INTO THIS WORLD
"You should have let her leave while she still had control Dean." Arandi's voice now deep and ugly.
Dean stepped back holding his hands over his stomach protectively.
"She is a strong one."
"How did you get in her?" Dean asked loudly hoping that Sam would hear him.
"She didn't notice that her tattoo was damaged and when she was pulled into the house many of wards had been broken. She held out a long time."
Arandi walked towards Dean her eyes back to the brilliant blue. "Now give us that baby."
"Do you even remember who you're fucking with?" Dean asked as he noticed Sam making his way slowly towards him.
"Oh this Winchester crap is getting old." Arandi's hand came up and Dean instantly felt pressure in his stomach and he fell to his knees.
Sam was there in the next instant reciting the exorcism and Arandi backed up laughing. "You might as well save your breath." She lifted her shirt showing a small sigil that had the demon locked into Arandi's body.
Dean groaned in pain and Emily came running.
"He's having the baby now and I'm taking him with me."
Dean fell further to the floor feeling as if was being ripped in two.
Sam looked at Emily as she quickly examined Dean. "He's in labor and he has to have a C-section."
Emily suddenly lifted and slammed into the wall falling motionless to the floor.
"I'll be delivering this baby." The demon laughed as it reached for the knife on the nightstand. "So appropriate that I end your life with same knife that you've killed so many of us with."
Sam and Jade were suddenly flying back pinned to the wall.
Dean hissed in pain scrambling back until he was against the wall and stared at Arandi wide eyed.
"I love you." He said.
Arandi stopped and stared at him. Dean saw the second she was back in control and he knew how hard that had to be.
"I love you too baby. I'm sorry." She said.
"Arandi don't!" Dean screamed but it was too late.
Arandi lifted the knife and plunged into her stomach. Dean watched in double agony as the demon died and Arandi crumpled to the floor unmoving.
He wanted to move towards her and hold her but the contractions were taking hold full force and he screamed. There was nowhere for the baby to come out if someone didn't cut him open and Emily was still out cold.
Sam rushed toward him and Jade went to Arandi.
"You have to get the baby out." Dean panted gripping his brother's hand in a killer grip.
"Dean I don't know how. You can't ask me to hurt you like that." Sam looked more scared than Dean had ever seen him. He heard Jade sobbing and looked to see her holding her sister desperately. He felt so completely crushed.
"Sammy if you don't do this we are both going to die." Dean begged already drenched in sweat and fighting the urge to push.
Sam looked at Dean with his eyes burning with tears of how his very soul was being ripped apart right now. He knew either way he risked losing Dean so pulled away and ran from the room.
Dean lay panting and Sam returned with a scalpel in hand.
They shared one long meaningful look and Sam helped Dean lay down flat with a pillow under his head pulling his clothes out of the way.
He then gave Dean a wash cloth to bite down on. One more look and a nod from Dean and Sam began to cut.
Dean had always had a high tolerance for pain, for that he was grateful but to be cut open while awake was something no one should have to experience.
He bit down on the towel trying hard not to move and make it worse and he could hear Sam's mantra of 'I'm sorry' through the haze of pain and desperation.
He felt his blood running down to the floor, he felt his body being pushed and a pressure like nothing he had ever felt before and just for a second he thought he was being ripped apart by hell hounds again.
Suddenly everything stopped and he sensed the other demons close by.
He wondered if the fact that every ounce of water that he drank through his pregnancy, had been holy would mean anything.
He felt so cold and then the most beautiful sound in the world filled his ears and Sam was there holding his baby in his bloodied hands.
"It's a boy." Sam whispered, his eyes full of tears. He lay the crying baby on Dean's chest and he lifted his arms to hold him for just a moment. Hitching his breath in pain and despair.
"Take him and run Sammy they're coming for him."
"I can't leave you." Sam murmured as he lifted the baby back up gently and the house began to tremble.
"You have to Sam please don't let them get my baby." Dean pleaded as he felt his body giving out.
"Dean…." Sam said desperately.
"Love him like I loved you Sammy." Dean whispered. He closed his eyes and everything slipped away.
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Sam stayed where he was staring at his brother, the floor covered in his blood and Dean completely pale and unmoving.
Sam hitched a sob feeling as if once again he was facing life without Dean like he had when Dean had been ripped open by hell hounds.
This time though Sam wasn't alone, he had Jade and now he had a nephew that he had to protect the way Dean had always protected him. The thought of leaving Dean laying there tore him apart but he knew also that the demons were close.
The house shook again and Sam quickly stood up and moved to clean the baby up as fast as he could. He was beautiful and very alert for just having arrived into the world.
