How to Save a Life (Book Two/The Life Series/Supernatural)

Jus in Bello

I tracked Bela to a hotel room in Monument, Colorado, walking inside, closing the door behind me, looking around, on the phone, with Sam and Dean on speaker, checking the drawers.

"Any sign of it?" Dean asked.

"Nothing."

"Are you sure it's Bela's room?" Dean asked.

I picked up two wigs. "I'd say so."

"We should be there," Sam told me.

"You're across the country. I was closer. I got here first. What, you guys don't trust me now?"

"No, of course we trust you," Dean told me. "We just don't think you should've gone in there alone."

"I can take are of myself against Bela, thank you very much. I got us into this mess by calling that bitch for help in the first place. The least I could do is help you clean it up."

"You were saving your dad," Sam told me.

"Would you two just shut up and let me help?"

"Got it," Dean told me. "Understood. Shutting up."

The phone in the hotel room started to ring.

I walked toward the phone, putting down my cell to pick it up, answering it cautiously.

Bela's voice was on the other line. "Ness? Sweetie, are you there?"

"Where are you?"

"Two states away by now."

"Where?"

"Where's our usual quippy banter? I miss it."

"We want it back, Bela. Now."

"Your little pistol, you mean? Sorry, I can't at the moment."

"You understand how many people are gonna die if you do this?"

"What exactly is it that you think I plan to do with it?"

"Take the only weapon we have against an army of demons and sell it to the highest bidder."

"You know nothing about me."

"I know I'm gonna stop you."

"Tough words for a girl who can't even find me."

"Oh, I'll find you, sweetheart. You know why? Because I have absolutely nothing better to do than to track you down."

"That's where you're wrong. You friends are about to be quite occupied. Did you really think I wouldn't take precautions? Now, you, I couldn't find a way to stop directly, but I know that you care about those Winchester boys of yours. And they're about to be in hot water, both with the humans and the supernatural."

I heard Sam's voice from my phone. "Ness?"

I heard a man's voice. "Hands in the air!"

I heard a second's voice. "Down on your knees."

"Turn around," the first man told them. "Now. Sam and Dean Winchester, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney and have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you at government expense."

I heard a third cop's voice. "Hi, guys. It's been a while."

I hung up my cell phone, focusing solely on the other phone to talk to Bela. "You know the FBI's never gonna let them go."