[b][u]NATALIA[/u][/b]

Hearing that Duke was alright and mostly in one piece was a massive relief to Natalia. She may not have known him as well as Dean, Esme or Mika did...or had, but she still adored the crap out of the man and knew over time he would probably become like a third brother or even an uncle figure to her if Mika saw him as a brother. She didn't want to lose him, just as she didn't want to lose any of their group now. Losing Mika was too much as it was, and she didn't think she would have coped hearing anymore bad news. These last three or four days were too much already. As relieved as she was that Duke was alright, she was more relieved that Cason confirmed he was alright, despite his look. "Of course he did...it's about the most insane thing he could do that would have made Mika absolutely go batshit mad at him for" she sighed in reply to hearing what Duke had gone and done. "He was lucky to have had you go after him even if I did miss you greatly and worried constantly" she told him honestly. 

Then he told her to breathe and it made her realised just how much she had been rambling and probably with very little breaths in between. She let him grab for her cheeks, looked up into his eyes back and took a deep breath as she let her eyes close. She refused to let go of him but made her breathing match his to force herself calm down all over again. It was only in this moment that she truly realised how pent up she still was over everything, especially at the situation of Cason and Esme chasing after Duke. After a few deep breaths, she did calm down and get her breathing to a more natural slow rhythm, where she felt she could now reopen her eyes. "what would I do without you?" she softly smiled before taking a quick glance behind her to check on Dean then looked back at Cason. "I'm so worried about how he's gonna react when we actually burn Mika's body. I wish I could do more for him...even though he drives me absolutely up the wall" she sighed. 

With that sigh, she rested her head against Cason's shoulder. "He's gonna probably hate waking up in this room later" she remarked, "but I'm genuinely glad you three made it back safe and the boys fight didn't send Duke into a successful suicide mission". 

[b][u]SAM[/u][/b]

Anna's words did bring a very tiny sad smile to his lips. She was right, that would be how Mika would see this...or at least that's how he hoped she would. He missed that whole side to Mika's personality and now he was thinking about it, he realised he couldn't recall the last time he saw that side of her. In this business, it made so many lose the hobbies they all had when they were kids, if they were even lucky enough to have a normal childhood before becoming hunters. He missed Mika being the happy go lucky redheaded book nerd before this life consumed her. Glancing down at Mika, he still hoped that for whatever reason, she would just wake up and act like she wasn't ever dead but he knew that couldn't happen as it would have happened already if it was possible. He hated that it felt like only he and Dean were allowed to come back from the dead in their group. It made it all feel all the more wrong. 

The sound of the truck outside made him also briefly glance upward before looking back down at what he had to do. "Okay, I'll finish up here" he replied to Anna's statement of going to check on Duke and Esme and possibly Cason. Like Anna, he could hear Cason's heartbeat which told him he had headed straight up to go to Nat, which he didn't blame him for doing. It felt like everyone in their group was desperate to cling onto those they bonded with as tightly as possible after seeing what losing that someone had done to Dean. 

Letting Anna go, Sam stayed behind as he said he would, finishing up the wrapping of Mika's body but still left her face on show as he just couldn't just bring himself to cover her entirely just yet. He wanted to give others the chance to say goodbye to her face and not a piece of cloth if they wished to. Though he wouldn't be surprised if no one else could bring themselves to come down here, but he didn't even know if Bobby had come down here yet and out of them all, other than Dean, Bobby had the most right to say goodbye properly out of all of them. "I'm gonna miss you so much Meeko... I'll never stop trying to redeem myself for not getting there in time to save you." he sighed, lifting a hand and stroking her black and pink hair, smoothing it out down over her shoulders. "this family ain't gonna be the same without you, I know this much, but I promise we'll keep Nat and Anna safe and I'll make sure Dean doesn't kill Duke or vice versa for you." he spoke, feeling a couple of fresh tears fall down his cheek before they landed on Mika's cheek. 

Wiping his eyes and her cheek, he took two steps back from the bed in an attempt to leave Mika's side, although it was incredibly difficult to do so.