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It had been 6 months since Ivy was dropped off at Dean's motel room, six challenging and life changing months for Dean to get used to being a first time daddy. Dean had to experience and learn new things he never would have imagined he would need to know, one of them being to take care of another human being. Others like brushing Ivy's hair, brushing her teeth, bathing her and so on. But as time progressed he had become quite good at it, every moment spent with Ivy he held dear to his heart.

As the months went by she had started to crawl without falling on her bottom and feed herself from a spoon with encouragement from her daddy and doting uncle Sammy, though Sam was the one who got custard dripping down his face, not Dean. She had learnt to say small words, her first being 'Dadda' and second 'Sammy' which had Sam and Dean reeling for days, so proud of their little princess.

All those cute moments affected the brothers greatly, loving and caring for Ivy a lot more than hunting, which they only did when it was a serious case. If there was a serious case and they had no one to look after Ivy they gave her to Bobby. Or in other cases when Bobby couldn't look after her they gave her to Castiel, weird enough the angel had a way with Ivy and was really good at looking after her.

Right now Dean and Sam had just got back from a hunt, dropping their bags on the floor. Dean smiled when he spotted Castiel sitting on the bed, Ivy in his arms asleep.

"Hey Cas, how was she?" he asked, walking over to the blue eyed angel and sitting on the bed next to him, opening his arms to take his daughter from his friend.

"She was fine like always Dean, she just fell asleep" Castiel replied, a slight smile gracing his usually firm lined lips.

"Well that's great, no trouble with her?" he asked, gently bobbing his daughter up and down in his arms.

"No, she was perfectly behaved" the angel said. He closed his eyes for a second then reopened them. 'I'm sorry but I'm needed in heaven" he got up and nodded his head at Dean. "Goodbye Dean," then to Sam "Goodbye Sam," and finally to Ivy, a small smile gracing on his lips. "Goodnight Ivy" with that and a flutter of wings he vanished.

"Wow, always important work to do upstairs" said Sam, picking up the hunting bags and stashing them under his bed.

"Yeah, I guess the angels are over run with jobs and all that stuff" said Dean, softly rocking Ivy in his arms. The sound of voices must have woken Ivy up for her eyes suddenly opened, emerald orbs staring up at her father and a baby like grin forming on her face.

"Hey there little princess" Dean cooed, lifting her up closer to his face. "Did Daddy and Uncle Sammy wake you?" he smiled.

Ivy giggled at her father, reaching a hand up to grab Dean's nose, clenching it in her tiny fist. "Dadda" she gurgled, grinning and drooling a little from the mouth. It was cute.

'Dean, I think she's drooling" laughed Sam, watching Ivy's drool drip down her chin and on Dean's pants.

"What?" Dean looked down and chuckled at the drool mark that had sunk into the material of his jeans, looking back up at Ivy who was still grinning. "You little drool monster" he scolded, tickling her stomach.

Sam smiled, sitting back down on his bed and laying back, head softly hitting the pillow and he closed his eyes. Little did Dean know but he had been doing some research on Ivy and tomorrow was actually her birthday. He sighed contently, smiling slightly at what Dean's reaction would be the next morning when he was told the news.

The alarm blaring obnoxiously was the first thing Dean heard the next morning, groaning and reaching for the clock, fumbling for the button and finally hitting it, the alarm ceasing its noise.

He stretched his arms and opened his eyes, sitting up and almost instantly spotting Ivy lying next to him, cuddled up in his side. He smiled, lifting a finger to stroke her cheek. He chuckled when she whimpered, moving her head away from Dean's touch, her emerald green eyes opening and looking up at him annoyingly.

"Sorry sweetie but that look does nothing to affect me" he picked her up, ignoring her struggling and put her on his lap. "Why don't you drop that frown and smile, huh?" he couldn't help but laugh when she scowled at him, her bottom lip curling.

"Ivy pissed off at you again?"

Dean turned to face Sam who was smirking, sitting up in his own bed with a bed head look.

"Shut up" he chuckled.

Sam laughed and shook his head, getting up and slipping a shirt on. "Hey Dean I was researching about Ivy a couple weeks ago and I found out that her birthday is today" he said, coming up with casual conversation.

Dean looked up shocked. "Wow, really" he sounded really excited and Sam couldn't help but grin.

"Yeah, so I was wondering if you wanted to go out and get her some gifts, maybe take her for ice cream" he said.

"Wait one second, you hate ice cream. You're all crazy for that health food crap" Dean chuckled, smirking.

Sam shrugged innocently, looking away. "Yeah I know, just…its Ivy, Dean. It's her first birthday, don't you think it should be special."

"And you're willing to get off your health nut diet for that, you're cool with that?" said Dean, overly amazed at his brother.

"I'm completely cool with it" Sam replied, looking up at Dean with honesty.

Dean chuckled, shaking his head. "Well okay then, let's go" he said, getting up with Ivy in his arms, slipping his jacket on and taking the Impala keys out of the pocket. "Let's get this show on the road."

Dean, Sam and Ivy had arrived in the shopping centre not only an hour ago before Ivy started getting excited, giggling and rambling on in baby talk as Dean pushed the trolley through the many aisles.

A couple of girls walked past and looked over at Dean, smiling warmly at Ivy and eyes travelling up Dean's body in satisfaction. Dean just laughed and Sam chuckled. Dean always had the charm to allure girls and with Ivy around it was working even better.

