"Excuse me! Can I take a picture with you?" Dean and Renee heard a high-pitched voice behind them. Renee almost melted when she saw to whom it belonged. A tiny blonde-haired girl was looking up at them with her big hazel eyes, waiting for their response, and an older man who appeared to be her father stood next to her with an apologetic smile on his face.
"I'm really sorry for bothering you, but she's a big fan", he explained.
"No, it's okay", Renee smiled. "Do you want both of us in the picture or just Dean?" she asked the girl.
"No, both! I love you too." She stretched out her arms and flew into Renee's hug. Renee thought her heart would explode when she picked her up.
"I'm almost taller than you now", she giggled, touching the top of Renee's beanie. All Renee could do was grin, completely enchanted by the child.
"Wanna be taller than me?" Dean asked her, smiling. The girl looked at him with wide eyes, not expecting him to talk to her.
"How?" she asked suspiciously, clinging onto Renee's neck and eying Dean's tall figure.
"Come." He stretched out his arms and she looked at Renee with a slightly scared look in her eyes, but when Renee gave her an encouraging nod, she let Dean take her from Renee's arms and sit her on his shoulders. The girl looked awfully cute and befuddled when she realized that she was so high above the ground. Renee was convinced her cheeks would start hurting from smiling so widely. Dean wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her next to him so that the girl's dad could snap a picture of the three of them.
"Thank you so much", he said when Dean put the girl back on the ground. The girl hugged both of them before leaving, which made Renee glow even more than before.
Her happiness lasted the entire day, amusing Dean. He volunteered to make the dinner, but she was so bubbly and energized that she just told him to take a shower and relax while she did it.
"You're really into kids lately", Dean noticed when they sat at the table.
"I've always liked kids", Renee said, smiling. "I wish I had one of my own."
She almost choked on her food just a second later, when she realized what she had said. Dean looked at her with the same bewildered look. Neither knew what to say for a while.
"You want… a kid? Like, you wanna be a mom?" Dean asked, gulping. Renee bit her lip, uncertain of what the half-panicked, half-confused expression on his face meant.
"I've been wanting it for a while now", she said. "I guess my maternal desire finally kicked in."
Dean remained quiet for a few seconds. "You sure about it?"
Renee nodded. "What about you?"
"I don't know." That was a rare thing for him to say. "I mean, all I know is… you're gonna be an awesome mom, whenever that day comes. And… if I ever have kids, I want you to be their mother."
Renee's eyes lit up so much that he almost felt bad for saying the next thing that came out of his mouth. "But I don't want to fuck it up."
Renee reached for his hands across the table and squeezed them. "You're not gonna fuck it up. You're great with kids."
"Yeah, but I don't know how to raise them. I never had a proper paternal figure when I was a kid. I always thought of myself as the cool uncle or something. Not a dad."
Renee shook her head and walked over to him to sit in his lap. "You're gonna make the best dad ever. And even if you do mess up something, I'll be there to smack you upside the head and fix it."
Dean smiled a bit, even though he was still confused about this whole thing. "I don't know. I'm scared."
"You're not alone. You think I'm not scared of giving birth?"
Dean made a painful grimace. "Ugh. That's fucked up."
"But we'll go through all that together. When you finally hold the kid in your arms, it's all gonna make sense, I promise." She gently kissed him. "Okay?"
"Yeah… I just need a bit of time to get used to the idea of me being a dad." He closed his eyes and shook his head, making her giggle. He was so adorable sometimes.
"We have to discuss it all with the office first anyways. You'll have plenty of time to get used to it."
He nodded, biting his lip, and Renee sat back in her chair, euphoric. She couldn't hold back a smile the whole time while she was eating. Having a baby with Dean was one of her biggest dreams, and now it was coming true and she couldn't be any happier.
"You know that I'm gonna bug you with all sorts of questions now, right? And some of them are probably gonna be stupid as hell." He looked at her apologetically.
"I'll take that", Renee said with a smile. "Gladly."
