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Chapter 9: The Norm

(Annie's POV)

Gabi and I now had our own fashion line out. So we worked independently, and not to brag, but we were pretty much loaded. It wasn't just some random line either; it was working on getting up there with Chanel and Dior. Sam was a lawyer… or working on it. There weren't many firms hiring, but what he did on his own was great. The kid was damn good at it. Then Dean…. Well, he just kind of migrated. But in all actuality, none of us really needed to work, not with mine and Gabi's trust funds, but we liked what we did, so we did it.

Fortunately we all worked independently. So taking a few days off after this little escapade was totally acceptable.

And on this day off… I was sitting on the couch writing random thoughts down that could hopefully be put into lyrics and then mixed with music and become a song. But I had no clue how long that would take.

Gabi and Sam had taken the kids out somewhere and Dean was in the shower. The quiet was creepy but relaxing. I couldn't figure out if I liked it or not.

My random thoughts stopped suddenly, and my brain was blank. So I sighed and walked into the kitchen, tripping over some squeaking toy and landing on the floor.

"Ugh…" I groaned as I got up. I grabbed the toy and set it on the counter before continuing my way into the kitchen. I looked in the fridge, and there was nothing. The cabinets were bare as well.

What kind of mother was I? My kid's food consisted of cereal and frozen stuff and Dean and mines diet was left over pizza and Chinese.

But we couldn't cook. None of us really could… well Gabi was decent at it, and Sam could make breakfast stuff. But Dean and I were culinary challenged.

Wait… I was a witch. Duh. So I decided to try something.

"Let's see…." I said to myself as I dug down in the cabinet beneath the sink. "Ah ha!" I exclaimed when I found a cookbook. It was some random one that was already in the apartment when we got it. I flipped through it until I found something that sounded good.

"Oh chocolate cake…" I whispered as I stared at the picture. I closed my eyes and bit my lip trying to think of a way to do this. Then I just decided to go the simple route. I pictured the cake in my mind then with a flick of my finger, it appeared on the counter.

"Sweet!" I exclaimed. I was almost laughing in excitement; I had no clue my powers could do that… it was awesome.

But I got a little carried away. Before I knew it there were cakes, and mashed potatoes, and chicken and spaghetti all over the kitchen. Just because I moved my finger.

"Whoa…" I heard Dean say as he walked into the kitchen, shirtless. Oh man this was my day. First magical cooking, now this. There really was a God and he adored me.

"Did you make all this? Man how long was I in the shower? And are you trying to kill us all?" He joked. I smirked.

"Well I kind of made it… but not really." I told him. He raised his eyebrows in amused confusion. I sighed. "I guess I will have to show you."

I thought of another food I wanted…. Lemon squares. I pictures them in my head, zapped my finger and voila. They were there. When I looked back up at Dean his jaw had completely dropped. I laughed.

"Wow." Was all he had to say?

"Yup, now maybe we can prevent Mia and Ty from having clogged arteries before they are five. As for us, I think we are already screwed." I joked. He laughed and walked closer to me before wrapping me in his arms.

"Did I ever tell you I married you for your powers?" He teased. I slapped his arm.

"Yeah well I only married you for your body." I retorted shrugging. He laughed and pulled me closer.

"Then I guess we both get what we want huh?" He said lowly and softly.

"Yeah, and I love it." I replied matching his tone. And in an instant second, our lips met, and they didn't come apart.

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(Gabi's POV)

Since the four of us decided to take the week off, we switched off days with all of the kids. Today was our day, and I figured it was time to drop my thoughts by Sam.

We took them to a park and let them play while we sat on a near by picnic table and watched them. Sam had his arm around my back and I was resting my head on his shoulder. It was some kind of relaxing tranquility that happened once in a while and we learned to enjoy it. But I was about to break it.

"Hey Sam… do you really… well…" I had no idea how I wanted to put this. Especially since I knew what I needed to say, but for some reason, telling him this time was so much harder.

"What is it Gabi?" He asked, turning to face me.

