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Title: Consequences
Summary: S6!AU. Sequel to Anticipation. One year later, Kae and Dean are living an apple-pie life together, now with their two month old son. But when Sam mysteriously shows up back from the dead, they're thrown back into the world of hunting, forcing critical choices to be made. Add in the fact that a mysterious 'mother' has taken an interest in Kae, and things are gonna get interesting.
Genre: Drama/Romance
Pairing: Dean/OFC, eventual Cas/OFC
Rating: T
Spoilers: Anything from 6x01 (minor)-6x12 is fair game :)

Prologue:
-One Year Later-
Moline, Illinois

"Dean get a move on! You're gonna be late!"

Dean groaned and opened his eyes halfheartedly, staring at the alarm clock parked on their bedside table.

7:00 a.m.

Fuck.

He heaved himself up out of bed and went to take a shower.

By the time he made it to the small kitchen area of their apartment, Kae had finished cooking breakfast. Her hair, no longer marred by streaks or highlights, was pulled back in a pony-tail and held up off of her neck by a large clip. She wore a plain pink tee shirt and gray sweats, and had one arm wrapped around the two month old baby boy settled on her hip as she made her way to the table.

"Morning," she greeted.

He made a face as he tried to stifle a yawn and failed. The resulting laugh it earned from her, and their son made him smile.

"Morning," he replied. "How long have you been up?"

"'Bout an hour." she shrugged as she sat down and settled the baby on her lap. "Sky decided he'd be my alarm clock today."

"Did he?" Dean chuckled.

"Yeah. Unfortunately the snooze button doesn't exist unless you feed him." Kae snorted and nuzzled the top of his head. "Turning into a troublemaker just like his daddy."

"We don't know -"

"Dean. We had the paternity test done." she sighed. "Skylar is yours...you know that, right?"

Dean nodded and reached for his plate, the smell of the scrambled eggs she'd made making his mouth water.

"Yeah, I know." he sighed. "It's just...hard to believe sometimes." he took a bite of the food. "Amazing."

"Yes I am." she grinned. "Hey, after you get off, can you pick up another box of diapers? We're almost out."

He nodded.

"Sure." he yawned again. "Can you believe how domestic we've gotten?".

"Sometimes I can't." she mused. "Feels weird...but I wouldn't change it."

"Me either." he agreed.

Kae glanced at the clock and sighed.

"You better go...Sean will have your ass if you're late."

Dean groaned and nodded. He got to his feet and Kae followed suit, making sure to shift Skylar onto her hip again so she could hold him more comfortably.

"See you later," he murmured before kissing her briefly on the lips, then took Skylar's tiny hand in his. "Be good for your mama, alright?"

Skylar let out a little gurgling noise which Dean took as an affirmation. He bent down and kissed the top of the baby's head, squeezing his hand lightly.

"I'm going, I'm going!" he exclaimed when he heard Kae sigh impatiently, though she was smiling.

"That wasn't a 'get out of here you're gonna be late' sigh, that was an 'aren't you forgetting something?' sigh." she said.

Dean laughed. She did this all the time.

"Fine," he said, rolling his eyes before kissing her again. "You really are fucking amazing." he whispered when they broke apart. "I'll call you on my lunch."

She nodded.

"Okay."

After three hours, pointless morning game shows, and a blouse ruined by Skylar's decision to spit up his lunch, Kae was beat.

She was also bored...though it was nice to have a day off from her job down at the local grocery store in Moline.

Kae...

Her head popped up from where it had leaned against the arm of the couch while she'd been laying on it.

Kae...

She'd thought the voice had stopped months ago, but there it was again.

Kae decided she needed to get out of the house. She changed her shirt from the ruined green blouse she'd had on to a plain purple tank top, and changed her jeans to shorts.

"Alright, Sky." she said as she settled him into his carrier. "What do you say we get out of here for a while?" Skylar shoved his fist in his mouth. "I'll take that as a yes."

The park was nice...quiet for that time of day. They sat on a bench a little far from the jungle gym where two or three kids were running around. Kae bounced Skylar on her lap and watched the kids play with a small smile on her face.

"Kae?"

She looked up abruptly to see a woman with blonde hair and green eyes staring at her.

"Grace," she responded, smiling at her coworker. "Didn't expect to see you here."

"Kyle loves the park." Grace responded, gesturing to the boy with blonde hair hanging from the monkey bars. She smiled at Skylar. "He gets cuter every time I see him."

Kae chuckled. "I'm sorry but he's taken."

Grace laughed and turned her attention to the jungle gym. Kae froze suddenly, her grip on Skylar tightening - not enough to hurt him, but enough that it was secure.

It - No. Would a wraith be stupid enough to attack people here? In broad daylight?

"Grace can you uh...can you take him for a minute?" she asked, watching the metal structure almost in a daze.

Was she hallucinating?

The wraith...whatever it was, seemed to sense her watching as she passed Skylar over to Grace without further comment. Kae followed it into the trees and looked around, breathing heavily. It had looked so much like her...like the bitch who'd been one half of the wraith couple that killed her brother and sister.

Kae...

Oh fuck. Not this again. She ignored the voice, heart pounding rapidly in her chest as she searched the area. Stray branches scraped up her arms and legsas she forced her way through where a tree had no doubt been struck by lightening at one point, causing the severance of its branches. After a while, she gave the area one more glance before swallowing the lump in her throat and heading back to the jungle gym and the bench where Grace was waiting with Skylar.

