January 2025 (Castiel is 35, Dean is 36 (almost 37), Eden is 11, Adrian is 8, the twins are 4).
Nearly a year had passed and things were going as usual. The twins were still sleeping well at night but very stressful to handle during the day. Eden and Adrian helped their parents making sure that the twins behaved properly, because sometimes they'd do shenanigans and be very hyper and out of control.
Brad and Dean were still in a neighbor war. They couldn't stand each other at all and they'd do anything to piss the other guy off. The whole neighborhood was still on Dean's side in the conflict.
Dean and Castiel were happy. They loved their children, and they'd still find time for each other at night, but they still let the kids go to Mary and John's sometimes so they could have some alone time.
After the Christmas holidays were over in January, Eden and Adrian went back to school and the twins back to daycare. Dean and Castiel dropped them off a little before 8am before heading to work.
Eden was in the sixth grade now, and Adrian was in the second grade. The mixed school had all grades from first grade up to the eighth grade, but afterwards the children would have to transfer to a high school in a different location.
Eden and Adrian followed each other inside. The weather was cold and cloudy, and the school was filled with children coming back after the holidays.
Adrian growled at another boy when he bumped into him on purpose. The angel/human boy ignored him and kept walking.
"How come they never bump into you?" Adrian asked and scowled at his sister.
Eden laughed. "I don't know. Maybe the racists have manners towards a girl. But they do bump into me sometimes, though."
"Not that I've seen…"
They looked up when Ariel came over to them, grinning. "Hello! Did you have nice holidays?" she asked, and pulled Eden into a tight hug, which the hybrid returned happily.
"Yeah, our uncle Gabe almost blew up the house with a firecracker. Dad was furious," Eden grinned, and Adrian couldn't help but chuckle as well.
Ariel looked horrified. "Really? I'm glad your house is okay. We should head to class fast, Eden, I saw the teacher a minute ago."
"Okay, let's go," Eden said. She glanced at her brother and said, "See you later."
"Bye," Adrian replied and watched his sister run off towards her classroom with her friend. He made his way towards his own classroom and looked forward to having math class with Garth.
When he finally stepped into the classroom he saw four boys ganging up on Kenny, who was the class' nerd. The boy often kept to himself and read a lot of books, and he always did his homework. He was the perfect target for bullying.
Adrian hesitated in the doorway and watched the class' four alpha boys (two demons and two demon/human hybrids) throw the innocent angel/human beta around. He didn't know Kenny well, other than the boy had helped him a bit in math class a few times.
"Why did you tell the teachers that I was the one who wrote on the walls before the holidays? Are you a snitch?" one of the boys hissed and shoved Kenny against the wall. The boy was a demon named Liam, and Adrian had always disliked him.
"N-No, I was just doing what my mom told me… 'being honest," Kenny stuttered and stared in fear at the four other boys. The others in the class watched and held their breaths, but no one dared to interfere. One of the girls had tried to talk them out of it, but Liam wouldn't listen.
"Snitch!" another boy shouted and growled.
"My father grounded me all Christmas because of it!" Liam snarled.
Kenny whimpered and the other boys took a step closer to him, threateningly, before Adrian finally decided to step in.
"Leave him alone, Liam!" Adrian growled and walked over to them. "It's your own fault for painting on the walls."
The boys snapped their heads towards him, and Jeremy tried to talk Adrian out of messing with these guys, but Adrian was stubborn and continued to glare at the other boys.
"Who asked for your opinion, you freak?" Liam spat and looked at him with contempt. "My dad says that demons that mate with angels are crazy in their heads, and so are their children!"
"I'm not the one who is whining because his dad grounded him for doing something wrong," Adrian retorted.
Liam growled and spread his wings. They weren't sharp yet because he was only a kid, but they were a bit bigger than Adrian's and with rougher feathers. He was three months older than Adrian was.
