"So when were you gonna tell me you were fucking my sister?" Seth chuckled as he slammed the trunk of Dean's Mustang.

Dean and Seth had overslept and missed the flight to Iowa on Friday morning, so they were going to drive instead. 26 hours was a pretty far distance, but they would get there in no time with Dean driving.

"Uh..." Dean nervously scratched the back of his head, trying to find an answer.

"I'm not mad, dude." Seth assured him.

"You're not?" Dean furrowed his brow at him.

"I can tell by the way you look at her." Seth admitted.

"Tell what?" Dean lifted his brow again.

"Dean Ambrose, you're in love."

Meredith sat first class with Leighla and Roman. Joselynn couldn't come because of work and nobody could watch Ava. The only reason Leighla was even coming was because Seth wanted to introduce her to their parents.

Meredith sat bored, listening to music on her phone as she looked out the window at the puffy, white clouds below her. She couldn't think of anything besides Dean. He was all she thought about nowadays. She didn't mind, she just hoped he thought of her just as much.

She skipped through most of the songs that came on the 'shuffle' option until she stumbled across the song Better Off This Way by A Day To Remember. Meredith loved ADTR and she didn't care what people had to say, or what they thought. She'd acquired that attitude from Seth, as well as her music taste.

When you fall, I'll be the only one who looks away
When you call, I'll be the first to tell you I can't stay

Meredith couldn't wait to get home. She'd missed her best friend, Natalie, she'd missed the scenery, her bed, and she'd missed her family. What she didn't miss, however, was her past. Meredith knew Dustin still lived in Davenport, and he would be looking for her the second her flight landed. The thought frightened Meredith and she had wished now more than ever that Seth or Dean was there to comfort her.

It's all over, I found a better way
To help keep you from me, I'm better off this way

"Dean, slow down!" Seth shrieked.

Seth hated riding anywhere with Dean. He often didn't listen to the radio, he always rolled the windows down instead of using the AC which ruined Seth's two-toned hair that he was so proud of, and Dean drove so fast that Seth's body was sinking into the back of the passenger seat.

"We're gonna be late, man. We're already a couple hours behind the rest of everyone else's schedule." Dean didn't take his eyes off the road.

"Look, I know you wanna see Meredith. Believe me, I wanna see Leighla too, but I would rather not die on the way there, if you don't mind."

Dean slowed down to a steady 65 MPH instead of the 80 MPH he was previously driving which calmed Seth down tremendously.

"Fine, crybaby." Dean rolled his eyes and chuckled at Seth's misfortune.

The two of them would be in Iowa in less than four hours.

"How do you think your parents are going to feel about meeting me and realizing I'm already engaged to Seth?" Leighla giggled apprehensively.

"I don't know." Meredith shrugged. "Maybe the same way they'll react when I tell them I'm dating Dean."

"Meredith, why wouldn't you tell them?"

"Because then they'll ask me how we met and how long we've been dating and blah, blah, blah." Meredith rolled her eyes.

Meredith recalled why she even left Iowa to begin with. Her parents - mostly her mother - were so protective of her. Not only that, but they wanted her to stay in Davenport for Dustin; they had no clue - like everyone else - what Dustin was truly like.

Roman had been sleeping the whole flight. He, unlike Dean and Seth, had woken up on time Friday morning with Leighla and Meredith. It wasn't surprising, though. He was the most responsible out of all of them.

There was no way for Meredith to even talk to Dean. Airplane mode was activated on her phone until landing, so no calls or texts could be sent or recieved.

"Thirty minutes until landing." The pilot called over the intercom.

Thirty more minutes, Meredith. You can do this.

When the plane finally landed, Meredith immediately pulled out her phone and called Dean. She needed to hear his voice.

"Hey, baby." He smiled into the phone.

"Where are you at?" She questioned.

"Uh...not really sure," Dean admitted, "Navigator says about another two hours though."

Meredith frowned. "I miss you, Dean."

"I miss you too." He grumbled.

A faint 'aww' came from the background of their conversation and Dean gave Seth a hateful look.

"Shut up, Seth." Dean growled at him.

"Hi, Seth." Meredith smiled.

"Seth!?" Leighla ran over to Meredith, "Let me talk to him!" She squealed as she reached for Meredith's phone.

"Call him from your phone." Meredith swatted at Leighla's flailing arms.

The background of Meredith's side of the phone caught Dean's attention that she wasn't home; she wasn't even in a car.

"Uh, babe?" He questioned.

"Yeah?"

"Are you at home?" He knew the answer.

"No, we're in the airport waiting on Stephen to get here." She informed.

"Stephen?" Dean lifted an eyebrow.

"He's our little brother," Seth butted into the conversation, "He's nineteen."

"I didn't know you guys had a little brother." Dean admitted as he scratched the back of his head.

There's a lot of stuff you don't know about Davenport, Dean.

After a long car ride drawn out into two days, four toll roads, and being pulled over by a cop, Dean and Seth had finally reached Davenport. Dean was told to drive on the empty back roads to avoid traffic. They were almost there.

