Full Circle (Book 8 in Arrow/Spn Crossover)

Wavelengths

Coyote wasn't next to me when I woke up. The room was dark and I really didn't remember falling asleep, I didn't think I'd been all that tired. I rolled over and saw her sitting next to the window. She was holding back the curtain just enough so she could stare outside. Her legs were curled up in the chair, chin resting on her left arm which was propped up on her right knee while her right hand held the curtain. She was pretty deep in thought, especially for two in the morning. She wasn't crying but something was bothering her.

"What's wrong?"

"Cas is all right, at least he's alive."

I sat up, "What?"

She kept looking out the window, "I heard him, or felt him, or something. in my sleep. I can't explain how or why, but I felt him running, hiding. He must have sensed me somehow, he said to tell you he's alive and should be back soon. Then he was gone. He was nervous, but seemed pretty confident he'd make it out."

"That's good to know, I guess."

"Yeah.."

"And?"

She let the curtain drop and turned her head. It was almost too dark to make out much on her face, but I didn't really need to because she slid back into bed and wrapped her arms around me, her face felt cold and damp. She'd been crying. Not good, not good at all.

"Honey?"

"I've never seen him before, Brother Wolf. He never comes to me, not like this. We were walking through the woods and came to a place where the road split into several paths. We sat down and he told me to tell you that what will happen is not the same as what has happened, and to wait before you truly begin to fight back. You have to wait."

Not liking the sound of that, "Okay? What else?" She didn't answer, I started to panic. "Do not keep me in the dark right now, please."

"That this may be one of the last times I can speak to him, to any of them. If I stay on this path I may no longer be who I was. Then he left."

That stopped me cold. "You're not coming, that's final." I basically ordered, I knew it would piss her off but I didn't care. "No way in hell. We're going up against werewolves, not having you get turned."

"He didn't.."

I clicked on the light next to the bed. Both of us winced, then I rolled away from her and stood up. I was way too unstable right then to be next to her, "No. I will not put a silver bullet in you. Not when we've been warned. It was bad enough watching Sam have to do that to someone he'd gotten close to. Not happening."

She sat up and stared me down. Damn it! "You just fought to save Rick from getting taken out by hunters," she snapped. "You don't think we could work around it if that's even what he's talking about?"

"We don't have enough problems fitting in with your people as it is?" I couldn't let her take the risk.

"So we move. Live in the Bunker, we'd figure it out. Dean, for fuck's sake he could have been saying that they wouldn't watch over me anymore because I left the tribe. He could be referring to the fact that I'll learn some earthshaking thing and it will change what I want to do with my skills. I turned them off before, remember? It was the usual cryptic warning. Yes, it upset me, but I'm not backing away from this fight. Who knows, maybe you get turned and I have to decide whether to end you or not. Ever think about that? You're not immortal anymore, so stop acting like I'm the only one that can get hurt or die. Maybe you die and I have to deal with that? Maybe that's why I'm crying jackass. Ever think about that? You don't know, neither do I. All we know is that something will happen, like I already said. Are we going to fight about this? Is this how you want to spend tonight? Fighting about shit that we already knew could happen. We're hunting, people get hurt, people change. This is no different."