"What are you looking at?" Cas asked, walking over to where Lizzy was, lying down on their bed with a book in front of her.

"It's the baby book that the boys gave me. I'm trying to figure out what to put in it."

Slowly, Cas came and sat down beside her, resting his hand on her large belly. "What humans normally put in these things?"

"Not a normal pregnancy." She noted, looking up at him and smiling.

"Well…" Cas paused, thinking it over. "Why don't you put what you know it in?"

She looked up at him curiously, closing the book slightly. "What do you mean?"

"Put what you know." He smiled, leaning in and kissing her for a moment. "Elijah and I are going to look for Michael once again." A pout appeared over Lizzy's lips. "Are you making that face because you don't want Michael back, or because your sad that I'm leaving?"

"What do you think?"

Cas laughed, catching Lizzy of guard. "I think I'll be back within the hour."

She smiled then, pushing the book away and leaning towards him. "You better be."

Castiel smiled and reached up, pushing her hair out of her face. "I promise." He whispered, before leaning in and kissing her passionately.

Halfway through the kiss, his lips simply disappeared, and Lizzy opened her eyes to see him missing.

"I hate when you do that." She growled, before leaning back and falling against the pillows of their bed.

Reaching over and picking up the book once again, Lizzy opened it and looked at the first page.

"Write what you know…" She whispered, repeating what Cas had said. "What do I know…" She asked herself then, resting over and grabbing the pen she had at hand that was resting on the bed as well.

"What I know…." She whispered, pressing the pen to the paper as she began to write.

&&&&&

"I still don't understand it…" Lizzy sighed, as she folded another shirt. "I mean…they were all here and now…gone."

"Don't know what to tell you kid." Dean sighed, watching as she folded the laundry. "I swear to you I put them in Bobby's room."

"Did you move them Bobby?" Lizzy called.

"Nope. They weren't there when I went in."

"Maybe Sammy moved them?" Lizzy asked, looking to Dean.

"No, he wouldn't…and they aren't downstairs?"

"Nope."

"Have you asked Cas?"

"Yes. But every time I do he seems to change the topic…"

"So maybe Cas took them?" Dean suggested.

"Now why on earth would Cas take all the baby gifts you got me and hide them?"

Dean shrugged. "Maybe he didn't like them?" Lizzy rolled her eyes as Dean chuckled.

"And I just finished writing in the baby book too." She sighed angrily.

"Well you still got the crib at least." Bobby pointed out.

"Yes I know but…I still don't understand it…they can't have just vanished…" Sighing, Lizzy straightened herself up, pressing her hand onto her back.

"You okay?" Dean asked, watching as she winched.

"Yeah." She moaned. "My back's just really sore today…"

"You shouldn't be lifting things this far in." Dean noted, watching her stand up, winching once again.

"Dean I'm not due for two weeks. I think I'll be…" She stopped half way through her sentence and pressed her hand onto her belly.

"What?" Dean and Bobby called.

"It's nothing just…a cramp." Lizzy sighted and stood up then, smiling. "Nothing to worry about." She added, smiling.

"You sure?" Dean called, watching as she slowly walked into the kitchen.

"Yes Dean." She called through a laugh. "I've been getting them all day. It's nothing to be worried about."

"All day?" Bobby called, stepping towards her.

"Yeah." She shrugged it off, before going into the fridge. "Anyone want something to…"

"Cas!" Bobby called out suddenly and Lizzy jumped.

"What are you doing?" Lizzy asked. "Cas and Elijah will be back tonight! They said they had important stuff to do!"

"Nothing more important than this." Bobby smiled happily before walking over to her. "Come on then, we gotta get you sitting down."

"Bobby you're freaking me out…what's going on?" Lizzy asked, as he pushed her softly towards the couch.

"Well it would appear that you're in labor."

"What?!" Dean screamed, jumping up as Bobby ushered Lizzy to the couch where she sat down. "How? When…WHY?!"

"When did you start getting those pains?"

"When I woke up…" Lizzy whispered, trying to stay calm.

"Okay, and how far apart are they?" Bobby asked, grabbing a pillow and handing it to her to place behind her back.

"Maybe twenty minutes? A little less?" She answered softly.

"Alright, Dean, call your idjut brother."

"He's meeting with Ruby…"

"I know what he's doing. Now call 'im and tell 'im to get here!"

"Right…okay…where's my phone?"

"In your pocket." Lizzy called softly.

"Right! Okay…uh…" Pulling the phone out, Dean looked over it. "How to you work this thing?" He asked, looking at the electronic device, totally dumb struck.

"Oh gimmie that." Lizzy snapped, reaching out as he handed her the phone. "A demon try's to kill you and you don't even flinch, but I go into labor and you turn into pudding." Lizzy sighed, holding the phone up to her ear. "Hey Sammy. Listen…we need you to get back here right away…no he's fine it's me. Sam…Sam…Sam! I'm fine. I'm just in labor. Okay…breath…Sammy? Are you okay?"

