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Chapter 5
Dean pulled up in front of Bobby's and saw his truck. The three got out of the car and made their way inside. They stopped short when they walked into the living room and felt the cold air.
"Bobby!" Dean called out already knowing that he wasn't going to answer him.
"I'll check outside." Sammy said as he shoved a few more rock salt shot gun cartridges into his pant pocket.
"Jo and I have upstairs." Dean said as he and Jo made sure they too had a couple of extra cartridges of rock salt if needed.
"How do you want to do this?" She asked.
"You behind me and stay close."
"Dean it would be faster if we split up and each take 2 rooms."
Dean turned and looked at her. "No way look pre-baby bump sure but not now Sweetheart. I want you both close to me."
She opened her mouth to argue but decided it would be better not to. Bobby needed them and taking up precious time fighting with Dean wasn't going to get them anywhere. "Fine, let's find Bobby."
They had barely turned into the second-floor hallway when they saw her. Dean gasped in surprised. "Meg."
Jo's legs felt like jelly. Meg...the demon who possessed Sam, but she quickly realized it wasn't the demon, it was some poor girl she had possessed.
"Dean Winchester." She hissed.
He barely had time to shout to Jo to get the hell out of there before Meg attacked him and he had lost his shotgun. She knew he was right, but she couldn't leave him. She cocked her shotgun and tried to get off a clear shot.
She listened as Meg raged against Dean about not helping her while she was possessed as she continued her assault. Maybe it was her hormones, but she felt for this woman and when she spoke about her sister suicide it caused her to falter and she missed her clear shot.
"What makes you so damn important!" She shouted as she kicked him. "Why did you get to come back from the pit!" Meg finally turned her eyes towards Jo. "I lost everything, and you get to come back! You get to come back to her, to your child!"
Dean shook his head. "The baby isn't mine."
Meg laughed and Jo's skin crawled at the sound. The ghost stared at them both. "You really don't remember. Aww angel played with your memories. Trust me, I've been watching you since you let me die Dean. I watched the angel convince you two to agree to be together and make a child a month before you went to the pit. I watched him zap you two to a cabin where you two sex it up for a week until you finally got her knocked up. I saw it all."
"That's a lie." Dean said but even as he denied it in his heart, he knew it was true. Since the first minute he had saw Jo, he felt pulled towards her in a way he couldn't explain. Sammy had said it earlier, he couldn't stop touching her. He ached to be with her, to kiss her, to touch her, to make love with her. A part of him knew they had been intimate, knew what it was like to be with her and he wanted that part of their relationship back.
"You both were so sweet. Out in the woods, in a cabin completely isolated. Neither one of you had an ounce of shame, walking around completely naked the whole time. Like a modern-day Adam and Eve." She taunted.
Dean pulled himself up when he saw the way Meg was eyeing Jo. "You know, I wanted to kill you but now I think I know what would hurt you more."
Jo realized what she was saying raised the shotgun that she had lowered in shock when Meg had said the baby was Dean's and shouted for Dean to hit the ground as she lined up her shot and blasted the ghost with a round of rock salt.
Dean rolled over and looked at Jo. He saw the fear and confusion in her eyes at what Meg said to them. "Come on, we need to get downstairs and find Sammy and Bobby."
"Dean?" She grabbed his hand as he got up. The unspoken question hanging between them.
"I don't know Jo. Let's deal with these ghosts first. Then we can try and figure the rest out." He promised as he urged her down the hall towards the stairs.
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"She had some sort of brand on her hand." Dean said as he sat next to Jo, wrapping his arm around her.
"Henriksen had one too." Sammy said.
"Can you draw it?" Bobby asked.
Sammy nodded his head. "Yeah, do you have paper."
Bobby handed Sam a pad of paper and a pencil. Sam began to sketch the image and looked up to see Dean pulling Jo closer, whispering in her ear while rubbing her back soothingly.
"I need to pee." Jo announced.
"I'll walk you." Dean said causing Jo to blush.
"You're not taking me to go to the bathroom."
"None of us should be alone."
"I'll just take the shotgun."
"Jo, you heard Meg. She's gunning for you now so I'm not leaving you two alone." He argued.
"Why would Meg be targeting Jo? She wasn't there." Sammy asked. He frowned when he saw them exchange a look before Dean shook his head no at the unspoken question between them. "I'll explain later." Dean finally said.
"Fine, you can walk me, but you stay outside." She huffed.
"Let's go then."
As they got up Sammy held up the drawing and Dean nodded his head. "That's it."
Sam handed the drawing back to Bobby who began to grab some books. "Hurry up with the bathroom break, we need to go somewhere safe."
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Jo turned to close the door and found Dean had followed her in. "Seriously!"
"Sounds like we spent a pretty intimate week together, no reason to be shy now."
"A week we don't know is true or not."
Dean looked at her with a shy but hopeful expression on his face. "How would you feel if it was true?"
She chewed on her lower lip not sure what she should say. Of course, she was more than okay with the idea that Dean was really the father of her baby but instead said. "I...I really need to pee. Could you just turn around and run the water?" She asked.
"Right." He agreed.
After she finished Jo watched Dean in the mirror as she washed her hands. "Do you think it's true?"
Turning he met her gaze in the mirror and cocked his eyebrow. "Jo this is us you're talking about. Of course, it's going to be true. I know I took off for a week about that time she said. I don't remember that week, I thought it was a drunken haze but now I don't know."
"I thought I had a bad case of the flu and was out of it for a week around that time too. Can't remember anything, I just assumed it was the fever." She admitted as she stared at him in the mirror before she turned. "We should get back." She said.
