Author's notes: This is the chapter where they say goodbye to Molly, so it's a quite emotional and sad chapter. Just wanted to give you a small warning because I myself cried my eyes out when writing this.

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August 2036 (Castiel is 46 (almost 47), Dean is 48, Eden is 22 (almost 23), Adrian is 19 (almost 20), the twins are 15, Noah is 10 years old).

A year had passed and it was almost time for Adrian to start in military school. He had been accepted into the Air Force's academy in Los Angeles, and would start with 8 and a half weeks of basic military training before studying to become a tactical aircraft maintainer. The job would include him being a mechanic to repair and maintain the Air Force's aircrafts, and later he could either continue in the Air Force to work as a mechanic and possibly become a crew chief, or he could get employed in private companies and repair commercial aircrafts instead. There were two weeks left until Adrian had to start at the academy and he was already pretty excited and a bit nervous.

It was Wednesday afternoon and Dean and Castiel had just picked up the twins and Noah from summer camp. School hadn't started yet but Dean and Castiel had gone back to work again after their holidays ended so the children were in summer camp during the day. They had picked Adrian up from Amber's house on the way home since Adrian had just quit his job to start in military school soon, and he had spent the day at Amber's house because he didn't feel like staying home all by himself.

Dean drove the Tahoe into the garage next to the Impala, using his remote control to open the garage door as he slowly drove up to the garage. Everyone got out, glad to be home at last. Castiel unlocked the door leading from the garage to the entrance hall and chuckled as Noah hurried through it, eager to finally go inside the house. They all took their shoes off in the entrance hall, and Dean locked the door after he entered.

"The Tahoe needs a new battery soon… Actually, the whole car is getting pretty old," Dean murmured while taking off his shoes.

"Maybe you should buy a new one?" Adrian suggested, chuckling when he saw Dean's face which didn't look too happy with that idea.

"If I could pull money out of your asses, maybe I would," Dean said, smirking at everyone.

Isaac quickly reached behind himself and covered his ass with his hands. "No one is pulling anything out of my ass!" He glanced at Noah who was busy fumbling to get his jacket unzipped. "Can't say the same for Noah, though…" He smirked when Noah looked up at him, tilting his head in confusion.

Lily slapped Isaac's arm and glared at him. "Don't be so rude; it isn't something to make fun of. And it'll be years before Noah will have a baby anyway."

"Hopefully twenty years or more," Dean murmured as he walked past them and headed into the living room with Cas who was chuckling softly at their interaction. Adrian chuckled at his father's reluctance to accept that his kids were going to have their own babies someday.

Noah just blushed slightly, not knowing how to react. He knew that he was a 'carrier' and that babies came from their mother's stomach, but he hadn't gotten the sex-talk yet and wasn't entirely sure about how it all worked. He joined the others as they walked into the living room and immediately went around to find Molly when she didn't show up to greet them as usual.

Molly hadn't been doing so well in the past few months – she ate less and spent most of her time lying in the basket, although she still liked to play sometimes and be social with them. When Eden had spent some of her summer holidays with them she had told them that it probably wouldn't be long before Molly had to be euthanized, and that it was best to do it when the dog became too weak to have any quality in life or when she started having pains.

"What happened?" Castiel asked when he saw Lily's bruised knees below her skirt. Dean had gone into the laundry room to change his clothes and wasn't in the room at the moment, and Adrian made his way over to the fruit basket on the dining table.

Lily followed Castiel's gaze down to her knees before chuckling. "Don't worry, papa; no bully did this. I was just playing some soccer with some of the other girls at summer camp when I tripped over myself. I kinda hurt my elbows too…" She moved her arms ups to inspect the scrapes on her elbows, wincing a bit when touching the place hurt.

"You're such a klutz," Isaac huffed behind her.

"As if you aren't!" Lily quipped, glaring daggers at her twin. "How many times haven't you fallen? It's no wonder that Uncle Gabe has always called you 'Newton'."

"Hey!"

Castiel chuckled at them. "Please don't fight. And I'm glad you only tripped over yourself, Lily. If someone did this to you I trust that you would tell us about it. I don't want any of you walking around without sharing such things with us; it only makes you feel worse." Lily and Isaac both nodded at that.

