Spare Your Sympathy

53. No Rest for the Wicked

FOREST

Cataleya was running frantically through the woods, fleeing from Hellhounds. Suddenly she stopped, confronted with a Hellhound that had cut in front of her. She stood for a few beats, looking at it. Cataleya suddenly turned on her heel and ran back the way she came from, the Hellhound on her trail. Suddenly, it tripped her and got her on the ground. She screamed and blood spattered on her face.

CABIN - NIGHT

Cataleya woke up breathing heavily from her dream. She blinked a few times then looked down at the book she'd fallen asleep on. It was open to a page about Hellhounds, with a picture of them. Dean silently walked up to her and sat next to her.

Sam entered. "Dig up anything good?"

Cataleya closed the book and shook her head a bit, not looking at him. "No." She cleared her throat. "Nothing good."

"Well, Bobby has. Finally."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. A way to find Lilith."

"Oh. With just ah-" Dean looked at his watch, "30 hours to go." He paused a beat and smiled. "Hey, why don't we just make a TJ-run, yeah? You know... with Leya, cervezas, uh, we could... What's Spanish for 'donkey show'?"

Sam snickered. "So if we do save Catty... Let's never do that."

"Yeah..." He looked down on the books as Sam sat down next to him and Cataleya.

"Hey, Catty." Sam sighed. "Look, we're cutting it close, I know. But we're gonna get this done. I don't care what it takes, Catty. You're not going to Hell. You're not gonna die." Cataleya looked over at him. "I swear. Everything's gonna be okay."

Cataleya's facial expression changed as she looked at Sam and Dean, suddenly terrified. Sam and Dean's faces were completely distorted, flinging to the sides at a rapid pace. Sam and Dean returned to normal.

"Yeah, okay," Cataleya answered quietly.

CABIN - DAY

Bobby placed an old tracking device over a map of the United States. The device had three wooden legs coming out from a glass ball at the top. The ball had a flat, metal piece going around it with symbols on it. Further down the legs there was another metal piece, only bigger. From the ball hung a pendulum device that was sharp on the end so it could pinpoint a specific place.

"So you need a name, that's the whole kit and caboodle," Bobby said. "With the right name, right ritual, ain't nothing you can't suss out."

"Like the town Lilith's in?" Sam asked.

"Kid, when I get done, we'll know down the street."

Bobby began the ritual, started the swing for the pendulum and chanted in Latin. As Dean, Sam and Cataleya watched, the pendulum began to search over the map until it suddenly stopped.

Sam looked at where it had stopped. "New Harmony, Indiana."

Dean looked up at Bobby as the elder hunter said, "And we have a winner."

"All right." Sam pushed the pendulum away and looked at Bobby. "Let's go."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on," Dean said. "Let's all shut up there, Tex."

"What's the problem?"

"What's the problem?" Cataleya repeated. "Come on, where do I begin? I mean, first of all, we don't even know if Lilith holds my deal. We're going off Bela's death? Now when that bitch breathes, the air comes out crooked. Okay. Second, even if we could get to Lilith, we have no way to gank her. And third, isn't this the same Lilith that wants your giant head on a pike? Should I continue?"