Three figures burst into the room, two holding up one of the figures in the middle. They sat him down on one of the beds, the two almost panicking when they switched on the light. The three were practically covered in blood, the third figure more that the other two.

The first figure, who now could be seen as Madisen, rushed forward with a bag in her hand. Sam was kneeling next to his brother, trying to keep the wounds from bleeding even more than they already had. Dean was the one on the bed. A large gash spread across his torso and a bullet was lodged deep within his shoulder. He kept mumbling things like 'I'm fine' and continued to try and sit up, only to have both his brother and Madisen push him back down.

"Sam! I need you to hold Dean still real quick!" Madisen urged the large man next to her. She kneeled on the bed and looked down on the man in pain. "I'm sorry Dean but this is really going to hurt."

If Dean had heard her at all he didn't acknowledge it.

"It's small, you won't feel a thing," Sam assured.

"You're definitely going to feel it," Madisen said.

Sam nodded his head and signaled that he could hold Dean. Hesitantly, Madisen grabbed the special scissors she had stolen from a hospital and dug them into the bullet wound. Dean let out a strangled cry and almost lurched off the bed but Sam held him down.

"Jesus!" Madisen cried, almost being knocked away from the man. "Fine, the hard way."

She shoved Dean's shoulder down. With his cry of pain she grabbed a rag from the desk next to her and shoved it in his mouth. If someone had been near then they would've heard his shout. Sam gave a glare at the woman as a silent question of why it was necessary to gag his brother but he didn't comment. Madisen readjusted her hold on the medical scissors and put some of her body weight just above the gash on his torso so as to help keep the man still. She reached in the bullet wound as carefully as she could and, without too much difficulty now that the hunter below her wasn't thrashing as much, pulled out the bullet. As soon as the thing was out of his body Dean stopped moving. And if it weren't for her superior hearing she would've declared him dead. That and the fact that as soon as she did so Dean came back into the waking world after his split second unconscious state.

Sam sighed in relief at seeing his brother open his eyes. But that was the least of their problems. Dean still had the gash on his torso. Madisen grabbed the needle and thread from the same bag she had pulled the scissors from and stepped towards Dean. Sam stopped her and held out his hand, he wanted to do it. She handed the needle and thread over to the man easily. She wasn't bad with a needle it's just she could be way better. And it was obvious Sam had more experience with it so he would do a much better job sewing up Dean.

Dean however had other ideas. He went to sit up but immediately floored by the pain he was only now beginning to feel in his stomach. Both Madisen and Sam saw this and went by his side. Sam stood over Dean's wound and began to sew it up while Madisen pulled up a chair and sat next to Dean where he could see her face. And Dean, being the cocky son of a bitch he was (in Madisen's opinion), grinned at her.

"Ouch."

"Don't you 'ouch' me Dean. I have half a mind to drag your ass back there and let the monster have round two."

Dean went to get up once again to see where his brother was, not knowing he was sewing up his torso, but Madisen quickly grabbed him and pushed on his arm till he was laying back before he would mess up and pop the stitches Sam was currently stitching. He gave them a look of annoyance the two gave Sam their own versions of a bitch face in retaliation. Dean's more drowsy and half-hearted than Madisen's. She would have been lying if she didn't relish in the slight pain she gave Dean when she had pushed him back onto the mattress. She still hadn't sewn it up because his torso needed more attending to. But the man just wouldn't learn to listen now would he?

Dean sighed, "What the hell happened?"

"Well the monster got you on your stomach and I aimed to fire at it. But you being the stubborn little shit you are didn't duck after you got back up when I told you to. You got in the way and I accidentally shot you. But, since I fired twice and you dropped after the first one hit you, the second one hit the monster," Madisen explained.

"Oh come on," Dean groaned. "No one could have avoided that shot!"

"Sam did, he was right in front of you and closer to me."

Dean fell silent, obviously knowing he wouldn't get anywhere. Which was a first, Sam thought. It became silent and Dean's breathing evened out, signaling the man had fallen asleep. Or fallen unconscious, which either was preferable than listening to the guy complain about being shot. Sam finished off sewing Dean's stomach and sighed, sitting back. He gave a slight grimace and looked at Madisen who was starting to nod off in the chair she was sitting in.

"Can you help hold Dean up so I can wrap the gauze around him?"

