Pairings: Dean/Anna and with a small pinch of Dean/Castiel.

Anna

As much as Dean would love to hate Ruby and keep it that way, she continued to make herself useful and help keep Sam and him alive. There were still plenty of doubts concerning Ruby and her giving them news about a girl wanted by demons alive was pretty sketchy. Sam was beginning to get good at convincing him because instead of trying to find another lead to a case somewhere else, they were driving to find out about this Anna. When they got there, Dean was glad that her information was correct, Anna was a real person and in real trouble. They got her safely away from Alastair and now they were hiding in a cabin to keep their whereabouts unknown.

Everything seemed to be going just fine until Anna suddenly sat up straight tilting her head. "They're coming…" she said softly.

"Back room!" exclaimed Dean as Ruby and him quickly moved into battle ready positions just waiting for the demons to show up while Sam was the one to make sure Anna was safe. Dean kept one shotgun and he handed the other over to Sam. The same thought crossing all of theirs mind was how badly they must want Anna for angel radio if they were able to pinpoint their location this quickly. The door quickly flew open and after a few seconds Castiel and Uriel walked inside. Dean was the first to lower his shotgun but didn't really smile since the angels could be dicks. "Cas, man I'm glad you showed up we've been having demon problems all day!"

"Where is Anna?" asked Castiel not liking the orders they were given but it needed to be done. An order was an order and as a good little soldier he would do it even if he didn't want too.

"You guys are going to help?" asked Sam looking hopeful that they would have some powerful allies this time around.

"No, Anna has to die." he answered looking very serious.

"Dean…you don't have to help me." assured Anna as she walked up to the Impala. Anna felt horrible that she had brought a small battle of Heaven and War to the brothers. It wasn't her plan and she wanted them to stop before they had any harm done to them. They had found out that Anna was an angel, Heaven wanted to kill her, demons wanted her for reasons, they couldn't get her grace back, and that she had willingly fallen to Earth.

Dean just shook his head with a small smile. "This is where most people would call us insane because we're going to help you." he stated simply. Even if in Heaven's eyes Anna was a traitor she wasn't evil and they killed evil things while helping the good. "I want to know though, why would you want to be one of us?"

Anna raised an eyebrow at the question looking at him closely. "Why? You have no idea how great it is to be a human do you?" she asked.

"Great? It's horrible and the only way to get what we want or at least keep what we have is by fighting tooth and nail to keep it, making us miserable. So I'm sorry that I'm not too keen on living a human life like you are. Angels are powerful, how would you not want that?" he asked trying to figure out why an angel, of all things would want to be a human.

"Father had done right by humans Dean. They have free will, emotions…even the bad ones." she said finding it great that now as a human she could express emotion and do whatever she wanted.

"Sadness."

"Love."

"Pain."

"Sex." she smiled at him, nearly a smirk.

Dean had to give her that and smiled right back. "You got me there." he said not sure if he could honestly give up sex, it was awesome.

"Being angel isn't as cracked up as you think it is. We are so perfect that we might as well be a statue. All we go off is blind faith, never questioning, never feeling, and that is why being a human is better. That is why I see why God said that the human race was his perfect creation." she explained a little further for him.

"I guess then that you're happy you weren't able to get your grace back right?" he asked.

Anna continued to look at him and nodded a little. "Yes I am but now that I have a death sentence on my head I do not think I can live without having it back." It got quiet between the two after that since it was hard to find any real words to say. "It's not like I'll ever be forgiven. I betrayed Heaven, broke the big rule."

"That's still not a real reason to do this though. We've all done things that we are not proud of." he stated purposely looking away.

"Dean I know what you did, the angels talked about it a while ago." she started softly hoping that this wouldn't upset him and it looked like she was close to it already. Anna quickly reached a hand out to his cheek. "It wasn't your fault."

Dean bit back any kind of reaction of what was being talked about and found his eyes averting hers constantly. "I don't, I don't wanna…don't wanna..."

"I understand and you should forgive yourself." she assured him just wanting him to know it wasn't his fault. Anna searched his eyes when he was finally able to look at her and she leaned up to kiss him softly on the lips. It didn't even last that long before she pulled away.

Dean looked pretty confused and wasn't sure of how he should react for once for being kissed by a girl, well angel. "What was that for?"

Anna just smiled at him, "I don't know. It is going to be my last night on earth…" she pointed out her eyes glancing at the Impala for a second.

If Sam's brother knew what Dean was about to do there would be two things Dean would say. One, he had nowhere to speak since he had done the same thing with a demon and secondly, she wasn't technically an angel right now. Dean climbed over Anna who was lying on the back seat of the Impala and working on getting her coat and shirt off. He leaned down and kissed her again as his hands slowly moved to help with her pants. Everything seemed to flow from that point as clothes were discarded and he found his back resting on the leather of the back seat. Her hands slowly moved up his chest and to his shoulders. She lowered her body and no matter how many times he did this it always seemed to feel the same. Tight warmth that he could never tire of and his hands moved from her hips to her thighs.

