Dean, Cara, and Jesse stood at the front door and watched as Eric got out of the car and headed up to the house. Dean didn't like this one bit. Besides the fact that this guy was screwing his girl, he looked like a told loser or at least in Dean eyes he did. Dean didn't want this Eric guy here or anywhere near Cara. She was his and he wasn't going to let this guy take her from him. They were finally getting somewhere.
Dean turned and looked at Cara and she could see he was not too happy about this at all, "Get rid of him." Dean said.
"I cant just get rid of him, Dean." Cara said.
"How the hell did he find you anyways?" Dean asked.
"I don't know." Cara said. "I never told him where I was going."
"Who is he?" Jesse asked her. "Your brother or a friend."
"Her boyfriend." Dean said with his arms crossed. "Her boyfriend that she lies to. They have something really special."
"Don't start with me right now, Dean. Just try and clean up please. We don't need him finding out anything." Cara said and Dean rolled his eyes, "Please do this for me." She begged him.
"Fine but like I said…..get rid of him." Dean said and looked down at Jesse. "Lets go in here so we can give these two love birds their alone time." He said and lead Jesse out of the room.
Cara watched as the two walked out. She knew Dean was jealous. She knew him all too well and this is how he acted every time another guy came around her. Cara wiped her mouth and fixed her shirt before she opened the door, "Eric?" she said and walked out on the porch.
"Hey sweetie." He said and walked up on the porch, "I wasn't sure if I had the right place or not." He said and wrapped his arms around her. "I missed you so much.
Cara hugged him back, "I missed you too. How did you find me?" she asked and pulled away from him.
"Ok don't get mad but last time you called me I had your phone tracked. I know its bad but I just really missed you and wanted to see your beautiful face. Plus I have the weekend off and thought I could come out here and help you with your uncle." Eric smiled at her.
"Oh…ok. That was very nice of you but I know how busy this time of year is for you so you don't have to stay. I should be home soon." Cara said.
"No, I am here for you. Just tell me what to do and I will do it." Eric told her and held her hands in his, "I just wanted to be with you. Even if it is only for a weekend."
Dean and Jesse stood inside the house and watched and listen to the two of them. Dean had his fist balled up next to him and Jesse saw that Dean wasn't happy. When Jesse looked back at Eric and Cara he didn't like it either. Cara, Dean, and him were a family now and he wasn't going to let this guy come in a take Cara from them. Dean always said it was ok to protect your family and Jesse was going to do that.
After getting nowhere with Eric, Cara knew she had to take him in and get this over with. This was not going to go well at all. When her and Eric walked in the house she saw Dean and Jesse standing there. "Who are they?" Eric asked, "I thought you were alone here."
Dean saw this as the perfect change to break the ice, "Hi, Im Dean her ex b…."
"Cousin." Cara jumped in, "He's my ex cousin."
Dean and Eric both looked at her, "Your ex cousin?" Eric asked, "How does that work?" he smiled.
"Yeah Cara." Dean crossed his arms, "How am I your ex cousin?"
"We were cousins by marriage and now since his parent divorced we aren't anymore. You know that Dean." She looked at him and gave a pleading look.
"Oh….I must have forgot." Dean said.
"Oh I get it now. Its nice to meet you." Eric said and put out his hand. The last thing Dean wanted to do was shake this guys hand but when he looked at Cara he knew beating this guy black and blue would put a damper on things so he sucked it up and shook Eric's hand with a fake smile and Cara could see it.
"And who is this little guy?" Eric asked her and smiled down at Jesse.
"I'm Jesse. Cara is like my mom now and Dean is like my dad so you can go." Jesse said.
"Jesse. Don't be rude." Cara said and looked at Eric, "He has had a hard time." She told him, "I explain everything later ok ,baby?" she said. "Let me take you to my room."
Hearing Cara call Eric baby hit Dean hard. The fact that she was really with another man was really setting in now. He never wanted to believe it before but seeing them together made it real. Anyone else would walk away but he could do that. He was going to get her back somehow.
