Thank you Blondie 20000 for your feedback! Okay wow I never intended to write a love story for John and believe it or not I was only planning to do 4 or 5 of chapters around Dean killed Roy and then skip ahead a few years but then Gemma poked her head up and the story took a huge change in direction. So Chapter 23 is the last chapter for our kids at this age. Chapter 24 I will be jumping ahead a few years because eventually I need to get back to Jo and Dean.

Thank you again and enjoy!

Val

Chapter 23

The next few hours passed quickly. Once Bonnie and Gemma's uncle Marcus had joined her, the three had remained in the panic room and they helped Gemma force herself to transitions several times as well as encouraged her to feed.

By late afternoon Bonnie and Marcus had convinced her that she was in control and that she could leave the panic room and now they were up in Bobby's living room.

While Bonnie and Marcus were with Gemma, Bobby and John sat the three children down and explained as carefully as they could about what happened earlier and about Gemma being a werewolf.

It amazed John how accepting the children where about Gemma. Of course Dean saying Gemma was a real live superhero and proceeded to declared that she was a girl Wolverine that John and Bobby knew that the three children were going to fine as far as accepting the truth about Gemma.

Whoever thought explaining about werewolves would be easier for children to understand than explaining a junkie mother who couldn't love her own child.

John watched his friends and his boys when Gemma finally joined them, and the way Jo flew into woman's arms. They others left Gemma and Jo alone as the woman sat with the little girl in her lap and reassured her about how special she was and how much they all love her.

Bobby put a pot of freshly brew coffee on the table while Gemma cousin and uncle joined the hunters and John had ask Dean to play a game with his brother upstairs.

"Thank you for calling us Bobby." Marcus said as he accepted his cup of coffee.

"I'm sorry that I had to call you." Bobby said as he pass cups to, Caleb, John and Bonnie.

Bonnie gave the man a reassuring smile, "You have nothing to apologize for. Gemma did what she had to do to protect that little girl in there. I would have done the same thing."

"Me too," Marcus chimed in. "I have two daughters myself and I know I would do anything I could to protect them."

"Besides Gemma understands better than most what Jo has been through," Bonnie explained.

John looked up at that, "you mean when that pack attacked her home when she was four?"

Marcus shook his head sadly, "those bastard…I wish we had a chance to avenge what they did to our family…to our sweet Gemma."

Caleb cocked an eyebrow at the other man's outburst, "I've heard stories about packs attacking other packs but why did they target yours?"

"Because we're not mongrels who can't control ourselves." Bonnie told the young hunter in disgust. "We're alphas and the werewolves who are made hate us and our abilities. Those pack leaders are more concern with enforcing their authority and feel they need to take out any competition they think are a danger to them."

Marcus reached out and grabbed his niece's hand, squeezing it reassuring as he explained. "Alpha packs fall into this category mainly because they know we would never interbreed with them or accept them into our communities. They attacked my brother's home while they were having a book club meeting. t was a blitz attack and when they found our Gemma…well that leader marked my niece to be his bitch, to birth his pups once she matured enough. They wanted to pervert her humanity by forcing her to eat a human heart. If Charlie hadn't found her when he did….we would have lost her too."

The hunters looked at Gemma's uncle and cousin and realized how narrow their view of the supernatural was. Maybe there were other creatures that could live with humans without hurting them. Gemma's family…her pack definitely fit this category and it made them wonder about some of the other supernatural creatures they hunted and killed without considering if they were a true danger or not.

The five looked up when Gemma came into the kitchen with Jo. John smiled at the little girl, "Dean and Sammy are upstairs playing a game. Why don't you go on up and play with them."

"Okay," she said as she hugged Gemma before turning and heading upstairs.

Gemma watched Jo as she left before turning back towards the others and asked, "so what have I missed?"

SPNSPNSPN

Gemma's family stayed for dinner and now the adults were in the living room talking as the kids played Yahtzee on the floor. Gemma could see that her uncle wasn't exactly comfortable being in a room with three hunters, especially the one sitting next to her whose arm was securely wrapped around her shoulder.

She rolled her eyes in amusement, even after spending so much time with her and Bonnie's adoptive father for over twenty-four years her Uncle Marcus still got nervous around hunter.

