p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"emspan style="text-decoration: underline;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Chapter 76./span/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It wasn't as awkward as Dean had were no jokes from Bobby or Sam and nobody asked about the night figured the fact that they were still together told the others everything they needed to was was with Anael and it was fine./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It was fine that they were going to see Sarah later too, even though she would look at him and see every doubt and fear he had ever always would also see what he could not doubt any longer and she would smile at his foolishness in trying so long./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She would smile, but she wouldn't understood why these things scared would call it progress and growth and she would believe, with all her kindly heart, that it could all work out for she would even make him believe wanted to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Still, the idea of telling her unsettled had told her about him and Anael and in the mood Cas had been in, it would not have been an unbiased might disapprove of their unconventional start to the relationship or think he had been careless in how he let Cas find out about would never judge him harshly, but the gentlest rebuke from her could hurt, especially when he knew it to be fair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Aren't you eating?" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Somebody else seems to have taken mine." said Dean./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bobby shrugged. "I thought you were gonna make more."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I was." said Dean, getting up to do just that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bobby smiled at Anael."You made him forget to many people can do that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I think that's more about having you back." she said and her tone was got got his relationship with Bobby, just as Bobby seemed to understand why Anael meant something to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It felt as if all the people he loved were finally on the same didn't look like he would have to choose between Anael and Cas or between Anael and completely accepted his relationship with Anael, indeed, he was more accepting of it than Dean was course, with nobody against the relationship, that meant he had no easy excuse to back away from it and he found himself wondering why that felt like a disadvantage./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"With his own French toast prepared, he went back to sit at the table, opposite took a mouthful of his breakfast and said, with his mouth full, "I am a fantastic cook!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You are!" said Anael, looking very pleased with him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""And modest too!" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Sam was smiling and Dean understood matter how much other stuff, happier stuff, Sam had to think about, somewhere in the back of his mind, he was always worrying about his poor, broken, tortured was could never let go or worrying about Sam either, but it was good for both of them when things got better for either./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Honestly, it would be better for everyone if the thing with Anael worked out and that was an unusual situation for , any choice was between what could make him happy and what was best for everyone else and that was why sacrificing his own needs had become so kind of sociopath would put his own happiness above his family's survival?So now, things should be easier, because they all wanted and needed the same only problem was that he had no clear concept of doing the thing he felt wrong, even when it could only be seen as right./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Anael spoke softly and with a hint of hesitation."It's fine if you don't want to go to Sarah today."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Why wouldn't I want to?" he said, as countless reasons vied for his couldn't hide the scepticism in her glance."Okay," he said, "It may be difficult, telling her about us.I'm not good at this stuff, never have been, but the comfort zone was never the natural habitat of a Winchester."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Ain't that the truth!" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I'm never not gonna feel weird about it," said Dean, "But it's 's time to tell Sarah about this and it's time to admit that this is a thing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Admit makes it sound like a crime." said Anael./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Is acknowledge better?" he said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Much better." she replied./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Words were never my 's better at that stuff."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""If you want me to stay here … " she began./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I don't." he said, "It was wrong of me, keeping you two have as much right as anyone to have Sarah in your life."He looked briefly at the others before he added, "It's not much of a relationship if I can't talk about it in front of you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She gave a small nod and so, he thought, did Sam."We can sing in the car on the way, can't we?" she said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""He's been singing at you?" said Bobby, "Condolences."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""It's fine," she said, "We both sing badly.I quite like his singing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I like yours." said Dean, for some reason, feeling about 14./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""It really is love." said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Hell yeah!" said Sam./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Dean smiled a an outsider, it would seem like mockery, but he knew it for what it was, his family, reassuring him that nothing had changed, except that they were now including Anael in the or not, they were was was the kind of love in which he could sing at the top of his voice and she would not be ashamed of didn't even roll her eyes as Lisa had when he and Ben did the whole in-car karaoke thing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He should not have thought about , that nagging thought cannot things don't can't have love, because he doesn't deserve never deserved 's why his mother was taken from 's why Sam left to go to 's why every …/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He stopped of dealing with Cas and Sam spiralling like that, hours of talking to Sarah about his own spirals, had finally taught him to handle it better when he did looked into Anael's eyes and breathed calmly for a loved had spent the night being reminded how much she loved him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Everyone in the room loved in Sioux Falls loved mother had been had left for a million reasons and none of them involved not loving him."I love you." he said, not afraid for the others to hear just needed Anael to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I love you too." she said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""We all do." said Sam./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Dean nodded."I know."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""There's only one person who doesn't." said Bobby, "But we're kinda hoping for a breakthrough there."