Chapter 36 -Lucky Days

Buffy bustled in the kitchen stirring various pots. She shook a scolding finger at Jessica, "You're supposed to be taking it easy." She busily, added spices and checked the oven. She smiled as the robust smell of the meal wafted through the house. When Jessica attempted to get up and help; Buffy shooed her back to her seat at the counter. The low tones of chatter rang out from the living room. Buffy knew Dean was chatting with his little brother, but occasionally she would look up and smile to him, feeling his eyes on her. Buffy quirked an eyebrow at her baby sister when she brought the plates down from the cabinet but quickly sat back down at her big sister's stern look.

Dean was watching Buffy, no matter how much he saw her, it seemed like it was never enough. He loved just having her around him whether they were being intimate or not. He felt lighter as if there wasn't anything he couldn't accomplish. The woman was a wonder to behold. But at the moment, he was busy checking out some of her physical attributes.

Sam had been observing his brother, Jess was right, Dean seemed different. His brother for one thing was smiling a whole lot more, and definitely joking a whole lot more, at least when he saw him. This dinner was thrown together last minute, when Sam hadn't heard from his brother in awhile and was growing concerned. Sam was going to call his brother but Jess reminded him, call Buffy and surely, Dean would follow. Sure enough, that's exactly how it happened. However, he had been talking to Dean for the last minute and Dean's eyes were glazed over, "You okay bro?"

"Huh?" Dean said as he tore his gaze away from the view of Buffy's cleavage as she bent over to set the table. "You say something, Sammy?" Dean was barely aware of anything, he only snapped out of it, when he felt his little brother's eyes on him.

"Yeah, you seemed distracted, and I haven't seen you in weeks, you feelin' okay?" Sam knew the reason Dean was so distracted, and he understood, Love tended to make you loose focus.

Dean forced himself to look at Sam and took a sip from his beer. "Yeah man, I'm awesome. Just been kinda busy is all. What's wrong, Sammy? You miss me?" he asked with a grin.

"Jess told me you've been spending a lot of time with Buffy, but Dude you can still stop by...Karen even asked, what you've been up to." Sam leaned forward in the leather chair that was diagonal from Dean.

Dean felt a little bad after hearing Sam's response. He wasn't trying to neglect his baby brother. "Yeah, guess we have been a little under the radar these days. We've just been really busy with... stuff," he trailed off, blushing a little. He didn't mean that to come out the way it had.

Sam chuckled, "Stuff huh, Dam Dean you must have it bad, usually you would be filling me with every aspect ...guess you really are in love, huh." Sam could swear this was the first time he had ever seen Dean blush. He didn't even think it was possible

"Dude, I don't know what you're talking about," Dean said defensively. "Besides, I NEVER gave details...Did I?" Dean scratched his head absently, embarrassed and he looked as though he wanted to crawl away from the current spotlight.

"Dean, you use to call me at midnight to give me details...one time you sent me a text to tell me about two ladies?" Sam huffed.

"Shhhh," Dean warned harshly as he glanced over toward Buffy. Luckily, she seemed completely occupied with setting the table. "Okay," he admitted. "Maybe I did, but I don't do that anymore. It's immature, Sam. You need to grow up."

Sam scoffed, "Really, didn't say I missed it, although don't mind you calling, its just...you seem different and I like it...Buffy's good for you...and from what Jess tells me, Your good for Buffy."

Now Dean was embarrassed. "Yeah, Buffy's great... but I dunno about me being good for her. She could probably do better."

Sam leaned in to keep his voice down as he heard Buffy fussing at Jess to take it easy, "Jess told me she's never seen Buffy happier, so don't sell yourself short, the girl is love with you...just accept it...you guys belong together...maybe even as much as Jess and I do," Sam gave a small chuckle, he was teasing his big brother and waiting for him to catch on.

Dean was glad to hear that Buffy was happy with him, but now he was ready to crawl through the floor with embarrassment. "Can we roll credits on this chick flick, Sammy? I'm not so sure Buffy would be into me if I turned into a girl. But that could be kinda hot," he added with a slight salacious grin.

"Jerk"

A huge smile spread across Dean's face. Sometimes Sam did know when to play along. "Bitch," he countered.

Buffy strolled into the living room glowing, "So handsome Winchester men ready for some yummies?" She beamed a smile to Dean and walked over to stand before him. Everything's set up, no extra work." She stood on her toes and stretched upward to brush his lips. "Wouldn't want to tire you out?" She teased wrapping her arms around his neck.

Dean wrapped his arms around her waist and gave her a quick kiss. "Don't even worry about it. I got all sorts of stamina," he said as he winked at her.

He watched Dean, slip into Boyfriend mode. He shook his head going into the kitchen and brushing a kiss against his own wife's lips. They both looked on watching their siblings, he shot her a cheesy smile, and Jessica nodded, both understood completely. Jess and Sam observed them both walk side by side into the kitchen, Dean never taking his eyes off Buffy, once they had a seat, everyone sat down glad to be around family.

The conversation was light and Sam was impressed with the maturity that Dean showed, if he didn't know better, he would swear that he had never met the gentleman that seemed to appear anytime, Buffy was with him. His sister in law was definitely affecting his brother in the positive. He actually could see his brother marrying Buffy, then again he didn't want to get ahead of himself, but he felt like this relationship was the beginning of a new life for his big brother.