(1) The Devil's Hybrid (D. Winchester)

Chapter Thirty-Eight

The impala drives to the motel and parks, Erika and Dean get out of the car. Dean notices that the altered sign now reads as Chuck's manuscript predicted. He shakes his head and follows Erika as she reaches the motel room.

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Dean and Erika enter the motel room, Sam looks to them.

"Come on. We're getting out of here" Dean tells him.

"What? Where?"

"Anywhere, okay? Out of this motel, out of this town. I don't care if we got to swim, we are getting out." Dean answers, Erika frowns.

"Sam, love, where are all the hex bags?" she asks turning to him.

"I burned them" Sam answers, Dean looks to him.

"You what?"

"Look, if Lilith is coming, which is a big "if"..."

"No, no, no. It's more than an "if." Erika was right, Chuck is not a psychic, these writings...He's a prophet"

"What?"

"Cas showed up, and apparently Chuck is writing the gospel of us"

"Okay"

"Okay. Let's get the hell out of here"

"No," Sam tells them.

"Lilith is gonna slaughter you," Dean tells Sam.

"Maybe she will, maybe she won't"

"So what? You think you can take her?" Dean asks.

"Only one way to find out, Dean, and I say bring her on"

"Sam..."

"You think I'll do it, don't you? You think I'll go dark side"

"Yes! Okay? Yes. The way you've been acting lately? The things you've been doing?" Sam looks up, startled. "Oh, I know. How you ripped Alastair apart like it was nothing, like you were swatting a fly" Sam looks to Erika.

"I didn't tell him" Erika states.

"No, she didn't. Cas did, okay?" Dean tells him.

"What else did he tell you?"

"Nothing I don't already know. That you've been using your psychic crap, and you've been getting stronger. We just don't know why, and we don't know how"

"It's not what you think"

"Then what is it, Sam? 'Cause I'm at a total loss" Dean grabs his bag and heads for the door. He stops and looks back. "Are you coming or not?"

"No" Sam answers. Dean turns back to the door, pauses again, then drops the bag forcefully on a chair by the door before leaving. Erika sighs and looks to Sam before she follows Dean.

"Dean" Erika states, he turns to her.

"I know why you didn't say" he assures her. "It's fine" he takes her arm and pulls her closer. "It's okay" he whispers and kisses her. "You're the newbie, you didn't want to be seen to be coming between us" he presses his forehead to hers. "That's good," he tells her.

"It is?" she asks. He smiles a little.

"Yeah, the Goddess of discord would have wanted to stir up trouble, she would have wanted to drive in that wedge," he tells her, she smirks.

"You've been reading up on her?" she asks, he shrugs.

"I was curious" he answers, she raises an eyebrow. "Fine.....I wanted to see if she was hot" he corrects. She bites her lip before smirking.