Thank you Blondie 20000 and Danae for your feedback! I really appreciate it! Okay so last part was the proposal...now comes Ellen the wedding planner *grin*.
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Val
Chapter 10
Dean looked up as he put the car into park and groaned when he saw the other three hunters sitting on Bobby's front porch drinking beer. "Look a welcoming committee."
Jo snorted. "Dean, is that a bucket with champagne next to Bobby?"
"Frigging Sammy bet he told them about my Mom's ring the second we left." Dean huffed.
"Probable." Jo agreed as she watched the three stand up with huge grins on their faces.
"Let's do this." He said as he got out of the car and came around to open the door for Jo. She smiled and kissed his cheek as she stood next to him, her hand slipping into his.
"Hey guys, why are you still up?" Jo asked as they climbed the stairs to join them.
Dean rolled his eyes at the way Sam and Bobby were grinning at him before asking, "champagne? What's the occasion?"
"Sparkling grape juice." Sammy corrected his brother. "Jo can't drink."
"Okay so what's the sparkling grape juice for?" He teased, smirking at the bitch face his brother was giving him.
"You two stop being idjets. We've been waiting for you to get back. Now Jo, show your Mama the ring that fool put on your finger." Bobby commanded in his best no nonsense voice.
Jo grinned at her mother as she let her excitement take over and began to bounce on her feet as she held her hand out towards her mother's. Ellen took her daughter's hand in her own and felt her tears slowly sliding down her cheeks. "Oh Baby, it's beautiful." She said before turning to a still clearly nervous Dean and reassuring him. "It really is beautiful Dean."
Sighing Jo sniffled slightly, her emotions getting the best of her. "It's Dean and Sammy mother's ring." She told her, smiling at her soon to be brother in law.
"Oh," Ellen said, realizing just how meaningful it was that Dean gave her daughter Mary Winchester's ring and Ellen found herself grabbing her soon to be son in law and pulling him in for a hug, whispering so only he could hear her. "My daughter got herself a good man."
Dean returned the hug and whispered back. "Thank you, Mam."
"But I will end you if you ever cause me daughter any pain." She told him.
Dean gulp as he nodded his head quickly. "Yes mam."
"Can I hug my sister, or will you deck me?" Sam asked Dean teasingly as he watched his brother shuffled away from Ellen towards Jo. He grinned when he realized he was basically using his fiancé as a human shield from his future mother in law.
Jo smirk at Dean as she got up on her tippy toes to wrap her arms around Sam's neck. "Thank you. It really means a lot that you're okay with Dean giving me your Mom's ring."
"Welcome to the family Jo." Sammy said sincerely.
"We are family Sammy, remember that." She told him as she pulled back and stared into his eyes. Hoping he understood that he could depend on her to have his back.
"If you ladies are done with all this hugging and crap does anyone want of glass from this extremely overprice juice box." Bobby grumbled as he popped the cork.
Jo chuckled as she went over and kissed the grizzly older hunter on the cheek. "I would love a glass."
Dean smirked at the man he considered a father when he saw a faint blush on his cheeks. "I'll have some of that for a toast but then I'm switching to beer."
"Oh Honey, why don't you get the food out of the car. We can finish our picnic here with everyone." Jo said as she gave him a light push towards the stairs.
"Bobby is gonna make a toast." He argued.
Jo narrowed her eyes slightly. "He still needs to pour everyone else their drink."
"And the food isn't going anywhere." He counted.
"Dean, there is a saying I think you need to learn ASAP." Bobby said as he handed Ellen her glass. "Happy wife, happy life. Now go do what your future bride and the mother of your child asked you to do you idjet."
The other man opened and closed his mouth several times as his brother smirked at him. "Come on man, I'll help you grab the stuff out of the car." Sam said as he slapped his brother on the shoulder.
Dean looked over at Bobby, Ellen and Jo and as much as his instinct was to continue to argue he instead gave Jo a sheepish smile before leaning in to steal a quick kiss as he started off after his brother.
He had just made it to the bottom step when Jo called out to him. "Dean, we never got to finish making the smores. Wouldn't it be fun if you and Sammy built us a fire and we could all sit, relax and make them?" She saw the way Dean was looking at her and pulled out the big guns. "The baby really can't want to try them."