"Were you ever bullied in school, papa?" Adrian asked curiously, standing over by the dining table which he had just snatched an apple from. He came over to them and took a bite from his apple while anticipating Castiel's answer.

Castiel's wings unconsciously pulled closer against his back. "Yes… sometimes. But I had good friends too."

Meanwhile Noah went over to Molly who was lying in her basket in the corridor between the doors to the bathroom and the laundry room. She seemed to be taking a nap, which surprised Noah a bit because she always got up to greet them when they woke up in the morning and when they returned home. This morning she had only briefly greeted them before retreating to her basket, and now she wasn't moving away from her basket at all.

"Molly?" Noah gently shook the dog, trying to make her get up, but she only responded by grunting and peeking at him through the corner of her eye before closing her eyes and resting again. Noah panicked. It wasn't like Molly to act like this. "Molly!" He gently shook her again, rubbing her fur to get a response, and tried to push her a bit but she didn't want to move away all or even lift her head. It worried Noah even more, and he turned his head towards the living room and shouted, "Papa! Something's wrong with Molly!"

Castiel, Adrian, and the twins immediately snapped their heads in Noah's direction before coming over to see what was wrong. Adrian put his half-eaten apple away in the kitchen before coming over.

"What's wrong?" Castiel asked, kneeling down next to Noah and Molly.

"She doesn't want to move and she looks really tired," Noah spoke, sounding distressed.

Castiel frowned and ran his hand through Molly's coat and rubbed her head, but she only moaned and closed her eyes.

"What's wrong with her?" Lily asked, standing behind Castiel and looking really worried now.

"Dean!" Castiel called. There was some noise from inside the laundry room until Dean finally came out, wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants after having changed clothes.

"What is it?" Dean asked, staring at them in confusion as they were all gathered around Molly's basket.

"I think Molly might be very ill…" Castiel said, looking down at the dog again. Dean immediately came over and kneeled down next to Molly as well, and Noah stepped back to give him space.

"Actually, when I left this morning to take the bus over to Amber's house, Molly didn't come to see me off like she usually does. She just stayed in her basket and didn't really want to eat the food I put in her bowl," Adrian spoke. He looked at the bowl next to the basket and saw that the food was still there. "She hasn't eaten during the day, it seems, and she didn't eat much yesterday either – if any at all."

Dean frowned in concern and tried to make Molly get up but she refused to move much except for lifting her head a bit. She lay down with a pitiful whine and closed her eyes, and Dean's heart clenched at the pain he saw in her chocolate brown eyes when she had looked at him. He looked at Cas who stared back at him with a helpless expression.

"Dean…" Castiel said. They both knew that Molly had finally reached the end of her energy, and there was nothing left for her but pain now.

Dean swallowed and looked back down at the dog, rubbing her forehead gently.

"Daddy?" Noah prompted, staring between his parents anxiously as he waited for them to tell him what was wrong with Molly.

Castiel turned around, kneeling in front of Noah now. He put his hands on Noah's shoulders and looked him in the eye. "Noah, do you remember Eden saying a few days ago that Molly didn't look so well?" Noah nodded, and Castiel sighed before continuing. "Well, she's feeling worse now. She barely has any strength left to live…"

Noah grabbed the lower hem of his shirt tightly, fighting back the tears which ended up prickling in his eyes anyway. "No! I don't want Molly to die!" he cried, wrapping his arms around Castiel's neck and sobbed into his papa's shirt.

Dean got up on his feet again, and the others all fell really silent. Lily's eyes began tearing up as well, and she wrapped her arms around herself as she started sniffling and shaking with small sobs. Adrian came over to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, offering her some comfort. Isaac stood quietly, glancing between his family and their beloved dog as if he couldn't really believe that this was really happening.

"She's lived a long and happy life. That's most important," Adrian spoke, rubbing Lily's shoulder and brushed his tail against her leg in an act of comfort.

Castiel glanced over his shoulder at Dean while Noah was crying into his shirt. "What should we do with her?" he asked, his voice cracking a bit but he tried to stay tough for the children. He liked the dog and was sad about losing her, but it was just as hard to see his children be sad over losing their beloved dog who had been with them for ten years already.

