Generations's (Spin Off/ Book FOUR)

Bear and Mouse

Khalilah:

Cas and Suzy needed us, so we, as in, the three of us, Dean, Sam, Ria and I, headed to the hospital where Claire was, and I could already see that they were both so worried. "Thanks for coming. M, m, Miss Tate, h, how are you-?"

"Long story cut short, spoilers" She smiled, putting her right arm across to her left shoulder and bowing, which he did back. "But it's nice to see you and have you able to hear my voice, Castiel."

"Cas, look, we're always glad to help, but Claire and I aren't exactly on the best of terms." Dean tried, as I remembered what happened last time I saw her. Why didn't she call me if she needed help? "I mean, should I even be here?"

Suzy signed at us where we were all learning how to sign, just for her. We need help from all of you. You were all troubled teens. You speak her language.

Sam smirked a little, stood a little apart from Ria. "All right. How is she?"

"Well, we-we haven't gone in yet. We were waiting for backup."

Oh, you had to be kidding me. "B-backup? Three men and four ladies. Let's do this."

Claire jumped as we went into her room, looking alarmed to see Dean, Sam and Ria, not so much Suze, Cas and I. "What are you doing here? And why the hell did you bring him? You make another new friend?"

"Um, the ... the police found my number in your emergency contact list, I answered before they tried Khalilah's."

"Yeah, well... That was a mistake. You can go now."

I knelt by the girls bed as the other three looked around awkwardly. "Claire... Why were you at a bar?"

"I wasn't."

Which made Ria roll her eyes, Sam stepping closer to the bed after muttering something to her. "Claire, what were you doing in an alley outside of a bar?"

She just shrugged. "Wrong place, wrong time. Story of my life."

There was no way that was true, and you knew it, honey. "Look, we're not leaving until you tell us what the hell really happened. So if you want us gone...Talk."

So Claire glared towards Cas and Suzy. "I was looking for my mom. I wanna find my mom and tell her she ruined my life." They tried to say that she didn't, but Claire wasn't having any of it. "She left me, and so did my dad. But Jimmy's gone, right? Has it easy up in heaven. So...Mom's the only one left I can tell off."

Ria stepped forward slightly, avoiding touching Sam. "When's the last anybody heard from your mum, love?"

"When I was living with my grandmother, she used to send me postcards." She reached over to a table to take a package out of her back. "This is the last one." Then she handed it to her. "I got it just before my grandma died. Two years ago. Nobody's heard from her since. It was sent from a motel here in town." Motor Court Motel. "That's where I've been crashing. I was at Susie's bar looking for a loser named Ronnie Cartwright. Mom's diary said she was gonna meet him around the time she disappeared. Before he knocked me down, he remembered her name. He knows something." Lots of Suzy's recently.

"Why was Amelia looking for him?" Castiel asked, looking confused.

The girl was still glaring at her as Ria muttered something to Sam now. "She went looking for miracles. She went looking for you."

We ducked back out of the room and into the hallway, where Castiel was already starting to blame himself. "This is all my fault."

"You know, Cas, say it is. What can you do about it?" Arianna asked him, folding her arms.