"You want us to build a fire pit on Bobby's front lawn?" he asked.
Ellen snorted. "Front lawn...boy it's nothing but dirt."
Dean looked over at Bobby who he thought would back him up, instead the older hunter said. "There should be plenty of large rocks behind the house that you can use to make a fire ring. You know where the wood pile is too."
"Fine." Dean said as Jo gave him a sweet smile. He turned to see Sammy with the basket "Put that on the porch then meet me behind the house to help me carry the rocks."
"Rocks?" Sammy asked in confusion.
"We're building a fire pit the baby wants smores." He told him as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Okay." Sam said still a little confused but figuring it was easier to just go along with whatever was happening and jogged up the steps to put the basket down at the other three hunters' feet before hurrying off to join Dean.
Jo, Ellen and Bobby sat down. "So how long do you think Dean will be so agreeable?" Jo asked playfully.
"He's a fool in love and an expectant Daddy. I say he's gonna pamper you up until you give birth and then don't be surprised when he takes one look at that baby and becomes an even bigger a pile of mush." Ellen told her daughter.
"Especially if it's a girl like you think. Dean Winchester is gonna be a sucker for a baby girl." Bobby told her.
Sighing happily Jo dragged the basket over and opened it up. "That's fine by me. I won't mind sharing him." She said as she looked inside the basket and started to pull out a container. "Mom you want some cheesecake. Bobby, there's pie...cheesecake or carrot cake but save room for smores."
Ellen watched as Jo pulled out numerous containers of desserts and then a large thermos. "Coffee?" Her mother asked.
"Hot coco...isn't he the sweetest." Jo gushed.
Ellen shook her head. "Maybe a little too sweet...Baby you do know that you should watch your sugar intake."
"I know...I wasn't going to eat it all. Dean just wanted me to have a variety to choose from." She reassured her mother.
Nodding her head, the older woman smiled as her daughter opened a container and purred happily at the sight of the carrot cake Dean had gotten for her. "I must admit, he did a wonderful job of making tonight special." She said.
Jo looked up at her Mom and smiled. "He loves me Mom. I know this is a lot to take in and it is for all of us but just believe that he loves me, and I love Dean."
"Oh, that I have no doubt about. That isn't my concern and you know it." Ellen reminded her daughter.
Jo opened her mouth to respond to her mother when Dean and Sam came around the house. Dean was pushing a wheel-barrel fill with rocks and Sam carrying an arm load of wood asking his older brother what exactly pimping the bump meant.
Jo giggled when she heard Dean tell Sam he would understand when he was in love with a pregnant woman. Damn if that didn't make her heart swell and she began to sniffle and wiped the tears that had started to slide down her cheeks at how happy this man made her.
"Hormones." She said as he jogged up to make sure she was alright when he realized she was crying. He smiled and pulled her in for a hug and kissing her forehead. "I'm sorry I used the bump to get you to build the fire." She murmured as she wrapped her arms around his neck and nuzzled her cheek along his jawline.
Dean chuckled at her comment. "Are you admitting Harvelle that you've been playing dirty?"
Jo nodded her head as she admitted softly. "Maybe a little."
Bobby shook his head in amusement as he walked past the young couple and went down to help Sammy build the fire ring and stack the wood as Ellen grabbed the ingredients for the campfire treats to give her daughter and Dean a little privacy.
Dean reached down and took Jo's hand in his as he walked over to the rocking chair Bobby had recently vacated, sitting down and pulling her down to sit on his lap. "So how are you going to make this up to me?" He asked as he leaned down and kiss her neck.
Jo looked down at their entwined hand and smiled at the ring Dean had place on her hand earlier. "Let's get marry."
"I already proposed." He said as he nibbled on her ear.
"Tomorrow..." She purred.
"Tomorrow what?" He asked as he kissed her.
"Let's get married tomorrow."
Dean pulled back in shock. "Are you serious? You want to get married tomorrow?" Dean asked surprised. "You were the one who said earlier you didn't need the piece a paper for us to be a family."
