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201. Help

"About damn time!" Dean groaned when he decapitated the last vampire. "Cas, you okay?"

"There don't seem to be any more here," Cas replied from the next room. "But I can hear something coming from the closet."

"Hold on a sec, I'm coming."

Dean entered the bedroom to find Cas already trying to open one of the closet doors. Paranoid that it might be a trap, Dean leapt over the king bed and over to Cas, grabbing the other door and silently counting down from three on his fingers. When he reached zero, they yanked the doors open.

And were immediately met with a terrified scream.

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down!" Dean held his hands out in a placating way. The little girl who was screaming couldn't have been more than six years old and she was curled protectively around a small boy who looked to be about three or four.

"Please! Don't eat us!" the girl sobbed.

"Why the hell would we eat you?" Dean said.

"Because they ate Mommy!"

"We won't eat you," Cas said calmly. He pulled back his top lip to show that he didn't have any vampire teeth and Dean quickly did the same. "Dean and I took care of those monsters. They won't hurt you."

The girl looked up at him with wide green eyes. The only bits of her younger brother that Dean could see were his messy blond hair, one blue eye and his right arm, as the girl had practically formed a cocoon around him.

"We're here to help," Dean said. "What're your names?"

"I-I'm Zoey," the girl said. "This is my little brother, Robbie."

Little Robbie sniffled. Zoey immediately made small shushing noises.

"Well, Zoey," Dean said. "Cas and I are going to help you. You got any family that you can stay with? Your dad?"

Zoey shook her head, her dark red hair swishing as she did so.

"Daddy's in Heaven," she said matter-of-factly. "The man with the black eyes took him there."

Dean and Cas froze, staring at each other.

"What man with the black eyes?" Cas said slowly.

"A strange man visited our house last year," Zoey babbled. Dean was surprised at how quickly she'd grown at ease with them. "He had really scary black eyes. Mommy was at the shops with Robbie and I was hiding so he didn't see me but he told Daddy that they had unfinished buz – buss –"

"Business," Cas supplied. Zoey nodded and sniffled.

"Mommy didn't believe me when I said he had black eyes. She said I was making up stories."

Zoey burst into tears. Grimacing, Dean kneeled down and carefully put a hand on her shoulder, trying not to distress her any more.

"Uh…we believe you," he said. Zoey stared at him in surprise, her eyes wider. "That thing was a demon. Cas and I hunt them so we can keep people like you safe."

If he had his way, he wouldn't even be telling the child about this crap. But she'd seen a demon and vampires, so he knew there was no point in keeping it from her any longer.

"You do?" Zoey gasped.

"Yes." Cas knelt down next to Dean. "Do you have any other family that you can stay with?"

Zoey shook her head again.

"Uncle George and Auntie Lucy are in Engleland," she said. Dean wanted to snicker at how she mispronounced the name. "And Grandma, Grandpa, Nana and Poppa are in Heaven with Daddy."

"So you've got no one?" Dean said. Zoey shook her head. "Right. Let's get you two outta there and we'll figure out what to do."

Zoey allowed him to lift her out of the closet and gently deposit her on the bed but when Cas tried to pick Robbie up, she immediately began to scream.

"NO!" She scrambled back into the closet and held her crying brother close. "You can't touch him! I have to protect him!"

The parallels between her and Robbie and him and Sam suddenly struck Dean. All he could do was watch her try and soothe her brother, murmuring and reassuring him that everything would be alright.

"Dean," Cas said suddenly. "Can I talk to you?"

Dean nodded and followed Cas away.

"We can't give them up," Cas said in a hushed voice. "From what you have told me of the system that orphaned children enter, it is not the ideal place for them. I don't wish for Zoey and Robbie to grow up in an unloving environment, where they are not given the love and attention that they need."

"And the system could split 'em up," Dean muttered. "That can't happen. You've seen how protective she is. Doesn't happen all the time but it does happen. So, what do you think we should do?"

Cas gave him a significant look. Dean's stomach dropped.

"You're not saying –?"

"Why not? We already talked about this and agreed to raise a child together one day. Why not take in Zoey and Robbie and give them the life that they deserve?"

"Yeah, 'cause I'll really be the best role model for them," Dean muttered. Cas gave him a stern look.

"You raised Sam under impossible circumstances, Dean. You'll be fine. Do you really want to leave Zoey and Robbie to be moved from house to house and possibly split up, to never see each other again? They are so young that they may not remember each other when they are older if that happens."

"Can't Claire take care of 'em? Doesn't she do this kind of thing?"

"Even Claire cannot help everybody. We would be doing her a favour to take care of them ourselves rather than leaving them with her."

Dean looked over at Zoey, who had guided Robbie out of the closet and was now sitting on the bed with him, hugging him close.

"It's okay, Robbie," he heard her whisper. "I'll take care of you. I'm your big sister. That's my job."

She pressed a kiss to his forehead. Dean quickly looked away, feeling something painful stab him in the chest.

"It's okay, Sammy." Dean tucked baby Sammy into the hard motel bed and leaned down to kiss him on the forehead. "I'll take care of you. I'm your big brother. That's my job."

"Fine," he forced out. "We'll take 'em."

Cas frowned at him.

"What's wrong, Dean?"

"Nothing. Just…reminds me of me and Sammy."

Cas' face softened and he gave Dean a quick kiss.

"Then let's give them a better childhood than you and Sam had. Their mother was also killed by a supernatural creature. Let's ensure that their lives turn out better."

"They're gonna grow up surrounded by supernatural crap. Just like me and Sammy, Cas. Just like me and Sammy."

"But we won't train them to be hunters. We can teach them enough to be able to defend themselves but they will have normal lives. And won't this make them safer? They will know how to defend themselves. They won't be caught unawares by a vengeful spirit or a hungry vampire or a demon out to kill innocent people for fun."

Knowing that the battle had been lost, Dean looked back at the kids and sighed.

"Fine. You win, Cas." He raised his voice slightly so that Zoey could hear him. "Hey, Zoey. Go pack anything you want to take with you. You're coming with us. We'll sort out the paperwork and details later."

"Both of us?" Zoey said straight away. "I'm not going anywhere without Robbie."

"Damn right," Dean said. "Wouldn't even think about it. Go get his stuff too. Yell if you need help."

Zoey's face lit up.

"Come on, Robbie!" She tugged Robbie from the room.

"Damn you, Cas," Dean muttered. But he knew that Cas had made the right call. Cas just smiled and took his hand, brushing his thumb over the back of it.

"We'll give these children the life that they deserve, Dean. They won't grow up like you and Sam did. I promise you that."