"What's wrong?" Bobby asked.

"He's having a panic attack." Lizzy rolled her eyes. "Sam! Put Ruby on the phone. Hi. Can you drive him here? Thanks."

"Well?" Dean asked as Lizzy handed him back his phone.

"Ruby's driving him. He's freaking out."

"Way to go Samantha." Dean rolled his eyes.

"Not much better then you Deanna."

"Not funny." Dean growled.

"Sorry." She whispered, looking apologetic.

"How you feeling?" Dean asked, coming over and sitting next to her.

"Oh…I'm good." She smiled.

"You're lying…" Dean noted with a little smile.

"Okay…I'm scared to death…and I really, really, really want Cas here…" Lizzy turned and looked at him and her eyes were filled with tears. "And it's really starting to hurt now…"

"Okay…well um…what do I do?!"

"Just…sit with me…talk to me. So I can try and ignore this!" Her voice rose up as she spoke, clearly in more pain then she let on.

"You okay?"

"It really hurts…a lot."

"More then it did a few minutes ago?"

"Mhm." Lizzy nodded. Slowly she turned and looked up at him. "A lot more."

"How the hell is that possible?!" Dean demanded.

"This is a baby whose genetics are more then half angelic." Lizzy shrugged, as the pain slowly dissipated. "You never know what's gunna happen."

"Alright, the doc's on his way." Bobby called, as he entered the room, phone in hand.

"Thank you Bobby." Lizzy smiled, before he disappeared into the kitchen.

"How you holding up kid?" Dean asked.

"Pretty good considering…" Lizzy cut herself off and squeezed her eyes shut, inhaling deeply. "Ouu….that one was big."

"Well just…breath and…think of happy things and…"

"Dean…go take a walk." Lizzy half laughed, looking over to see the elder Winchester suddenly turn very pale.

"No, no. I'm fine." He smiled. "You okay?"

"Yeah just…" Lizzy sighed then, and took a deep breath. "Yeah, I'm good." She nodded.

"Alright. Well…You need anything? Glass of water? A pillow?" He asked, leaning in towards her.

"Uh….hold my hand?" Turning, Lizzy looked up at him apologetically. "I'm really freaking out."

"Well…don't." Dean smiled, reaching over fast and taking her hand in his. "It's gunna be okay." He reassured her, smiling happily.

His smile faded however, as the roaring sound of the Impala pulling up to the house rang out around them, before the sound of metal hitting metal erupted.

"Dammit!" Dean screamed, rising up just as the front door burst open.

"Is she okay?!" Sam cried out, looking around and breathing in deeply.

"What did you do to my car?" Dean demanded.

"Lizzy!" Sam called, turning and seeing her, before rushing to her side. "Are you okay?"

"Fine Sammy." She smiled as he reached out and took her other hand in his.

"Sam…my car?"

"Wasn't me." Sam said fast, glancing up at the furious Dean for only a moment. "When did it happen?"

"Apparently it's been happening since this morning. I just didn't think anything of it because I'm not due for two weeks."

"Sam…who did what to my car!"

"I did you freak."

"What are you doing here?" Dean demanded, watching as Ruby walked into the house.

"I drove him here. Remember? He was meeting me when lil angel girl over there decided to pop."

"I may be having a baby Ruby but that wont stop me from kicking your ass." Lizzy snapped, turning and looking at the brunette as she slammed Bobby's door shut.

"Sorry, my bad. But he wanted to get here fast so I got him here fast." Ruby shrugged. "Thing ain't half bad when you put the pedal to the metal." Smirking, Ruby reached out and tossed the keys to Dean.

"If there is one scratch on my car…" He warned, catching the key's without blinking.

"There's probably more then one."

"Excuse me?!"

"Dean." Lizzy called softly, inhaling deeply.

"It's just a car Dean. It's not as important as…."

"Just a car? That things vintage! And in good shape. Or at least it was."

"Dean…" Lizzy called, a little more urgently.

"You better believe you're gunna be paying for any repairs I have to make on it."

"Dean!" Lizzy screamed now as she reached up, grabbing hold of Dean's hand and squeezing it, along with Sam's as her eyes snapped shut.

"You okay?" Sam asked, as Dean sat down.

"Oh….god." She moaned in pain, her eyes snapped shut, her face flushed.

"Their really close." Ruby called, her voice seeming filled with worry as she stepped closer.

"Where's Cas?" Sam asked.

"M.I.A." Bobby sighed, walking back into the living room.

"Anyone call him?" Ruby asked. They all turned and looked at her angrily. "What?"

"Please, don't talk." Lizzy snapped.

"I called him. A few minutes ago." Bobby explained as Lizzy sat on the couch, looking very pale. "But he didn't show up yet."

"Can he ever hear you when you call him?"