"Well… I know we were kind of adamant on only having Ellie… but I don't know maybe it's just because I miss having a little kid around or maybe…" I kind of trailed away for a minute.

"Maybe what?" He said, trying to get my attention.

"Well… what if Ellie wasn't all? I mean, maybe not now, but then again, maybe now… I mean our lives are pretty much on track, and we are older and a little wiser and, I mean I don't know, but maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing…" I said. I never really got straight to the point, but he got the idea.

"Do you really think we could handle it? I mean Gabi I love Ellie more then anything, and I've been thinking about it to… but the thing is do we really want to raise another kid? Or do we just want to be around another baby because ours isn't so little anymore?" Ok, so having a lawyer for a husband was kind of a drawback since they analyzed everything. I sighed and shrugged, it may have been true, but it isn't like I had much of a choice now.

"I don't know Sam…" I told him, removing myself from his arm and putting my head in my hands. "I mean, I don't really want to be pregnant again… hell no one really does… but I mean look at her. She is so… so innocent and adorable, I mean she is as perfect as anything could ever be… we did good… so it's all worth it. Maybe it could be worth it again." I explained. He leaned over and kissed my forehead.

"We did do pretty good… so let's just wait and think, that's probably the best." He said. I looked up at him and smiled, I couldn't tell him. Not now… so I just smiled and nodded.

I didn't even know if I was for sure yet. I mean just a few days ago I was thinking about having another baby, and then just a few days after that, I thought that I might be. Nothing was for sure… but after hearing Sam say all of that I didn't know what to do. I mean if I was and he didn't want one then tough, he would have to live with it. But if I wasn't and I told him I might be… then… well I don't know! It was true, I didn't want to be pregnant again… but like I said it might all be worth it.

Who knew? I didn't… but I probably needed to find out and tell him.

I could have kept thinking…. But I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard a scream.

It was Mia. Sam and I ran over to her and grabbed her.

"Mia? Hey sweetie what is it?" Sam asked as he held her.

"Mommy in trouble… they get her… the light….." She was babbling so incoherently.

"Mia… baby calm down ok…. She is fine…" I told her.

"No… they take her to the white place…."She said in-between sobs. Sam and I looked at each other with wide eyes.

"Ellie, get Ty and your toys and start going to the car ok?" I told her. She nodded and grabbed Ty's hand. They picked up their stuff and walked towards the car.

We almost had Mia halfway calm before she let out another blood curling scream.

"Mia… shhh." Sam said softly.

"Head hurt… it burn… mommy gone…" She kept saying this over and over again. She had a small plastic toy clasped in her hand and her eyes were jammed shut. Suddenly her whole body started to shake and the toy burst into flames. She dropped it immediately so it didn't burn anyone.

"Sam, you calm her down I'm calling Annie…" I told him. He nodded and lifted her up off the ground and held her tightly. I pulled out my cell and dialed Annie's number.

I had interrupted something.

"Ok, Gabs this better be important." She said huskily and with hardly any breath.

"It's Mia." I said. And her attitude changed immediately.

"What happened?" She asked urgently.

I explained it to her and asked if we needed to go to the hospital.

"No… bring her back here now. Its nothing a doctor can fix." She told me. We hung up and headed towards the apartment.

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(Annie's POV)

"Shit!" I yelled. I jumped off Dean and started scrambling around for a robe or something.

"Annie what's going on?" Dean asked.

"It's Mia… there's something wrong with her and I'm not talking the sniffles here. I'm talking supernaturally wrong." I told him. His attitude became just as urgent as mine and we both started hunting for our clothes. After we were dressed we went into the living room and impatiently waited for their arrival. Finally they got there.

Mia was sobbing and clutching onto Sam's shirt for life. Her tiny body was shaking in his arms and it was all I could do to keep from crying.

"Mia…" I whispered as I placed my hand on her shoulder. She clutched onto Sam even harder. "Baby it's me…"

She turned slowly and once she saw me she practically flew out of Sam's hands and into mine, clutching to me even harder then she did to him.

"White light took you…." She said quietly.

"Sweetie what are you talking about?" I asked her.

