Title: Ordinary People
Author: lovepass77
Rating: M, language, sexual content and physical mutilation
Genre: Drama
Summary: A life without hunting doesn't really fit into the Supernatural equation, but after stopping Lucifer, the Winchester boys are rewarded by angel of miracle Hamied with a brand new life, families, homes, new careers, but the boys learn quickly that leading the life of ordinary people isn't exactly easy or happier.
Timeline: This story occurs after Lucifer has been defeat, the evil angels reprimanded and the death of someone close to the Winchesters.
Songs: I like to incorporated many song titles and lyrics into my stories because music is such a wonderful inspiration in general, but especially for Supernatural and these songs just make me want to write so if you have the chance go ahead and listen to them it will help you understand my stories better.
Characters: Sam Winchester, Sarah, Sasha, Sean, Dean Winchester, Lisa, Mary, Ben and Johnny, Pastor Jacob, Rufus, Martin, Castiel, Genevieve, Paulo, Layla
Pairings: Sam and Sarah, Dean and Lisa, Chuck and Becky, Barnes and Damon
Spoilers: none
Warning: language
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no rights to Supernatural, it belongs to Eric Kripke aka T-Bear. The trademarks and copyrights for Supernatural belong to their owners. I just like to write stories about the show.
Author's note: I would like to dedicate this story to the ordinary people in the world that lead extraordinary lives and all the SPN fans over on the OP.
Chapter 1: The Aftermath of the Apocalypse.
Scene: a Cemetery in South Dakota
Lots of people are gathering around in black for the funeral of Bobby Steven Singer. Notably missing amongst the crowd are Samuel and Dean Winchester.
Pastor Jacob: "We are gathered here today to honor the great memory of not just a man, but a hunter, not just a hunter, but a true American hero. Bobby Steven Singer was the best the lives he saved were many including my own. I will never forget him. I had a nasty poltergeist in my church that had been terrorizing my parishioners for months and we were unable to hold service on the grounds until he came and by the end of the night the poltergeist was gone and when I offered to give him a reward he reply just take the money and use it to stock up on rock salt then give the rest to the children they need it more than I do. I couldn't believe it as I watched him leave I saw his beat up old truck in bad need of repair, he tipped his worn out old trucker hat at me as he drove away never to return. It was in that moment I realized he was more than just a man, he was an awesome man!"
Many in the crowd nod along with Pastor Jacob's words and cry, but two hunters named Martin and Rufus are very angry throughout the funeral service and once it's over discuss their grievances with Pastor Jacob about this unfortunate situation.
Martin: "Pastor, may we have a word?"
Pastor Jacob: "Yes, Martin how have you been?"
Martin: "Not well, but I'm hanging in there."
Rufus: "Yeah, same here, but what I want to know is where the hell those Winchester boys are? They were practically sons to the man; they didn't even bother to show up today it's shameful!"
Pastor Jacob hangs his head sadly at the thought of it.
Pastor Jacob: "Well things have changed in the world since the apocalypse ended, the economy is doing a lot better, and the church is up ten percent people I meet every day on the streets they smile and wave. People are just a lot happier and kinder it's really wonderful so I suppose the Winchesters are enjoying their new life as well."
Rufus sucks his teeth and groans a bit because he is very irritated regardless.
Rufus: "It just ain't right, they should have been here! After everything Bobby did for those two I mean it's just wrong how they barely went to even check on the poor guy after the car accident. He was in that nursing home for months wasting away in that damn wheelchair. Those sons of bitches weren't there for him then and now they don't even show up to his funeral how ungrateful can you get."
Martin: "It's a shame I use to think they were my friends, but they never call to check on me even when I got out of that mental hospital. I called told them I was doing better that I was even getting married, but they didn't come to the wedding. They both said they were far too busy."
Rufus: "Well they can go to hell for all I care."
Pastor Jacob stares at Rufus both shocked and saddened by his words.