"Everything alright?" Grace asked as she handed Skylar back over to his mother.

"No...I..." Kae shuddered, feeling as if she were being watched. "...have to go. Sorry."

She hurried over to her car, managed to get it unlocked and get Skylar securely buckled into his car seat before getting in the driver's seat and driving off.

"No Bobby, I'm not kidding - I could've sworn it was a wraith." Kae buried her free hand in her hair and tangled her fingers in the brown strands. "And that voice happened again."

"I haven't heard anything," Bobby replied. "At least - fifty miles away there's a nasty skinwalker, but nothing in Moline."

Kae sighed and grabbed a bottle of water out of the refrigerator before collapsing on the couch.

"You're sure?"

"Yeah." There was a pause on Bobby's end of the line and Kae took that opportunity to adjust her hold on her cell phone. "And far as that voice goes, there's a number of things that communicate telepathically. It say anything other than your name?"

"Not that I could hear."

"Mmm." Bobby said thoughtfully. Then,

"How's he doing?"

"Dean?" Kae was startled by the quick subject change. "Oh...he's still looking for a way to bust Sam out. We haven't talked about it since Sky was born...but I know he's still looking."

"You gotta make him stop."

"Make him?" Kae scoffed. "Bobby you can't make Dean do anything."

"Yeah...well...I'll keep my ears open about that wraith." Bobby said in a resigned voice. "You take care of your boys...and call me if you need me, you hear?"

"Yeah." she closed her eyes in resignation as she heard a knock on the door. "Bye Bobby."

"Bye Kae."

She went to the door to open it. A woman with dark hair stood in front of her. Strange tattoos covered her left arm all the way from her shoulder to the tips of her fingers. She wore a simple black cami, dark jeans, and boots.

Kae frowned.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

The woman grinned.

"Hell yes."

And then she hit Kae in the face, knocking her to the ground. A swift kick of her foot to Kae's head knocked her unconcsious.

When Kae awoke later, she found herself bound to a chair.

Skylar. Oh God...

"Don't worry Kaelyn," a feminine voice said coolly. "I'll take good care of Skylar for you."

Kae blinked once, dazed as her eyes settled on the woman she'd seen earlier standing outside the apartment door. Now she sat on the couch - with Skylar in her lap.

"No..."

"I gotta admit, I came here for Dean," the stranger mused. "My brother trailed him to work but I had to call him off once I found out about you two."

Kae couldn't take her eyes off of Skylar. He didn't seem hurt, and for that she felt an immense sense of relief.

"The fuck did Dean do to you?" she asked once the grogginess began to wear off.

"He and his brother killed our father." the brunette responded. "Must've been...four years ago now?"

"So this is about revenge." Kae murmured. She tugged lightly at the ropes that bound her wrists, trying not to be too obvious. If she could get out of this and get Skylar safely out of her arms -

"Damn straight." pause. "I'm Brigitta by the way."

Kae nodded.

"Okay."

"Okay what?"

"Kill me. Just...don't hurt him, okay?"

Brigitta rolled her eyes.

"Why would I bother? Live bait is better than dead bodies all over the place."

"But you're going to kill us anyway, aren't you?" Kae fought to keep silent as excitement suddenly flooded her veins: she'd found a frayed part of the rope.

"Dean, yeah. You and this guy?" she gestured to Skylar. "Mmmm."

"Brigitta, please -" Kae bit her lip as she began to work at the ropes faster, until they were loose enough she was able to get out of them, and reached for the knife she usually kept in her pocket. "Get the fuck out."

Brigitta's eyes narrowed and she set Skylar aside before she lunged at Kae, knocking her back onto the floor.

"You know, I was actually thinking I'd spare you." she hissed as Kae struggled to throw her off. "I mean, why rip you from Skylar the way Dean and his brother took my father from my brothers and me? Boy am I glad I changed my mind." Her eyes glowed blue, as did the tattoos on her arm as she reached for Kae's head and buried her hand in the thick tresses of Kae's hair, finger nails scratching her scalp. "Enjoy your final hours, sweetheart."

As she was getting up, something suddenly grabbed the monster and hauled her away from Kae.

"Sam get Kae and her kid - it's alright we've got her!"

Kae couldn't think straight - images swam in front of her line of vision...of the wraith killing Skylar...of Dean being slaughtered by demons...of Dean preparing to kill her...

Her head felt like it was about to explode and she began to scream. She saw Sam lean over her, and could only struggle against him as he picked her up. It was another illusion. It had to be. Sam was dead.

Suddenly something barrelled into Sam, making him lose his grip and drop her. Kae let out a groan and sat up in time to see Dean land a punch to Sam's face before two men she didn't know were hauling him off of Sam.

"Sk - Sky," she croaked.

"He's alright, sweetheart," an unfamiliar hand carressed her forehead, and she flinched away, the hallucinations making it feel like the claw of a wraith. "Gwen's got him."

"Get away from me," she shoved at the stranger, who pinned her to the ground. "Get away!"

"Dammit, Mark get the antidote!" he yelled to someone she couldn't see. "It's alright, Kae. You're just gonna go to sleep for a bit."

Something pricked her arm, and after a few minutes passed, she began to feel very groggy. The last thing she saw before her eyelids slid shut was Sam's face.

"Sam..."

And then she passed out.

Alright so next part'll be up soon! Hope y'all liked it. Constructive criticism is welcome - no flames please!