The Bunker, Anna often thinks, is a good place.

She's been cocktail serving for a long time. She knows her shit. She knows how to walk just enticingly enough to earn extra tips but to dissuade creepers who would hit on her or touch her without her consent (and that thought always sends shudders down her spine). She knows how to smile, to flirt lightly, how to make enough money to not be humiliated by her chosen profession.

She also knows that The Bunker is a good place.

She has been friends with a lot of coworkers, of course. It's hard not to be when you're in the trenches of food service anywhere from twenty to sixty hours a week. A lot of places form a sort of family atmosphere, and she's made some lifelong friends that way.

Not like the ones she has here at The Bunker, though.

Charlie is like the gay sister she didn't know she needed. There have been many a night when Charlie has shown up, intuitively understanding that Anna shouldn't be alone, loaded down with movies, popcorn, and ice cream. They crash on Anna's living room floor and carpool to work the next morning.

(Somehow, they manage to fit in talking about the demons Anna carries, too.)

She can talk to Kevin about music for days. The kid is a genius, some sort of prodigy. She knows there's a story as to why he's here, all of them have some sort of story, but he hasn't shared it yet, and Anna doesn't ask. Jo looks and acts like she's tough as nails, but she's really a marshmallow on the inside. Benny is.. Well, Benny is Benny, and if he doesn't think Anna sees the way he looks at her when he thinks she doesn't notice, he has another thing coming.

And then there's Cas and Dean.

Cas and Dean aren't just in love, they're everything. Every move each one of them makes is comfortable, warm, specifically designed for the other. They're each a whole, complete person, but they complement one another so well you'd never be able to tell. The love shining in their eyes, even when they're not looking directly at one another, it floors her every time.

Dean is still a little rough around the edges. He's open about the fact that he was a scrapper when he met Cas, getting into fights almost every night, reopening the wounds on his knuckles before they ever really healed. He says he was too much, too directionless before he met Cas.

Cas is stiff and formal, especially if you don't know him as she does. His impeccable manners hide a sweet, kind soul that Anna adores, even if he has a few of his own demons, too. He says his people skills were too rusty before he and Dean were together, that he had too hard a time connecting to people, so he just never put forth the effort.

Whatever they were like before, they're perfect now. And they created The Bunker together, which may very well be a nightclub, but it's also a family.

It's her family, anyway.