Sorry it has been a while since the last chapter, slight writers block and busy at work. I thought that I would start with a breakdown of the current powers in the Winchester / Talbot family. No battle quite yet, but we are getting there.

The Winchester Family Powers

Toni – Psychic

Will – Empathy

Aidan – Empathy (possibly psychic – too young to tell at present)

Cole – Telekinetic (possibly psychic – too young to tell at present)

Sam – Psychic and Telekinetic

Aidan and Cole were approaching the end of their third week and a routine had settled in the house. The boys were very quiet and had settled into their nursery well and as an added bonus Will continued to pick up what the twins were feeling and what they needed before they started to cry. Will and I were spending a lot of time with the twins or catching up on the lost sleep which meant that 'Lilith watch' as it was being referred to was left to Bobby, Dean and Sam.

Bobby had been doing the rounds and catching up with other hunters to see if they had any news on Lilith, where she was, what she was doing or what she wanted. Every couple of days the phone would ring and a hunter was providing him with information. The news coming back was that she was heading towards Georgetown, DC. There were only three days left until Dean's deal was up and Sam's vision was due to come true, we were all hoping that as the fight was no longer in Indiana then the outcome of the deal and the fight would change and that no-one would be losing their lives on May 2nd.

The house was ready for the Lilith's arrival, the devils traps were in place on the ceiling in the study and the main living room. Salt and cats eye shells had been laid down along with several pentacles that Sam had found in the 'Key of Solomon' that would stop Lilith or any other demon from coming into the house that way. With the protection in place, Sam and Will continued the research into the family history. Will wanted to know the reason that the demon had come after his parents and which demon it was. Sam wanted to see if he could uncover the reason that the youngest in each generation of the Winchesters had special powers. During one of these research sessions, I was overcome by a sudden sensation of sadness; I walked into the study to find Will deep in thought and looking as though the world had been turned on its head. Will who had heard me come into the room and looked up at me and as our eyes met I could see tears in his eyes so I asked him "What's wrong", he replied "It's all my fault, my parents are dead because of me, the demon killed them to get to me. Lilith was the demon that killed my parents and it's my fault she is coming after the twins." I walked across to him bent down and took his hands in mine, kissed them gently as he had done so many times for me in the past and told him firmly but gently "It is not your fault, any more than it is my fault that Mary died or Sam's fault that Jessica died. We are dealing with a demon that has her own twisted reasons for doing what she does. What would make you think that your parents' death or her coming after the twins is your fault?" Will handed me over a piece of paper he had found in one of the books that had been brought with them from South Dakota and said "I found this, it's a prophesy, it is written in Latin but the direct translation reads 'The merging of two great houses will lead to the downfall of the queen.' The prophesy goes on about about how the youngest children of two households will be joined by marriage at the turning of the 21st Century and that both of these children will have powers. Two children would be born from this union bringing together the bloodlines and these children would have the ability to rid the world of all evil."

As Will finished telling me about the prophesy Bobby, Sam and Dean walked into the room, Will raced across the room, pushed Bobby against the wall and screamed in his face "Did you know that this would happen? Did you know that this is why they died? Why didn't you ever tell me? I could have saved Toni the pain, I would have stayed away and she wouldn't be facing the loss of her children." At this the baby monitor on the desk started to buzz and I reached over to Will and said "Will you need to calm down; Aidan is picking up on your emotions. I need you to check on the twins with me, Aidan and Cole need to know that you are alright that there is nothing to be afraid of." We went upstairs to check on the twins leaving Sam and Dean looking stunned and Bobby looking concerned." Sam said "Bobby what is Will talking about saving Toni pain and the reason that they died." Bobby looked between Sam and Dean and said "Will must have found the prophesy" and handed them the piece of paper that Will had just handed me and a silence came across the room.

