.  Dean watched as the man got out of the truck and stood up fully, he was just  over six feet tall, broad shouldered and narrow hips, body builder type that set off one bell in Dean"s mind. The gentleman came into the restaurant looking around for Dean evidently, finally looking at Dean who nodded, he smiled disarmingly and made his way over to the table ordering a coffee as he sat down.  He then turned his attention to Dean.

"Tyler Hooker," He thrust his hand across the table which Dean shook.

"Dean Winters." Was the reply.

"You probably already heard but I live in a pre-civil war era house over in Old Houston, the house takes up basically three lots, it"s about the biggest place on the block but it"s home, or it was."

"Pardon me for stating the obvious but you don"t look like our typical haunted person. Most are either overweight or underfed, obviously a target in other words. Hell I wouldn"t stalk you in the day much less the night." Dean noted.

"Well I guess I don"t fit the part then, I work six months out of the year on a deep well rig out in the Gulf.  I"m just between seasons right now."  He explained. "Me and the family moved in that house about a year ago, we noticed stuff happening like strange sounds and stuff like that but we put it off to the house settling. Then the strange stuff started happening. Water faucets turning on on their own, lights switched on in rooms we knew were dark. But the capper came about a month ago when my boy Paul went downstairs to get his football gear out of storage for the season. He was on the bottom step and was flung backwards against the steps. Bruised him up something fearful but didn"t stop him from getting his gear and hightailing it out of there." He paused as his coffee was refilled then continued as the waitress was leaving the table. "My little girl Nan tells me she has seen the ghost and describes him as a mean looking old man."

 

Dean sat through the recital listening politely then he asked, "How soon after you moved in did the strangeness start?"

"Almost three months to the day, that was about the time I built a play house for Nan." Tyler commented. "She used to play in it regular, but I guess it was in November she quit going around it all together and now she won"t go near it. She claims the grumpy old man run her off."

Dean thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know if there was anyone ever buried on the property?"

"Yeah there"s supposed to be a family plot around there somewhere, but damn if I know where it is." Tyler said exasperated. "So will you take the job or am I just bumping my gums to sound like I"m nuts."

"You"re not nuts Tyler, not by a long shot. Just one more question, is there anything else on or near the property where the play house is sitting?" Dean asked.

"No, nope, the rest of the yard right there is cleared."

"Good, first off we"re going to put that truck of yours to use moving the play house, next I"ll be doing a bit of hole digging, so you got a mattock and shovel?"

"Well yeah, we"re nuts about gardening thought we"d put in a flower garden next to the play house, thought that would make it cheerier looking."  Tyler said.

"Well first thing, I"ll follow you back to your place, second, we need to use the truck to move that play house. I"ll show you where later, but the second thing is the main one for right now."

"You picked a good time to go out there, cool of the day and well Nan is in preschool and won"t be home for about four hours, Misty, that"s my wife is at her job in town and won"t be in till six." Tyler noted.

 

They paid the bill and left with Dean following the old pickup gladly. It took about 45 minutes of negotiating the traffic of Houston"s inner city areas to get to the old part of town. The house was everything that Dean was expecting, a traditional one level adobe rancher that seemed to spread out in all directions.  The yard was dominated an oak tree in the front and some other native saplings along the side. The back yard was well manicured and Dean saw the small play house with Tyler backing up the truck to it. Dean walked up to the area with a small haversack in one hand and two gallon sized containers of diesel in the other.  Tyler got out and hauled a rope from the bed of the pickup and looped it around the house tying it off securely then throwing the other end of the rope around the trailer hitch and tying that off. He got back in the truck and pulled the play house out into the yard away from the area it was setting on and away from that area in general.

 

"Mattock?" Dean asked, Tyler went towards a small workshop on the other side of the expansive yard to fetch mattock and shovel.  Dean knelt down and surveyed the ground like a pro-golfer looking over a putting green. Finally satisfied he took the proffered shovel  on Tyler"s return and cut into an area of sod some two feet wide by six feet long and scooped the sod out of the way. Then taking the mattock he proceeded to start digging. He knew he was onto something as the ground broke up easily under the swings of the mattock. He was about hip deep in the ground when a window blew out from one side of the house.  Dean redoubled his work and started to haul ass.

 

"Got it on the run, I must be getting close." 

"Close to what a coffin."

"Exactly" Dean huffed as he proceeded to throw several more shovels of dirt out of the hole. Suddenly another then another window blew out. Finally at four feet the mattock made a hollow chunking noise. Using the shovel he uncovered the lid of the coffin. He raised up the shovel and was about to bring it down when a clatter caught his attention and the mattock flew from its spot on the ground and nearly took off his scalp.

"Grab it!" Dean ordered. The crashing through the lid of the coffin he reached into his haversack and brought out a container of salt. He quickly worked at throwing as much salt over the remains as he could.  Then they heard a scraping sound and looked in time to see the play house breaking the strap and start to move back towards the hole. He quickly took a can of the fuel and popping the top dropped it into the coffin then leapt from the hole just in time to avoid being crushed by the play house.

 

He took the other can of fuel and started to fling it on the play house then stopped looking at Tyler, "Go ahead, I"ll build her a tree house in that sonofabitching oak in the front yard." Dean didn"t waste time he drenched the outside then threw the can in the play house and lit it off.  The dry wood caught instantly and seemed to burn with a fury.  Suddenly Dean and Tyler were being pummeled by some unseen force, it had them on the ground at one point striking hitting them harshly, until at last the timbers of the play house fell in and the heat from the burning pyre about lit off the fuel oil in the coffin, suddenly there was a double blaze going on and as suddenly the pummeling stopped. The play house remains continued to burn away when a van with large animals and such painted on it pulled up in the yard and let off a little girl who came running up to her daddy.

 

"Daddy why the fire!?" Nan cried out then she looked at her daddy, "Will this stop the scary old man?" She asked plaintively. Tyler nodded. Then pointing to Dean, "Honey this is Dean Winters he"s kind of like a doctor about these things."

"You won"t give me a shot will ya." She said cringing against her father. Dean knelt to be on her level.

"No sweetie no shot for you but a big one for the scary old man."

"Good." She said decidedly.

Tyler scooped up Nan and motioned to Dean to follow. In the house he shook his head, "Mama"s gonna be mad about them windows."

"You"ll fix em daddy, you can fix anything." Dean smiled at the hero worship she saw in her eyes for her daddy.

"Well I"d some help with this." He reached into a desk drawer and removed an old trucker"s wallet, popped it open and took out a thousand dollars and passed to Dean.  "For your work," then considering fished out another five hundred, "for a massage on that back of yours you"ll need it after all that digging."

"Thank you Tyler and yeah stick to tree houses."

"Tree houses daddy!!??"

 

Dean made the drive back across town at a tired rate of speed covering the distance in about an hour. His first stop was the motel where he"d proceeded to take a very long and hot shower to wash away the grime, but to soften up tense muscles.  He arrived then at the hospital to find Sam and Bobby animatedly watching a football game. 

 

Hearing the door open Sam looked up and threw his legs over the side of the bed and stood shakily but stood all the same and nearly ran over to hug Dean.  "God I missed you."

"Missed you more you big lug." Dean said kissing him gently. "Hey treat me with a little gentleness okay, I just finished digging a grave."
"Took you long enough." Bobby good naturedly grumped.

"Shut up old man, it wasn"t you getting pounded on by a poltergeist much less nearly getting cut in half by a moving play house. " Dean gave Bobby a slightly withering look, "I thought you said this would be a simple salt and burn.  Bullshit! I opened that grave, nearly got scalped by a flying mattock, nearly cut in two by a moving doll house, beat the shit out of by an angry spirit.  I whupped."

"Shit boy, I used to do that when I …"

"Don"t finish that sentence if you plan to get any older." Dean warned with mock astringency. Taking out his cell phone he proceeded to dial a number, "Tyler yeah, it"s Dean, yeah man, you"ll want to get a team out there to exhume the rest of those graves. That"ll probably mean digging quite a chunk of the back yard, but exhume them and then get them reburied properly in a marked area on the property. Yeah I hear swimming pools are the in thing right now. Okay bye." He hung up the phone then dialed information and got the number of a nearby Domino"s pizza place.  "Yeah bring two large pizzas, one veggie and the other supreme to Houston Memorial, room 631. Yeah Dean Winters, 857-555-2143. Thanks. "

"That"s the best idea yet," Sam commented as Dean clipped his phone shut.

"Too bad we can"t get a six pack up here." Bobby muttered.

"Something tells me the nursing staff would look real dim on me going out and come back with a sixer." Dean mentioned.

 

"Dean I"ve been thinking about something important." Sam said sitting down on the bed now.  "I"ve been reading up on these dogs that are supposed to be able to sense when someone who is seizure prone is about to have one. I"d like to get one at least for now, when these things finally go away we"ll trade him or her in for a hunting dog." Sam said playfully.

 

Dean nodded and looked carefully at his brother, "You"re sure about this?"

"Look Dean if you"re out on a hunt and Bobby"s with you there"s gotta be someone with me, yeah, this angel dude is going to hang around but wouldn"t it make sense to have the extra help just in case?"

"You make a good point." Dean said. "But right now move your butt over I want to sit down. God I feel like we"ve pulled an all night marathon sex event."
"TOO MUCH INFORMATION!" Bobby said in a near shout.

"Sorry forgot about your virgin ears." Dean said sniping.

 

Sam is the one to ask, "Okay so how much are we up?"

"About four grand total."

"Hope you got that in a safe spot."  Bobby said smartly.

"2500 in the toybox back at the apartment and 1500 in my pocket. " Dean said with a smile. "Don"t worry, the toybox is secure plus it weighs a ton, and the money is hid under a panel in the bottom anyway. But I"m going to get a lock box in town to safe this wad."

Sam nodded and closed his eyes for a moment.

"You all right?" Dean asked as Sam jerked twice and fell against Dean. Bobby took the feet as Dean positioned Sam down on the bed. 

Sam cracked his eyes open and looked around, "That sucked."

"Just a little."  Dean said, "You going to feel up to eating?"

"Sooner the better." Sam said eagerly, waking back up now.

"Scoot over baby brother and give me some room here." Dean said sitting back down on the bed.  Just then there was a soft knock on the door and the smell of fresh pizza. Dean jumped up and went over to the door. Paid the driver and brought back two large cartons plus a six of Coke to sit on the hospital stand.  "Okay so it"s not beer.  It came with the order." They each took a soda then dove into the boxes. Sam ate his with deep apparent relish, savoring every bite, he wasn"t a big fan of junk food but in his world Pizza didn"t count as junk food.

 

"Are you done with jobs for right now?" Sam asked plaintively.

"Why you want papa bear to stay home a little more often." Dean said with a grin.

"Not that, it"s just well, I"m not there to cover your back and I know we talked about this earlier but I can"t help but feel that"s wrong." Sam said.

"It"s not wrong that you"re healing up, you"ll be back out with me soon enough, besides I kind of like this idea of doing this for dough, it doesn"t suck."

"Doing it for free wasn"t too bad either." Sam replied.

"Yeah," Dean started "but free is good for some things, right now I got to build us up a nest egg."

Sam ran his fingers through Dean"s hair mussing it some. "Yeah but I don"t want you to get burned out. You can burn the candle at both ends, down the middle and up the core.  Well most people can"t you give a good impression of making that a reality."

 

"I"ll be fine Sam." Dean assured him.

"Really, that"s not what I heard." Bobby started.

"Bobby!" Sam said warningly.

"Look it"s for his own good, well it is," Bobby said when he noticed the look he got from Sam, "I hear that when Sam was in ICU you had a mini-breakdown. Son you can"t work yourself like that, you"ll end up like your old man. Drowning your sorrows in a whiskey glass."

"I never had a mini-breakdown." Dean argued.

"Yes you did." Bobby stated.

"You did Dean, I"m sorry but you did and it freaked me out." Sam told his brother.

"Well maybe I was a little upset." Dean said admitting to some of the angst.

"Dean I may not have been fully conscious, but I remember waking up in ICU with you in tears and shaking, you were babbling slightly and seemed to be real jumpy."  Sam said morosely.

"I was." Dean said with a twisted grimace.

"Yeah you was." Sam answered.

 

Dean sat back munching on another slice of pizza looking absently towards the television. He shook his head trying to clarify the memories of when he was with Sam in the ICU and found that he could visualize some of it but nothing really clear. That shook him a little. He found he could remember something about their brother Adam visiting.  But there wasn"t anything really clear that he could grasp onto. The Dean noticed one major difference in the room, only one of the side rails on the bed was up he looked at Sam carefully.

 

"Ok, you can slap me down later but aren"t both of these rails supposed to be up?" Dean asked.

"They are but you know me, I can"t stand to be hemmed in. Anyway I"m scared for you bro even if you aren"t scared for yourself. I know we got jobs to work, and yeah, I"m all for hunting down as many creepy crawlies as possible, but dude, don"t burn out on me." Sam said his face expanding on the concern he felt. Just then Bobbie"s phone went off he clipped it open and listened.

 

"Yeah, yep this is Bobby, yeah, you got my name from? Okay, sure I can be there…" Bobby stopped and thought deeply, "day after tomorrow if I leave tonight. Sure no problem. Really, all right. I"ll see you then."

 

"You boys may be onto something about doing this for pay as well, just got a call from a family down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana who reports of something stalking their house and the prints don"t match up anything like the wildlife in the area." Then Bobby grinned a bit, "Willing to pay $2500 to have me come down and investigate it and get rid of it."

 

"So you"re going?" Dean asked.

"Damn straight I"m going. This is helping us out go ahead and get that lock box set up for tomorrow.  We"re going to need it at this rate." With that Bobby said his goodbyes and was gone.  Dean walked around the bed and sat down in the recliner. 

 

"Dude I"m serious about you pulling so many cases. I don"t want you to end up like dad." Sam said concerned.

"Ok, ok, message received loud and clear commander. Now can we get on with another topic please?"  Dean said exasperated.

"Sure," Sam said brightly, "I want to adopt a baby."

 

The next morning was a gray rainy day and was forecast to be that way through the weekend. Dean really looked forward to that still after he woke in the hospital room, he cleaned up a bit and looked back at Sam.

 

"I"m going to secure our loot, you gonna be okay?" Dean asked.

"Go, I"ll be fine." Sam insisted.

"Okay…I"ll be back in about an hour or so." With that Dean left the hospital and rode to their motel and opening the toy box took out the cash inside.  He then went down a main branch of a Wells Fargo Bank and was seen by a clerk almost immediately.

"I need a safety deposit box please." Dean said to the clerk.

"Well sir we have several sizes, here"s a brochure." Dean perused the brochure while the clerk looked on. "Yeah this one." He said pointing to a large box. 

The clerk nodded gladly, "Excellent Mr. …"

"Winters, Dean Winters." He presented his identification, patently fake and was signed up for the box. Once in the vault with the box he removed two wads of cash from his coat pockets and placed in the box. Then locking it he left the bank. He couldn"t believe how easy that was, now if they could just do that with their real identification versus a scam it would be great. He drove over to Booker and stopped in one of the bars for a bite of breakfast and maybe pickup a game or two. It was extremely early in the day but some people didn"t mind parting with their cash in the morning as in the night. He did call the hospital and talked with Sam briefly, Sam asked him to stop by a bookstore and get him something to read. Dean heard the door to the bar open and saw two truckers coming in and smiled disarmingly.

"Gotta go, some pigeons just flew in the coop." He said to Sam in a near whisper. However with all the noise from the highway filtering in, he could have talked at normal conversation range and been fine.

