CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS

Evie's POV

I was a little annoyed sitting on my bed at dad's watching Dean pack up a small travel bag in detest but none compared to mine given I was going to be stuck here while they went to visit their mother's headstone that Sam was forcing Dean along to and I didn't want to intrude any more than I felt like I should be there since this was their time and I respected that so I was staying here.

"You know I kind of hate you for leaving me here with my father after the big bombshell we threw at him" I spoke up as he threw another shirt into his duffel bag.

We'd told my dad that I was pregnant and I'd never seen him so angry yet happy at the same time and I've kind of avoided being in the same room alone with him and that went for Dean as well since he was still worried my dad was gonna shoot him but he hadn't being that the most reaction we'd gotten was a small awkward smile after we'd finished telling him and that was it.

"I wouldn't be going if I had a choice but Sam's adamant" Dean replied snapping me out of my thoughts as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"I know and you guys should do this but that doesn't mean I have to like being apart" he chuckled.

"I don't either Shortstack but this gives you time to finally talk to your dad and get his true thoughts" I frowned looking up at him.

"That doesn't make me feel any better Dean"

"I know it doesn't" he leaned forward pressing a kiss to my forehead. "We'll be back as soon as possible okay"

"Yeah I know" I replied right as Sam make his presence known clearing his throat making us turn seeing him standing in the doorway.

"Ready?" he asked looking at Dean.

"Do I have a choice?" he asked him making me laugh as I got up walking outside with them after they both bid my father goodbye and stood next to the Impala as they got in then leaned down into the drivers window and shared a long passionate kiss with Dean before Sam dramatically cleared his throat.

"Stay out of trouble" I warned looking at Dean more than Sam.

"I always do" I scoffed stepping back then watched as the Impala disappeared down the drive onto the road before I went back inside seeing my Dad in the study so I took a deep breath and headed over to him.

"Watch ya reading?" I asked him leaning against the desk.

"Nothing important" he replied shutting the book then stood heading over to the fridge and grabbed a beer out. "So its just us?" I nodded my head looking at him with furrowed brows since he would barely look at me.

"Are we gonna continue this awkwardness Dad or are we finally gonna talk about the big fat elephant in the room?" I asked walking towards him so he wouldn't find an excuse to leave.

"We talked Evelyn"

"Dad come on seriously that may work for boys but not with your daughter, I want…need to know that your okay with this?" I pointed at my stomach which was a lot more firmer in the last few days then it ever had been.

"I'm not okay with it no" he finally replied and I looked down. "But only cause it gets me thinking how it happened and no father wants to think that about his daughter and it doesn't mean I'm not happy about it either since it's all I ever wanted for you darling" he added and my eyes snapped up to meet his. "I love the thought that your gonna experience the joys of parenthood I just wish you had waited and maybe a little bit wished the father wasn't Dean Winchester" I couldn't help the small chuckle. "But you kids are crazy for each other and it's happened so I guess I'll learn to live with it"

"Thank you dad, that means the world to me" I went over and wrapped my arms around him as his wrapped around me. "I love you dad and without mom I'm gonna need all the help I can get raising this baby because I know Dean and I are in way over our heads" he laughed.

"You'll do fine, hell you might even do better than I did with you and John did with those boys cause this baby is gonna have two stubborn pig headed parents" I smiled and nodded having to agree with that but a small amount of sadness was hidden behind it as it made me think about something happening to me or Dean since we both knew how it was to grow up without a parent and I would never want that for our baby which got me thinking about the chance that we could continue to hunt once this baby was born.

I spent time with my Dad after our talk just reorganizing the library which was a regular thing for me when I used to live here because it's chaos that Dad always seemed to live with drove me nuts and the last few weeks has slowly been driving me nuts so I finally was able to and re-shelved all the books in chronological order according to year published, genre and contents and size only remembering to eat when my dad brought me sandwiches.

I was just finishing up with the last few books when I heard my phone buzzing on the desk so I stood feeling the stiffness in my legs from sitting all day and smiled seeing Dean's name so I flipped the phone open and pressed it to my ear.

"Hey babe, where are you's?" I asked straight away.

"About that" he replied and I instantly stood up straighter.

"What, are you okay…is it Sam?" I asked worriedly.

"No, no it's not us don't panic" I sighed in relief.

"Don't scare me like that Dean" I scolded him and heard his laugh. "What's up?'

"I think we found a case here so we might be a few days extra"

"A case?" I asked curiously since how the hell did they just stumble upon a case.

"Sam doesn't believe it but I'm pretty sure were dealing with a vengeful spirit"

"How so?" I asked curious and worried hating that I was here even more while they weren't.

"Sam was visiting our Mom's headstone but I…wasn't so I walked around the cemetery waiting and found what looked like unholy ground on a new plot so we did a little digging a found out it was a college chick named Angela Mason who died in a car accident and funeral was three days ago, spoke to her dad and he practically called her a saint but you and I both know girls always hold secrets from their fathers" I rolled my eyes at the last part.

