Four people shoved into the Impala made for a cramped ride, but Dean wouldn't ever complain. He wouldn't trade it for anything to have the people he loved alive and well and with him, not even for extra elbow room, or a night's sleep without someone's obnoxious snoring

Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine he'd get something like this. He wasn't used to getting good things; every time it looked like he was headed that way, life threw him a curve ball and Dean was left robbed and heartbroken.

But this time…this time actually felt like it would stay good. He nudged Cas with his elbow and snorted at Cas's annoyed sigh. But Cas still indulged Dean and wrapped his hand around Dean's squeezing it gently.

"This is unsafe driving," Cas said.

"Shut up," Dean said.

In the backseat, Sam sat with his legs bent at an awkward ankle, pressed against the backdoor. John was leaning against his own door, sleeping.

It had been too easy, Dean thought, to fall into this routine. Some days, he wasn't sure any of this was real, convinced it had to be an elaborate dream he would wake up from at any moment.

But Cas's hand beneath his own was too real; John's snoring too loud. Dean didn't want to believe it, but he couldn't help it. This was all very real. This was his life.

He smiled widely, happier than he could ever remember being. The four of them together made an unstoppable force that nothing could ever hope to defeat. Hunts were cakewalks, even facing down the bigger baddies, like demons and werewolf packs. And Cas had proved angels were nothing to worry anymore, either; and with four of them, they shouldn't ever stand as a threat ever again.

Dean revved the engine while Cas pulled up the GPS on his phone, the address for their latest hunt already logged in.

He leaned over and kissed Cas gently on the cheek, still unbelieving he was allowed this. Dean still didn't know what happened between Cas and John when they killed Naomi—that was between the two of them, Dean decided, and he wouldn't press for details they didn't want to share. But Dean was so unbelievably happy he was allowed this, and his father.

He finally got to have everything he ever wanted, and for once, he wasn't afraid of losing it.

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