Slow movements were in the beginning and their breaths got heavy quickly not helped by the fact that it was hard to keep their lips off the others. Dean didn't move much wanting her to get used to it first but soon Anna was moaning and getting faster. It didn't take too long after that before they were both moving to get more of the pleasure and the car was feeling pretty warm at this point. He almost thought it would have been better to have a window open. Her movements paused wanting to have it last as long as she could and there was something bothering her. She looked down at the burn making Dean's attention finally avert from her body. Anna knew it was a mark, a mark of the angel who had fought tooth and nail to save the righteous man. In a way it was sacred territory and she moved a hand boldly to rest upon the burn.

At first it wasn't a problem but as the hand rested there as if trying to claim that spot he got uncomfortable. He didn't let it show on his face or with his body language. Without letting her see how uncomfortable it made him she even gave his arm a light squeeze over the burn. Only one thing should be going through his mind and how he was having sex with a pretty hot woman right now but instead his mind quickly shifted gears. Castiel. Just that one name and for some reason instead of turning him off it was a neutral feeling. He didn't feel turned on but he didn't soften either, which was a good thing because that would be the most painful thing to explain to Anna right now. Even when she began to move again on top of him sending pleasure spikes rolling through his body his mind's eye was focused on the trench coat angel. So many things were wrong with that but he couldn't keep a small part of him holding onto the image of bright blue eyes studying him intensely.

Dean was almost glad for Uriel coming into his dreams last night just so that he wouldn't have to deal with the wrong thing occupying those as well. He was quickly downing the bottle he had when Sam and Anna walked into the room. "Isn't it a little early?" asked Anna.

"Its two am somewhere." he pointed out mostly drinking to drown the decision he had made last night. Dean couldn't even look at Anna's face and as if on cue the barn doors flew open. In walked Uriel and Castiel. Sam quickly pulled Anna farther away from the two angels.

"How did you find us?" asked Sam narrowing his eyes and when Castiel gave away the answer as usual with just a small flicker of his eyes he looked over at Dean.

Anna looked at the angels and then at the way Dean was still avoiding to look at her. "He had no choice…I know how they work. It's either me or you Sam." she stated and looked pretty calm with the decision that the hunter had made for her.

Dean still felt like shit though as she took it in such stride. He felt her hand on his arm and he finally looked at her just in time for her to kiss him. Instead of the calm feeling he should have had there was panic. Panic that Castiel, who was standing not even ten feet away, was able to see him kissing someone. Something was really wrong with him if he was worried about a dude watching him kiss a hot chick that he had just banged last night. Yet no matter how much he tried to shake the feeling it continued to dig itself deep inside of him even though the kiss only lasted a few seconds. If he wasn't focused on trying to ignore the feeling of panic he would have been able to see Castiel's eyes darting to the side and away from the sight.

Castiel had orders to take care of so the last thing he needed was for his vessel's body to begin acting up again. His chest squeezed at the sight and the only thing that saved him from the other symptoms that happened when watching Dean with others was the aversion of his eyes. He was really beginning to worry for his vessel but didn't know who to turn too. Once he was done here he could try asking Dean or even Sam however there was a pretty good chance that neither of them wanted to talk with him especially after they would eliminate Anna.

Sam's idea of putting Heaven and Hell in the same place saved Anna's life and she was even able to get her grace back. He also got the courage to talk to Sam about his time in Hell and now that they were back safely in the hotel he was tired. Dean had barely kicked off his shoes and took off his coat before using it as a blanket to pass out on the bed. He was mostly still thinking about everything that happened today and feeling bad that Anna was an angel again. After listening to her reasoning behind being a human it was nice to know that their lives were hell but compared to being a statue soldier, it was better. He'd still like the mojo angels have though it would be really handy in a fight.

When he finally did pass out instead of dreaming of the things that should be occupying his mind it was anything but that. Instead he was dreaming of the back of his Impala, sweating, too warm for comfort, and a body on top of him. For some odd reason he couldn't see the face of the person even though it was all too clear of who it should be. Anna was the only one he had actually had sex in the back of his Impala with since he usually wouldn't want to risk getting it dirty. The windows were fogged and when she leaned down for a kiss he felt scratches instead of smooth skin meeting his chin. He looked confused as he pulled away from the kiss still not able to see the face. Dean was sure it was a memory of that night because then her hand moved to his arm it wasn't uncomfortable, instead it felt right. His eyes tore away from the burn to look up and see Castiel.

The dream was broken as he quickly sat up looking around as if expecting to see the angel there in the room but he wasn't. He knew angels could appear in dreams but why would Castiel force himself into that dream/memory specifically with no end game of forcing him to do a job? Dean looked over at Sam's bed glad he didn't wake up and ran a hand through his hair. When Anna touched his burn it made him feel uncomfortable but yet in his dream it felt right. Maybe it was because in my dream I could make it feel right. It wouldn't have to be the fact it was Cas because that'd just be weird! He continued to convince himself that it wasn't because it was Castiel's hand on his burn in his dream it was because in his dream he could change reality. Castiel was just there as a fluke, a complete utter fluke.

Author's Note: Pretty much this is a chapter setting up the fact that not only does Castiel harbor feelings for Dean but Dean has feelings for Castiel as well. I hope you guys still enjoy the story even if it seems to be going a little slow. Reviews are appreciated ^^~