I rolled over and Dean wasn't in bed, there was only one place he could be. With Ben. I hadn't actually heard him cry though so I wonder why Dean had gotten up, but maybe I just didn't hear him. Our apartment was small, so we didn't really need a baby monitor, though we had one for when we went into the kitchen and whatnot, but I looked at the white monitor and saw a small red dot glowing, like there was just a small amount of noise. Dean and I had both managed to get an extended time off of work after Ben was put into the NICU, and I knew I didn't have to get up and go to work, but Ben had his days and nights off, so we spend the majority of the day and night up. I just couldn't get my body to sleep during the day, and Ben cried at night.

It would have been so easy to just roll over and go back to sleep, but I wanted to make sure Ben was okay, so I groaned in the back of my throat and got up out of bed. Quietly I walked down the hall and when I peaked my head into Ben's room I could see Dean's back, and he was clearly holding Ben in his arms rocking him from side to side softly. A small smile spread out on my lips. I loved seeing Dean with Ben, they just fit perfectly together and Dean adored him so much. Dean leaned down and placed a kiss on his forehead and started huming 'Hey Jude' by The Beatles. I knew it was a song Mary sung to the boys, because she used to sing it to me when I stayed at their house when I was a kid and couldn't sleep. That song brought back fond memories.

"You know I haven't got laid in weeks because of you." Dean murmered still rocking Ben from side to side slowly. "I know your cute and all, but you need to go to sleep, I need some dad time."

It was clear that Dean thought this was funny because his shoulder shook softly with a quiet laugh.

"That's not appropriate." I said softly walking into the room and Dean jumped slightly.

"He's asleep, and a baby, he doesn't understand." Dean replied as I walked up besides him.

Dean was taller then I was, but I could touch the bottom of my chin to his shoulder and look down at Ben a fond smile still on my face.

"He's asleep, come back to bed, maybe you can get that alone time after all." I purred in his ear and I felt a shiver go down his spine.

X-X

"Dad come on, I look stupid!" Ben complained.

I poked my head around the corner of the kitchen to see Ben giving me a very unhappy glare, his arms crossed across his little chest. "No you don't, I see a very smart little man giving me mean look." I replied zipping up his ninja turtle backpack.

Dean came out of the bedroom, and glanced at Ben once, and did a double take. "Come on Cas, don't send him to his first day of school in a frickin tie!" Dean remarked rounding on Bed and threw him over his shoulder. Ben let out a squeal of delight at having been tossed around like a sack of potatoes. "Where are you going?" I asked and followed the two laughing boys down the hall.

"To change." Dean replied and they dissapeared into Ben's bedroom. After a few minutes they came out and Ben was wearing a dark red tee shirt and jeans with black work boots. "Really?" I asked when Ben ran out of his room and made an impressive pose in front of me in the front room.

Dean's face was a mask of pure innocence. "He picked it out himself." Dean said spreading his hands in front of himself as an act of 'don't kill me' stance. Just looking at Ben's excited face and I was a goner. "Okay bucko, go get in the car." I muttered and Ben's little arms threw themselves around my neck in a hug.

X-X

"Again, again!" Bed shouted out.

Sam grabbed his hands tightly in his and started to spin around and around, Ben's feet being pulled off the Earth as his Sam swung him faster around.

"He's really going to be a great father isn't he?" Jess asked me as Dean, and I sat down at the park table next to Jess. Her belly doing it's own impression of levitation.

"Course he is." Dean said with a smile and nudged Jess on the shoudler with his own shoulder. "Thanks for watching him while we finished up all the paperwork."

Jess turned to us and gave us a radiant smile. "When do you get to pick her up?"

"Paperwork is going to be ready tomorrow, and by Friday she's going to be all ours."

After Ben turned 2 Dean and I had decided to expand our family. At first we had talked about foster care, but we both didn't like the idea of it not becoming full time. We wanted more kids and we both didn't want to start to care about a child and CPS coming to take them away, so we knew adoption was going to be the thing. Now 5 years down the road, we found a little girl, Claire. Her mother had died of an overdose and her father had run off years before when she was only an infant. When her picture was floated to us, our hearts were gone. She was beautiful and we got the paperwork started immediately.

We had told Ben he was going to be a big brother and he was excited about having someone to look after and take care of, though he did say he was going to be her dad and not her brother, which we told him that we were going to be her dad and he was a big brother, he just shrugged his shoulders and said as long as he could look out for her he didn't care if he was her dad or her brother. We knew then that he was going to be an amazing brother.

"Of course, Ben is a great kid, it's nice practice for Sam." Jess replied and patted her swollen stomach.

Sam set Ben down and as soon as his feet hit the grass he fell over laughing. Sam made his way to the table, slowly, and was unsteady on his feet as the world spun faster for him then it did for us at the moment. He slung his arm over Jess' shoulder and kissed her cheek causing Ben to groan from the ground at the site of them kissing.

"Ew, big people kissing." Ben said making a show of covering his eyes and we all laughed at him.

X-X

Having Claire in our lives felt like it was meant to be. We had our little family together and we were happy. Everything happens for a reason, as much as we hated how everything happened, we were happy and together so that was all that mattered.

All those years ago before Dean and I got together I never thought I could ever be this happy, let alone this happy and have kids with Dean. My 'if only' thoughts had become a reality and it turned out so much better then I even thought I wanted, my heart holding more love for Dean then I ever thought I could. My life was fantastic and I wouldn't change anything in the world for it.

X-X

Okay so like I had said in my last chapter I was kinda on the fence about this and had a few of these little quick shots about what happened after the story ended and I would like to thank the iz for giving me a few more ideas, her stories are really amazing btw you really should check them out! Anyways, okay this is it, it's done. I will be posting my new Supernatural story this coming Friday, I really need to think about a title because I still havn't done so, I usually leave that to the last moment, so make sure to check it out, though no Destiel...sorry...but I still hope you check it out and like it. As always, thanks so much to the people who follow the story and myself!

Desiree'