"You can't keep us here, training us like warriors, in your stupid fight for revenge." Sam was yelling this as Jo tried to sneak past them.

"I don't have to explain myself to you, you're my children and you have a mission." John was replying to his angry tone with one of command and it was not going to end well for anyone, if only she could get into her room...

"Where have you been?" Dammit.

"uh nowhere." Dean wasn't exactly going to take that answer, but "in the meadow with a girl i'm in love with," wasn't exactly something he wanted to hear.

"You can't be out past midnight, its dangerous." Dean was always so weirdly worried about her, it bothered her, but it bothered her more that when he got like this she couldn't see what he was thinking. Apparently Cass decided some things in other peoples mind also needed to be blocked and he put blockades there to, it was seriously annoying.

John and Sam stopped arguing long enough to listen to their conversation.

"See even Jo is being treated like a soldier, with curfews and check in points." Oh great now she was being used for his argument.

"Jo is ten she shouldn't be out past her age, thats just good parenting." Dean normally wouldn't have stepped in on an argument but he seemed to think her curfew was a good enough thing to share his opinion on it. John just looked at both of them.

"I think Jo is old enough to take care of herself." Of course he wasn't mad she was out past curfew, she already told him she was probably going to be running late, he was the only one she could mind text the information to however. Both Dean and Sam looked at him like he was crazy.

"When I was ten I wasn't allowed to leave at all without you or Dean." His favoritism towards Jo was helping Sam win the argument.

"You aren't as mature as she is." Oh great, Johns excuses for his leniency were never very good, but this might be the worst one yet.

"More mature? I could cook all my own meals at 6, and hack vampires to death at 9, I never left the house or snuck out, unlike her and Dean, I guess it shouldn't surprise me how alike they are seeing as..." Sammy blew up and was about to go on but John slapped him across the face, now both of their thoughts were blocked from her. He fell into a shocked silence.

"You need to go." John was commanding him again but Jo didn't want her brother to walk out on them, the way it was going now, that was exactly what was about to happen.

"Why couldn't you just be happy for me when I got into Harvard?" Sammy was near tears but they were more out of anger than sadness.

"Its a disappointment that my boy is smarter than anyone, and wants to waste it all on school." John didn't mean that, he was proud of his boy, but he didn't want him to leave their life either. He should have chosen better words.

"Fine, me and my disappointing ass will just leave then." He turned to walk out, Jo knew she had to do something.

"Sammy, please don't go." maybe if she begged he would stay. It had the opposite effect. He blew a breath out angrily.

"Jo.. if you knew what they were keeping from you, you would be right behind me." That piked her interest, but before she could ask, John was across the room and right in Sam's face.

"Just go, you've already done enough." Him and his commanding was going to burn more bridges than he could re-build.

"Fine." Sam slammed the door in all of their faces, meaning to walk out on their lives forever.

Jo went to go after him but John held her back.

"Just let him go." He meant for her to forget about him and let him live without them, it was the only way to give him a normal life, but she was not going to do that.

"Why? Why does he get to leave, and what was he talking about?"Its not that she thought they would tell her, but their answers could be a clue to the secret.

"Its nothing... it doesn't matter." John only stood guiltily, Dean answered guiltily. Obviously they were keeping something from her and they weren't going to tell her tonight. So she would revisit the subject later, she knew how their minds worked and how little they would reveal when they were being pushed against a wall.

"Yeah, sure well I'd better go to bed." Dean blew out a breath of relief which only further confirmed this was something big. John wasn't fooled.

"Okay, but I think Dean should room with you tonight." This was Johns way of saying she couldn't go anywhere tonight, normally she shared a room with John and he let her go her own way. After all he couldn't stop her, and her adventures never made the paper so its was fine with him. She blew out a breath in defeat.

"Fine, come on Dean." She left without him, got into her room and under her covers, uhhg she hated pretend sleeping, there were so many better ways to spend her time.

After a second Dean came in a as well and thought she was asleep so he turned out the lights and got into bed himself. Jo didn't like defying her father but she had too much adrenaline to just lay there and pretend sleep all night. So as soon as she heard Dean snore, she went back to her meadow. It seemed almost like a home to her now, one where she could meet her best friends.

"Cass-Cass." She called his name quietly, knowing he would hear her, he did and appeared beside her.

"Jo." This was their normal routine she would say his name to get him in the meadow, he would say hers because he liked the sound.

"I guess you're mad at me." She turned to him, despite her words she didn't seem very sorry.

"No, should I be?" That was a loud of crap, of course he knew why he should be mad. He didn't want her to see Holli, but there was nothing he could do now.

"I know you didn't want me to be anywhere near her, but Cass... I'm in love." His stomach twisted, but he was patient and he knew she would come to him sooner or later.

"I know thats what you believe." Uh oh he seemed condescending to her now so of course she was going to turn on him.

"Don't spew that 'your too young to know,' crap, I know what I feel, and what I don't."

she was referring to her feelings for him in the last part of the sentence his eyes narrowed.

"I do not think you are too young to know, but I know you will understand sooner or later." She rolled her eyes at this.

"Ha, you sound like my dad, if he didn't understand me." The inference that her fake dad understood her more than him, made Cass upset, but he was very good at hiding it.

"I do understand you." She knew he did, she was just proving a point.

"Look I'm not going to talk to you about that if you don't want me to, but Cass-Cass you can't keep us apart any longer." Of course she knew he had tried at first and threatened Ellen and showed her cases that were far away from Holli, but she was saying his interference was over now.

"I understand." Not that he wanted to, but he did, he saw their connection and the worst thing was that is mutual.

"Thank you Cass-Cass." She put her hand on his arm. She wasn't mad he interfered she understood why he did it.

"What are you going to do about Sam?" And he says he doesn't eavesdrop.

"Visit him regularly, work my persuasion magic." She wiggled her fingers sarcastically.

"I can see that your upset." he always saw right through her, 'I could care less' attitude.

"of course i'm upset, my family just split apart, but I can't do anything about." Its not that she was admitting defeat its just that she understood how all of their minds worked, maybe better than they did. No one was going to apologize and it would take a literal catastrophe to bring them together. She wasn't going to engineer one, so she would wait until one happened on its own. As it turned out the catastrophe she was going to wait for was 3 years later when her "dad" went missing.