"Don't start a fight with him, Liam, Mr. Garth is here soon," one of the other boys said and stared nervously between them. "He's gonna call you to the principal's office if you do something…"
Adrian and Liam glared each other down. Adrian had never liked his boy in the first place – he was always glaring at him during classes, and he was selfish and mean to others. His father had told him to stay away from types like Liam because they weren't worth wasting your time with. He had also told him not to hit anyone unless they hit first, and Adrian tried his best to follow that advice, even when the racists pissed him off.
Liam stood down, reluctantly, and folded his wings again. He kept glaring at Adrian. "Fine, I won't fight this freak. He's too weak anyway – my dad says angel/demon hybrids are messed up in their bodies because they aren't natural. Maybe that's why he's always hanging out with this class' weaklings." Liam laughed and the three others boys joined.
"You're the weakling in this class," Adrian muttered. His fists were clenched and his tail moved in anger while he growled at the other boy.
Everyone gasped and the whole class went silent, until Liam growled and attacked Adrian in a rage. They fell on the ground and Adrian fought back as they ended up snarling, kicking, punching, and pulling each other's feathers. The class watched in horror, and most of them cheered for Adrian, which only sent Liam into a bigger rage.
The fight was cut off when Garth suddenly entered the room.
"What the fuck is going on in here?!" he roared.
Everyone flinched and looked up at the teacher in surprise. No one had ever heard Garth yell like that.
Liam was on top of Adrian, although it was Adrian who had had the upper hand most of the time. Both boys stilled and glanced in the direction of their teacher, who stalked over to them. Garth growled and yanked Liam off by grabbing his shirt, harshly.
"You again, Liam? You'll end up getting expelled if you keep harassing your fellow students," Garth told him, and dragged him away from Adrian who slowly got up on his feet.
"He started it!" Liam snarled and pointed at Adrian.
Garth looked at Adrian with a frown, and the boy stared back at him with wide eyes.
The other students muttered and whispered to each other, until one of the girls said, "It was Liam and his friends who were cornering Kenny. Then Adrian defended him, and Liam attacked him."
"Snitch!" Liam hissed at her.
All the others nodded and agreed with the girl's statement, and Garth turned his attention back to Liam again. "Principal Martin's office, now," he growled.
Liam gulped and walked out of the class in shame and anger once Garth let him go. Garth ordered the three other boys to go to the principal as well, and the class watched with satisfaction as the four tormentors left the room. Adrian had to go there too because he had been involved in the fight, and the principal needed to hear all sides of the story. Garth followed him there and told the class to study page 26 in their book while he went with the other kids to the principal.
While walking towards the office, Garth put a hand on Adrian's shoulder and winked at him. He was proud that the boy had stood up for a fellow student.
Adrian smiled back but dreaded going to the principal's office.
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"Adrian was in a fight?" Dean exclaimed when he and Castiel arrived at the school to pick up the children. They stood in the after-school care, and the principal himself had gone there to tell them about the incident.
Eden stared wide-eyed at her brother, who was looking at the floor, while Castiel seemed pretty surprised.
"It was the other boy who had picked on someone in their class. He attacked your son after he intervened in the bullying, so Adrian was more or less just standing up to his classmate and himself. I won't punish him for that, but the others will face expelling if they're caught breaking school rules once more. They are a handful of troublesome children," the principal explained.
They had a rather good relationship principal Martin, whose mother was an angel/demon hybrid. He took great interest in making sure that Eden and Adrian were treated well by the teachers as well as by the students.
"Well, I'm glad to hear that my son isn't the bad guy here," Dean grinned and ruffled Adrian's hair proudly.
The principal chuckled. "Our school nurse attended to his wings, but she told me that you should keep an eye out for infections." He gestured at Adrian's left wing which was missing a few feathers. "The other boy had it worse, though."
Dean was rather pleased to hear that, and they said goodbye to the principal before leaving. Eden didn't have gymnastics today, so she had been at the after-school care with her brother.
"I'm glad you showed that boy not to be a bully," Eden told her brother when they left the school.
"It was him who started the fight, though, not me," Adrian replied.
"Well, you still showed him," Eden chuckled.
