[b]NATALIA WINCHESTER AND MIKA CHAMBERS[/b]

Before Natalia had opened the door, she found herself unable to look Cason in the face after she said what she did, and thought what she thought. She kept trying to convince herself of the facts- he was proving useful to their group when it came to this case and been helpful when it came to bringing Esme back, despite the bad shape she was in and that he had extra information he gave them all. Yet all that was still hard to overtake the past experience she had with demons outside of the hunting world, and he [b]still[/b] was seeming to make an effort to be nice to her. 

These facts only got proven once again when he told her he would protect her. In that very second when those words came out of his mouth and hit her ears, she went wide eyed and damn, she even went breathless for that moment. A demon that was so willing to protect her!? Was she in some kind of weird alternative universe or something? Why would Cason want to protect her? It didn't make a heap of sense to her. 

If it wasn't for Mika's voice calling through the door to alert her that Dean and Mika were there, she would have found it incredibly difficult to either not let a tear fall down her face in shock and Cason [b]somehow[/b] hitting a spot in her heart that she hadn't had hit since Sam and Dean saved her and agreed to get her the hell out of that asylum. Skaing those thoughts and the echoing words of Cason's from her mind, she had opened the door and said what she did to Dean. 

Then for a third moment, Cason had surprised her by grabbing her bag and exiting the room swiftly with it, clearly heading to her car, but not before Cason and Dean exchanged scowls and short words. She noticed how Dean's grip tightened round Mika's hand and how Mika instinctively stood closer to Dean, slightly behind to make more room for Cason to get out of the room and head to the car. 

With Dean looking back down at her and asking her yet again if she would be okay, she sighed. "I'll be fine" she said, her words coming off a bit harsher than she actually intended them to be. She didn't like being short with Dean or Sam, so when her words came across as that, she visibly winced in regret. "honestly...I'll be okay" she repeated in a much more calm tone and looked him in the eyes. She couldn't hide the conflicted torment that was in her eyes but she could hide why it was reering its ugly head all over again. The same torment that she had in her eyes the night they saved her. 

"I just wanna get this over with Dean, if it gets too much I'll bail out. I promise" she told him before he could even think about suggesting it to her. She also had a feeling that after tonight, depending on how things went down she would have to open up about what happened to her to them. It wasn't a surprise to her that the big conversation would have to happen at some point, she just hoped it didn't have to be tonight, but it seemed the world thought otherwise. 

"Nat if y-" Mika began to speak softly from behind Dean but Natalia just rose her hand up to shh the woman. "I said I'll be fine and I'll remove myself fromt he job if I compromise it okay? Just...lets get it over with!" she said exasperated, grabbing the room key and exiting the room, shutting the door firmly behind her and speed walking to her car, pullng out her car key whilst putting the room key in the same pocket, seeing Annabeth had made her way to Cason and the car.

Mika looked between Dean and Natalia a couple of times wondering what the hell went down in the room to have made Natalia's attitude go from positive and jokey to the stand off-ish old Nat they hadn't seen in a very long time. In fact it had been so long Mika could barely recall the last time she saw Nat in such a mood that wasn't related to Dean being sent to Hell. "what the hell was that?" she asked Dean. 

[b]SAM WINCHESTER[/b]

Sam felt more relieved when Annabeth said she would look out for Natalia. He knew that Nat could handle herself, he knew whatever she had managed to survive before they came into her life, it was rough and if she could survive that, she could survive dealing with Cason. What he didn't know, like Dean didn't, was just how bad it was. All he could tell was that Natalia clearly had PTSD from whatever it was and out of the many things they had spoken about together when Dean had done the many food runs , what went down in the asylum was never a topic. 

"Thank you, I know she can look after herself but I still feel incredibly protective over her." He replied as they had began walking to Nat's room and then saw the confrontation that was happening albeit in a restrained manner. He couldn't help but smirk ever so slightly at Annabeth's words, knowing she was probably more right than either of them may have wanted her to be. "No doubt, she only ever calls for Dean if she feels it's really needed. Otherwise it's always me" he explained to her. Words that held a heavier meaning than anyone else would understand. 

At her suggestion of going over to Cason and begin the process of lowering the tension, he nodded, thinking it was a good idea. "You are one amazing woman" he smiled to her as she kissed his knuckles before pulling away from him. "See you on the other side" he said again as she walked away to Nat's car and over to Cason. 

He began walking up to Dean, Mika and Nat, deciding to purposely go slowly so Dean could attempt to get something out of Nat. Hovering back, it seemed that neither Mika or Dean were getting very far with Natalia, as it wasn't long before he was Nat abruptly exiting her room and looking all the highly strung woman they first had to deal with. He knew in that moment that it wasn't a good idea to call out to Nat, and instead just leave her to calm in her own time. 

Reaching Dean and Mika he looked at them both, "How bad is she? I can't help but think we're gonna have to get the past out of her sooner than later if Cason is going to be hanging around" he said to them both, looking at Mika first then to Dean.