CHAPTER 16

Sam stood up. Lily was surprised that he looked angry. "He promised! He said he would leave you alone!"

Lily was looking at Sam dumbfounded and Dean was watching her. "It wasn't Dean, was it?"

Lily looked at him; her mouth was gaping open. "No, it wasn't Dean." She said quietly.

Sam suddenly looked more worried than angry. "Sam?"

Lily sputtered. It wasn't an appropriate time to start laughing. She held her breath and shook her head.

Dean rolled his eyes, "It was Bobby, you idiot."

Lily nodded, still trying hard not to laugh. This was a serious moment.

Dean stood up then and started pushing his brother out of the room. Sam was protesting, but Dean got him going up the stairs and they went into their room.

Lily, still sitting on the coffee table, finally started to giggle. She couldn't wait to tell Bobby.

Lily waited for the boys to come back down, but they didn't come out of their room. She decided to give them some more time. She went up to her room and called Bobby.

"Hey babe" Bobby answered. "How was your dinner?"

"I don't know. I don't think I ate much of it. Nerves are a bitch."

"Ya gotta eat, though" Bobby sounded worried.

"I know; I'll eat a snack later. I have some pickles…"

"Pickles, huh?" Bobby could tell she was yanking his chain. He smiled.

Lily laughed. "Maybe some ice cream to go with it."

"Well that sounds perfectly awful."

Lily laughed again. There was silence for a minute.

"How was your talk with the boys?"

"I don't know about that either."

"Did ya tell them?"

"Yeah, I told them."

"What did they say?"

"Well, first, Sam was gonna come over and kill Dean."

"What?"

"Uh huh, and then when he realized that Dean wasn't the culprit, he pondered whether he could take Sam. My Dean guessed that it was you. Then he stood up and started pushing Sam out of the room. They went into their room and I haven't heard word one out of them for about an hour." She continued, "It's possible that Dean got Sam out of there because I was trying not to laugh."

"You shouldn't laugh at a pissed off teenage boy."

"That wasn't what I was laughing about. Sam was standing over me and first he was angry about Dean; ready and willing to go over there and kill him. Then he was perfectly nervous about having to defend my honour against Sam."

Bobby was laughing, "It was inappropriate to laugh at that."

"Oh, I know, but Bobby, it was funny!

Just then there was a knock at the door of Lily's bedroom.

"Uh oh, someone is out of their room and wanting to talk." She got up and moved to open her door. "I'll call you tomorrow morning." Both boys were standing there.

"Ok babe, I'll talk to ya tomorrow. Sleep well."

"You, too." Never taking her eyes off her sons, she closed her phone and put it in her pocket.

Lily looked at her boys, but could not read their expressions. "Are you two mad at me?"

Neither boy answered. She gestured them into the room. "I, uh, guess you have every right to be. I know if positions were reversed, I would be angry."

They still hadn't said anything. Then finally, Dean said, "Mom, last, I don't know, March I think, you bought a box of condoms and proceeded to have a really embarrassing talk with us about skin to skin contact during sex. You told us, it wasn't safe; there were sexually transmitted diseases out there, unwanted pregnancies and so on. You said just 'cause a girl says she's using birth control, doesn't mean we shouldn't use a condom. You even told us there were fun ways to use the damn things!"

"Dean! I also told you they weren't 100% effective, only abstinence is!"

"Yeah, well, that would be our other point!" Sam interjected angrily.

Lily sat on the edge of her bed. Suddenly she realized she wasn't looking at two boys, but at two young men. "I can't begin to tell you how proud of you I am. I'm beginning to realize… how really wonderful you two are!

She nodded, "Okay, when Chuck visited in my dream he told me not to treat Bobby like a brother because he, Bobby, wouldn't like it." She held up her hand as they started to squirm. She took a breath. "Without going into details, which I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear… Bobby and I kissed and it led to more."

"I've told you the facts of life and given you books that explained some things that I thought were happening in my body. You've had human biology as part of your home schooling. So you know I thought I was in menopause." They nodded. "Apparently, I was mistaken. The doctor confirmed that unholy stress, like we experienced, can cause the symptoms. She said it was a false menopause and she told me that because I was on the mend emotionally, I would have started having periods again, if I hadn't gotten pregnant instead." She ran her hands through her hair, "We did use condoms, too."

"I told you before that Chuck made an appearance here, today. I told you that he explained some things to us." They nodded, "He told me that Bobby was heaven sent. I was heaven sent to him as well. I think this baby was meant to be."

"Look boys, I've tried to be honest with you both about everything in our lives that affects all of us equally. If Carthage hadn't happened, I doubt I would have been even a fraction as frank with you about all this stuff. I do know giving you the full truth about things affects you, in both good ways and bad. I also know that now isn't the time to start hiding things from you."

They were looking at her intently. "Is there more? You having twins or something?" Sam could be snarky when he was tired and upset.

Lily shook her head, refusing to rise to his attitude, "No, not twins." Lily looked at the floor. "That morning, you two and the doctor came back from camp because of those boys and that stupid prank they pulled. You knew if I heard the report, I would think it was you two. You were right. I did think it was you and I did panic. I had a terrible asthma attack; I was unconscious and Castiel saved me." They nodded; they had been given all of the details of what happened when they came home from camp the next day.

"By then, I had become pregnant. Now, there was no way for anyone to know I was pregnant, not even Castiel!" They nodded again. "Well, I suppose Castiel would have known if he'd thought to check, but why would he have?"

Lily looked at her boys. "This is big stuff I'm gonna tell you." They looked at her closely. "Castiel heals the injured and the dead, apparently, by giving the person some of his grace." They nodded. "I had conceived and the cells in my body were dividing and developing and doing all the things cells do to become a baby and at that moment Castiel touched me and added his grace to the mix."

"Is the baby okay?" asked Sam.

Lily smiled at him. "Today Castiel checked me. He told me the baby was perfect in every way. He told me it was a girl." She smiled at them, and there were tears in her eyes. "And he told me that the baby absorbed some of his grace."

"The baby is an angel?" Dean looked shocked.

"Chuck explained that she would have grace, but she would be normal otherwise. She won't have wings and she isn't an angel; she's human."

Dean and Sam looked at each other and nodded. They turned to Lily and hugged her. They started to leave the room when Dean looked at Sam, "Hey bro, looks like we're finally getting that little sister we always wanted." They bumped fists.

Dean continued down the hall to their room, but Sam turned around at the door, ready to close it for Lily when he said, "Just so you know, you're not off the hook for having sex with someone the first day you met him."

Lily gasped as he closed the door. She couldn't be angry though, he had a point.

AN: The phrase 'just so you know' was used at the behest of my son, who is actually too young to read this.