Pastor Jacob: "Please, that is not for us to say, God will judge them and us, they saved the world they deserve some happiness after all."
Rufus: "Yeah, but they also broke it in the first place, they broke the seals and they started the apocalypse and now they are such big heroes well great for them, but what about the rest of us. I mean we fought hard, worked just as hard and we suffered too. Now I can't even get that damn angel boy to get up off my couch he's so depressed they just abandoned him."
Martin: "Castiel, why didn't he leave with the other angels then?"
Rufus: "He couldn't he's human now, and he totally hates it. All he does is watch judge shows and eat Haagan Daz all day then cries himself to sleep at night it's getting really old man."
Pastor Jacob: "Perhaps I should pay the ex-angel a visit to see if I can't lift his spirits with the words of our Lord."
Rufus: "Yeah, whatever just do something will ya because I'm running out of coupons and that ice cream ain't cheap."
Pastor Jacob: "I'll come by on Friday."
Rufus nods
Martin: "That's fine, goodbye Pastor"
Pastor Jacob: "Goodbye , oh and tell Wendy and the kids, hello for me."
Martin nods
Martin: "I will."
Martin turns to Rufus nods once more and they both leave together.
Scene: Sam's house in Fairfield, California
Sam and Sarah are in their bedroom getting ready for bed. Sam takes off his tie and his shoes. Sarah removes her diamond jewelry in front of the vanity mirror.
Sarah: "We have dinner tomorrow night with the Tulsans then on Friday night my brother's art exhibition."
Sam doesn't respond he's thinking about the merger happening at his new law firm.
Sarah: "Sam? Sam! Are you listening?"
Sam: "Uh what?"
Sarah rolls her eyes and sighs in annoyance.
Sarah: "Dinner with the Tulsans and my brothers exhibit you're coming right?"
Sam removes his shirt and yawns.
Sam: "Yeah, um can't we skip dinner with Maggie and Joe this week I've got a lot of work I need too get done at the office."
Sarah turns away form the mirror towards Sam and folds her arms unsatisfied.
Sarah: "You know they are expecting us, you already missed dinner two weeks in a row now you're gunning for a third."
Sam groans at him very annoyed as he pulls off his pants.
Sam: Look, it's just with this merger I need to.
Sarah interrupts him.
Sarah: It's like everything lately with you is about that stupid merger, what about your friends Sam? Don't they matter, what about your brother, you haven't seen him since last Christmas or spoken to him in a months these people are suppose to matter to you Sam!
Sam: "Of course they matter, its just Bill's busting my ass about the Fillmore account I can't disappoint them, they are our most important clients and with the merger we need to be prepared. I have to go over the numbers with Genevieve again."
Sarah abruptly takes off her heels as she gets more and more frustrated with Sam.
Sarah: "Genevieve, you are working late with her again I thought you said she was out of town."
Sam: "Yeah, she was and now she's back so?"
Sarah: "So what you think I shouldn't care that my husband is spending hours locked up I in some other woman's apartment doing God knows what."
Sam scoffs
Sam: "Please Sarah, you know what we're doing, we're working come on stop being ridiculous you know I'd never cheat on you."
Sarah: "Yeah, I bet your brother said that to Lisa too before Mary came."
Sam: "Hey! I'm not my damn brother alright!"
Sarah: "Then who the hell are you Sam? Where's the man I married? You use to not be able to wait to come home to be with me every night we made love for hours it's been four months Sam! Four months and nothing! You barely touch me now."
Sam: "So we're in a bit of a dry spell it happens no big deal."
Sarah: "I know I've put on a little weight is that it, I disgust you now don't I?"
Sam: "Oh for crying out loud! Don't be such a chick okay."
Sarah grabs one of her heels and tosses it at Sam's head barely missing him by an inch as he ducks down out of the way.
Sam: "What the hell is the matter with you?"
Sarah sits down on the bed and starts to cry.
Sarah: "I'm sorry okay I know it's my fault I know you blame me for the baby!"
Sam goes over to the bed and sits beside her.