"Take her to the vet as soon as we can. She's only suffering right now," Dean replied, casting a sad glance down at Molly.

Adrian looked over at Dean. "The vet closes at 6pm on Wednesday, right?"

"Yeah… And it's almost 5 now."

Noah pulled back, staring at Castiel's with wide eyes. "What? Are you going to take her to the vet now? But I've barely got to say goodbye…"

"I know, sweetie, but Molly is in pain," Castiel explained softly. "And you have known for a while now that she didn't have much time left. We will be doing her a favor by taking her to the vet tonight, and you can all come with us and say goodbye to her."

The others nodded in agreement but Noah seemed a bit unhappy with the idea. Eventually he too nodded his head quietly, and he sniffled as new tears began flowing down his cheeks.

Dean put his jeans back on again, and he and Adrian helped each other get Molly into the dog cage so that they could put it in the Tahoe and drive off to the vet. They called Eden about it and picked her up from Jason's apartment on the way since they knew she wanted to say goodbye to Molly also. Eden was spending the last two weeks of her holidays with Jason in his apartment, but he was out with some friends when they came over to pick her up so he couldn't come along.

Everyone was upset and sad, and the drive to the veterinarian clinic was quiet except for sobbing and sniffling in the car. Castiel stared out the window the whole time, fisting his hands in his lap while trying to contain his emotions. Dean glanced at him every now and then while driving, and moved his tail over to put it on the angel's leg, hoping it would comfort him a bit. Castiel responded by giving Dean a small smile before staring out the window again, listening to children talk a bit in the back and trying to comfort each other.

They entered the clinic, and Dean carried Molly in his arms because she was a rather big dog and it was too troublesome to carry her in the cage for too long. His heart ached when all Molly did was lie limply in his arms and whimper every now and then. She didn't struggle at all, and almost seemed to just lean into him as he carried her. Dean suspected that some small part of her understood what was about to happen, even though dogs weren't as intelligent as humans, demons, or angels. They had taken Molly to the vet four to five times before. The first time she had been scared and whimpered and tried to hide, but after a few visits she seemed to know that being taken to the vet helped whatever pain she was in.

The human woman behind the counter asked for the dog's name and identification before they were told to wait a few minutes until the veterinarian had time for them. They all sat down in the waiting room which was occupied by two other families with dogs. Dean put Molly in his lap and let her hind legs rest on Cas' legs since the dog was a little big, and the children slowly began saying goodbye to their beloved pet. Castiel watched and tried not to cry as each of the children rubbed Molly behind the ears and leaned down to kiss her.

"I'm gonna miss you, Molly," Eden smiled as she gently rubbed Molly on the head. "We're not ever gonna have a dog quite like you." She wiped away a tear and turned around to hug Lily who had come forwards to wrap her arm around her. The two sisters sobbed together and tried to comfort each other.

"Yeah, we all love you, Molly. Hope there will be lots of dog goodies for you in Heaven, and lots of your favorite beef," Isaac smiled, stroking Molly's fur. The dog closed her eyes and let out a soft noise.

Adrian chuckled behind him. "I'm sure there will." Isaac stepped back to give Adrian space with Molly, and he murmured a small curse as his eyes began tearing up even though he tried his best to hide it. Adrian just patted Isaac's shoulder before saying goodbye to Molly, and Lily said goodbye afterwards.

Finally it was Noah's turn, and the boy quietly went over to Molly. His lips quivered as he tried not to break down crying, and tears were already streaming down his face. He went forward and wrapped his arms around Molly's neck the best he could, burying his face in her fur. "I love you, Molly. Please don't go…" he sobbed.

Dean stroked his hand through Noah's messy black hair while the boy was hugging Molly. "Shh… She'll be okay in Heaven; she won't be alone and she won't suffer." He glanced at Castiel and gave the angel a small smile when a tear rolled down the angel's cheek, even though Castiel was stubbornly trying not to cry.

Noah hugged Molly tighter when the veterinarian came in, telling them she was ready. Only Eden and Adrian wanted to go with their parents into the clinic room to see the vet inject the lethal medicine into Molly – the twins and Noah didn't want to go, so they had to say their final goodbye now.

