"Where's Dean?" Sam asked Crowley. Dean had just killed Dick and then disappeared along with him and Cas.

"He's gone. You're alone," Crowley said. "However, I can fix that."

"Gone where?" Sam asked.

"Purgatory. Where did you think he would go after killing the head leviathan, you stupid moose?"

"How could you possibly get him out of Purgatory? And if you did, you would just let everything else down there out, too." Dean would kill him if he let that happen.

"Not at all. There's a special door that only humans can go through."

"Well, if only humans can get through, how are you going to get Dean through it?" Sam asked.

"You just let me worry about that."

"And all it will cost is my soul?" Sam asked. He really, really, really didn't want to go back to Hell. But, it wasn't right to leave Dean in Purgatory. He knew that. And, at least this time, he'd probably go to regular Hell. That couldn't be as bad as Lucifer's box. It couldn't. Could it?

"You can keep your soul," Crowley answered. He had to play this carefully. As a demon he was bound by any deal he made, but he needed to be tricky in the wording so Sam would say yes.

That sounded like good news, but he knew Crowley wouldn't be handing out freebies for a Winchester. "Then what do you want?"

"Just some of your knowledge," Crowley said.

"That's it?" Sam asked. There couldn't be anything that he knew that Crowley didn't know.

"That's it."

"And you'll get Dean out of Purgatory right now?"

"It will take a few months."

"How many months?" A few to a demon could mean 1,000 or more.

Crowley smiled. "You're smarter than you look. 12."

Sam sighed.

"It's better than eternity."

"Fine," Sam said.

Crowley pulled him into a kiss.

"What do you want to know?" Sam asked, ready to keep his end of the bargain, so the year long countdown would start now.

"It's not about what I want to know. It's about what I don't want you to know. I'm taking away your knowledge of hunting and your brother. When you wake up tomorrow, all you'll remember is a childhood traveling around with a drunk father. Going to college and having your girlfriend die in a fire. And then dropping out of school, traveling the country to evade the law since you're always stealing to feed yourself."

"So, when Dean comes back, I won't even remember him?" Sam asked.

"You won't remember much of anything. I don't know how you'll explain all the holes in your memory. Alcohol, probably."

"I'll figure something else out," Sam said.

"Too late, Moose. A deal's a deal."

Crowley snapped his fingers and magically sent Sam to sleep in a motel bed across the country.

SSS

"Cas, where are we?" Dean asked.

"Purgatory," Cas answered.

Dean heard a noise and turned around to look. He saw red eyes peering out at him from all over. "What do we do?" he asked.

When he got no response he turned around. Cas was gone. He was on his own.

SSS

Benny heard Crowley's call. After the angel had sucked them all up and then spit them back out, the demon had found a communication hole in Purgatory. They couldn't go through it, but they could talk through it.

"What do you want?" Benny asked. Crowley had promised to find a way out for all the monsters so that they could help get rid of the Leviathans. Win-win for everyone. But all Crowley had found was a portal humans could go through.

"I found a way out, but only for you," Crowley said.

"I heard the head Leviathan is back here. So, what do you want in exchange for my escape now."

"Help with my total Universe Domination plot."

"And what's in it for me? Getting out of Purgatory might not be such a boon if you're in charge of everything," Benny noted. "No offense," he added as an afterthought.

"I'll need a second –in-command for every major area. You can have your pick," Crowley promised.

Benny shrugged. "Your rule can't be any worse than life down here. What do I have to do?"

Crowley explained everything.

SSS

Castiel found himself surrounded by several monsters.

"What do you want?" Cas asked, wondering why they just didn't eat him or whatever.

"Do you know how uncomfortable it was for all of us to be crammed inside of you for weeks?"

"That was probably very unpleasant. I apologize."

"Apology not accepted. Before we eat you, we're going to give you a taste of your 'unpleasantness.'"

Castiel shrank back in fear as the monsters advanced on him. It was the first time he had ever felt fear and he didn't like it.

SSS

Sam woke up and looked around. Once again, he wasn't sure what motel or city he was in. Why did he live this way? Just because it was how he was brought up didn't mean he had to continue on that way. He wished he had stayed in school after Jess. It was what she would have wanted. But, he had gone back to his dad's way of life, only for him to die in a car accident the following year.

He got up in search of a car to steal. Once he found one, he decided to take off and maybe find a permanent place to settle. He was getting to old for this kind of life. As he was trying to formulate a plan he hit a dog.

He decided to turn over a leaf immediately. He rushed the dog to the nearest vet and begged the doctor to save it. He wasn't going to take off, but decided to wait and make sure the dog was OK. It wasn't rational, but he felt like his whole future depended on this dog's fate.