Thank you so much Bloodforlink and Blondie 20000 for the feedback. LOL Blondie...I actually get a little hungry sometimes when I write 'food' scenes.

I hope people like this next part.

Thanks and enjoy!

Val

Chapter 16

"Hey Bobby," Dean said as he pulled up in front of the house.

"So glad you could join us," the older hunter quipped as he looked at his watch.

"Have a new bride who needed my attention," Dean said with a grin as he waggle his eyebrows suggestively.

"I would lose that depraved grin if I was you before your bride's Mama sees it," Bobby teased.

Dean looked around Bobby's figure. "Is Ellen here?"

"She is, she's gutting the kitchen. So watch what you say about her daughter since she's swinging a sledgehammer."

Dean gulped, "good to know." He said as he walked up the front stairs and stood next to his surrogate father. "So Sam called you I take it."

Bobby frowned at Dean, "I haven't spoken to Sam since yesterday morning when he said he had to run an errand and took off."

"What?" Dean said as he stared at Bobby. "He texted Jo to welcome her to the family. I thought you told him we got married last night."

"Wasn't me," Bobby said.

"You think it was Ellen or Rufus?"

"Rufus no but Ellen, I don't know."

"Don't know what?" The woman in question asked as she came out and dropped the sledgehammer she was using on the porch. "How's my daughter?"

"Umm good," Dean said as he gave his new mother in law a kiss on the cheek. "Did Sam contact you?"

Ellen shook her head, "nope. Why?"

"Seems he texted Jo," Bobby answered her. They had spoken this morning about the elder Winchester insisting to go through with the wedding while he and Sam were arguing. Ellen told him that Jo didn't agree with Dean, but she could see how he needed to make their little family official and agreed to go through with the wedding.

"Doesn't matter," Dean announced as he looked up at the house. "So you got something for me to demo?"

Bobby and Ellen exchange a look but held their tongues. They weren't children and needed figure this out on their own.

Bobby sent Dean out to the barn to help Rufus box up his equipment. He had rented a storage container morning after he and the kids had made their agreement. Hopefully keeping Dean busy would take his mind off his brother.

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Jo finished putting away her and Dean's clothes before she went and cleaned up the kitchen. Dean had offered to clean up, but Jo had told him to head over to the house instead.

She looked out the kitchen window and smiled. The cabin her Mom and Bobby rented for them was right on the lake.

She saw the grill in the yard and decided she would go into town and pick up and all the fixings for a cookout for everyone's hard work today.

Thankfully, Bobby and Rufus had dropped her car off yesterday morning before they were supposed to get married so she could get around.

She grabbed the pen and pad of paper off the counter and sat down at the kitchen table to begin making out a shopping list. Her mother had just gotten them the essentials, so she knew they needed a real food order.

She finished her list and made he way into the bathroom to shower and get dressed. She had just finished putting her shoes on when she heard knocking on the door.

Grabbing her gun she tucked it into the back of her jeans before heading back out into the main room. She looked out the window and sighed.

Slowly she opened the door and looked up at the person in front of her. "Hello Sam."

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Sam stood on the porch and said, "hello Jo."

"Christo," Jo said as she stood in the doorway.

"I'm not possessed," Sam reassured her. "Can I come in?"

Jo sighed, "I was just heading to the store. How about you follow in your car and you can talk while I shop."

"Alright," Sam said as he took a step back. Jo grabbed her wallet, cellphone and keys from side table before joining him on the porch.

Jo walked over to her car as Sam got into his. She got behind the wheel and then flipped her phone open and called Dean. She could see Sam watching her and she held up her free hand in the '1 minute' signal.

"Hey Sweetheart, everything alright?"

"Everything's fine Dean. I'm heading to the store. I thought we could invite the others back for a cookout. Nothing fancy…hamburgers, hotdogs and potato salad."

"Sounds good to me but we need a grill."

"There's one out back that I doubled checked and it's fine. You just need to pick up the charcoal." She explained before taking a deep breath and telling her husband that Sam was there.

"What! Talk about burying the lead. Jo don't let him in the house. I'm on my way back…"

Jo winced at his yelling but cut him off. "Dean stop. I checked and he isn't possessed. I'm in my car, he's alone in his. I'm going to a crowded grocery store. I'll be fine. I'll text him and will tell him to park where I can see him and that he stays in his car until I step into the store and I'm around other people and then he can get out and join me."

She heard Dean sigh and could imagine him slowly accepting that she had the situation under control. "Fine but you have your gun right?"

Jo rolled her eyes, "Honey I haven't left the house without my gun since I was fifteen."

He snorted in amusement, "that's my girl."

"Okay I love you. I'll check in when I get home. Remember charcoal." She told him as she slipped her key into the ignition and turned it over.

"Love you too," Dean said. She smirked when she heard Bobby shouting for Romeo to get off the phone and get back to work. "Alright I'm coming Bobby…alright Baby, I've got to go. Be careful. Bye."

"You too," she told him as she clicked off and quickly shot a text to Sam to explain the game rules before she pulled out and headed for the store and most likely a very uncomfortable conversation with her husband's brother.

TBC