Chapter 12 Family Ties
Life went on after all the drama with Viktor and Simon. It was kind of strange actually. Dean and Sam were constantly looking for jobs, Bobby and Ellen went back to wherever they came from and Castiel popped in and out as he pleased. Carrie Beth Winchester was left on her own a lot of the time.
Dean found her a car in a junkyard and fixed it up so that she could travel back and forth to the market or the library. She read a lot. She checked out cook books and tried new recipes and the best ones she made again for her boys when they came home.
She prayed every time Dean left the bunker that he would come back home safely. She patched them up when they came back bruised and bloodied and on more than one occasion she had to ask Cas for help when the injury was beyond her skill as a nurse.
At first living with the brothers had been awkward, but it got easier with time. Dean was her husband and Sam was like their giant child. They were their own weird little family and most of the time it was satisfying.
Dean would make love to her every night and it was always amazing. He was gentle sometimes and rough others. His love making often depended on what hell he had been through when he was away from her and some nights after they were both lustfully satisfied she would lay there with this head pressed into her chest and just hold him.
They had been married six months when Cas first asked the question. "Why aren't you pregnant yet?"
They had been sitting around the table eating a salmon dish that she had perfected when Cas had popped in out of the blue. "Well hello to you to Cas," Dean said dryly.
"This is not time for pleasantries Dean. Are you preventing the pregnancy? I know you are consummating the relationship often enough."
Carrie Beth glared at him. "It is none of your business what we are doing Castiel."
She pushed back from the table and stormed off to the kitchen plate in hand. Dean leaned back in his chair and sighed. "You had to come in and ask that didn't you jackass."
"It has been six months Dean! She should be well with child by now! What is the problem?"
"You tell me Cas?" Dean asked. "Aren't babies a gift from God? What's the problem on your end because I promise you we are meeting our end of the bargain?"
"And with that I am leaving," Sam said as he pushed away from the table.
He took his plate to the kitchen and was shocked to find Carrie Beth curled up against a wall crying. He started to turn away and leave, incredibly uncomfortable with a crying female especially one that was his sister-in-law, but he couldn't just walk away. He set his plate on the counter near the sink before she scooted down on the floor next to her. "Carrie Beth?"
"I'm sorry Sam… you don't have to try and comfort me or anything. It's just… it's just… hell I don't know what it is to be honest."
"Cas is a dick sometimes. He doesn't understand what he said was wrong and you don't have to forgive him for that or accept that he is that way. You can be upset."
"It's just… he hit the nail on the head. I know you don't want to hear about your brother and me, but I'm starting to think something is wrong with me… or him."
Sam turned a shade of red at her statement. "I really don't want to hear about this Carrie Beth."
"I know but I can't talk to Dean about it because it will piss him off and Cas won't understand. You are the only other option I have unless you want me talking to the half deaf librarian in town or the bag boy at the market."
Sam frowned. "I see. You do have limited options." He took a deep breath. "Ok, tell me… how you feel."
She began crying softly again. "We try every night Sam. Every night that I'm not on…" she paused and closed her eyes tightly before she continued. "Every night that I'm not on my… you know."
He nodded, he was very aware of that particular time of the month from living with Jessica.
"It's been six months and with all of that trying you would think we would have been pregnant months ago. It's not like he doesn't finish or that we are taking any precautions to prevent it from happening."
"And that's all I can listen to Carrie Beth. I'm sorry but thinking about you and Dean… finishing is just pushing it a little for me. You might be safer talking to the librarian."
She giggled. "You aren't a virgin are you Sam?"
"Far from it, but until all of this… we never even thought about kids. My relationships after Jessica have been quick hook ups to take the edge off and a semi-long term adventure with a demon named Ruby."
She stared at him quizzically. "Don't ask," he said. "I think you need to relax and it will happen. You two are the one true pairing remember, this is your destiny and for once we aren't trying to stop what has been foretold."
"Thanks Sam," she said as she stood and wrapped him in a hug.
Dean watched them from the doorway and smiled. He was glad that Carrie Beth and Sam seemed to get along as well as they did because he couldn't chose between the two of them. "Pack a bag Carrie Beth," he said from the doorway. "We are going to take a little trip just the two of us."
She glanced around Sam. "Why?"
"We didn't exactly get to have the wedding night I had imagined for us and I think I should get a do-over."
She beamed at him. "I think that sounds like a grand idea."
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The cabin was off the beaten path and very rustic on the outside. "If this thing has an outhouse we aren't staying just so you know Dean Winchester."
He chuckled and in the darkness she could just make out the curve of the dimple in his cheek. "I assure you it has all the modern conveniences."