"Let's go." He agreed, trying not to over think the fact she didn't answer his original question.
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The three young hunters looked around the room they were in with complete awe. "You built a panic room." Sammy said.
Dean couldn't help the grin that broke out as he draped an arm around Jo. "Bobby, you're awesome." He said with genuine admiration.
Jo looked over Bobby's shoulder and rolled her eyes good-naturedly. "Seriously, Bo Derek from 10. What they were out of Farrah Fawcett posters?"
"You three idjets done? We have work to do."
Jo looked up at Dean in mock horror. "Did he say three? Bobby never calls me an idjet. I just got lumped in with you and Sammy and called an idjet."
"Welcome to the idjet club Jo." Sam said with a chuckle.
"Enough, we need to find this symbol sooner rather than later." Bobby said as handed Jo one of the books he brought down.
"Right, research." She said as she sat down in one of the wooden chairs and began looking for the symbol that Sam had drawn while Dean and Sammy got busy making rock salt cartridges for the shotguns.
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"Please say you're kidding Bobby...these ghosts are the Witnesses who heralds the beginning of the Apocalypse. The Apocalypse...the end of time Apocalypse." Jo said as she stood up and began to pace.
"I did find a spell that will send these spirits to rest." He told them.
"Great, that makes all the difference." Jo murmured as she stopped pacing, her back to the three of them. They could see she had begun to cry softly while whispering to the baby as she cradled her bump.
Bobby and Sammy watched as Dean walked toward Jo, wrapping his arms around her from behind and resting his hands over hers, pulling her close and whispered softly in her ear. They watched as whatever Dean said made Jo turn, burying her face into his chest and sniffle as she tried to stop her tears.
Sam swallowed the lump in his throat as he realized what the young expectant mother must be feeling. She was carrying a new life in her and she was just told that they may be looking at the beginning of the Apocalypse. He could only imagine the hopelessness and sadness she must be feeling.
He didn't care anymore about trying to figure out what was happening with his brother and Jo. He was just glad Dean could give Jo the comfort and strength that she needed, especially now. He was also grateful that Jo gave his brother a sense of peace and that she made him happier than he had ever seen him."
He watched as his brother pulled back slightly and cupped Jo's face with both hands before leaning down to give her a kiss that left no doubt in his mind that his brother was in love with Jo. He smiled when they broke apart and he saw the way Jo gazed into Dean's eyes as she caressed his cheek and knew that her feelings were just as strong.
Sam looked over when he heard Bobby clear his throat. "Dean, you and Sammy have to get the stuff needed to do the spell."
Staring into Jo's eyes he gave her a small smile as he said. "Tell us what need."
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Jo watched as Sam finished the ritual and the spirits vanished. Dean went over and helped Bobby stand up.
"Jo?" The older hunter asked as he tried to get his bearings. He had tried to get the pregnant hunter to stay in the bunker but she insisted that with a fifth spirit making an appearance that all of them would be needed to keep them off of Bobby while he did the ritual and even then it wasn't enough and Bobby had been tossed across the room and Sammy had to finish it as Dean and Jo had fought off the ghosts.
"I'm fine Bobby." She called out as she joined both men.
"Sam, you okay?" Dean asked as he pulled Jo in for a hug.
"Yeah, I'm good." He said as he looked up.
The four made it into the living room. Dean didn't care what his brother or Bobby thought, he pulled Jo down onto his lap and kissed her. "Are you okay, the baby?" he asked.
"We're fine." She told him as she ran her hand up and down his arm to sooth him. "Actually, I'm kinda hungry." She admitted with a sheepish grin.
Sam chortled at that and said with a wide grin on his face. "You are so Dean's woman."
His brother looked over at him and nodded his head. "Damn straight she is, so keep you paws and lips off of her if you know what's good for you."
"I knew it!" Sam cried with satisfied look on his face. "You were jealous! Bobby, you should have seen how fast he came storming over after I gave Jo a hug and a quick little kiss. I thought he was going to rip my head off and if we didn't need to get back here, I think he would have done just that."
The older man just shook his head and mumbled 'idjet' as he walked into the kitchen calling over his shoulder. "Large cheese and a large pepperoni alright with you three?"
"Perfect." Jo called back before Dean pulled her in for another kiss. This kiss was deeper and more passionate, pushing any lingering doubts Jo had that Dean could possible find her attractive out of her head completely.
Sam cough and announced he was going to grab a beer as he quickly left the room. Him and Bobby stayed in the kitchen to give the couple a few minutes of privacy. Dean took advantage and continued to kiss Jo as his hand reached up and cupped one of her breasts, messaging it gently.
"Dean," Jo moaned softly.
"Jo," He murmured as he kissed her neck.
"Sam and Bobby are in the next room." She purred as she tilted her head to give him better access.
"Let them find their own women." He teased as he claimed her lips in another searing kiss.
Pulling back, she chuckled as she gently removed his hand from her breast. "I'm not fooling around with you with them in the next room. I preferred a little privacy."
"Well let's go upstairs." He said as he helped her stand up before joining her.
They didn't take two steps when the other men came back in and Bobby said the pizza would be there in less than forty-five minutes. "You two going somewhere?" he asked.
"Nope Bobby, just needed to stretch my legs." Jo told him as she gave Dean an apologetic smile as she mouthed 'later' to him.
Later didn't seem to be in the cards for them as they all decided that after the past twenty-four hours that they would all sleep down on the first floor in the living room. Bobby had a blow-up mattress that Jo and Dean shared as Sammy took the couch and Bobby took his chair.
TBC