Life
E/O Quadruple Drabble Challenge – a happy to be alive fic, with... kids, snowflakes, cocoa, and snow angels...
December 23, 2012
For Onyx and her new baby girl…
Sam smiled as he sipped his hot cocoa.
He and Dean often wondered why they did what they did – they risked their lives, have literally been to Heaven and Hell and even Purgatory and back, only to do it over and over, at the risk of their own sanity and relationship.
But looking at his brother now, seeing him in the park with a couple of the local kids, giggling and rolling around in the snow… Sam laughed. Was Dean making snow angels on the ground with them now?
Early this morning they'd heard a woman scream. They'd thought the worst of course, and ran up the stairs, guns in hands, ready to kick down as many doors as they could to get to her, ready to fight off some ghost or rapist or whatever other bad guy you could think of…
He sipped his cocoa again. They'd kicked down the door all right, only to find the very pregnant woman on the floor, in active labor. He didn't think he'd ever been so scared in his life. Dean had mimicked that famous "Gone With the Wind" line, "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!" but then the woman cried out again and begged them to help. They couldn't refuse.
It wasn't long after that the brothers found themselves witnessing the messy, disgusting, painful and absolutely wonderful miracle of birth. Dean's hands shook as they held onto the beautiful little baby girl… Sam had had to help him hold onto the squirming baby before giving her over to her mother.
The EMT's arrived shortly afterward and the brothers stood back as mother and child were whisked away.
Sam had been waiting for the usual, negative, Dean to emerge – the one that would say, "Why would anyone want to bring a new life into this world? We're surrounded by death and destruction…" But instead, he had a silent, contemplative brother on his hands.
They used the bathroom in the woman's apartment to clean up a bit, gave a quick statement to the police officer that had arrived with the EMT's and left the building, ready to get on with their usual lives.
And then Dean saw the kids in the park, pulled over and got out. Sam couldn't explain the joy in his brother's eyes, nor did he want to.
So Sam stuck out his tongue and caught a snowflake.