As Will and I walked up the stairs to the nursery I said "Will, I know it is normally you telling me this but you need to calm down, We know that Aidan is empathic and he is picking up on your emotions and projecting them. If Cole picks up on them then we may have to redecorate the nursery, we don't know what damage a 2 week old with telekinetic powers can do." As we walked into the nursery Will took hold of me and pulled me towards him slowly and leaned and kissed me and said "I'm sorry I know this is all my fault. You shouldn't have to go through this pain." I looked back at him and said "I'm not sorry, before you my life was empty, I had work and very little else, I wouldn't have two wonderful children, and I wouldn't have Sam and Dean back in my life. I don't regret meeting you or marrying you for a second and no prophesy is ever going to make me regret that. I don't want to hear you say that any of this is your fault or that I would be better off without you again."

When Aidan heard our voices he started to calm down and the crying that had been heard through the baby monitor in the study dropped to a whimper. I looked at the mobiles over the boys cots; we were using dream catchers with wind chimes instead of the cutesy ones with animals or teddy bears. We both felt that this would alert us to any change in movement around the cots and that with our family history any protection that the dream catcher could provide was an added bonus. The wind chimes had been kicking up a storm when we were coming up the stairs had now calmed right down. Will went and picked Aidan out of his cot as I went to get Cole. After picking up both boys from their cots, we went over to the rocking chairs that we had set up in the corner of the room to spend some time with them. Once we had sat down, Will spoke to them and said "Aidan, Cole it is ok boys, Daddy's ok. I'm sorry I upset you. I didn't mean to yell and you know that I love you and mummy." At this both boys calmed right down and Will looked at me and said "Aidan wants you to know it is lunchtime and that he knows that everything is ok and that Cole is ok as well." I looked at Will and said "I'll feed the boys, do you want to hang out with us or go downstairs and find out what Bobby has to say." Will said "I'll stay here I want to make sure that the boys are alright, I know that I scared them and you and I'm sorry for that." Will sat in the chair next to me and held Aidan whilst I fed Cole and then took Cole so that I could feed Aidan, we burped and changed them. I looked at Will and said "You need to have this out with Bobby and you can't really do that with us in the house, I need some things from the shop why don't I take the twins for a walk and you can stay here and talk to Bobby about the prophesy and what he did or didn't know."

We walked back down the stairs with the boys and their bag ready to go for the walk. When we walked into the study with the boys, I told the gathering that I was going to take the boys out for a walk. As I was speaking Dean looked at Will and said "are you serious, you can't be letting her go out on her own with the twins." I moved next to Dean and reached over with my free hand and clipped his shoulder and said "What do you mean letting me go out, I'm a grown woman with two children, I am quite capable of looking after myself and my children walking to the corner store. Will has to speak to Bobby and that will be easier to do with the twins out of the house, voices are bound to get raised. I also need to get some fresh air, apart from visits to the hospital I have been in the house for three weeks." Dean looked at me slightly deflated and said "Toni, I didn't mean anything by it, it's just that I don't to lose any more members of my family and Lilith is heading towards us and wants the twins. The house is all set so that you and the twins are safe here. How about I come with you, this way you'll have some adult company and I'll be out of the way whilst Bobby talks to Will about the prophesy. Sam do you want to stay here and help with the research that I'm sure is to come or do you want to come with." I looked up at Will and said "If Will is happy with that then I don't have a problem with that." Will who had been holding Cole walked up to Dean handed him over and said "That's great, thanks Dean; I know I don't have to say it but keep them safe. Sam would you mind leaving too; we can research when you get back, I just really need to speak to Bobby alone." Dean, Sam and I headed to the hallway put Aidan and Cole into the coats and pram, said goodbye to Bobby and Will and left for our walk.

Whilst we were getting the boys ready Will had headed to the kitchen and grabbed two coffees and headed back to the study. As we left I heard Will ask Bobby in a calmer manner, "Did you know about the prophesy before today, and if so when and why did you never tell me. I've known you for close to 20 years, once I found out about the supernatural and who you were, you became family to me. You were the first one I called when I was thinking about asking Toni to marry me. I knew that you'd been married and knew a lot of married hunters and I valued your opinion, did you think I could make a marriage work whilst hunting part time. I even told you her last name and never once did you say this is not a good idea, this is going to lead to pain in the future. You told me to grab the chance of happiness with both hands. Look what has happened as a result of that decision we may lose the twins, I know that neither Toni nor I would survive that, we have already lost too much, too many family members. I can't be responsible for bringing that much pain into her life."

