Part One.

Alex Collins took the hunter's hand as he sat next to her on the edge of the brightly coloured motel bed. After almost a year of traveling around together, they'd grown quite close. Almost a relationship as some might describe it, though they wouldn't dare admit they cared about eachother that way. Even if they did it would be used against them. And finally she'd found the opportunity to tell Dean the burning secret that had weighed her down for nearly a week.

"Dean, look... There's something I've been meaning to tell you."
Alex turned her gaze to the floor and took a deep breath as Dean's eyes searched the fellow hunters worried face.

Finally she looked up and her tear filled, sea blue eyes met his sparkling green ones.

"Lex? C'mon, it can't be that bad." He said, reassuringly squeezing her hand.
She half smiled and took a shuddered breath.

"Well, I...I'm just gonna say it 'kay?"
She'd spent endless hours trying to piece together the perfect sentence to break the news, only now did she realise that it wasn't even possible.

"I'm pregnant."

She squeezed her eyes tight shut and waiting for some sort of response. A single teardrop trickled down her cheek as she felt his hand leave hers.

"We're...I...I'm gonna be a...a dad?"

She looked up with teary eyes to see Dean, running a hand through his short hair, his lips trembling. Silently, the walls they'd put up to protect themselves from getting close to one another (and to keep out even the mere idea of "falling in love") broke down.

"Uh huh."

Without making another sound, Dean gently placed his hands on Alex's cheeks and pressed his lips against hers. After pulling away, he rested his forehead against her own and smiled, allowing the information he had just received to wash over him and sink in. Fear of safety and protection would come later, but in that moment he was happy.

"Thank you" He whispered. The door clicked and opened. Sam walked in, his iPod on loud, and almost didn't notice the atmosphere in the room. As he looked around at the couple, Dean straightened and wiped away the stray tears that had escaped from his emerald eyes.

"What have i missed?" His bewildered younger brother asked, pulling out his earphones, his eyebrows knitted closely together.

"You tell him" Alex smiled when Dean looked at her for reassurance about whether they should tell him.

Sam shifted his stance and dropped his duffel bag on his bed. "Tell me what?"

"I'm gonna have a kid." Dean said shakily, a smile hovering nervously at the corner of his lips.

"Huh?" Sam just looked plain confused.

"Lexi's pregnant" Dean smiled his famous crooked smile. "I'm gonna be a dad. Sam, you're gonna be an Uncle."

Sam's expression didn't shift as his eyes flitted between his brother and the female hunter he thought he knew so well. She and Sam used to be friends years back, when they were teenagers. He'd realised that Alex and Dean had gotten close, when you were with someone 24/7 it was hard not to notice things like that, but for them to be having a kid together... His first thought was of how they were going to cope. They were hunters, they couldn't have a baby with them. Not to mention that Sam and Dean were practically the Demon's most wanted, how the Hell were they going to manage?

The second thought that washed over him was of their dad. How would John have reacted to being a Grandpa? He could hear his father's voice ringing in his ear about how everyone's safety came before your own happiness. Silently, the youngest Winchester wondered what John would have said in this situation. Sam thought about raising these issues, but with one look into his brothers shimmering eyes and hopeful expression, he sighed and forced a smile.

"That's great, man", he nodded, hugging his brother before hugging Alex.

Little did he know that everyone in that tiny motel room was forcing a smile.
A thousand problems with having a child were running through Sam's head, this had to be a dream, because the consequences could be massive if it were reality.

Dean looked at the mother of his child and his heart dropped, knowing this would only lead to something terrible but forcing a smile to reassure her, regardless. If a Demon got hold of them while she was pregnant, they'd be screwed. He couldn't let her hunt anymore for her own safety, and that of the child she was carrying. Then there was the problem of raising the child. They couldn't hunt. Hence, people would die. And if they did hunt, they'd be away for months at a time. Him and Sam had only just started to be brothers again, and now they were going to be torn apart again.

Alex on the other hand was wrapping a hand around her stomach with fear in her gut, the same thoughts of panic that were in the other two hunter's minds were also pumping through her veins. They were now sitting ducks to anything supernatural. As Dean gripped her shaking hand, she made a silent vow to protect that child till she drew her last breath. Nothing was going to change that.

TBC
Re-updating all of this story, as when I first wrote it, it was my first fic.
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