"Yep, he sure did," Dean grinned and pulled Adrian against his side, proudly. The boy blushed modestly, before grinning up at his dad. Castiel watched the scene with a smile.
They picked up the twins from the daycare, and Dean had to concentrate harder on driving when the car was suddenly filled with siblings shouting at each other and laughing. The twins were always noisy and eager to tell about their day or annoy the older siblings. Eventually Dean put on a Metallica song and increased the volume, making all the children stop arguing and instead sing along with the song. They loved Metallica just as much as he did. Dean grinned when the kids sang along and cheered happily, and Castiel rolled his eyes and smiled. Castiel had had his driver's license for a while now, but it was still mostly Dean who drove the car.
When they came home, Dean parked the Tahoe outside in the driveway and they helped the kids get out of the car and grabbed their school bags from the trunk. Dean looked up when he heard shouting, and went over to the sidewalk and looked over at the Trans' house.
Kevin was standing on the sidewalk in front of the house with his dog, Maggie. Brad was standing in front of him and shouted at him, and the almost 15-year-old human teenager seemed utterly annoyed and a bit frightened by the aggressive demon in front of him.
"Get that stupid dog to stop shitting all over my fucking front yard!" Brad yelled at him and spread his sharp wings.
Kevin flinched back a little but stood his ground. "It's not my dog who is shitting there! I don't even go near your damned house," he said. He held tightly onto his dog's leash as she barked at the demon who was shouting at her owner.
Dean watched as Brad grew more and more annoyed with Kevin when the boy kept insisting the shit wasn't from his dog, and Castiel had come over to stand next to him and watched the scene with concern.
Dean growled when Brad took a threatening step towards Kevin.
"Dean, don't," Castiel said and tried to grab his arm, but his mate was already stalking over to their neighbors.
"Hey!" Dean snarled.
Brad looked up in surprise, and Kevin seemed to be pretty relieved when Dean showed up to his rescue.
"Leave the kid alone! You know damn well he doesn't go near your stupid house," Dean growled, and got between Kevin and the alpha demon he loathed.
"Mind your own business, Winchester! That fucking dog barks every time it looks at me and I'm sure that it's the one that's been leaving that mess in my yard," Brad growled back, and glared at Dean with contempt.
Meanwhile, Castiel was busy telling the kids to go inside when Eden and Adrian went over to him to look down the sidewalk to see what was going on. The angel managed to order the kids inside, and glanced towards Dean in concern. He didn't dare go closer because he knew it would only agitate Brad even more.
"Did it ever occur to you that Maggie might not be the only dog around here who doesn't like you?" Dean asked Brad, almost mockingly.
Brad gnarled and his hands twitched as he tried to control his anger.
Kevin grinned at Dean's comment but quickly wiped the grin off his face when Brad snapped his head in his direction. Maggie had calmed down a bit too at Dean's presence, though she was still tense at the situation.
"Don't make me punch your face in, Winchester," Brad growled.
"We both know you haven't got the guts for it, so save it," Dean sneered.
"Oh yeah?" Brad snarled, provoked, and swung his fist towards Dean's face.
Dean blocked the blow and grabbed Brad's arm; twisting it around his back so that the other demon was forced to face the ground and not be able to move without getting his shoulder dislocated.
Kevin stepped back in shock and stared wide-eyed at them.
Dean continued holding Brad's arm behind him, and the other demon let out a pained groan.
"Now, leave Kevin and his dog alone and go back home to your little racist family. If you hate other species so much then I recommend you moving into a demon-only area – there are still a few of those left," Dean growled, and tightened his hold on Brad's arm to state his point. He finally let go and stepped back when Brad snarled in annoyance and straightened up while rubbing his sore shoulder.
"You'll regret this," Brad threatened, before stalking back to his house across the street and slammed his front door behind him.
Dean snorted.
"Wow, that was awesome," Kevin said, awed. "I wish someone would have done that earlier."
Maggie seemed cheerful as well now that Brad was gone, and she wagged her tail and barked happily up at Dean.
"Oh believe me, it felt good," Dean grinned.