"Who does it belong too?"
"Jody Mills. She's a local sheriff."
"A female sheriff with a hunting cabin, I would love to meet her."
"Maybe tomorrow we can drive into town and have breakfast with her or something. That is if you aren't too tired from our nighttime activities."
She giggled as he parked the car. "Stay put while I get the door opened and the lights turned on ok."
She nodded and watched his backside in the glow of the headlights of the Impala. He really was a gorgeous man and he belonged to her. It was almost sickening that she dampened at the sight of him bending over to retrieve the key from a potted plant. He was amazing. He wasn't what she had ever imagined herself with but he was exactly what she needed.
Once he had the door open and the lights on he came back to the car and opened her door. "Mrs. Winchester," he said with a grin, "you honeymoon awaits."
He watched her walk towards the cabin as he turned off the headlights and grabbed their bags. "I am one lucky son of a bitch," he said as he watched her hips sway.
His other brain twitched at the thought of making love to her all night long. "This is the night," he said out loud before he followed her into the cabin.
The cabin wasn't grand but it was beautiful in its simplicity. She heard Dean close and lock the door behind her but she didn't turn around. There were family pictures of a couple and a young boy and a woman and two girls on a nearby table. "That's Jody," he said from behind her.
"The others?" she asked.
"I'll tell you later. I want this to be about us right now," he whispered in her ear.
His hands softly caressed her body running from her shoulders down her arms until they rested on her hips. He began to kiss a trail from her ear to her neck and along the exposed area of skin near her collar. She rubbed her backside against him and he growled softly.
She tried to turn in his arms but he stopped her and kept her facing away from him. She turned her head and he captured her lips for a searing kiss that left her breathless and wet. She felt him undo the button on her jeans and lower the zipper and she moaned against his mouth when his fingers slipped beneath the band of her panties. He moved his thumb over the sensitive nub that had started to grow and she cried out when he slipped first one, then two fingers inside of her core.
His mouth never left hers as he continued to piston his fingers in and out of her soft folds, mimicking the motions with his tongue in her mouth. He grinned against her mouth when she began to buck her hips against his hand. It didn't take long before she was tightening around his fingers and panting with her orgasm. He kept his fingers in place against the sensitive nub until she relaxed against him and he laughed when she tried to keep him from removing them. "That is just the beginning my love," he said wiping his hand on his jeans.
He took her hand and led her to the bedroom where he began his kissing assault again, but this time she took control. She grabbed the hem of his gray t-shirt and pulled it over his head before she started kissing his chest and up his neck and chin. She flicked her tongue over the hardened buds of his nipples and he groaned at her ministrations. She circled him and ran her hands over his ass and used her nails to scrape down his back causing him to moan in pleasure.
She moved back in front of him and undid his jeans pushing them down to the floor. He kicked off his shoes and socks and stepped out of the jeans before he pushed her back on the bed and covered her with his body. He kissed her passionately and nipped her bottom lip. She grabbed the bottom of her shirt and he helped her pull it over her head and tossed it onto the floor along with his jeans. He pulled the satin material of her bra away from her breast and ran his tongue around the pink nipple causing it to harden. She drew in a breath as his mouth enveloped her nipple and suckled. She arched her back trying to draw his mouth further onto her breast and he chuckled before blowing a cool stream of air across her nipple. He swiftly undid the clasp that held her bra in place and tossed it over his head.
He took his time with her breasts then moving back and forth between them to suckle and kiss. She bucked her hips beneath him but he kept the pressure from the place she desired for him to touch. She finally positioned him at an angle to flip him over and allow her to take control. She stood next to the bed and slipped off her jeans and panties. She pulled her hair down and his eyes were suddenly full of lust.
She grabbed the waist band of his boxers and pulled downward allowing his erection to spring forward. She pulled his boxers down his legs and tossed them onto the floor before taking the head of his erection into her mouth. He allowed her to suckle once or twice before he pulled back from her. She stared at him in confusion. "I thought you…"
"I do," he said quickly, "and maybe later, but I don't want to waste the chance."
She smiled at him softly and crawled up his body in order to plant a kiss on his lips. "We are making a baby tonight," he said softly and kissed her again, pushing her hair from her face in the process.
He helped her line her opening up with him and groaned as she lowered herself onto his member. She took each inch in slowly and when he was finally completely sheathed inside of her she threw her head back and moaned. They began to move together then, she rising above him and taking him in and out and him thrusting to meet her with each motion. Her orgasm was first and he relished in the feel of her squeezing around him. He took her distraction as the opportunity to change their positions so that he was once again on top and in control.
He wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist as they continued their movements. He suddenly began thrusting with fervor and in a few minutes he was moaning her name as he filled her with his seed. She kept her legs wrapped tightly around him as he pressed his forehead to hers. "I love you Dean," she said softly.
"And I love you Carrie Beth," he said before kissing her.
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When the sun broke through the lacey curtains that covered the windows in the bedroom Carrie Beth and Dean were already awake. They had made love all night long making sure that each time he orgasmed he was deep inside of her. "It's morning," he said rubbing her back gently while he planted kisses on her face and neck.
"I don't want it to be," she said returning his kisses with enthusiasm.
"I'll call Jody and see about meeting her for breakfast if you want," he said slipping his fingers in-between her legs. "Or we can stay here."
He began to thrust his fingers in and out of her and it only took a moment before he was thrusting his hardness into her core. She moved her hips in unison with him while she spoke in short simple sentences. "Breakfast. Sounds. Good."
He felt his balls tighten at the same time her walls pressed around him and he filled her once again. He collapsed on top of her and grinned. "Shower first," she said. "Then call Jody and see about meeting her for breakfast."
"Yes ma'am," he said kissing her again.
He rolled off of her and headed towards the bathroom. She lay still for several minutes listening to him empty his bladder and start the water. "Come on and get in," he said. "I'll call Jody and join you in a minute."
She nodded and was actually grateful for the moment of seclusion. She emptied her own bladder and grimaced at the tenderness she felt in between her legs. The shower was hot and the water soothed her aching muscles. She had time to wash her hair and her body before Dean joined her. "Jody said to meet her at the café at eight so we have a little time."
He kissed her shoulders and stepped under the shower spray himself. She couldn't help but touch him and she used the wash rag to clean him, paying special attention to his growing erection. He kissed her softly. "Shower sex is too complicated," he said with a chuckle. "Not to mention I'm sure you are sore because I sure as hell am."
She turned a bright shade of red and couldn't meet his eyes. He placed a finger under her chin and lifted her face to meet his. When they were eye to eye he smiled showing her that delectable dimple. "Why are you suddenly embarrassed?"
Her eyes were filled with lust. "I… I don't…"
"Carrie Beth," he said with a warning tone.
"I can't get enough of you!" she blurted out. "But I am so tender I don't think I can… have sex right now and that kind of depresses me."
Dean stared at her for a moment before he died out laughing. She blushed again and tried to turn away from him but he wouldn't let her. "Baby I knew you would be sore this morning! I'm glad you can be honest with me, it is refreshing. I don't expect anything but your company today… and the occasional kiss." He kissed her gently with that statement. "Now let's get dried off and head to town. I really think you will like Jody."
When they were back in the Impala and on the road Dean checked in with Sam to make sure things were okay. "I don't know why you do that Dean. Sam would call you if there was a problem."
He glanced at her. "What do you mean by that?"
She sighed and rolled her eyes. "You are always checking up on him, but he is a very capable hunter. He doesn't need you to remind him of his duties every time you leave."
The muscle in Dean's cheek clenched but she ignored it and pressed her luck. "Sam is an adult, he's not your kid brother anymore."
Dean suddenly slammed on the Impalas brakes and pulled over to the side of the road. He put the car in park and turned to face her. "You have not been a part of our lives long enough to tell me anything about Sam Carrie Beth. He is my responsibility, mine! I have to protect him, it's my duty. When it comes to my relationship with Sam I don't need or want your opinion."
He turned away from her, put the car in drive and pulled out onto the highway spinning rocks as he went. They didn't speak again until they pulled up in front of the café. "I'm sorry," Dean muttered. "Sam is special and I know our relationship is dependent and fucked up, but we don't know how to function any other way. I'm still trying to figure out how we have been married for six months and you haven't picked up and run off."
Carrie Beth looked at him horrified. "I would never leave Dean! Don't ever think that I would leave especially over your relationship with Sam. Now Cas, we can kick him to the curb he really is a dick with wings."
Dean couldn't' help but grin. "The point is that Sam and I have only had each other for so long now that we can't function without each other. Once we make the prophecy truth though I'm sure that will change. The other timeline that Cas showed me, it wasn't like now."
She leaned over and kissed his cheek. "Oh hell no, we aren't ending our first fight with a kiss on the cheek!"
He pulled her across the seat and basically into his lap while he kissed her hungrily. A tapping on the window interrupted their makeup moment however. Dean glanced behind him and opened the car door. "Good morning officer, what can I do for you?"