"okay, fleece em gentle like." Sam admonished.

 

About three hours later Dean entered the hospital room carrying a bag from the local Barnes & Noble"s which he sat by Sam in the bed, he gave his brother a fond kiss then sat down with his bag. Sam opened the bag and grinned two of the latest Star Wars novels.

 

"Did you treat them badly?" Sam asked.

"Made an extra couple of hundred, nothing major, I"m going back down there tonight and see what I can clear up with.  So the doc been around?"

"Yeah, he"s releasing me in a couple of days. He is happy with my recovery and wants his bed back."

"Excellent." Dean crowed happily. "We"ll stay in town a week or so for your to get well enough for a road trip then we"ll head back to the yard."

 

Sam looked at Dean concerned now with the situation he was about to foist on them, "So what about the dog? Do we get one here or when we get back or which?" Sam asked.

"I"d say we look about one when we get home, we"ll have more time to play with and can make up our minds about just what we want." Dean said

"You know part of me is fighting this idea." Sam said looking down for a quick moment.

"I know, I ain"t gonna say it"s for the best, but it"ll make me feel safer knowing you"ve got that much of a warning." Dean looked at Sam now as if he were going to say more when his cell phone rang, he clipped it open. "Hello, yeah, Oh hi Tyler, yeah, six, damn, any trouble? None good, okay yeah, excellent…hello, Tyler? Tyler..? What the fuck?"  He clipped his cell phone shut and sprung to his feet, "looks like I"m not done yet with that family with the poltergeist."

 

On the other side of town he pulled up just as an ambulance was pulling away from the house.  Misty was standing out front about to get into her car. Dean pulled up quickly. "What"s happened?"

The wife was on the verge of tears but managed to keep some semblance of the present to look at Dean and register his face. "Ty, he was attacked in the house. I"m not sure by what."

 

"You want me to check it out?" Dean offered.

"Please!"  She said getting into her car and pulling out working to catch up to the trauma unit ambulance.

Dean went to the trunk and got out two of his better weapons a pump action 12ga Mossberg shotgun loaded with rock salt rounds and a flask of holy water that he shoved into his pants pocket.  In the house he walked carefully from room to room, checking each closet and any possible point of entry, finally ending up in the rear study.  He worked his way back to the butler"s pantry with the signs of a scuffle were and examined the area carefully. There was a sink in the room, but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Suddenly his cell range, clipping it open he answered, "Dean, yeah, okay, good, he wants to talk to me. Sure. Hi Tyler, yeah close call, yeah I"m in the Butler"s pantry, yeah, don"t turn my back on the sink." With that Dean turned around to see some gelatinous creature rising up about three feet in the air and about to attack. "HOLY SHIT!" Dean yelped dropping his cell phone and jumping back a pace, the creature flopped on the counter, Dean brought up the shotgun and fired a found into the thing. It immediately started to vibrate and howl in some unearthly scream. He fired another round into it and watched as it like a slug when salted started to shrivel and melt. He grabbed up his cell phone from the carpeted floor and noticed he was still connected. "Tyler! Ty! Yeah, yeah" Dean gasped now the adrenalin rush started to diminish. "Oh yeah, it"s dead, no problem, I don"t think it has a connection with the original problem. But I"m going to set up some protection on your property all the same. Don"t sweat it just get better dude. Okay, bye." With that he hung up and started work cleaning the thing into a trash can then wiping down the countertop. 

 

Dean ran out to the Impala and went down the road to a market and bought 5 containers of rock salt the clerk joking about how he must be going to make a LOT of ice cream, then to a hardware store and bought some plumbers putty. He got back to the house and took an old bucket from the mud room and mixed the putty with a good sized double handful of the salt, rolled out a lumpy snake and satisfied started to putty every window in the house. Then he got the door sills taken care of. Next he went outside and in each corner of the property buried a small hex bag, one of over a dozen he"d made up way earlier.

 

"Doesn"t hurt to be prepared Sammy." Dean remembered telling his brother who scoffed.

"Only if you"re taking on a Political Action Group."

Dean shrugged the cut away and went on making up the bags.

Now he was glad he did.

 

There was a pit in the back that was outlined with stakes and warning tape. Dean threw handfuls of salt into the hole spreading it around good. Satisfied that he could do as much as possible without getting too graphic he lastly took two of his devil trap medallions and put one under each mat at the doors. Finally he dialed Tyler"s cell number, it rang a couple of times before Misty picked up, she briefed him in on Tyler"s condition and noted he would be all right. Dean in turn explained what he had done to the property and warned her of what could happen if any of that was removed.  She swore that wouldn"t happen, clicking his cell phone shut he proceeded to lock the door and got into his Impala to leave.

 

Back at the hospital he arrived to find an empty room, "Sam must be out for some more tests." That was when he saw the blood on the pillow. Startled he ran out to the nurses" station.

 

"My brother, room 631,gone, where?" He realized he sounded disjointed but he felt that way all of the sudden.

"Oh he"s in a treatment room around the corner, he had a bad seizure a few minutes ago and ripped open some of his stitches. The doc"s patching him up now. He should be out any moment." The nurse advised him.

 

Dean covered the short distance to the treatment room in a hurry and arrived in time to see Robertson inserting the last suture.  The Doctor looked up irritated and then seeing it was Dean motioned him over. 

 

"Had to bring him down here for a few minutes, got that stitch problem situated. Main thing is that I don"t want him standing without assistance, or sitting up out of the bed for that matter, this little snag has pushed his release date back about a week."

 

Dean nearly fell against the doorframe in relief but decided dramatics was not his bag, so he canned that notion.

 

"Dean that you?" A sleepy voice asked him from the gurney.

"Yeah bro, I"m right here."

"Good, need to reset the trap." Sam muttered.  Dean went cold inside and nodded to the doctor.

"Talking out of his head, we had a rat problem in the barn at home, it was him or me having set traps." Dean lied. "Look I"ll leave you to it and go around to his room, I don"t feel so good myself right now."

 

With that he hurried back around to Sam"s room, got a chair and took his knife rejoining the line in the devil trap. Then quickly moved the chair back to its original position as he heard the orderly and doctor coming back down the hall.

 

"Get me an IV and a bottle of Dilantin suspension. "

"Sir." The orderly said and turned nearly into the path of a nurse who was coming in carrying the IV bag. "I"ve got a med cart just outside the door, You want an injection of Dilantin?"

"Yes get me the 400mg strength." With that the nurse was gone all of a minute then she was back in with the loaded syringe." 

The doctor already had the IV inserted and running, he then slowly injected the Depakote.  He turned to Dean as he made sure the bed rails were up and locked in place.  "He"s probably going to be out of it the rest of the day."

 

The week passed by then without much interruption thankfully, Dean continued to poach the bars at night and succeeded in making them about $8,000 richer overall.  Their last day there he went in with a lock bag and transferred the money to the bag from the bank and left leaving them the key as well.  Sam was loaded up with two large bottles of Tegretol and one large one of Dilantin.  He was bitching the whole time about having to be a pill machine.

Finally Dean had had enough, "Shut yer pie hole if all you can do is bitch!" Dean said crossly. "Hell you"re finally getting out of the hospital and you"re bitching like a spoilt kid."

Sam looked angry for a minute then realized the truth of Dean"s words and shook his head, "Sorry, just tired of being a walking martini shaker and pill bottle."

"I know baby brother of mine, but if those pills will keep you as stable as you"ve been I"ve no complaints. You ready?"  Dean asked. Then pushed the wheelchair out on the exit and told him to sit tight.  In moments Sam heard the satisfying sound of the Impala"s glass packed muffler and smiled. He couldn"t get into the car fast enough and ended up nearly tripping in the process.

 

"Aw man, for God"s sake don"t fall, you"ll just be back in there." Dean muttered. Once he got the car loaded he drove gladly out of the parking lot for the last time and towards the motel.  He walked into the room looking around like he was on an alien world. He"d been cooped up in the hospital for nearly a month and was glad to be rid of that albatross. 

 

He turned to look at Dean who was grinning, and then he fell into Dean"s arms, laughing, crying, kissing his brother over and over, in the joy of being free. They lay down together side by side on the bed, kissing and nibbling.

 

"You intend on catching up on a month of fucking in one night?" Dean asked his overjoyed brother.

 

Face still wet from tears, Sam grinned at him and with a wicked leer, "I might not be able to catch up on a month, but I intend to put a formidable dent into the arrears.

 

Dean did the honors of undressing Sam as he himself undressed then they just lay there side by each feeling the touch of skin on skin, being able to do things denied them by the ever present watchful eyes of the nursing staff, with the exception of the blowjobs in the shower and the one time Sam thoroughly plowed Dean"s ass in the shower as well. 

 

Their kissing was tender as a new couple, and a hurried as starving men at a feast.  Sam took Dean"s face in his hands and smiled broadly dimples appearing. "I don"t care what we go home to I want you forever."

 

"If you can handle me, I"m on for that ride." Dean said with a smile as well. With that Dean and Sam moved up on the bed in full, Sam"s head resting comfortably on the cushion.  They kissed and nibbled some more then Dean moved quickly into a dominant position and pulled up Sam"s legs as if he were going to take him immediately, instead he shifted until they were balls to balls, and Sam was treated to the intimate pleasure of being jerked off against the cock of his partner. The feeling along with Dean"s calloused hand made for an exquisite pleasure and agony of delight.  Sam gasped with intensity of the feeling.

"I don"t think I can hold back." He told Dean.

Grinning broadly Dean told Sam, "I don"t intend for you too, this first time is to take some of the edge off." With that Sam let out a gasp and convulsed as the orgasm shook him with joy.  He was so relieved and grateful he was nearly crying again.

Then Dean scooped up some of Sam"s come and slicked his own cock down with the load, then proceeded to place tip to anal ring and press slowly and deliciously.  He eased into Sam and then set up a lovely slow liquid rhythm which he knew always set Sammy off.  It wasn"t long until Sam was pushing down onto him and crooning in delight with the sensations that he was getting, especially as Dean"s cock started brushing his love gland as he called it. He yelped and Dean stopped for fear of hurting him but Sam urged him on and Dean plowed on and on until suddenly he gasped in the throes of his first orgasm of the evening, and one he was not going to forget for a long time.

 

A month had passed now and they were leaving Houston, for which Sam was heartily gladdened to see, he was tired of motel living and longed to be back in familiar surroundings if only for a while until the road called him on the hunt again, his seizure activity was down to maybe one a week, which the doctor praised him for and told him that he was making remarkable recovery.

 

Sam sat over in the passenger seat permitting the drive to lull him to sleep, it was the dark of night when Dean finally pulled into a motel for the evening.

"We home yet daddy!?" Dean heard Sam mutter from his seat.

"Almost, we"ll be there by lunch time tomorrow, for now, let"s get you in a room and asleep. Of course Sam had to be rocked to sleep and Dean was more than happy to be the rocking chair.  It seemed these days their lovemaking had taken a different twist from their original wham, slam, thank you ma"am and was more tender and romantic. At the same time Sam was hinting at wanting some play time as well. Dean acknowledged that and assured him that playtime would come soon enough. In fact it was his desire to turn one of the three bedrooms in the trailer into their own private dungeon.  Which earned him a massive puppy dog eyes and Sam saying, "Promise."

 

"Definitely."

This night however, Sam was a bit frustrated with Dean. "Dean, I"m not a fragile piece of china about to break, you can get rough with me and I won"t mind in fact I"d love for you to get rough with me again. "

 

"I know Sammy, I guess it"s because you look like a marine corp recruit now with a buzz instead of a bald onion, that I feel like I could get away with it. I just want you to be comfortable."

 

"For Pete"s sake fuck me like a whore dog. Abuse and use me!" Sam begged and that night Dean spanked Sam until he cried then fucked his redden ass with utter abandon. It was probably the most intense orgasm Sam had experienced in weeks.

 

The next day they pulled up into the junk yard to be greeted by an utterly cheerful beyond all abandon Bobby, and even a grinning Castiel, Theo followed close on Castiel"s feet looking pleased as well. They all gathered around the kitchen table and had a celebratory welcome home party complete with beer for the non-medicated and non-alcoholic beer for the medicated.

 

Castiel took Dean and Sam aside that evening for a private chat while Theo helped Bobby clean up the kitchen.

"You"re going to need to be a little patient with Theo, he"s still curious as to where he"s going to fit in with the dynamics of your household."

"HEY THEO! Get yer bony ass in here." Dean hollered.  He heard the quick pad running of feet and both he and Bobby were in the door.

 

"What"s wrong?" Bobby shouted, "Sam"s okay?"

"Sam"s fine we just need to talk with Theo here about him being our houseboy."

"Sounds too kinky for me, I"m going back to the dishes." Bobby said sourly.

 

"What do you mean ‘houseboy"?"  Theo asked Dean earnestly.

"First and foremost you can address us by name in private, in public we are Sir with no names given. We won"t abuse you, you exist to help us. You"ll not be asked to do anything that is against your will but there will be times I"ll be gone on hunts, I expect you to keep an eye on Sam for me for now."

Theo nodded quickly.

"Keeping an eye on him doesn"t mean following him around with a cushion to prop on." Dean said.

"Oh that sounds like fun." Sam said quietly.

"Get over it." Dean said with a smile.

 

"Next are you a sexual creature in any manner, shape, or form."  Dean asked Theo.

"I can be whatever you need Sir." Theo answered properly.

Dean smiled, "Well we"re off to a good start. First off you"ll not be abused unless that is a specific kink of yours, you"ll not be required to do anything other than service our needs. If that means sexual you better decide now just how far you"re willing to go or we will assume you are open territory."

"Dean." Castiel said warningly.

"No Cas, if he"s going to be our houseboy, he"s got to know the dynamics of what"s expected. Castiel sat back gritting his teeth in wonder of what the boy would answer.

"Sir, I"m here to protect and serve you in any capacity, and yes, in heaven I happen to like men. So what you are requesting is not out of line sir."

"Excellent. You may go back to helping Bobby for now."

"Thank you sir."

"You"re welcome Theo."

Once out of the room Dean turned to Castiel and told him in quiet tones. "I realize he is not a slave, but in a household like we"re going to set up there have to be parameters set to keep the dynamics straight if you get my meaning. We will NOT abuse him nor will we be making light of his status as an angel. Is that agreeable?"

Castiel sighed and said to them, "I"ll clear it with control but I don"t foresee any problems.  By the way, Sam it is good to see you looking as healthy as you do, especially under his care."  Then he warned them, "Under no circumstances summon Crowley, he may be a useful demon from time to time but rest assured he is keeping markers in place for when he wants a favor done and he will come to try to collect."

"After what happened with that fricking Colt when we faced down Lucifer on that hillside, there"s no love lost between us, and I trust him as far as I could throw him. But no we"ll not summon him again unless the need is too great or such that his help would be the make or break in a case."

"Another by the way, the trailer has been taken care of, sigils are embedded into the walls, and all the windows and doors are salt puttied thanks to Bobby and myself. The roofing job you did Sam is holding quite well and I went around and added a little extra security to the place. Finally, I have a bedroom set up in the center of the trailer for Theo, he"s been staying up here at the house, but I dare say that now you have him anxious to work for you."

"Why?"  Dean asked, "Why would he be anxious to work for us.

"He working his way out of a disgraced state. He"s quite well along in his rehabilitation he just needs the proper guidance, hopefully your rigid structure you looking at imposing will return his full grace to him."

Sam rose from the chair, "Well if you boys don"t mind I"m going to go stretch out on that sofa in the front of the house, I"m tired and yes Dean I"ve been a good boy and taken my meds."

