Dean carried Jason, who was asleep, in the hospital room. Marty and Deanna were on Dean’s heels. Something about the scene gave Cassie a warm fuzzy feeling. Dean’s dimples, longish hair, t-shirt, and ever-present jeans looked good on her hot husband. He seemed comfortable in his role with the children. He handed Jason to Cassie’s mother who met him at the door.
“Thanks Mom,” he grinned then sighed at the sight of Cassie and Cassidy.
“Hey,” Cassie said as he came toward her.
Cassidy who had been busily eating her breakfast stopped sucking her bottle when she heard her daddy’s voice. She looked up at Cassie as she waited to see his face. Cassie shook her head as Dean looked down at them.
“Her whole world tilts a bit when you’re around,” Cassie said, as she looked at Dean unaware of the uncertainty in her face.
She bit her lip as he smiled shyly at her, “Only her world?” he asked before his lips descended on her expectant lips, as her heart raced. He didn’t mind that they had an audience or that Deanna tugged on his pant leg. Marty looked up at his father with a grin his blonde hair curled neatly to his head. Mrs. Robinson shook her head with a smile as she cuddled Jason who seemed to be waking up as he rubbed his eyes. The kiss was short and sweet as Cassidy wiggled in her mother’s arms eager to be near her father. “Mine too,” Cassie confessed quietly as she passed the little girl to Dean.
Dean caressed Cassie’s hand as the baby came into his arms.

Courtney was livid as she stood outside the courthouse on her cell phone. She took a long drag off her cigarette as she listened and paced. Her newly dyed dark auburn hair was in an elegant up do that went along with her navy pinstriped pantsuit. Dressed for work but at lunch she was not happy that her investment had not produced the desired results.
“You what?.....I’m not getting you out of jail, you blew it, phone a friend,” she said before she closed her phone, crushed out her cigarette with her foot and turned on her heels to head back inside.

The other Winchester couple had decided that staying around was their best option; they had arranged to take the semester off from school while they investigated Sara’s past. When they walked in the bank, they carried a briefcase with the information from the safety deposit inside to store in a new box. They did not see the man in the silver SUV while he watched them.
“Yeah, they are still in town looks like they plan to stay a bit since they just walked into the bank with something in a briefcase,” the man said into his phone.
“Don’t let them out of your sight at any time,” Mr. Blake commanded before he hung up the phone to grab his aching head.
After a moment, the dizziness passed enough to grab the pills from his desk drawer to take a couple for his throbbing head. He shook his head as he tried to focus his thoughts, all the while fighting the evil influence that sat quietly across the room just out of his line of sight.

Deanna sat on the bed to open the gift she had brought in the hospital for her sister. Cassidy watched her daddy as she lay in his lap. Dean turned the baby to show her what was happening.
“Look what Dee Dee brought you,” he said to the baby.
She pulled a pair of baby jeans and a Daddy’s Angel t-shirt out to show everyone. “Daddy picked these for Leigh’s birthday,” Deanna informed her mom before she reached to pull out a variety of toys and a couple stuffed animals from the box.
“Me and Marty picked these,” she grinned.
“Good job, I’m sure she will get use out of it all,” Cassie said as she hugged Deanna.
“Can you say thank you?” Dean said as he played with the little girl while she batted at his nose. He kissed her hands and cooed to her, as they seemed to be in their own world.
“Dean?” Cassie said for the second time.
“I’m sorry what’s up?”
“Can you put Marty up here he has been waiting patiently for a hug.”
Dean looked at Marty as he sat on the edge of his Nana’s chair. Dean helped Deanna down after she put the things back in the box, while he held the baby with his other arm. He easily helped Marty up while Cassidy snuggled in her spot against Dean’s chest. Cassie smiled, he wasn’t ready to let go of his angel just yet. Dean reached for the bottle as he sat down again before Deanna took a spot near his knee.
“There is room, come on,” he said to his eldest as she watched him.
“K,” she grinned glad that her daddy wanted to include her in this time with her little sister.
As Dean fed Cassidy, he remembered when Deanna was, the one he fed in his arms.

