"It is totally male posturing," Claire said, eyes rolling briefly in amusement before she slid into the booth. Curling her hands around the glass, she focused on Sam rather than the drink.
"Believe me, he appreciates it," she said, grinning a bit. She might like to tease Dean about him being lucky to have her, but it was mutual and she was lucky to have him too. "Even the stupid things he's done before, like his attempt at online matchmaking, he did because he didn't want me hurt. He was a complete ass about it, but his heart was in the right place."
It didn't mean she hadn't, at the time, yelled at or smacked him for the dating thing or the closet fiasco, but now she could put it into perspective. "We've just been through a lot together. I've been through more with him than anyone else in my life, all the things that happened in my timeline, it happened to me while I was mostly alone. So I guess that's how 'us' happened. We understand each other, and even though our lives were totally different, there are a lot of similarities. The stuff that made us best friends, it's the same stuff that's there now."
giving the drink a quick stir, she drank a bit and then smiled wider. "I mean, look at you and Mirta. You're from two very different places, but there are the similarities there that hold you together, help you understand each other."