"Okay." Dean said as Sammy rose from his chair he bent down as he walked by and playfully nipped at Dean"s earlobe.  "You slut."

"Whore." Sam retorted.

 

Dean sat there for a long moment and looked out the window into the junk yard. "So how long do you think before some of the demons will make a try on this place?"

"They"ll try but not be too successful , I"ve wards and guardings posted all around the property that will prevent a demon from crossing the line." Castiel said.

Dean shook his head in wonder, "You know I"m grateful for all the care y"all are taking."

"Yes."

"And I"m proud that you"re still hanging around us even after all the fuck ups we"ve pulled.

"Yes."

"But I"m yet to see our importance in the scheme of things now. We save y"alls bacon by putting Lucifer back in the pit."

"Something that Gabriel"s spirit is intensely relieved that you did. He was sorry that he couldn"t be of more help. But even his path was convoluted."

"You said his spirit," Dean started.  Then he leaned forward slightly. "You"re talking like he"s still around."

"God works in mysterious ways. He has restored Gabriel"s presence in heaven, and has him on rehabilitative leave as well.  You might be relieved to know that he is punishing Zachariah for too stringently attempting to follow orders." Castiel explained.

 

Dean sat back unsure exactly how to take that news, he was glad that his part in that tale was over and done with but there was something a little unsettling about the way and ease in which he was able to off Zachariah. Then his thoughts drifted to Adam.

 

"What about Adam will he still be Michael"s vessel?" Dean asked concerned.

"Yes and he is now actually good with that. There was no coercion just a gentle impulse to help him see how strong his place would be and how important he could effectively be and that he would serve a greater good by being Michaels, ‘meat suit"."

"Hey sorry about that, but well." Dean said by way of apology.

"No need to apologize, it"s true, we take on the bodies of mortals so that our presence will not destroy the mortals who cannot see our true forms or hear our true voices." With that he heard a high pitched sound from the doorway, at first it was displeasing and even a touch painful then suddenly Dean understood what was being said and the words struck him speechless. The painful shrieking was replaced by an almost string of harmonics. He said there suddenly in tears from the revelation as Theo standing in the doorway was talking to him in angel speak.  Dean sat there enraptured for a moment then another softer voice broke into the harmonics, with his own set, Dean fell out of his seat not in pain but in utter shock. Then the sounds faded and finally stopped.

"You are one of the thirteen." Castiel said with a genuine smile of relief. You see we aren"t inept and dangerous, well most of us aren"t. But at the same time do not take us for less than what we are.

Through his tears of gratitude Dean just nodded and got back into his seat. 

"Now let us speak of the future." Castiel said smiling.

 

A year had passed now, Sam was recovered to the point that his seizure activity was down to about 1 every two weeks, he was back out on the road with Dean and very glad of that, mostly he was secretly thrilled at the prospects that greeted him every day. Theo was fitting into their household quite well to the point that he was able to join them on hunts to not only keep an eye on Sam, but provide them with a great backup resource should they require one.  And better yet, in Dean"s opinion their sexual dynamics were exploding in leaps and bounds. They"d experienced all kinds of sexual play and experimentation, and Theo was overjoyed to be in a male body was Angels were basically androgynous and sexless.  But Theo relished the sexual play. He was especially recalling the other night when they"d had him suspended on a superman rig of hooks and chain, with the hooks penetrating skin in various way to keep him suspended horizontally several feet above the floor. He was enamored by the pain side of the play and was up for anything, Sam especially remembered the sounds that he made while Dean gave him a blow job and Sam rimmed him while he was in the superman rig. The orgasm he had was mindboggling for him and after they got him off the rigging and bandaged up he was still game for more sexual play, so Dean proceeded to straddle him while he lay on his back in delirious thrills from the pain of having his bandaged wounds flattened on the carpet, and he gasped as Dean lowered himself onto his very erect circumcised cock.

 

"Oh my eyes Dean, oh you and Sam are so beautiful, you could be angels yourselves." He said in the midst of the fucking marathon. Dean proceeded to ride him like a prize stallion while Sam squatted over his face and while Dean sucked his brother off, Theo was busy rimming Sam. The united pleasures soon gave way to more orgasms and Theo was still ready for more.  This time after they all took a break, it was Sam who"d take the lead and fucked Theo soundly pounding into his ass while Dean pounded into Sam"s, the daisy chain or sandwich effect pleased them all and soon they succumbed to a final orgasm for the evening.  Gratified Sam bent down and like a baby picked up Theo who was dozing slightly now in the post sexual thrill and lay him on his bed, both Sam and Dean giving him good night kisses.  Then they adjourned to their chamber where they immediately collapsed into a wonderful languorous slumber.

 

It was late that next day that they all awoke and even Bobby looked brighter and chippier.  Sam was the first to notice over breakfast. "Bobby did you sneak some chick in here last night and do the nasty?" Dean asked.

 

"Nope don"t know what it was but man last night was the best sleep I"ve had in ages. And the best hand job as well."

"Aw man, TMI." Sam groaned. "The dredges up mental images that are damaging."

"Aw shut up, how the hell do you think you were conceived?" Bobby said smartly.

"I prefer to think of divine intervention that trying to get a mental image of dad and mom screwing. That"s just wrong on so many levels." Sam said and Dean had to agree.

Theo put it into perspective. "Our sex play last night must"ve caused me to leak some of my grace around, maybe through all this I"m going to get my full grace back." He said his eyes shining hopefully.

"You never did say what caused you to lose your grace in the first place." Dean said quietly.

"Nope, it"s quite embarrassing. But well, oh hell, I was one of the angels in charge of guarding the pit, the trap that Lucifer"s kept in, and well I was off taking a bit of private time."

"Private time."
"Hey it was only one joint!" He cried " I mean one fricking joint and I got busted."

Dean looked at him with renewed respect, "You mean you have wacky baccy in heaven!" He said his eyes widen and grin threatening to split his face, Sam and Bobby weren"t much better as they dissolved into laughter.

"Well it"s not that funny." Theo said slightly hurt.

"No, ahem" Dean cleared his throat, "No it"s not, but then again it is." He pounded the table top, "Zachariah gets a second chance to peg me down for Michael"s vessel and then I off him he gets a stiff sentence of no rejuvenation for a while, and you get your grace pulled for smoking a fucking joint."

Theo thought about it and then snickered slightly and quickly broke down in a giggling fit of his own.

 

Bobby picked up the thread of the conversation and started it off rolling, well I got that timber sold, which is a hell of a note in this economy. But 15 acres get"s us quite a tidy sum. He showed the check around and there was suitable notation of the zeros before the decimal point.  "Most of it was hardwood, going to a furniture mill."

 

"So Theo, you"ve been with us a year now, how do you feel about things?" Sam asked.

"I like them just the way they are sir."

"That"s a good thing, because the board is reviewing your case right now, and you know how long they take to deliberate on a sentence.  You may be down here for a while." Castiel said coming into the room.

"Well he"s been real helpful on hunts, and he"s fine around the house, you can give him a thumbs up from us." Dean said looking at Castiel.

"Thank you that will go some distance actually." Castiel said, "Where to now?"

"Florida, down in the gulf, there seems to be a linkage to some strange deaths and a leather club down in Panama City. We"re going to the assumption that we are dealing with a Vampire nest." Sam said.

"Sam does the hunger ever come back?" Castiel asked.

"Sometimes, hey I"ll be the first to admit I can do some awesome things with that power it"s just how got it concerns me. But really strange is that since having Theo around, I"m having no cravings at all." Sam said looking fondly at their cherub.

"Thank you sir." Theo responded in a small voice. "Part of that is the exchanges we"ve had."

Sam shook his head, "Ok colour me clueless, what exchanges?"
"Seminal, it"s a strong source of proteins true, but it also carries some Angelic power as well." Theo said shyly.

"You"ve been sharing body fluids like that?" Castiel said wonderingly and somewhat sternly.  "That"s dangerous at best, it"s okay in the short run can be, can be mark you, dangerous in the long run." Castiel looked at the gathered men sorrowfully, "You can develop an affinity a liking to this and it ultimately can lead to addiction, there is a way to combat this, do not take his semen orally."

"What about anally." Sam said and Bobby started to get up.

"Gotta go put some coffee on." Bobby said rising until Dean reached out and grabbed his forearm and gave him the ‘it"s going to be all right" look.

"That"s actually safe strangely enough."

 

"Face it Sam, the demon world would love nothing better than to get you hooked through the bag on their blood again." Castiel pointed to Theo, "This would be your only salvation, his blood is pure enough to counter the demonic.  But a few drops are needed not a whole gulp." Castiel advised. "And I cannot stress how strongly you keep that information to yourselves."

"Gotcha" Dean noted then commented, "We going to have to drink some beer, to fit in with the crowd, how will that effect you Theo? I mean we"ve seen you drink nothing stronger than cola while you"ve been with us."

"Well considering I"m supposed to represent a teenager who is barely legal age, and whose masters have ordered to keep sober, I should be safe, if I have to drink any it could get messy."

"How messy?" Dean asked worriedly.

"My energy could whip out at anything and anyone. If they are good origin and nature no problem, if they are evil in nature, it will be like a physical blow."

Dean momentarily widened his eyes. "Okay, you a walking time bomb when you get a little toasted.

That can work to our advantage."

Castiel sighed, "Perhaps I better go with you on this one just in case."

"Forget it Cas." Sam said surprising them all. "You"d stand out like a virgin in a whorehouse."

Theo raised his hand for recognition, "Yes Theo," Cas said tiredly, "Unfortunately I have to agree with them sir, this is a leather bar, something your living host has probably never had experience in and have you?" Theo asked frankly.

"The orgies of Ancient Greece are the only thing that comes close to mind." Castiel said tiredly. "Ok as much as I disagree with this, I have to say that your way appears to be the better plan."

"Cas this is in and out, burn two vampires and we"re done with it. I promise." Dean said giving Cas the lowdown on the situation.

"Very well, do this thing and do it quickly." Castiel said with finality.

"Sir there is one way that we can assure a victory, that"s if Sam and I bond. My blood will be sufficient to overcome the demon blood in his veins, he will have the same purging powers but they will come from the power of God, not the blood of Satan, so long as he believes in God, truly believes, he"ll be fine."

"You know that"s forbidden to even speak of much less suggest doing." Castiel said tiredly, "The last time that happened the world was almost destroyed when an angel thought he could overcome the power of a madman. Hitler won quite a victory before he was defeated."

All three of the humans were pop-eyed at that little fact. He looked at Sam and then back to Theo. He sighed heavily.

"I"m loathe to admit it but it would help just in case you were cornered by demons." Castiel said tiredly. "Very well, let"s do this in the living room Sam will need somewhere to relax while the transformation occurs."  Castiel ushered them all into the living room and sat Theo and Sam down on the couch. "Sam, I cannot lie to you this will be traumatic so prepare your will." He looked to Dean and held out his hand, Dean instinctively knew what he was wanting and slapped the demon knife in his palm.

"Before God and His holy host, before time and earth was, angels have been, now let this bond between angel and human proposed be of the beneficence we seek. Through Christ our Lord, God our Father, and the blessed Holy Spirit I pray, amen.  Imunicus asced transet eo a ab neva. " Then he quickly slash both men"s forearms and as quickly dropped the knife and placed one arm over the other, cut to cut, blood to blood. Gripping them tightly, his hands glowed momentarily. Sam"s eyes rolled back in his head and he fell back against the sofa back at first he was simply lying there unconscious then he began to tremble and to convulse.  Castiel held them fast, amazingly enough no blood dripping off their arms from the wounds. 

 

"This is not a seizure in the case of his epilepsy, but this is something more and stronger, you asked for this God help you but the Father approves the bonding." With that he released their arms the wounds on each oozed blood for a moment then closed the skin as new with no sign of any change. Yet with Sam there was an appearance of change, a serenity that wasn"t there before.  Castiel bent down and lifted Theo cradling him much like Sam did after the playing and carried him over to the other sofa. He laid him out on the then Castiel"s eyes narrowed slightly as he lay Theo down. Dean had straightened Sam out on the couch when Castiel grabbed Dean"s arm in a no-nonsense grip and hauled him back to the dining room.

 

"Tell me that what I sensed on his back was just a figment of my imagination, tell me that and I might believe you."

Dean and Bobby shared a look and Dean shook his head, "what you felt is there, he wanted to be hooked and suspended the other night so we used what"s called a superman rigging. There are hooks in the calf, thigh, butt, back, and arms. You are suspended with  your arms out like this." Dean demonstrated.

"Holy mother!" Castiel breathed, "And he was good with this." Castiel was genuinely angry now.

"Yeah what"s the big deal, it"s basic play."

"You fools, you immolated the crucifixion, he will get his grace back in time, but he is stranded on earth until such time as God himself permits him to return.  No angel endures what the son of man endures willingly, to do so is to make a mockery of the greatest sacrifice."  Castiel sighed.

"You better hope he has a real good explanation for this when he wakes otherwise you may be getting a visit from Michael, Joshua, and Raphael."  Suddenly an enveloping light surrounded Castiel for a moment. "Yes Father, yes sir I understand. No, no recriminations. Abba Amen."  The glow faded.
"Well you have the luck of the Devil as some would say,"

"What are you on about now." Bobby said stridently and angry. "First you come in here all cheery joy now you"re threatening to bring a trio of angels in here to judge a boy whose only crime was to get hisself in the middle of some serious sexplay."

"Be at peace Bobby." Castiel said his demeanor changed, "Our Father, just related to me that what has happened was done for a good cause and not in mockery. I"ll still have to question Theo when he wakes but no, no punishments will be levied, your home will not be invaded as you are thinking."

 

It was actually a good hour later that both Sam and Theo awoke, they looked at one another then got up and hugged. Then they joined the party back at the table.

"You feeling okay son?" Bobby asked Sam.

"Feel great, like I"ve run ten miles and had a full night"s sleep."  Sam replied

"What about you Theo, you okay boy?" Bobby asked.

"Yes sir, I feel changed somehow, different." He said with an almost bewildered look.

Castiel looked at Theo hard, "Did you willingly submit to the piercing of your flesh last night?"

"Yes sir." Theo said guardedly.

"Did you realize just how you were being suspended." Castiel asked.

"Not really, just that it felt wonderful, the pain felt like deliverance and I felt like God himself were smiling upon me. I know that"s a weird thing to be thinking during something like that, but there it is." Theo answered,

"I repeat did you realize just how you were being suspended." Castiel said harshly.

Theo backed up in his chair.

"Cas lay off." Dean started to say when a sharp gaze from Castiel shut him up effectively.

Then the import of what was actually being said hit home to Theo and he broke down in sobs. "Oh Father forgive me, I didn"t mean that, not that!!" Sam rushed around the table and took Theo in his arms holding his shaking form. The sobs were tremendous and the boy"s body was vibrating with the expression of grief. He turned a tear soaked face to Castiel, "I"m truly sorry, I never meant to mock anything."

"You are in luck the Father in His love has forgiven you this time. If you want to do that in future just avoid having your arms pierced okay." Castiel said disgustedly.

Still sobbing, Theo replied his head bobbing then looking with repentance at the ground, "I will I swear to you I will." With that Theo knelt and took Castiel"s shoed foot but Castiel pulled back.

"That is not necessary, only that you acknowledge your guilt in this and your willing repentance."

"I do so repent of my sin and acknowledge whatever punishment the Father has in store."

"His punishment is that you remain on this world solely for one score of years.  You will be bound to this form which will mature as you remain here."