{Flashback-four years before}
Dean fed Deanna after coming home from work, though Sam watched her during the day while Cassie worked on her writing upstairs. Dean would come home from work take a quick shower than feed Deanna her dinner. The little girl eyed her father with a smile as he warmed the milk and she sat in the portable crib to wait for him to pick her up. At four months old she was blessed to have her uncle and father to watch over her. Dean would pick her up to take her to the living room so he could feed her while he watched the news. Generally he was more enthralled by his little hungry daughter than the TV but it was a habit that he had gotten into since he married Cassie.
“Hi Sweetie,” he would say as the baby drank her milk.
He felt blessed to have a chance to be in his child’s life despite not knowing about her before she was born.
{End Flashback}

Deanna watched as the baby drank her milk but she really wanted to hold her little sister. “Daddy can I hold my baby?” Deanna asked after a few minutes of playing with the baby’s feet. Cassie mother switched Jason for Marty who held on to Cassie as he sat in her lap on the bed. Her mother was going to take the boys home with her so the girls could spend the day with their parents.
“Sure but wait til she is done eating okay,” Dean said as he smiled at his eldest. How did I get so lucky? “K, daddy,” Deanna said as she sat down to wait.
Cassie’s mother left in the time it took Cassidy to finish her meal so Cassie watched the scene from across the room as it unfolded.

Deanna put her arms out to get the baby but Dean explained he would need to help with holding the infant since she tended to wiggle around a lot. Deanna wasn’t happy about that since it was “her baby” but she decided it was the only way she was going to have a chance to hold her little sister, so she agreed. Cassie smiled at the way Dean got Deanna to agree. Only Dean could make getting your own way work out for him. Dean held the baby up as Deanna slid onto his leg and under his arm. Deanna put her arms out so that they both held the little one. Cassidy was unsure for a moment as to what was going on and she began to tear up, but when she saw that her daddy had her still, she settled down. All three were happy after a minute of getting situated.
“A true Kodak moment,” Cassie said with a grin to Dean who smiled at her.
“It would be perfect if you were here in my lap too,” he teased.
Cassie could only smile at the suggestion as she blushed.

While Dean, Deanna, Cassidy and Cassie took their walk around the hospital that afternoon Deanna became stressed. She stopped in the hall and looked at Cassie angrily.
“Mommy, where is my mommy?” she kept saying.
Dean tried to shush her because people were looking at them. Cassie suggested they go back to the room, because she had no idea why her daughter would say that to her. Once the baby was settled in the crib, Dean held Deanna in his lap. She was more calm now but she kept staring at Cassie as though she had hurt her some how.
“Dee Dee what’s wrong?” Dean asked with concern.
“Member me? Mommy…” she said as she began to cry.
Dean held her to his chest as he tried to figure out what she was trying to tell him. Cassie watched them without any idea as to why Deanna was upset.
“Look at me,” Dean insisted to his child.
Deanna pouted as she looked in her daddy’s face.
“Your mommy is right over there,” Dean insisted.
Deanna shook her head.
“Dee Dee don’t be silly this is not a joke.”
“It’s not her,” she said.

Dean bit his lip. Deanna sensed things about people but maybe she was confused because Cassie didn’t remember her and behaved a bit stiffly around the little girl.
“Okay, your mother is sick okay. She does not know about us going to the zoo or the park like you and I do,” Dean waited to see if she understood.
Deanna nodded, “Mommy was there too.”
“I know she was but she does not know because of her sickness…but … that is your mommy. I promise,” Dean said as he watched his daughter’s face. Deanna looked over at Cassie who was still in the dark about her daughter’s abilities.
“Promise?” she asked her daddy.
Dean nodded, “I would never lie to you, Sweetie,” he said as he kissed her forehead.
Deanna got out of Dean’s lap to go stand in front of Cassie.
“I’m sorry you are sick mommy,” she said as she raised her arms to be picked up by Cassie. Dean picked her up instead and put her in the bed with Cassie who was totally confused by now.

