Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

Cat, Mouse, Dean

Sam and Cas were hunched over the laptop, Sam's hair was looking more shaggy than usual. One of these days, me and a pair of clippers. Maybe I could drug him using Coyote's teas. "Hey," I said as we walked in.

"Hey," Sam answered without moving, "I noticed the articles you had up. You think?"

"I think. Me and coincidences, you know how I feel about' em."

"Yeah. Great."

Cas turned around, "Are you all right Running Coyote?"

She nodded and smiled, "Yes and just call me Coyote."

I had a random thought, "Hey, question. Cas said you had found that pendant earlier thinking it would protect Coyote but this is the first time we've been here when he's here. How'd you know she'd need it?"

He shrugged while clicking through some more emails, "Made sense, she can see our Warrior Spirits and has visions. It's only logical that seeing an angel would hit her pretty hard. Honestly it was a stray thought I had when I was bored a few months back and went digging. From what Cas said it turned out to be a good thing."

"It did indeed." She said. Her arm dropped away from my waist as she moved towards him to give him a tight hug. "Thanks for thinking ahead."

He finally moved to put his arms around her waist and gave me a smirk, "Well someone has to."

"Yeah, yeah." I pulled a chair out across from him, shifted a lamp so it wasn't in my line of sight and met his eyes, "So let's talk."

"Right, so everyone has hunkered down and is safe for now. I am still having my researchers watch for jobs to see if anything new pops up in the places Felicity has tracked our friends to. I agree with Oliver's idea of bait hunters but we need volunteers for that."

Coyote sat down to my right and Cas moved his chair to the end so he could see all three of us at once, "Let's backtrack," I started. "With my crazy ass dreams, the fight back home and the driving we've been sort of scattered. First off, Coyote brought this up back home, Tom and Sarah, anyone actually get eyes on them to verify this whole thing?"

Sam shook his head, "Not yet."

"Okay, same with Gerald, he was by himself right?"

"Yes."

I didn't know for sure shifters were involved but I wanted to establish a ground zero. "Let's pick a group of hunters we trust, get them all together somewhere and test every last one of them. That way we know, at least for right now, everyone is who they say they are. I want Sarah and Gerald there, Sarah will want to kill something after losing Tom like that."

"Agreed."

"Dean," Cas said, "There is no need to test them, Coyote or I can look at them and tell you."

"Keeping the fact that you're an angel and she's a Shaman under wraps as much as possible Cas. You don't hunt with Sam, he and Roy have been avoiding demons so I'm hoping against hope right now that the monsters don't know what you are." And even more hoping that demons weren't involved. "Some of the hunters know what Coyote is but even at that they don't know what she can do."

Cas's eyes narrowed, I could tell he was trying to come up with some sort of reference to show he understood and was one of the cool humans. "Oh, like in Lord of the Rings when Gandalf throws his cloak off and is wearing white instead of grey? I still don't quite understand why the white cloak and change of name made him more powerful."

I wasn't sure which was more unexpected, that he'd seen Lord of the Rings or how he could miss the obvious similarities between he and Gandalf; long lived, powerful beings who sometimes miss the big hints and make bad choices. Sam was trying to hide a smile so I had a feeling there'd been a Bunker movie night I'd missed. That must have been damn entertaining. "Uh, yeah. Exactly." Which made Cas break out with the "See I do understand you odd humans," look. He always seemed so proud of himself when he made what he thought was an awesome connection to pop culture. I never can bring myself to burst his bubble on that, although he was getting better with them. Coyote faked a cough to cover her laugh and I soldiered on. "Think we can set that up for tomorrow somewhere close by? I want Oliver and the rest hiding in the wings just in case something goes sideways."