"Thank you, thank you." Theo repeated.

"Castiel," Dean said formally, "I am not at all comfortable with this shit. Just what the hell was all that about, he committed what amounts to a sin, he is forgiven, but in the process he is put through a third degree!  Is this really the Lord"s way to handle situations like this."

Castiel looked up sharply at Dean, "Theo is fortunate, very fortunate indeed, he could have been cast out of heaven all together and made mortal. Get up boy, and clean yourself up you and we have a lot of planning to do."

 

"But you"re not coming." Dean remonstrated.

"Like hell." Castiel remarked solidly. "I"m not as naïve as you seem to think, I understand more of this worlds customs than you can imagine. As a result I know what I can and cannot do. And one thing that is acceptable at a leather bar is the owner, either dressed out in leathers or in a black suit." Suddenly the natty overcoat and open necked shirt transformed into a smart black business suit and white shirt with a black silk tie.  On his hand was a gold ring with a stone of fair size. "I think that we can now safely say that I can penetrate their lair as well."

 

Dean, Sam and Bobby sat back speechless finally Bobby spoke up.

"Excuse me for asking, but this is my house and my table, and you used my living room for a ritual that I got no idea of what you were talking about. You see I"m just a simple country bumpkin, ignorant you might say, but I wanna know this.  Are the boys going to be running into just vampires or are they being tracked by demons?"

 

Castiel sighed and started to answer when Sam stepped into the conversation. "I think that it"s safe to say that we will be followed down or there will be some reconnoitering done with our being down there, if we"re not faced down by at least 4 demons, I"ll be very very surprised."

 

"Well right now what we need is some lunch and I ain"t got a damn thing cooked, so let"s go into town and get something to eat." Bobby said with finality his brow still angry towards Castiel. Dean, Sam and Theo rose from the table, "Okay, let"s go get into some cleaner duds."  Dean said swiftly

"Okay sir, that sounds good to me." He acknowledged.

 

Outside the house as they walked towards the trailer, Theo strode solemnly looking down at his feet seeming to be trudging along. In the trailer Sam and Dean rounded on Theo, "You got no blame in this, we didn"t know, and you were too wrapped up to think about that. We"re all equally guilty in this."

 

"You are indeed." Said a melodious voice from the hallway, they whirled and faced Joshua who was walking into the living room carrying a basket of live plants. "I always said every home should have at least one live plant in it. Here you go boys." He said offering the huge pot to Sam and Dean.

 

"Uh thanks." Dean said finally. "If we are all guilty then we all deserve punishment."

"Yes. You do. What you did was an affront to God and His son, and yes such imitations do not go over lightly. But I convinced the Father that it wasn"t truly immolation of His son as only your skin was pierced not the flesh and bone. It was still a crucifixion, painful to watch yes, but the joy on your face, transcended the pain we knew you felt. You are incredibly lucky young man. And yes God has determined that you two shall be punished for your assistance in this deed. You shall have the watching and care of him for a decade. After which time should he choose to remain it will be his choice and no one else"s." Joshua said with finality.

 

"Now go and enjoy yourselves for the day, you deserve that much before walking into this den of depravity. " With that Joshua was simply gone. All three were gaping slightly as the empty space where the confidant of God had stood. Dean shook his head, then looked around the room blinking.

 

"Okay let"s get changed and get back up to the house before Castiel comes down here looking for us."

Dean ordered.

 

They were changed quickly but not before both Castiel and Bobby came looking for them. They met half way and then walked back towards the trailer, "We"ll take my car there"s enough room in it for all of us." Dean said compliantly.

"We could take that hearse I got up and running after that little show earlier it sort of fits." Bobby said teasing Dean.

"Just get in the damn car." He muttered. They were soon on their way to a decent restaurant.

 

At the Harvest Moon Café in the downtown district they sat around a quiet corner table with plenty to eat and grateful stomachs to fill. Theo was sitting between Castiel and Sam. He looked up to Castiel, "Sir Joshua paid us a visitation."

 

"When?" Castiel asked curiously.

"Just before we met you coming towards the trailer." Theo answered.

"And he said…" Castiel prompted

"That what we did was a sin but God forgave it as it was not a true piercing of flesh and bone,  I"m sentenced as you say, but Sam and Dean are also sentenced to be my watcher and guardian for a decade." Theo said with some finality.

Castiel nodded and looked at him for a moment then at Sam and Dean. "And how do you two feel about this?"

"If he"s going to stay with us he either stays behind at the house when we are on the road or he backs us up on road trips. That simple."  Dean said stiffly.

"We want his willing participation not something coerced." Sam added. "Do you want to come with us, do you want us to basically be your masters."

"Please sir." Theo answered his eyes shining.

"That"s good enough for me." Sam said.

"Fine by me." Dean muttered in agreement.

"Well it"s got a burr in my butt with me. " Bobby said, "They"re going to have to be responsible for him what happens if they get in a situation they can"t get out of."

"I can use what grace I have in me sir, to extricate us." Theo said plainly.

"Okay works for me too." Bobby said agreeing to the move.

 

"We leave out as soon as we are finished here, we"ll stop by Bobby"s to let you out, don"t argue Bobby we need your help back here to cross reference some information, it"s going to sound crazy but cross reference and pinpoint changes in weather patterns."

"Weather patterns?"

"Yes, demons often have the affect of causing a weather pattern to shift and change erratically." Castiel explained.

"You have the car already packed I assume?"

"Of course, all our gear and clothing is in the trunk." Sam said, "Saw to that this morning."

"Good" Castiel concurred.  "Well all we like is a safe trip south." 

They finished their meal in relative silence, then paid and left the diner, at Bobby"s house the left Bobby and immediately went to gas up and hit the highway.

"We drive in shifts, me first, then Sam, then you Castiel, Theo can you handle a car?"

"No sir, the only thing I"ve ever drive was a chariot."

"Understood." Dean said. We sleep in the car, the only time we stop is for piss breaks and to gas up."  Dean looked in the rear view mirror and saw the look of adventure in Theo"s eyes, ageless though they were, they still looked young.  "You good with that sport?"

"Yes sir." Came the reply

"Good, you"re going to have to be. This is a hard life, the breaks between hunts vary in length, how you feel after the hunt is dependent on whether it was a success or not."

"And don"t listen solely to Dean, " Sam said, "this life is hard, but it hardens you up it will make you more effective when your punishment is over.  I ain"t no drill sergeant but I"ll tell you right now, it gets in your blood after a while and you are part of the hunt, you feel the hunt, and you taste the hunt."

 

The talk centered around what they were likely to find, what to do and how to react, they were given strict orders by Castiel as to what they absolutely needed to do provided they were attacked by demons as well as vampires. And they were told of what the vampires held in their possession that would be an added bonus if they could retrieve. It was an arcane book of knowledge, written by someone unknown much like the Necronomicon was reputed to have been original written on parchment made of human skin, this book truly was, it was to be retrieved to be destroyed immediately. It was early in the evening of the second day on the road that they pulled into Panama City, Florida. Dean found a semi-reputable motel and got a room with two queen sized beds for them. Once in the room they changed into their leather gear with Dean wearing a Leather pair of shorts, vest, belt, arm band knee high shitkicker boots with his demon knife tucked into the slip siding of the right boot. Sam was dressed out in a leather jock, chaps, boots, and vest. Theo merely used the illusionary trick to change his clothing to leather shorts, white shirt, and collar with leash.   Castiel was dressed in the conservative black suit and white shirt with silk tie. When it got around nine o"clock or so they piled into the Impala and went to this leather club. Castiel went in first followed by Sam and Dean pacing him, with Theo in tow looking like merely an afterthought. Unbeknownst to the denizens of the bar who were bent on straight up evil, not those there for rough play, the afterthought, and main attraction were the two singularly most powerful of the group, with Sam coming in a REAL close second place.

 

They circulated with Sam being dismissed with Theo to the bar and Dean accompanying Castiel as he circulated aloof and distant, setting some to muttering and some to preening.  Finally he got back to the bar he ordered drinks for them all. It was then that no so much trouble but interest was generated. There was plenty of sex play going on around the club, some were being whipped, some paddled, there was an X cross for flogging, tables with sterilized instruments for blood sport and even a set of hanging hooks for a simple vertical hanging. Theo eyes the hooks hungrily and Sam jerked the collar once drawing his attention back to them.

 

"Down boy." Sam said quietly.

"Yes sir." The ‘boy" said equally quiet. The bartender nodded approvingly.

"So you here on a business trip or what?" The bartender asked Castiel, "I"m here to merely be entertained. He waved at Dean, Sam and Theo,   "If you are through with your drinks you may play for a while."

"Thank you master." Dean and Sam said in unison. Castiel turned his attention back to the bartender, "You have some folk who"ve been giving you trouble yes?"

"Nah, most of the regulars are good folk." 

"I"m not referring to regulars I"m referring to new blood, in fact they may have an affinity for blood sport." Castiel said his eyes narrowing, the bartender ‘accidently" dropped the towel and came back up with a large bowie knife pointed at Castiel. Immediately Sam and Dean tore away from the cross that Sam was wanting to try out and were as immediately back to the bar knives out Dean launching across the bar to put the edge to the man"s throat.

"You better have a real good reason for threatening our Master."  The bartender opened his knife hand and dropped the blade, Castiel picked it up looking at it plainly interested now, and noting that the bar has pretty much gone silent at least close up to the bar.

"He was asking questions about my patrons, they got a right to come here same as anyone else."

"I agree, but do they have the right to threaten your other patrons?"

"They never." The bartender started.

"Do not lie to me. You will not be pleased with what I do to liars." Castiel said coldly. "These other patrons are perhaps different in more ways than one?"

"Yeah they like bloodsport, lot of folk do we don"t have a problem with that, our only problem is sometime their play partners seem unwilling or they leave his stumbling. That"s nothing unusual but with bloodsport it usually means too much was taken." Faced with the ominous quartet the bartender became an information factory.

"And they are here right now aren"t they?" With that the quartet whirled to face three beings advancing from the side, while one blatantly was crawling along the ceiling rails. "Oh you naughty boys and girls really should back up and play nice. It"ll go much easier on you that way."

"I don"t think so" the leader evidently, a woman in what appeared to be middle years wearing a full length gown of black silk, with a leather corset said.

One of them leapt at Dean fangs bared Dean quickly sliced through its throat and it immediate turned to ash.  Another came for Theo, easy prey he was evidently thinking when Theo was grabbed around his neck by this guy and was about to become lunch, Theo"s eyes turned golden, then glowed with an inner light and the power lanced through the being rendering it to dust. The woman halted her advance as did the man on the ceiling who dropped to stand by his mistress.

 

"You have something we desire to have the world rid of and I sense it close in fact it"s on you isn"t it milady?" Castiel said sarcasm dripping from his tone.

"I know what you want and you may have it for a price. With that the last male leapt at Sam who raised his hand as he would have if he"d charged up on demon blood. Instead with the soul bonding, the being was frozen in mid leap and convulsed and burst into a pile of ash. By now several patrons have beat a hasty retreat out of the place, not looking back not trying to attract the attention of any local cop, just wanting to put some distance between them and this group of really strange people.

 

The woman hissed and pulled the book from a fold in her dress and let it fall on the floor.  Sam focused on it and found that he had to strain, Theo took his arm in his hand and suddenly the book burst into flame. Sam turned around as if seeing Theo for the first time and locked lips in a kiss of gratitude.  The woman hissed again baring fangs. "I"ve lived three centuries and out witted more clever hunters than you"ll ever be, with that she made a throwing motion to her feet a cloud of smoke appeared and she was gone.

 

They turned back to the bartender and nodded that they would like their drinks now. He served them up on the house, thankful that may be now his customers would come back in droves.  "Don"t worry about your customers, right about now they are forgetting that anything at all unusual happened. They are all patting themselves on the various body parts in preparation for some home playing. "Castiel said.

 

"Just what the hell are you?"

"They"re angels of course, at least two of them are and one has some angelic talent, too bad they won"t live to waste another minute here.  Dean turned and prepared his knife there were at least a dozen patrons who were forming a semi-circle around them their eyes solid black and soulless, the demonic presence taking full control.

 

Sam looked at Castiel, "May I act master?"

"By all means, show gentlemen let us show this scum what they are dealing with." With that, jets of light shot from Castiel and Theo"s eyes, Sam held up his hand and merest concentration exorcised the demon presence.  As did the angelic light, from Castiel and Theo. Dean in the meantime used his knife as a defensive measure in light of where they were. Twice he slashed at Demons to score on their cheek or arms. Finally at one point they called a halt when the exorcised people were waking, the cut people had been exorcised and now were being medically attended to thanks to the ample supplies from behind the bar. The bartender took in the devastation and looked back at the quartet.

 

"You were never here and these people just wandered in off the street." He said respectfully. They quickly left the scene just over 2 hours from arrival and made their way back to the motel.  Sam limped into the motel with Dean on his six looking worried.

 

"You okay bro?" Dean asked with deep concern.

"Just tired of my body telling me that I"m still healing, I want to be 100% is that asking too much." Sam said with frustrated anger.

"Sam you have to expect bouts of exhaustion now and then, you were barely healed when you got dismissed from the hospital, then you wanted to get back into the field which we managed to delay a few months, now you"re complaining you"re not 100% when you just finished taking on over a dozen demons with us." Castiel pointed out kindly.

"I"m not being ungrateful Cas, this was the field test for the angel power and yeah it works pretty much the same as that demonic energy I was channeling but it left me feeling wasted."

"Sam, what can I say, you used this power before being completely in tune with the energy. You still have much to learn about this and you will." Castiel noted to Sam as they took seats on the beds.

"Sir may I speak." Theo said addressing Sam. Sam nodded and then leaned back against the headboard. "You are new to this, bonding is something that is not often done, this was an extra special case.  I can at least do this for you." Theo said his face betraying his concern. He reached over and took Sam"s hands in his and closed his eyes momentarily.  Sam shivered from head to toe.  Then he sat up slightly cupping Theo"s face in a hand.

"Thank you little brother." Sam said kindly.  Dean looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "He"s earned it Dean."

 

Dean thought for a moment and nodded.  "Well if you"re going to be part of this family there"s a few things you need to learn mainly about how to deal with demons, yeah I know you"re an angel and all that, but we deal with them a little differently sometimes."

 

"You kill them." Theo said flatly, "Ok I can understand that in the case of where your life is threatened to the same level as what you return you"ve got that prerogative, but forgive me if I attempt to exorcise the demon first.

 

"I guess I"m good with that." Dean responded. "Just make sure you don"t get between me and a target okay?"

 

"Sure sir." Theo said then turned to Dean, "Sir would it be appropriate to drop the sir sometimes with every statement."

"When we are in private you may cut back on saying Sir with every statement just when you have a direct question, In public you are to behave just like you did today." Sam said at about the same time Dean was going to mention about the same thing.

"What he said." Dean quipped.

"Yes sirs." Theo quipped back.

 

The night passed without further event, save that Sam did have a light seizure at one point, more of an annoyance than anything else, he would"ve said. After a quick shower by all, bed looked real good, and no playtime, just relaxing time.

 

The trip back to Bobby"s was delayed by a cold front of demon activity moving towards their direction. Instead of facing it head on the quickly escaped the town and took the interstate as much as possible to throw their possible attackers off the scent.  He was doing good through most of Georgia and Tennessee but when he hit Kentucky things started to turn a touch sour.  It was Sam"s turn at the wheel, he demanded at least that consolation and flinched several times as cars attempted to either cut them off or ram them. The Impala definitely proved her worth with Dean saying, "Just a little farther, baby and I promise you can have a rest."