"At the woods, with the boy." She replied. Dean had heard. I looked over at him and saw his jaw clenched and his eyes wide in fear.

It was either a premonition or reminiscence over something that she wasn't even alive to remember. Either way it wasn't good. Not for a two year old.

"Amelia…" I told her, pulling her arms off of my neck long enough so that I could look into her eyes. "I'm never going to go anywhere ok? Not into the woods, not anywhere unless you are there to ok?" She nodded and I nodded back. Then I let her fall back into my arms. After a few minutes of trembling and crying she fell asleep and I put her in her bed.

We made Ty and Ellie stay in the room and take a nap to while we were in the living room.

I sat down on the couch next to Dean and put my head in my hands.

"Oh God…" I whispered. He gently rubbed my back, trying to relax me. But he wasn't even relaxed.

"Aren't our lives just so simple?" Gabi said sarcastically.

"Gabi just shut up!" I yelled, not meaning to but it snapped, just like everything else in me. "You life is simple! Do you not see it? You have the perfect kid, and the perfect marriage and got your perfect job right off the bat. Your life has never been anything but perfect! Your mother never died, your father didn't give up on you… your other mother didn't abandon you and you never had to deal with anything I ever had to deal with and here you are saying your life isn't simple? When all you have ever had are things handed to you."

Oh great… and she wasn't going to hold back.

"Annie…" Dean tried to whisper to calm me down but it didn't work.

"Oh don't get all testy with me just because your daughter has some kind of supernatural problem! Its part of our lives Annie, you had to have known that this might happen. But we chose this life…" I cut her off.

"No, see there is were you are wrong. Dean, Sam and I… we didn't choose this. It was in our blood, it is what we were taught. You are the one that chose it. Just because you didn't want to be left behind." I sneered. Our eyes burned in each others.

With out another word she stormed out of my apartment. Sam looked at her, then back at us.

"Go." I told him. He nodded and walked out the door. But re entered and got Ellie before actually leaving. I collapsed back on the couch and threw my head back into my hands and just cried.

"Annie… what was that?" Dean asked. I shook my head.

"I don't know Dean! I mean my daughter is having some kind of thoughts about the realm and turning things into fire and screaming at the top of her lungs and thinks I'm going to leave her… and Gabi gets off saying that she has problems I mean I don't know what to do!" I told him, now my body was shaking. He grabbed me almost forcefully and pulled me so close to him so tightly that I couldn't shake anymore.

"Annie just listen. Everything is going to be fine. We don't know what Mia is thinking. But we do know how to fix it. Just think about it." He told me. I stopped my pity party and thought. Then I understood.

"You want me to bind her powers." I said calmly.

"At least until she is old enough to control them. That way she won't have to suffer like this and we can tell her and teach her as she gets older." He had a good idea. And I agreed.

"Then I'll do it." I told him.

"Now about Gabi… that is something that magic can't fix." He told me. I nodded and sat back into the leather.

"I know…" I muttered. We looked at each other and there was some unspoken understanding that we needed to go into the twin's room. Once we did, we saw something that made us relax.

Ty had pulled one of the small table chairs from their coloring table next to Mia's bed and was watching her sleep.

"Ty, buddy what are you doing?" Dean whispered to him.

"Watching sister. So she won't hurt." He told him. Dean smiled and kissed his forehead and scuffled his hair.

"You're a pretty good big brother kiddo." He replied. I walked over to them and Ty hugged me.

"You no leave, right?" He asked, I smiled sadly.

"No baby, I'm not going anywhere. Mia just had a bad dream during the day time ok?" I told him. He nodded. "And I think you need some sleep to. I mean you are a great brother, but even great brother's need there sleep to stay on the job."

His eyes got big and Dean and I laughed.

"She's right kid, so why don't you go to your bed and then when you wake up; you can be an even better brother." Dean said. Ty nodded and we helped him get into his small bed.

We walked out of their room and closed the door.

"We're going to be ok babe, I promise." Dean told me.

"I hope so." I replied as I stared into the kitchen at all of my useless magical culinary skills.