-Author's Note: If you have stuck with the story for this long, you're amazing. I promise it will get better, come the third chapter is when the plot takes off and it starts to actually get interesting.

Chapter 2

Dean was in the middle of a pretty good dream when he was awaken by the most heavenly scent. Bacon. His eyes snapped open. Bacon? Was this for real? He tore the sheets from himself, flung his tired body out of bed, flew through the door and headed towards the kitchen. He was still very tired but what did that matter? There was bacon cooking! He started to hear the sizzle of grease frying in a pan and the scent got stronger. His mouth watered and his stomach rolled. He came around the corner to see Emily standing over the stove stroking the bacon, which was in a frying pan, with a spatula. Cas was facing Dean from his place in the kitchen and was doing something near the sink, Dean didn't look or care he was too distracted by the bacon.

"Morning sleepy head," Emily turned to him and smiled, her ponytail flipped to the side.

"Morn'n, what are you doing up? You should still be sleeping, you need it, believe me I know,"

"Well I still have to get into the routine of the way things work around here, I'm used to not sleeping some nights and always on the run, like the way my life was before I latched on to you guys. So I got up and decided to make you breakfast." She forced a little smile.
Dean looked at her, he could see this trip had an effect on her. He didn't know much about her life before, just that her parents got killed by a supernatural creature when she was 5. Oddly enough Emily and her parents were the Winchester's neighbors when they lived in Lawrence Kansas and they were good friends. Dean and Emily were what you might call, "childhood sweethearts". Mary Winchester died a few nights after Em's parents, so John took her in and looked for whatever had killed them, but never found it. John grew worried that whatever it was would come looking for Emily and that would put his boys in danger so he left Emily with some hunter friends he trusted to take care of her. Dean doesn't think Emily ever forgave John for that, she says she has but Dean isn't so sure, who can blame her?

"Well thanks Em," Dean said walking over to her, looking at the delicious sizzling brown strips, "where did you get the bacon anyway?"

"Cas went on a milk run for me to the grocery store,"

Castiel turned around, slightly disappointed in himself.

"Uh, I didn't get any milk, im sorry," He said.

Emily chuckled.

"No, Cas, its okay, it's just an expression. We don't need milk," She smiled to assure him.

"Oh," He thought a moment, his eyes narrowed trying to understand the situation, then understanding came and he smiled, "Oh I see now."

Dean patted him on the shoulder.

"Thatta boy, don't hurt yourself," Dean went to take his place at the table and left Cas confused once more, Emily snickered at them.

"Breakfast is just about ready. Cas would you mind taking these over?" She handed him three plates, since Cas doesn't eat.

"Not at all," He smiled, she quickly returned it and then went to get the food as Cas set the table. When Emily brought over the food, Sam came in rubbing eyes.

"Morning sleeping beauty, we didn't think you were going to join us today," Emily teasingly said.

"Breakfast?" Sam replied, eyeing the bacon, eggs and hash browns on the table.

"Yes, Sam, breakfast." She smiled.

"It's nice to have you back." He went to sit down, pleased he was going to get a good meal. Emily smiled and sat down too. Dean was at the head of the table, to his left was Sam and on his right was Cas followed by Emily. They all ate, except for Cas of course, then Sam got his laptop and talked to Emily about the case they had found in Nebraska.

"So there has been these weird deaths in Wayne and Holdrege Nebraska. Two men about in their late 30s, perfectly healthy, no problems what so ever, just dropped dead,"

"Dead as door nails," Dean said amusing himself.

"Dean, door nails are never physically alive to begin with." Cas stated.

Dean stared at Cas unamused and said nothing, he sat up in his chair, leaned back and just looked at him. They stared at each other for a minute and Emily chuckled at the scene as Sam continued.

"We've checked into it and no one could find anything that caused them to die and there was nothing supernatural or freaky tied to it in any way." Sam sat back in his chair nad looked for Emily's response.

"So it would seem like the case is closed but we still have two unexplained dead people and that always sparks my interest," She replied, Sam wore a pleased smile on his face. This case sounded familiar to Emily, she grabbed the laptop sitting in front of Sam and started typing.

