Barker did say he had Inde Navarrette do two different takes, one where Nikki is interested in Bear & one which she isn't & mixed the two takes to make her feelings purposefully vague because whether or not she was, the choice inevitably gets stripped away from her
ship so good they literally included an edit of it in the cw’s supernatural (they projected it into sam’s mind right before he damned himself to eternal suffering for dean)