A/N: So, the summary in the last chapter was way too short. It should have said this:

Sam, Dean, and Janie search for Sabrina. When she's returned to Janie, Janie makes a painful decision about Sabrina's future.

Chapter Six

It had been two hours since Sabrina went missing, and Janie was getting more and more frantic by the second. She knew it was irrational, but she refused to call AJ to allow him to start searching. She refused to share her thoughts with Dean, who she blamed for Sabrina getting taken. Janie made another phone call, refusing to share the details with either Sam or Dean. Dean cautiously came back to the motel room Sam had gotten, and was grateful when Janie didn't kick him out. Sam was sitting next to her on the bed, trying to calm her and convince her to call the police.

"No, Sam."

"Look, normally I'd agree with you, but…" Sam said.

"Sam, I said no!" Janie snapped. "I already called someone."

"Who?"

At the sound of Dean's voice, Janie turned. "What are you doing here?"

"Janie, please, I'm sorry…"

"You were supposed to be watching her!" Janie said for the fifth time in two hours. "I trusted you, Dean!"

"I know, Janie, I know." Dean was unused to this side of Janie. He was more accustomed to her easily forgiving nature.

Suddenly, all the anger drained out of Janie and was replaced with anxiety. "He's got my baby, Dean. What if he's hurting her like he did me?"

"If he hurts her, I promise you he won't hurt anyone else ever again."

"Dean!" Sam snapped when Janie started to breathe hard again in panic.

"Janie."

Everyone in the room jumped. Castiel had appeared out of nowhere, and as used to it as the three of them were, it still scared them. Janie stood up, suddenly no longer the scared little girl she'd regressed to when she'd seen her father. She was now the fearless hunter that Sam and Dean were used to.

"Did you find them?"

"I did." Cass said simply.

"Where's Sabrina?"

"Sabrina is outside the door. I have your father tied up in my car." Cass said.

"Is she hurt?" Janie asked. When Cass frowned, Janie refrained from ripping down the door to the motel room. "Cass? Tell me."

"Your father told her the truth about your past. All of it." Cass said. "Sabrina defended you, told him that it couldn't be true, and he…punished her for it."

Janie's heart plunged. She went to the door and opened it with shaking hands. Sabrina stood there, shaking and crying, but she didn't seem to be hurt.

"I healed her before I came in."

"Sabby, are you okay…?" Janie asked, taking her arm intending to gently lead her inside.

"NO!" Sabrina yelled, pulling away from Janie sharply.

"Sabrina?" Janie asked. "You're safe now, honey. Come on inside."

"You lied to me." Sabrina said.

"Sabrina, I know you're confused right now. But you need to come inside. We'll talk about it, all of it, but you need to come inside. Now."

An exhausted Sabrina walked inside and made a wide berth away from Janie. She sat at the table in the room, and Janie turned back to Cass. As hurt as she was for Sabrina, she had to deal with Leon first.

"Cass, I need you for one more thing."

"Of course." Cass replied.

"Take him back to the bunker. Zap him there, don't drive him. Tie him up as tight as you can in the deepest, darkest room you can find and leave him there."

"Are you going back to the bunker tonight?" Cass asked.

"No. But let him rot. We'll be back sometime before he thirsts to death."

"My pleasure." Cass said. "Janie? May I say something to you?"

"Sure, Cass."

"I've often been amazed at the strength of humans. But you have completely 'blown me away', as you would say. The amount of pain and anguish your father has caused you would have caused the strongest angels to lose their minds. I just wanted to say, I'm honored to be your friend."

Janie sputtered for a moment. "Thank you, Cass."

"You're welcome. After I drop off your father, I will attempt to find out how he escaped and how he was able to elude Sam and Dean's detection."

Dean frowned and looked apologetic all over again.

"He said he made a deal."

Janie turned towards Sabrina. "What?"

"He said he sold his soul to the devil so he could get out of prison and live ten more years." Sabrina said. "He said he also asked to be invisible to anyone that he didn't want to see him."

"I'm surprised he had one to sell." Dean remarked.

