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THEN

Cas told Dean that he has a daughter. She was in a crappy orphanage. Dean had saved her and was back with her and Sam in the motel room. The girl was dirty and needed a bath so after bringen her into the bathroom he wanted to grab the needed thing but the door burst open 10 seconds after he had left the bathroom.

NOW

"Don't go, pwease. I sowee. Don't go 'way, I be good girl. Promise."

Dean stood in shock by the panic in his daughter's voice. She was terrified, and he hadn't even left the motel room. He was 10 seconds out of her sight and she panicked. He grabbed quickly the things he needed and returned to Izzy.

"Hey, kiddo, I am not leaving you, I am right here, never far away. Shhh, it's alright."

The little girl pressed herself against his chest and shivered violently. Dean didn't know what else to do other than hold his little girl as tight as possible and let her feel that she is safe. It took several minutes until Dean felt that he could give it a try to shower Izzy. She was still upset but it would take time for her to relax in general.

"Hey Kiddo, think you are okay with taking a shower now?"

His voice was soft and warm and had lost so much of his coolness he normally uses as the hunter. Izzy sighed and nodded barely noticeably.

"Okay come here, let's get rid of your filthy clothes."

Dean was shocked when he saw the bruises and signs of injuries on Izzy's small body.

"You know this..." he touched carefully one of the bruises on Izzy's arm. "Will never happen again?"

Izzy couldn't response to this, this was beyond her dreams. It took some time to shower the girl, mostly she was terrified to close her eyes and she just didn't know what to expect.

Figure 1 Dean little girl after the shower

"Can you close your eyes, please?"

"No, no, no. Don't hurt me. S-s-sowee! I be good. Really, really." Izzy slipped and fell; Dean jumped to catch her but realized that he needed to have a new plan. To see that the little girl just got a new bruise at her right elbow and at her hip did hurt him as much as it hurt her.

"Hey kiddo, I promised that no one ever will hurt you again."

Izzy was staring with her green eyes at him, as a rabbit stares at a snake.

"Hey, how about we play a game?"

"Huh?"

"Okay I go back in the other room and get the toys for this game. I leave the door open and gonna sing, so you hear that I won't leave you. I'll be right back. Okay?"

"Come back?"

"Yes I'm coming back, I promise!"

"Kay." It wasn't more than a whisper. Izzy looked worried, and Dean wasn't less worried. Was it safe to leave her even when it was just for a moment? Could she drown?

"See, the door is open. And can you hear me? I am singing. A-ramble on, and now's the time, the time is now. Sing my song, I'm goin' 'round the world, I gotta find my girl. On my way, I've been this way ten years to the day. Ramble on, gotta find the queen of all my dreams... see I wasn't long gone."

Dean came back, with a plastic boat and a rubber duck.

"Which one do you wanna play, Superduck or the Powerboat?"

Dean smiled at Izzy.

"Ducky?"

"Good choice, so I can be the boat, that is awesome. Please sit down; I don't want you to slip again."

Izzy sat down carefully while Dean turned on the warm water, checking again and again that it wasn't too hot. He started playing the boat pushing it through the water. "Vroom. Oh I like this. I can't remember when I played the last time in the bathtub with toys." Izzy didn't reply so he looked at Izzy. She was sad holding the duck in her hand. She saw him looking at her, she blushed and started to push the duck like he the boat through the water.

"Vroom." It was just a whisper of her. Dean chuckled.

"No." Dean chuckled.

"Ducky sound?"

"No kiddo, ducky doesn't go vroom! Ducky goes quack!"

Izzy blushed even more, which let Dean check the hot water again he doesn't want to boil her.

Baby what did you learn in your live. You don't know what sound a duck makes?

"O-kay. Quack, quack..."

Izzy played for the first time in her life. After some time in the water she looked up at Dean a shy smile in her face and closed her eyes. Dean was so surprised that it took a moment to understand that he could now wash her face.

Dean lifted Izzy out of the shower and wrapped the towel around her fragile body.

"She is a fish." Izzy pointed at the girl on her towel.

"What?" Dean looked confused at Izzy.

And there it was again, Izzy winced away from him. She stumbled and fell.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry."

"No, you are fine. Really, come here. I'm not mad. I just didn't understand what you wanna say. But you were talking about the little mermaid right?"

Izzy nodded scared and crying. He knelt in front of her, and wiped the tears away.

"You know this girl is not really a fish, she is half human and half fish. Her name is Ariel, she is a mermaid. A princess."

Back in the other room Dean dressed Izzy in one of his shirts.

I need to buy clothes for her.

"Okay are you hungry?"

Her big green eyes looked scared at him before she nodded a little, but she still looked worried that she gave him the wrong answer.

"Okay. We have chocolate, goldfish and orange juice. What a dinner."


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