Sam: "You know that isn't true. The doctors said it was an accident that's all it was."
Sarah: "We'll it's the second accident in a row Sam, the second one how am I supposed to feel!"
Tears pour from Sarah's eyes as he cries into Sam's chest.
Sam holds her awkwardly and feels tears coming too, but he refuses to cry about this anymore or ever again he just feels numb instead.
Sam: "We already have two beautiful healthy children so it is okay baby."
Sarah looks up into Sam's eyes, her mascara is running down her face.
Sarah: "No it's not okay Sam! Do you have any idea what it feels like to have a life die inside you? No you don't and you can't!"
Sam: "Well I know what it's like to die, I did that more than once in fact, so yeah I get that death sucks Sarah, but we can't keep doing this. We have to move on."
Sarah pulls away from him.
Sarah: "Move on? Move on! How am I supposed to do that Sam? You won't even fuck me anymore! Ever since Sophia died it's been this way between us and I feel disgusting and dead inside. I just want my husband back!"
Sam: "Will you stop calling it that, the baby was never born it doesn't have a name okay; you're making it way too personal."
Sarah: "It doesn't get any more goddamn personal Sam! Sophia is her name rather she's alive now or not! She was alive even if she wasn't born that way! She was I could feel her and now she's dead, she just stopped breathing and I had to watch them pull her lifeless body from me the same thing happened with Samantha so don't you dare tell me it's not personal you son of a bitch! They were our children!"
Sam gets up off the bed.
Sam: "Will you keep your voice down! You're going to wake up Sasha and Sean they don't need to hear this stuff!"
Sam closes the door to their bedroom and locks it.
Sarah: "They are our children Sam, our children, you barely spend any time with them either lately and they miss their daddy. You are becoming just like John!"
Sam: "Hey don't you dare talk about my father like that, you didn't even know him."
Sarah: "I know what you told me, I know how you said he was never there for you when you needed him most as a child that Dean was, but he wasn't! Well your children need you Sam so do I. I need you can't you see that!"
Sam sighs then grabs his sweatshirt out of a drawer and puts it on, along with some sweatpants then he throws on a pair of sneakers to get ready to leave he just can't deal with this right now.
Sam: "I'm going to take a walk; and take the dogs out. I'll be back when you've calm down."
Sarah: "Yeah, you go take a fucking walk, leave go enjoy yourself while your family falls apart!"
Sam: "Sarah please you don't have to keep doing this or acting this way I do still love you we will get through this."
Sarah scoffs
Sarah: "You love me? Well Sam Winchester you have a strange way of showing it."
Sam stares at her with sad puppy faced eyes.
Sarah: Just go, I'll be asleep when you get back.
Sam opens the door quietly and closes it back behind him then stops to take a breath in the hallway.
Sarah falls back on the bed and sobs into a pillow. Sam can hear her crying from outside the door and it makes his heart bitterly ache while the rest of his body still fills so numb and cold.
Sam walks down the hall to check on Sasha and Sean in their bedrooms.
Sean is ten years old now, he loves soccer and basketball, but more than anything he really loves classic rock. He plans to be in a rock band one day with his cousin Ben. He loves going to concerts with Ben and his uncle Dean, he wishes badly his dad would come too, but he's always working or too busy and isn't the biggest rock fan anyway.
Sam goes into Sean's room and tidies it up a bit as he watches his son sleep peacefully and quiet. Sam smiles, bends down, kisses Sean's forehead and very lightly rubs his hair before heading out of Sean's room across the hall into Sasha' room to check on her too.
Sasha is a big daddy's girl at seven year's old. She adores dolls and books and is already a total nerd with big ambitions to be a writer just like their Uncle Chucky who lives down the street. She loves Supernatural books and thinks her dad is the greatest hero to ever live though he never tells her stories about their hunts and doesn't like that she reads the books either fearing it will give her nightmares. Sasha loves them anyway and they don't' scare her at all in fact Sasha started reading Lazarus Rising just last week and officially declared to him yesterday that she loves the angel Castiel though she's never met him she's now totally obsessed about angels.
