Chapter 7: The Awakening
As soon as I said the words 'I love you' the tears that I had been trying to hold back came flowing down my face. My strength that I had worked for years to gain crumbled at the three words and the man who raised me lying in front of me, and I lost all control of my emotions.
"Daddy please don't leave me." I said like a seven year old child. "I'll come home more, I'll help you through all of this, but please, don't leave me yet."
His body was still lifeless. I couldn't take this anymore. This visit was over, I hated feeling weak. So I stood up and started to walk to the bathroom so I could wash my face and leave.
"Annie?" I heard a whisper. I turned around. My dad's eyes were open. The tears immediately came back. "Annie, is that you?"
I rushed back over to his side.
"Yea dad, it's me." I told him. He smiled some.
"I'm sorry we didn't really get to visit this week while you were here." He said, trying to make the mood light…. Like always.
"It's ok. I'm just glad you're awake!" I told him.
"So I guess the doctors told you about my condition?" He asked. I nodded.
"Yea dad, they did. But we don't have to talk about this now, I want you to rest." I told him. He nodded.
"Ok, but I still want to meet this boy you brought home with you. I haven't approved yet." He joked. I laughed some.
"Don't worry dad, you'll get to meet him." I said.
Once I left I told the doctors he was awake and I went back to the Inn. The three of them were all sitting on one bed watching some old horror movie.
"Aww how cute. But I feel a little left out." I said. Dean stood up and walked over to me. I couldn't contain it anymore. So I practically jumped into his arms and held on tight.
"Hey, nice to see you to babe." He said laughing some. I pulled away to look at him and smiled a little.
"My dad woke up." I told him. He smiled and pulled me back into his arms.
"I guess that would be a reason to cut off my circulation then." He told me. I pulled back and hit him on the arm. Gabi came over to stand by me.
"He's awake?" She asked excited. I nodded. This time she jumped in my arms.
"Thank god!" She exclaimed.
"So I have been thinking, we should all go back to the house and clean it up. Get everything back in order." I told them.
We all agreed and headed back to the house.
"Well, we have our work cut out for us." Gabi said as soon as we walked in. I nodded.
"Ok well, how about Dean and I take the upstairs and Sam and Gabi, you try and tackle downstairs." I suggested. We all reluctantly started to get things back in order.
"So why did you really want to be partnered with me up here?" Dean asked as he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Well as much as I would love to lie and tell you that it was so I could have you all to myself to inflict any experience I wanted on you, that isn't the case." I told him. He pouted.
"Well then what was?" He asked.
"Sam and Gabi." I told him. He raised an eyebrow.
"Ok you are going to have to give me more then that." He said.
"I think they might like each other. Or, at least I think Gabi likes Sam, he is a little bit harder to judge but I think they would look adorable together." I said. Dean rolled his eyes.
"So you are trying to get them alone to see what could happen? Since when did you decide to play matchmaker?" He asked. I smiled.
"Since I noticed how lonely Sam was all the time. I know he loved Jess, and a part of her will always be with him, but I'm worried about him, so I am going to try and fix it. Plus Gabi needs to stop whining about how all the guys in Van Buren are losers and the ones in New York are perverted stuck up pigs, so what better way to fix that then to let her hang out with some one that isn't from Van Buren or New York?" I told him. He just laughed. Then he got a devious smile on his face.
"We are pretty much done up here right?" He asked. I looked around and everything was pretty much back in order.
"Yea, why?" I asked.
"Well, we could always go see what they are up to with out actually letting them know we are watching." He said. I laughed.
"So you mean spy?" I asked. He shrugged.
"I prefer to call it watching out for their best interests." He told me. I smiled.
"Ok then, let's go watch out for their best interests then." I said. We went over to where the stairs were and hid behind the wall. We could hear them laughing. I peaked around the corner and saw them sitting on the couch, just talking. I looked back at Dean and smiled widely.
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(Gabi's POV)
"You know out of all the places I've been, I have never been to New York." Sam told me.
"Really? Its awesome! Well, except they guys there are like total jerks. But it is so much fun! Well, at least if you are in uptown anyways." I told him.
"Well I may have to come visit you some day then." He told me. I smiled.
We had been talking like this for the past two hours. For some reason, he opened up to me about his girlfriend Jess. I felt so bad for him, and the worse part was that I felt bad for liking him.
Yes, I liked him. It just happens. But I didn't know what to do about it. I definitely didn't want to enforce it, and I didn't want to push him away. But I didn't want him to think I wasn't interested.
This was so hard. So I would just keep talking. Then it hit me.
"You know, I have a feeling that this whole 'clean up crew' set up wasn't just random picking." I told him.
"Yea, I can only imagine what those two are doing upstairs." He said smirking. I laughed some.
"No, I mean… well maybe that has something to do with it, but I think my cousin is trying to set us up." I told him. He just smiled.
"That would be something Annie would do." He told me laughing. I nodded.
"And knowing her, she isn't going to give up until she succeeds." I said rolling my eyes. He nodded and I could tell he was thinking about something.
"Then why don't we let her think she has succeeded." He said quickly. I raised my eyebrow.
"Huh?" I asked. He looked nervous.
"Let's go out tonight, just you and me. That way, we won't have to deal with her attempts to set us up." He told me. Ok he was asking me out, but in order to get away from Annie's antics. But I would take anything. I laughed.
"Ok, deal." I said smiling.