The vet smiled at them patiently, knowing that saying goodbye to your pet was hard and that the kids needed some time. The two other families and their kids glanced over at them and whispered slightly, obviously understanding what was going on and feeling sorry about it.

"Noah, the vet has to take her into the clinic room now…" Castiel spoke, trying to sound as soft as possible.

Noah whined, burying his face in Molly's fur once more and breathed in her scent for the last time. The dog shifted a bit in his embrace, letting out a soft sound. "Goodbye, Molly. Thank you for being my friend… Be there when I go to Heaven one day, okay? I love you…" He pulled back and placed a kiss on Molly's snout, smiling when she gently licked his face – something she had always done almost every time she greeted him or said goodbye to him. He stepped back, allowing Dean to get up and pull Molly up with him. Dean smiled down at him, although it wasn't a happy smile at all. Noah was mildly surprised to see his father's eyes water with tears, but for some reason it made him a little glad to see that.

Dean gently brushed his tail against Noah's leg and against the twins' as he, Cas, Adrian, and Eden went with the vet into one of the clinic rooms.

Eden and Adrian stroked Molly's fur as she lay on the vet's table, and they waited for the vet to prepare the needles. Molly was lying calmly, glancing around at them and keeping a close eye on the vet, but she was too tired to move much. She closed her eyes for a moment when Eden rubbed the spot behind her ears that Molly liked best. "I don't look forward to doing this myself someday," she murmured, staring at Molly.

"Should have chosen another education, then," Adrian joked, hoping to cheer her up a bit. He smiled when Eden chortled at his comment.

The angel/human hybrid vet turned and smiled at Eden. "You're studying to become a vet?"

"Yeah…" Eden stroked Molly's fur and her hand collided with Adrian's briefly. "I've got about a year left." Dean and Castiel were behind them and she could hear her papa sniffling a bit.

"You'll get used to the job, although it's never easy," the vet said in a soft voice before looking over at Dean and Castiel. "And I'm ready to perform the procedure now, so you should say your last goodbyes…"

"Alright, thanks," Dean told her and stepped closer. He and Castiel said their goodbyes to Molly, rubbing and petting her. "Bye, old girl. It was nice having you," Dean grinned at the dog before his grin faltered and instead turned into a sad smile.

"I'm going to miss you jumping up and down on us when we come home," Castiel said, chuckling fondly at Molly and rubbed her fur. "I forgive you for doing that, and I'm sorry for scolding you for it." He gave Molly a small smile and stepped back when tears started rolling down his cheeks again.

They let the vet do her job, and Dean grabbed Castiel's hand and held on tightly to it as they watched the vet inject Molly with the sleeping medicine which was used before the lethal one. Eden was crying and Adrian put his arm around her shoulder to comfort her, and he didn't mind when Eden rested her head on his shoulder while she cried. Both Adrian and Dean were tearing up as well – being alphas couldn't stop their emotions overwhelming them at the moment.

Molly shook a bit after the first injection, breathing hard and coughing until she fell asleep, and then the vet gave her the lethal injection which would stop her heart.

Castiel rested his head against Dean's shoulder and shook with small sobs as they watched Molly's ribcage stop expanding when she stopped breathing, and the vet told them she had passed.

They wrapped Molly up in the blanket that had been in her cage, and Dean carried her outside afterwards and took her out to the car. They had reserved a spot for her at the local pet graveyard a few months ago, so they were going there to bury her right after leaving the vet clinic.

Everyone was silent in the car except for crying and sobbing, and Noah had a hard time believing that Molly was dead when she was lying in the dog cage right behind them in the car. They quickly dropped by at home to get a big box to put Molly in, and to pick up some of Molly's favorite toys which Noah insisted she should have with her in her grave.

Dean and Adrian dug the grave, and they all held a little ceremony for Molly after putting her in the box and lowering her into the grave. A small gravestone would follow later, but the grave had a number so they knew where to find it. They comforted each other and did a little prayer for their beloved pet before slowly going back to the car to drive home.

