Hopelessly Human

57. Just Another Night

[First Born]

Dean and Natalia were sitting in a bar watching a pretty waitress hustle by. He smiled sexily at her and Natalia rolled her eyes as Crowley appeared. "So... is that boudoir smile for me?"

Dean, startled, drew the demon knife from his jacket while Natalia drew her angel blade as Crowley said again, "At least buy me a drink first."

"I said the next time Nat or I see you-"

"Dead. Yes, rings a bell, but let's not dwell on the past, shall we? This bar is a bust. That waitress is trouble with a capital VD, and your prey, Gadreel, has left the building. So, it's time to move on to more pressing matters, like destroying Abaddon."

"Yeah, good luck with that. The Knights of Hell aren't exactly the dying kind."

"But there is something that can kill a knight. The weapons the archangels used to execute them -- the First and Second Blade."

"Never heard of them. Can we kill you now?"

Natalia twirled the blade. "I'm itching to stab you."

"I've been chasing those blades for decades. The closest I got to them was when one of my droogs -- Smitty -- got wind of a protégé demon of Abaddon's who's claimed knowledge of the blades. Sadly, before Smitty could nab the guy, a hunter by the name of John Winchester nabbed the protégé. I'm here to see if there's anything in the John Winchester memorial library that might lead us to the First and Second Blades -- to killing Abaddon."

"You want to hunt? With us?" Dean asked

"I do love a good buddy comedy."

Dean rolled his eyes and reluctantly pulled out John's journal from his jacket and laid it on the table. He rummaged through the pages until he found what he was looking for. "Oh, yeah. Here it is. Yeah, he picked up a protégé who had bones with Abaddon, but that's about all it says in here."

"What do those numbers in the margins mean?"

"None of your business."

"You're gonna play hard to get? We have time for a montage?"

"It's a code -- on of my dad's storage lockers. He may have put something about the case there."

"And what does the "T" next to the numbers mean?"

Natalia shrugged. "Not a clue."

"Fine. Let's go find a dead man's cave, then, shall we?"

"And how do we know this isn't a trap?"

"You two... don't. That's what makes it fun."

Crowley shot Dean and Natalia a wily grin and headed out the door. Dean and Natalia slowly followed. Neither of them saw the man sitting next to them, with black eyes. He followed them out the door.

---

At the bunker, Castiel was sitting down and he went to take a bite of a PB&J sandwich. The door opened above him.

"Mm," Castiel hummed, not enjoying the sandwich.

Sam and Dylan walked downstairs and Sam said, "Hey."

"Tastes like... molecules."

Dylan frowned. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

"When I was human, you know, I had to eat constantly. It was kind of annoying."

"Yeah, a lot of human things are pretty annoying," Sam told him.

"But... I enjoyed the taste of food -- particularly peanut butter with grape jelly, not jam. Jam I found unsettling."