Sam felt a tug in his heart an instant connection looking into the deep green eyes that stared back at him.
"Jade we have to go." Sam said quietly knowing this was just as hard for her as it was for him.
"She didn't even get to see or hold her baby." Jade sobbed. "We can't just leave them Sam."
"We don't have a choice baby or she would have died for nothing."
Jade nodded and stood up taking the baby from Sam and falling in love the instant she saw the fat little face staring at her. He looked nothing like a baby that was born too early. He looked perfect.
The house shook again and the laughter filtered toward them. A laugh that Sam would recognize anywhere.
"Crowley of course you would try to take the baby." Sam growled.
"The greatest revenge I could ever have is making a Winchester my apprentice." Crowley snickered as he stepped into the room.
He looked at Dean's body. "This was too easy."
"And that should have been the biggest give away." Arandi said suddenly behind him shoving the demon knife to the hilt into Crowley's spine.
Crowley started to laugh because the demon knife could hurt him quite a bit but not kill him but the pain he felt was something entirely different and he felt himself falling.
"What did you do?" He yelled.
Arandi fell against the wall. "We knew you wouldn't send anyone else for our baby so we were ready for you. The blood of a blessed Winchester newborn was your final undoing."
"You would never cut your child." Crowley hissed trying to escape his body.
"We didn't have to." Dean's voice cut in, weak but very much alive.
"They didn't have a nurse practitioner around for nothing." Emily spoke up.
The room filled with Latin and Crowley screamed unable to believe that the Winchester's had finally gotten the best of him. What they had strived for, for years was over in minutes.
The rest of the demon world would now be too busy trying to get to the throne to worry about the Winchesters at least for the time being
Emily made her way quickly to Dean trying to do her best to get the bleeding to stop.
Arandi crawled to Dean and lay her head on his shoulder as she stilled. Dean was already in shock and fading fast.
Emily had no idea how she was supposed to save them both.
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The steady beeping pushed into Dean's mind and he just wanted it to stop. He realized that if something was annoying him then he was still alive.
He pushed his eyes open.
"About time young man." Emily said so very relieved.
"Arandi, our baby?" Dean croaked past chapped lips.
Emily's answer was to lift the sleeping baby into Dean's line of vision. "Sleeping like a….well you know."
Dean's heart filled with emotion to see this tiny little human that he had brought into the world, under the harshest of circumstances.
"You lost so much blood and thank god your brother is a giant so he could spare you some but then I had to go steal some too to keep you alive. I don't ever want to go through that again."
"Arandi?" Dean pushed, terrified of the answer that Emily was trying so hard to avoid.
"I'm sorry sweetheart I did everything I could." Emily whispered as tears slid down her cheeks.
"No it can't be!" Dean struggled to sit even as pain tore through him.
Sam came rushing into the room to hold him down and he was still too weak to fight the way he wanted. "Dean please the baby needs you." Sam said his voice raw from obvious crying.
"Please Sam where is she I need her." Dean sobbed.
"She didn't make it Dean she woke up long enough to hold the baby and she was gone. I'm so sorry." Sam said holding Dean strongly.
"How she had one stab? I'm the one that should be dead." Dean yelled.
"She stabbed herself badly Dean it only took one but she did it to save you and the baby, don't let it be in vain."
"No!" Dean yelled struggling and he felt the sting of a needle in his arm. "I need to see her Sammy please let me see her." He begged as the drug took effect."
"I'm sorry Dean." Was the last thing he heard as he faded away.
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His baby was crying and he needed to get to him but he couldn't. Why wasn't Arandi there to help him?
It hit him, the terrible anguish as it all opened up again. Arandi was gone and he didn't know if he could pull through this without her.
He heard the soft words being spoken to his baby by Jade as she soothed him and fed him. It was all she had left of her sister and that ripped a new ragged tear through what little was left of his heart.
They had always planned on dying together, one without the other wasn't acceptable since they had met but the baby, Sam.
Tears streamed down his face, he had to look at his child the rest of his life and see her there. If they had wanted to condemn him to hell they had managed to do it while he was still alive.
"You promised that I wouldn't have to go to hell if I kept fighting!" He yelled at the ceiling. "This is hell and I've done everything to save this world to get rid of evil, giving up my life for all of this. You pulled me out of hell once please, please, please do it again!"
He broke into uncontrollable sobs of heart broken anguish and misery. What kind of father was he going to be when he would never again be whole?
"You owe me that much please!"
He felt strong arms around him and he fell into them a strange warmth filled him and he was sure Emily had injected him again although he hadn't felt the needle this time.
His last thought as he drifted away was why did Sam sound so far away when he was in his arms?
TBC
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