"I want daddy to put me to bed," said Katie grabbing Deans' hand. Rose smiled and crouched down.
"Alright, sweet dreams," said Rose as she kissed her daughters cheek.
Dean picked Katie up and carried her to her room. He plopped her on her bed making her giggle and she got under the covers. "Daddy, could you tell me a story?"
"Ok, what story do you want to hear tonight?" he said as he sat down next to her and leaned against the headboard. Her hand curled into his as she closed her eyes.
"The one with the princess named Katie and the evil dragon."
Dean smiled at his daughter. "There was a princess named, Katie who was being kept safe in a far away land by her mother, the queen."
"And her name?"
Dean's smile grew. "Rose was the queens' name." Katie grinned and looked up at him. "What about the king?"
"The king was out fighting a war to keep his queen and little princess safe. He was risking his life everyday fighting against every evil thing that tried to harm his family and kingdom. But something got passed him; an evil dragon grabbed the princess and took her far away. The queen cried wondering if she will ever see her beautiful daughter again. And the king promised her he would stop at nothing to save their daughter. He fought through seas and seas of evil, wiping them out one at a time until he finally reached the dragon's layer. In order to save the princess he had to kill the dragon that was keeping her from him. He took his sword and sliced the dragon's throat. The walls in the dragons' layer started to crumble and he carried the princess out. They road on the kinds white horse all the way back to the kingdom where the queen was waiting outside of the castle for them. The little princess ran up to her mother and the queen covered her with kisses. She put the princess down and gave the king one big kiss and they lived happily ever after."
"I like that story daddy."
"Yeah?" She giggled and nodded. "I have something for you."
Katie sat up and grinned. "An early birthday present?"
"Sort of." He grabbed something out of his pocket and opened his hand for her to look at it. It was a necklace with an unusual pendant on it. She grinned.
"I love it, daddy!"
Dean wrapped it around her neck and hooked the clip together. She smiled and picked it up in her hand. "No harm will come to you from wearing that. So always keep it on." He kissed her forehead and she smiled. "Now, lie down and get to sleep before your mother kills me for keeping you up."
Katie grinned and laid down next to her father. Dean wrapped his arm around her and watched her fall asleep. He fell asleep himself watching his daughter sleep.
Rose walked down the hallway and looked in the spare room to see Sam asleep on his stomach. She closed the door and walked down the hall to Katie's room. She found Dean and her asleep in her bed. Dean was against the headboard while Katie was curled up next to him. She smiled and walked in.
She gently shook Dean. "Dean…" He opened his eyes and yawned.
For a moment he forgot where he was until he looked down at Katie and smiled. He got out of bed without waking her up and Rose kissed her head and noticed the necklace. "What's that?"
"An early birthday present," said Dean shrugging and walking out.
Rose gave her daughter one more look and walked out of the room.
"Sam took the spare room," said Rose as she walked by Dean and he sighed.
"Looks like I'm on the couch then," he said walking over to it.
She laughed. "Oh, come on you big baby." She opened her door and motioned him to go in. He grinned.
"I knew you couldn't resist me." They both walked in.
"Resisting? No. I just don't feel like hearing you whine all week."
She walked into her closet and started undressing. She knew he was watching and frankly she didn't care. She grabbed a t-shirt and put it on. She crawled into bed and shut the light off.
"Night, Dean," she said as she rolled on her side.
"Rose…can I ask you a question?"
She rolled over and looked at him. "Sure."
"Why didn't you ever get married?"
"Why should I? Katie is my whole life. I have no reason to be seeing anyone. Plus, some guys don't like the whole child thing you know?"
Dean smirked. "Yeah but look at yourself…you're a milf."
Rose punched him in the arm trying to hold back her smile. "And you're disgusting."
"I meant that as a compliment."
Rose smiled at him. "Thanks…and don't just think because you're complimenting me and you're in my bed doesn't mean I'm having sex with you. You saw how that turned out last time." She rolled back over her back facing him.
He laughed. "An amazing night and a beautiful daughter."
She turned her head and glared at him playfully. "Knock it off. You're still not getting any." He laughed again and rolled on his stomach.
"Night Rose."
"Night Dean."
The next morning Rose woke up and rolled over, not even thinking as she snuggled up against Dean. His arm wrapped around her waist pulling her closer to him. She smiled a little and then it faded realizing whose arms she was in. She opened her eyes and quickly slipped out of his arms without waking him up.
She made breakfast for Katie and Sam, Dean still sleeping. "Does he always sleep this late?" she asked getting up from the table.
"Only if he had a good night," said Sam.
She wondered what he meant by that but shook it out of her head.
"Can I wake him up?" asked Katie.
"Go for it," said Sam laughing.
Katie jumped out of her chair and ran into her mother's room. She jumped on the bed waking Dean up. He grinned at her and pulled her into a hug. "Morning, sunshine."
"Morning, daddy…" She looked around the room and he noticed a question was stirring in her head. "Daddy, are you and mommy ok now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Are you two going to keep fighting?"
Rose was leaning on the doorframe with her arms crossed staring at Dean and Katie with a sad expression on her face. He glanced at Rose and then back at Katie and smiled. "No, we won't fight anymore."
"Pinky promise." Katie put her pinky out.
Dean chuckled and wrapped his pinky around hers. "Pinky promise, mommy and I will not fight anymore."
Katie grinned and kissed his cheek. "Eww, daddy, you need to shave." Rose chuckled and then hid her smile behind her hand. Katie looked at Rose as she walked in and sat at the foot of her bed. "Does this mean we can be a family?"
Dean and Rose looked sadly at each other. "Katie, sweetie, we are a family," said Rose holding her hand. "We're just not like other families."
Dean took her other hand. "Yeah, we're special."