A couple minutes later Dean and Sam were browsing through the kid toys isle. The shelves were packed with cars, trains, helicopters, buzz light year dolls and many other colourful toys that seemed to catch Ivy's eyes. Ivy giggled, suddenly leaning over the side of the trolley and reaching out to a pink fluffy stuffed unicorn.

"What's that princess?" cooed Dean, stopping the trolley and looking over at Ivy who was giggling and reaching out for the toy. He went over to the isle and picked up the toy, looking at the label-A pillow pet?

"Dean, I think she wants it" said Sam, smiling at Ivy who was babbling happy baby talk.

Dean looked at the toy in his hands again then back at Ivy, a smile breaking on his face. "Of course you can have it sweetie" he said, handing her the plush toy and grinning when her face lit up, her arms wrapping around the toy and hugging it to her chest.

The rest of the shopping went by pretty smoothly, the trolley becoming filled with lot of colourful and educative toys (blame Sam for the educative ones) and all different cute little baby outfits.

One toy that especially got on Dean's nerves was the stuffed dog that sung nursery rhymes, boy had he and Sam had an argument about getting that one. Dean did clearly not see the purpose for it but Sam being the nerdy jerk he was rambled on all about how it was good for Ivy's wellbeing, which to Dean was just was a lame excuse for him to buy a ridiculous talking toy.

In the end Sam had won, the talking stuffed dog becoming one of the toys in the trolley. Ivy had been really happy, pressing the button on the dog toy and trying to sing along with rhymes the whole way through the shopping centre.

By the time they got to the checkout Ivy had quietened down, just looking around curiously at the items getting scanned and put into bags. "Sammy" she suddenly said, pointing at the stuffed unicorn when it was put into bag, lips trembling.

Dean chuckled and looked at Sam who just shrugged, asking the cashier politely if she could hand him the pillow pet. The woman smiled warmly and took the toy out of the bag, handing it to Sam who then handed it to Ivy.

Ivy's face lit up when Sam handed her the pillow pet. "Thwank-oo Sammy!" she giggled, snuggling the toy close to her chest.

"No problem pumpkin" he smiled, turning to dean who was grinning widely at his brother's and daughter's affection.

The woman at the register smiled and Sam and Dean, eyes soft. "Are you guys together or something, because your baby is so adorable" she said sweetly.

Dean and Sam's faces paled, stomachs churning. "No, we're brother" they both quickly said at that same time.

"Well your baby is adorable, which on of yours it is?" she asked.

"Mine" said Dean, eyes shining.

"Well she's gorgeous, you must be so proud" she smiled, looking at the computer register. "That will be 325 dollars."

Sam pulled out his wallet, handing her the cash while Dean took the bags and loaded them in the trolley. With one last smile at the cashier Dean, Sam and Ivy left the shop, heading to the Impala. They put all the bags in the boot and got in the car, buckling Ivy up in the car seat in the back, starting the engine and heading to the ice cream parlour.

When they got to the ice cream parlour Dean set Ivy in a baby chair, him and Sam sitting next to her and picking up the menu that had all the ice cream flavours written down on it and looking through it.

A couple minutes lasted a waitress went by and took their orders, ogling at Ivy and saying how adorable she was before going back to the kitchen. Dean just smiled. Licking up all the attention like a cat licks up milk…weird metaphor I know but a plain and simple way to put it.

Another minuted later the same waitress came back with their orders, smiling warmly and heading back to the kitchen once again leaving the three to dig into their ice cream.

Dean moaned loudly as he spooned a mouthful of caramel cookie dough ice cream in his mouth, licking his lips. "Boy, this stuff is awesome!" he grinned.

Sam chuckled, handing Ivy her small tub of fairly floss ice cream, she instantly put her fingers in it, licking the ice cream off and giggling.

"Oi, use a spoon you food monster" laughed Dean, handing her a small plastic spoon which she then put in the ice cream, spooning out a small bit and putting it in her mouth, eyes lighting up.

Dean and Sam just laughed, watching Ivy eat her ice cream like proud parents, soon they were all finished eating and heading out the door.

A man walking through the door accidently bumped into Sam on the way out causing Sam to grunt.

"Whoa, sorry there big boy, didn't see you" the man said, his voice seeming very familiar to Sam

Sam looked up, eyes widening as he took in the man's amber coloured eyes and caramel brown hair. "Gabriel?" he gasped, heart fluttering in his chest.

"Why hey there Sammy" Gabriel smiled when he noticed it was Sam he had bumped into, turning to Dean who was staring at him with shock holding Ivy in his arms. "Don't tell me, you popped someone's cherry already didn't you" he chuckled.

Dean couldn't form words; the only thing close to words that he could muster was a shaken. "What the hell?"

Ivy just giggled, clapping her hand together happily. Something about this stranger made her feel excited, a grin forming on her face."Gab'iel!" she said, bouncing up and down in Dean's arms

Gabirel just smiled down at Ivy, making a lollypop appear and handing it to Ivy who took it and put it in her mouth. He then looked up at Dean, smirking. "Well aren't you going to introduce me to the kid?"

Dean and Sam just stared at the Archangel/Trickster in shock…seriously, what the hell was going on?