Rating:PG-17

Please note there is a reference to a Second Season character in this chapter. If you have not seen the Second Season this is a SPOILER ALERT. Though this story is AU (post series), but the character will have its Second Season personality and disposition. I do not going into details as to how the Winchesters know him, yet.

Two Days Later
They allowed Cassie to go home from the hospital two days later. She was more than a little surprised by the two-story brick house on the edge of town. The house also had a three car garage in back as well a circle drive in front. She couldn’t believe it was where she lived. She looked at Dean as he helped her out of her van. Then went around to get Cassidy out of the infant seat.
“How long have we been here?”
“Almost a year now,” he said with a smile. He could tell it was a bit overwhelming for her.
He hoped her church family and her other friends waited to come visit. He could not imagine what it would be like to walk in a house where you spend most of your time and not recognize anything.
“Are you still working? I mean the little time you weren’t at the hospital couldn’t have been enough to do a job.”
“I took vacation, though I have been working part time. I am a supervisor at the local auto shop.”
“I was just curious as to how we afforded the house. I didn’t mean anything by the question,” she said as she stood in front of the door.
“It’s okay, Honey, I wasn’t offended,” he said as he kissed her before the door was opened from the other side by Sam.
“Welcome Home Cassie,” everyone said in unison.

After all the kids gave her nice welcome home hugs Sam, Sara and Cassie’s mother took the older children out to eat. Dean played with Cassidy as Cassie watched. She wore a maternity dress, and felt strange because it wasn’t something she remembered having worn. After a bit, she dozed off but was awakened by the sound of the phone. Dean was surprised at who was on the other end of the line. Cassie looked at him strangely, as he handed the phone to her.
“Hello?”
“This is Johnson Merrick, Mrs. Winchester we are verifying your appointment for tomorrow,” the voice on the other end of the phone said.
“Um, I am just out of the hospital….” she began before Dean took the phone from her. “My wife has a head injury, any appointment she may have made in the past can safely be cancelled,” he said as he looked angrily at Cassie.
“Well, we will check back with her in a couple of weeks,” Mr. Merrick said.
“Don’t bother,” Dean insisted as he hung up the phone.
“What the hell?” Cassie asked as her anger at the way Dean handled the call and her.
Dean told her the person was from a law firm that handled divorces and maybe he over reacted. Who knew because in the past they had done their will with the firm and he was aware they also handled divorces.
“I’m sorry, “he said as he held Cassidy to his chest.
“Was I planning to divorce you?” she asked concerned something was very wrong.
“No, I mean you never mentioned it to me. We never discussed divorce, not at anytime or any way.” Dean said as he pursed his lips. No, it was true they never said the word in their household. It was one of those things they promised themselves would not happen to them.
“Not even in anger?” she asked, concerned that he looked down.
“No, Cassie. It’s not that we are perfect, far from it, but we wanted to stay together, period.”
“I believe you,” she said as he changed the baby’s diaper.

She watched Dean, as he put the new diaper on the little girl. She could tell he was tense now. She couldn’t imagine leaving him. There was so much to learn about them as a family. However, Mary had promised she would get her memory back soon, she hoped it was true. She wanted to recall her family; she wanted to feel whole again. It’s not that she didn’t trust those around her to tell the truth but she needed to know things for herself.

Dean picked up the baby then a sound came from the little one only a father could love. Dean laughed as his little one, farted. The smell was awful but he took it in stride as daddy’s angel proceeded to fill up her fresh diaper. It took two rounds for her to be done.
“Well I hope you feel better,” Dean said as Cassidy made happy noises for him after she was done stinking up the room.
“I hope that isn’t a Winchester trait,” Cassie smiled.
“Actually it’s a baby thing. They love to go in fresh diapers. They can be a picky sort,” Dean said as he sniffed the baby’s bottom to be certain she was finished. Cassidy grabbed his hair and he had to untangle it from her hands.
“What are you up to my angel baby?” he said as he kissed her once he was released from her grip.

Cassie suggested that maybe she had made the appointment with the lawyer for someone else, maybe someone at church who was in a bad way. Dean agreed though he didn’t want to talk of the subject again.
“So what did you have to tell Sara when she came in earlier?” Dean asked as he stood near the door on his way to the kitchen.
He stopped as though he just thought of something.
“Um, I really can’t share that with you,” Cassie said as she held Cassidy against her shoulder.
“Oh, could it be that Sara is pregnant?”
“What? You heard us?” Cassie asked disturbed that Sam might have heard also. Mary had told her the news as another way was of proving who she was and the powers she possessed. There where a few things Mary had shared with her that she wasn’t sure when she would be able to tell Dean. Of course, Sara’s news wasn’t something Cassie could mention to anyone but her.
“Why do you think she is pregnant?”
“I am just guessing, if you cannot tell me then its fine. Is that something that my mother told you?”
Cassie nodded. “Sara is pregnant and she has not told Sam yet.”
Dean insisted Sam would not hear it from him.
Cassie stopped Dean before he left the room, again, “There is something else, but you may disagree with the way I am handling it.”

