As I finished this there was a small flutter, I was filled with a sense of warmth of calm and I had the sensation that the twins believed me and that they knew that they were loved and would be safe.

As we had all agreed that we would leave Bobby's the following day and head to Washington rather than New Harmony Indiana. We discussed breaking into 2 groups, I had tried to get the guys to agree to them all going ahead and setting up the house, and I would catch a train back and meet up with them in a couple of days. In unison they had all said that with Lilith on the loose and after the twins they didn't feel it would be safe unless one of them was with me. So in the end the decision was made that I would travel with Sam in the SUV and Will, Dean and Bobby would go ahead in the Impala. It is normally a 22 hour drive in the best of conditions but with a heavily pregnant woman on board who would need regular breaks this was going to extend the amount of time it took us to get back and Sam and I would aim to get back to my house in Georgetown, DC in 4 days. Will, Dean and Bobby decided that they would drive straight through and that this would give them time to start to set up all the traps and that we would need on the 2nd May.

Will and I arrived at Bobby's early the following day and as Will transferred his belongings to the Impala, Sam put his stuff in the SUV. Will walked me to the SUV to say goodbye and he pulled me into him, put his hands on either side of my now very pronounced bump and kissed me deeply, as he pulled away from the kiss I turned to him and said "You be careful, we can't lose you. You know I need you in my life and that is never going to change. The twins need their father and if what I have been feeling over the past 8 months is any indication we are going to need you in more ways than one. You know we had talked about which room to make the nursery, I was thinking that we turn the study off of the Master Suite into the nursery which means that the twins will be close. I'd suggest that Dean and Sam have the rooms on the third floor, and Bobby is in the bedroom on the same floor as us. This means that the boys have some privacy something they probably haven't had in a while. I'll see you later in the week; you know we won't push it and that if we need to take a break we will." As I got to climb into the driver's seat, the car keys were swiped from my hands and a voice said "Oh no you don't, you are not driving anywhere in your condition" and the next thing the keys were travelling through the air and I heard "Sam catch". I looked up and was confronted by Dean with Will at his shoulder he looked at me as though to say "What were you thinking. You just got over telling me to take care and you were thinking of driving, I don't think so."

Sam arrived with the keys and said "Toni you ready to leave." I said "Yes, I'm ready. The sooner we leave, the sooner we get back to Washington." He turned to Dean and said "Dean take care of yourself, I'll see you in a few days," and in the time honored tradition of the Winchester male thumped each other on the shoulder and then followed the 'Bitch / Jerk' I had come to expect from them it was their way of showing each other how they really felt without getting 'chick flick' as Dean had referred to it on more than one occasion. Sam and I got into the SUV and Bobby, Dean and Will got into the Impala and we set off on our separate drives. I knew that going home would be different the expectation that I had felt driving to South Dakota had gone and I had heading back with optimism and a slight apprehension.



24 hrs later

As Sam and I were heading out of the motel to start the second day of our drive back, my mobile rang, and it was Will to tell me that they had arrived home. He was taking the opportunity while Bobby and Dean got breakfast to let me know that they had arrived back and that they would start work on the house, later after they had all grabbed some sleep and were fully rested. He told me that they had taken it in shifts to make the drive which I later found out from Sam was huge as Dean normally wouldn't let anybody else take the wheel of the Impala.

4 days later

The time on the road had gone quicker than Sam and I had expected as we spent the time talking about John and Mary. My recollections that hadn't come up at Bobby's because it was hard to talk about Mary in front of Dean, I could tell that it hurt him a great deal and so limited my stories. However it was different for Sam he couldn't remember his mother and the things I would tell him about her filled in the blanks that he had and it gave him a better picture of her and why his father reacted the way he did. I phoned Will telling him that I was I directing Sam to the block where our house was, we would be there in approximately 10 minutes. As we pulled up to the garage Will, Dean and Bobby were there to greet us. The moment I saw Will my heart soared and the babies kicked as though they knew their daddy was there and they had missed him as much as I had. Sam pulled the SUV into the garage and parked it next to the two Impala's in the garage, mine and Dean's, they were almost identical apart from the road dust and number plates you couldn't tell them apart. As we climbed out of the car, Dean turned to me and said with a crack in his voice "You said you had an Impala, but I didn't realize it was exactly like Dad's." "I know", I said "it was a family tradition when you passed your driving test you got a car and I had fallen in love with John's Impala so that's what Dad got me. In order to keep it in good working order I had to learn how to look after it. It was my baby and my connection to John for so many years." I replied and could feel a lump building in my throat, John was gone and I never got to tell him how much he had influenced my life and the decisions that I had made.

We all made our way back to the house to get a drink. As we entered the kitchen Dean whispered to Sam "Can you believe this house; I knew that we were related to money, Toni gave us the shares and the financial papers as our inheritance but I don't think it had sunk in until I saw this house." Sam said "Dude, what you thinking she's standing right there." I looked between Dean and Sam and said "It's alright Sam; it is all a bit daunting the first time you see the house, it has been in the family for at least 3 generations. It was built for my grandfather so that he was close to the decision makers. It took Will a little while to get used to the size of the house and the family he was marrying into." I felt Will sidle up to me and I felt his hand slip into mine and he said "Yes, it was a bit daunting; I couldn't believe that this woman would ever want me. She appeared to have everything but then when we started talking I realized that this is all stuff and is not what is important. What is important that you have family to share your life with." I continued "Dean and Sam I hope that you come to feel at home here, I know that you will never really stop your wandering, there is too much water under the bridge to change that now, but I hope that you will think of this as your home as much as you think of Bobby's as your home."



As we had finished our drinks I needed to clean up and I thought that Sam probably felt the same and said to Dean "Can you take Sam up and show him where you are staying, I'm sure he wants to clean up." After Dean and Sam left the room, I leaned over to Will and said I'm going up to our room I need to freshen up." Will said "I'll come with you there is something that I need to show you" We walked into the master suite on the 2nd floor, Will came up behind me, laid his hands on the twins and said "Let me show you what Dean, Bobby and I have done in the nursery." We walked into the new nursery, all of the office furniture had been moved out, and in its place were the two cribs that we had ordered in South Dakota, the ones with devil traps at the heads and the Latin incantations on the foot. Will glanced at the ceiling and I looked up as well there was a devils trap on the ceiling over the entrance to the room. I turned to Will with tears in my eyes and grasped his face in my hands and looked deeply into his eyes and said "I love it; you've all worked so hard on demon proofing the room for the twins." As we were talking Will moved his hands onto the twins again, and we both felt a sudden and overwhelming feeling of peace and love. I looked back into Will's eyes and said "The twins love it too. OK so the nursery is all set up, Sam, Dean and Bobby are settled in their rooms, we just need Lilith to take the bait and come for us."

Will and I walked back downstairs, into the kitchen and met with Dean, Sam and Bobby. We agreed that we were going to go out and grab something to eat and then we would come back and start working on the next phase of the plan to get rid of Lilith.