Dean and Cas snuggled in close together never wanting to let go. Dean just finished working a case where the creature (Sam told Dean it's name but it never stuck in his head) would attack married couples. First it would talk the wife and dangle her from the ceiling up-side-down then make her watch as he poisoned and ate her husband. Dean never allowed the thought that that could have been his family enter his head. He just curled up that much closer to Castiel that night.
Just as he settled in and started to fall asleep he heard little feet in the hallway walking toward his room. A second later the door was pushed open and a sleepy little girl made her way to Dean's side of the bed. "Daddy" she nudged at Dean' s side barely reaching it in an attempt to wake him up.
"Yes baby girl" Dean whispered pulling away from Cas as he turned toward Amelia.
"I had a bad dream" she looked at him clutching her favorite teddy bear. Her blue eyes filled with tears and her messy dirty blonde hair fell in her face as she redirected her gaze to her now wiggling toes.
Dean patted the space on the bed next to him and then lifted her into it. "It's okay honey, daddy is right her nothing can hurt you,"Dean smiled down at her as she curled herself into his side. He smoothed back her hair and wiped her face of the single tear that was there.
Cas had woken up during his husband and daughters little conversation. "Is she okay?" Cas whispered softly to Dean. He then reached over him and pushed a loose strand of hair out of her face. She was snoring softly now against Dean's side still clutching her teddy bear to her chest.
"Yea she's fine, she just had a bad dream" Dean looked up at Castiel and gave him a soft kiss before they both settled in for the night and fell asleep
The next morning the Cas and Dean woke up at around the same time. It was a Saturday so they played there together with Amelia still curled up at Dean's side. Dean peered down at his daughter's small face. It was so young and soft not yet hit by the bad in the world. Dean planted a kiss into the curly hair that resembled his in color.
Her eyes fluttered and she awoke the striking blue eye stared wide up at his own. They were still full of sleep but there was a smile in them as she said , "Good morning Daddy" then registering Castiel' s eyes and again said, "Good morning Daddy" the she frowned, her eyebrows pushed together creating the same crease as Dean's when something is on his mind.
"What's wrong honey?" Castiel whispered leaning forward and instinctively smoothed out the skin between her eyebrows.
"Why don't I have a mommy?" she sat up her nightgown punching up around her waist as she pulled her legs into the criss cross position locating her bear and sitting him the hole her legs made. "The other kids at daycare get picked up by nice ladies they call mommy but I always get picked up by a daddy," worry and concern made her soul shine older than herself.
Dean just looked at Castiel searching his eyes for an answer. "Well," Dean spoke reaching behind him to grab Cas's hand, "Some people fall in love with nice ladies but I fell in love with a nice man" he smiled at her satisfied with what he had told her. She nodded clearly okay with the answer she was given. Right on cue her small stomach growled and Dean took the opportunity to derail her train of thought. "Come on let's see what kind of breakfast your daddy can cook for us today!"
Dean slid out of bed stretching quickly before turning and picking up Amelia. Cas slid out and came to Dean's side taking his hand as they made their way down to the kitchen.
"What are we feeling today?" Castiel smiled as he picked up Amelia and sat her on the counter in her usual place so she could his food sidekick as she called it after Dean showed her a few batman comics from when he was a kid.
"Eggs and bacon and….."she thought looking up at the ceiling tapping her index finger to her mouth before she raised both her hands to the sky and yelled "PIE!" they all laughed amused by the way she exclaimed the last word.
"We can make eggs and bacon but pie isn't a breakfast food," Castiel shrugged glancing first at Amelia and then at Dean. Both faces wore a puppy dog face pleading with Castiel to make the pie. After a moment he caved and agreed.
Everyone helped make breakfast and as they say down to eat it Castiel remembered why Amelia had slept with them last night. "Amelia do you remember what your dream was from last night?"
" was there me, you, daddy, Uncle Sam, Uncle Gabe, Christopher (Sam and Gabriel' s kid), and Grandpa Singer" she explained swallowing the bit of pie in her mouth. "We were here playing outside but then this mean man with scabs on his face came and hurt you guys and told me I was an abmna-abom-ab-" the word stuck in her mouth unable to form due to its length and complexity.
"Abomination?" Castiel offered and she nodded smiling obviously ignorant to the words meaning.
She continued telling her dream, "he tried to hurt me but I ran away and that's when I woke up"
"Did the mean man have a name?"Castiel asked
"He said his name was Lucifer," she said shrugging a little.
Dean and Castiel shared a mortified glance.