"Dean!"
They looked over and saw Castiel running towards Dean, looking relieved. "Are you unharmed?" he asked.
"I'm okay, Cas," Dean smiled.
Castiel smiled back, relieved, and brought his hands up to touch Dean's chest in a loving gesture. They shared a warm smile and Dean curled his tail around the angel's leg, briefly.
Suddenly their children ran over to them, excited.
"Daddy, daddy! Did you chase bad guy away?" Isaac asked and looked up at him with a grin.
"What are you doing here? I told you to go inside," Castiel said and looked at the children firmly.
"The twins were worried about dad and suddenly just ran outside. I'm sorry, papa," Eden spoke. She and Adrian had just caught up to the twins.
Dean chuckled down at the twins, who were both staring up at him. "I chased him away for now, but if I were you I would stay as far away from him as possible."
"Yeah, I'm gonna do that, too… Not that I wasn't doing it anyway," Kevin muttered. Dean laughed at him.
"Maggie!" Lily cheered and went over to the hug the dog. Maggie wagged her tail and licked Lily's face, who shrieked and pulled back with a laugh. Isaac came over to pat the dog too. They knew the dog well because they had babysat her a few times when Kevin and his mother were on vacation. The Bernese mountain dog was quite a handful to take care of because she was restless and active most of the time, and Dean and Castiel were glad that they didn't babysit her that often.
"But seriously, did Maggie take a dump in Brad's yard?" Dean asked, chuckling, and looked at Kevin.
"Uh," Kevin stuttered and hesitated. "Well, she only did it once, when he was out of town… I sort of encouraged her to do it, and she didn't seem to have a problem with it." He blushed a bit and grinned.
Dean laughed out loud, and Castiel laughed as well.
"Awesome," Adrian grinned and gave the dog a pat.
"You got more guts than I thought, boy," Dean told Kevin and patted his shoulder.
Kevin grinned. "Don't tell my mom, though. She keeps saying I have to ignore him and leave him alone, otherwise he'll come after us," he said.
"We won't tell," Dean promised with a chuckle.
Kevin glanced in the direction of Brad's house and could see the shadow of the demon in the window, watching them. "Uh, well, I better get going with Maggie. Brad's watching us and it creeps me out."
Dean glanced over at the house and Brad quickly disappeared from the window. Dean snorted. "Alright, see you around, kid." He patted Kevin's shoulder one more time, before leading the kids back to the house with Castiel. They laughed when Maggie suddenly took off and dragged Kevin after her.
"Maggie! Slow down, god damnit!" Kevin cursed and yanked at the leash. He soon disappeared down the sidewalk with the hyper dog.
Dean laughed at the sight. "I'll put the car in the garage and change the oil," he told Cas and opened the garage door with the remote key.
"Alright, I'll start making dinner," Castiel smiled.
The children padded inside, and Dean and Castiel shared a tender kiss before parting ways.
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Inside, the twins were being active as always. Eden looked after them while Castiel took Adrian to the bathroom to put some treatment cream on his wing.
Adrian squirmed uneasily when Castiel cleaned the wound that the ripped out feathers had left behind. It was a small wound but the angel took no chances with infection, even though the school nurse had already attended to it once. It was the second time he had to treat his son's wings after the feathers were ripped out, and he feared it wouldn't be the last time either.
"Adrian, will you please stand still," Castiel told him, while he put some disinfectant on the wing. He was squatting down in front of his son and had to hold his wing in place because the boy kept trying to pull it away.
"I hate this, papa. I'll be okay, you don't have to put that stuff on me," Adrian whined. His tail moved in annoyance behind him.
"Don't become too much like your dad and put your 'manliness' before your health," Castiel muttered, and stubbornly continued his undertaking.
Adrian made a noise of annoyance but managed to stand still for the rest of the treatment. He sighed a bit when the cream eased some of the burning ache in the wound.
"Don't touch, rub, or scratch it, otherwise it will get worse," Castiel told him and finally stood up.
