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Sam was just getting relaxed in his chair, when he heard a slight rustle come from the bed. Sam looked up and Dean was looking him.

"Sammy?"

"Sammy…What are you doing here… Wheres… Dad?" Dean managed to mumble out while his eyes continued to silently droop closed.

Sam watched Dean for a couple of minutes to see if he would wake up again, when nothing happened Sam got up and made the short trek down the hallway to where the nurses' station was located.

"Excuse me. My name is Sam Winchester and my brother Dean is just down the hall, he just woke up briefly but couldn't seem to stay awake. I was wondering if one of you could check him over to make sure everything is alright."

One of the younger nurses came over and introduced herself "Hi my name is Kara and I would be more than happy to check your brother over for you. You said his name was Dean right? I'll call Dr. Spencer over too and let him know that Dean woke up, even if it was just for a little bit." Kara informed Sam while they walked down to Dean's room. Finally they reached Dean's room and Kara went over and checked all of Dean's monitoring devices, bandages and casts. She jotted down some notes in his file and turned to Sam.

"Everything looks good, it just looks like the anesthesia from the surgery is wearing off and he should be more awake soon. When he was awake did he seem to be in any pain?"

"No, he just seemed groggy and confused but not in any pain."

"Well Sam, that is to be expected after the ordeal that he has been through. I will let Dr. Spencer know what happened and he should be able to tell you more."

"Thank you Kara. I really appreciate your help." Sam said to Kara as she was leaving the room.

"It's my job Sam." She said with a smile leaving Dean's room.

Sam went to sit back down by his brother and wait for him to wake up again. When any of the Winchesters were stuck in the hospital the remaining members of the family would sit at bedside vigil and talk to the one in the bed until the injured or sick member woke up or the healthy members were forced from the room. Although all the Winchesters would sit beside their fallen family member it was always the youngest that would that would take the cake with the most talking. Dani would sit with whoever was in the hospital bed and talk to them telling them adorable stories that she would make up or something that the brothers had done to make her happy. Sam sat next to Dean and began thinking of one really memorable time that the whole Winchester clan had been beside Dean's bedside.

Flashback

"Deanie wake up! If you don't wake up soon your gonna miss my Kindergarten graduation. Remember you promised you'd come? You never break promises! Wake up sleepy head." Dani said while jumping around Dean's hospital bed, trying to get him to wake up.

"Danielle! Calm down right now or I will make you sit in the waiting room until visiting hours are over." John commanded while walking into the room holding all of his children. He hated having to yell at his little princess but he couldn't risk her bumping something that would affect how Dean recovered.

"I'm sorry Daddy. I just wanted Deanie to wake up." Dani pouted with tears in her eyes, and bolted into John's arms.

"I know sweetie so do I." John whispered into his daughter's ruffled blonde hair.

The Winchesters were currently visiting the hospital because John had taken the two oldest children on what he thought would be a simple salt and burn of a pissed off solider from the Civil War. The spirit was gonna go down without a fight either, which they should have predicted but they all just wanted to hurry through the job, and get out of the freezing rain that had started as soon as they reached the cemetery . While John and Sammy were digging out the coffin, Dean was standing watch for protection from the spirit.

"You know now would be a great time to get to burning those bones and ditching this place! Its freezing up here and I for one would like to go home and check on the munchkin to make sure she didn't get into too much mischief." Dean jokingly complained to his father and brother.

"Yeah Dad I can't believe you just let Dani, run wild in the motel room by herself. She can't even protect herself, what if something happens? Then what?" Sam argued deciding to take Dean's friendly banter and make it into more of an argument then what Dean had originally planned.

"Enough you two! Dean, me and Sam are going as fast as we can and you can shut your trap about this and keep watch like I told you, or me and Sam can stand watch while you dig through this mud to get to the bones, you decide." John then finished with, "As for you Sam, don't you question my abilities to father anyone! She will be just fine and she knows how to you use a phone and call us if something goes wrong."

While this was happening no one noticed the cold that swept over the area alerting the usually always alert hunters of the spirit approaching. The spirit of Private Jedediah Jackson decided to take the unsuspecting Dean and fling him across the cemetery causing him to crash head first into an angel on a headstone. John heard a commotion from their nearly dug out grave and as he looked up he saw Dean fly through the air connecting with the angel statue. John saw this then picked up the sawed off shotgun lying next to the grave and shot the spirit making it disappear. All the while Sam never stopped digging, and finally reached the coffin.

"Sam hurry up and break through the coffin. You know the drill; I need to go check on your brother."

Sam didn't even bother to argue he just quickly went to work breaking open the lid to the coffin and jumped out of the grave and started dumping the salt and gas on the corpse. He pulled out the Zippo lighter from his pocket and dropped it into the coffin lighting it on fire. As soon as the job was done he ran over to where he saw his Dad next to a limp Dean.

"Dad what happened? Is he ok?" Sam asked as he leaned past his dad to look at Dean who was lying motionless on the ground. Dean had a large gash and bruise already forming on the left side of his face and his shoulder looked like it was probably dislocated. Dean still hadn't moved, but that was probably because of head wound.

"Sam we need to get Dean to a hospital, this is more then I can handle by myself. Go grab the gear and I will meet you at the car." John said as he put one arm underneath Dean's knees and the other around his upper back and picked him up and walked as fast he dared to the waiting Impala.

That was two weeks ago, Dean hadn't so much as moved since then. The doctors had popped his shoulder back into place immediately upon arrival at the ER and then did a cursory exam on his head and quickly stitched up the four inch gash on the side of his head. They took him off to get a CAT scan and discovered that he had a severe concussion and that that is what was causing him to not wake up so far.

