Chapter 14: These girls
2028-2032
2028
Hannah was accepted into the University of South Dakota Arts and Sciences programme. Dean and Castiel accompanied her on a tour around the campus and this brief visit resulted in them enrolling again.
2029
'Dad says you sometimes had to pretend to be FBI agents,' Amy said. Dean nodded while he held the punching bag. He winked at her, which earned him a disapproving snort from Rose.
'Which is illegal, by the way,' Rose interjected. The two girls glared at each other. Undoubtedly, Amy was visualising her sister's face on the punching bag. Rose, meanwhile, repeated Castiel's uppercut movement rather more viciously than was necessary.
'Whatever. Still cool,' Amy decided.
'I'm going to be a real FBI agent,' Rose announced before assuming a more defensive position. Courageously, Castiel tried out a few mock punches. She blocked them without any trouble. Castiel wondered whether they had really trained her this well or whether he was getting old and slow.
'You're smart enough,' Dean agreed. Rose relaxed and Amy straightened up. They were both tall for their age. Sam's daughters all the way.
'I'm going to be an FBI agent too,' Amy exclaimed. To Dean's horror, he recognised the familiar flicker of annoyance that lit up Rose's eyes. He glanced at Castiel, who had also spotted it.
'Why do you always have to copy everything I do?' Rose asked, crossing her arms.
'Why do you always have to copy everything I do?' Amy mimicked, crossing her arms too.
'Cas, tell Amy to stop it!' Rose yelled.
'Cas, tell Rose to stop it!' Amy shouted. She smugly cocked her head at Rose, who cursed and flew at her. This was one of the disadvantages of teaching them how to fight: now they knew how to fight. It was never just hair pulling, ineffectual slapping and comically kicking at each other's ankles when Amy and Rose fought. So, Dean and Castiel quickly pulled them apart before any teeth were knocked out or any bones were broken.
'Come on. Don't make me get your father,' Castiel warned. He sounded very aware of the emptiness of his threat. The sisters looked at each other and grinned.
'We can take him.'
2030
Sarah entered the kitchen, trying not to witness the spectacle that was Castiel and Dean pawing at each other.
'Could you two not be inappropriate in other people's homes for a change?'
Still, she couldn't fail to notice the dark writing on Dean's lower back.
'Hey, you didn't tell me you'd gotten a new tattoo! What does it say?'
'Good things do happen; it's Aramaic' Castiel recited. He looked up at Dean and smiled with such obvious joy that Sarah quickly grabbed the plates and cutlery, because it was clear what was going to happen.
'You're living proof of that. You happened to me and it was awesome,' Dean gushed. Hurrying, Sarah pushed past them.
'Gross. Honestly, your grope fest was less nauseating,' she mumbled. Words she immediately regretted as the two men started to slowly devour each other.
2031
It was during her study that Hannah met Ben, Lisa's son, and fell in love with him. He was a professor at USD, which for Dean confirmed once and for all that Ben was definitely not his son.
2032
'This is not some coming of age thing, Dean.'
'Why not? It was for us.'
'And our childhood was super fun!'
Dean thought that taking Amy and Rose demon hunting was a great present for their sixteenth birthday. Sam did not agree.