"Yeah." Bobby nodded. "I ain't all marked up with those signs things like dumb and dumber over there are."

"Well that can only mean on thing." Ruby said softly.

"What?" Lizzy asked, ignoring the pain and looking to the demon.

"The only way that he wouldn't be able to hear Bobby call him, would be if he's somewhere that's protected against anything supernatural."

"What you mean like a church?" Dean asked, a questionable look on his face

"No." Ruby rolled her eyes. "Where ever he is, he's protected by very powerful sigils."

"What does that mean?"

"Unless you can zap yourself to where he is," Ruby stepped towards Lizzy and paused, looking rather sad. "He's not gunna hear you."

Lizzy looked away from Ruby fast, taking in a small strangled breath. "So your saying…" She whispered, her eyes on the floor. "Your saying that unless he shows up of his own free will…." Lizzy glanced up at Ruby then, tears in her eyes. "He'll miss our baby being born?"

"It's a possibility."

"Oh god…" Lizzy gasped, looking back to the floor as she started to cry.

"Way to go hell bitch." Dean snapped angrily, as both he and Sam tried to comfort Lizzy. "Lizzy don't worry, he'll be here. We'll get him here."

"Yeah, even if we have to go find him." Sam added, stroking her back slowly.

"He could be anywhere!" She cried out, as tears streamed down her cheeks. "He could be on another continent for all we know!"

"Come on Lizzy just…breath. It'll be okay. He'll sense something's wrong or…he'll feel it and he'll come running and…"

"He wont sense anything if he's behind those sigils." Ruby called and both Sam and Dean looked up at her angrily. "Sorry…"

"Alright! Water is boiling, I've got clean sheets and…what the hell happened?" Bobby asked as he walked into the living room.

"We can't call Cas…" Dean whispered, still trying to console Lizzy.

"What do you mean?"

"Never mind." Sam growled. "There's nothing we can do? Nothing you can do?" He asked, looking up at Ruby.

"Well…there is something."
"What?" Lizzy called, looking up at her hopefully.

"Listen here sister, if I do this, not only will it hurt you like hell, but I'm pretty sure your baby daddy's gunna skin me raw." Ruby sighed then, and looked down at Lizzy's belly. "Plus, the state that you're in…."

"I don't care." Lizzy said fast. "I want him here." She paused then and took a deep breath. "No, I need him here."

"I get it. But seriously this…this is gunna hurt."

"What are you gunna do?" Dean asked, watching her angrily while still holding onto Lizzy.

"Well lets put it this way." Slowly, Ruby stepped up to Lizzy and reached out to touch her.

"Ouch!" Lizzy cried out, flinching as Ruby's hand hovered in front of her face.

"What?" Sam, Dean and Bobby called.

"Well not that I'm an expert on the matter but…because she's having a baby at the moment, her angelic powers are otherwise…occupied. You know, making sure that the baby's okay, protecting other valuable assets that are located inside your body and such? Like pulling all that strength and pain free power you got inside." Lizzy nodded. "And usually if I touch you, nothing happens right?"

"Right." Lizzy nodded, thinking back to the time when they pretended to be friend for the doctor.

"Well, since you angelic half is otherwise engaged, when I touch you like so," Rapidly, Ruby pushed her hand forward and simply touched Lizzy's arm.

"AH!" She cried out, pulling away.

"It hurts like a bitch." Ruby half smirked.

"And how is hurting Lizzy gunna get Cas here?" Sam asked, looking rather annoyed that Ruby had hurt Lizzy.

"He feels my pain." Lizzy explained. "Just like I feel his."

"And you didn't tell us this before because?" Bobby asked.

"Cause neither of us was ever in pain." She shrugged.

"Then why can't he feel the labor pain?" Dean asked.

"Dunno…maybe because it's natural?" Lizzy shrugged once again. "Or it's not enough pain."

"But this will be." Ruby said this a little to happily for Sam and Dean's liking. "Ready baby mama?" She asked, as she peeled her jacket off.

"Wait. What are you gunna do?"

"Hug her." Ruby said coyly, looking to Dean smirking. "Sorry to say that means you have to get up."

"Wonderful."

"Get, if it gets you your man?"

"It's worth it." Lizzy finished, before she slowly started to get up, with Sam and Dean helping. "Alright so…just hug?"

"Pretty much." Ruby nodded. "If it gets to be too much…" She added a little more caringly.

"I'll deal with it."

"Lizzy…." Dean called in a warning tone.

"I'll deal with it." She said again, more sternly. "Alright, let's do this." Lizzy sighed, before opening up her arms.

"Ready?" Ruby asked, stepping closer.

"No." Dean whispered, as he and Sam rose up.

"Yes." Lizzy nodded, ignoring the brothers.

"Then here we go." Ruby whispered, before she stepped forward and wrapped her arms tightly around Lizzy.