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Hannah and Castiel made it back to the motel in one peace, luckily.

Hannah had doubted the angels driving abilities more than once on the ride back to the motel but she couldn’t bring herself to scream at him to stop the car and let her drive instead, so she settled for asking him to slow down and pointed out that they were in no rush to get back to the motel, and she even added that she liked driving around for a while so she wouldn’t mind if he made it a little more leisurely.

For the most part, the journey back to the motel was silent. Hannah didn’t know if she should be
making normal conversation with Castiel or if she should be rambling on and defending her
earlier actions so that the angel didn’t smite her where she sat, and Castiel… well he couldn’t
tell if Hannah really wanted to talk to him because he could tell by her body language that she
was battling something out with herself inside her head, so they both stayed quiet. Hannah
couldn’t stand the silence, of course, so she’d put on some music and kept it quiet.

The two of them now sat in Hannah and Erin’s motel room.

Hannah changed into her sweats and a loose fitting tank top – the outfit that she would wear to
bed, but to keep her dignity she decided against removing her bra, at least until Castiel turned in
for the night.

Castiel was sitting on the foot of Hannah’s bed, frowning at the TV against the fall in front of
him, large remote control in his hands which he used to surf through the many channels on the
TV. Hannah sat at the head of the bed, against the pillows, behind Cas, with her LENOVO
Yoga, 10.1 tablet propped up against her lap, not actually doing anything productive.

“I’m hungry…” She muttered, looking around the room for something to eat.

“I’ll retrieve something for you,” Castiel spoke, without missing a beat.

“No,” Hannah said, stopping him as he stood and turned to face her “There’s no need to go off
and get something for me, there’s vending machines outside the reception, I saw them earlier,”

“Surely there isn’t anything too satisfying in those machines,” Cas frowned at her.

“Probably not,” She shrugged “But it’ll keep me going until breakfast in the morning, if I eat too
much tonight then I won’t sleep and I’ll be cranky all day tomorrow,”

“If you insist,” Cas says, sitting back down on the foot of the bed.

“You want anything?” Hannah offers, standing from the bed and grabbing money out of the
back pocket of the jeans she wore earlier tonight.

Castiel only looks across the room at her, giving her a strange look.

“Alright,” She laughs, holding up her hands in defence as though she understands what he
didn’t actually say aloud to her “I just thought that I would be nice and ask,” She shakes her
head, still smiling, and leaves the room.

Castiel watched Hannah as she left the room and he listened to her walking away from the
door, humming to herself as she went. He couldn’t help but notice all of the things that were
different about her today than all of the other times that they have been together. She isn’t
glowing so brightly tonight, she looked physically and emotionally drained and he knows that it’s
because of what is happening in her life right now and he can’t help but feel somewhat
responsible for it. If he hadn’t gotten to attached to her immediately, the first night that they met
when he saved her life, then she would have been able to carry on with her life with her friends
and she would still be the happy woman that she was before they met… but at the same time,
he smiled to himself when he realised that she didn’t seem to be in any hurry to go anywhere or
even to get away from him at all.

~~~~

As she left the motel room, Hannah started humming the tune of one of the songs that had been
playing quietly in the car on the ride back to the motel just forty-five minutes ago.

She left the room without shoes and just padded along the narrow, wooden porch that wrapped
around the building in her socks. The cool air of the night nipped at her skin, but instead of
shivering and wrapping her arms around herself, she sighed blissfully and welcomed the chill
that touched every inch of her exposed skin and thought of home.

If there was one thing she missed about being back in Scotland, it was the cold weather.

As she neared the vending machines, she noticed that there was someone, a woman, standing
in front of one of them with her hands pressed against the glass as she peered inside at the
snacks available.

“Excuse me?” Hannah called out to the woman; getting her attention and making her turn
around.

As soon as she looked at Hannah, Hannah knew that this woman was homeless and definitely
hungry.

“Would you like something from the machine?” Hannah asked, gesturing to the machine the
woman was standing in front of.

“I would…” She hesitated “But I don’t have any money,”

“Oh, no,” Hannah chuckled with a bright smile “I’m offering to buy you something,”

“That would be very kind of you,”

Hannah fished the change from the pocket of her sweatpants and slipped it into the vending
machine and gestured for the woman to press the number for whichever snack she wanted,
and then the woman thanked her and turned to leave.

“Hold on!” Hannah called out, catching the woman’s shoulder with her hand and stopping her
from leaving as she reached back into her pocket and pulled out five dollars and slipped it into
the woman’s hand “There’s a diner a little way down the road, take this and get yourself
something hot to drink, alright?”

The woman smiled at Hannah, a smile that let her know that she was truly thankful for her
kindness and she didn’t have to say a word as she left. Hannah felt happier knowing that she
helped at least one person out today, and moved back to the machine to buy something for
herself with the change that she had left in her pocket.