 

Theo looked at Dean strangely the first time this happened then Castiel explained, "Sometimes mortals give inanimate objects names or identify strongly with them because of an affinity they have with the object. For Dean his affinity is with this car."

 

"You"re damn skippy straight on that." Dean returned looking over his shoulder at Theo. "This is my baby; she"s got me out of a lot of hard places and got more miles on her that a good car deserves. This is like the third engine I"ve had in her and she"s still purring like a kitten."  Theo smiled at the simile.  Then he sat back and in moments was snoring softly.

 

"The kid"s asleep again?" Sam asked concerned looking into the rearview mirror.

"He"s still adjusting to the changes in his station and his physical status, you see when we take on a mortal host, it takes a while to well break in the new suit." Castiel explained.

"Just how old is Theo?" Dean asked Castiel.

"Oh he was ‘born" I guess you could say at the turn of the 5^th Century, but you"ve got to realize that to us that is barely an adolescent given our lifespan which is several millennia. " Castiel looked at Theo fondly. "He was quite the cut up in Heaven, more of a pain in the rear from time to time than anything else. You"re molding him now into a better person; the discipline you are giving him is turning him around and making him more the angel he will have to be in the future."

 

"Well we only have him a decade.  There"s a lot that can happen in that span of time." Sam noted.

"Agreed Sam, I thoroughly agree. That"s why I want him involved in as many hunts with you as possible."

 

Dean nodded, "That"s not problem, so long as he continues to have the reaction time he showed last night, I"ve got no problem with it at all."

 

It was well into the third day of evasions and running blocks that they managed to get back to Bobby"s , there they found him hard at work sifting some data and grousing a bit over the lack of information he was accumulating.

"The demons are definitely moving in this direction but there"s nothing to tell me what strength we"re looking at." He said angrily at the computer.

Theo walked over as Castiel started to speak and looked at the monitor concentrating slightly. "It"s all right Bobby, you"ve done a great job as coordinating this information. "  Then he turned his attention to Theo, "You see something don"t you?" It was a question but at the same time more of a statement. Theo nodded and pointed to the screen as a massive front line of shower activity about to inundate the area.

"They"ll be here in four days maximum; I feel them following this front."

 

"You"re thinking the Greater Seal?" Castiel said and looked at the others but Dean held up his hand restraining speech.

"We know about the Greater Seal of Solomon, but I was always under the impression that they one that is circulated about is more the generation of a bunch of people with too much time on their hands."
"Actually it is, the seal itself is simple to inscribe, the reaction it like a massive nuclear weapon detonating with regards to psychic energy. At ground zero you will be protected by the seal but on the perimeter, the demons will be destroyed." Castiel said plainly.

"Meaning a lot of innocent blood will be spilled because some folk went and got themselves possessed."  Sam said concerned.

"Unfortunately." Theo said sadly.

 

"Is there any other way of dealing with this kind of situation?" Sam asked. "I mean there has to be some way to exorcise these demons before they get here."

"We"ll work on that if you will loan us the use of your computer Sam."

"Sure whatever it takes."  Sam said pointing to his laptop.  Bobby turned it towards an empty seat at the dining room table.

 

Castiel started to sit then looked at Theo, "You"ve more experience with this kind of thing that I do, you do the web surfing, I"ll provide you the coordinates."

 

"Yes sir!" Theo said glad of the responsibility.

"And I"m going to go into the living room, crash on the couch and with permission of my sitter, enjoy a cold one." Sam turned to look at Dean who nodded.

"I think we could all use one." Dean answered.

"Damn good thing I went to the store earlier, got a suitcase just in case you came back thirsty." Bobby said with a grin. Then he looked at Sam.  "You gonna be all right son, you look a little pale."

"Yeah, I"ll be fine, I just know when I"ve pushed myself too hard and lately I"ve been doing just that. Granted, Theo"s been a tremendous help giving me psychic recharges and spirit lifts.  But I"m just plain tired. Don"t know why, don"t have a reason, that"s just how I am."

 

Castiel whirled on Sam and looked him dead in the eyes for a moment then strode over to him, talking to Theo at the same time.  "Go to the CIA website. Go through the log in procedure and access their sysalert data frame."

 

"Is that legal?" Sam asked.

"We"ve special clearance thanks to an accommodating General in the service branches. Now Sam, you say you are tired a lot, what I"m thinking is that you are trickling energy out to help preserve the barriers we have in place. Stop it. Quit thinking about it. Get some nonsense or a song you know looping through your mind. For now this may help." With that Castiel grasped Sam"s head then ran his fingers through his hair to the nape of his neck.

"If you wanna make out just ask him." Dean said with a chuckle.

"No Dean, that"s amazing, what did you do?"  Sam asked.

"Created an etheric skullcap to help hold your energy in check, it will hold and work as long as you don"t expend any psychic energy like you did back at the bar. I see I"m going to have to give you some private lessons in how to control this energy."

 

"I"m in." Theo said suddenly.

"Excuse me." With that Castiel was back at the table hunched over Theo"s shoulder, Bobby was coming back through place two beers on the table near the angels, then taking three with him into the living room, Dean sat on the sofa and patted his lap.

"Lay down." He ordered.

"Yes daddy." Sam shot.

"Damn straight. Just lie down and drink your beer and relax." 

 

"Dean, Sam,  I"ve got a hunt of my own starting this week, I"m going out with Herschel from Philly. We"re going to take care of a combination black witch coven, we"re going to meet up with two more hunters just in case it gets hairy" Bobby stated then looked at them, "Yeah I know what"s coming and we"ll be back before the demons get here in force."

"We"re gonna need you here man, you better come back and come back safe. By the way," Dean asked "How do you know this is a dangerous witches coven, it may just be some kids playing with black magic."

Bobby shook his head violently. "Not from the reports we"ve been getting from the news."

 

Sam also gave a nod to another frightening possibility. "There"s also the chance that they are hoping to separate you from here to make you easy pickings."

 

Bobby nodded, "Already considered that possibility, that"s why we"re going armed to the teeth."

"That"s all well and good, but what if the demons who are tracking us are armed to the teeth as well" Dean nodded a thought in that direction.

 

"We"ll be in a safe location," Bobby argued.

"And what makes you think that waiting a few days wouldn"t improve your chances, besides, this coven has been around there for a bit?" Sam started.

"About three years." Bobby answered.

"Then what"s four days, please Bobby think this through, they"re setting you up. " Dean said.

Bobby considered that as he pulled on his longneck beer bottle and then came to a decision. "I"ll call Herschel and have him come here, then we"ll connect with the others after the all clear is given." He then gave Dean and Sam sour looks, "I still say you"re being a couple of old biddy hens, clucking at nothing."

"Well, better we cluck at nothing, you remain here and live, than we say nothing and you go and get yourself killed." Dean volunteered.

 

Bobby turned his attention back to his beer for a minute, then looked up at Dean and Sam, Dean was ruffling his fingers through Sam"s hair. "I"m sorry, I"m open minded and all that, but you gotta admit it"s not every day I see this sight."

 

Sam looked at Bobby concerned, "Is there a problem with it?"

"Nah" Bobby said, "I"m just thinking what John would say to see his sons acting like this, of course, John sowed more than a few wild oats in his day as well."

Now both the boys interested was cued up, "Really, we only know from what we seen and well part of what we felt when he"d been too long in the bottle."

"Aw, I oughtn"t to talk ill about the dead, and actually I guess John would consider it a compliment in some ways, but he straddled the fence if you catch my meaning."

"Dad was bi?" Dean said gape-mouthed.

Bobby nodded grinning a bit, "there was times when John was one queer duck. Oh he didn"t parade it out like they do these days, hell anybody that was gay kept it to themselves cause communities weren"t as liberal minded as they are today." Bobby paused, "There was a time when John would go on hunts with another guy, and no I ain"t gonna tell you who, but they"d be  gone for more days than it"d take to take care of the problem.  He"d call me or Mary up and say that they"d finished the job a bit early and he was going to get some fishing in."  Bobby smiled now, "Only thing is what he was fishing for you can catch with any lure you can buy at a tackle shop."

 

Dean shook his head in wonder, "Never would"ve thought that about Dad."

"Yeah, and though he"d never admit it out to anybody but me, he knew about you two when you"s teenagers. He never said nothing though."  Bobby turned and sat his bottle down now drained, and reached for another.  "You see he figured that he you two was closer than brothers it would be safer for you both in the long run. After a few years as a hunter he up and married Mary, which afterwards while he blessed God for her giving them y"all he was worried as well when she went with him on the hunts. But they were a strong team because they were in love. He understood that being queer was not really altogether a choice, that lots of times it was in the blood, he figured y"all caught it from him. But he was mighty glad to see you too as close as you were as teens. Although Sam to be fair, he didn"t get over losing you to Stanford for months. He was a mess then, he was sure you"d get yourself killed or worse, and he tried to make things safe for you, well safe as he could. There was just some things that wouldn"t work." He looked up at Dean, "And don"t think I didn"t know how much Sam"s leaving like that screwed with your head. I remember those summers you"d come up here to visit and you"d spend all day in the piles looking for a junker to tear into to try to breathe life back into. I could tell you were miserable but what could I do? I couldn"t very well walk up and start a conversation about it all, oh we did talk about you missing Sam, but not about you _missing_ Sam."  The Bobby took a little bit of a sigh and nodded to Dean, "And there were a few nights that I heard some crying behind the bedroom door, I chalked it up to you being homesick at first, then when I put two and two together it made sense."

 

"You felt like that?" Sam asked slightly agog.

"Yeah." Dean answered gruffly in his "I don"t want to pursue this" train of thought.  But Sam of course couldn"t let it go that easily.

"I missed you too." He told Dean.

"Not too much since I heard you took up with Jessica, when I heard that that was when I stopped crying for a while." Dean admitted.

"I know and I"m sorry to have hurt you that way, but I wasn"t about to stay celibate, and I"m sure you had a string of boy toys or ladies coming through your bedroom as well."

"Some" Dean admitted.

"Then you"ve no room to complain, but" Sam sat up and hugged his brother gruffly, Dean enduring it and rolling his eyes. "I did miss you every day that I was with Jessica. In fact the first few months with her I had to work real hard to not say your name during sex."

 

Sam lay back down on the couch and looked at Bobby, "I guess we wait not to hear what the wingéd ones have to say about the defensive positions."

They sat there looking at each other for several moments and then Dean broke the silence. "Well I think better when I"m doing something. Is that old Shelby GT still out back of the south piling?"

"Right where you left it nearly 10 years ago." Bobby said gruffly, "always figured you come back to that project."

"Sam you wanna come out to the lot with me, not much to do but it"ll be a walk and it"ll get you moving." Dean offered.

"Sure, if I won"t be in the way."

"Nah, you can sit in the Shelby while I"m under her hood." Dean said smartly

"Good I"ll get a bird"s eye view of your jeans clad fanny." Sam said teasing.

"You just love me for my looks then?" Dean returned the tease.

Sam sat there thinking for a moment and then shook his head, "Nah the sex is great too."

"Oh my God." Bobby said getting up from his place as the boys were rising up. "Well you go play in the yard, I"ll see if I can help out the boys in the kitchen."

 

Out in the junkyard Dean had thrown an old quilt scrap over the fender of the Shelby and was up to his elbows in the guts of the engine.  "Oh yeah, piston walls still feel trued, just have to look about some pistons for it. The ones that were in were undersized a bit and made for shitty performance."  Dean told Sam as he tinkered. Sam was tinkering as well looking on his cell phone for any new data from emails and such. Nothing to report on that for which he was both grateful and disturbed.

 

In the house Bobby was spending several frustrating minutes with Theo and Castiel working on the computer and gathering the data spread. "So it looks like we"ve a small army on the way I take it."

 

"Face it Bobby," Castiel started. "What you, Dean, Sam, and Adam did was miraculous and saved your world it also made you some hellacious demons. The only thing about most soldier demons is that they"ve got to be prodded and pushed towards a goal otherwise they get bored real easy and lose interest."

 

"SO, just how _big_ of an army are we looking at?" Bobby asked crossly.

"About 250 to 500 approximately," Theo said "That"s really not that much in the long run." Theo noted.

"You sound disappointed, what gives?" Bobby asked.

"There should conceivably be about ten times that number headed this way and they"re either hanging back waiting to orders, or word has spread that Sam has a new power and it"s reaching out and around." Castiel told Bobby.  Then he sat down from looking over Theo"s shoulder and looked at Bobby, "You"ve got to understand, Sam"s psychic abilities will grow exponentially to the time he and Theo work together. Right now Sam"s not even on the level with a first stage angel but he is powerful.  He"ll grow more powerful as you, Theo, and he work out. Another thing," now Castiel actually looked embarrassed and looked away for a minute before continuing. "Uh, the more you and he exchange seed during you"re time the more you"ll come to understand humans, and the more he"ll come to understanding angels. Your semen and sperm will actually strengthen him, but you are not to tell him this, he is to learn it on his own."  Castiel ordered looking now to Bobby who was looking equally embarrassed.

 

"Don"t worry about anything coming from me about it. That"s one area I stay hell to breakfast from." Bobby acknowledged.

"You said they were in the southern corner of the junkyard?" Castiel asked Bobby who nodded.

"Sure follow the main trail back and keep bearing to your left as you go, I knew one day Dean would come back and work on that project so I left it there for him. Oh by the way, let"s go out to the barn I got a set of rings for that thing 8 years ago, I figured Dean would be coming back. Never got around to giving them to him."

 

"Keep searching the base, make sure there is  not a flanking group coming in." Castiel advised Theo who kept his head bowed over the computer.

"Yes sir." He muttered almost absently as the data poured in from various resources.

 

Castiel and Bobby retrieved the rings and as Bobby headed back into the house, Castiel headed deeper into the junkyard passing heaps here and there, working through the maze of cars and trails until at last he found Sam and Dean with Dean looking at the pistons and taking some measurements with his calipers.

 

"Bobby thought you might need these." Castiel offered to Dean who enthusiastically took them.

"Hot damn! And they"re just a little oversized to boot." He flashed a smile and got back to work Sam looked up from where he sat and smiled.

 

"You have made him a very happy man." Sam told him.

"I thought that was your department." Castiel quipped.

 

"Oh my you"re the smartass today, what gives?" Sam asked laughing.

 

"Just thinking about either how lucky we are or how screwed we are, and frankly I don"t care, I could call on Michael, but it looks like a situation that we can handle locally." Castiel said happily. "Plus there is something I would like to give you before we go into this fight."

 

"Really and that is?" Sam asked, Dean was still under the hood as Castiel bent down and gave Sam a full kiss on the lips.  Sam was surprised then warmed to the touch, then felt a sudden shock as he felt something rushing through him that felt like a massive hot flash from the tip of his scalp to his toes. Castiel finally broke the kiss when he heard a voice behind him.

 

"You better have a damn good reason for snogging my boy." Dean said actually flared up and ready to kick ass with a large socket wrench in one greasy hand.

 

Castiel stood up and looked at Dean, Sam looked at both of them for a blurred moment them  fell across the console, not seizing, just unconscious.

 

"He needs to be 100% or greater for what is to come, we can no longer wait for nature to take its course in healing him. So I asked the Father if this would be permitted given the circumstances.  The Father told me back that it would be permitted, just to be prepared to explain yourself to Dean."  Castiel extended his hand, "I meant nothing by it just what I said, I"ve helped him by speeding up his natural healing abilities. He"s still going to have seizures but maybe now they won"t be as often or as bad." Castiel shook his head a bit. "Though now I understand what the Son meant about feeling the virtue going out from him when that woman touched the hem of his robe." Castiel said tottering. Dean took his hand and then reached out and braced him up as it looked like he was going to pass out.

