Hello my dears. I would like to thank rainystv for the lovely review.
So this chapter is again set in season 2, episode 5 'Simon Said'. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural nor any of the lines I have taken from the show.
Dean walked into the roadhouse with Sam and Cas at his side. He didn't pay much attention to the people sitting in there, the other hunters who watched them closely as they moved. They were here to speak to Ash, not to socialise after all.
But he did stop to speak to Jo when she came up to them.
"Just can't stay away, huh?" She asked with a smile her eyes going to Cas who was standing on his right.
"Hello Jo." The angel said in his gravelly voice making Dean narrow his eyes. He remembered that before he had gone on the clown case with Sam, Jo had seemed interested in him, yet when he returned she hadn't so much as tried to flirt with him. Was that because something had happened between her and Cas? She seemed to be looking at him quite a bit. Not that Dean cared. Cas could do what or who he wanted, he wasn't his keeper after all. That being said, he really didn't want to have to watch the angel making eyes at the girl. As such he decided it was time he interrupted whatever conversation they were going to have.
"Yeah, looks like. How you doin', Jo?" He asked plastering on his most charming smile and getting her attention back on him. See she liked him more than she liked Cas. Though he noticed that when she smiled in return it was not as open as the one she had given Cas. It was guarded for some reason. Friendly but… almost like the smile you would give someone you thought of as family, not as a possible lover. What the hell?
"Where's Ash?" Sam asked interrupting, having no idea of the thoughts going through Dean's head. Which was probably for the best really. All he cared about was getting Ash to find the man from his premonition. He didn't have time for niceties, he didn't want to lose another person he could have saved because they had arrived too late.
"In his back room." Jo replied with a smile for Sam, but all the younger Winchester did was brush past her, heading to the room that Ash was located in.
"And I'm fine..." Jo called after him at his rude behaviour making Dean grimace slightly and Castiel to smile a small smile at her sentence.
"Sorry, he's, we're... kind of on a bit of a timetable." Dean said as a way of explanation. With that he smiled at the blonde and went to walk off, following his brother.
"You coming Cas?" He turned to ask when he realised that the angel wasn't at his side.
"That's okay. I can keep him company while you go talk." Jo replied before Castiel could formulate an answer. At that sentence Dean narrowed his eyes at the girl. He couldn't really say anything against Cas staying out here with her, but he didn't have to like it. He didn't want her trying to jump him or something. He had the feeling that Castiel was not that well versed in women.
"I'll wait for your father to arrive. You go with Sam." Castiel said. He wasn't sure what was going on but he got the distinct impression that Jo was trying to wind Dean up. Though how he had no idea.
"I like her." Crowley commented from beside him as Dean looked at him and Jo one more time before leaving to follow Sam.
"So Cas, fancy a beer?" Jo asked turning back to him. Oh she wasn't stupid, plus her mom had told her that Cas had sold his soul for Dean. So the guy was obviously in love with the eldest Winchester son. The question she had wondered was whether Dean felt the same way. She now had her answer. It seemed Dean Winchester did not want to leave Cas alone with her. Well, well, wonders never cease. The guy liked his best friend. Whether he knew it or would ever act on it she doubted. He was a hunter, they weren't known for their fluffy side after all. But if she could get him jealous enough, you never know it might work. And hey her parents had met through hunting, so why couldn't Dean and Cas?
"Thanks." Castiel replied and smiled at her as she walked away before glaring at the spot Crowley was standing in and muttering under his breath, too low for anyone other than the demon to hear.
"I have no idea what you are talking about but please, for my sanity, behave."
"When do I miss behave? Oh that's right, I'm a demon, it's kinda what we do, feathers." Crowley replied with a roll of his eyes at Castiel for that sentence, cos really like that was ever going to happen.
Before Castiel could respond John Winchester walked through the door of the bar and that, that caused a stir.
Ellen had been behind the bar when she saw the Winchester boys and Cas come in. She had watched the interaction between Jo, Cas and Dean with a slightly raised eyebrow. Just what was her daughter up to now? Because she was definitely flirting with Cas, and he was the least likely person in this bar to react to it. Or even pick up on it, it seemed. But she left them to it. Let Jo have her fun. As such she went back to her work. Or at least she did until the door opened again and John Winchester walked in. Oh crap. With that she quickly moved, making her way to John's side, though she went via Cas.
"You'd better warn that boy of yours that his dads just walked in." She murmured under her breath as she passed him. She did not want the Winchester show down to happen in her saloon thank you very much. They had enough fights as it was with her clientele.
"John. Long time." She said once she got to him, firmly planting herself in the way of him further entering the bar.
"Hi Ellen." John replied with a strained smile. It really had been a long time. Every time he saw her he was reminded of Bill, of what had happened on her husband's last hunt.
"So what can I get you?" Ellen asked all business. She needed to kept John occupied so that Dean could slip out the back.
"You could tell me how you know my sons." John answered in the same tone. If this was the way she wanted to play it, then so be it. He was game.
"Son's? I had heard Dean was dead. Sorry about that." Ellen replied without missing a beat. She had promised to keep Dean's secret and she would.
"You and I both know that's not true, so cut the crap." John growled at her. Why in the hell was she lying to him?
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Ellen replied with a blasé attitude, though the idea that John knew Dean was alive and was looking for him was rather alarming. She had thought that the eldest Winchester boy had more skills at hiding than that.
"It's alright Ellen. He knows the truth now." Castiel said as he interrupted the conversation. He had followed the woman as she had given him the warning that John was here, though not too close. His plan had just been to listen to the conversation and see if he could find out more about the man who was Dean's father. He had forgotten that Ellen had promised to make sure that John never found out about Dean from her lips.
"You didn't think to tell me that before Cas?" Ellen asked rounding on him with a pissed off look. If he had told her that she wouldn't have picked a fight with the guy.
"Sorry." Castiel replied with a shrug and an attempt at Sam's puppy dog eyes that always seemed to get him out of trouble.
"So you know Cas to do you?" John asked getting really pissed now. How the hell did she know about the angel? And why didn't she give him a heads up about any of this? What had been said or done that made her keep his son and his angel's secrets?
"Yes I do." Ellen replied straightforwardly but with a challenge in her voice. She would not let John harm the man who had sold his soul for the one he loved, she didn't care who that one was.
"How?" John demanded.
"They came in for information a while back." Ellen replied giving away as little information as she could. She didn't know what John knew about Cas and Dean and she wouldn't be the one that let that cat out of the bag.
"Right. Where did they go?" John asked in a defeated voice he knew that she wouldn't give him anything. For some reason she had a warped sense of loyalty to the angel.
"To talk to Ash, but I think it would be best if you and I stay out here." Castiel interrupted once again. He did not think it was a good idea if John went to join his sons right now.
"Oh yeah, whys that?" John argued at him. He was fed up with this, half-truths and trickled information.
"Sam and Dean work best together. They are very good hunters, in fact I believe they have the ability to be some of the best. But only when they work together." Castiel replied blandly staring at the hunter. Completely ignoring Crowley's contribution to the conversation from where he was sitting watching the show with a glass of whiskey somehow in hand.
"The best Castiel? Really? They start the frigging apocalypse."
"Fine, in that case Ellen, I'll have a beer." Joh growled out. With that he pushed past Castiel and went and sat on the bar stool that was closest to the door leading to the back. And when a few minutes later Sam and Dean returned, Dean took one look at him and then made his way over to Cas who had sat further away from John. Mainly so if he needed to tell Crowley to shut up he could, without the eldest Winchester thinking he was crazy, or worse.