Bobby responded "Yes, I knew about the prophesy before today, It is why I was investigating your parents death. Any death that occurred and looked as if the prophesy might be coming true was investigated by the hunter community. I didn't tell you about it for the same reason as I told you to grab happiness with both hands; you've seen the amount of evil in the world, both the supernatural and then the non-supernatural evil that you and Toni deal with on a daily basis. You are not the only one who has come to think of the other as family. You are like a son to me, and I would do anything to protect you from harm both physical and emotional. So why wouldn't I tell you to get as much happiness as humanely possible? I never told you about the prophesy as you didn't need to think that you were responsible in any way for your parents' death, it was never your fault, and it was all the demons fault. Yes, you told me Toni's last name, but there was no way I could make the link between her and the family in the prophesy. The prophesy spoke about the youngest member of the bloodlines having powers, I knew about your empathy but I didn't know that Toni had powers. By the time I linked all of this together it was too late, you were married and having twins, as far as I could tell the prophesy was coming true and there was nothing that we could do to prevent it. I am sorry that you had to find out the way you did. I meant to tell you once the house was demon proofed and the twins were safe but I didn't know how to tell you without you blaming yourself for everything that happened or is about to happen. You don't deserve that and neither does Toni; you are both great people who have been handed a really bad hand. At least we know who is after the twins and why. We just need to work on keeping the six of you safe, as I am sure that Dean and Sam have a role to play in this as well. It don't think that the only reason Azazel came after Sam is because he has powers, I think that there is a link into the prophesy."

Just as Bobby finished speaking Sam walked into the study followed by me holding Cole and finally by Dean holding Aidan. Aidan immediately started to fuss and Will looked at Sam, walked over to him grabbed him by the arm and walked him out of the room. Aidan calmed down just as quickly and Dean looked at him, to me and then Bobby confused, I walked up to him and said "It's ok, it's just that Sam was upset and about to bust out on Bobby about something he overhead when we came in the room." Dean said "OK, as long as everything is alright I don't fancy having to take the twins out again, it's like a mob scene, the amount of woman coming up and cooing over them was frustrating. Is it like some kind of magnet, and why did they all assume that I was the father and not Sam." I looked at him with a huge smile on my face and said "That might be because you were pushing the pram and not Sam, that's normally something a parent does. I did try to tell you and to push it but you wouldn't have it so that's what you get. I thought that you would have loved being hit on my all those women." Dean looked at me and said "Normally, yes but with my cousins there it felt weird. I'm not sure if I can explain it. I think that I should go find Sam and make sure he's OK, he tends to wig out whenever Azazel is mentioned as though what he did to Mum and Jessica was his fault, I keep telling him it wasn't but that demon did a really good job on his head in Cold Oak." Dean put Aidan in his rocker and went in search of Sam and Will; I looked at Bobby and asked "is everything good now? Is Will OK." As I finished my sentence I felt a hand on my shoulder and I was turned towards my husband who said "I'm as OK as I'm going to be at the moment, it'll take a while but I'll be fine if I've got you and the boys." As he was about to finish his sentence Dean and Sam walked into the room and the three of them said in unison "We've got work to do." Will and Sam said "We need to investigate the prophesy and what it means, when and how this is supposed to go down", Dean said "and gear up. Lilith is due in two days and we need to be ready for her."

At that everyone started to walk towards their assigned positions in the study, I coughed gently and said "Ah guys, need a hand to get these two upstairs to the nursery, they need a diaper change and feeding." They all looked at me sheepishly, Dean stepped forward and said "No problem; Will you and Sam start the researching I'll help Toni with the twins." He reached down picked up Aidan from the rocker and headed out the door, seeing him with Aidan filled my heart with joy as this was how John had been with him and Sam when they were that small, I then felt a lump growing in my throat as I remembered that my sons would never to get to meet their uncles. That they had both been taken away by the things that went bump in the night and I vowed at that point they wouldn't lose any more relatives no matter what I had to do to stop it. As I was leaving the room I could feel eyes on the back of my head and I turned slowly to see Sam staring at me with concern in his eyes as though he knew what I had been thinking. We needed to talk about his abilities, but now was not the time we needed to deal with the challenges at hand.