When the Service was over, everyone meandered about, some of the Hales took off to set up the food at the Stilinski house , and Noah made Dean stand next to him, stating 'if I have to hear I am so sorry sheriff a million times you do too Deano'. To be honest Dean had no problem with this arrangement, and he stood there awkwardly as people shook his hand, and repeatedly said the same phrase over and over again. This also left no room for Sam to talk to him about whatever it was that Sam thought was going on. That is until everyone got to uncle Noah's house.
Sam and Jess were both outside, waiting for them to arrive. Dean sighed, and looked at his uncle pleadingly. Noah rolled his eye and gestured to the back seat before getting out of the car and headed straight to Sam. Dean smiled at his uncle the proceeded to drag a sleeping Stiles out of the back of the cruiser.
"Come on pup, up you get." Dean just talked to the dead to the world Stiles. Dean made sure he had a good grip on Stiles before making his way towards his uncle, and heard Noah thanking Sam for making it to the funeral, "Hey, Noah wanna help me with this little guy?" Dean interrupted the awkward conversation, and resolutely ignored Sam's intense staring.
"Oh no Deano, you know he is part octopus as soon as he holds onto something, you go fight the kraken on your own."
Dean actually proved this point by letting go of the kid who easily held himself up on Dean's frame, while Dean just raised his hands. "But, I will need help, it's like a three person job to get stiles to do anything when he's asleep
"Go on Dean, get Mieczyslaw out of that suit before you lie him down again, I am sure one of the Hales will help you. I'm going to , I don't know go hide in the living room, do you think I could borrow Peter from you, people try to avoid him and I might need that now." The Sheriff looked hopeful.
"Peter will love scaring people he will get to practice his polite scary face." Dean winked at his uncle as he passed by, he took the stairs two at a time, and Sam looked in the house confused when out of nowhere a kid followed Dean up the stairs and Sam also saw Peter, looking politely scary as promised , lean against a wall and seemingly was waiting for uncle Noah.
"Come on in Sam, you don't need an invitation to come into this house, your family that includes you to Jess." Sam looked between Peter, and the Sheriff. Sam hunched his shoulders and walked into the house, he really didn't want to be here, he just needed to speak to Dean. The Sheriff made small talk while Sam examined the pictures of him and Dean when they were younger and Jess was astounded by them, never having seen any photo of Sam that she didn't take, but what caught Sam's attention was that that strange woman was superimposed over where his aunt was supposed to be. Sam was examining each photo, while Jess sadly Smiled at a few of them , in all these pictures Sam looked so happy, and so did Dean, but Dean always had large bruises , some of them that could be hand shaped or had bandages, on him somewhere, she finally sat herself on a love seat, and pulled Sam with her. Jess got a better picture of why Dean was 'favoured' here. It probably wasn't how Sam remembered at all.
The Hales started to filter in. they all looked at Sam before finding a spot around the Living room. Sam watched as the Hales positioned themselves so that no one could sit close to Noah, it's like they heard him wanting to not have to host this after funeral thing, when a thump from upstairs followed by laughter caught everyone's attention.
"I do hope Mateo reme—"A young woman started talking before she groaned hearing the cries of a baby.
"Val don't worry Dean the Child whisperer is up there." Peter grinned and winked at Noah who chuckled at the inside joke, Peter tilted his head seemingly trying to listen to what's going on upstairs. "Poor Pavel, his teething is bugging him something fierce.
"Those are not fun times, Stiles was sick when he was teething, he had fevers and was all around miserable for three months then one day four teeth were there." Noah nodded sympathetically. The conversation halted as they heard footsteps coming down the steps.
"Sorry, Val, I forgot Pavel was up there."
"It's okay Matty," Val said, "He needed a diaper change anyway, and he's probably is hungry too."