"You want me to meet you guys, deal with this together?" I asked heading up to my room closing the door.

"Nah Sammy and I got it"

"Dean-"

"Evie really it's okay, should be a quick easy salt and burn if I'm right, no point you coming out here"

"Fine" I mumbled sitting on my bed with a sigh.

"I called to check in with you and partly to get away from Sam" I chuckled laying back.

"Well I'm fine, missing you"

"Yeah I miss you too Shortstack" I smiled a little relieved to hear the familiar nickname.

"Just promise me you'll be careful and keep me posted, you know I'm gonna worry about you"

"Yeah I know" he replied and I could practically hear the smile in his voice. "Have you talked to your Dad yet?"

"Yeah we spoke a little after you guys left and I got him to admit how he was really feeling about this baby"

"And?" he pressed.

"He told me he's happy for us but that he wishes we'd waited and I guess I kind of agree with him there but this wouldn't have happened if it wasn't meant to be" I replied taking a deep sigh once I was done.

"What else?"

"Not much, that was pretty much it but it was all I needed and wanted to hear from him because I know that no matter what he's gonna love and help with the baby especially if there's ever a time that one of us can't"

"Eve that's never-"

"Don't say it's never gonna happen Dean cause we don't know that, everyday is a risky one in our line of business and I just wanted to know that he'll be there if I ever…you ever-"

"Hey let's not talk about this, we've still got plenty of time to think and talk about all the what if's that will never happen to you so long as I'm here" I sighed really not wanting to talk about this over the phone.

"Yeah well I'm sure its something every new parents fear so we'll talk more about it later"

"Yeah" he agreed then breathed out a sigh into the phone. "Look I gotta go but I'll call you tomorrow okay hopefully with updates and to tell you I'll be home because not having you here and spending time with just Sammy is driving me crazy" I chuckled.

"Just don't kill each other and don't hit him again"

"No promises" he laughed making me smile because I couldn't not when hearing Dean's laugh.

"I love you"

"You too, sleep well and take care of yourself and the little nugget okay" my eyes widened a little hearing Dean say something endearing about the baby for the first time since so far he hasn't really said or addressed the baby in any way.

"I will" I replied then with a sigh pulled the phone away when we hung up.

The next morning I was up early having not really slept all that well given I never could without Dean next to me after we got together and started sleeping in the same bed as he was my comfort blanket so I got up before the sun and made myself some coffee with Sam not being here and was able to enjoy it waiting by the phone the whole day as I forced myself not to worry as I anxiously waited around with just my dad to entertain me and reading books to pass the time re-familiarizing myself with a few creatures, symbols and legends but when I heard my phone finally ring I picked it up without even really looking who it was.

"Dean"

"No it's Sam" I heard Sam say instead and pulled the phone away from my ear to see it was Sam that had called.

"Is Dean okay…are you?" I asked him.

"I'm okay" he replied which instantly made me freak out. "Dean is too, physically at least"

"What do you mean, what's going on?" I asked him.

"He's scaring me Evie, he's not himself lately and I'm pretty sure you know that" I sighed nodding my head even though he couldn't see me.

"I know Sam but I also know forcing your brother to do anything he doesn't want to do is a lost cause'

"He's tail spinning Evie, he won't let me help him and your not really helping him either"

"Sam listen, I know Dean's not okay with your Dad's death but you just gotta let him do what he's gonna do otherwise all your gonna do is piss him off and force him to retreat even more, I know he's your brother but I know Dean and the more you push the more he hides"

"Eve it's killing him" Sam begged and I sighed. "I can't lose him and I know you can't either, you gotta help me do something about it"

"What did you have in mind Sam?" I asked a little bit harsher than I attended.

"He needs you Evie" I sighed.

"I know but he's not letting me but let me figure something out and I'll talk to him, okay" I replied putting down my book. "Now tell me what's going on, Dean told me a little bit last night but I had a feeling he was paraphrasing so I wouldn't worry too much about you guys"

"He was right about the hunt so we dug up the corpse-"

"That sounds gross and disgusting" I cut him off and he laughed a little.

"It would've been if the body had actually been in the coffin" he replied and my eyes widened.

"Wait what, where the hell-"

"We found carvings in the roof of the coffin that is relating to necromancy summoning" I groaned.

"Don't tell me-"

"Yep something turned this chick into the walking dead"

"Fantastic I'm stuck here while you guys are dealing with a freaking zombie" I protested running my hand through my hair. "What about the father?" I asked him thinking up the first plausible option.

"Nope struck out especially since Dean went all psycho at him accusing him straight away without the facts" Sam replied and I frowned.