"So, where does this Dustin kid live?" Dean muttered.

"Uh..." Seth hesitated. He knew Dean wouldn't like the answer. "He kinda lives next door."

Seth could see the shakiness in Dean's hands as he gripped the leather steering wheel tighter and his eyes grew darker. Whatever he was thinking, Seth knew it wasn't good.

"Next door, huh?" Dean pursed his lips."

"Yeah." Seth hated to admit. "Dean you can't hit him." He warned.

"Why the fuck not, Seth?!" Dean exploded. "He hasn't hit your sister enough yet to get his ass handed to him?"

As Dean thought of anyone hurting Meredith, he grew angrier. Sure, Dean had hit a girl before, but it was a while ago, and it was in the CZW story line.

"His dad is a cop, Dean."

Dean punched the steering wheel at the stop sign and waited a moment. When they arrived to Seth's house, Dean pushed his hair back and calmed down as they pulled into the driveway. The roar of Dean's muffler must've given away the fact that they had arrived, because Meredith and Leighla ran out of the house barefoot to greet their boyfriends.

Meredith waited for Dean to get out of his car. When he was standing and shut the door behind him, Meredith looked at him again from a distance.

"Now?" She grinned.

"Now." Dean nodded.

Meredith charged barefoot towards Dean and jumped into his arms, wrapping her legs around him, and tightened their embrace. She nuzzled her face into his neck and kissed it; earning a playful growl from Dean.

"I missed you." He whispered into her neck.

"I love you, Dean."

"I love you too, Mer."

Leighla was already kissing Seth like crazy before he even had the time to get out of the Mustang. Meredith could see the look in Seth's eyes when he looked at Leighla, was the same look Dean had when he looked at Meredith; love, pure love.

"You ready to meet our family?" Seth laughed as he turned to Dean.

"Sure." Dean shrugged.

Leighla was pulling Seth towards the house, excited to spend time with him.

"We'll be in in a few minutes." Meredith smiled at Seth and Leighla, letting them know it was perfectly fine to go on without them.

Seth and Leighla went inside the house and he was immediately greeted by his parents, Stephen, Stephen's girlfriend, and three Yorkshire Terriers. Seth forgot how much he missed this place; even the air smelled like home.

"What's on your mind, baby?" Dean leaned against the car.

"Look, before we go inside, I was wondering...um," Meredith stuttered over her words, "I didn't know if it was okay to tell people that we're dating." She looked down at her feet and bit her bottom lip.

"Baby." Dean lifted her chin.

"Yeah?"

"Of course its okay. I love you and I want people to know that. If it means that I have to answer a thousand questions to your parents, then so be it." Dean cupped her face with one of his large hands. His look was sincere.

" I love you, Dean."

"I love you too." He muttered against her lips as he laid a soft kiss to them.

A stalky man walking towards the two of them interrupted their intimate moment. His hair was a sandy blonde color and his eyes were dark like onyx stone. He came from the left hose next to them. Dean remembered what Seth had told him earlier, but wasn't sure if the man was who he thought, but when Meredith clung to Dean tighter, that answered his skepticism.

"Hi." The man stuck his hand out to Dean. "I'm Dustin."

Dean gave the shorter man a smug look and swatted his hand away.

"I know exactly who you are." Dean scowled.

Dustin looked at Meredith in such a manner that it made her tremble in Dean's arms. She clung to him tighter and Dustin reached out to pull her by her arm, but was rewarded with an reflexive punch to the mouth from Dean. The hit made Dustin stumble back a couple feet. Before Meredith could do anything, Dean was already jumping on top of the smaller man and they were brawling right on the concrete of the driveway.

"Dusty! Dean! Stop it!" Meredith cried out.

Seth looked out the screen door and ran out of the house after he heard his sister's cry for help and noticed what was happening on the ground. He warned Dean, he fucking warned him, but he did it anyway.

Every punch Dean laid into Dustin's face just bloodied him more and made him more unrecognizable. The impact of the punches were filled with nothing but the hatred Dean had for this man, and the love he had for Meredith. He was doing this for all the times she couldn't.

Seth frantically pulled Dean off of the smaller body underneath him. Dustin was bloodied, and Dean was covered in the blood he punched out of Dustin. Seth and Meredith's parents hurried outside with Stephen and his girlfriend Audrey, and Leighla. They looked at Dustin who was on the ground holding his face, and then quickly turned their attention to the man hugging their daughter with blood on himself.

Her parents looked at Dean as if he was a monster, but he wasn't, Dustin was. They looked at him as if he had murdered someone, and he wished he had. He would be much more satisfied with himself.

Meredith hugged Dean and shook in his arms as her tears poured onto his grey t-shirt. She looked at her parents and knew she had to explain why Dean did this. Seth tried to ease the event.

"Mom, dad, this is Dean. He's me and Roman's partner."

Seth looked over at Meredith and she broke the hug between Dean and herself. She held his hand proudly and added to Seth's statement.

"He's also my boyfriend."