[b]MIKA,NATALIA AND SAM[/b]

Ever since Lillith's hellhounds took Dean as the due payment for bringing Sam back, Mika was a wreck emotionally which made her a complete livewire when it came to hunting. Her and Sam did all they could for two months to try and bring Dean back, tried making deals, killing anything that got in their way and didn't give them answers that they either liked or needed and sent far too many demons to Hell out of pure spite. Mika had lost Dean once because of the wendigo attack almost damn well killing her and going into hiding as Bobby brought her up, she wasn't prepared to just lose him yet again. Yet no matter what tactic they used, nothing worked and they had to begrudgingly accept that he was gone. A brother, a partner, a friend. Sam soon went off on his own, leaving not only Mika alone with Bobby, but ignored every bit of contact with them completely and didn't even acknowledge his half sister Natalia either. Mika became lost and kept hunting when she could, even though it didn't quelch any of the pain she felt, if she ever felt anything at all. If she was too numb feeling she remained in her bedroom and didn't leave for days at a time, stacks of plates regularly always piling up with uneaten food, but always there was empty beer bottles. She always told Dean that she would come back to and for him, and now here she was on the other side of that promise. The side where she was probably feeling everything that Dean felt as a teenager when she was proposed dead, and then pretended she wasn't her every time they bumped into each other on hunts. She was certain she would never get over his death. 

Natalia on the other hand was still hopeful that Dean would somehow return. She may only be the half sister that only came into their lives a couple of years ago, but that didn't mean she didn't care about the boys. She refused to give up and although it wasn't always the first thing she did, she did still keep an eye on what Sam was doing and check in with Bobby about Mika to see how she was coping. She remained on the road, similar to Sam except she wasn't sleeping around in hotels like Sam was. Alongside picking up any hints or clues to trying to bring Dean back, she got on with her life as a hunter. Right now she was in a hotel just outside of Sioux Falls, fully intending on just sleeping in after a night of hunting vampires. 

Sam was also in a hotel albeit different to Natalia and not nearly as close to Bobby's as Natalia was, with a dark haired woman. He didn't particularly care for the woman but she was company when he craved it and that was just fine for him. He had changed so much from Dean's passing and as much as he liked Mika and Natalia, he couldn't deal with being round them any longer. Mika's grief got too much to handle when he was dealing with his own and Natalia in his eyes just couldn't understand what either of them were feeling being only the half sibling. His grief made him blinkered and hardened in his soul, distancing himself for his own sanity.