[b]NATALIA[/b]

When Esme yelled at for Dean to stop the car, it jolted Nat awake. She groaned in tired irritation as she readjusted her position as much as was possible to try and get comfortable again in Cason's side. She just wanted to sleep, was that really too much to ask for? Clearly it was she thought. "now what..?" She complained as she saw out the corner of her eye Dean also annoyed but follow Esme out of the car.  She tried to ignore everyone seemingly on high alert and whatever was going to happen outside of the car. She didn't even want to acknowledge that even Cason seemed to recognise Duke before Esme did. 

However she could hear Esme scream Duke's real name and for a moment didn't even put the two things together, until she overheard Dean outside saying Duke's name. This woke her up more, making her sit upright and look out the back window. It was then she did infact see Esme and Dean staring at Duke before Esme just ran at him and leapt on him. "Oh damn! That IS Duke!" She gasped, watching the whole thing unravel out on the empty road. She couldn't believe he actually got out of the hospital even if he looked utterly confused and dazed about how he was standing there. Although she didn't know he was perceived as dead, she still found it surprising that he was out of the hospital. They were just heading back towards there to get Sam and Anna and possibly see how Duke was doing. This night was really giving more surprises by the hour it felt like. 

When Dean came over telling them one of them had to go up front, she was prepared to volunteer herself when Cason just found a loophole in the situation and put her on his lap so he could scoot into her spot. It wasn't in the least bit safe but she wasn't going to argue, instead just deciding to be as  comfortable as she could be on his lap. She watched as Duke painfully got into the car, sitting next to Cason, making him the new piggy in the middle, her legs becoming a barrier between Cason and Duke's legs. He looked awful, but he was alive and that was the best she figured they could ask for right now. "glad to have you back Duke" she told him. 

She looked forward as Esme got in the car after him and saw Mika just staring at him like he was a ghost and she couldn't help but wonder why Duke was getting such looks. "Jeez guys... You're looking creepy with the way your staring at him" she remarked, draping one arm over Cason's arms holding her and gave Duke a friendly pat on his knee before wrapping her other arm on Cason's. A part of her wanted to make a quip like 'look at us...all couples together!' but she refrained from it because she wasn't sure how anyone would take it, especially Cason as they hadn't had a moment to discuss what they even were to each other. 

[b]MIKA[/b]

"Esme for crying out loud!" Mika called out as she watched the woman jump out the car even before Dean managed to come to a full stop. She really couldn't help but wonder what kind of death wish Esme had if she was doing such reckless things. she looked back at Dean as he glanced at her and gave him the nod to go after Esme, "go before she gets herself hurt" she told him with a sigh, putting her hand in her hand, running it through her hair in defeat almost. She was just so tired of the day and wanted to go to a bed and hope tomorrow brought a better day for them all. She really couldn't take anymore surprises whilst she sat in the front seat still processing the night and the news that Duke was dead. Only for all of that to get turned on it's head as she hears Esme scream Duke's real name. Her head remained forward but her eyes went wide in disbelief. [i]"did she really say Jason?"[/I] she thought to herself. [I]"surely I'm imagining things, Esme told Dean he had died in the hospital...Duke is gone. Wait...is Duke the one the hospital is searching for?! Is this real?!"[/i] she kept thinking, with more and more thoughts racing through her head. 

Yet she couldn't bring herself to look out the window or get out of the car to look for herself. She was too scared that she was mishearing the names and just having a force sense of hope that he was back and found them all. "Meeko it's really him!" Nat said to her, still watching the reunion between Esme, Duke and Dean. Yet Mika shook her head, "nope...can't be...nope, I refuse to believe it" she replied, eventually wiping her eyes from the build up of tears that suddenly refused to fall. 

She only turned her head when Dean came back, opened the back door and told Nat and Cason to pick who was going to buddy up in the front so Duke could fit in the back. If Dean was saying this then it meant it was true. Duke was back from the dead somehow and they had to find out the answers. Yet Cason made her roll her eyes once more when he lifted Nat up just enough to scoot underneath her and put her on his lap. "always gotta find a loophole..." She scoffed, looking forward again for a moment until Esme walked Duke back to the car and Duke got in first carefully. 

It was then she turned her head to look at him and she just stared with bewilderment. She couldn't even talk or say anything to him, all she could do was stare even when Esme got in after Duke. She saw how Esme linked arms with Duke and held onto him as if he would just vanish at any given moment. She realised she must have looked like a strange person just looking at him, but she was convinced if she looked away, he wouldn't be there and this was all a dream.