AN; I own nothing but the plot. My beta was Matchmaker131 thank you so much. Matchmaker131 is officially the co-author of this story. Darkgirl3/Matchmaker131. Hope you all enjoy please review

Dean and Cassie make up plus

Home Schooling the kids

The following week

Dean and Cassie had finally put the fight they'd had behind them and began healthy relations again. Brice and Aaron had pretty much locked them in a closet till they started talking. It was Aaron who convinced Dean that the twins need a stable environment to grow inside Cassie. It wasn't as though Dean hadn't considered what he was doing by behaving badly. It finally registered in Dean that maybe he should stop putting up his walls like he always did and let Cassie all the way in his life. He never meant to hurt her or their babies he was just used to being stubborn. Cassie was just as stubborn as Dean and it was a big mess in this situation. They had made up once they were let out the closet; afterwards they thanked the two hard heads that had locked them in the closet to start with.

August 13th, 2003

Dean and Cassie had finally moved back down to Missouri after Sam and Jess had gone back to college. They allowed them to have a vacation in their home while they continued to move. Hunter and Rachel were starting school the following week and Jared was going to begin kindergarten. Dean was more excited than Jared because Dean knew Jared like all his children had great potential. He wasn't sure how he was going to deal with Jared going off to school, but soon he'd have two more kids that were apart of his family.

"But I don't won't to go," Jared said as they got out the car on the way in to meet the teachers today. Jared fought Dean more than when he'd left him with Jo and Ellen's for couple days while they moved. "I want to stay with you," he pleaded as he held tightly to Dean's leg.

Dean picked him up with Hunter's help because Jared had wrapped his arms so tightly around his leg he couldn't remove him without hurting him. Hunter took him when they reached the building. "Stop kicking," Hunter said

"Jared," Dean said in his dad voice, "It's going to be okay."

"NO," Jared screamed as they got closer.

"I don't think this is going to go well Dad," Rachel said.

Dean turned around finding that Hunter was trying to keep Jared from biting him. He reached over and took Jared from him, "Stop this now," he said

Jared shook his head no. He had known this was coming. It had happened the day that Jo had tried to put him in pre-school, Ellen had decided to keep him there another year, but Dean couldn't do that, Jared had to start school, he'd be five in another month, they'd let him start even though he wasn't five yet. It was actually three months away; Dean had just told them a month. Dean knew Jared was more than ready he was only being stubborn, darn Winchester blood, Dean thought.

"Maybe we should home school him," Hunter offered, "if he has this bad reaction to just meeting the teacher, what do you think will happen if he goes by himself, dad?" he asked.

Dean sighed before he opened the door. "I'm going to set you down, I have to get something out my pocket, do not run you understand?" he asked Jared, but soon as he was down he took off straight for the door. However he didn't get far because Hunter grabbed him. He didn't care about the kicking and biting as his brother cried.

Hunter took him back outside to the car, he couldn't stand to hear his brother in this much distress. Rachel went with Dean to sign Jared up.

"Maybe we'll get lucky and Jared will be okay the first day," Rachel offered as they sat waiting for the principal.

"I don't think I can do it," Dean said, "I can't do this to him, Ray."

"I'll be homeschooled with him," Rachel said, "Hunter would too, we're not the most popular kids dad, I mean really, I'm a freak, I read a lot, I'm a math wiz, Hunter is good at science, history, hell he can ever tell you the first two amendments of the constitution if you asked him on the spot, I'm no cheerleader, and he's no jock football star," she said.

Dean looked at his daughter, that wasn't what school was about, right? Last he heard it was about learning.

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Dean stepped out and called Cassie. "I want to ask you something, can we home school them?" he asked as he looked over to check on Rachel.

"Who's going to do that, Dean you're trying to find a job and I'm working," she asked with curiosity as she tried to figure out where the idea might have stemmed from.

"What if I opened my own garage?" he asked,

He wanted Cassie to be included in his decisions, it was what being married was about. He fought the urge to tell her it was going to be his way and that was it.

"Dean," she said with a sigh.

They had to get a handle on the kids but home schooling with Dean involved didn't seem the best idea. He doted on them to the point they were on the way to being brats. Not brats in a good way but in a messed up kind of way.

"Come on Cass, the only garage in this town owner is retiring, I could work at the house, Hunter can watch them if I have to go some where, please Cassie, I can't do this to Jared, he's in the car with Hunter, he didn't make it to the door, he started crying soon as we got here, don't make me do this."

"Dean, they need to be in a school" she said in frustration, "you know I get that you want what is best for them and I don't want either of us worrying about them all day at school but....."

"No, I will not do it, I called to tell you that I was doing this," he said as he began to lose steam as he heard the hesitancy in Cassie's voice.

He knew she loved his children she just had other ideas about things that they kept clashing about.

"Dean what the hell? You call me to tell me what you are doing with your kids. When do they become our kids? I love them too, they try to do things the way they think you want them to. Just consider that, please."

"I didn't want you to tell me what they needed," he said before hanging up.

Rachel was leaning against the wall listening to the conversation, "Do I cheer or go tell Hunter we're screwed?"

"I gotta talk to them still, but I'm home schooling you three," Dean said, "I graduated from high school," he said, "I can do this."

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Cassie just closed the phone when it went dead. She shook her head. If she didn't love Dean so much she would simply walk away. Luckily, she thought what they had was worth fighting to keep. She took a deep breath and the tears flowed as she wandered off to the ladies room to fix her face. She couldn't work with the way she felt but she had to try. Being pregnant had its perks, at least crying was a natural part of the process so no one would question her mopping up her tears at any point.

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"You do not have enough educational experience to home school them," the principal said even though she knew it was not a requirement.