 

Sam was coming around slowly and rubbing his lips absently. He sat up from his cramped position and looked at Castiel who was rocking slightly on his feet. Sam was on his feet in an instant looking at the angel accusingly. "What did you just do?" Sam demanded.

 

"A little prod to your natural healing process." Castiel said still tottering a bit then falling limply into Dean"s arms.

 

"Well one thing"s for sure." Sam said looking at Dean, "He can kiss like all out. He"s almost as good as you."

 

"Thanks, I think." Dean said balancing the angel then carefully laying him down.  "Let him rest, I"d like to get these rings on by supper time at least."

 

"I"ll give you a hand." Sam offered.  When he saw Dean"s incredulous look he bristled slightly, "Look Dad taught me a few things over the years, at least I can still mount pistons."

 

"You can mount me." Dean said leering.

"Not until we have a shower." Sam replied, "Damn but I feel good, better than good,  I feel  great."

"Alright Tony the Tiger, settle down and mount up those three pistons I"ve ringed."

 

"Dean just a thought but if you get this running, are you retiring the Impala?"  Dean gave his brother a highly offended look.

 

"Not on your life." He said affronted. "I figured since we got ourselves a houseboy for the next several years, he"s going to need a ride." Dean shrugged absently.

 

It was close to sundown when they"d finished at least the remounting and alignment of the pistons.  Dean finished working on the rest just before he got a ring on his cell phone.  "Yeah, oh ok, be there in a minute."

 

Dean looked at Sam who was helping the prone figure of Castiel back to his feet, he brushed the back of his coat down and then looked him over carefully.

 

"I never get used to that." Castiel said quietly. Usually I can wink myself away before the unconsciousness sets in.

 

"Does that happen all the time?"  Dean asked concerned.

"Only when my power is spread about in several areas." Then Castiel looked at Sam and then Dean.  "You need a shower." He told them both.

They looked at each other and laughed heartily with Castiel actually joining in moments later.   "Look you go on up to the house, tell Bobby that we are getting cleaned up and will be up in about a half hour."

 

"Think you can tackle all you want to do in a half hour?" Sam asked.

 

"For now yeah, we shower then later we play, if we"re going to be dealing with a shit storm of demons I want to have my brains fucked out first." Dean said securing his tools in the Shelby"s trunk. Then he grabbed Dean by the arm and hauled him along. "Come boy, we go get shower, have hell of good time tonight."

 

"Ok okay." Sam said grinning, then looking back to Castiel and waved and called his thanks back to the angel.

 

Back at the house Bobby had the table set with bowls as a pot of his chili cooked away on the stove.  He turned when he heard the back door open and saw a scrubbed down Sam and Dean come in, stopping his work for a minute he looked at his watch. "Damn if it didn"t take you about a half hour."

 

"We don"t fuck all the time." Dean said exaggerating the point. "So Theo what"d you find out?" Dean called.

 

Theo was sitting back from the laptop with head lolling back cradled by his hands. He straightened up at Dean"s voice and smile. "Good news sir, no flanking numbers, the band that is incoming is about 435 from the satellite counts. We can tackle them but it"s going to require some special preparation from all of you." He looked sadly up at Castiel who nodded for him to go on. "We are going to have to wait until the demons are in the city proper, preferably as near to the property as possible, then Castiel and I will reveal ourselves but not in these mortal shells. And we will speak to them in our normal voices. It will be a wholesale devastation of those poor souls, but nothing else can be done at this point.  The only thing is that you three will have to be in the basement room,  that"s the only place secure enough that the sound of our voices will not penetrate and our presence won"t blind you."

 

Dean nodded and walked into the dining room and sat down at a place and shook his head sadly, "It"s a hell of a job we gotta do, and yeah sometimes it sucks dirt, but I figure that we are taking that much of evil out of the equation."

 

Bobby couldn"t say anything he was just too floored by the information as it was and what would be expected then Castiel told him that he would be rewarded for his part in the entire mess.  Bobby served up the chili in silence and kept his own thoughts close.  Dinner was a near silent affair with Bobby sharing comments with Dean and Sam every now and then and Castiel with Theo sat in relative silence knowing the job ahead of them.

 

Castiel did have one good nugget of news. "As you have set proper wards of protection around the property and we have added to that, there will be no destruction on your property, however, unfortunate it is, many shopkeepers are going to be missing windows before all is over and done with." He noticed their shocked looks and shook his head sadly. "I"m sorry, there"s nothing to be done about that. We have notified our agency contact that we are going to be eliminating some demons that are expected in the area in three days minimum, they are taking immediate action to evacuate the area.  They are using the story of a possible chemical attack on the city to enforce the evacuations.  They are also not using a specific country right now as a blame point so that much of a peaceful deterrent is in place." Castiel finished.

 

Soon they were all finished, Castiel bade his goodbyes for the evening, Sam and Dean looked at Bobby and mentioned that they would like some alone time so they were going to the trailer. Theo mentioned that he would walk the perimeter and check the wards and do what little extra he could, after that was he finished with several hands of poker with Bobby. So everyone did go their own way for the evening.

 

Once Sam and Dean were  in their trailer they fell into each other"s arms, Sam found himself near tears at one point and looked at Dean. His voice tremulous, "Dean I am so tired of us being a focal point for this shit." Dean nodded and lay there on the living room floor with Sam.

 

"I know what you mean baby bro of mine. I"m heartily sick and tired of the bullshit." He sighed long and deep then looked at Sam, "what say we leave the toy box alone tonight?" He offered.

 

"Thank you, I didn"t want you to think I would be sounding well…girly…if I voted for a romantic evening together."  The living room did have a single log fireplace powered by natural gas. Dean lit the fireplace and turned the lamps off so that the only light in the room was a flickering from the fire. He and Sam lay in the rug in front of the fire place then stood and walked to the bedroom, stripped, Dean grabbed up the astroglide and they grabbed a comforter and went back to the living room laying the comforter in front of the fireplace and then laying down on it themselves, snuggled in a peaceful hug for the moment.  Sam smiled up at Dean who was laying half on him, and they began their tour of love with several minutes of just passionate kissing and caresses. Each feeling the others face lips kissing and nibbling then Dean took the initiative and kissed and nibbled down Sam"s neck working his way down his chest, love the lightly fur covered nipples. That what sort of thrilled Dean about Sam physique, except for a small patch in the center of his chest and a trail leading down and fanning out from navel to crotch, he was basically hairless on his body.  As he got down to Sam"s stomach and pelvis he swing around then to give Sam some area to play with. That was also one thing that touched him deeply, that Dean always, well nearly always considered his own pleasure secondary to giving pleasure to Sam. 

 

Sam bent up slightly and kissed and nibbled on Dean"s stomach, his pelvis, and thighs working around but never on the crotch. Finally Sam threw a leg open and Dean a leg across to straddle Sam who proceeded to bend upwards as Dean bent downwards and they proceeded to rim each other gently at first then with a sense of urgency. They filled the air in the trailer with their groans of lust as they continued to rim and now working their ways back towards the crotch started with the balls, sucking on them, nipping on the sack, tonguing and teasing, and finally they got to each other"s cock which was seriously weeping pre-come. There was no talk no mutters, nothing said just their sounds of pleasure which ripped the air.  There was one thing which they particularly loved when they were feeling romantic and that was timing everything to happen in tandem. That way they each received equal pleasure.  Dean proceeded to start deep throating Sam"s cock, enjoying the delicious velvet feel of the head of his cock passing over his tongue past his gag reflex which he had long learned to control. Sam was having the same pleasure with Dean"s up to feeling his bush brush and teasing his nose. They relished doing this one act for the other especially with the added fingering of the anal ring and finger fucking that went on as well.  They lasted this way for several minutes until at last Dean let out a moan as did Sam, Sam exploded in orgasm first as was Dean"s plan then he permitted himself to orgasm, nearly screaming from the delight, they sucked greedily at each other"s cock, and finally as their members started to wilt a little after this first orgasm of the evening Dean unstraddled Sam who lay there as Dean turned back up towards his head.  Kissing they shared a little of the expended come they let coat their tongues.  Tasting each other eagerly and greedily, they kissed and nuzzled and sucked with the glee of two teenagers.  Finally giggling Sam pulled back and muttered.

 

"You tickled me just then with your cock." Sam accused grinning.

"Oh you mean this." And Dean took his member in hand and slowly brushed it ever so slightly against Sam"s thigh.

"Yes that!" Sam said convulsing in laughter.  Then he hugged Dean ferociously, Dean returned the hug and smiling he heard Sam say, "I wish we could be like this forever."

"So do I, So do I." Dean returned, and they proceeded to neck and kiss, and nuzzle and nibble until once again Sam was hot and ready to romp and Dean was the willing victim of this attack.  With Dean, Sam knew that foreplay had already occurred, this was dessert and he was going to enjoy it immensely,  Sam slicked his foreskin back with one hand and then coated it with astroglide from the other hand.

 

The taking careful aim he asked Dean, "So you feeling hot to trot, or slow to go?"

Dean grinned as always at Sam"s little sayings and said, "Very hot to trot." With that Sam didn"t waste any time and shoved his hard dick completely up to the hilt into his brother. Dean bowed upwards in intense pleasure and not a little pain. He was about to relax when Sam drove into him again, each time striking his prostate and sending waves of pleasure across his body.  Dean was basically very vocal during sex which was probably a good reason for Bobby to have them in a private residence on the property.  God knows what Bobby would have done if he"d heard what was penetrating the walls of the trailer.  Sam was pulling nearly completely out only to spear him again and again and again.  Sam started pulling on Dean"s cock as well while humping his brother.  Dean was in his own world now, riding that cloud like a surfer rides the wave. He tensed and relaxed and then tensed again as Sam plunged and willingly raped him. Dean put his arms over his head locking wrists, Sam placed his great hands over Dean"s wrists and pinned him down fucking him steadily.  Now he was getting some resistance which he loved from Dean as Dean strove to fight the imprisonment of his wrists.  That added an extra spice to their sex with the bondage aspect as well as the pain. Now Sam leaned his head down as Dean raised his up and they joined in a ferocious kissing entanglement.

 

"Oh f-fuck Dean, you do it so goo-good." Sam said in a gasp as he continued to fuck Dean.

Saying in a commanding voice back to his brother.  "Shut up and fuck me like the slut I am." Dean said in a growl as he continued to fight the restrictions, now Sam leaned into holding him down, and now fucked him hard, pounding him, reddening his ass and Sam"s thighs and belly as flesh slapped flesh, then Sam let out a guttural cry and felt his cock spasm send jets of him come deep into Dean who actually feeling the jetting of the come, came himself.  He cried out their voices clashing in a glorious crescendo as they continued to fuck like this for several minutes until at last Dean relaxed his struggles and Sam eased up his tension and slowly settled into a tender loving pace again. And finally his own dick plopping out of Dean, Sam rolled off his brother and lay in a sweaty heap by him.

 

"This sounds wrong on some levels but I love it when we"re slicked down with sweat like this. Not a grunge thing but just a good clean sweat." Dean said smiling and panting. "God damn but you"re a wonderful fuck."

 

Sam grinned as well and kissed his brother, "Thank you, love you too."

They lay that way for nearly an hour letting the firelight play over their skin and enjoying the ambiance.  Then Dean looked at Sam concerned, "You all right?"

"I"m fine." Sam assured him.

"Just asking, umm, give me a second and I"ll mount you." Dean told Sam, Sam nuzzled his neck and said gratefully.

"If you want, or we can do that later, I promise I"m not going anywhere."  Sam told him.

 

The rest of the evening was pretty much a delirious sweaty, slippery, haze for the two of them. They finally fell asleep in front of the gas log fireplace and were blissfully unaware when a blast of wind came down the exhaust pipe and knocked the fire out, releasing to the confined room the unmistakable sulphuric odor of natural gas. Sam was the first to notice something wrong with the headache he was suddenly aware of then he gagged and coughed as the stench flooded him. He grabbed Dean who was none the better for wear and hauled him over to the door, he was about to open the door when it flew open and Theo stood there gaping, he reached inside to cut on a light, when Sam with a presence of mind slapped his hand away.

 

"You"ll blow us up. Help me with Dean, they hauled Dean"s inert body out with Theo levering him down the steps. Theo checked his pulse and respiration and both were shallow at best, pinching the nostrils shut he blew into Dean, once then twice. Dean coughed then, his eyes fluttering and suddenly he was seized with a paroxysm of coughing.

 

"Need to shut off gas to fireplace, left side of hearth. With that Theo ran back in and did just that, responding as well by opening windows venting the trailer. 

 

Bobby came sprinting down next, still pulling on his trousers. "This un fell asleep in the living room, I went on up and was getting ready for bed when I heard the back door slam.  I came down and he was gone. Took me a minute to get my drawers back on."

 

"This un just saved our lives. Something blew out the fire on the gas log and caused most of the gas to vent back into the room." Sam said gasping.  "Last time we use the fireplace for ambiance." Sam said sourly.

 

"Don"t worry son, I"ll put in a wood burner, it"d be a helluva lot safer in the long run." Bobby offered.

"What the fuck?" Dean said propping  up some and coughing his lungs up or so it felt.

"Flame out on the fireplace, we were being gassed." Sam said now kneeling by Sam.

"You don"t think that these demons had anything to do with this?" Bobby started then slapped his forehead, "What the hell am I thinking," he proceeded to slap Theo in the chest with the back of his hand. "We protected the perimeter fine, just nothing to protect overhead or below.

 

Theo looked at Dean, "The knife where is it?"

Dean looked down at his naked form then back at Theo then said the obvious. "Well I don"t keep it up my ass so I guess that would mean our bedroom. "

Theo started back for the trailer and sniffed the air experimentally.  Then he held out his hand which suddenly glowed with a light radiance, giving him light to see by but not to ignite. He came back out after several moments with the dagger and drew a complete pattern in the loose earth. He looked at the humans and barked, "Cover your eyes." 

They complied and he thrust his hand down on the sigil. A bright light exploded in the air for a moment and then dissipated.

Castiel wandered  up idly towards the two naked men and the Theo and Bobby.  Theo turned to Castiel and became abject.

"I"m sorry sir, had to launch the Lesser seal. They were nearly gassed."  Castiel waved it away, and looked at Dean and Sam worriedly.

"How are you feeling now?" He asked.

" Better, cold but better." Dean said rising shakily to his feet and staggering towards the trailer.

"You ain"t going back in there right now." Bobby warned.

"Need my britches at least." Dean grumped. Theo sprinted past them and was back out shortly with their discarded clothing.  They dressed with what little dignity they could muster and finally looked back at the trailer recovered now. They both turned to Theo and clapped him companionably on the shoulder. 

"Well done squirt." Dean said affectionately. Theo blushed under the rough praise.

 

"We"ll get the windows opened the stay up at the house tonight. You folk go on up, Theo you hang around a minute and you can help me get this place aired out." Bobby advised. Castiel walked close to Dean who looked to be having the harder time recuperating from the gas, Sam could only figure he was nearer the fireplace.  As it was it took them about 30 minutes to cover the short distance between the trailer and the house. They were nearly there when they heard Bobby coming up behind them. 

 

"I went ahead and got a wrench from the garage and unhooked that gas log. I"ll go down tomorrow and cap the line, then I"ll look at what it"ll take to install that wood burner in there."