Sam dropped the women and children at the pizza place but didn’t go inside right away. The man in the van had followed them again so he thought he would have a talk with him. Since the man was faced away from the building, he was unaware of Sam’s presence until he grabbed him out of the van and slammed him against it.
“Man, what the?” the other man tried to say.
“Why are you following us?” Sam asked as he held his hand against the man’s throat.
“I, um,.. can’t talk,,, breath,” the other man tried to say.
Sam released the man but stayed blocking his path.
“Look, I was hired by Sara’s father, to look out for her.”
“Oh you mean her stepfather the one who just disowned her?”
“Yeah, see I am a demon hunter too….”
“What?”
“I know about that stuff.”
“Seriously, I almost killed you with my bare hands. I can’t see you coming face to face with a ghost let alone a sorry demon.”
“Well, you surprised me.”
“My point exactly,” Sam said.
Sam dialed Mr. Blake and told him he should find someone else if he really felt he needed someone beside him to watch over his daughter. Sam shook his head at the man as he walked toward the pizza place.

Dean insisted she should only tell him if she wanted. He leaned against the doorframe as he waited for her to decide.
“You mother said she could heal me so I could have more babies,” she stated.
“Yeah?”
“But, she could not give me back my memory though she promised I would get it back once I was at home in familiar surroundings.”
“Sounds like good news on both fronts. What did you decide that you are hesitant about?”
“The baby thing. I think that maybe that happened for a reason. I am afraid to mess with events like that.”
Dean looked at her incredulous at first, but he thought a moment. Maybe she had a point, besides if they believed in fate at all they shouldn’t mess with the past.
“You decided?”
“No, I asked for time, I wanted to see what you thought about it. I also hoped that once I had back my memory I might have some insight about it.”
“There is no time limit?”
She shook her head, “But once I give my answer its for good.”
Cassie insisted Mary said she would be around for a while, watching out for them.
“I have seen her a few times over the years. It’s strange but she is always comforting.”
Dean said as he finally headed for the kitchen.
Cassie kissed Cassidy’s head as she dozed off on her shoulder.
Dean stood in the dark in the kitchen as he drank some water. He was near the window when he saw a shadow move outside across the yard. He waited until what turned out to be a person stood behind the backdoor. Dean opened the door hard, the person fell to the ground before Dean dragged them inside.
“What are you doing here?”

In the Invisible Realm
“What is he doing now?” Cassie’s guardian asked the other angel.
“I don’t know but he looks like he is up to no good, again.”
Gorg watched Cassie as she held her little one. He knew he could not harm her but he just felt the need to test her. He did not have a new assignment yet. What harm could it do? Her husband wasn’t a believer but he really did not want to get hurt from the demon hunter before he was reassigned. He just wanted to have a bit of fun with the Christian.
“Gorg, get out of here. You have no rights. This time we are going to tell our Master. When its time for us to be judged we want to have clear consciences. We let you slide last time.”

Cassie had her eyes closed when she felt a wind in the room. She opened them to see something dark figure stood near the window. A scream caught in her throat. Oh God help me. The thing did not move but only stood there as it watched her. She took a deep breath she knew Dean had said if he was not around to be calm until she could get him. Only Cassie was also aware that she had guardian angels. Her mother had told her that she was a believer and a few times, while she was at the hospital her mother had read the bible to her. She sat their between the good and evil in her life with her precious bundle in her arms. Oh God, please tell me what to do. Mary Winchester was also in the room, curious to see what her daughter in law was made of.

“Andy, what are you doing here?” he asked as he put the steak on Andy’s eye. “I came to see Sam,” the younger man said with a grin at Dean.
“You ever heard of a phone?”
“Yeah, I got voice mail which said he would be with you and Cassie. I wasn’t that far away so I just came here.”
Dean heard a sound that caught his attention, he looked at Andy and they both ran to the room.
“Dean, “ Cassie said as soon as she saw him.
“What is going on? What happened? “ he asked as he viewed the mess in the room. With exception of the bed the held his wife and child everything was scattered about and the window was open.

Dean up righted the baby’s crib so he could put her inside once he checked the room with the EMF meter. There was something still around but he didn’t get a strong reading. Andy watched the trace of concern cross his friend’s face but he said nothing. Whatever was in the room now Dean didn’t seem worried about. Maybe its just Mom he thought. Cassie explained about how she saw the dark shadow then she felt comforted some how after a few minutes.
“Whatever it was must have been counteracted by the Angels or your mother or both,” Cassie insisted.
Andy nodded, though he didn’t know what she meant about angels.
“I believe you are right, whatever it was must have come in after I was dealing with Andy. I will be right back,” Dean said as he rushed off to fix the salt and wards and make a call to Sam to remind him to do the same when they all came back home.

