AN; I own nothing but the plot. My beta was Matchmaker131 thanks. RR

The Kids Meet Cassie

When they arrived back home, Cassie was fast asleep in the seat next to him so he didn't wake her as he went in the house to find it empty but there was a note that said the kids were at school.

"Afternoon sleepyhead," Dean said before he backed out the driveway and headed down to his place, "my brother is going to kill me, his birthday was last week."

Cassie yawned as she leaned up in the seat.

"It was?"

"Yeah, May the second, he was at Stanford still though I sent him an email, but I was supposed to call him."

Cassie smiled as she watched Dean, "you know I'm glad you came into my life, Dean,"

He smiled back at her, "I'm glad you see it that way, I just hope it's the same after you meet my wild bunch family," he said with a smile before he kissed her.

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Mary and John had planned the surprise for Rachel and Hunter that afternoon. John had gone to get them from school early and once Dean had called say he was ten minutes away it was working out perfect. Dean walked in the door with Cassie. They were kissing as he pushed her against the door frame. "My bed now," he said sliding his hand under her shirt.

"Dean Alexander Winchester," Mary said watching her son, "have some manners."

"Mom," he said pulling away from Cassie as though he were a teenage boy caught for the first time with a girl in his room.

"Hi, I'm the jerk's mother," Mary said with a smile to her son.

Cassie caught Mary's sense of humor in calling her son a jerk, she'd been told it was part the family banter. "Hi, I'm Cassie, his um, girlfriend."

"It's nice to meet you; Rachel has been dying to meet you since he said you two were coming here."

"I hoped it would be okay, she said she was fine with it," Dean said.

"Dean, your sons are even driving us crazy to meet her."

"Daddy," Jared yelled coming out his room.

"Hey sport," Dean said picking the toddler up, "you miss me?"

"Yes, don't go away for that long again," Jared said hugging to his dad tightly.

"J, I want you to meet Cassie," Dean said as he held Jared in his arms.

"Is she your girlfriend?" Jared asked him as he looked over Cassie, "Daddy does she taste like chocolate?"

Dean laughed, "Not most of the time, silly," he said with a wink as Cassie smiled at him. They hadn't considered how the children would think of her color.

"Yes, she is my girlfriend mister inquiring mind," Dean said as he ruffled his son's hair.

"Hi, I'm Jared Michael, I was named after my uncle, Michael Jared," he said with a smile as he shook her hand, "I am four and I look like my dad, not my mom."

Cassie smiled at him, "It's nice to meet you Jared,"

"Dad, can I show here my wolves?"

"You have wolves?" Cassie asked with raised eyebrows.

"Not real ones, but yeah, go ahead," he said letting his son down, "good luck."

"That was smooth," Mary said to Dean as Jared dragged Cassie with him.

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Cassie followed Jared to his room and was taken back by the wolf collection the boy had. It was from the ceiling to the floor, the bed was covered in wolves. The sheets, the bed spread, the pillows, even three stuffed wolves. "This is my favorite one; dad got it for me when he went to the zoo in San Diego, Cali."

"It is a nice collection."

"His mom hated it, she didn't want him to have them, but she lost the battle when he called me at midnight one night crying saying that he was being chased by wolves," Dean said as he stood at the door of the room.

"I have bad dreams, sometimes if I have the thing that makes me have them then I will not have them," Jared explained.

"My mom's friend is a shrink; she said that he believes they keep him safe."

"They protect me, just like Dragons, Vampires and black roses protect Rachel," Jared said.

"I try to protect them, but they feel the safest with those things when I can't be around," Dean said.

"We all have things that keep us safe," Cassie said, "Mine is my cross my dad gave me," she said as she reached up to show Jared the cross around her neck.

"Daddy's not religious, he's not sure what to believe, and grandma said he lost his faith in God," Jared said looking at his dad, "but, I got faith for both us," the little boy explained.

--

Cassie looked at the four year old, he was so innocent and probably didn't understand who God was, but he believed in him. Dean looked away, "I'll be back," he said then left the room.