"Quit making out in front of the diner and get your ass inside for one thing," the dark haired woman said.
Dean chuckled. "We had our first fight. We were making up and you interrupted," he said with a pout.
"I will arrest you," she said crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"Alright, alright," Dean answered turning back to Carrie Beth who had watched the exchange with amusement. "Hungry?"
"Famished," she replied.
She followed him out of the driver's side door and was instantly wrapped in the arms of the dark haired sheriff. "Jody Mills," she said pulling back from the hug to look at Carrie Beth. "I am so happy for you two and I can't wait to see what happens when you change the world."
Carrie Beth didn't know how to respond so she just smiled. "She's selfish," Dean said from behind them, "she has been impacted by monsters too and she's excited because if we really do reset things she'll get her family back."
"Not just me! Claire will get her parents back, Alex will get her family back… there are so many people who have been effected by these things Dean. It's not selfish… at least I don't feel like it is."
Dean grinned. "I'm not saying selfish like it's a bad thing Jody! Hell I get this hot woman for my wife and the family I have always wanted. It's a win for me too."
"Let's have breakfast already," Carrie Beth said quietly. "We are starting to draw attention."
Jody was really wonderful and they were eventually joined by her adopted daughters Claire and Alex. Their meal was interrupted by Dean's phone. "It's Sam," he said to Carrie Beth. "I'll step outside to talk to him."
The other three girls waited until Dean was outside and the diner door closed to gather around Carrie Beth closely. "You are married to Dean," Claire said.
"That sounds like a statement, not a question," Carrie Beth responded.
"I mean is he just amazing?" Alex asked. "He has to be amazing right. A body like that and I'm sure he is talented."
"Alex!" Jody whispered harshly.
Carrie Beth giggled. "He is amazing but I don't kiss and tell. Especially to two teenage girls who are currently ruled by hormones. I promise you both it is so much better if you wait."
Alex pouted and shrunk back in her seat. "So," Carrie Beth said turning to look Claire. "Castiel is really your dad's human form?"
Claire rolled her eyes. "Yeah, he's in my dad's meat suit but he's an asshole. The only good thing he ever did was get me to Jody."
"But if Dean and I make the prophecy come true you will both get your parents back right?"
Alex and Claire both nodded and watched Jody closely. "Girls, don't look so sullen. It's ok to want your parents back instead of me. I can't ever replace them and you were both taken so destructively from them… you both need this to happen as much as I do."
Dean came back in the diner as Jody finished her statement, he looked pissed. "What's wrong?" Carrie Beth asked.
"Jody can she stay with you today? I've got something to deal with and I don't want her to get hurt."
Carrie Beth eyed him with concern. "What's going on Dean?"
He ignored her and kept looking at Jody. "Sure," Jody said unsurely. "She can come back to the house and hang out with Alex and Claire this morning. I have to take care of somethings…"
"Great," he said before placing the phone back to his ear and walking outside.
Carrie Beth pushed herself away from the table furiously and stormed out of the diner. Dean was leaning against the trunk of the Impala talking to someone on the phone when she stopped in front of him. He watched her but didn't hang up. "I can be there in a couple hours, if that's not soon enough call Garth he's only an hour away from you."
She glared at him and he smiled at her, but she wasn't falling for the charm. He wasn't going to dump her on some strangers no matter how close they were to him. "Yeah, I'll be on the road in a minute, I've got to take care of… someone first."
He hung up the phone and shoved it in his pocket. He didn't speak, he just stared at her. "Where the hell are you going?" she finally asked breaking the silence.
"Sam called because a local hunter needs help."
"Two hours away is not local Dean."
"It is in the world of hunters. You find who is closest and bring them in to help."
"And what are you helping to hunt huh?"
"Nothing serious, nothing that hurt me."
She crossed her arms and glared at him.
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Are you being protective? Or do you just not want to get left with two teenage girls?"
Her mouth tightened into a thin line and before he knew it she had punched him in the shoulder, hard. "Damn Carrie Beth that hurt!"
"How dare you accuse me of being anything other than protective! You are my husband and I don't like you putting your life on the line! I know this is your job but I don't have to like it and if you ever accuse me of not being protective I will withhold sex from you for a week… no a month!"
Dean stared at her and tried to keep a straight face, but he couldn't help but laugh at her. He pulled her towards him and began planting kisses on her face until she relaxed. "I'm sorry. I've been an asshole to you twice this morning and it was not deserved." She glared at him but didn't speak. "I'm going to help another hunter with a poltergeist. It's inhabiting a family home and he can't deal with it by himself because it's so strong. It won't hurt me Carrie Beth, but it could potentially hurt the family."
