It wasn't until Natalia feeling the presence of Crowley did she snap out of her trance. With a gasp, Natalia held her hands to her chest as she tried to regain her breath.

Another memory had surfaced, but not a pleasant one. Talia closed her eyes and willed herself to calm down, knowing that something else was more important than a memory.

The presence of Crowley was never a good sign. If he was here, that means he was summoned, and the only other person there was Dean. With a sigh, Talia walked out of library and into the dungeon room.

When she reached her desired place, she could hear Dean faintly.

"What the hell is happening to me, you son of a bitch."

The woman walked into the room to find Crowley in the Devils Trap, dusting off his hands.No one acknowledged her existence yet so she locked the door anyways. "Liquor before beer, bad taco? How should I know. Hello, Natalia. Nice to see you again."

"I can't turn it off!" Dean yelled back at him. Talk stepped forward and Crowley looked at him with confusion. "Ever since I killed Abaddon, it's this whole other thing. I get this high, and I-I-I need to kill. I mean, I really, really need to kill. And if I don't-"

"You yak your guts out," Crowley interrupted.

"It's the Mark," Natalia finally said from her position by Dean. He looked at her with hopeless eyes, something she had yet to see in him. His body shook with fear and paranoia, sweat also coating his forehead. It didn't take a genius to tell that he was in bad shape.

The King took hold of the situation again and continued where Talia left off. "It wants you to kill. The more you kill, the better you feel. The less you kill, the less better you feel."

Dean looked around the room anxiously. "How much less better?"

"Death," Natalia said quietly. Her eyes looked to the other side of the room, where a puddle of blood and vomit sat. It was Dean's, meaning he was already getting bad.

"Well, Cain had the Mark. He didn't die," Dean reasoned.

"Cain was a Demon-" Talia started.

"Your body's not strong enough to contain the blades power." Crowley interrupted the woman, but she did not mind. The talk of death was making memories brim to the surface, and she had no intention of visiting them.

"What if I get rid of it?"

"Do you want to get rid of it?"

The answer was simple, they all knew Dean wouldn't even consider getting rid of Cain's Mark until Metatron was dead.

Dean shook his head. "What I want is Metatron," he practically growled.

"Go on," Crowley drawled.

"I'm listening." Even though she barely knows him, Nat already had a burning urge to wipe the Angel from existence. If getting rid of him
meant working with Dean and Crowley, that's what she would do.

"But I have to get though that door, and I
have to get to the blade," a pause, "and you guys are gonna help me."

Natalia smirked and walked towards the door, the key twirling in her fingers.

•••

It wasn't really a surprise when they ended up in a small diner. The Winchester man always drifted towards these sorts of places. They were familiar to him in a sense; you could literally just walk in with your pajamas on and no one would think twice about it.

A young girl had seated them near the bar, where another young woman served an alcoholic drink to an older man. Dean and Crowley ignored them, but Natalia noticed right away. She also looked  for all the escape routes, a habit she had been used to for quite some time. When she decided it was safe enough, the woman scraped her wooden chair back and sat down.

A brunette woman walked up to them with a smile on her face. "What can I get you fellas?"

Dean didn't pay attention to her but instead opened up his laptop and began to type. "Coffee. Black," he said absentmindedly.

The woman's smile faltered, and she played with her hands nervously. The waitress obviously wasn't expected his behavior.

Luckily, Crowley picked up on this, as did Talia. She kicked Dean in the knee while the King said, "You serious? You take this girl's table, her time, you spread out like an overgrown teenager, and for what? What's the tip on a single cup of joe? A nickel?"

The waitress gave him a smile while Talia nodded her head in agreement with Crowley. "Finally something we agree on," she muttered.

With a sigh, the wayward man ordered a burger with fries in a more friendlier tone, but he still needed work. The woman turned to Nat, but she didn't know the options and didn't want to be rude. She turned her head to Crowley, giving the demon a pleading look. He rolled his eyes. "Seriously?"

Nat just shrugged in response.

Crowley looked at the waitress and told her that Natalia wanted some sort of concoction called an 'oreo milkshake'. That sounds absolutely horrid.

Now that the waitress was gone, Dean went back to his laptop. The King looked around and then back at him. "So this is what you and moose do, eh? Crisscross the country, searching for evil, order your nitrates. Part take of the local attraction-"

Nat kicked Crowley under the table and glared at him. The Demon glared back just as menacingly.

"You never get tired of the rat race?" He went on. "Never get the user to just... bigger off and howl at the moon? Never ask yourself, "is this it? Is this all there is?"'

The table was silent as everyone processed his words. The Leviathan was still new to this world, and barely understood a thing about it. Did she feel like the life she had was meant to be more? If so, what would the 'more' be? Talia couldn't picture a life without the supernatural in it, it just wasn't practical. It would always surround her no matter what she did, and there was nothing to change that. Even if she did have a chance at a normal life, (if she even knew what that was here) would she want it?
Could her normal life involve Castiel?

The thought sent her heart racing and she looked down ashamed. The whole reason she was here was to find him, and now she did. What was left to do now?

Her train of thought was interrupted by two demons in suits walking in and going up to their King. One of them whispered in his ear and gave him a yellow phone. Dean touched the First Blade wrapped in its cloth while Natalia put her hand behind her back, ready to grab her sword if necessary. Luckily, the demons left without a fuss and it was just them once more. The waitress even came back with their food and drinks.

"What was that?" The Leviathan asked as Dean put a long clear tube in her drink, what he called a straw. Nat watched him and he sucked through this straw with his own drink and the liquid rose and went into his mouth. She copied this action.

Immediately, she was met with the cold fluid which surprised her a bit. Her eyes widened and she began to taste the substance. It was very sweet and addictive. The Purgatory woman moaned in delight as she began to drain the drink quickly.

The men stared at her for a second before Crowley answered her question. "Apparently, your Angel has gone viral."

On the phone, it held a video of a woman getting hit by a car. A crowd surrounded the woman and panicked at her terrible state. Her face was smashed and it gushed with blood, oozing down her face and onto the street. The crowns gasped in horror while a man came into view, Metatron. He wore civilian clothes and healed the girl immediately. The man recording asked for his name, and Metatron responded with 'Marv'. And just like that, the video ended.

"What did he whisper in her ear?" Dean demanded.

"Exactly," responded Crowley.

Food forgotten, which was unusual, Dean packed up his things and put a few dollars on the table and began to leave.

"Woah woah woah woah, you're not going to eat your food?" Crowley said, bewildered at the fact the Winchester didn't even take a bite.

"Not hungry." and then he left. Eventually Crowley left and it was just Nat in the diner. She stared at her drink with a frown, clearly sad she didn't have a chance to finish it. With one last big gulp, she drowned as much as she could and left the table, stealing one last glance at the delicacy that was an Oreo milkshake.

I have to make Dean buy me another one sometime.

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