"He stopped believing when Uncle Sammy's nursery caught fire when he was only six months, daddy was four," Jared said, "I don't know what happened, but dad doesn't like that topic either," he sat down on his bed.

Cassie recalled what Dean told her about being a fire started she had a feeling something regarding his abilities was why he hated to talk about the fire but she kept quiet.

--

"Dean tries his best," Mary said when she walked in the room, "he puts his own needs aside to help his dad and me with his siblings."

"Dean told me you had eighteen kids."

Mary nodded, "It wasn't planned, I have an over active reproduction system, that's why I got my tubes tied. Dean never really had a childhood, John got hurt in the fire, he had first degree burns on him from getting me out the nursery," Mary said, "he was in and out of hospital for the first year after that. Dean stepped in at four and took over helping with Sam. The day Dean turned five that January; John had only been home for few weeks."

"Dean said he could start fires?"

"Yes and no, he is the fire, trust me when your son is eight years old and gets angry and is engulfed in flames it will scare the hell out you," Mary said, "We took him to this psychic, Missouri Mosley, she helped us out with him, by the time he was thirteen he could control it."

"Hunter can do the same thing?"

"So can Rachel, Jared doesn't have that gift, but he has telepathy, he's a telepath."

---

Cassie took in all the information that Mary was giving her; nothing she was told made her want to leave Dean. It was the complete opposite, it only made her want to stay with Dean and shelter him. How could a wonderful person like him go through so much only to have the women he thought had loved him at designated periods leave him without a second thought to it. She wanted to change that for him, but she didn't know how she could do that. However, deep down she knew that just letting him know she wouldn't leave him might help him believe.

"Cassie?"

"Sorry, I heard you I was just thinking."

"Dean's a wonderful dad; however, when it comes to his love life he's never had any success. He might seem like an ass at times but he's a wonderful person." Mary said

"I can see that, one my friends has a daughter, she stayed with us for couple days, he was wonderful with her son, he did things that most guys would refuse to."

Mary smiled she knew what Cassie was talking about, "like watching children movies until it was time for nap time or dinner?"

"Yeah, that and taking him to the park while we had girls afternoon, he even watched him that night so we could have little fun," Cassie said, "I didn't picture him that way at first, but after the first few hours I knew he was…"

"A gift to parents everywhere," Mary asked.

"Exactly," Cassie said, "I never thought I would find a man that loved their kids that much let alone somebody else's."

--

They continued talking about Dean till John and the twins arrived. They had a nice party eating cake and ice cream before they went outside to let them play. Dean was pushing Rachel and Hunter on the swings when Cassie came over. She sat on the chair and watched him with his kids. It was in that moment she realized she couldn't let Dean go. She wanted him in her life, "Dean, can we talk?" she asked, "I promise I'll bring him right back," she said to the kids.

"You want to marry our daddy?" Jared asked her, "We like you can you please?"

Dean looked at his son, "Jared Michael I told you not to do that,"

Cassie wasn't sure about the gifts in their family though she was a bit embarrassed that they seemed to be pushing her on Dean. She blushed as she put her hand over her mouth.

"Daddy, she wants you in her life, we won't her as our mommy," Rachel said standing beside her brother. Rachel could tell that Cassie loved her father right away and she thought her father needed a wife and she certainly wanted a mother.

Hunter was surprised by their actions, but he joined them, "they're right, she's a nice lady and we think she's right for you."

--

Dean wasn't sure what to say and by Cassie's look she wasn't either, they'd only been together for about two half weeks and now his kids were pushing him to marry her. "We've only been together couple weeks," Dean said, "not saying I wouldn't want to marry her, because that isn't true, but I'm not the move fast type guy, sure my rep in high school was the opposite, but trust me, me moving fast this time isn't an option," he said as he looked around at all of them including Cassie who raised her eyebrows at him.

"Daddy, we are making you get married, you understand, Jared is four, his mother doesn't want him, and we never had a mother plus Cassie wants you," Rachel said, "we are setting you up."

Dean shrugged at Cassie as he smiled.