"That must be how he got away." Sam said.

"Cass, will you go on and take him, please?" Janie said. "And remember that other conversation we had. I'll call you if I change my mind."

"Very well."

Cass was gone, and Janie turned towards Sabrina. Sabrina was sitting with her arms crossed over her chest, looking down at the floor. Janie saw her wipe tears away from her eyes. It was a look that Janie had seen far too many times in her past, when Leon would punish her for some imagined infraction, trying to inflict as much pain on her as possible.

"Sabby?"

"I don't want to talk to you." Sabrina said, though there was much more sadness and confusion in her voice than anger.

"Well, you don't have to talk. Just listen." Janie said. "Do you want Sam and Dean to leave?"

"No."

"Okay." Janie pulled a chair out and pulled it in front of Sabrina. "Will you look at me?"

Reluctantly, Sabrina looked up, and Janie saw there were tears brimming at the edge of her eyes. "Why didn't you tell me you were my mommy?"

"Because I'm not." Janie said. "Did I carry you in here?" Janie asked, placing her hand on her stomach. "Yes. Do I love you so much that I can't stand it? Yes. But your mommy is the one who took care of you every single day. She's the one who was there every time you were sick, hurt, scared, happy, sad. She was your mommy. And she loved you just as much as I did."

"Why'd you leave home?" Sabrina asked.

Janie's heart broke. She had never wanted to have this conversation with Sabrina. "What did Leon tell you?"

"That you left him because you were gonna have me. That you told him you were dead because you didn't want him to see me."

"No. That's not true." Janie thought carefully about her response. How did you explain to a nine-year-old girl that your father beat and raped you until you ran away from home? "Sweetie, I left Leon because he hurt me. Every day. The only good thing that came out of what he did to me was you."

"How can I be a good thing if I'm here because he hurt you?"

"Because sometimes angels come to our lives in ways we don't understand." Janie said, amazing herself when she came up with that on the spot. When Sabrina smiled, Janie smiled back, relieved. "Baby, I know it's confusing. And maybe one day I'll explain it to you more. But for right now, all you need to know is this. You coming into my life saved me from him. So don't ever feel bad because of what he did to me. None of that is your fault. Understand?"

Sabrina nodded. "I understand."

"I'm sorry." Janie said. "I know it hurt you that I wasn't home a lot. I was still hurting and I was afraid that if I stayed home that I'd end up hurting you too."

"Please don't leave." Sabrina said. "I need you."

"I won't. Not until I know you're safe. And I'm sorry I can't keep you, honey. But you deserve a a real family, and I can't give you that with what I do. Okay?"

Sabrina nodded. "Okay."

"Okay." Janie said. "Will you tell me what Leon did to you?"

Sabrina blushed in embarrassment.

"Honey, did he touch you?" Janie asked.

"He hit me in the face and he spanked me." Sabrina said. "Cass showed up before he could do anything else."

Janie exhaled hard at that. "Did he do anything else?"

"No." Sabrina said.

"Okay." Janie said. She was angry that Leon had hurt her at all, but relieved he hadn't had the chance to go further. "Are you still hurting?"

"No. Cass healed me." Sabrina answered. "Is he really an angel?"

"Yep." Janie said. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"Yeah. All your friends are cool." Sabrina said.

"You hungry, baby? I am."

Sabrina started to say no, but her rumbling stomach gave her away. "Yeah. I am."

"Come on. Let's go to Leo's."

"What's Leo's?" Dean asked.

"The best place ever!" Sabrina said. "They've got everything! Chinese and pizza and burgers and fries and ice cream…"

"It's an all you can eat place with a bunch of different styles of food." Janie explained.

"Can I get buffet?" Sabrina asked.

"You can get whatever you want, love." Janie said. "Go wash your face and we'll go." As Sabrina ran into the bathroom, Janie turned to Dean. "Dean, I'm sorry I gave you such a hard time."

"It's okay…"

"No, it isn't. I know you did your best to keep her safe. I do trust you. You and Sam are about the only two people in the world I trust. I don't want to lose that. Especially now." Janie said.