"Was that so hard?" she asked quietly before she kissed his lips softly. "Be careful and call me if you aren't going to be back by tonight."
He opened the car door and pulled her shoulder bag out of the front seat that she always carried. "Those girls are going to probe you for details about me," he said with a smile.
"They already have," she said with a giggle. "Be careful," she said before kissing him again.
He waved as he drove off and she was left standing beside the diner alone. This was different than all the times he had left her at the bunker. She didn't feel like she had been abandoned or anything but she didn't feel as protected as she did when he left her at the bunker. "Let's get you girls back to the house," she heard Jody say behind her.
"Jody I am hardly a girl," she said turning to face her.
"I know," Jody said, "but I think of Dean and Sam as my boys so you are another one of my girls." Jody smiled at her in a motherly fashion. "Let's go."
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She spent three days with Jody and her girls before Dean was finally able to come get her. He called her every day to let her know how things were progressing and he ended up having to get Sam involved too. "This damn thing is attached to more than just an object," he had told her on the second night.
"Just be careful," she had told him more than once.
They ended each conversation with "I love you" and Claire and Alex always looked doe eyed after listening to them talk.
They were outside grilling burgers when Dean pulled up with Sam in the passenger seat. She ran to the car and kissed him passionately causing him to groan in pain. She pulled his shirt up to reveal a bandage and looked at him questioningly. "Three broken ribs," he said with anger, "damn poltergeist caught me off guard and slammed a chair into my side."
She took him by the hand and drug him inside to the bedroom she had been using. She closed the door and locked it before she started pulling his clothes off. "I knew you missed me woman but I didn't realize you would strip me naked the moment you saw me."
"Shut up," she said glaring at him. "I am assessing you to make sure you aren't hurt anywhere else. I told you to be careful!"
He grinned as she pulled off his pants and boxers and his erection sprang forward. She had on the dress she got married in so kissing her and removing her panties hadn't been an issue for him. He laid back on the bed and pulled her on top of him lining up her center with his member. He pushed her skirt up out of the way so he could watch himself enter her. She moaned as he pushed himself inside of her and began to move against him instinctively. "You were so wet for me Carrie Beth," he said as he thrust upward into her tight hole and ignoring the pain from his ribs. "Have you been thinking about me? Have you had to take care of yourself at night thinking about me?"
"Dean," she moaned increasing her pace. "Oh Dean, yes I have missed you."
She paused suddenly and ground her hips against his as she moaned his name in orgasm. He thrust upward once and held the position as she clenched tightly around him. When the throbbing began to subside she began to move quickly again and he joined her in orgasm moments later.
She lay down on top of him, his softening erection still inside of her. "I have missed you," she said against his chest. "I have been worried sick about you, but no I haven't been masturbating since you left. The real thing is so much better and I knew you would come back to me."
He grinned and kissed the top of her head. "Those burgers smelled great," he said hinting that he was hungry.
She sighed. "Well let's get cleaned up and go get you one." Her cheeks suddenly pinked with embarrassment. "I didn't even say hello to Sam!"
Dean began laughing and he was still laughing twenty minutes later when they rejoined the others outside. "Sam I am so sorry!" Carrie Beth said, wrapping him in a hug.
"For?"
"I didn't even speak to you! I am a horrible sister-in-law!"
Sam chuckled. "I didn't even think along those lines Carrie Beth."
Jody eyed them for a moment before she handed Dean a plate. He ate three burgers before he was satisfied and Sam ate four. "So much for left overs," Jody said as they began to clear the mess.
"We have eaten peanut butter and crackers for the last two days," Sam said. "We were starving."
"We'll take care of breakfast in the morning," Dean said putting the plates into the sink where Claire and Alex were washing dishes.
"I'm glad you are staying the night," Jody said with a sincere smile. "It's too late for you boys to be on the road. We already went up to the cabin and got your things."
"Thanks Jody and thanks for taking care of Carrie Beth."
Sam dropped onto the couch and was asleep in a matter of minutes. "Well I guess that's our cue to turn in for the night," Claire said. "Sam snores like a freight train so we won't be able to hear the television with him in here."
They each said good night before heading off to their respective rooms. This time Dean made love slowly to Carrie Beth. Stripping her bear and kissing every inch of her naked body before he sheathed himself tightly inside of her. He kissed her and swallowed her cries of pleasure to keep from disturbing the rest of the house. When they were both satisfied she tucked herself into his side and promptly fell asleep. He lay awake for several more minutes watching her breath and thinking he was the luckiest damn man on the face of the earth.