Hello my darlings. I would like to thank Guest (lovely21) and rainystv for the wonderful reviews.
So I haven't been feeling very well this weekend and as such I felt he need to write something really mushy. This chapter is the result of that need, I hope you like it.
Also I have no idea how the adoption process works, this is all purely made up by me.
Disclaimer: I don't own Supernatural.
Dean and Castiel had spent the last few weeks turning their guest room into the most perfect nursery. They had painted the walls a combination of blue and green to represent the sky and countryside. Then taking sponges they had used variations of greens, browns, yellows and reds to create trees and plants on to the landscape, and into the beautiful blue sky they had painted a smiling sun, a few clouds and a massive rainbow. (Yeah a mural walled bedroom, who doesn't want one of those?)
Once the wall scene had been completed they moved on to making the furniture, the first thing to be put together of course was the amazing wooden cot they had chosen for their future child. And the mobile of animals and bees to be positioned so that said child would be able to watch it go round as they tried to sleep. Then of course they got the child shelves and draws to hold all the tiny cute clothing, as well as a changing station and bathing area.
Now it was the day they had been waiting for for so long. They had got a call telling them that the new member of their family was waiting for them. So they piled into the impala, a car seat and changing bag already placed securely in the back, and drove with muted excitement to collect their new baby.
Castiel couldn't believe the time had finally come, they had been waiting months, going through the process of being vetted and checked, having their friends and family being checked and vetted as well. Though it did help that they had references from not only the chief of police (thank you Rufus) but also from a social worker a child protective e services (thank you Lisa). But now, today was the day they would be meeting their baby for the very first time and taking it home. It was a dream come true.
Dean was just as excited. He couldn't wait to get his hands on the little bundle of blankets that was soon to be their child. He wondered what sex they were getting, they had said they didn't mind and would take either so this was going to be a surprise, a bit like when a woman actually has the kid he guested. But whichever sex it was he couldn't wait to get it home and dress it in all the cute little outfit they had got it. Introduce it to its cousin Mary, and generally just devote his life to the child and its other daddy. (Oh Dean you soppy, soppy man. It's adorable.)
They pulled up outside the social services building exuding a false sense of calm. It was a sense they carried with them as Dean took the car seat and Castiel the changing bag and made there was inside. It was time to meet their child.
Hannah, the lady in charge of the Novak-Winchester adoption application watched the two men walk inside and saw right through the aura of calm they were trying to exude. She could see that in truth they were nervous and excited and couldn't wait to get their baby. That was good, she liked it when both partners where so keen to have a child. Smiling she opened the door to her office for them and asked that they sit so they could go over the final pieces of paper work.
"Welcome Dean, Castiel. So you're here to collect your baby. I have the pleasure of telling you that it's a girl. The mother has made one request before giving her up for adoption which I promised to ask you, and that is she would like the little girl to be called Claire, of course if you don't want to you don't have to-" At that point Castiel interrupted what she was saying to reassure here that that was no problem. They just wanted the baby, their daughter.
"No Claire sounds fine. Don't you agree Dean?" Castiel asked turning to his husband with his eyes glowing, they were getting a girl.
"Hell yeah. No problem with Claire, do you think we can see her now?" Dean replied excitement oozing from every pore as he turned back to Hannah. He just wanted to see their daughter, see her held in his husband's arms, hold her in his own arms.
"Of course if you'll just wait here." Hannah replied with a smile and walked out the office door. She hadn't really though that they would have a problem with the name, after all they just wanted a child.
Castiel could barely take the waiting any more, with that he stood to start pacing the room, not that there was a lot of space, he just wanted their daughter to be with them already, be with them to start their new life.
"Hey come here, it'll all be perfect." Dean muttered as he noticed that Cas was pretty much wearing a hole in the carpet.
"I know, I just can't wait." Castiel replied moving so he was standing next to Dean and taking the hand he held out to him in one of his own and squeezing it. Before either of them could say any more the door opened and Dean stood, still holding Castiel's hand, to watch Hannah come in with a small bundle wrapped in a pink blanket. Neither of them moved as she walked carefully over to them and held the bundle out to them. Castiel, who was standing slightly in front of Dean, reached out his arms and took the baby from the woman, and looked into the face of their daughter for the first time as he pulled her close to him. Dean stood there and watched. He couldn't believe how happy and proud he was feeling right then. (Yeah, baby.)
"Isn't she beautiful?" Castiel asked tearing his eyes from Claire's sleeping face to look at Dean.
"Yeah." Was all Dean could reply. Instead of saying more he wrapped his arms around both his husband and his daughter. He had wrapped his arms around his family. They were complete now.
At that point the eyelids of baby Claire fluttered and opened to revel the blue eyes all young babies had, though Dean was sure that they would stay, they were like Cas', and those where the best kind of eyes to have in his mind.
Castiel smiled into the blue eyes of their daughter and spoke in his deep gravelly voice which seemed to vibrate through both Dean and the child in his arms.
"Hello Claire, we are you daddy's and we are going to take care of you and love you for the rest of your life okay?"
"And no doubt spoil you rotten." Dean added on at the end making Castiel chuckle.
"Oh no doubt about that." He replied with a nod. (So sweet.)
Then came the process of signing papers so that Claire became legally there's and placing her in her car seat before carrying her outside and placing her in the back of the impala to start her new life as Claire Novak-Winchester. And what a life it will be, with all her family around her loving her and supporting her, and her cousin to play with and to become as close to as a sister. Yes, Claire Novak-Winchester was in for a good life with her daddy's. (I bet she is.)
And Dean and Castiel looked at each other as they got into the car and smiled, both of them realising that with the addition of their daughter they had both found the dream they had always had for their lives. They had the one they loved and there daughter, what more could they ask for from life? They had their happily ever after.