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It wasn't as awkward as Dean had were no jokes from Bobby or Sam and nobody asked about the night figured the fact that they were still together told the others everything they needed to was was with Anael and it was fine./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It was fine that they were going to see Sarah later too, even though she would look at him and see every doubt and fear he had ever always would also see what he could not doubt any longer and she would smile at his foolishness in trying so long./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She would smile, but she wouldn't understood why these things scared would call it progress and growth and she would believe, with all her kindly heart, that it could all work out for she would even make him believe wanted to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Still, the idea of telling her unsettled had told her about him and Anael and in the mood Cas had been in, it would not have been an unbiased might disapprove of their unconventional start to the relationship or think he had been careless in how he let Cas find out about would never judge him harshly, but the gentlest rebuke from her could hurt, especially when he knew it to be fair./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Aren't you eating?" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Somebody else seems to have taken mine." said Dean./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bobby shrugged. "I thought you were gonna make more."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I was." said Dean, getting up to do just that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Bobby smiled at Anael."You made him forget to many people can do that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I think that's more about having you back." she said and her tone was got got his relationship with Bobby, just as Bobby seemed to understand why Anael meant something to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"It felt as if all the people he loved were finally on the same didn't look like he would have to choose between Anael and Cas or between Anael and completely accepted his relationship with Anael, indeed, he was more accepting of it than Dean was course, with nobody against the relationship, that meant he had no easy excuse to back away from it and he found himself wondering why that felt like a disadvantage./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"With his own French toast prepared, he went back to sit at the table, opposite took a mouthful of his breakfast and said, with his mouth full, "I am a fantastic cook!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""You are!" said Anael, looking very pleased with him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""And modest too!" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Sam was smiling and Dean understood matter how much other stuff, happier stuff, Sam had to think about, somewhere in the back of his mind, he was always worrying about his poor, broken, tortured was could never let go or worrying about Sam either, but it was good for both of them when things got better for either./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Honestly, it would be better for everyone if the thing with Anael worked out and that was an unusual situation for , any choice was between what could make him happy and what was best for everyone else and that was why sacrificing his own needs had become so kind of sociopath would put his own happiness above his family's survival?So now, things should be easier, because they all wanted and needed the same only problem was that he had no clear concept of doing the thing he felt wrong, even when it could only be seen as right./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Anael spoke softly and with a hint of hesitation."It's fine if you don't want to go to Sarah today."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Why wouldn't I want to?" he said, as countless reasons vied for his couldn't hide the scepticism in her glance."Okay," he said, "It may be difficult, telling her about us.I'm not good at this stuff, never have been, but the comfort zone was never the natural habitat of a Winchester."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Ain't that the truth!" said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I'm never not gonna feel weird about it," said Dean, "But it's 's time to tell Sarah about this and it's time to admit that this is a thing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Admit makes it sound like a crime." said Anael./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Is acknowledge better?" he said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Much better." she replied./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Words were never my 's better at that stuff."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""If you want me to stay here … " she began./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I don't." he said, "It was wrong of me, keeping you two have as much right as anyone to have Sarah in your life."He looked briefly at the others before he added, "It's not much of a relationship if I can't talk about it in front of you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"She gave a small nod and so, he thought, did Sam."We can sing in the car on the way, can't we?" she said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""He's been singing at you?" said Bobby, "Condolences."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""It's fine," she said, "We both sing badly.I quite like his singing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I like yours." said Dean, for some reason, feeling about 14./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""It really is love." said Bobby./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""Hell yeah!" said Sam./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Dean smiled a an outsider, it would seem like mockery, but he knew it for what it was, his family, reassuring him that nothing had changed, except that they were now including Anael in the or not, they were was was the kind of love in which he could sing at the top of his voice and she would not be ashamed of didn't even roll her eyes as Lisa had when he and Ben did the whole in-car karaoke thing./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He should not have thought about , that nagging thought cannot things don't can't have love, because he doesn't deserve never deserved 's why his mother was taken from 's why Sam left to go to 's why every …/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"He stopped of dealing with Cas and Sam spiralling like that, hours of talking to Sarah about his own spirals, had finally taught him to handle it better when he did looked into Anael's eyes and breathed calmly for a loved had spent the night being reminded how much she loved him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Everyone in the room loved in Sioux Falls loved mother had been had left for a million reasons and none of them involved not loving him."I love you." he said, not afraid for the others to hear just needed Anael to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""I love you too." she said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""We all do." said Sam./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"Dean nodded."I know."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;""There's only one person who doesn't." said Bobby, "But we're kinda hoping for a breakthrough there."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" /p