Adrian nodded, and Castiel washed his hands before they walked out of the bathroom and into the living room/kitchen area. The angel gasped in shock when he saw the twins sitting on the kitchen floor, covered in flour. Eden was standing next to them and seemed panicked while she scolded them. She quickly looked up at Cas when she heard his gasp.
"Papa," Eden gasped, and seemed to panic even more. "I'm sorry! I was busy fixing the cables behind the TV because the twins had pulled them out again, and then I heard some commotion from the kitchen and found them like this. I'm so sorry, I only turned my back on them for a second."
Castiel continued to stare at the two four-year-olds, who were laughing and coughing while throwing flour at each other. The angel looked over at Eden when she spoke. "It's okay, Eden, it wasn't your fault." He went over to the twins and grabbed the bag with the remaining flour out of Isaac's hands. "What are you two doing, huh? You do not play with anything else but your toys, are we clear? Bathroom, now," he growled, and pointed in the direction of the bathroom.
Lily and Isaac stared up at him and gulped, before they slowly got up and padded towards the bathroom. Castiel's eyes followed them and he stared at them firmly and angrily. The twins seemed a little guilty as they walked past Adrian, who was staring at them with his arms crossed. They disappeared into the bathroom without a word.
The entire kitchen floor was covered in white flour, as were some of the cupboards. The twins had made flour foot prints all the way over to the bathroom as well.
Castiel sighed heavily, and went over to the bathroom to take care of the two youngest children. He glanced back at Eden and Adrian and said, "Please do not walk in the flour. I will clean it up later. I'm going to wash the twins now, so it will be a little longer before we have dinner."
"What? But I'm starving!" Adrian whined, annoyed.
"Eden, you can get your brother and yourself a little snack from the kitchen, but be careful not to drag the flour around the house," Castiel told her. She nodded in understanding, and the angel finally went into the bathroom and closed the door.
The twins were giggling and looked up at him innocently when he entered the room, although they did seem aware that what they had done was nowhere near okay.
"Clothes off and into the shower, both of you," Castiel told them firmly, and helped them get out of their dirty clothes.
Meanwhile, Dean had finished changing the oil of the Tahoe, and stepped into the living room. He saw Eden and Adrian sitting on the couch, eating salami snacks.
"Hey, who told you to eat snacks before dinner?" Dean demanded.
Eden looked up at him and hesitated. "Papa did. The twins were playing with flour in the kitchen, so now he's giving them a bath. He wasn't very happy about it. He told us to get a little snack because it'll be a while before we have dinner."
"What?" Dean blinked, and looked over into the kitchen which was indeed covered in white flour. "What the hell?! The twins did this?"
"Yeah, while Eden was watching 'em," Adrian said and looked at his sister with a mocking smirk.
"Hey! I had to plug in the TV and all of sudden they started playing with flour! Not my fault," Eden said, defensively.
Dean ran a hand down his face and sighed. "God, those twins… I'd like to blame Gabe for his influence, but I have the feeling they would have done it even if they didn't know him. I better get this mess cleaned up…" he muttered, and went to get the cleaning articles.
Eden looked at him in sympathy and continued eating her snack together with Adrian.
Dean cleaned the kitchen as well as he could and wiped all the flour off the cupboards. Eventually, Castiel exited the bathroom with the twins who were wrapped up in towels. Their hair was wet and messy, as were their wings, and they looked a little guilty as they saw Dean on all fours, cleaning up their mess.
"You know, you won't get any of your favorite snacks for an entire week after what you did, right?" Dean told them.
The twins' faces paled.
"But—" Isaac began.
"No buts! Go with your papa upstairs and get dressed," Dean cut him off firmly.
"Do as your father says. Up to your rooms and then I'll help you get dressed," Castiel told them.
The twins shared a small glance before running towards the entrance hall and up the stairs.
"Thank you for cleaning that up, Dean. I will help you with the rest when I have dressed them," Castiel said, and looked at his mate.
"You're welcome, Cas. The more I help you clean, the faster I can get food in my stomach," Dean grinned.
