ZEN i [JACK KLINE]

T W E N T Y - O N E

21| D E A D C O W B O Y W A L K I N G

"WHAT WAS ALL that about?", Sam asks as they walked towards the cemetery.

" I don't know what you're talking about.", Zen lies.

Sam rolls his eyes. " Back at the funeral home, you snapped at her so hard I was sure I was going to call the ambulance or something.", he laughs.

Zen purses her lips. " She was annoying.", she says.

" You find everyone annoying Zenja.", he chuckles.

She thinks about it for a minute before shrugging in defeat. " True.", she states, she watches as Jack takes out an EMF meter from his suit and walks ahead of them.

She sighs. " I just didn't like the way she spoke about Jack.", she states honestly.

" You really like him don't you?", he asks with a smirk.

Zen didn't even bother to hide her feelings and says, " Yeah, I do and its scares me Sammy.", she reveals.Sam furrows his eyebrows at her and mutters an 'Oh' when he realised why.

" Gabriel getting killed wasn't your fault Zen...", he reassures. She doesn't reply and Sam sighs before walking ahead. She'd rather not think about her past lover that died in the hands of her soulmate's father. If you really stop and think about it, you'll realise she dated her soulmate's uncle. If that's not a f****d up family tree, then I don't know what is.

The trio walk through the graveyard. Jack holds the EMF meter, which warbles wildly.

"There's something here. No, wait. There.", Jack points at a gravestone.

Sam laughs. "Jack, put that away. We're in a graveyard. There's gonna be EMF everywhere.", he says as he examines the robbed grave

" Hunting 101 by Moose.", Zenja joked.

Sam sent her a glare just as Jack says, "The police report said something about rats damaging the coffin."

He then opens the coffin, where most of one end is missing.

"Must be a huge rat if it could make a whole in the size of a basketball.", she muses.

"Yeah...", Jack mutters as he looked at the coffin.

Zen sighs and says, "All right. Here goes nothin'.", she jumps down into the grave, and begins digging through the dirt at one end. She furrows her brows and reached her arm into the hole.

" There's something in here...", she states as she tried her best to yank it out. She grits her teeth as she tried to grab the thing lodged deep in the dirt. She then pulls out a bone and holds it up.

"What's that?", Jack asks curiously.

Sam looks at it and furrows his brows. "I think it's—"

Zen throws the bone towards Sam in disgust when she realised what it was, " That's just nasty...", she mutters with a frown.

>••<

THE IMPALA PULLS up outside the mortuary. Jack, Zen and Cas stay in the back seat, while Dean and Sam get out. Zen sighs as she looks around the car for something to do while waiting for her brothers.

Castiel and Jack awkwardly stays silent beside her. She grabbed a flask filled with some kind of alcoholic beverage from under her seat and took a swig. Everything was fine until Cas spoke up.

" So, I heard you two almost kissed."

Whiskey. Everywhere.

She coughed violently as Jack rubs her back in concern. " Are you alright?", he asks.

She took in a deep breath and wiped the dribble from her chin. " You told him?", she looks at him with flushed cheeks.

Jack gulped as his own cheeks flushed as well. " I...yes...", he answers.

She didn't know whether to kill herself right then and there or threaten Castiel not to tell her brothers.

She picked the latter.

She looked at Cas and opened her mouth to speak but he shook his head and chuckled. " Don't worry, I won't tell them Zenja."

She breathed out in relief. " You better not, feathers.", she muttered in embarrassment.

Silence filled the impala once again.

" Did you really almost kiss?"

She groaned. " For f***s sake, chicken wings. Now is really not—s**t they're back.", she states as she sees her brothers emerging from the mortuary.

She gives Cas a look before looking over at her brothers, who just got in the car.

" Well? Where is he?", she questions.

" The son of a b***h is stealing a bank.", Dean answers as he backed up from the mortuary.

She snorts. " The man is on a heist? Classic."

Sam chuckles and turns to look at her. He raises his brows and asks, " Why is your face all red?"

Her eyes widened at his question and Dean looks at her from the rearview mirror.

She shrugged. " Being in the middle of two angels can get a little hot Sammy."

Dean laughs at her innuendo and Sam chuckles before looking back at the road. Her cheeks burned in embarrassment when she realised what she had said.

" Oh gross—not like that you f*****g idiots! Keep your heads out of the gutter."