Authors note: Hey! I'm back! I hope you enjoy this chapter, and as always, please leave a review:)

PS: just to clarify, neither Valerie nor the boys know about Casifer;) In this AU, the episode where Dean goes back in time, never happened;)

Disclaimer: I do not own anything even remotely related to Supernatural, sadly;)


Chapter 14- Safe House

Valerie had just said goodbye to Dean and Sam who, once again, had left for a hunt. She wheeled into the kitchen to get a snack, when her phone buzzed. It was a text message from Dean, saying that the boys had arrived at their destination, she responded to him before tossing her phone on the kitchen table and opening the fridge to get a soda. Valerie was bored out of her mind, she seemed to have watched every single good netflix show these past couple of weeks, so there seemed to be nothing more to do, then suddenly she heard the sound of somebody being in the map room, she figured that Dean and Sam had come home early and forgot to text her, so she wheeled herself out of her room and into the map room. When she got there though, it wasn't Sam and Dean who were there, but Castiel, "Castiel?", she asked approaching the angel, Castiel turned around, looking very surprised, "sorry, I didn't mean to scare you", Valerie said, smiling at Castiel, who for some reason didn't smile back

"It's alright", Cas said, turning away from her, 'well okay then', Valerie thought to herself, she wasn't about to just let Castiel ignore her though, "so where have you been?", she asked, Castiel sighed as if he was annoyed with her, but he still turned around to meet her gaze.

"Around", he just stated

"Okay, well what've you been up to?", she asked, still not giving up

"Stuff", he was still not giving her anything

"Okay fine, what are you doing now?", she asked, nodding at the open drawer he had been looking into. Castiel sighed, clearly very annoyed now

"I just needed to get something"

"Okay, well what do you need?", she was pushing him now

"Something"

"What do you need it for?", suddenly, Castiel turned around and stared down at her, normally Valerie wasn't much shorter than Castiel, but given that she was sitting down, he towered over her

"I need for you to stop pestering me with questions", he said in an angry voice

"Oh really? You don't sound like you, Castiel", she said, only slightly frightened

"Thats cause im not", he said, and suddenly his eyes flared red

"Lucifer", Valerie whispered, "what are you doing? Let Castiel go"

"Sorry, he said yes", Lucifer said, smirking

"Castiel would never do that", she said

"He would if it meant saving Dean Winchester… and Sam of course", Lucifer said, winking at her as if they were keeping a secret

"When did this happen?"

"Before you arrived, when Sam was in the cage with me", Lucifer said, and at Valerie's surprised look, he laughed, "I guess you dont know feathers here as well as you thought", as Valerie was trying to accept what she had just been told, she heard the sound of the boys coming home, "Sam! Dea-", she tried yelling, but before she could, Lucifer knocked her out.

Valerie woke up to the blinding light of Lucifer being banished by Sam, she groaned and grabbed her head, she had a pounding headache. Sam got up and rushed to her side, "Val! You okay?", he crouched down before her and looked at her with a concerned look on his face

"I'm fine, Sam, he knocked me out, it's not like he tried to kill me", she tried laughing it off, but winced at the headache

"Come on, we'll get you to bed", Dean said, also concerned about Valerie, who looked at him while thinking about what Lucifer said.

As Valerie was being helped into bed by Dean, she sighed "God, I simply cannot wait until I am, once again, an independent woman in no need of assistance in performing regular everyday activities", she said, as Dean laughed. When Dean was about to leave, she stopped him, "Dean?", she asked

"Yup?", he turned around to face her

"Um… Lucifer said something, I don't know if it meant anything, but it was about you and Castiel", she looked up at him and saw him swallow a lump in his throat, he cleared his throat, then went to sit down on her bed. Valerie moved herself up a little so she was in an upright position, and Dean put some pillows behind her back

"So?", she asked, trying to catch his eyes, he was looking down at his hands

"Um… that depends, what did Ca-Lucifer say to you?", Dean said

"He just said that Castiel would do anything if it meant saving you, he was insinuating that you and Castiel… you know", she said and Dean chuckled a bit, "so is he wrong?"

"Wow, blunt much?", Dean said

"Sorry, but I'm not exactly known for being gentle", she shrugged

"Yes I know, it's one of the many things I love about you", Dean smiled faintly at her

"Dean, you are avoiding the question", she said in a gentle voice

"I know, it's just… complicated I guess"

"Well you can't decide how you feel"

"How do you know I "feel" anything", Dean said in a slightly defensive tone

"Well, Dean, because I have eyes", he looked down once again, "Sam knows too, you know"

"Sam knows what?"

"Your feelings for Castiel", she said with no warning

"What?! I-I don't have feelings for Cas, hes… Cas", when Dean said the last word, his voice went soft, and he had a slight smile on his face, at that Valerie smiled too

"Well, believe it or not, you and Castiel, I think, are the last people to know about this", she chuckled and Dean chuckled with her

"How do I handle this? I mean right now he's possessed by Lucifer, but after?", Dean asked now looking worried

"I have a feeling that you two will work things out just fine, you just need to talk", then she patted him on the shoulder, "now get out of here, I need my beauty sleep", Dean got up and left the room, but not before saying; "Thank you, princess"

"Anytime", she smiled. Then Dean left, and Valerie sat back with a feeling that those two were going to be just fine.


Authors note: So, I've decided to do Destiel (I hope that's okay) And i've also decided to not do ClairexVal or JackxVal.

I recognize that past-me made a decision to make those two couples happen, but given that its a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it (Chuck bless anyone who gets that reference;)) Hope you enjoyed! Until next time:)