Noah lingered a bit by the grave, and Eden smiled at him. "You know, when you were very small you used to ride on Molly's back. You loved it more than anything, and I think she quite enjoyed it as well."

Noah smiled, feeling another tear roll down his cheek and down to his chin. "I miss her already…" he murmured, staring at the dirt that Dean and Adrian had just put on top of Molly's box.

"I know… me too," Eden sighed, pulling Noah against her side and guided him back to the car. She smiled at Castiel when their papa waited for them, and Noah persuaded Castiel to pull him up into his arms and carry him the last few feet over to the car while Noah buried his face in the angel's neck.

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Over the following week the family tried to cope with losing their dog which had been like a family member to all of them. The children had been allowed to stay home the day after Molly died, and Jason had come over to keep Eden company at the house and be there for her. College and school were first starting in two weeks so it wasn't a problem staying home that day while Dean and Castiel went to work, and Jason was on holidays at the moment.

Ten days later it was time for Adrian to move into his apartment at the Air Force's military academy in L.A. which he was going to attend. The academy had dorms at campus and Adrian was going to share a room with another guy whom he didn't know yet. The school was only for the students in the Air Force and was located very close to the Air Force base which was were Adrian would be getting his hands-on training. The academy building itself was mostly for students with other majors and who didn't need to work physically with the Air Force's aircrafts.

They took him to the apartment on Saturday to help Adrian getting settled in the room and say goodbye to him. School first started on Monday but Adrian wanted some time to get used to being there before school started. Amber wasn't with them since she was busy that weekend, but Adrian was wondering how him going to military school and Amber going to college was going to affect their relationship – especially since they weren't in the same city anymore.

The academy was big, and they all stared impressed at the main building as they passed it on their way over to Adrian's apartment. They helped him carry his stuff up there and put it in the room. The room had two beds in it and two windows which faced a small park in the academy's front yard. One of the beds already had sheets on it and the left side of the room was full of bags and clothes, indicating that Adrian's roommate had already moved in.

"Looks like your roomie is already here," Isaac commented when he saw a pile of clothes on one of the beds. Lily giggled a bit behind him when she noticed a pair of men's boxer shorts lying on the bed, partly covered by a pair of pants.

"Seems so. I don't know the guy yet, though," Adrian said and dropped his backpack on the empty bed.

Dean and Castiel both glanced around the room curiously, and Dean opened a few of the drawers to see how much space there was. Noah and Eden also looked around the room, and Noah went over to the windows to check out the view from the third floor apartment.

"Getting nervous?" Dean asked, smirking over at his oldest son.

Adrian's wings twitched slightly behind him and gave a small shrug. "A bit maybe. I just hope my classmates won't be racists… that's just gonna ruin the whole stay."

"Punch them in the face if they have a problem!" Isaac blurted, making the others laugh.

Dean turned his head to look at Castiel when he felt his mate looking at him. He smiled softly at Castiel when he saw the somewhat sad smile on the angel's face, and he knew that Cas was having a hard time accepting that yet another of their children was leaving home now. Dean reached out his tail to curl it around Cas' lower leg, and he brushed their wings together to comfort him. Adrian watched them silently, giving them a sad smile when he could tell that they were both a bit upset about leaving him there.

"It's gonna be so empty at home without you…" Lily said quietly. "It's just gonna be Isaac, Noah, and me. And dad and papa of course, but still…"

"Hey, I'll come home whenever I can," Adrian promised, smiling as he touched her tail with his own. "I just hope you can handle Isaac by yourself."

"Hey!" Isaac protested, glaring at Adrian.

Eden chuckled. "This is Lily you're talking about – no one can make Isaac shut up the way Lily can if she really wants him to." The others laughed, and Isaac pouted and crossed his arms while glaring at everyone.

Adrian startled a bit when Noah came over to him and hugged him tightly. His little brother buried his face in his shirt just below his chest, and Adrian smiled as he wrapped his arms around Noah and soothingly ran a hand up and down his back. "I'll miss you too, Noah…"

"I'll miss you more," Noah murmured, sobbing a bit. It was hard on him to have just lost Molly and now having to say goodbye to Adrian as well since his brother was moving out.

