S8 E9 through S8 E 14
I wanted to write up a little "prequel" to the Dean/Sophie baby section of my larger Domesticity work. It's not technically a one-shot and will be divided into a couple of chapters. TW for pregnancy loss. Overall I'm - with some AU components like Cas staying with them - figuring that Sophie would be getting the positive pregnancy test from the longer Domesticity story some time around early episode 13 and then they'd tell Sam between episode 13 and episode 14. Enjoy!
Sophie excused herself eight times during that initial conversation in Martin's hotel room. When pressed the only answer she could provide was, "He smells like an old person and for some reason that's making me nauseous."
Things didn't improve.
Dean figured maybe she just needed fresh air, so he took her with him to go check on Benny. But her usually strong stomach protested the second she saw the blood on Benny's hands.
"Do you two need a minute?" Benny asked as Sophie retched behind his camper while Dean tried to keep sane and continue his conversation with the vampire.
"You know what," Dean sighed, "Yeah. Just give me a second."
He dug through the cooler that lived perpetually on the floor of the Impala's back seat, looking for water. Really looking for anything that wasn't beer. They had one bottle left. So he cracked that open and ducked behind the RV to Sophie.
She sat on the muddy ground with her head between her knees.
"You okay?" Dean asked, sitting down next to her and handing her the water.
"I don't know…" Sophie said, trailing off and shaking her head, "Maybe I caught some 24 hour thing?"
"When was your…you know…supposed to start?" Dean asked.
Sophie furrowed her brow and grabbed her phone out of her pocket.
"Oh," she said, nearly dropping the phone.
"Is that a good a bad reaction?" Dean asked, getting frantic now.
"That's an I think I might be pregnant reaction," Sophie said, throwing herself into his arms.
"Hey," Dean hugged her tight, "That's great news. Let's get through this thing with Benny and Martin and we'll go buy a test alright?"
"Promise?" Sophie's eyes were big and bright and her expression was joyful in spite of the pallid cast of her skin.
"Promise," Dean said, "Now wash the puke out of your mouth, I want to kiss you."
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They were at the pharmacy when he got the call. Elizabeth. Frantic. Pleading with him to come right away.
Sophie didn't end up using the test they bought until they were back at Rufus' cabin with Sam in tow. It wasn't ideal. But hell, nothing had been ideal lately. It'd do.
Sophie came out of the bathroom vibrating with excitement, she set the pregnancy test on the arm of the couch without a word.
Two little lines formed a + in the center of the pixelated screen.
"That means yes…right?" Dean asked, wanting to be certain before he reacted.
"That means yes!" Sophie replied. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
"Oh my word I'm so proud of you," Dean murmured into her hair.
"We're gonna have a baby!" Sophie enthused.
"Does this mean I should do something marginally more impressive for dinner?" Sam asked from his place at the stove.
"Hell yeah!" Dean replied.
Sophie giggled and pressed herself closer up against his side.
"Now what sounds like it won't make you gag?" Dean asked, looking down at her.
"Chinese?" Sophie offered.
"Chinese it is," Dean grabbed his phone and tossed the keys to Sam, "You're on pickup duty."