"I don't need a piece of paper to be committed to you but I know what it means to you for us to be married...and...well now that we're engaged I have to admit I'm excited to become a Winchester." She told him with a huge smile on her face.
He returned the smile but shook his head as he said. "I can't marry you tomorrow Jo."
Jo's face fell at this and quickly looked over her shoulder at the other hunters who were busy setting up the fire and chairs for them to sit on before looking back at Dean.
"You don't want to get married now?" She asked trying to keep her voice down so the others wouldn't hear her.
Dean looked at Jo in confusion when he saw that she had tears in her eyes and chewing on her lower lip. "What...no...of course I want to get married. South Dakota has a two day wait period from when you get your license." He reassured her before adding. "So, we can go tomorrow to get the license and then we can get married on Friday if you want." He told her with a grin.
"Ohhh!" She said as stared up her him and her heart did that little fluttering thing it did when Dean gave her that grin. "Then let's go tomorrow to get our license and Friday we get hitched." She agreed.
Dean cupped Jo's face and leaned in to kiss her. Jo moaned as she slid her hand along Dean's neck before letting it settle over his heart. They broke apart when Ellen cleared her throat to get their attention.
"The fire pit is ready. Are you two coming?" She asked.
"Yup," Jo said as they stood up and Dean wrapped his arm around her shoulder. The other three watched the way the young couple kept smiling at each other.
"Care to share what's so funny with rest of the class?" Sam asked when Dean winked at Jo and she giggled.
Jo smirked at Dean's brother. "Oh, we're just happy."
Sam rolled his eyes. "Are you two going to be disgustingly adorable towards each other until the wedding, because I don't know how long I can watch Dean behaving this way...it's disturbing."
"Well don't worry Samantha, we've set the date." Dean said as he handed Jo a stick with two marshmallows on them for her to toast. He decided she was going to be the marshmallow toaster in the family.
"What?" Ellen said in shock.
"Yup," Dean said as he looked over towards the older woman. "Friday, we've decided to get married on Friday."
The other three looked at the couple in surprise. "Friday...how are we going to plan a wedding in two days...well actually one day?" Ellen asked.
"Mom, this is exactly what we want. Everyone that matters is already here. We don't want anything fancy."
Ellen looked at her daughter. "Well I know you never was the type to want the big wedding but trying to get things ready in one day might be pushing it even for you. Are you honestly saying you don't want any of the hunters from the Roadhouse here to celebrate this with you and Dean?"
Jo chewed on her lower lip. "Well I guess it would be nice to have Rufus and Uncle Bucky here." She admitted as she looked over to Dean.
Sammy looked at his brother. "Dean, Bart is close by. He just finished tracking a Rawhead from New Hampshire to Minnesota."
"Really?" Dean said as he looked at Jo. "It would be good to have Bart here too."
"Okay so Bart, Rufus and Uncle Bucky. That sounds like a party to me." Jo said as she began to assemble her and Dean's smores.
"Yeah, we can call them first thing in the morning." Dean said as he accepted his campfire treat.
"That's fine but they may not be here by Friday. Plus, where are you having the wedding and the reception?" Ellen asked.
Dean and Jo exchanged a look and then looked over to Bobby. "Well if Bobby wouldn't mind, we could do it here." Dean said tentatively.
The older hunter looked at the man he considered to be a son and quickly nodded his head. "Of course, you can get married here you idjet."
"Fine you have a place but who's going to marry you?" Ellen continued her questions.
Dean looked over at his brother and then at Bobby before leaning over and whispering into Jo's ear as she nodded eagerly before turning back to the others. "We had figured we'd find out about a justice of the peace when we go for our license but Bobby we would be honored if you would perform the ceremony." He said before quickly adding, "you can get ordained online, it's pretty easy now a days."
Bobby stared at the young couple and nodded his head as he reached up and rubbed his eyes. "Damn smoke," he said to cover up his embarrassment.
"Oh, for crying out loud," Ellen huffed. "Fine, if you're determined to do this then at least compromise and do it on Saturday to give Rufus, Bucky and Bart time to get here. Then we can really give the house a good cleaning, figure out a menu and get a dress."