"What are you looking for?" Dean asked,

Emily didn't say anything she just kept typing. "Well, when I was on my little trip, me and Andy were in Colorado hunting and in the paper it said there were also some strange deaths occurring there too, it sounded like the same thing," This got Dean, Sam and Cass's attention.

"Wait, who's Andy?" Cas asked,

"The friend who asked for my help, remember?" Cas nodded after a while, "Ah, here it is," She read to herself for a minute and found what she was looking for, "okay so same thing, except it wasnt two people, it was six," She looked at them.

"Jeez, well I don't know about you guys but id say something is definitely is going on here," Dean said,

"You think?" Emily sarcastically replied.

Sam cleared his throat, "Well should we pack up and head on down to Nebraska to see what we can find out?"

"Yep, ill load up baby," Dean smiled, he got up from the table and headed to his room.

"Okay, ill clean up here and then help you,"

Emily got up from her chair, "What? No Sam..."

"Hey, you cooked and now I'll clean and that's that,"

She smiled, Cas got up from the table also.

"I can't come," He announced, Emily turned to him, of course he couldn't come, "I have things I need to tend to." Cas didn't know what those things were actually, he just knew he needed to go and to where he wasnt sure. He didn't want to leave, he wanted to go, but something wasnt letting him.
Emily wasnt going to let this bother her, but the more she tried to hide it, the more it did, she faked a smile.

"Okay." That's all she could think of to say at the moment, afraid to say anything else and cause an unnecessary scene, then she left her room, a little angry. Why was this bothering her so much? Something isn't right. She opened the door to the room with a sigh and didn't bother closing it, she just went for her duffel bag and started packing it. Not moment later Cas walked into the door frame and leaned against it, watching Emily pack.

"You're angry, I know that look,"

"I'm not angry, I just... I don't know, I know when something is bothering you," Emily walked over to him. Cas looked down away from her eyes, "And something is bothering you. Cas we tell each other everything, don't lie to me. What going on?"

He looked up but not at her to his right.

"You're worried im going to something stupid or similar to what happened last year." His gaze turned on her now, eyeing her sharply, she felt hurt by the look.

"Well yes! Last time you almost got yourself killed and this time im not going to just sit around and watch it happen again! I won't! I couldn't bare it if you..." She broke off unable to finish her sentence, she wouldn't. She turned, walked away from him and started packing again. Even thinking about Cas hurt or worse, made her nuts.
Cas looked at her, surprised, he definitely didn't expect that answer from her. He thought for sure she was going to say yes and how she was worried he would make a mess of things and put everyone at risk again. But no she was concerned about his safety of all things and she didn't have to finish her sentence, he knew what she ment, he feels the same way about her, though he has never told her that.
Cas walked over to Emily, she was packing rather roughly, he put his hands on her shoulders and it calmed her.
She turned around to look at him, his hands were still placed on her shoulders and he looked directly at her.

"I know," He said softly. Emily could tell what he ment by it too and her heart skipped a beat. It wasnt a 'I know that you feel that way' it was a 'I know how you feel' and she could see that he ment that. Her stomach tightened. It was like someone had set off a bunch of fire crackers in there. What is it about him that makes her feel this way? She both loved and hated the feeling.
The space between them started to get smaller and smaller. Their heads got closer together until Emily could feel Cas's warm breath on her lips. Suddenly there was a voice that sounded like it was in the same room as them. Emily snapped her head to the right side, away from Cas's face, recognizing who the annoying voice belonged to.

"Hey you ready to go?" Dean said, standing in the door way. He tried to hide a smile, realizing what he had almost walked in on.

Emily gathered her things, "Yeah," She replied feeling a bit hostile.

Cas didn't say anything, not wanting to make things more awkward than they already were.

"Are you tagging along Cas?" Dean asked,

"No I can't, I have something I need to do and I need to get going," Cas looked at Emily again, she turned around with her two bags, "I'll check in," Cas assured her, she nodded, "if you need me you know what to do." He referred to both Emily and Dean, then with the sound of flapping wing she was gone.
Emily still looked at the spot where Cas was, not wanting him to go. She turned to Dean who wore a suspicious smile, like he knew Emily snuck a cookie and she was trying to hide it.

"If you say one word..." Emily warned walking past him.

Dean threw up his hands in defense still smiling, "I didnt see anything," He shut her door and turned off the light.