Madisen startled awake but nodded, standing from her chair going up near Dean's head and began to lift there. Sam went to object but stopped as she lifted Dean slightly and sat behind him. Her knees were positioned right beneath his arms so as to keep his torso lifted from the bed. Madisen leaned forward slightly so Dean didn't end up bending over backwards and let Dean's weight press into her chest. She situated them both so Sam could have enough room to reach through the gap between Dean and the bed before nodding at Sam to start wrapping the gauze. Though effective as it was how Madisen moved Dean without him showing any signs of pain or discomfort, Sam didn't know what to think of this slightly unorthodox way to help bandage a person. But still he continued and bandaged his brother.

The second he finished Sam moved towards the bullet wound in Dean's shoulder. It was small, and it wouldn't need very many stitches. He grabbed the needle and thread and began sewing his brother's arm. He had just barely started when Madisen spoke.

"I'm sorry."

"For what?" Sam asked.

"Shooting your brother."

He gave a small laugh, "You'd be surprised how many times this actually happens to us."

Madisen glared at the man. "Yeah but still. I didn't think Dean would get up that quickly."

Sam cleared his throat. "So, uh, you said that those bullets were enchanted. Any side effects of a human getting shot with one?'

"He'll just need a lot of sleep and some time to recuperate."

Sam nodded. Dean wasn't going to like being on bedrest for the next while. And that was just from the bullet wound. His torso was another matter. That was going to put Dean out of comission for another few weeks. Not that Dean would listen to reason even if he wasn't fully healed. If Dean said he was fine, chances are he wasn't but that almost always depended on the circumstances of him saying it. In this case, the guy would most likely be up and going one to two week before he should even start up small hunting jobs.

Before they knew it Dean's stitching was done. Sam reached over to grab something to clean Dean's wound before he put the bandages on but realised he'd used the last of it on Dean's torso. Madisen lazily followed his gaze to the empty bottle and sighed tiredly.

"I saw some of that stuff at the store down the street. If it's not open try the liquor store just down from there."

Sam nodded and went to grab the keys to the impala but was stopped before he made it to the door.

"Wash off your hands before someone thinks you murdered someone and think you're the one that killed those missing persons."

Sam gave a small laugh, "Yeah, that's probably best."

Madisen hummed in agreement and closed her eyes, resting against the pillows behind her back and leaning her head back onto the wall. Sam gave his hands, and whatever was visibly bloody, a quick wash and left the motel room, walking this time. As it turns out the small store Madisen had gone to when she bought her dinner was in fact closed. So Sam made the five minute walk to the liquor store, picked up what he needed and set back to the motel room.

When he got back Madisen was in the same position as before, except her heavy breathing gave away the fact that she had fallen asleep in the time he had been gone. But this time her body was laying more parallel to the ground so she wasn't sitting straight up as much. The lower half of her body was still lying below Dean's sleeping form. One of her hands was entangled in Dean's hair, almost as if she nodded off while running her hands through it. And Dean was still pressed up against her sleeping his life away. Now that Madisen had shifted so as to make herself more comfortable, so had Dean. He was now lying on his side against her, his head was almost in her lap and his uninjured arm was resting over Madisen's leg.

If Sam was honest he would say that the two looked sort of cute. Then again, as hunters go, relationships never last. But, it was nice seeing his brother so relaxed. Sometimes all Sam would see is the protective older brother who never got a moments peace to himself. An exhausted man who had literally been through Hell and back and if Dean didn't guard himself so much, you could tell as easily as Sam and would be able to see the haunted look in his eyes.

He glanced down the the bag in his hands and then back up to the sleeping forms on the second bed. Dean could wait 'till the morning, he needed his sleep. And with that, Sam set the bag down on the coffee table, cleared off the items from both his and the other bed before climbing into his own. They would deal with the monster and Dean in the morning.

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And while I loved updating this and keeping things interesting for you guys, first thing's first. PUT THOSE PITCH FORKS AWAY! Thank you. Second, no you did not miss a chapter, nor did I post this one before it was supposed to be up. Next, how do you like that little ending with Dean and Madisen? I'm not sure who to ship her with without experimenting a little bit. What do you think? Dean and Madisen? Sam and Madisen? Maybe even Castiel and Madisen? Let me know guys.

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