Most of the schools were more concerned about having little minds to mold in their way then to actual give them tools for learning from all that was round them.

"I graduated high school," Dean insisted.

"That's not enough you need at least two years of college,"

Dean thanked his mom for getting through to him, "I'll bring you my transcripts from the community college I went to in Nebraska for two years if I have to, but I'm going to home school my children."

"You are not a teacher, here we like…"

"Let me stop you right there, I moved here with my wife, I do not have to enroll them in this school I can go to the school board and tell them what I wish and I can get what I want that way. I've done it before, I'll do it again," he said as he stood up to leave the room. He should have just gone back to the car and been listed as a no show but that might have given them cause to come to his home.

"You don't want to mess with my dad, it never ends well," Rachel added with a smirk on their way out of the room.

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Twenty minutes later Dean left with the forms that he would fill out to tell them he was going to school at home. He'd finally had to call his mom, she was friends with somebody on the school board in Missouri, her best friend had moved there three years earlier and Dean was glad, he would never gotten this far without her.

"We scored," Rachel said getting in the SUV they'd gotten the week before, "Dad told them what we plan to do."

Dean almost smiled but he didn't want them to think they had gotten away with any thing. Home school was still school, end of story.

"You had to call grandma in the end didn't you?" Hunter asked him

"Yeah, but I have Jared's papers and I called the middle school I'm going to get your transcripts too," Dean said as he buckled up, "you have Jared in the car seat?"

"Yeah, he cried himself to sleep," Hunter said, "Where do we go after the school?"

"I gotta go talk to Cassie's father about something, I have an idea, but I need his opinion on it,"

"Why not ask Papa?" Rachel asked

"Because I need some help down here," Dean said as they left the school.

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After they stopped off at the middle school, they went to the dealership Martin Robinson half owned with his best friend. Martin gave him good news that let him talk to the owner of the land beside their current home that was for sale. By the time Dean left there he was happy, he'd just gotten what he'd hoped. He bought the land at half the asking price, the reason being he'd agreed to let the man stay on the property in the cabin that was set few miles into the woods. He hadn't told Cassie yet, he just hoped she'd be happy about his purchase.

Jared was awake by the time they returned home. Dean told him that he wouldn't have to go to the school but would be schooled at home.

Four-thirty

Cassie arrived home that afternoon to find dinner already on the table, "What did you do?" she asked.

"I have a surprise for you," Dean said with a smirk.

"Where are the kids?"

"They are eating in Rachel's room, I hope you like the meal. I made it, but Hunter made the sauce, I still cannot stir the stuff without letting it boil, he's a genius at this stuff."

Cassie smiled as she took a seat then tasted it, "This is amazing, why don't you fix this more often?"

"Because Hunter hates making the sauce," Dean said, "I have good news. We are going to home school them, with a bit of help," he said before he went on, " I also bought the land beside us, your neighbor Mr. James said he'd help me keep up the land, I turned the offer down, but agreed to let him stay in the cabin that is in the woods,"

"Dean, baby, slow down," Cassie said as she got up to get the bottle of Pepsi that they'd left on the counter, "The garage, I have few questions about that first, before you go on."

"Shoot," Dean said with a smile as he took a bite of the food

"Okay, first what is the condition and how much will it cost," she asked while she poured the drink into glasses.

"Um, it costs about eight hundred, the guy wants to sale it cheap to me, that way he can get me to work on his vehicle for almost nothing," Dean said to her as he took the glass she offered him.

"Okay, now the condition?"

"It's very good, I just need to get a lift fixed and I'll be in business in no time," Dean said as they continued to talk and eat.

"That's good to know," Cassie said, "now you can go back to what you were saying"

"Okay well, for three years my mom bugged me about going to college and for so long I didn't want to do it. To please her, I took the SAT's in my junior year of high school and I actually did good," he said with a smile, he was proud of his accomplishment.

"You took the SAT's?" Cassie asked interrupting him again; she was shocked she hadn't known that fact about Dean, despite being his wife. Of course unless there was drama with kids they rarely spoke of their high school days except for the background he gave her on Harmony.

"Yeah, it was an agreement that I had to make when I got Harmony pregnant, I had to take the SAT's finish high school, and get a job to take care of my children, Dad helped on the job part," he explained.

"I'm just surprised that's all, please continue," Cassie said.

"My mom was so proud of me she sent out ten applications and I got into seven colleges. I chose Nebraska to get out of Lawrence."

"What other ones did you get into?"

"Let's see, I think it was Kansas State, South Dakota State University, MIT, Texas State, Nebraska State of course, a college in California, and one more I can remember, the rest are blanks," Dean said as he tried to remember the acceptance letters he received.

"I also applied at ten," Cassie said conversationally since they were sharing about high school.

"And we had sex on the football field that college too," Dean interrupted her with a smirk "Damn, wasn't it good."

"You may continue," she said as she shook her head.

"Thank you," Dean said, "today it paid off, the education and degree that is. I don't believe if I had that associates degree that guy would let me home school my kids. I wouldn't have told him anything if I had known ahead of time I didn't need any type of degree. They were just testing me." he said as he took a bite the food, "the place is sending their work next week," he finished taking another bite,

"What?" he asked when she looked at him

"I just can't believe you went to college still, is all," she said with a smile

"I went to the community college in Nebraska half a day and worked on the hunters' vehicles that came in at night," he said, "When I turned nineteen Ellen let me work behind the bar."

"I never knew that," Cassie said, "why didn't you tell me?"

"I hated it, it took me till right before I left with Jared the first time," Dean said, "it took me twice to get through the chemistry class there."

Cassie and Dean continued to talk about what they were getting into with homeschooling the kids, Dean finally convinced her that it would be a good idea.