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Chapter 11
The week went by fairly quickly if you asked the Winchesters and by Saturday everyone was exhausted. Eden and John both sprouted their wings on the same day, Dean got sick, and Cas wouldn't let him anywhere near the babies and Sam and Gabe were starting to worry about John. Not to mention all of this happening between work. Gabe was sitting on one side of the bed feeding John and Sam was sitting on the other side talking to Dean.
"Dude, seriously, I think something is wrong with John."
"Like what, Sammy? He seems to be such a good baby."
"I dunno, Dean. He's just like all babies his age. Cries when he wants something, laughs, and all that, but it's like noise has no affect on him."
"What does Gabe say?"
"Gabe says he sees nothing wrong."
"Then dude, there's nothing wrong. Look I gotta go, Cas needs my help with the girls. Why don't the three of you come over and we'll check it out."
"Okay," Sam said and hung up the phone.
Sam turned and saw Gabe tickling John's stomach. John burst out laughing causing Sam to smile. Maybe Dean was right, maybe I'm just being paranoid. John seems fine.
Dean hung up from his brother and went into the living room where he saw Cas trying to feed both the girls. Dean burst out laughing.
"Cas, why didn't you wait for me? There's two of us and two of them."
"I don't know. I thought it would be easier if I fed them both at the same time. I didn't realize that it would be so difficult."
Dean chuckled and picked up Eden and the bottle and sat next to Cas and fed her.
"So how is everything with Sam?"
"He's worried about John. He says that he feels that something is wrong with him but Gabe says that John is fine. I told him not to worry, but knowing Sammy? He's gonna worry."
Cas put Mary's bottle down and put her on his shoulder to burp her, "Did he say what was worrying him?"
Dean shook his head as he put Eden's bottle down and proceeded to burp her as well, "Just that John doesn't seem to be affected by noise. I told him to bring him over later."
Cas nodded as Mary burped. Cas laughed and tickled her nose.
That afternoon Cas and Dean were kissing on the couch while the girls were napping on the floor in front of them. The doorbell rang and Mary screeched. Eden soon woke up and started screaming. Dean sighed as he went to the door as Cas tried to calm the girls down.
"Hey, Sammy, hey, Gabe."
"Hey, Dean. Everything okay?" Sam asked noticing the screaming girls.
"Fine. The doorbell just woke them up."
"Oh, sorry."
"Don't worry about it. How's John?" Dean asked poking his nephew's belly making him laugh.
Dean went over to pick up Mary and rock her as Gabe and Sam came into the living room and sat down. Gabe placed John on the floor seated against the couch and a few pillows and gave him a few toys. Cas and Dean placed Eden and Mary on the floor as well and let the three of them play with John's toys. Dean gazed lovingly at the children.
"I don't see anything wrong with John, Sam."
"I dunno, Dean, maybe I was just imagining things. He seems fine. And you're right, if something was wrong, Gabe would be able to tell."
"Perhaps," Cas said looking at the three children. "We were getting ready to watch a movie; do you guys want to join us?"
"Please tell me you're not about to watch The Notebook," Gabe groaned.
"Nope, we're gonna watch an action film. Dean's favorite movie, The Bourne Supremacy."
"Sure we'll stay. We got nothing better to do," Sam said.
Dean went into the kitchen to pop some popcorn while Cas put on the movie. Sam gazed down at the children to make sure they were alright before getting comfortable next to his husband. Dean came back with two bowls of popcorn just as the movie was starting. Dean handed Sam and Gabe their own bowl and cuddled next to his husband and watched the movie while keeping one eye on the girls. It had just gotten to Dean's favorite part when Jason was in the car chase and things started getting a little too loud. Mary and Eden started crying because of the noise. Sam looked at John and noticed that he didn't have a problem. Cas and Dean each picked up one of the girls and shushed them.
"You see, Dean? You don't think it's strange that the girls cried but John didn't?"
"Babe, calm down. If there was something wrong Cas and I would've been able to sense it."
"What if you're wrong, Gabe? I'm worried."
"Gabe, just because we're angels doesn't mean that we can always sense problems. If there is something bodily wrong, you know we cannot sense that."
Gabe sighed, "So what do you want to do?"
"We should perform a test."
"Cas, John is a baby."
"I know, Dean, but I was talking about a small sound test since Sam feels something wrong is with his hearing."
"Like what?"
Cas shrugged, "I don't know, but while we are thinking about it I'm gonna go upstairs and change Eden."
Dean nodded and walked around with Mary while Cas went upstairs with Eden. Sam looked worriedly at John and wondered if he actually couldn't hear. That would be weird, right? A deaf half angel. Dean had gone upstairs put Mary to bed. Sam turned to Gabe.
"Gabe, do you think John is deaf?"
"Are you crazy? No way! If John was deaf I would be able to detect that."
"Actually, Gabe we cannot. You know that. Angels can't detect problems such as deafness," Cas said as he and Dean came back downstairs.
Gabe sighed, "I know."
"So how exactly are we gonna do this?" Sam asked.
"Put a bunch of loud noises around him and see if he reacts," Dean said.
"Dean, we have to be careful not to wake the girls."
"Of course, babe."
So over the next twenty minutes the four of them tried loud noises around John. Dean turned up the movie, Sam banged some pots, Gabe tried scaring him, and Cas made loud noises. John didn't seem to be affected at all. He smiled and babbled every time he saw Sam or Gabe doing what he deemed funny. Gabe decided to try one more thing. He picked up John causing his son to break into a goofy grin. Then Gabe screamed straight into his ear causing Sam to yank John away.
"Gabe, what the fuck are you doing?"
"Sammy, it didn't bother him. If he could hear, he would be screaming by now. He's not."
"Don't you ever scream in-what did you say?"
Dean and Cas nodded, "Is that even possible? I mean a deaf Nephilim?" Dean asked.
"Many things are possible, Dean."
Tears welled up in Sam's eyes, "John's deaf? Oh my God."
The last time Dean really saw Sam cry was right before he went to hell. He pulled his brother into a bear hug. "Its gonna be alright, Sammy."
Sam didn't answer but just cried into his big brother's shirt. Gabe looked at a loss for words and Cas looked at a loss as to what to do. He hugged his big brother. Gabe felt awkward, he wanted to cry, but angels don't cry. He just let go of Cas and sat on the couch staring at John playing idly on the floor. Just then John saw his daddy crying and his other daddy looking sad and he began to cry. Gabe gently picked him up and shushed him.
"He's crying because he sees you and Sam so sad I assume."
Sam finally let go of Dean and wiped his eyes and sat next to Gabe, "It will be okay, right?"
"Of course. Just because he can't hear doesn't mean everything else is wrong with him. He doesn't seem to act any different," Dean said.
Sam nodded and leaned into Gabe's shoulder and gazed at John, "I guess you're right. Let's get him home, Gabe. He's tired."
Gabe nodded and the two of them stood and headed toward the door. Cas and Dean walked their brothers to the door.
"Everything will be okay, Sammy," Dean reassured.
"Thanks, Dean."
"Have a goodnight, guys," Cas said.
Sam and Gabe waved and headed across the street.
A hidden figure sat on top of the lamp next door to Dean and Cas' house and grinned. "Three half human half angel babies? The boss will be so pleased. The only thing standing in the way is the houses are heavily warded."
The figure dropped from his spot and got into his car and drove away to meet his boss and tell him about the babies.
TBC...