The five adults were handing out in the living room while listening to the children have fun upstairs. Well, most of them. Amara pretended that there was a monster that had taken over the stairs and would destroy them if they interacted with it. The kids loved it anyways. It kept them from coming downstairs, so the adults could discuss non-child-friendly topics.
"So, how did you get involved with human trafficking anyway?" Gabe asked.
"It was a calling, I guess," Amara answered. "I don't know of anyone who just has it fall in their laps. It's not an easy job to do. I'm just happy I don't really work with kids. I can barely handle my job. They're the true heroes."
"So, why do you it think?" Kali asked.
"Because I know what happens if I don't," Amara answered cryptically. "Also, there are people I can still help. Can't really do that working murder cases. I think that would just leave me feeling useless, but I do hear they sleep at night. That must be nice."
"Who told you that?" Dean snorted. "I don't know of anyone who does that. You must have been misinformed."
"This is why I work in the candy industry. Nothing sad about that."
"Except malnutrition from being in a food desert, the increasing obesity epidemic, increasing occurrence of type II diabetes, especially among minority populations."
"Cassie, shush," Gabe urged his brother. "Everything about candy sparks joy and happiness."
"And high dentist bills. Can't forget about all those poor children's teeth."
Gabe held his hands over his ears. "I can't hear you. Were you saying how awesome candy is? I thought so. I can tell you all about the history of chocolate and how it changed the course of world history."
"No one wants to hear about it," Kali said, pulling Gabe's hands away from his ears. "No one cares about candy as much as you do. Accept it, and the truth will set free."
"Stop telling these lies, woman."
"Anyway," Kali rolled her eyes before turning back to Amara, "how long have you been working on this current case? The news said this has been a long case."
"Years, I want to say," Amara said after a moment of thinking. "I think it was just after Christie was born that I was put on this. We've been able to shut smaller operations branching off from this main one, but this is the first time we've had enough information to shut it down from the top."
"Years? Really?" Gabe asked, surprised.
"Yeah, didn't Baby Omega tell you his story?" Amara shrugged. "I thought that would have made it much more obvious to you."
"How did you know about that?"
"I have my ways. I need more coffee."
As Amara slipped away, Gabe leaned in closer to Cas, trying to get information from him.
"Did you tell her that you told me?" Gabe asked.
"No, she probably saw that I would decide to tell you and probably didn't think that I would talk myself out of it."
"She saw, you say?" Kali continued.
"Yeah, she sees the future, especially when it comes to people she cares about. The more time thought ahead about it, the easier it is for her to see."
"Then why did it take so long to catch our parents?" Gabe asked.
"Dude, there was literally a movie about this," Dean interrupted. "You can't arrest someone for a crime they haven't committed yet. And even if they have done it, without physical evidence, it didn't really happen."
"That sucks," Gabe nodded. "Is that what happened with her niece and nephew?"
"A bit," Amara said as she walked back into the room with another steaming cup of coffee. "I was out of town, and the bastard wasn't supposed to be there. Actually, he was supposed to be going for a job interview. Guess he noticed how close he was to my sister's place and decided to make a pitstop.
"I kept my eye on him as soon as I heard he was out of prison. Can't stop split-second decisions. At the time, I couldn't tell if it was something that had already happened or was going to happen."
"He didn't seem all that organized when we caught him," Dean inserted.
"Probably not; he was an idiot anyways. If he wasn't going to jail for this, it would have been for something else... again.
"Either way, I'll be here to torture him for as long as he lives," Amara ended with a cruel smile covering her face.
"Do I want to know?" Dean asked.
"Probably not. Plausible deniability and all that. Don't worry yourself about it."
"So, what do you think is going to happen with this case?" Kali asked.
"I'm not too sure, to be honest. I've been kept out of the loop for a bit, so I can only talk about the aspects of the case I was privy to. So the information they're gathering now from the co-conspirators doesn't show up in my testimony.
"From what I do know is that Ms. Harvelle is trying to get as many people to flip as possible. Not sure how exactly she's doing her deals, but it's to get everyone as toward the top of the pyramid as possible. All she's told me so far and to get my story straight. I'm not even allowed to talk to my partner since he's still deep undercover in the organization.
"Everything we've found is already being put in front of the grand jury. Rumors are the Novaks will use their constitutional rights for a speedy trial, hoping we don't have as much information as we do. It's probably still going to be at least a week-long trial with everything we've been trying. Ms. Haravelle says she'll want testimony from all the FBI agents working the case and the officers here to connect the murders to this entire nonsense.
"This is going to be a long, drawn-out trial, and everyone should be prepared for the emotional fallout from it all."
"Can we all be there?" Gabe asked.
"I don't see why not. I imagine the defense may try to contact you for a character witness for your parents. They may even subpoena you. Given Baby Omega's situation with this whole case, it could go either way. Ms. Harvelle will probably contact you with more information the closer we get to it. She's pretty confident the grand jury won't take long, and deciding that the evidence needs to be used, there's just a lot of it to go through."
"Anything you suggest we do?" Kali asked nervously.
"Have a calm facade in front of everyone, and I mean everyone. There's no telling who they might send after you for information. People become vultures at times like these.
"Also, just relax. It's best not to think about these things until they actually happen. Better not get your stomach twisted into knots about something you have no control over. You'll get the information when you can actually act on it.
"But let's move on to something else. I've been thinking about them non-stop for the last couple of years. I'm not giving them any more of my mental energy."
"I can tell y'all about the new recipe I've been working on," Gabe started.
"No!" was the receiving answer from everyone else.
"Okay, okay, fine. I guess we could talk about pups," Gabe relented.
"Especially since Gabe and I decided that we're in a stable enough place to start having pups," Kali continued.
"When were you going to bring this up?" Cas asked excitedly.
"We figured we let you have the spotlight," Kali informed them. "At least until we can plan your baby shower, and don't think you're going to get out of it. You're getting a baby shower whether you like it or not. We are going to celebrate, and you're going to like it."
"Can I help plan it?" Amara begged. "I promise to be of any help you need."
"You may," Kali agreed. "You can stay here and make sure to get the scheduling and start to set stuff up since you'll be in town. Might be easier when talking to people."
"Do I not get a say in this?" Cas asked the two. "What if Dean and I had plans of what we wanted to do?"
"Do you?" Kally asked.
"Well, no," Cas admitted.
"Then, no. We'll handle this. Oh, what about a theme?"
"Bees," Amara stated.
"What?"
"Baby Omega loves bees. It's the perfect thing."
"Really?" Kali asked, looking at Cas.
Cas nodded his head and hid his face into Dean's chest, hiding the blush that was sure to cover his face. He felt Dean nuzzle into the back of his head in comfort before the two women went back to their conversation.
"Bees could be nice," Kali murmured. "Yellow and black coloring for all the decorations and everything. Yellow is also gender-neutral, so I think it's the perfect thing. When should we plan this."
"After the trial, most definitely. This way, we can party and have fun."
"Is there any reason for the rest of us to be here?" Gabe asked, interrupting the conversation between the two.
"No, y'all can leave. We got it," Kali waved them away.
"Where do you suppose we go?" Dean asked.
"Go to the library. Wasn't Sam wanting that new book he was talking about? What a great way to spend the day. Take Christie and Steve with you. Thanks. Love you. Bye."
"I'll think I'll stay here," Cas mentioned, giving the two women a suspicious look. "But Sam did want to go the library this weekend. It might be nice for you to take the kids. They might like it."
"But first, we must convince them they're not monsters," Dean pouted.
"I'm sure you'll survive," Cas said, patting him on the head.