The song here is "Breathing Underwater" by Metric

Breathing Underwater

Anne led them up the stairs to the apartments and knocked on one of the doors. It opened and her mother smiled at her, but her face went blank when she saw the men behind her daughter.

"Well, what a surprise." She said, slowly smiling, and stepped back as she allowed them to follow her daughter in. "Never thought I'd see you boys here." She said and glanced at Castiel with a slight confused expression. "Have we ever met?" she asked.

"I believe not." Castiel said and she smiled all the same.

"Gadreel's not back yet?" Anne asked and her mother grinned as she closed the door.

"He's over in your apartment cleaning up before lunch." She replied and Anne's face lit up, which that and her glow from the pregnancy, made her almost unrecognizable to the brothers. "He'll be over soon." Viviane said as she tapped Anne's shoulder and then invited the men into the small kitchen.

Castiel and the brothers sat at the little kitchen table, but quickly got up to help Viviane and Anne to bring more chairs to the table. Once that was set up, Viviane placed some sandwiches on the table with some bowls and when the men were ready, she brought the pot of soup to serve them.

"None for me, thanks." Castiel said and then Viviane let out a soft laugh.

"Angels don't eat, right. Almost forgot." She said and continued.

Then, the door opened and Anne got up and welcomed Gadreel at the door with a quick kiss on the lips. He followed her to the kitchen and when he saw the Winchesters and his old friend Castiel, he was stunned.

"They dropped in for a visit." Anne said and when she was about to sit back in her chair at the table, Gadreel snapped out of it and pulled back her chair to help her. "Thanks, honey." She said and he sat next to her.

"Didn't expect to see you all." He said with that raspy voice and the men were awkwardly silent. Both Anne and Viviane exchanged glances and knew that the tension was due to the last time they were all together. The Winchesters wanted to save Heaven's souls that Hell stole while all Anne and Gadreel wanted to do was contact Crowley for her mother's soul to be freed. They clashed and the brothers felt it was their right to know what went on between Anne and Crowley.

Still to that day, none of them told the Winchesters that they were related to Clara and the deal was simply an exchange: a spell for Clara and a supposed transfer to Heaven for Viviane that later became a resurrection, thanks to the Queen of Hell.

It's been two years, so the question was why were they still keeping it a secret?

"Well, we heard about the bookstore and thought we'd visit." Sam said with his friendly attitude while Dean looked like an interrogator just waiting for them to let something slip out. "It's great." Sam added and the Cromwells smiled.

"Thank you." Anne said and Gadreel took her hand, smiling at her as if he was proud of her.

"Coffee?" Viviane asked and the brothers refused politely. "Well, how has it been?" she asked and it felt like they were all trying to avoid that question because it would eventually lead to the question the Winchesters were dying to ask: what did you get from your deal with Crowley? They couldn't imagine she'd get back her mother without having to sacrifice something.

"Hunting's been good." Sam said and glanced at Dean who was still silent. "That's about it." he added and smiled politely at Viviane. "You?" he asked and glanced at Anne and Gadreel and smiled nervously, as they had already seen that Anne is pregnant.

"Oh, things have been great." She said and glanced at Anne with a smile. "I can't wait for the little one to be born." She added and Anne sighed and she glanced at Sam, as if he was the only one listening.

"She already bought loads of baby clothes and toys." She replied and Viviane laughed.

"Can't help it." she replied and turned away to make some tea. Gadreel glanced at Anne and smiled, yet again showing pride in his eyes.

"So, things are going good." Dean said and Anne looked at him, knowing what he was trying to say. Thus, she decided to just let the inevitable happen, just to get it over and done with.

"It's still in your mind, isn't it?" she asked and no one said a word. "That's why you're really here." She said and Sam tried to deny it, but she didn't want to hear it from him. "Crowley was going to transfer my mother's soul to Heaven, but Clara resurrected her instead." Anne said and before anyone could object or ask questions, she continued, barely pausing in between her sentences. "There was no catch, just compassion whether you want to believe it or not. I performed a spell for Clara to ease her pain. That's all Crowley wanted from me; nothing less and nothing more.

"And we couldn't tell you anything because we had learnt that we are Clara's distant relatives and we kept you all in the dark because we knew the chances of us being used as pawns were too high for comfort. An angel had tried, so we didn't need you two to try either. We weren't about to let something happen to her or her unborn baby. So we played it neutral. Don't like it, get out." she said and the apartment was eerily silent.

Viviane didn't look thrilled that her daughter said everything and Gadreel looked worried that this was affecting their baby. He glanced at the Winchesters and Castiel as if he was ready to throw them out.

"You wanted our help and you –" Dean began, but she cut him off with that sharp tone.

"You were the one that wasn't going to help me get my mother out of Hell, so why was I going to stay around you?" she asked and the apartment was silent once more. Dean clenched his jaw slightly and nodded.

"You came to us, wanting our help and as soon as we're useless to you, you leave." he said and she grinned at him, no empathy in her facial expression.

"Yes you were, but that was your choice." She replied and Dean didn't react. "I wasn't going to give up." She added and her eyes narrowed. "I'm sure you can relate." She concluded and Dean's jaw clenched again, knowing she was referring to the Supernatural books.

Sam glanced between them and knew the visit was over. He congratulated the Cromwells once again for their bookstore and for the baby that was on its way, thanked them for their hospitality, and then prodded his brother out of the apartment with Castiel behind them. He stopped briefly to tell Gadreel that he was happy for them and followed the Winchesters out.

It was as awkward as awkward reunions go.