Sam comes into Sasha's room and she is snoring loudly her big brown curls tossed all over the pillow.
Sam thinks to himself, she looks so much like her mother I wish she could stay this young and innocent forever, oh I hate that they are growing up. I don't want to miss it, but damn I've got to pay for soccer league and Sasha's piano lessons and save up for their college funds, plus with the mortgage and all of Sarah's doctors' bills. We've spent over 40,000 on treatments for her to get pregnant again and we lost another child, it's not cheap having a family and its not like I can steal or run credit card scams like Dean and I use too. I've got a respectable reputation now at the firm people like me there I finally feel like I have a place to fit in. Sarah is just jealous and hurt, she hasn't worked since the first time this happened, and she's been so depressed spending so much time helping her brother at that stupid art exhibit of his. I mean the guy can't even fucking paint worth a dime, the kids kindergarten art projects looked better than his stuff. I have no idea why she coddles him so much I mean he's such a bum, and she's using my hard earned money to pay for him to stay up over our garage and doodle all damn day why I work my ass off. I swear if she wasn't the mother of my children and he wasn't their uncle I'd take the kids and go. She doesn't love me like she use to, she blames me for everything like it's my freaking fault they died, and it's not my fault! Well maybe it is I mean all I wanted was for her to be happy for all of us to be happy and we were oh it used to be so great between us in the beginning.
Flashback begins.
Scene: Sarah's house the day of the double Winchester wedding.
One of Sarah's Bridesmaids comes into her dressing room to bring her a gift from Sam.
Bridesmaid: "Sarah are you ready?"
Sarah smiles
Sarah: "Almost I just need help with my veil."
The bridesmaid walks over puts the gift box in her hand down and takes two pins off the dresser she fastens Sarah's wedding veil onto her chignon.
Sarah: "Do you think he will like it?"
Bridesmaid: "You look beautiful Sarah."
Sarah: "I haven't seen him for two days we've only spoken on the phone."
Bridesmaid: "Sam loves you Sarah, its going to be a perfect day."
Sarah: "I just want to see him so bad. I can't believe the day is finally here I am so ready to be Mrs. Sam Winchester."
Bridesmaid: "You will see him soon, but not before the wedding starts its bad luck you don't want that not today."
Sarah: "We spent four and a half years apart and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think about him. I thought he would never come back to me, I thought I missed my chance forever. Then out of the blue one day he shows up knocks on my front door and kisses me like he never left it was just as perfect as the first kiss he ever gave I've wanted to marry him ever since he showed back up and now it is about to happen."
Sarah's bridesmaid giggles at her story and at how happy Sarah is.
Bridesmaid: Well after you told me how he proposed to you on the beach by writing I want to marry that girl in the sand with all those candles I was like wow he is so romantic.
Sarah: "There must have been a hundred candles he put out on the beach I just thought he was taking me on another scary awful hunt and when Dean showed up to pick me up I didn't even want to go but once I got to the beach and I saw Sam's message I screamed so loud it was just too beautiful. Sam just showed up with this ring and got down on one knee it was the best night of my life."
Bridesmaid: "Well it was the best night, but just wait till tonight girl, that's when real fun begins. It'll be a night you'll never forget."
Bridesmaid chuckles as she helps fix the train on Sarah's dress.
Sarah grins happily at the thought of tonight being with Sam. She can feel her body get moist at just the thought of it.
The maid of honor enters the room
Maid of Honor: "Sarah, it's almost time girl we've got to go."
Sarah nods and reaches for her bridal bouquet full of sunflowers and daisies.
Bridesmaid: "Wait you can't forget put this on."
Sarah stands in front of the mirror as her bridesmaid pulls a diamond pentagram shaped necklace out of the gift box and fastens it around Sarah's neck.
Sarah tears up a bit as she touches the pentagram gently with her fingers.