Dean and Jesse watched as Cara took Eric up the stairs and Jesse was fuming, "Just calm down, buddy." Dean said and put his hand on Jesse's shoulder.
"I don't like that guy." Jesse said.
"Me either." Dean said.
"But Cara is yours. She cant be with that guy. Its just not right." Jesse said.
"Try telling her that." Dean said. "There is only one thing we can do now." Dean said.
"What's that? Please don't tell me we have to be nice to him because I cant. I don't want him here with us." Jesse said.
"I wasn't going to say be nice to him. If he won't go on his own then we are just going to have to make him go." Dean smiled down at Jesse.
"How do we do that?" Jesse asked Dean.
"I have a few new things I can teach you." Dean smiled down at the young boy and led him out if the room and into the kitchen where they could come up with a plan to get rid of Eric and make sure that Cara was theirs.
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After getting Eric settled in, Cara insited that Eric rest for a few hours before meeting her other 'Ex cousin' Sam and her sick 'Uncle' Bobby. She walked down the stairs and saw Dean and Jesse in the den with a few guns on the coffee table, "What the hell are you two doing? I asked you to clean up all this stuff." She said and walked into the room.
"Hey, just because lover boy is here doesn't mean the end of the world is going to stop. We still have work to do." Dean told her and reloaded his gun, "Plus he should know what he's getting in to." He smiled at her.
"This is not funny, Dean. I thought you were going to help me out a little but until I could get rid of him." She asked him.
"I was but being your cousin and all it's my job to give you a hard time." He said to her, "I feel a bad for kissing your earlier now. I had no idea we were related. Kinds sick, Cara."
"That's cute Dean. I couldn't tell him I have been shacking up with my ex now could how? How do you think that would look?" she asked.
"I don't know. I wonder how it would look if he had gotten here a little earlier and saw us making out in the kitchen." Dean said.
Cara put her hands on her face, "Can we please not do this now?" she asked and brought her hands down, "I just need one day. Just give me one freakin day to get rid of him ok."
"I can promise anything." Dean said. Truth was he was a little hurt right now. He thought they were finally getting on the right path and he as finally going to tell her that he loves her and now this guy shoes up and messes everything up for them. He knew he could lose her forever. She may hate him at first but she would get over it and they could move on…together.
"Yeah…I know that. We dated remember." Cara said. "You don't have to be a jerk."
"I'm a jerk? He is the one tracking your phone." Dan said. "I think that makes him a stalker." Dean laughed, "You really know how to pick 'em."
"I picked you didn't I?" Cara smirked. "Maybe not the best choice."
"Funny." Dean said.
"Cant you just ask him to leave. Break up with him or something." Jesse said. "You don't need him. You have us."
Cara sad the sad look in his eye and walked over and sat next to Jesse, "You will always have me. I am not going anywhere. It doesn't matter who I am dating. You will always be my number one." She told him.
"But what about Dean? You guys are supposed to be together. I saw you kissing and my mom told me that you don't kiss someone unless you really care about them or are in the mood but I don't really know what that means yet." Jesse told her.
"That's true." Cara said and looked over at Dean, "But sometimes you do things in the heat of the moment."
"Oh now she quoting Asia." Dean said. "But good to know it meant nothing to you." Dean said and got up.
"Don't do that." Cara told him.
"Do what?" Dean asked.
"You know what. Don't put words in my mouth! I didn't mean it like that. It did mean something to me ok. I just don't know what to do right now." Cara told him.
Dean huffed, "What do you want?" he asked her.
"You cant ask me that right now." She told him, "I told you that I don't know!"
"Well when you figure it out let me know." Dean said and walked over to the stairs and grabbed his jacket and walked out the door.
Cara felt bad. She stilled loved Dean and that kiss meant more to her that she knew but with her Eric here it reminded her that he could give her stuff that Dean never could and it wasn't money, or being normal, it was love. Eric loved her and wasn't afraid to tell her that. Dean would never say those words to her and she knew it.