 

Dean held up his hand and waved it absently in the air and he made his way up the back steps. "Forget it Bobby, Sam and I will go into town in the morning and look at what an unvented unit would cost. "

 

No one felt much like talking and all made their ways to various beds or sofas. In the upstairs bedroom adjacent to Bobby"s,  Dean and Sam undressed and climbed into bed, Sam hugged Dean close, Dean not doing his usual "this is too girly for me" mood  for a change. Instead he folded up into Sam"s strong arms.

"Sorry about the fireplace ruining our perfect evening." Dean said pissed off still at whatever caused the log to flame out.

Sam kissed him softly, "It"s okay, at least we got out alive, that"s all that matters. And we had a wonderful evening earlier."

"Yeah that was kinda special wasn"t it." Dean said smiling into the darkness.

"Very. Thank you."  Sam said quietly.

"Thank you." Dean returned.

"What you"re not going to jibe me about being girly man." Sam said teasing.

"Nah, I"m too tired for that. Good nice sweetheart."  Dean said only half jokingly.

"night." Sam said as they snuggled in and soon were fast asleep.

 

The next day after breakfast, Dean and Bobby went back down to the trailer to check out the fireplace.  Bobby looked up the flue with his flashlight and snorted.  Then went outside propping a ladder against the side of the trailer climbed up and checked out the chimney and snorted again.

 

"Found the cause, the damper only closed half way last night, and the cap had been knocked off the chimney top. We fix those and you"re ‘ambiance" should be all right. Just the same I"m going to modify that so that the fireplace will be covered by a glass screen.  And we"re going to install carbon monoxide sensors in the house." He looked at the throw bunched up on the floor. "You must"ve had a fine ole time down here last night." He said with a joking leer.

"We fucked like bunnies." Dean said jibing Bobby.

Bobby shook his head, "Heh, and I thought I was impetuous back when the missus was alive." He looked at Dean, "I want you to come stay behind here in the eh…compound for now. I"ll get Theo or Castiel to ride with me to the hardware store. That way I"ll be protected but more to the point you two will be safe."

"Bobby" Dean started.

"Shut up, I know what you"re about to say and you can stow it. That"s what"s going to happen so get over it." Bobby said.

"Yes sir." Dean said rolling his eyes.

 

Back up at the house there was little discussion about what must be done only the gravity of the situation.  "Look at it like this," Bobby started, "Theo and I will be in the Home Mart, we"ll be safe in there cause there are just too many good things to use as weapons.  I"ll park close to the entrance and besides I"ve got that car sigiled inside and out with about a hundred designs under three coats of paint and a clear coat. We"ll be vulnerable going in and coming out and I don"t plan to give them a stationary target."

The rest couldn"t argue not that it would"ve done much good with Bobby in the mood he was in, so they broke off with Sam, Dean and Castiel going down to the southern back to work some more on the Shelby, Dean had the top end back on and was hoping to try and fire it up later that day.  Between the two teams it was about an hour or better before they heard the sound of a car pulling onto the property.  Sam broke away from the group and wandered up to meet Bobby and Theo who were carrying several bags between them,  Bobby nodded at the car, "Go on lazybones, there"s more to bring in, I"m stocking up in case there"s a siege on.  You and Theo get the groceries in and put up and I"ll start on the trailer.

 

Down at the trailer Bobby took the chimney cap and before installing it took an awl and inscribed both an Enochian symbol and a couple of powerful sigils into the aluminum.  Then after installing it securely onto the chimney went into the trailer and took a closer inspection of the damper.  He then took a pair of cutters and cut the damper loose and removed it completely.  "It"s a gas log, why the hell the builders stuck a damper in is beyond me." Bobby said to himself.  Then he coated the connector on the log with sealant and rejoined the connections, finally he installed the glass screen over the ‘fireplace".

 

"Everything okay Bobby?" Sam asked coming in followed by Theo.

"Yeah, I"m still trying to figure out why some dip wad would install a chimney with a damper into a trailer with a gas log fireplace." Bobby said disgustingly shaking his head, "Hell, over thinking the plumbing, easiest way to stop up the drain."

"Sam sir, may I sigil the interior of the trailer?"

"Sure, just don"t wear yourself out."  About then they heard a backfire, then another, then the sound of a car with a real bad muffler coming around the lot. They all stepped out of the trailer just in time to see Dean and Castiel pulling up in the Shelby. Dean got out but left it running.  The backfiring has stopped but Dean could see that it was in for a hell of a tune up.

"Thanks Cas." Dean said to a somewhat greasy angel who was carrying an easy smile for a change.

"You"re welcome."  Castiel answered him and then looked at himself. "Mind if I use your shower?" He asked.

"Go ahead." Dean said thumbing towards the trailer. Then he looked at Theo, "Boy you know anything about working on a car?" Theo looked at him puzzled and shook his head.  "Well you got ten years to learn and I"m going to dump a lot of knowledge into that pretty head of yours."

 

"Sir?" Theo said thoroughly confused now.

"We"re going to have to get this tuned up and get you a set of papers made, but once this baby is tuned up she"s yours." Dean said with a grin. Theo looked like he"d been slapped across the face with a live bass.

"Mine sir? Uh I"ve not done anything to earn it." He said quizzically.

"Look you"re going to need transport cause I sure as hell can"t break to come take you anywhere, and if Sam and I are out on a job and you"re here, you"ll need something to get away from Bobby from time to time."

"Hell of a way to talk to the man who just fixed your fire trap." Bobby grumped.

"Sorry, ya know I love ya like my luggage." Dean shot back.   Bobby shot him the bird in return. The others laughed. Theo looked back at the trailer and started back in.

"I better get those sigils in place." He said somewhat embarrassed. 

 

It took Theo the better part of the afternoon to get the work completed in the trailer, finally Dean broke in by coming down from the house with a sandwich and a beer for him.

"Here, you"re about to miss lunch and you"ve been down here way to long."  Theo came up to Dean and smiling took the food then turned back to Dean and gave him a big hug and then a kiss on the cheek.  "What"s that for?" Dean said smiling.

 

"Thank you for the car sir, I just wanted to tell you privately, I mean you stunned me earlier and I guess I did seem ungrateful, but I really do appreciate it."

"Kid the look on your face was thanks enough."

Theo looked down and flushed slightly not trusting himself to speak for the moment.  Dean sensed this was an emotionally threatening moment for the young angel and eased a finger under his chin and lifted his face and kissed him tenderly on the lips.  So the kiss blossomed and they were soon hugging a kissing with a will.

 

Finally with an equal will they broke the kiss with both panting. Theo was the first to speak.

"I"m sorry…I never should have done that. I mean I"m just the houseboy not Sam."

"And being a houseboy means that occasionally you service one or the other. But I want your willing participation not coerced if you understand me."

Theo looked at Dean a moment and then cupping Dean"s crotch, "I understand completely." With that Theo knelt and unzipped Dean"s pants and freed his bulging member from the constraints of the clothing.  Dean was sporting a throbbing orgasm at the moment and grinned first then gasped and rolled his eyes as Theo took him to the root, wrapping his tongue around the head of Dean"s dick, sucking and nibbling, teasing and generally worshipping Dean"s manhood and mastery.  Dean realized the it wouldn"t take him long to come under such ardent manipulations and it didn"t, after about ten minutes of Theo lapping, sucking, nibbling, nuzzling and loving Dean"s dick and balls, the former twitched the latter tightened up and Theo sensing this took Dean again to the root as Dean came with a vengeance and collapsed onto their couch with Theo following him down continued to lap every drop of come from Dean"s dick. When he was through he knelt in front of Dean.

"I hope that was an adequate down payment of thanks."  Theo said with a lovely smile.

Dean pulled him up into his lap and gave him a strong hug, "More than adequate my little angel." Then Dean felt up Theo, and smiled, "Well maybe not that little, with that he freed Theo"s manhood from his constricting jeans and loved on that tool, sucking as much as he could, working around the length and enjoying every minute of the attention he was returning.  It took even less time for Theo to come than it did Dean as he cried out and spasmed with the orgasm. Dean relished the sweetest taste of boy come and then lapping him clean he grinned up at him and told him something similar to what Theo had said earlier. 
"I hope that"s was adequate payment or at least a down payment for saving our lives earlier."  He  told the angel. Who flung his arms around Dean"s neck and hugged him fiercely.

"This is the first time I"ve experienced the human emotion of love, I"ve experienced on and off love expressions in Heaven, and what few times I"ve been on earth, but this is the best.  Thank you for accepting me."

"Hey, thanks for hanging around." Then he gave Theo"s well formed ass a playful swat and shifting slightly.  "Come on we better get back up the house or Sam"s going to send a posse out for us. 

"No posse," can a still quiet voice from the doorway, they spun and saw Sam standing there with a goofy grin on his face. "What can I say" he shrugged, "I like to watch and you were perfect." He said walking in and touching Theo"s face tenderly. Theo proceeded to give Sam a hug as well.  "I think it"s safe to say that if you are served or serve either one of us alone there will be no problems. After all I know where my mate is and where his loves lie." With that Sam leaned over and gave Dean a long hug and kiss.  "Now I  think we all better get up to the house. Castiel is hovering over my laptop and he is not looking too happy."

 

Back up at the house they did find Castiel and Bobby staring at the computer screen and looking at a looming storm front making its way in from the Northeast.  "Gentlemen there are no demons in that and it looks like a front created by God, this is unprecedented though, God has been content to permit Lucifer to try his tricks on Earth giving mankind the choice, but this is an all out attack from God against these demons."

 

"This is a good thing right?" Dean asked Castiel.

"Partially, while the junkyard and house are protected, the places around town won"t be as fortunate, there is going to be some collateral damage. So far according to my contacts the town is about 30% evacuated with the other 70% preparing for evacuations. Most are boarding up their homes like the advance of a hurricane and that is wise." Castiel noted.  They were in the epicenter of what would be a catastrophic storm that would strike the area. Castiel pointed to a line on a map he had pulled up and shook his head, "We now have close to 4,000 demons headed into the area. Lucifer is planning an all out suicide run for his demon kind, this will not be a random slaying of demons this will be a massacre."

 

"Yes…it will."   They all started and spun towards the Kitchen and faced Adam/Michael.  Michael spoke through Adam and told them, "This is going to be a test for all of you.  Castiel this will demonstrate your place in Heaven for all demon kind to see, Theodorious this will show whether you are mature enough to take on other challenges after your penance has been fulfilled.  For you Sam, Dean, and Bobby,  this will  a test of strength of you as family."

 

"Are you hanging around?" Dean started, "Or are you going to be a bench warmer."

"Dean." Castiel warned.

"For this round I cannot interfere. Our Father has ordered this and I must obey, however I will tell you this, the demons will be here in force in 24 hours, they will not be able to penetrate your perimeter but will lay siege to your castle." Michael quipped. Then he gave a long sigh, "The use of the Greater Seal has been authorized, and we of Heaven are preparing for the glut of souls that we will have for judgment." Michael pointed into the back yard of the home and immediately the grass there died out to form a circle, then the sigils burned themselves into the soil, finally the whole of it glowed,  "I"ve established the seal, you know what it"s going to take to activate it. For this the Father is prepared your healing Castiel."

Castiel nodded solemnly, "I know." Then he turned to the others, his eyes filled with pain for what was coming for them.  He looked then squarely at Dean and nodded. "At the appointed time you are going to slit my throat."

"Like Hell!" Dean roared.

"Like hell you will, if you want to save your world and be rid of at least 4000 of the demons which have been loosed on humanity, you will, I need your vow on this."

"Oh man this is fucked."

Castiel nodded smiling slightly. "It is as you say, Fucked, but it is required, for the salvation of mankind innocent blood must be spilled for me it will be an experiment and experience in what I can endure."

Castiel paused for a moment and then looked at Dean, "You swear to do this?"

Dean ran his fingers through his short cropped hair frustrated. "Why dude, why sacrifice yourself like this. Okay so innocent blood has to be spilled, slash my wrists, I heal fast."

Castiel smiled now openly and was touched by the offer, "No Dean, this is something I"ve got to do."  He looked at Dean hard now. "Your oath."

"I"ll do it, fuck me, but I"ll do it." Dean spat.

"I don"t understand what your are carping about so, when this occurs I will be taken to the Father"s bosom and will be healed, I will return at some point. Until then you"ll have Theo."

"You can do it Dean, I know you can." For a moment Michael released his hold on Adam for the kid brother to come through.  "Do it for all of us." With that he was gone with a passing of a gentle breeze. Castiel looked on all of them for a moment and sighed, "Don"t dwell on this but concentrate on the bigger picture of what we have to do. " He looked around for a moment, then nodded. "Sam, I want you and Dean to lay a thick salt circle around this house and back yard area, there must be nothing to interfere with what is going to happen."

"I thought the plan was that you would reveal yourselves as angels and do a mass exorcism? What changed the order?" Sam asked.

 

"The numbers of demons that are loosed and coming." Castiel said looking down at his hands for a moment and found that they were actually shaking.  "So this is what fear is like? Interesting sensation." He looked at them all and smiled. "The Son prayed that this cup pass from him, but accepted the mantle of death. I"ve the same choice only my sacrifice will be miniscule by comparison, just a piece of sand on a great beach. May I have some time alone with Theo?" He asked. Bobby nodded and pointed towards his study.

"Y"all take it in there, we won"t bother you."

"Thank you Bobby." Castiel said solemnly.

 

When they were gone Dean shook his head, "Of all the crazy ideas this is the craziest,  the very thought of having to do this twists my gut."

"Doesn"t do a helluva lot for mine either." Bobby sighed broadly. "Okay salts in the outbuilding, about 600 lbs of the stuff, use what you need. Just do what he said and lay the circle thick." Sam and Dean spent the next hour pouring sack upon sack of salt laying a impenetrable circle around the place.  When a car horn sounded, Bobby came out and noticed it was his hunter friend Herschel.  He waved him to come on in but it seemed like he was stuck.

"Aw shit, Dean! Sam!" Bobby called. They came running around from the back of the house finishing the salt circle.  "We got trouble.  Herschel got out of the car and walked up to the entrance to Bobby"s property and stopped. His eyes were coal black.

 

"Not the best way to greet a friend." Herschel said his face taut under the glare of the sun. 

"My friend ain"t a shit festering demon." Bobby said coldly.

"You know I"ll find a way in, it"s only a matter of time."

Dean looked at the hunter then at Sam who walked up and stared at Herschel who crouched now and hissed.

"YOU GOT A HALFBREED!!! Lucifer"s vessel is fouled beyond condemnation now. HOW DARE YOU!"  With that the demon stood and attempted to penetrate the shield, he gathered himself and leaped fence his but was rebuffed by the shielding. 

"Herschel will be freed." Sam said walking past Dean and Bobby, his eyes glowing golden, the demon now cringing, unable to move under that stolid glare. "Herschel will be freed."  Sam said again, then stepped to within inches of the hunter and reached down grabbing the man"s jaw. "HERSCHEL WILL BE FREED!" Sam roared, and just that quick the demon was gone, no smoke, no theatrics, just gone.  Sam backed up and welcomed the shaken hunter who stepped cautiously into the area and collapsed. 

 

It didn"t take them long to have Herschel into the house and lying on the sofa in the living room. His breathing was shaky but steady, his skin pallid for a black man, and dripping with sweat.  Sam walked up and lay his hand on the man"s forehead and Herschel"s eyes flew open.

 

"Lord Jesus Christ preserve me." He said in a rush.  Then relaxed, looking around and seeing Bobby among all the faces relaxed completely.  "I"m sorry Bobby,  I tried to keep that sonuvabitch out, we fought tooth and nail, finally the sucker swelled up and took over. He didn"t even given me a ghost of a chance."