Maid of Honor: "Now don't start crying then we will all start girl, you look amazing so come on let's get you hitched."
Sarah happily smiles takes one big deep breath and walks out into the hallway with them.
Two other bridesmaids wait by a white limousine to head for the church.
Scene: Hotel room near the church.
Sam: "Dean hurry up would ya, we can't be late!"
Dean: "Dude, I can't find those little metal buttons you got me."
Sam rolls his eyes.
Sam: "They are called cufflinks man."
Ben: "They are in your jacket pocket dad; remember you put them there after the rehearsal dinner."
Dean snaps his fingers together.
Dean: "Right!"
Dean grabs his leather jacket and pulls out a box with the cufflinks engraved with LZ for Led Zeppelin on them.
Sam walks over and helps Dean fasten them to his shirt.
Dean: "Can you believe this Sam? I mean look at us wearing tuxedos that aren't rented. You and I getting married I mean did you ever think this would actually happen."
Sam: "No, I figured we'd both be dead by now for good. Well we did die, but I couldn't imagine we'd come back to live like this."
Sam finishes straightening his brother's tie and Dean pats Sam on the shoulder.
Dean: "Sammy this like a dream come true I mean you with Sarah, me with Lisa I keep expecting somebody to pinch us and we'll wake up back in the Impala."
Dean pinches Sam just to see if anything will happen.
Sam: "Ow! Stop doing that! It's real okay so get over it there is no going back."
Ben laughs and tugs on Dean's sleeve.
Ben: "Hey so how do I look?"
Dean: "Like a rock star at the Oscars."
Ben: "Sweet!"
Dean laughs then checks himself out in the mirror and admires how he looks.
Dean: "Yeah, I am so putting Bruce Wayne to shame right now with this getup I could so be the next Bond."
Ben: "Yeah that be cool dad!"
Sam just rolls his eyes again.
Sam: "Dude, your tag is sticking out in back."
Dean frowns a bit at Sam.
Sam puts the tag back in and puts on his own jacket on.
Sam: "I hope Sarah likes my wedding gift."
Dean: "She's a chick they all love jewelry dude it's like coded in their DNA or something."
Sam: "Well so do you?"
Dean: "Crap, yeah speaking of which I can't forget my something old."
Dean grabs his duffel bag rummages through it and finds his old necklace that Sam gave him that helped them all stop the apocalypse for good.
Dean: "Got it!"
Dean puts his necklace on and hides it under his tuxedo shirt and tie.
Sam: "Now let's go."
Dean: "Wait one more thing I got you something too Sammy."
Sam raises his eyebrows in surprise and a bit suspicious of what his brother could have possibly gotten for him this time.
Oh no what horrible gag prank gift has he gotten me now, my bachelor party was the freakiest night of my life I can't believe I let him bring me to that ridiculous donkey show so scarier than anything else I've ever seen, my eyes are still burning from just the memory of it.
Sam shakes his head trying to forget it again.
Dean tosses a leather bound journal at Sam and Sam catches it.
Sam: "Uh what is this for?"
Dean: "Open it up and read it."
Sam opens up the journal and inside the first page of the journal is a letter written from Dean
.
Hey Sammy,
This is for you. I want you to write our story. The world is a different place now and I'm glad we got through it together, but we can't ever forget what happened or where we come from and what we've learned. So now it's our turn just like dad gave us his journal so we'd know how to handle the situations that come, we need to leave a new one for the next generation. I mean hopefully our kids will never have to use this information, but it's always best to be prepared so take that weird supernatural big brain of yours and put it all down for them. I've always tried to look out for you and now you've got Sarah to do that. She's a great girl and you so owe me dude because I always knew she was the one for you. I'm proud of you Sammy. Thanks for looking out for me and not giving up on us. I know we've had our differences and still do, but you're still my brother that will never change. You may be getting married today and finally going back to law school, but no matter what happens or where these new lives lead I want you to know that you still owe me those twenty bucks from the art house, oh and well you know the rest bitch
Love,
Batman
Sam: "Dude, I don't know what to say this is so"
Dean puts up his hand
Dean: "What is the rule son?"
