Hello my dears. I am sorry for the long wait for this update but life got in the way. Anyway I would like to thank thefriendlyguy63 and rainystv for the lovely reviews. I would also like to thank those of you who have followed and favoured since my last update.

So here we go, the next chapter. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural.


Kali was sitting in the restaurant of the hotel waiting for her father. She had already ordered herself a drink and was now perusing the menu. Or at least that was the impression she gave. In truth she was actually thinking about Gabriel, about what he had done that day and what her father had told her. (Good, thinking is good.)

She couldn't work it out, Gabriel had wanted to marry her, but he had left her with just a note. It didn't make sense. There was something she was missing. (Yep, that there is.) She wanted to know what that something was. But she knew Gabriel. She knew that he would never tell her without her giving him something in return, and she wasn't sure she was ready to give him anything. If she wanted to give him anything. Her mind was scrambled. She had been thinking over these things all day, and the only thing she had truly come up with was the idea that maybe, maybe, she could give Gabriel another chance. But only if she knew what she was missing. (Yeah.)

Because she knew that the Gabriel she had loved 15 years ago would not ask her father for permission to marry her then just up and leave without a damn good reason. (So very true.)


Shiva walked into the restaurant to see his daughter with a lost look in her eyes as she pretended to read the menu. He knew she was pretending, she could never hide anything from him. He also knew that her mind was occupied with thoughts of a certain man. Now the question was had she come to the realisation that she needed Gabriel just as much as he needed her? Or was she still being stubborn and refusing to see the writing on the wall? (Somewhere in-between me thinks.) With that Shiva put a big smile on his face and approached the table, laying a kiss on her head before he moved to sit down.

"Your late dad." Kali said trying to look cross but a small smile kept appearing on her face.

"Yes I know. Sorry but I was in a meeting with Gabriel." Shiva replied nonchalantly placing his napkin in his lap and watching Kali's reaction out of the corner of his eye. (You really are a plotter aren't you?)

"Oh? What about?" Kali asked not looking at her father as she picked up her glass. She tried to make it look like she couldn't care less. (So not true.)

"Do you truly want to know? Because I will tell you if you do." Shiva replied with a smile on his face and a challenge in his eyes.

"No. why should I care what you discussed with him?" Kali replied hackles rising. (Liar.)

"Why indeed." Shiva said then let a silence settle over the table as he picked up his own menu.

Kali stayed silent for a minute before she couldn't anymore. "Well you might as well tell me. It seems we have nothing else to discuss." She said with a shrug.

At her words Shiva smirked, she had always folded under his silences.

"Oh no we have much to discuss, you could tell me about the store, I don't want to bore you with talk of Gabriel. Not when you have no intention of him being in your life." He said pleasantly.

"I don't want to discuss the damn store. Just tell me." Kali replied through gritted teeth.

"Why?" Shiva asked with the raise of his eye brow.

"Why what?" Kali countered with.

"Why should I tell you? Or more to the point, why do you want to know?" Shiva asked placing his menu down on the table so he could look into his daughters eyes. (Well now that is the question isn't it?)

Kali sat there and thought about what she should say. She didn't want to tell her father the truth, but she couldn't think of another good reason for him to tell her. (That is a problem then.)

Shiva watched her silence and smirked, now, finally, he was getting somewhere.

"I'll make you a deal. I'll tell you everything that Gabriel and I discussed if you promise to hear him out tomorrow." Shiva proposed.

"Fine I listen, but I won't promise it will change anything." Kali replied. (We'll see.)

"Very well, let's order then I shall get started shall I?" Shiva said with a smile and signalled to the waitress to come and take their order before he relayed everything that he and Gabriel had discussed to his daughter.

Kali sat in silence listening to what her father had to say and kept her emotional response behind a mask of indifference. But beneath the surface she was seething. When she got her hands on Gabriel Novak she was going to straggle the life out of the man. How could he be so bloody stupid? (Well he's Gabriel?) And since when did he know what was best for her? (Again I'm going with he's Gabriel.) Yes she was definitely going to kill him. Especially when Shiva got to the part where Gabriel had refused to take over his business. Stupid stubborn idiot. She would have to do something about that, because even if she and Gabriel never got back together she knew that if he was to take over from her father then the business would be in good hands. (Did I just see and if there Kali? Are you coming round to our way of thinking now? Oh goody.)