Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 27

The Winchesters and the Novaks are all sitting together when they hear the door open, followed by loud chatting. Castiel recognizes one of the voices as Bobby's, but the others are unfamiliar to him. After a few seconds, Bobby and two girls come into view. One woman is probably about Bobby's age, and the other is younger, probably in college.

"Hey," the younger girl greats them, tucking her blonde hair behind her ear.

"Hey, Jo," Dean replies. "Didn't realize you were coming up today."

"I noticed," she replies with a glance at Castiel, who is sitting a bit too close for their relationship to appear platonic. She doesn't seem judgmental about it, so Castiel is almost positive Dean isn't dating her.

"I take it these are the Novaks?" the other woman guesses.

"Yep," Sam confirms.

"Nice to meet you," she says to the other family. "I'm Ellen, and that's my daughter, Jo."

Jo gives them a smile. "Hey."

All the Novaks introduce themselves one at a time.

"Wait, are you the singer Castiel Novak?" Jo asks.

Castiel nods. "Yeah."

"Wow, Dean. Scoring high, huh?" Jo says with a teasing smile, causing Dean to turn a faint shade of red.

"'Course he is," Castiel replies. "I'm fabulous."

Jo laughs. "And very modest, too," she jokes.

"It's a gift," Castiel replies with a grin.

"You really broke out of your shell, huh?" Bobby observes.

Castiel shrugs. "Kinda had to."

"Well, good for you," Bobby replies.

The Novaks chat with the Winchesters and Harvelles for a while, and even though the author had a rough idea of how this scene was going to go, she completely forgets all of it. She's also too lazy to delete all this and introduce Ellen and Jo when she has a reason to because she's already written three hundred words and she doesn't want to have to write three hundred more words for the chapter. This has been an insider look at the laziness that is the author.

As the author quickly proofreads the chapter, she realizes the chapter would be long enough without this scene but she doesn't feel like deleting that so oh well. Deal with it.

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Anna finally comes home at around six that afternoon, and immediately, Lucifer is at her throat, which proves to be some nice entertainment for Castiel and Claire at the kitchen table nearby.

"Who's Cain?" he asks before she's even in the house.

"Who?"

"Cain," he repeats.

Anna shrugs. "I don't know a Cain, so..."

"Really? Not even your boyfriend?" Lucifer challenges.

This remark clearly catches her off guard. "My — my what? Luce, I'm not dating anyone."

Lucifer can see through her lie easily. Anyone could. A blind man could see through her lie, it's that obvious.

"Were you out with him today?" Lucifer asks.

Anna doesn't say anything at first, assessing the situation. Finally, she yells, "Samandriel, you're a dead man!"

"Wasn't him," Claire tells her.