Jo looked up at her Mom and fought the urge to argue just to argue. She relaxed when she felt Dean's hand on her shoulder and his thumb gentle caressing her neck as he said. "Saturday would give Rufus more time to get here. Bobby spoke to him this morning and he was just finishing up a hunt in New Orleans and he would have to drive over 20 hours straight to get here for Friday."
"Okay," Jo conceded. "Saturday probable would be better."
Ellen finally smiled and clapped her hands. "Well it's still going to be a tight squeeze but if we all work together; we can get this done. Tomorrow morning while you and Dean go for your license Sammy and Bobby will get to work on cleaning the house. Do you know what you want for food? What about your cake? It may not be that fancy, but I should probably start that tomorrow afternoon and then I can decorate it on Friday. I can meet you at city hall and then we can go shopping for dresses. Dean you, Sam and Bobby will need to have your suits cleaned too. Now we should probable go to the florist too tomorrow to pick out flowers and..."
"MOM!" Jo shouted to get the older woman's attention. "Mom," she said softly as Dean ran his hand up and down her back. "Sorry I didn't mean to yell but can you please slow down. Everything will be fine."
Ellen sighed, "I just want everything to be perfect for you Baby. This is your wedding and I know you weren't that little girl who fantasized about this day, but I have." She confessed.
"Grandma Claire's lemon chiffon cake..." Jo said with a small smile.
"What?"
"That's the cake I want for our wedding cake if Dean's alright with that."
Dean leaned over and kissed Jo's cheek before turning to his soon to be mother in law and said, "sounds good to me."
Ellen nodded as she returned her daughter's smile. "Do you have any idea what you want for food?"
Jo looked over to Dean and chewed on her lower lip as she said. "What about prime rib, twice baked potatoes and candied carrots?"
Narrowing her eyes, the older woman snorted. "You have thought about this, haven't you?"
"I didn't really dream about a big fancy church wedding, not after..." Jo took a deep breath before she continued. "Not after Dad died but this morning after Dean and I talked I might have started to think a little bit on what I would like for us on our day." She confessed as she bowed her head.
Ellen got out of her chair and made her way over to her daughter and held out her hands, urging her daughter to stand up and enveloping her in a hug. "Whatever you and Dean want Jo. You're right Honey, this is yours' and Dean's day."
"How about tomorrow after we go for our license you meet Dean and I for lunch and then we can go shopping for dresses." Jo said as she pulled back. "Nothing fancy though Mom, just maybe a simple maternity dress."
Dean nodded his head as he stood up when he saw Jo trying to stifle a yawn. "Why don't we continue this in the morning, it's been a long day." He said as he wrapped his arm around Jo and kissed her temple as she leaned into him as she nodded her head.
"You two go to bed, Sammy and I will take care of cleaning up." Bobby said as he stood up.
"Right, no problem." Sam said as he joined Bobby.
"Okay, good night." Dean said as he reached down and took Jo's hand.
"Night everyone." Jo murmured as she leaned over to give her Mom a kiss on the cheek before her and Dean headed into the house.
"Well I better put this stuff away and then start a shopping list for what they want for the wedding dinner so that I can go shopping tomorrow before I meet them for lunch." Ellen said as she started up the porch steps behind the young couple and grabbing the basket with the food in it.
Sam turned towards Bobby after the others had gone inside. "Okay I know we don't have much time but what do you say tomorrow night we take Dean out for an impromptu bachelor party?"
"Us three going for beers is hardly a bachelor party Sam."
"Bart and Bucky should be able to meet up with us tomorrow night. It may not end up being a wild party, but it should be fun going out for food, booze and since it's Dean we can hit that strip club off the highway."
Bobby nodded his head. "Actually, I didn't want to say anything when they were talking but Rufus left this morning, if we call him now, he can be here tomorrow later afternoon."
"Great so why don't you give Rufus a call while I finish putting out the fire."
"On it," Bobby said as he grabbed his cell phone and called the other hunter while Sam finished with the fire. He looked up and saw Bobby hang up and start calling somebody else and figured he was calling the other two men too.
"We're all set." Bobby told him as he came back over.
"Excellent!" Sam said as he finished putting the fire out. He couldn't wait to see Dean's face tomorrow night.
TBC