The same couldn't be said about Bonnie though. Her cousin was currently flirting shamelessly with the younger hunter Caleb in the corner. She snorted when her uncle grumble about his nieces taste in men left something to be desired.

"Gemma girl if you feel alright think I'm gonna head out. Maggie thinks the pup will come tonight."

"Your dog is having a puppy?" Jo asked excitedly. "Can we go and see the puppy?"

Marcus laugh as he patted the little girl on the top of her head. "Sorry little one, Maggie's my daughter and I was just being silly about calling my granddaughter a pup."

Jo's smile got even bigger if possible. "A baby is way better! Gemma can we go and see the baby?"

"You have a standing invitation to come and see my granddaughter Jo."

"Thank you Uncle Marcus!" Jo said as she wrapped her arms around his middle and gave him a hug.

"Uncle Marcus?" Bobby said as he watched Caleb sneak up behind Jo and lift her up and flipped her upside down.

"Sounds like she's being a traitor Bobby. I say somebody needs tickle torture." Caleb teased as he slipped her shoes off and began tickling the soles of Jo's feet.

"Noooo!" Jo giggle as she squirmed around. "Dean…save me!"

John winced when he barked out a laugh when Dean called out "Sammy knees!" and his youngest tackled Caleb around his knees as Dean hopped on his back to bring him down.

Bonnie barely had time to scoop a giggling Jo into her arms before Caleb went down as the boys wrestle with the younger hunter.

"Hey you idjets be careful rolling around like that," Bobby shouted over the ruckus the three were making.

Gemma laughed as she got up to walk her uncle out as she scooted by the wrestling match currently happening on the floor. Bonnie put Jo down who quickly went over to join in and climbed on top of Caleb. "Get his feet Jo," Bonnie encouraged before joining her chuckling cousin and uncle.

"Bobby, thank you again for reaching out." Marcus said as he reached out and shook the older hunter's hand before turning and nodding towards John. "John, speedy recovery."

"Thank you….boys, Jo come say goodnight."

"Ugh…you heard your Daddy and uncle get off me you three and say goodbye to Marcus." Caleb said as he laid beneath the three laughing children. Dean and Sam climbed off of him. He smiled as Jo sat proudly on his stomach and waved goodbye.

Caleb watched as Jo yawned and he wasn't surprised when she laid down across his chest. "Hey sleepyhead…I'm not a bed."

Jo giggle, "yaahaa ….you're my Caleb bed."

"Oh you think so huh, JoJo," the hunter teased the child before he wrapped an arm around her and got up off the floor. Going over he sat down on the rocking chair and settled Jo on his lap.

"Come on Jo, we want to finish the game." Dean said as they came back in.

Jo stifle a yawn as she looked over her shoulder towards the boys. "I'm coming," she said as she slipped off of Caleb's lap.

Gemma and Bonnie came back into the living room. "Hey you three, it's already 8:30. Why don't you head up, brush your teeth and put on your pjs.I'll be up in a few minutes and we can read a couple of chapters of 'The Hobbit'."

"Gemma we're in the middle of a game," Dean said as he looked up.

John was tempted to intervene, but Bobby shook his head to let her handle it.

"You can finish the game in the morning. Put it away please and get ready for bed." Gemma said as she stood next to Dean. She cocked an eyebrow when the boy looked like he was going to argue.

"Okay…okay…don't go all wolfie on me," the boy said with a naughty grin as he stood up to follow his brother and Jo upstairs.

"Oh you little brat," Gemma said with a chuckle as she slapped the boy on his backside as he rushed past her.

Bobby shook his head in amusement, "'go all wolfie'" He repeat. "Don't be surprised if that boy doesn't try to talk you into going to school to go all wolfie for show and tell."

John groaned, "Jesus don't give him any ideas." He said as Gemma sat down next to him and he wrapped an arm around her. He couldn't believe it, a few days ago he thought he was a goner and that he had managed to make his boys orphans after being a fairly crappy father the past seven years who was blinded by his need for revenge.

Then his friends found him, and John Winchester was given a second chance with the woman next him. Hell he wasn't even sure he deserved it, but he be damn if wasn't going to take and give himself and his boys a better life.

TBC