"Why did you let him leave?" Jesse asked.
"Dean just need some alone time." Cara said. "He'll be back."
"How do you know?" Jesse asked her. "What if he leaves and never comes back?"
"Dean wouldn't do that to you Jesse. I know him." Cara said.
"Why cant you just tell him that you love him and you and him can be happy together."
"Jesse just stop ok. This is between me and him. Dean knows how I felt but that didn't matter to him. You are too young to understand this right now. Just know that we are going to be here for you."
"But I just want you two to be happy together." Jesse said.
"I know but sometimes we all wont something we cant have." Cara told him.
"But I can help you get it. I can make Dean tell you he loves you." Jesse said. "I know he does. I can just give him that little push."
"No you cant and I don't ever want you doing that. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Jesse said. "Just give Dean another chance."
"We aren't going to talk about this anymore. Why don't you go get cleaned up from supper and work on your math a little more." Cara told him.
"Yes ma'am." Jesse said.
"Thank you." Cara watch as Jesse sulked and walked up the stairs. She knew all he wanted was a family. She knew what that felt like and she was trying to give him that but she couldn't make it happen over night. She did want to be with Dean but Eric also held a place in her heart. He was a great guy.
Just as Jesse reached the told of the stairs, Eric came walking down. "Is he ok?" Eric asked Cara.
"Yeah. I told him he had to go do homework. You know how kids are." Cara smiled, "Did you have a good nap?" she asked.
"Not really." He said and wrapped his arms around her, "It would have been better with you next to me so I could hold you and tell you how much I love you."
"You are too sweet sometimes." Cara smiled.
"So who is that kid anyways?" Eric asked.
"Family member. His parents died a few weeks ago so we are taking care of him."
"That's what I love about you. Always a giver." Eric said and leaned in and gave her a kiss in her lip and Cara kissed him back. He wants a bad kisser it was just that he was no Dean Winchester. When Dean kissed her she still got butterflies in her stomach. He made her feel things that no man has ever made her feel and there would never be another like him and she knew that but she couldn't change him.
The two broke apart when the heard someone clear their throat. Cara looked over and saw Sam and Bobby next to them, "Oh, hey guys." She said.
"Hey. Who's this?" Bobby asked.
"Where are my manners?" Eric smiled and walked over to them, "I'm Eric." He said and shook both Bobby and Sam's hand. "You must be Bobby and Sam."
"Yeah." Bobby said and looked at Cara.
"I have to say you are looking so much better." Eric said.
"Excuse me?" Bobby said.
"Well Cara told me that you have been really sick and that's why she came to help you out."
"Oh….right." Bobby said and Cara gave him a look.
"Well, if there is anything I can do just let me know." Eric said. "I am here to help you out this weekend."
"Well I am running low on Lambs blood." Bobby said.
Cara's face dropped and she looked over and Eric and laughed, "He's kidding. You don't have to do anything."
Eric sighed, "Oh good. I was getting a little scared for a second."
"We like to joke around here a lot. You never know when we are telling the truth." Bobby said and looked right at Cara and she mouthed 'I'm sorry' to him.
"So where's Dean?" Sam asked.
"He stepped out." Cara said. "He should be back soon."
"Ok good. Maybe I should go call him." Sam said and looked at Eric, "It was nice meeting you."
"You too." Eric smiled and watched Sam walked out the door.
Cara knew Sam was calling to check on Dean. She was also worried about him. His mood had really changes since Eric had gotten there. She didn't want Dean to hurt. She loved him and he had to know that. The more she stood there with Eric the more she thought about Dean. She knew she had a choice to make and she was going to have to make it fast before she lost both of them forever.
*Finally I updated. So sorry is been a long time. I have had a huge block on this story. But here you go and like it said it's longer than the last. I hope you liked and please review!