[b]NATALIA[/b]

Feeling Cason stroking her hair as she stirred awake and realised he didn't leave her in the he night made her feel yet again safe. She just wished that her brothers and the others could understand what she felt around him. She couldn't help but chuckle lightly when he hinted at their night time activities the night before. Her chuckle got cut off when he lightly kissed her lips once more, reaffirming that none of what happened last night was a dream. It was reality, he brought her back to her usual self, her true self that wasn't plagued with PTSD and broken in so many ways and places inside. 

"I guess I did" she smiled once their lips parted. "But I'm glad you stayed. I know how easy it is to sneak out at night and you can sneak out easier than any of us mortals" she chuckled very lightly. A slight improvement on her 'no demon talk' stance the night before. "But to answer your other question, I think I slept alright. I had one nightmare but it wasn't as bad as it normally was" she told him honestly, seeing Jo reason to lie to him. 

She knew she had to get up and freshen up but she was comfortable laying beside him, she found comfort in being this close to him, just as he found comfort having her in his grip. If she had her own way, she'd gladly have stayed where she was all day long but she knew they had to move on from this location eventually and deal with the bigger looming doom that was etching ever closer to them all. Which also made her realise she had to stop being so angry at Dean and actually make amends if he could just do the same thing. 

Sighing, she snapped out of her thoughts and slowly sat up a bit. "Guess I should go freshen up. The parents could pop across any time this morning and I'd rather not give them more reasons to moan at me" she smirked. It was times like this she missed Sam greatly, as he was always the barrier between herself and Dean. Sam never made her feel like she was fighting a parent, unlike Dean, but she also knew that's just how Dean was. He was used to practically raising Sam when John wasn't around for them as kids, so it wasn't entirely a surprise that's how he thought he should protect her, but she wasn't Sam. 

Reluctantly she scooted across the bed and out of Cason's arms, dragging a sheet with her to wrap around herself. "Think last night is catching up to me... I ache all over thanks to you" she told him as she forced herself to stand up off the bed and not crawl back to him. "If 'mom' or 'dad' come knocking, be nice whilst I'm in the shower, please?" She requested of him. With that, she walked uncomfortably to the bathroom, opening the door and stepping inside as she closed the door behind her. 

Thoughts of the evening before locking herself inside came flashing into her mind, but she forced those thoughts out of her head. [i]"no, I'm not thinking about that today. I'm gonna remain positive"[/i] she thought to herself, as she dropped the sheet, turned the shower on and stepped inside. 

[b]MIKA[/b]

It wasn't the least bit of surprising that Dean was yet again worrying about Natalia. Mika knew he wouldn't stop worrying about her, even if she got out of the life and lived a cosy stepford life, he'd still worry. It's just who Dean was and one of the many reasons she loved him so dearly. She let him study her face to get some kind of answers he was obviously trying to find, something she was used to and never once judged him for. 

"Don't be mad at yourself for not thinking about checking. I barely would have noticed last night, but I just caught the sight out the corner of my eye." She tried reassuring him as she saw the usual frustrated hand down the face movement of his. She too was concerned that Nat was with Cason and she was incredibly concerned about the possibility of him using her when she was at her weakest point but if the fights and arguments had showed her anything, it was that they had to ride it all out and nothing they said would pull their girl away from him. 

She gave a nod in understanding why Dean wanted her to go check on Natalia and not himself. The smile he was giving her wasn't convincing her in the slightest, she knew as well as he did that he'd go after Cason at the smallest reason to. But she knew as well as he did, that if they wanted Natalia to stay with the group and not go her own way, he had to try his hardest not to harm Cason and start another argument. "I'll get up, freshen up and head over." She told him, pecking his lips and stroking his cheek. "It'll be okay" she said once more, trying to convince herself as well as him.

Pulling herself off the bed, she went into the bathroom, had a quick shower and walked back out, towel wrapped her body as she walked to the bed to dry off and get dressed. Pulling out some clean clothes, she got dressed and stood up after pulling on her boots. "I'll be right back" she told him, even though she had a feeling he wouldn't be able to help himself and would follow suit at some point. 

Opening the room door, she walked across the parking lot that was between all their rooms and stepped up onto the sidewalk to Natalia's room. Taking a deep breath and exhaling to calm herself mentally, she knocked on the door. "Nat? You awake sweetheart?" She called through the door, barely noticing that Esme and Duke were having some kind of conversation by his truck. 

"Nat Dean isn't here, it's just me. I just wanna check in on you that's all" she called through once more, unsure if Nat was awake and ignoring her or if she was actually asleep. Little did she know, Nat was in the bathroom and Cason was still around in the main room. 

[b]SAM[/b]

As Annabeth woke up and complained about it being morning, Sam couldn't stop the light amused smirk creep into his face briefly. Feeling her grip onto him tighter in protest was something he knew he'd never tire of experiencing and would have missed greatly if she continued to run away from him. The thought of another man experiencing that was something he didn't want to imagine as it was just too emotionally painful to think about. Anna to him, was what Mika was to Dean and he never wanted to let her go. 

His amusement left his lips just as quickly as it appeared when she felt something was off about him. The fact she could even tell by his heartbeat told him he couldn't keep much from her and whatever he next said to her had to be partially the truth to make it remotely believable. "Just my mind not letting me forget about Lilith and everything we still have to do to stop her and the apocalypse. Then on top of that I can't help but wonder how Dean is doing with Natalia. Guess my brain just can't shut off, but I did sleep, on and off" he explained to her. 

It wasn't entirely a lie after all, he WAS concerned about all those points he mentioned, he just so happened to leave out the whole 'a demon named Ruby visited me last night and gave me more vials of her blood to drink to send other demons to Hell to get stronger to kill Lilith'. He knew he had to tell Anna sometime, but right now wasn't the time. He was terrified that if he told her now she wouldn't want to continue going back with him and he couldn't take her leaving him again. 

"But I'll be alright, I promise. Especially when we get back to the others" he added, giving her a small but genuine smile, placing his hand on top of hers on his jawline and kissing her forehead. "I love you" he felt the need to tell her. "So...you ready to head back to the chaos that is this crazy family?" He asked her.