~~~~

Chocolate bar in one hand and a can of soda in the other, Hannah walked back into the motel
room and found Castiel, still sitting on the foot of her bed, but with her tablet in his hands,
swiping his fingers across the screen every few moments.

“What are you doing?” Hannah asked with an amused laugh, surprising herself when she
realised that she wasn’t upset with him for taking the device without her permission like she
normally would be.

“You have a lot of technology with you,” Castiel stated “Your cell phone, a camera, a laptop
and… this thing,”

“My tablet,” She informed him.

“Yes, your tablet,” He nodded, continuing to swipe a long finger over the smooth screen “Why
do you need so many?”

“Before we came out onto the road I had even more back at home,” She told him, walking over
and sitting down right next to him on the bed “I had to sell them because I couldn’t bring them
with me, but I kept whatever I could, and I like to have them because they provide
entertainment and I can carry my whole life around in them,”

“I don’t understand,” Cas admitted.

“Well, you’re looking through my photographs,” She pointed out “The ones on this device are
the ones from earlier in my life, starting way back before I moved from Scotland. I take new
pictures with my camera and store them on my laptop,”

“What else can you do with this… tablet?”

“You can read books on it, use the internet, message friends and family… there’s a lot that you
can do with it,”

Silence fell over the two of them for a few moments and Castiel continued to look through the
pictures on the tablet while Hannah popped open her can of soda and took a sip.

“Who is this?” Castiel asked, turning the tablet so that she could see the picture he was now
looking at.

“That’s my brother,” She smiled “Jamie,”

“He looks much older than you,”

“He is,” She nodded “There’s a pretty big age gap between us, he’s already got himself a
mortgage and a wife,” She chuckled “This is us on my twentieth birthday, we were… uh… it
was-“

Hannah couldn’t get her words out. She felt like her throat was constricting and her chest was
tightening and all of a sudden she found that she couldn’t breathe.

“Hannah?” Castiel asked when he noticed that she was gasping for breath and holding her
throat “Hannah, what’s wrong?”

“Can’t breathe,” She gasped.

Hannah had been diagnosed with asthma when she was a kid, but it hadn’t affected her in
years, but she still carried around an inhaler in case of emergency, but something told her that it
wouldn’t help this time around because this didn’t feel like an asthma attack. She didn’t know
what this was, but it felt like someone was crushing her lungs with their bare hands.

Without hesitation, Cas pressed the tips of his fingers to her forehead and attempted to remove
the pain that she was in and help her breathe again… heal her, but nothing happened, so he
tried again but still nothing happened.

“Someone has been in this room,” He almost growled, leaping from the bed and dropping onto
his hands and knees on the floor so that he could look under the bed.

When the two of them had first arrived back at the motel and entered the room he had a feeling
that something was off, that something was different, but there had been no sign of a break in
so he hadn’t thought anything more of it. Now that Hannah was clutching onto the duvet for her
life and gasping for the air that she couldn’t seem to breathe, it was obvious that a witch had
been here at some point.

Hannah watched through wide eyes as Castiel started to tear the room apart, looking for the
hex bag that he knew was in here somewhere. He looked under both of the beds, behind the
TV, in the bathroom and the bedside tables before he stripped Erin’s bed and flipped the
mattress but still found nothing.

Wordlessly, he picked Hannah off of the bed, bridal style, and sat her on the floor carefully
before he did the same to her bed as he had done to Erin’s. He was working so quickly that he
didn’t notice the small pouch that fell out of one of the pillow cases and onto the floor.