On the way back from Courtney’s house Dean had stopped at Andy’s just to say hi. The younger man had become good friends with Sam over the time they had known him. They found Andy in his van listening to music.

“I’m Andy,” he said to Cassie as he stood awkwardly in the bedroom.
“Have we met?” she asked before she explained about her amnesia.
{Flashback-Cassie & Dean’s visit to see Sam in Loma Alto}
“Hey Dean, who are the cutie’s with you today?” Andy asked as he saw Cassie and the kids.
“Hi,” Deanna said as she stood in front of her father.
“Hey sweet girl,” Andy said as Deanna blushed.
Dean introduced everyone then they all took a walk over to the diner to have some dinner. Andy told Dean about all the local happenings. He confessed to still using his powers now and again to handle basic needs. Dean encouraged him to do something with his gifts to help people out.
“Well I have been able to bring down the crime rate a bit,” Andy said with a smirk.
“That is a good thing for the town,” Cassie insisted as she smiled at Dean.
Dean laughed, Andy was such a clown. He confessed to the bad things he had done instead of just telling him he had taken he and Sam’s advice.
“I am proud of you, man,” Dean said as the waitress walked away with their order. A moment later the waitress turned around to come back and put down a piece of paper with her phone number on it in front of Andy. Andy grinned, sheepishly. Dean smiled, yes, Andy still had to take care of his basic needs.
{End Flashback}

“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you get that back soon,” Andy said as Dean walked back in the room.
“Sam said they will be back in a bit. You can have the sofa tonight if you like, man. We kind of have a house full this evening,” Dean said with a smile.
Andy agreed to stay but Dean wasn’t totally comfortable until everyone was tucked in their beds and settled in for the night. He hated that there was something still in his house. Though Sam agreed with him that if Mary was at he hospital with Cassie she may have come home with her to watch over them for a while. But, Dean could not understand why she just didn’t show herself to him, he was her son. His longing to see his mother was not in vain, she showed up in the kitchen that night as he ate ice cream with Deanna.

Sam held Sara close to his chest as they relaxed after their shower. Sara didn’t know how to tell Sam except to just “shoot from the hip.”
“Sam, I’m pregnant,” she said into the silence.
The room stayed quiet for several moments, so much so Sara became nervous all over again. Sam took a deep breath as he listened to the sound of the clock beside the bed. “I’m glad, baby,” he finally said to his stunned wife. Sara pushed him out of the bed for making her wait. Though it was all in fun, Sam couldn’t stop smiling as he got up off the floor. Sara looked up as he prepared to get back in the bed, with tears of relief in her eyes. Sam felt bad that he had made her suffer for even a moment. He pulled her close again as they snuggled together.
“Are you really glad,” she asked with concern in her voice.
“Absolutely,” he responded as he kissed her.

Mary watched as Deanna chatted on to Dean. The little girl loved her father it was evident with the two of them. Dean’s smiled showed the same affection for his child that she remembered John used to show for their boys.
“Daddy, mommy will be okay,” Deanna said as she ate her ice cream.
“I know, Sweetie, you don’t need to be concerned.”
Deanna looked at him like she wasn’t sure what he had said. She raised her little eyebrow at him, he tried not to laugh at her mother’s expression on her face.
“Con…turned?”
“It means you are right,” Dean laughed as he ruffled his daughter’s bangs before she went back to telling him what fun she had had with uncle Sam and the boys at the pizza place. Mary laughed to herself. She knew Deanna had a place in her heart for both her uncle and her father. They shared her affectionate, though her daddy was more her buddy. Mary knew Dean wanted to see her if just for a minute. Just before she made herself known she heard Deanna and was a bit surprised.
“Grandma is here daddy,” the little girl said as she looked at Dean.
“How do you know Dee Dee?”
“I just do,” she said as she frowned at him.
“It’s okay if you know. I mean do you feel her? Can you tell if she is sad?” Dean asked wondering how Deanna’s gift worked.
The little girl shrugged.
“I just know, I think she is happy,” she said before she got up to sit in his lap.
“Okay, maybe she will talk to us,” he said as he hugged his little girl to his chest.
A moment later, Mary stood before them still in her white gown. It flowed as though the wind blew in the room. Dean smiled at her.
“Hi Mom,” he said with a crooked grin.

Courtney hung up the phone at her desk, that night, she had asked him not to call her at work. He was grateful that she had gotten him out of jail, but her terms were that his fee was reduced. Courtney had hired, David, to kidnap Jason so she could pretend to be the distressed single mother. She decided to give him one more chance since she couldn’t find anyone else in her price range to do the job, of course she hadn’t told him that. She had made the man beg her for the bail money.
“Let’s see how the Winchester’s deal with a missing child.”

TBC

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