"exactly, so come on let's get this little guy comfortable again" Dean walked over to the guy who was holding a brown and Green bag who handed it over to Dean "his gums probably hurt" Dean said to Mateo "can you go get the bone out of the freezer for me, while I get him sorted out" Dean quickly and efficiently changed the baby's diaper, much to Sam's surprise. Even more shocking Dean was speaking a mix of English and random words in some other language.
"Dean's Polish is getting better." Noah commented as he watched Dean distract the baby until Mateo came back.
"Yeah, he's been practicing ever since he heard Stiles speak with myself, and Nick." Peter nodded his head to the guy who handed Dean the diaper bag.
Sam looked shocked as his uncle happily struck up a conversation with Nick in perfect Polish. "I didn't know you were Polish?" Sam interrupted the conversation. And Jess boggled at her boyfriend. "Sorry"
"Yeah my dad was Polish, and Claudia was Polish as well, she named Stiles after her dad." Noah explained. Sam looked at Dean now playing with the happier baby, when Mateo came running in with a bright blue silicone dog toy.
"Ahh thanks Mateo." Dean blindly grabbed the bone, and stuck it into the kid's mouth. "There you go, lets cool down those gums huh."
"Why are you letting Dean Shove a dog toy in the baby's mouth?" Jess asked in horror.
"Well it's hard enough to put pressure on the gums. And the bumps and ridges help the teeth break through. "Peter explained.
"But it's for dogs." Jess exclaims.
"So?" Val said
"It's unsanitary?" Jess continued angry that they let a baby chew on a hard silicone dog toy.
"How would it be unsanitary?" Nick asked confused. As he held Val's hand in a very tight grip.
"Well it's for dogs." Jess said looking around for support. And got only blank stares from the Hales.
"Do you see any dogs around here?" The very intense woman asked.
"No." Jess lost some of her righteous anger, when no one agreed with her.
"So you think that just because it's for dogs that it is automatically unsanitary, or are you suggesting that I do not clean and sanitize my child's things?" Val asked angrily.
"Val its okay," Val looked up angrily at Dean, and Sam saw his brother had a very serious expression on his face that seemed to calm Val. "She's Dumb " Dean tested out the Polish word, Sam glared not understanding what Dean said ", she doesn't have any siblings, cousins, or a child of her own." Dean said while he handed Pavel over to his mother. Dean also kissed Val on her cheek. Dean got an evil grin on his face as he kissed Nick as well. Who laughed and Dean went and sat down on the floor by Peter, before directing his attention to Jess again "Jess it's very impolite to walk into another's home and start judging them." Dean looked to Sam. "You know better Sam, and should have stopped Jess sooner."
"I, just—" jess tried to defend herself only to be cut off by Dean.
"Nope. sorry no matter what you say it's just not right, what you implied with your little outburst was that, Val isn't a good mother, and that is never okay to do." Dean continued to command the attention of the room even though he was on the floor being pet by Peter. "Look at Pavel, he is happy, he is clothed. He is healthy. And that is all you need to look at to know that what you said was out of line. Did Sam tell you what he was teethed with? His favorite thing to chew on was a rock, I switched it out after his first teeth came through with a leather patch from one of Dad's ruined jackets." Dean looked at the embarrassed girl "you do not get to decide what is right or wrong, especially in this house you are visiting."
"Jess didn't mean anything by it, it's odd, and she commented." Sam glared down at his brother.
"No, if she left it alone that's what could have happened, she proceeded to insult Val, and Nick."
The Sheriff just observed the interaction, and shook his head, "okay enough you two people are supposed to arrive soon." Dean looked up to his uncle and nodded.