Katie frowned. "I don't want to be special, I want to be normal." This hurt Dean deep down inside and he looked at Rose who avoided his eyes and sucked on her bottom lip.
"We talked about this Katie."
"It's not fair!" yelled Katie standing up and jumping off the bed.
"Katelyn Valentine Winchester!" yelled Rose staring at her daughter in shock. She should have known this was coming.
"For once I want a mommy and daddy that I can come home to from school. A family that would come to see my plays, my softball games, takes me to the father and daughter dance in town!"
"Katie…" started Dean sitting up. He didn't know she felt like this. She always seemed fine with the way things were.
"No! It's not fair!" She ran out of the room and they heard the door slam. Sam was standing outside in the hall and quickly walked to the kitchen pretending he didn't hear a thing but it was small house…
Rose wiped the tears from her face that slid out and put her head in her hands shaking her head.
"If I knew that she felt this way…" started Dean.
"How would you?" she asked turning to look at him. "You only come by when it's convenient for you. When a job is nearby or when it's her birthday. You send her gifts through the mail and cards full of money but it's not enough Dean. She is always asking why you are never around and I tell her it's because of your job. She wants to know what you do what do I tell her? I don't know how to tell her what you do!"
"Wait a minute," said Dean getting up and closing the door. "Don't you try to blame this on me! We agreed a long time ago that there was no way that I-we were going to be anything! We both said it wasn't going to work out!"
Rose stood up with her hands both in fist. "But we weren't thinking how this could affect Katie! We are always saying 'For Katie' 'For Katie.' What exactly are we doing for Katie?! It seems like we're both fucked up parents!"
"Don't say that," he said walking over to her and putting his hands on her forearms. "You are a great mother. I'm…I'm the fucked up one. Look what I do…but please, don't make me feel like the bad guy here. You know I try my best to see her every chance I get."
She sighed and closed her eyes. "I know…I know…" She opened her eyes and looked up into his. "You're not a bad father Dean…you just have…problems." Dean smiled a little making her smile. "We can do this. We'll just…we'll just tell her that we can't be together because of your job and that's it."
"Yeah…yeah, semi true."
"Yeah." They stared into each other's eyes. To Dean it was all true, he wanted to be with Rose and Katie but he knew Rose didn't feel the same about him. Rose wrapped her arms around Dean's neck and Dean wrapped his around her waist in an embrace. "We can do this…" she whispered in his ear. He held her tightly and nodded. She leaned back a little and they looked at each other. She had her hands on his shoulders and she smiled at him. "You can take Katie to school. I think she'll like it. Give you more bonding time you know?"
He nodded and kissed her cheek. "Thank you." He walked out of the bedroom and closed the door. She sat on her bed and shook her head. "I just can't wait till she hits that tween-attitude stage, then she's really gonna hate us."
Dean and Katie walked out of the house followed by Sam and Rose. Sam had coffee in his hand while Rose walked to her car. "You going to be ok by yourself, Sam?" she asked turning around.
"He'll be fine," said Dean opening the door for Katie. "If he gets bored he can play with Katie's dolls."
Sam rolled his eyes and walked into the house. "You shouldn't pick on your brother so much," said Rose smiling as she walked next to Dean to get to her car. "Hey, munchkin where's my kiss goodbye?"
Katie got out of the car and hugged her mother and kissed her cheek. "I'm sorry about this morning, mommy."
"That's alright, we'll talk when you get home, ok?" Katie nodded and hopped in Dean's car. Dean closed the door and leaned on it. Katie watched closely at her parents.
"No kiss for me?" asked Dean pouting. He put his hand over his chest. "I'm hurt."
"Go ahead mommy, kiss daddy goodbye," said Katie popping her head out of the window.
Rose poised her lips together and glared at Dean who was smiling at her. "She's too chicken, Katie."
"I am not chicken, I just don't want to."
"Chicken."
"Chicken," said Katie smiling at her mom.
"Thanks for making my daughter go against me," said Rose sarcastically. "Fine." She shook her hands and walked up to Dean who was surprised that she was actually going to do it. She leaned in and kissed his cheek. "You didn't say where."
"You should know where I like it." Katie giggled and Dean looked at her shocked and then turned back to Rose. "See what Sex and the City is teaching her." Rose shook her head smiling.
"Goodbye guys."
"Bye mommy!"
Dean and Katie drove towards the school. "So, Katie, I want to say sorry for this morning," he said and grabbed her hand. Katie looked up at him with her puppy dog eyes. "It's just mommy and daddy live in…"
"Two separate worlds, two separate lives…I know I hear this from mommy all the time."
"You know I want to be there for you, I love you Katie."
"I know daddy and I love you too…it's just…I wish you and mommy were together."
Dean glanced at his daughter and then back at the road. He was always a careful driver when Katie was in the car. "And I told mommy that that is what I am going to wish on my birthday before I blow out the candles. That you two love each other and stay together, so we can be a family."
Dean smiled a little at her. "I wish we could sweetie, it's my job that gets in the way."
"What do you do daddy?"
"I'm a detective; I go around hunting bad guys with your Uncle Sammy." Katie nodded and they pulled up to the school. Katie opened the door but Dean stopped her. "Katie, things will work out one day, you know that right? It won't always be like this."
Katie smiled and hugged her father. "I know. I love you daddy." She kissed his cheek and got out of the car.
"I love you too sweetie." He watched her walk into the school. She turned around and waved at him and he waved back. He went to start the car when he noticed the attention he was getting from the single moms. He raised his eyebrows and smiled a little at them and drove off.
AN: Thanks for the reviews Brandofheroin-x and mrssamwinchester93!! Glad you two like it. Hope you liked this chapter…next chapter is going to be more drama!!! (Supernatural drama anyway lol)…lots of love J.B.