“Cas,” Hannah gasped, but he kept rummaging “Cas!” She repeated, a little louder this time.

Castiel turned around and saw that Hannah was pointing to the very thing that he had been
looking for and he grabbed it off of the floor, pulled the lighter that Dean had given him from his
pocket, lit the pouch on fire before opening the motel room door and tossing the burning hex
bag out into the parking lot of the motel.

Hannah could feel herself starting to black out. She wasn’t going to be able to hang on much
longer. Her whole body was tingling, verging on numb and she had started seeing black spots
wherever she looked but they were quickly melting together and filling the room around her with
complete darkness. She faintly heard Castiel opening the motel room door, and suddenly
everything stopped and she took a big, deep breath and sat up straight as she inhaled.

“Hannah?” Cas asked, rushing back into the room and dropping to his knees before her
“Hannah, say something, are you alright?”

She wanted to say something, but before a single word could leave her mouth she burst into
tears, wrapped her arms around Cas’ torso and buried her face in his chest.

At first, he didn’t know what to do, but he knew that the hysterical woman clutching to him was
looking for comfort, so he carefully wrapped his arms around her back and hugged her against
him and rocked slightly from side to side.

“What just happened?” Hannah whispered when she finally started to calm down.

“A witch,” He answered honestly “They must have been in the room while we were gone and
they placed a hex bag in the room so that they could kill you when you returned,”

“Oh God!” Hannah cried, tears flowing from her eyes all over again.

“Do you know what this means?” Castiel asked, pulling away from her slightly but not breaking
contact with her, so that he could look at her face.

“What?” She asked.

“There’s a case here,” He told her “Dean and I haven’t been in contact with a witch and neither
have you girls, so you were targeted randomly, this witch doesn’t know who we all are,”

“Are you suggesting that we hang around and hunt down a witch?!” She asked excitedly.

“That’s exactly what I’m suggesting,”

“This is our chance,” Hannah smiled to herself “Erin and I can prove to you all that we can hunt
and then maybe we’ll be taken a little more seriously and we’ll be hunters!”

~~~~

Castiel

The sun was coming up.

Hannah and I had spent the last few hours doing some research on recent deaths in the town
that we were in and they were all coming up suspicious so we knew that there was a case here
for sure. Dean wouldn’t be too pleased about it being a witch but I knew that Erin would want to
take it down because Hannah was almost killed tonight.

I had fixed Hannah’s bed while she read news articles to me about the deaths in the town, and
now she was fast asleep on top of the bedspread and her tablet was hanging from her hand as
she slept, snoring softly.

I had just finished fixing up the rest of the mess that I had made in the room when I heard the
Impala pulling up outside, so I sat myself in one of the chairs at the small table in the corner and
waited for Erin to come into the room, but I didn’t take my eyes off of Hannah.

Her glow was back.

As she slept, I noticed the soft smile on her lips and the peaceful expression on her face, but
her glow was so much brighter than it had been when we first returned, it could light up the
whole room in comparison to how dull it had been earlier.

I heard the door opening and turned to look at it and saw Erin coming inside.

“Morning,” She smiled sleepily at me.

“Good morning,” I nodded at her with a smile of my own “How was your night?”

“Eventful,” She chuckled, sitting down on her bed “How was yours?”

I hesitated, turning to look back at Hannah and felt my smile grow stronger.

“Eventful,” I answered “I think we might be staying here for another day, though.”

“How come?”

“Ask Hannah when she wakes,” I insisted.

“Alright,” She yawned “Dean wants to speak to you, he asked me to send you to his room,”

“Of course,” I nodded curtly, standing from the chair I was occupying and crossing the room to
the door “Sleep well,”

She just smiled in return and lay back on the bed.

I left the room and made my way towards Dean’s motel room and braced myself for whatever
kind of mood he might be in this morning.

Notes

This is so much shorter than I wanted it to be and not as exciting as I had hoped, but I really needed to post something for this! I'm sorry it took me so long to update this story!

More to come from the amazing elovebakervengeance, who I'm sure will have something much more interesting for you guys!
Enjoy!

~ LMV