When Cas walked into the room he nearly suffocated me with a huge ear hug. "Oh, Dee, if I had known you were going to wake up I wouldn't have gone out."

I shook my head, "no, it's better that you do instead of sitting around with the cripple. But where were you? coffee doesn't take an hour."

"I went to see your dad." He said with a smile.

Dean. He was okay. He was alive. It felt like fireworks were going off inside me, I was so happy. "He's okay? can I see him?"

Cas shook his head sadly, "he can't get out of bed. And neither can you. But he should be allowed to get up and move around tomorrow, I'll see if he can come see you."

He relayed back to me the doctors' reports about me. Apparently I had a clean break on my right tibia and a slight fracture on my right fibula. There was also a very small fracture to my patella which wasn't a bother now but might need surgery in the future.

"Damn," Mika chimed in. "That really sucks."

Cas turned his attention to her, "and you are?"

"Daddy, this is Mika. She was in a car accident, too." I introduced.

Cas questioned her about it and her face lost it's typical happy glow. "My parents and I were on a road trip to San Diego and we ran head first into a semi truck."

"That's just awful. going down PCH? I think I heard something about that." He placed a comforting hand on hers.

"Yeah, my parents didn't make it. So now I'm an orphan. The start of every lifetime movie, right?" Mika let out a harsh laugh.

"It's tragic. But let me know if I can help in anyway." he patted her hand then turned his attention back to me. "I have work but I'll come see you when I get off. I love you." he kissed my forehead and then left.

"Where are you going to go when you're released?" I asked Mika.

She shrugged and played with a strand of her blond hair. "I really have no where to go. They'll probably put me in some shitty foster home."

"You could stay with us." I offered without thinking. "I know my parents would be okay with it."

"You just met me," she laughed. "For all you know I could've lied about my being here. I could be a psychotic murderer."

I shook my head and laughed along with her, "if you actually were criminally insane you wouldn't be held here."

After that I decided to take a nap. I must have only been sleeping for about half an hour when I woke to find my amazing boyfriend sitting in the chair next to me.

"Azazel!" I yelled when I saw him. He got up and gave me a huge hug before handing me a bouquet of wild flowers.

"They're wild and uncontrollable but still wordlessly beautiful in their own way." he explained. "Just like you." he pressed a soft kiss to my lips then put the flowers in a vase.

"Introduce Mika to the pretty boy!" I heard Mika call from her bed.

Azazel gave me an odd look. "That's my new friend Mika. She might live with me when we get out." I then turned to Mika, "this is my boyfriend, Azazel."

"Nice to meet you boyfriend."

"Nice to meet you, too, roommate."

Between him, Cas and Mika this stay in the hospital was going to be extremely entertaining.

***

Exactly a week later I was released. And then next day (even though I was freakin crippled and had to walk around in a huge boot) was my first day of volunteering as a god damned elf.

I pulled on my striped leggings and then put the boot on my right leg. I put on my elf shoe on my left. The little jingle bell on the toe was really pissing me off. Along with the other bells on my green elf dress and red and green elf hat.

"You ready to go, Dee?" Dean poked his head into my room and then burst into laughter.

I looked in my body mirror and mentally cursed Crowley for making me break his nose a second time. My blonde hair was tied in two braids by green and red ribbons. I had bright green eyeshadow and huge red and green fake eyelashes and little holly berries painted on my cheeks. And of course my freckles pulled the whole look together.

"I look like Christmas threw up on me." I groaned and followed him out of my room.

"Well, whose fault would that be?" he asked as we got into the car.

"Crowley's. Jesus'. The principal's. Who ever thought Santa had to be in the mall. Who ever came up with Santa. Whoever decided he should keep short people to do his biding." I listed.

"None of them made you break a kids nose, Dee." he kissed my forehead and dropped me off in front of the mall.

Hopefully I could just stand there and get this over with. I only have three more days.