Sam watched as the Hales settled into conversations, and he held jess' hand she was quietly fuming at being called out on her actions usually people just listened to her. Sam thought more than just the dog toy was odd about the Hales behaviour, there was still something about them setting alarms off in his head. Sam still dismissed this as the odd spell that was surrounding his Aunt. People started to arrive a few minutes later, and Sam was shocked at the amount of people who Greeted Dean by name, and even more shocked when the kid who was at the hospital came in with obviously his parents, and the kid was with Dave Whitmore, heir to the Whitmore Law firm. Sam knew this because that is where he wanted to work so he and Jess could move here and settle down. The Whitmore's greeted Talia and then the Sheriff dragging their son with them, then when that was over they allowed the kid to run and hop onto Dean who smiled and allowed the kid to sit on him. "Dee, where is MeeChee, and Cor?" Sam observed Dean pet the kid in an odd way.
"They are upstairs sleeping Jack-Jack." Dean said pointing to the stairs, but held fast to the squirming kid, "come on Jacky you know the rules." The kid pouted all of two seconds before tilting his head back to look at his parents, forcing dean to grab him so Jackson wouldn't fall backwards.
"Talia, and Mummy, and Sheriff, Can I go upstairs?"
"I don't think so Jackson" Mrs. Whitmore said then looked at Talia and Noah.
Noah looked at Talia, "Stiles has been asleep for an hour, he should wake up soon, I don't know about Cora, though so your call Tals."
"Okay, but take Derek with you, you know how Cora gets when you try and wake her up." Talia smiled.
Jackson ran over to Derek who was playing with Pavel, Derek kissed the babies cheek and so did Jackson before Jackson took Derek's hand and tried to run upstairs, after the two boys left, the Whitmore's made their way to Dean, who stood up to hug them, and Mr. Whitmore told dean 'as always if there is a way for them to help Dean out, just call.' Sam was flabbergasted how in the Hell did Dean make connections to these people. He is nothing like them, sure his suit was tailored for him, so Dean looked the part of a respectable member of society, but Sam knew he stole, and hustled, and scammed money out of people. He had fake credit cards under crappy names, he was just not the person these people would ever choose to associate with, but there he was soaking in all the attention. Rubbing elbows with the people Sam needed to know, needed to impress. Like it wasn't anything new.
"I have a meeting Dean, I wish I could stay, it's just I—"
"Dave I get it, I know this was schedules months ago." Sam was struck stupid, Dean knew Dave enough to know his schedule. "Just don't forget you owe me a beer later."
"I'll do you one better, and take you out for dinner, just the four of us." Dave shook Peters hand as he said this, and Dean and Mrs. Whitmore looked at each other and rolled their eyes. With another hug the couple left with a yell upstairs saying good bye to their son, who sounded out of breath as he yelled his I love you' s . All the adults looked at each other and said "Oh No" the Whitmore's grinned and ran out of the house laughing.
Sam and a few of the other early guests looked rather confused, While Dean and Peter walked to the Stairs just as a scream sounded out, making the confused people jump.
"What was that?" Sam asked, in hunter mode.
"That's how the Oh No Trio wake each other up." The Sheriff listens as things settle, he looks to Talia, and at least there are no tears this time." The Sheriff listened to more thumps and finally Dean's laughter carried down the steps.
There was no further information so the few guests that arrived just mingled and ate the food laid out, Sam still felt so out of place, people kept on giving him curious looks, and Jess was still pouting. Sam really just wanted to talk to Dean. Sighing he watched as Dean and Peter led a parade of kids down the stairs, Dean slowly allowed the kids to wake up, while playing with them and the baby still chewing on the fucking dog toy. As more Guest showed up, Sam and Jess were forced into small talk, introducing himself and Jess over and over again, and just watched Dean as handled the hosting duties with the Hales so Noah could just relax. Dean greeted and led certain people to or away from their uncle, and the guests didn't even know it happened until they had a drink in hand and a plate full of snacks. Sam always thought Dean would be awkward in these situations but here he was in a room full of strangers keeping them happy. Then it struck Sam, as he watched Dean give another person a hug that it was him and Jess that were the strangers in this room. Sam frowned and held Jess' hand, Sam people watched until he could isolate his brother. This was going to be a long night.