The angel rolled his eyes and chuckled before going upstairs.
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After the twins got dressed, they cooked a quick dinner and shared it around the table. The twins were more quiet than usual at first, but it didn't take long until they started arguing about food portions and seemed to have gone back to their normal routine again.
The twins were put to bed at 7:30pm, and Eden and Adrian went to bed after 8.
Once all the kids were in bed, Dean and Castiel finally had some time to themselves. The kitchen was cleaned up now, but the flour package was more or less empty. It annoyed the angel because he had just bought it and it hadn't been the cheapest kind.
Dean walked up behind Castiel while he was taking his heat suppressants, and wrapped his arms around him. Castiel leaned back into him and sighed, and the demon nuzzled into his neck from behind and rubbed his wings against his mate's in a loving gesture.
"I hope Sam and Jess won't have twins too. They're quite a handful," Dean muttered and chuckled a little.
Jess had given birth to a little girl in August last year. They had named her Aria, and she looked a lot like Jess with the lack of wings but a tail. She had bluish green eyes, but not as green as Dean and Castiel's children's. She was a gorgeous little thing, and they had gone to see her a week after the birth and for Christmas as well.
"I don't think they plan to have as many children as we do," Castiel replied and smiled. He closed his eyes and purred when Dean nuzzled him and let their wings touch.
"No, probably not," Dean agreed, smirking. He pulled back and ran his hand down the angel's feathers. "Your wings need grooming, Cas. And there is flour in them," he chuckled.
Castiel groaned in annoyance. "It must have transferred from the twins when I put them in the shower. They beat their wings and suddenly the whole bathroom was filled with flour," he grumbled.
Dean laughed. "We better get those wings cleaned up then, huh."
"Gladly," the angel smirked.
The demon pulled him into a deep kiss, before they moved towards the bathroom. The twins were fast asleep by now, and Adrian and Eden were unlikely to come downstairs as well. So they locked the bathroom door and undressed themselves as they prepared to shower together. The shower quickly turned into sex, and Dean pushed the angel up against the bathroom wall as he pounded into him from behind while listening to his mate's muffled moans and grunts. Their wings were wet and glossy with water, which was a nice feeling for both of them.
"Ah, Dean!" Castiel gasped when the demon's cock filled him up so well.
"Shh, Cas, can't let the kids hear us if they suddenly come downstairs," Dean smirked into his neck, and continued thrusting his hips forward into Cas. He grinned when the angel's vocabulary was limited to small needy noises, and how he desperately pushed his hips back to get more of Dean inside of him.
When they climaxed, they moved and moaned together, and the water washed away the traces of their pleasures.
Afterwards, they stepped out of the shower and helped each other dry up.
They went up to their bedroom where Dean buried his hands in the unbelievingly soft wings of his mate, and used Cas' flowing oil to clean the fragile feathers. The angel purred and spread his wings for Dean in a sign of trust. The demon kissed the soft skin between the wings, and teased the oil glands with his tongue to get more oil flowing. Castiel shuddered deeply and more of the honey sweet oil poured out for Dean to use.
Grooming was intimate and required a lot of patience. Dean was caring and tender while he groomed the angel, but also possessive. Castiel enjoyed every second of it.
When the wings were clean and as good as new, they lay down in the bed together with the promise that tomorrow it was Dean's wings' turn to be taken care of.
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Author's notes: More scenes of their family life and the twins causing trouble. Finally Kevin appeared… sorry it took so long to get him into the story, but you'll see more of him soon. I'm writing as much as I can during my holidays (and hope my beta can keep up) because I kinda want to end the story before my internship starts sometime next month, but I don't want to rush the story either. If I don't make it on time, the last few chapters will probably take a little longer for me to write. I have no idea how long it'll be… it's already turning out to be much longer than Mated.
I know that schools in the USA often have kindergarten included if it has both elementary school and middle school grades in it, but I took the liberty to change it a little bit here. Hope you don't mind.
Next chapter should hopefully be pretty interesting ;)
Thanks for reading my story, please leave a review for me! :)