They all smiled at the scene, but turned their heads when someone entered the room. They looked over at the door and saw a young human male standing there. The guy had brown hair and grey eyes, and his eyes widened a bit when he saw them. "Oh, you must be my roommate and his family. Sorry, I didn't know you were in here." He closed the door behind him, shutting out the noise from the hallway outside.

Dean made a dismissive gesture with his hand. "Nah, that's okay. We're leaving soon anyway."

The human looked between them, obviously trying to figure out which one of them was his roommate, and he looked up when Adrian came over to him with his hand extended towards him.

"Hi, I'm Adrian. I'll be sharing rooms with you."

The human smiled and took Adrian's offered hand. "I'm Thomas, nice to meet you." He stared a bit at Adrian's wings and tail after they withdrew their hands. "Uh, sorry, I'm not that good with seeing what kind of hybrids people are…" he admitted, soundly mildly embarrassed. He could see an adult demon and angel in the room, but he wasn't entirely sure about what their relation was.

Adrian chuckled. "I'm half demon and half angel," he explained.

Thomas' eyes went impossibly wide. "What? No way! I heard that angels and demons can't mate with each other."

Dean huffed behind Adrian and put his hands on Castiel's hips so that they were standing close. "I think it's worked pretty well between Cas and me, seeing as we have five kids…"

"Dean!" Castiel chastised. He blushed and glared at the demon when Dean just laughed at him. The kids were snickering like mad, and Adrian rolled his eyes a bit.

"Oh, guess I heard wrong rumors, then," Thomas chuckled. His eyes widened when he looked over at his bed and saw he hadn't successfully managed to hide his underwear. "Oh shit! I'm sorry about that!" he exclaimed and quickly went over to hide his boxers.

The others laughed a bit at him, and Lily said, "No problem – Adrian does that too sometimes."

Adrian frowned at her. "No I don't, and how would you know? My room is always locked."

"Well, whenever you let me into your room to show me something I always see some of your clean clothes lying on the bed because you haven't put them in the drawers yet," Lily explained, snickering when Adrian didn't seem to have anything to say to that and instead just looked the other way.

"Well, we should get going…" Dean said, looking between the children.

They all went over and hugged Adrian goodbye, wishing him good luck at the academy. Adrian gave each of them a tight hug, and felt a little surreal about the whole situation. His sisters and Noah were the ones that hugged him most tight, where Isaac just made it very quick and Dean's hug was more of a father/son hug with a proud pat on Adrian's shoulder.

When it was Castiel's turn to say goodbye the angel gave his son a proud but sad smile as he reached out his hands and cupped Adrian's face. Then he pulled Adrian into a tight hug, inhaling deeply as he rested his head against Adrian. Adrian sighed and closed his eyes as he hugged his papa back, breathing in his comforting and familiar scent and almost felt like crying all of sudden. They pulled apart and Adrian gave Castiel a small smile. "I'll come home and visit from time to time. Take care of the others and of dad."

Castiel chuckled and nodded, and Dean came up behind him. "Hey, it's your papa that needs taking care of, not me," Dean groused, making Castiel roll his eyes at him.

Adrian just chuckled at them and followed them out the door to wave goodbye at them as they left. He watched them until they rounded the corner further down the hallway, and felt a small sting of loneliness in his chest when he couldn't see them anymore.

Adrian turned and was about to head back into his room when his wing accidentally bumped into someone in the hallway.

"Whoa!" the person exclaimed, jumping back in surprise.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Adrian said, staring at the person with wide eyes. He calmed down a bit when he saw that no damage was done. The person was dressed in baggy jeans and shirt, and they had a cap on the head which hid the person's face a bit. He frowned when he realized he couldn't tell if the person was a male or female, but they were definitely an angel judging by the white wings with some light grey feathers in them.

"No problem, no harm was done," the angel said, smiling. Even by the voice Adrian couldn't tell the gender either since the person seemed to deepen their voice a bit, but he was almost certain the person was a female.

"Still, I'm sorry. Glad you're okay."

The person smiled, nodding their head in a gesture that said 'no problem' before walking past Adrian and headed down the hallway in the same direction that Adrian's family had gone. He stared at the angel for a few moments before going back into his room again.