Sam sighs
Ben smiles because he knows the answer.
Ben: "No chick flick moments not even on D-Day."
Dean smirks and high fives Ben.
Dean: "Great, you remembered son, now make sure to write that down Sammy so you don't forget next time you get the urge to turn into Oprah now let's go."
Dean walks outside with Ben.
Sam closes the door and follows them both out to the car.
Ben hops into the back seat.
Sam: "Okay, but there is one thing I really should tell you Dean."
Dean: "I just knew you wouldn't follow the rule, okay what is it Sam?"
Sam: "You're fly is open jerk."
Sam gets in the car laughing at his brother.
Dean looks down and realizes Sam is right. He zips it and gets inside. They drive to the church.
.
Scene: At Pastor Jacob's church on the day of the Winchester wedding.
Lisa: "That necklace is beautiful on you Sarah, you look great!"
Sarah: "Thanks, so do you."
Lisa smiles as she pins her grandmother's pearl hairpin into her curls.
Lisa: "It's my something old."
Sarah smiles
Maid of honor: "Did you show her the bracelet Dean gave you it is gorgeous."
Lisa: "Oh yeah here it is."
Lisa grabs her new gold bracelet and shows it to Sarah.
Sarah reads the inscription on the inside.
Sarah: "To Gumby Girl with Love Pokey."
Sarah giggles about it.
Sarah: "Very nice."
Lisa: "What can I said that's my boy."
Sarah nods
One of Lisa's bridesmaids tells them it is time to head into the sanctuary.
Lisa: "Are the guys here yet?"
Bridesmaid: "Yes, they just arrived so come on ladies."
Lisa grabs Sarah's hand a bit nervous.
Sarah is also nervous but she smiles and hands Lisa her bouquet of white roses.
The two head out into the hallway and wait for the music to begin.
Heat of the Moment by Asia plays as the girls enter the sanctuary and everyone stands for them.
Sam, Dean, Ben, Bobby, Castiel and Martin all wait at the altar for the ladies to enter.
The bridesmaid walk in first along with the flower girl all dressed in pretty little yellow petal dresses.
Sarah and Lisa walk in together side by side. Sam and Dean stand on either side of the pulpit with Pastor Jacob standing in the middle.
Sarah and Lisa try not to cry as they make their way down the center aisle. But, Sam and Dean can't help it seeing the girls looking so beautiful knowing they are about to become their wives both of them start tearing up badly. Ben smiles widely happy this day has finally come.
Sarah takes Sam's hand and Lisa puts her arm around Dean's waist as they arrive at the altar.
Pastor Jacob: "You may all be seated. We are gathered here today for a glorious union of some very special people and they would like to thank all of you for coming to celebrate with them this afternoon."
Everyone smiles.
Dean pats Lisa on the butt a little.
Sam looks into Sarah's beautiful blue eyes as he lifts her veil and he is surprised to see them flash yellow.
Flashback ends
Scene: Inside Sam's house
Sam thinks to himself God, I miss her so much, I miss us and who we use to be. I do love her, and I love them I just want us to be able to move past this, sometimes and I can't believe it but sometimes I wish I could be back on the road with Dean again, hunting, it was a hard life, but this apple pie suburban family life isn't easy. It kind of sucks actually, I'm sick of going to Costco on Saturday, I'm sick of Sarah's weird diet plans she puts us on every time she thinks she's gaining a little weight. I not fat, well I may have put on a few pounds, but at least I've still got my hair.
Sam stares at himself in the mirror in the hallway he sighs feeling as though he barely recognizes the man he's become. Then Sam goes downstairs where the family dogs Salt and Sadie greet him at the door ready for their walks, he attaches their leashes to their collars rubs them on the head and the three of them head out the front door to take a quiet long walk before bed.
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