"Don"t fret so about it Herschel, them bastards are tricky and can do what they want how they want. You"re freed of it now." Bobby said trying to ease the man"s pain some.

"You"re not going on a hunt this time." Sam said quietly, "It"s coming to you."

"You have a talent for understatement my friend."  Herschel said smartly.  Dean came back in the house. "Got you car pulled in and safe. "  He looked at Herschel, "You ran a few hunts with dad didn"t you?"

"Yep, last time I saw you was what 8 years ago? Shit time does fly. And Sam, damn it boy when I saw you last you was just a teenager."

 

Bobby looked around the group and nodded, "Well we"re up to a good half dozen now, we"re in a lot better shape than we were." Then proceeded to pass the beer around to all. They talked for the better part of the afternoon and on into the evening about the situation,  with Herschel giving them a rundown of what it was like in the south west.  They were not encouraged by the news and began to wonder if what  could be done.

 

"The fear is palpable in here." Castiel replied rejoining the group, he looked at Herschel, "I don"t believe I"d had the pleasure. I am called Castiel." He said with a hand extended.

"I"m Herschel Johnson.  Used to hunt a lot with Bobby here.  Now it looks like I"m stuck here for right now."

Castiel raised his eyebrows and looked at the man, "You can always leave, head west, you"ll be safe provided you leave now."

"I think I"ll stay." Herschel said evenly, matching his tone word for word with Castiel.

"Good at least you"re aware of your fear, the rest of you stink with it and will draw demons like flies. Get your backbone up, it"s not near as bad as you feared."  Then Castiel looked at Sam, "Good work on the demon by the way. That"s how it"s done, some you give at least three chances then you cast out, some don"t get that, they just get cast out period."

"You boys talking like you at least ain"t human. If you not, then what are you?" Herschel said pressing back into the sofa.  Castiel and Theo said nothing just unfurled their unseen wings.  Herschel gaped a moment then shook his head. "Well ain"t that the damndest thing and here I thought the angels were just sitting by watching the light show down here."

 

"No we are hard at work doing what we can to help ease the burden as we go along." Theo offered.  Herschel gaped slightly at Theo.

"But you just a boy."

"I"m 1500 years old, I guess I"m what you"d call a child angel in comparison to the great scheme."  Theo said with a grin. "But I"m well trained."

Then he looked at Sam and Dean, "I"m sorry that I could be out there with you sir."

"It"s all right you had more important fish to fry in here with Castiel." Dean said with a smile. "You two get everything talked out?"

"Yes sir, I"m good with it and will be your second in case you feel you can"t do it."

"Thanks Theo," Dean said quietly. "I"m going to try, just give me that much okay?"

"Yes sir."

"Do what exactly?" Herschel asked. 

Castiel smiled enigmatically at him and shook his head, "When the time comes you"ll see."  Then he looked at everyone, "for now I seriously suggest you get some rest tomorrow is going to be a very busy day.

 

With that Dean looked at Sam and leaning on one another for a moment started out of the house with Theo following close.

 

"Somethin" tells me that they are a bit closer than brothers?" Herschel said.

Bobby nodded, "It happens to all of us hunters sooner or later, we either hook up with a good woman who understands us or with our partners who work with us."

 

"It is good they have each other they will need it in the days ahead." Castiel said walking back into the study.

 

Leaving Bobby and his hunter friend private time to catch up and plan for the assault that was to come.

 

In the trailer Sam, Dean and Theo sat around looking at one another for a moment and then Dean pulled his hair in frustration. 

"Sorry guys, I hate waiting for something like this that I know is coming, okay let"s put two and two together here, we got this place warded to hell and back, every sign and sigil we can think of painted on and then over on the board fencing  the entrance is protected by that shield, is there anything  we"re forgetting?"

"Just one thing sirs. They can"t come over the fence or through the gate but is they"ve got anything to block the opening they will create a breach in the barrier so we have to be prepared to act quickly. That may mean we don"t have time for much physical work against them, it may be down to Castiel, Sam and me working them our way, you and Bobby and this Herschel working them their way."  He sighed and looked around. "Whatever the case they will get into the lot and we need to prepare for that."

 

So Dean, Sam and Theo sat back planning as well for their part in the assault that was coming.  Everyone wired up and in high tension.

 

The day broke early with Dean, Sam, and Theo all piled into bed together, they"d actually did their planning up until sundown then went into the bedroom and proceeded to release their relative tensions in so many ways and express themselves in so many ways as to boggle the mind, Sam woke up with a grin as he recalled the previous night.  Theo woke full of pep and energy, and Dean woke as usual, like a grumpy bear. They all got showered and changed as well as armed, from somewhere Theo broke out a long sword that he slung around his waist and prepared to do battle.  They were walking up to the house then stopped as they saw the first of the possessed clamoring around the gate to the property unable to enter and furious at being balked. Bobby and Herschel came out of the house armed and ready, Castiel was the last to come out appearing unarmed but everyone knew that to be a deception. With the suddenness of crazed people that they were they charged the gates only to be rebuffed some smoking from hitting the unseen barrier. Others tried to leap the fence only to have the same thing happen, they bounced harmlessly away, this went on about two hours, the crowd growing this and the attitude growing more angry. Finally some screaming , terrorized townsfolk were pushed to the front line and executed their pure bodies thrown into the gate opening in an attempt to create a barrier for them to break through, but again they were rebuffed as the shielding that was over the place held,  at last a loud rumble filled the air and an air horn blew, people moved back from the fence as a eighteen wheeler backed in and over the bodies on the ground, the rear doors of the trailer flung open to disgorge dozens of possessed and crazed individuals. Suddenly guns blazed and spirit energy flew about in rampant strikes taking out as  many as possible they were backed up into the lot fighting like dervishes. Dean was busy expending bullets as more of the possessed crawled under the rear axle of the truck and made their way into the compound.  Sam turned one direction then the next reached out psychically and destroying a demon here and another there. Leaving confused and bewildered people wandering about, Castiel raised both hands and started physically touching the incoming possessed freeing them of the demons, with Theo battling his way back with a flurry of hand motions designed to free them. Suddenly they found Sam, Dean, Bobby, Castiel and Herschel found themselves backed up to the chalk line. 

 

Castiel shouted "Now Dean now is the time!" They quickly jumped the salt line and made to the Greater seal burned into the grass. The demon kind nearly overwhelmed them and Theo was lost to sight in the crowd for a moment then suddenly appeared as Castiel knelt by the seal and exposed his throat, "Now Dean! You swore, Now fulfill your oath!" Castiel roared, at the same moment two knifes disappeared hilt deep into Theo"s chest, Sam and Dean roared in indignation, sorrow, and frustration. Dean took his knife and looked at Castiel, "Forgive me." Was all he said as he slit his friend"s throat letting him fall forward towards the seal. It seemed to happen in slow motion to the others, for as soon as Dean brandished the knife two things happened, the demons dropped the body of Theo and backed up, then secondly they broke into a terrified run.  As Castiel"s body touched the circle, there was a massive flare of power and a nuclear flash of light that momentarily blinded all standing close but at the same time burning through the demons that were in the town and those on the outskirts.  Nearly 4000 demon possessed freed or left for dead and their bodies could no longer support their demon hosts, even the dispossessed were running in the opposite direction seeing the wanton destruction. Dean and Sam looked with horror at the slain forms of their friends and lover. Bobby and Herschel began slowly picking their way through the carnage, with Herschel moving the truck from the fence line.  All said and done the battle for Bobby"s junkyard took just over two hours of solitary fighting and exorcisms.  Sam reached Theo first followed by Dean, the picked him up and turned him over, the knives still embedded in his chest.  There was a strange smile on his face. Sam pulled out one knife while Dean pulled the other free.

 

"Thank you." Came a breath on the wind.  With that it was as if Theo had never lived, he was a mere shell on the ground. Dean looked in horror at the carnage and at Theo the one person who was totally innocent in all this. Sam went a step further and placed hands over the wounds and begged, "Live, please live. Come on Theo, don"t give up now, please!!" Sam was in sobs now, his tears falling on his hands as he propped on the wounds, then he bent down to give him artificial respiration and using every trick in the book he knew about first aid to help Theo, who"s breathing was a thread. The Sam slumped over their friend, shaken to the core. It was then that two massive trucks pulled up and started disgorging men who were busy pulling bodies out and stacking them in the backs of a truck like cordwood, as they got the last an hour and a half later, Sam was still leaning over Theo his tears falling like rain. Not giving up he did the only thing he could think of and that was to grab Dean"s knife and slit his forearm, he pressed wound to wound.

 

"Come on you little bastard, live. You got ten years service to us and I ain"t giving you up that easily. LIVE!" Sam screamed.  He turned then and flung himself into Dean"s waiting arms, both of them crying over their losses for the day, their innocence long since lost, it was the sheer mass of people that they had seen either dispossessed or dead.  Dean released Sam and pointed as a  glow seemed to emanate around Theo"s body for a moment and then body and glow were gone.  They"d known him such a short time but for that time he"d become such an important part of their lives. The grief was boundless. Bobby and Herschel stepped up and over them urging them to come inside the house, and rest, they must be beat and Dean needed to see to that wound of Sam"s.

 

Inside the house they sat around stunned and poleaxed looking. They"d been witness to many fights and hunts in their respective day but never one that was on this scale of carnage and terror. They could only guess but on the out skirts of the city there lay scores of dead. The city now under Federal Quarantine keeping people out while the Federal teams did the clean up and mopping up. Sam sat back on the couch totally despondent, looking now and then at Dean, totally clueless to what else was going on around him.  Suddenly there was an exchange of air, a rushing wind, and a nattily clothed man stood amongst them, Bobby and Herschel seemed to be clueless of this beings identity but Sam and Dean knew him only too well.

"Why, why two innocents to be taken today."

"Only two, we"ll two who were fighting against the hordes, but thousands who were fighting for them. Lucifer is going to be quite busy filtering in the willing while we in Heaven are busily filling in the unwilling and sanctified. You boys did good today, you all did and for that you"ve earned my thanks and I think you"ll find a gift in your trailer."  With that he was gone.

"Which angel was that?" Bobby asked.

"Wasn"t an angel." Dean said tiredly.

"Demon?" Herschel asked.

"Nope" Sam said quietly.

"Gotta be an angel then, unless that was God almighty." Herschel said half joking then noting the serious looks on Sam and Dean"s face he braced up, "Oh man, you are totally shitting me. You mean that…that was…it was HIM!"

Sam and Dean nodded tiredly and walked out of the house and back to their trailer. Upon entering, they shook their heads and again fell into one another"s arms, the tears not completely spent.

"I never thought I"d have an emotion left in after you disappeared down that hole in the ground.  Guess I"m proved wrong."

"You and me both bro. They walked silently to Theo"s bedroom and flipped on the light to reveal their gift, Theo lay in the bed squinting into the light, which Dean quickly turned back off. They were ecstatic and made no effort to hide their joy as they hugged and kissed Theo soundly.  Theo laughed resolutely and accepted the loving and returned it in full. He was just glad to be back among friends who needed him and actually appreciated him for more than what he was.

"We thought…"  Dean said his face wet.

"How"d you…" Sam started with his face no better.

"Dying hurts." Theo said nonplussed.  "I"m so glad to be back with you both." Then looked at them in turn, "Sorrow or joy, I think maybe joy, and I share that.  You two have taught me a great many things in the little time I"ve been with you, I can"t wait to see what this decade business holds for us."

With that they fell into a mass on the mattress hugging, kissing and playing about totally carefree for once in a great while.

 

Epilogue

Ten years later

 

Theo was basically grown now, a well muscled, trim lithe, fighter and hunter, he had turned out to be one of the best of the bunch.  He was also become Dean"s rival at working on cars. And he was gladly still in service to them now. They"d long since abandoned formalities and were comfortable with each other in a way that would have been impossible ten years earlier. 

"Mom I"m home." He said coming into the trailer.

"Good thing you are too, Suppers nearly ready, go shower, I can smell you from here." Dean said from the kitchen.

Theo laughed and ran into the kitchen arms thrown wide. "Aw give me a hug."

Dean help up the spoon he"d been stirring with. "You wanna be blessed with spaghetti sauce, move your cute ass and get a shower, God you reek."

Theo knelt to play with Rusty, Sam"s seizure dog who had five years of service with them as Sam"s seizures had returned to him. Rusty wagged tail and barked playfully lapping at Theo like he was a new toy to play with.

He disappeared to the back of the trailer in moments Dean heard water running.  He turned back to the stove content, they"d a string of hunts lately and decided to come off the road for a month to take a breather.  Sam was business in the living room at the coffee table typing away on his laptop, a new incarnation to that poor beleaguered system he"d finally had to send to the happy hunting grounds years ago.  Dean looked across the bar, "So how"s the book coming , Hemmingway?"

 

"Got the second edits done and ready to send off to the publishers." He said quickly.

"I can"t believe we got our records cleared." Dean said shaking his head.

"Yeah, 10 years on and we can now live like honest adults, with a real bank account." He looked at Dean, "You ever think about just coming off the road permanent?"

Dean stopped stirring and leaned over the bar, "Yeah, the thought lasts about long enough for me to set up another hunt."

Sam laughed and said, "I know what you mean."

 

"Gentlemen, hope I"m not intruding." Castiel said popping in for a regular visit at about the same time, a naked Theo popped out of the hall bathroom and darted into his room and dressed.

"No not really, you got here in time for supper."  Dean said "Plenty of spaghetti to go around."

"Thank you I"m just here to check on Theo, his penance is up today, he"s a free angel."

Both Dean and Sam looked at Castiel now like he"d just grown three horns. Then Dean shook himself. "Well yeah I knew it had to come sometime soon, I was just expecting a little time down the road, not this quick, ya know?" 

"Dean it"s been ten years, just like agreed upon."

"God you sound like Lilith." Dean said shivering.

"You would have to bring that bitches name up." Sam smarted back.

"Talking about me again huh?" Theo said shrugging into an LA Lakers" tee shirt.

"Actually talking about your…" Castiel started and Theo finished.

"My time is up, I know I"ve been keeping track of the days and I"ve made my decision."

Dean and Sam braced themselves as they knew what might be coming. Dean took the spaghetti off the stove and poured into the colander.  Then looked at Theo, "Do you have time to stay for supper?" Dean asked quietly.

"Only if that means I get breakfast tomorrow." Theo said raising a quizzical eyebrow.  Castiel actually smiled at this.

"The Father figured you"d be like this, he guessed you would in for the long haul."

"Look I know the body I"m in is going to mature, grow old and one day die, then I"ll come back to heaven, for now, I like this arrangement." Dean poured up the sauce into another bowl and then set the table with the fixings. Finally they sat down at the table , Dean looked at Theo and asked.

"Would you do the honors?" He asked reaching out and taking Dean"s hand in one and Theo"s in the other, Theo then bowed his head. 

"Blessed Father, thank you for allowing me to be a part of this family and for supporting me in all the work that has transpired, as I go forth now on the longer journey with my family, keep us under your watchful eye and bless us with your joyous presence as we continue to do your work. Amen."

"Amen" came the chorus of replies.

 

END NOTES

 

Ending a story is always the hard part for me, for as a story develops and it takes on a life of its own, it becomes part of me and me part of it, I may have meandered and malingered here and there, but I hope that the pace has been subjective enough to keep you interested.  And as an AU story don"t worry, there will be future fics where Theo will pop back up here and there.  So be ready for i

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