Meanwhile Dean, Cas, and the kids headed back to the car. Everyone was quiet as they walked outside and went towards the parking lot which they had parked the car in, and no one really said anything seeing as they were all sad about saying goodbye to Adrian. Eden was less affected since she had already moved out from home and only saw them sometimes in the weekends, and she tried to offer her siblings a bit of comfort as they walked back to the car.

"Daddy?" Noah asked, staring up at Dean as they walked. "What exactly is Adrian going to do here?"

"Well, he's got 8 and a half weeks of basic military training first, which will be very exhausting for him and they'll test him in many ways," Dean explained. "And then he's gonna learn how to repair and do maintenance on the Air Force's military aircraft – he's going to be a mechanic like me, but working with military jets and stuff instead."

"Will he get to clean and repair the planes' guns, missile launchers, rockets and stuff?" Isaac asked, sounding pretty excited about that idea.

Dean chuckled. "Probably, yes."

"Oh that's so cool!" Isaac exclaimed, grinning at Lily who just rolled her eyes and smiled at his reaction.

Eden smiled and turned around to look at everyone. "And I vote that we should get some ice cream now!"

"Fuck yes!" Isaac exclaimed eagerly, and Lily grinned excitedly.

"I wanna have ice cream too!" Noah grinned, raising his arms happily.

Dean groaned. "Jeez, Eden, you know it'll be me and Cas paying for it…"

Eden grinned at him. "But don't tell me that you don't feel like having ice cream too." She winked at him, making Dean groan even more.

Castiel chuckled and watched as the kids rushed over to the car. Even though Eden was an adult now and the twins were almost 16 years old, they were will acting like little kids when they knew they were going to have ice cream or other treats. He and Dean walked beside each other, taking their time as they headed back to the car.

"I'm glad they're a bit more cheerful now. Saying goodbye to Molly and now having to see Adrian leave home hasn't been easy on any of us," Dean spoke, grabbing Castiel's hand while they walked.

"I know. Noah has been crying a lot lately because of it, and Lily hasn't been happy either," Castiel sighed. "Isaac has been a bit hard to read though, but I know he's affected also."

Dean looked at him. "And what about you? How do you feel about Adrian leaving?"

"It was something that was going to happen sooner or later… But it made me realize that one day Isaac and Lily will leave too, and a few years after that Noah will also go to college, and then we'll both be all alone at home…"

"I know. Trust me, I don't like that thought either," Dean murmured and tightened his grip on the angel's hand. "Heck, I don't even want to think about Eden and Jason having a baby at some point… And definitely not Lily or Noah either – they're just kids in my mind, all of them."

Castiel let out a soft chuckle. "I know, but I am actually looking forward to Eden telling me that she's expecting a baby."

Dean groaned. "Oh c'mon! We'll be grandparents then! And you always say you hate being reminded of your age."

Castiel scrunched his face a bit at the last part. "True, but it will also remind me of the fact that we have raised our children to be happy and able to live their own lives."

"You're such a girl sometimes," Dean teased, laughing when Castiel punched his arm in response while keeping a straight face.

"And you, Dean Winchester, still act like a cocky college student," Castiel muttered, glaring at Dean.

"You ain't older than you feel, Cas," Dean retorted, grinning at him.

Castiel smiled and rolled his eyes, and they finally reached the car and got into it, ready to drive off and find a place to buy ice cream from.

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Author's notes: I'm sorry if the chapter made you upset… I was having a hard time writing it because my eyes kept tearing up. I had to put my cat to sleep last year so I guess the experience is still very sad for me XD; And I have no idea how the whole pet graveyard works so I just had to guess.

And as for Adrian's school I have NO idea how military school works. I tried to do some research on the Air Force's educations and found an education for Adrian, but I couldn't find anything about where the students stay (in their own apartments, in college dorms, etc.) so I kind of had to make some assumptions and guess. So Adrian's academy may not exist in real and it may not be how the students are accommodated and so on, because I have almost no way of knowing that.

I have the feeling that chapter 61 should be pretty interesting and I'll probably have it up around Christmas :)

Thanks for reading :)