Back in Black

Chapter 31

The entire house was in a panic, and Dean was pissed as hell. Sam had been taken, by Ruby no less. He knew why, they planned to use Sam as bait to get Dean to kill Lilith.

He would have done it anyway if she had gotten anywhere near him. He disliked demons on principle, but Lilith was a special kind of sick. She preferred children as her meat sacks. The last one, the one where she killed his doppelganger, had been a little girl. She had used the girl to kill and keep the family in a perpetual nightmare.

Last time Gabriel checked on the family in question, they had moved to Rome in Vatican City and the girl was studying to be a devout Catholic girl. That kind of nightmare tended to do things to people and it broke Dean's heart seeing children involved. The only solace he took was that the girl had lived and had come out of it completely unharmed except for the emotional and mental trauma.

But right now Dean wanted to rip Lilith apart piece by bloody piece. And he would send Ruby's head to Crowley for him to munt on a wall. He hated that bitch almost as much as Dean did, and she still kept trying to slink into their group.

He knew the demon could use a good laugh.

"Calm down Dean. You're agitated enough after what happened to Cas, if you went after Sam in that state you might accidentally hurt him," said Gabriel.

Dean slowly tried to regain control over his dragon. It was already riled up enough after Castiel was injured. He didn't need to lose complete control now.

Dean felt someone slip their hand into his. He didn't have to look to know it was Castiel trying to calm him down.

Even after the torture he was put through, he was still the same angel. The only difference was that he was very vulnerable at the moment and still needed time to heal. Time and having someone who wouldn't push him too far.

"First things first. Cas, can you find Sam? If I'm going to go tearing into something, I want to know where it is," asked Dean, starting to simmer down and think.

Castiel nodded, always eager to be useful. While his Grace was still recovering, he was relatively useless to have on a hunt. But Dean didn't care about that. He found little ways for Castiel to be useful and never made him feel like he was a burden. Not like Uriel or the other angels had.

"Find who?"

"Sam!" Dean practically pounced on his brother and Gabriel wasn't far behind.

Sam rolled his eyes, though he noted Castiel's disappointment.

"How did you..."

"Blame Crowley. Apparently he hacked the telepathic connection we keep forgetting to close and told me how to get out of a demon trap. Should have heard Lilith shriek at Ruby when she realized I had slipped out without her knowing," said Sam smiling.

"How do you know that?" asked Lucifer. Sam hooked a thumb outside. There, in the yard, was a massive tunnel.

Dean started laughing.

"You pulled a Bugs on their ass?"

Sam ducked his head sheepishly.

"I pulled a Bugs."

Sam didn't use his creature form often, but when he did they called it a 'Bugs'. It was mostly for emergencies or doing a Looney Tunes skit with Dean playing Daffy.

"Way to go Sammy!"

"I might have also burned down an old church on the way out."

"You what now?" said the angels in unison.