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204. Explain
"When's the baby gonna be here?" Zoey whined, swinging her legs in her uncomfortable plastic chair. What was taking the baby so long to come out of Auntie Rosie? It had been hours!
"Be patient, Zoey," Cas said, stroking her red hair. Zoey leaned into the touch. She loved it when her papa played with her hair!
"Something really big's gotta come out of a really small hole," Dean said with that weird smile that he got whenever he was making a bad joke. "It'll take some time, princess."
Cas gave Dean a very stern look. Zoey remembered Mommy often giving that look to Daddy when he said something wrong.
"But how long?" she said. "I'm bored!"
"Go play with your brother," Dean said, pointing at the toys nearby. "We'll tell you when the baby's here."
Zoey pouted but did as she was told. If she was bad then Dean would take away dessert for a week and she didn't want that! She loved dessert! Especially pie!
"What you wanna play, Zoey?" Robbie said, holding up a plastic truck.
"Let's play Racers," Zoey decided. "We can race each other. I get this car!"
The game was boring but Zoey didn't want to annoy her dads and not get any pie. So she kept playing with Robbie, leaving the game to go and give Auntie Charlie a big hug when she got here, and when she was really bored after a few more minutes, she looked over at Dean and Cas. They were holding hands and sitting really close together and Zoey giggled to herself when she saw Dean give Cas a big hug and kiss him on the head, just like she did to Robbie.
"Love you, Cas," she heard Dean say quietly. Cas smiled and gave Dean a kiss.
"I love you too, Dean."
"Eww!" Robbie said. Dean and Cas looked over at them, so Zoey punched Robbie on the arm. She wasn't going to make her dads made and lose pie! "Ow! Don't hit me!"
"Zoey," Dean said sternly while Auntie Charlie laughed, though she tried to cover this up. "Apologise to Robbie. Or no pie."
"Sorry, Robbie," Zoey said, trying not to sound upset.
"You don't hit your brother, Zoey," Cas said. "You love him and you don't want to hurt him."
Robbie was already back to playing with the cars, making car noises and crashing the toys into each other. Zoey smiled.
"I love Robbie just like you love Dad," she declared.
"No, you don't," Dean said. "You love Robbie like a brother. I love Cas a bit differently."
"But I kiss him just like you kiss Papa," Zoey said, unable to understand what the difference was. "And I hug him and tell him I love him."
"You don't kiss Robbie on the lips like I kiss Cas," Dean said.
"There are different types of love," Cas said. "You love Robbie as a brother. Dean loves Sam as a brother. I love Dean as a husband. We do different things because our love is different."
"Like what?" Zoey said. When Dean's face suddenly became light red, she frowned. Why was his face doing that?
"You explain," Dean muttered to Cas.
"I don't think that I am qualified to tell a six year old about that."
Auntie Charlie rolled her eyes.
"When two people are in love, they…do a very special thing together," she said. "Sam and Rose did it and now they're going to have a baby. But Dean and Cas are both male, so they can't have a baby together."
"Aww," Zoey said sadly.
"Believe me, I ain't complaining," Dean said with a laugh. Zoey didn't understand what was so funny about it and she was glad when Auntie Charlie hit him, though she was annoyed that her auntie didn't get in trouble for hitting.
"And it's the same with us girls," Auntie Charlie continued. "Two girls can love each other – I love other girls like Dean loves Cas and Sam loves Rose – but they can't have a baby together. Only a man and a woman can make a baby together. That's just how it is."
"You don't do this thing with Robbie 'cause he's your brother," Dean said. "Different kind of love. You love him but you're not in love with him."
"Then how do I know if I'm in love with someone?" Zoey said. "I love Robbie more than I love anybody else."
She froze, scared that she had accidentally hurt her dads by saying that she loved Robbie more than them, but they just smiled.
"You'll know, princess," Dean said. He took Cas' hand and smiled at him. "Believe me, you'll know. They'll crash into your life and make you wanna do crazy things and you'd do anything for them because you just love 'em so much. You'd do anything for Robbie and I'd do anything for Sammy but this is different. Being in love with someone makes you go crazy."
"Nawww!" Auntie Charlie said in a babyish voice. Dean narrowed his eyes at her.
"But I don't wanna go crazy!" Zoey said, suddenly scared. Dean laughed and reached over to ruffle her hair. Zoey scowled. It was annoying when he did it because he always messed her hair up!
"It's a good kinda crazy. The best kinda crazy there is. You'll wanna do things with them that you wouldn't do with anyone else."
"I'm sure you'd know about that," Cas said, frowning at Dean. Zoey stared. Had Dean messed up?
"Trying to set a good example, Cas, so she doesn't turn out like younger me," Dean mumbled. "Younger me was a bit of a douche. And that's not all I was talking about, anyway."
"It's impossible to explain, Zoey," Cas said, turning back to her. "But believe me, you'll know when you're in love. It's a beautiful feeling."
"I wanna be in love," Zoey declared.
"Not 'til you're way older," Dean said straight away. "Nuh uh. You're only six. Not doin' that for at least another ten years."
Auntie Charlie started to laugh. Zoey blinked in confusion but decided not to ask. Just then, a pretty lady came out of a nearby room and Dean jumped up.
"How are they?" he said. The lady smiled at him.
"How about you come and take a look?" she said.
"The baby's here?" Zoey shouted happily, dropping her toy and jumping up. Dean quickly grabbed her hand.
"Yep. And about time, too."