"I'll look into the lore see if I can dig something up then I'll give you guys a call back"

"Thanks, I'll look here on my end too and keep you updated"

"Thanks Sam and remember what I said, stop pushing Dean and let him hunt this thing it's the only thing he's dealing with right now"

"I can try" he replied then hung up before I could argue making me roll my eyes.

"Let's hope you don't inherit that Winchester stubbornness" I whispered putting my hands on my stomach. "Time to work" I muttered heading over to my newly reorganized shelves and pulled out everything that even slightly mentioned reanimated dead but there was way too many options for anything to be of actual help and even asked my Dad but again he said there was no way to know for sure so I had to call Sam back with no real news but he told me they'd found something on his end.

If they got the zombie thing back to her grave and nailed her to it she'd go back to being dead so all I could so was wish them luck and tell them to be careful before once again wait around nervous, scared and worried the whole time until my phone rang and I jumped towards it seeing Dean's name.

"Dean!" I said straight away.

"Hey baby" he replied and I sighed in relief.

"Are you…is Sam?"

"Were okay, except Sam broke his arm"

"He what?!"

"Long story, we're on our way back"

"Okay I'll see you soon" I replied then sighed recalling my talk with Sam. "Dean"

"Yeah?" he replied and I frowned not really knowing how to talk to him without him biting my head off.

"Don't bite my head off okay"

"Why what have you done?" he asked straight away making me roll my eyes at the fact he assumed I'd done something.

"Nothing" I replied back straight away.

"Then what?" he asked and I took another breath in.

"I want you to talk to Sam okay"

"Eve-"

"Dean please, he's worried and frankly so am I and I know you'll feel much better when you finally talk to us starting with Sam because he's the only one who knows exactly what your feeling right now so just talk to him, explain what's going on in your head and you might surprise yourself on how much it'll help" I replied cutting him off and heard his deep sigh.

"Alright I'll try" he finally replied and smiled because despite how much they were so different, they were both so alike at the same time. "You owe me and I expect some compensation on your part when I get home Shortstack" I laughed.

"You talk to Sammy and I might just be naked when you get here"

"Tease" he replied and I smiled.

"Bye Dean"

"Bye Eve" he hung up and I smiled just a tiny bit knowing my boys were coming home, I put my hand over my stomach rubbing it softly knowing that we'd be okay and now with this baby we stood at a real chance of happiness together, this baby was our hope of a better future. .

Dean's POV

Driving back from the hunt Evie's words kept ringing in my head reminding me that I'd promised her and to be honest I knew she was right…she always was it was time I told Sam everything I'd been thinking since Dad's death so I finally made up my mind and pulled off to the side of the road and got out walking to the front of the car and leaned against the hood as I heard Sam follow me out obviously confused.

"Dean what is it?" he asked and I took a minute to reply.

"I'm sorry"

"You…for what?" he asked.

"The way I've been acting" I replied looking down briefly before looking up as he walked over and leaned back against baby beside me as we sat in a few moments of silence as I pushed through the emotions threatening to spill over. "And for Dad" I finally added feeling my eyes start to mist with unshed tears. "I mean he was your dad too and it's my fault that he's gone"

"What are you talking about?" he asked shaking his head but I knew he had to have thought about it too.

"I know you've been thinking it, so have I doesn't take a genius to figure it out" I replied before taking a deep sigh. "Back at the hospital in a full recovery it was a miracle" I added turning to face him. "And five minutes later Dad's dead and the Colt's gone"

"Dean-"

"You can't tell me there's not a connection there" I cut him off shaking my head as I looked away again. "I don't know how the demon was involved, I don't know how the whole thing went down exactly…b…but Dad's dead because of me" I added struggling over saying it aloud. "And that much I do know"

"We don't know that, not for sure" he argued.

"Sam…you and Dad, Evie…you're the most important people in my life and now-" I cut myself off focusing for a second on not breaking down completely. "I never should've come back Sam, it wasn't natural…and now look what's come of it, I was dead and I should've stayed dead" I added feeling my lip quiver as a tear threatened to spill. "You wanted to know how I was feeling…well that's it" he nodded. "So tell me…what could you possibly say to make that all right?" I asked turning to him as a lone tear finally fell down wetting my cheek as I looked over seeing him in near tears just like I was.

"I got four" he finally spoke up after what seemed like minutes. "Eve and the baby" he added when I turned to him and felt my lip quiver again as I thought about them, I hadn't let the whole baby thing really dawn on me until I heard him say that after what I'd just told him and knew that no matter what I could never say what I just said to Eve, not ever because he was right they were the only thing right about any of this and I should count myself lucky for now that I have her in my life pregnant with our first child despite the many obstacles in our way because I'll be damned if I let anything happen to her and the baby even if that meant removing myself from their lives.

A/N: Not an overly big chapter but felt it still needed to be done and for Evie and Dean to be apart to both come to terms with this big change by themselves so that they can accept the baby completely.