The next night.

The only light comes from the wrapped, burning body. Standing behind, hands in their pockets, are Sam, Emma and Dean. Sam is near tears and fidgeting, Dean staring into the flames silently. Emma is exhausted from all the crying that she spent since he died. She stares into the flames quietly.

"Before he…." Sam pauses and sobs. "Before, did he say anything to you? About anything?"

"No. Nothing." Dean says, not looking at him.

Sam glances at Emma. "Emma?"

Emma looks at Sam with tired eyes. "No. He never said anything to me."

Emma looks back at the flames and sighs heavily. She closes her eyes and thinks back to what John had told her.

"Take care of my boys. Make sure that they don't fight with each other all the times and keep them safe. I trust you."

It brought fresh tears to her eyes and she sobs, opening her eyes to the flames. Sam glances at her again and noticed that she was crying again.

Emma shudders with grief and anger. She walks away from the ceremony and sat on the log that was there. Emma puts her head down and started to cry again.

"Damn you, John," Emma whispers.

She looks up at the sky. It was clear tonight so she could see the stars. "John… why?" Emma whispers and whimpered in tears. She couldn't breathe because she was crying harder. She stops crying for a second and closed her eyes.

John smiles at Emma and hugs her tightly. "I love you, Emma." Emma looks back up at John and smiles at him.

Emma smiles at the memory and opened her eyes. Emma gasps as Sam appeared in front of her. "Emma? Are you okay?"

Emma stares at Sam and nodded. "Yes…I'm fine."

Emma stood up and walked with the boys as the fire went out. They get into a rental car and Dean drove them to the hotel.

There was no another room available for Emma so Emma had to share a room with Dean and Sam. They get to their room and Dean turns on the light.

Emma stares at the two beds then took her shoes off. She crawls onto one of them and got under the blanket without saying a word. Sam and Dean look at each other.

Sam gets into his bed and Dean gets into the bed with Emma. Emma felt Dean under the blankets and scoot away from him as far as possible. Emma fell asleep and Dean turns the light off.


3:30 in the morning.

Dean wakes up and heard Emma whimpering in her sleep. Dean rolls over to his side and watches Emma. She was crying in her sleep.

Dean touches her arm and shook her. "Emma, wake up. Wake up."

Emma gasps and woke up to see Dean's face. "What?" Emma whispers to Dean.

"You were crying in your sleep." Dean whispers back.

"Oh…"

"Are you okay?" Dean asks Emma and she started to cry again. Dean takes her into his arms and she cried into his chest.

Dean caresses her hair as she cried. "Its okay, Emma. It's going to be okay." Dean whispers and kissed her head.

Emma stops crying finally and looks back at Dean. He was staring at her. "Dean… can you hold me tonight until I go to sleep?" Emma whispers and Dean smiles at her.

"Of course, Emma," Dean says, caressing her cheek.

Emma smiles gently and settles into his arms. Emma listens to Dean's heartbeat and it calmed her down. She felt safe in his arms and closes her eyes. She eventually falls asleep.

Dean listened to her slow breathing and stares at her beautiful face. He was attracted to her but didn't know how to tell her. Dean soon falls asleep, listening to her breathing.


The next day

The rental car arrives at Bobby's place and Bobby came out to meet them. "I'm sorry about your Daddy, boys." He says to them as Dean and Sam came out of the car. They nodded.

Emma comes out of the car and Bobby noticed that there was something wrong with Emma. "Emma, are you okay?" Bobby asks as Emma stood in daze.

"She's been like this since Dad died," Sam says and Bobby nodded.

Bobby walks over to Emma and puts his arm around her. "Come on, darling." Bobby says gently as he walks with her to his house.

He takes her upstairs to one of the guest's room. "This is for you, Emma."

Emma looks around then at the bed. She takes her shoes off and crawls into the bed.

"Close the curtains, please." Emma says to Bobby. "Emma…"

"Bobby, close the curtains now. Please." Emma says gently but stern.

Bobby nods and closed the curtains. He walks out of the room and closes the door.

He's really concerned about Emma.

Bobby came downstairs and took out the whiskey. He pours whiskey in three glasses and passes them on to the boys.

"Emma is in her room right now, sleeping." Bobby says, drinking his whiskey. "I'm concerned about Emma. I have never seen her like this."

"Yeah, I'm worried too. It's like she's depressed. She hasn't really talked to us since Dad died except only when she answers our questions," Sam says and glanced at Dean.

"What?" Dean says and Sam shook his head.

"Has she eaten anything?" Bobby asked and Sam shook his head. "She won't eat; actually, she refuses to eat. All she wants to do is sleep. That's all she did for the past couple of days."

Bobby stares at upstairs in concern and glances back at the boys.

"I think it's a good idea if you guys stay for a couple days, so that way Emma can recover and Dean can fix up his car." Bobby suggests and they agreed.


Looks like Dean is attracted to Emma... perhaps really like her more than as friends. ;) Review please?