"What does that mean?" Sam asked. "What did you mean when you said to Cass…?"

"I'm ready!" Sabrina had come out of the bathroom and was practically bouncing off the wall.

"I'm ready too, monkey butt." Janie said, eliciting a giggle out of Sabrina. Janie laughed and hugged Sabrina tightly. "Listen, I want you to stay in here for a second while I go outside with Sam and Dean."

"But I'm hungry!" Sabrina whined.

"I'm hungry tooooo!" Janie said, her dragged out syllables getting another giggle out of Sabrina. "But we have to talk about some grown up stuff. I promise it'll only take a minute."

"Okay." Sabrina said. "But you have to eat some broccoli tonight if I do."

"Yuck!" Janie said, sticking out her tongue in disgust. "Deal."

Janie sat Sabrina back down on the bed, and turned on the TV to make sure her attention was on something other than the adults talking outside. She stood at just the right angle outside that she could keep her eye on Sabrina the entire time.

"Janie, what are you gonna do?" Sam asked.

"Before you guys react, I've already made my mind up on this. There's no talking me out of it."

"Talking you out of what?" Dean asked.

Janie swallowed. She knew, deep down, that she was doing the right thing, but it would be painful and hard to bear no matter how Sam and Dean reacted. She knew that Sam would disagree with her, and would try to talk her out of it no matter what she said. Dean could go either way.

"Cass is coming back tonight after Sabrina goes to sleep. He's altering her memory so that she won't remember me or Leon."

"What?!" Sam asked loudly. "Janie…"

"Sam, don't." Janie said. "I've made up my mind about this already."

"Why?"

"Because I won't do it to her, Sam." Janie said. "I won't put my past onto her."

"But you said you called Cass about this earlier today."

Janie nodded. "I've been thinking about this ever since AJ told me it was Leon."

"Janie…"

"Sam. Stop." Dean said firmly. "She's made her choice. And I get it."

Surprised, Janie answered, "Thank you, Dean."

"But…" Dean said, checking in the window to make sure Sabrina was occupied, "you need to be sure. This isn't something you can take back."

"I know." Janie said. "Cass'll change her memory while she's asleep. When she wakes up in the morning, she'll be with her new adoptive family. As far as she and the rest of the world will be concerned, Jack and Marissa died a year ago in a car accident, and Sabrina was adopted into an awesome family that's always wanted kids but couldn't have them."

"This is wrong." Sam said. "You can't just erase her memory of you."

"I did." Dean said. "With Ben and Lisa. As hard as that was, I've never regretted it. It'll keep her a lot safer. Sam, you need to leave her alone."

Sam stood against the wall next to the motel room door, shaking his head.

"Guys, after I do this, I really won't have a place to go…"

Dean interrupted her thoughts by enveloping her into a tight hug. Janie held him as tight as he did her. She would deal with Leon the next day, but she was starting to feel herself coming up for air. She missed her parents terribly, but she would always have the memory of them. She would mourn Sabrina too, but giving her a chance at a true future, unburdened by the story of her conception, was worth the sacrifice. After a few long seconds, Dean told her sincerely,

"Don't ever say that again. As long as me, Sam, or Cass are breathing, you will always have a place to go. You will always have a family. Remember what Bobby used to say?"

"Yeah." Janie said.

"Say it."

"Family don't end in blood." Janie recalled with a smile.

"But it don't start there either." Dean said. "Got it?"

"Got it." Janie said. "Thanks, Dean."

"Anytime. Now what do you say we go feed this kid?"

"Let's go." Janie said. She spotted Sam, who was still leaning against the wall. "Sam? I know you don't agree. Just tell me this doesn't mean we can't be frie…" Dean poked her in the side and Janie revised her question. "Family anymore."

Sam softened and gave her another hug. "Never."

"I love you guys." Janie said. It was the first time she'd said it to anyone other than Jack and Marissa in years.

"Love you too, kiddo. Come on, let's go."

Next chapter: Janie confronts Leon at the bunker.