Cassie just looked at Dean as Deanna held on to her. She had believed everything he had told her about their family but this was different. Dean sat back down as he watched his wife and daughter. Deanna lay with her head in Cassie’s lap as Cassie stroked her hair. Cassie was concerned, am I being foolish to believe all I have been told? How did she know everything Dean had told her was true? Maybe she had been influenced by his good looks, was he just plain nuts? Cas, our daughter has special gifts. She took a deep breath. She believed Deanna was her child, she looked like her as well as Dean. Okay, that was true. Deanna has visions, Sam thinks the bad dream she had was a vision. She took another breath. Her mother would not go along with a crazy plan from a mad man. Deanna was born this way, Sam has visions too. Moreover, what could he gain from lying to her? It wasn’t like he was getting laid anytime soon. She shook her head as she saw Dean watch her. She wanted to believe him; she took another breath. Okay her daughter had a sense about people, she had visions, she was only three and she had a huge weight on her shoulders. Even without remembering her life with Dean or having the little girl in her lap, she loved her intensely. On the other hand, was it pity for a motherless child? She took another breath.

She did not realize Dean had come to stand by the bed.
“I know it’s a lot to swallow, Cas, but I would not lie to you either. I have never been able to.”
“Why not? In your life as a hunter you have told lies to keep people from thinking you were crazy. You told lies about your identity so you could help….,” she said as the tears welled up her eyes before they fell on her daughter’s face.
“But, I have never lied to you even though it caused me to lose you the first time around,” he said as he touched her cheek. Oh God help us, I can’t lose her now.
She nodded afraid to speak to him, her husband. He is kind, he is gentle, and he always seems to put others before himself. She took another breath. She had come full circle, now if she could only get her memory back.
“I’m sorry, I think I am just tired,” Cassie said afraid she had hurt his feelings.
“Don’t worry about it, okay, let me take Deanna down to the cafeteria while you rest for a bit,” he said as he reached for their daughter as she played with Cassie’s face. Deanna traced the tears over her mother’s face before she put her little hands on either side of it.
“It’s okay, Mommy,” she smiled at her mother before she left the room with her father.

Sam and Sara met Cassie’s mother at the park with the kids. For one day, everyone wanted the children to just be kids. Sam kept watch as the women pushed the boys on the slide and the merry go round. Sam noticed a van across the street about twenty minutes after they arrived. He glanced at it to see a man at the wheel smoking a cigarette but that didn’t mean anything. The man could just be taking a break from working. Sam’s senses were in over drive, he looked at the man out of the corner of his eye as he continued to sit in the van for another half hour. The man seemed to be daydreaming or maybe he was dozing, Sam couldn’t tell. He decided maybe they should leave.

Cassie bit her lip as they left the room, was she losing her mind? For a moment she panicked her heart seemed to be beating too fast. She was having a panic attack. She tried to breath slow to relax but the tears rushed to her eyes again. She reached for the nurse’s button but stopped. She looked up to see something across the room. The figure was opaque. She blinked a few times but it stayed near the door. Then the figure became a more solid image but it did not have lines, as it floated. A scream stopped in her throat as the figure came to stand beside her.
“Cassie?” it said as it touched her cheek lightly.
Cassie’s tears flowed freely, “Who are you? What are you,” she asked with fear in her eyes.
“Go ahead let out your frustration, Sweetie, its okay,” it whispered as quietly as a spring breeze while it waited for her to be done.
After a few minutes Cassie blew her nose then apologized for her crying as she looked over to make sure the baby was still asleep.
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay, I am a friend, listen,” the figure said as it bent down near her ear to whisper. After a moment the figure faded a way with a smile. Cassie understood now, she believed Dean’s story. Her husband wasn’t a liar, but he was the man she had wanted him to be. A man of honor, a man of integrity, a man that she loved in the past and was falling for all over again. She could only smile as he and Deanna came back in the room.
She bit her lip as she hesitated to tell him the news.
“Cassie, what’s wrong? You look different.”
“I just met your mother, Mary.”

TBC

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