"Sam, why don't you take Dani outside and let her wear off some of this energy before she hurts herself or one of us. I probably should have called Bobby out so he could keep her occupied." John said once he had situated himself and the bouncing Dani in one of plastic chairs beside Dean's bed.

"No, Daddy I wanna stay with you guys! I will be good I promise I won't even move a muscle see!" Dani said and then went to lie on the floor to prove that she would stay still and stay out of the way.

"That's ok baby, you can stay you just can't move around so much. Here why don't I put you next to Dean, but you have to promise not to move around a lot ok? You don't want to touch any of those wires attached to him, or it could hurt him. Ok sweetie?" John asked while bending down to pick up his tiny daughter and lay her down next to his muscular oldest son.

"Ok Daddy." Dani stage whispered to John in an attempt to not bother Dean.

All the Winchesters sat there and watched Dean for any signs of improvement but nothing happened. They sat there for hours and finally little Dani fell asleep cuddling her older brother that she admired and followed around like a shadow.

"Deanie wake up! You are gonna miss my graduation." The little girl whispered before she fell asleep.

Sam and John sat there and watched the two on the bed and after awhile they saw Dean reach around and drag Dani closer to his side, it was the first sign of movement they had seen from him since his accident.

"I wouldn't miss it for the world squirt." Dean said as he turned and kissed his little sister's head.

End Flashback

Sam was interrupted from this somewhat fond memory of his family before everything went to hell, with him leaving for college and Dad becoming a control freak. Sam looked up and saw Dr. Spencer walking over to the bed.

"Hello Sam. I heard that Dean here woke up for a little bit. Kara told me that it was probably just the anesthesia wearing off and after looking at everything I would say that I agree with that."

"Thank you for coming to check on him. Is there anything I should be watching for when he wakes up?"

"Besides the obvious trauma, just make sure that he doesn't make any real fast movements and that he stays lying down because of the tube in his side, other than that just talk to him and make sure he doesn't try and play hero and not tell us about any pain. Just keep him company."

"Should I tell him about Dani? Or do you think that would make the situation worse?"

"I think he should be fine if you tell him, if he seems to get overly anxious, try and refrain from telling him too much or call me and I will explain."

"Thanks Doc."

With that Dr. Spencer left the room to continue his rounds and Sam sat back in chair thinking that he might try and catch a couple minutes of sleep. Just as he was closing his eyes, he heard the bed rustle and opened his to find Dean slowly opening his eyes again.

"Hey sleepy head, how are you feeling?"

"Like I got hit by a truck, excuse the pun. Where is Dani? Is she ok, she looked really rough in the car. Oh my God, my baby! How is she? Did you call Bobby?"

Sam chuckled at that. Dean wakes up after being hit by a truck and flipped across an intersection and he is more worried about his sister and car, somethings never change.

"Everything is fine. Dani is on the floor above you. Bobby is on his way right now with the tow truck to get the car. It is pretty banged up but nothing you won't be able to fix."

"Ok. How long was I out? What's wrong with Dani and don't you dare sugar coat anything! What are you even doing here anyway? Shouldn't you be out studying or something?" Dean added with some sharpness. Why was he here instead of Stanford, the place that he left his family for. Dean didn't know that everyday Sam was gone he wanted to call and talk to his family, but he couldn't get himself to do it because he knew he would miss them too much if he did.

"I'm not going anywhere and when the Doctor gets back he can let you know how Dani is." Sam said with added sharpness, but not willing to argue you with Dean about his being here, knowing there was a time and place for that arguement and here was not it.

When Dean realized that Sam wasn't going to tell him how their little sister was, he began to sit up and try and leave the room, but luckily Sam saw this and pushed Dean back into bed before he could do any damage.

"Dean! You bull headed jerk, you need to keep still and quit moving around, especially with the tube in your side if you don't keep still you will hurt yourself and keep yourself from seeing her any time soon. Just keep still and I will call your Doctor so you can find out how Dani is."

"Fine, but I'm not happy about this." Dean said and then he did the least expected thing and sat back on the bed and pouted like a four year old lip stuck out and all.

Sam got up and went to the nurses' station and asked for Dr. Spencer to come to Dean's room when he finished his rounds. As Sam was returning to Dean's room, he heard someone calling his name and the smell of fresh non hospital coffee.

"Sam! Wait up." Sam turned around and found a harried Caleb running down the hallway carrying two cups of Starbucks. Sam had never been so happy to see his old friend as he was at this moment.

"Hey Caleb, thank you so much for coming to help. Dean's awake now if you want to see him. Or we can go and see Dani, but either way I need to tell Dean."

"Let's stop by and see Dean first, I haven't seen him in a couple of months, not since John left him and took Dani with him."

"What? Dad isn't anywhere near here that I can find, but Dean and Dani were both obviously in the car together. What the hell is going on here?" They both entered Dean's room completely puzzled with what was going on.

"Dean you have a lot of explaining to do."

A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry for much a long delay. I was enjoying my summer freedom to much and lost track of time. I will do my best to make sure this doesn't happen again. This will be my last update for a couple of weeks as I will be leaving on a school trip but will be back in a couple of weeks. Sorry everyone. Also thank you nerdygirl3.14,brandibuckeye, and purple spoon of doom for your reviews and alerts. Remember everyone I love my reviews so more would be appericated, and also keep on reading. Also sorry for any typos.