SPN/j2 Big Bang 2019 For The Heirs To Come, Be Brave Epilogue
For the Heirs to Come, Be Brave
Epilogue
Dust into Dust, Father to Son
Jared was sitting on the porch swing enjoy the cool summer breeze when he glanced up and saw Jensen walk through the front door, he was holding two cups of coffee and he held one out to him.
"How's everything going in there?" Jared asked.
Jensen exhaled sharply as he sat down. "It's fucking crazy. One was really hard work but we were managing fine, now that we have two, I swear to god, it's not just twice the work, it's a hundred times."
Jared gave his head a shake as he chuckled to himself.
"Oh come on, it can't be that bad," Jared replied. "Besides, it's what you and Misha wanted."
"It is," Jensen said. "But at the same time, what the fuck were we thinking."
Jared chuckled again and then shifted in the seat, his expression serious. "You weren't thinking about yourselves, you were thinking of those poor children who had lost their parents and needed new families."
"Yeah, I guess."
"A year ago, when Wyatt was brought in," Jared continued. "There was a chance that another family would be able to take him in but you and Misha stood up and didn't hesitate to take him on and now look at her, he's doing so well and now you have Cole and you're going to be great for him too."
As if on cue, they could hear footsteps and when they turned toward the door, a small blonde haired boy came barreling toward them.
"Dada."
Jensen smiled down at him as the boy approached and he leaned forward, scooping the two-year-old into his arms.
"What are you doing out there kiddo, you should be napping."
Wyatt giggled loudly as he wriggled in his arms.
A moment later, Misha appeared in the doorway and exhaled sharply.
"He was asleep," Misha said. "He just waited until Cole was asleep before he snuck out and escaped."
Jensen ruffled Wyatt's hair before handing him over to Misha.
Misha took the boy back into the house and Jensen could hear them giggling as they made their way upstairs.
He smiled again, despite everything that they had been through and the past two years of finding normal he now had a new reason to continue fighting.
He was someone's parent now and that had brought out a different side of him, it wasn't the same as it had been with Jared or his own family, this was new and it was strong.
He had heirs now and he was determined to make them the bravest heirs of all.
He had fought so hard for his friends and family to get where they were today and he would teach those same values to his sons.
It had been two years since their lives changed forever. They were still dealing with the aftermath, the recurring earthquakes and storms, they also still lacked the knowledge of what caused it all to begin within the first place.
There were too many conflicting stories to come to a conclusion so while they were trying to live normal lives, they needed to be prepared in the event of another world-changing incident.
****
Jensen and Misha had dropped off the kids with his parents and they were heading out for the day, Misha was helping out with an afternoon program at the school while Jensen had signed up to be a part of the team that was expanding Cayden.
Along with Jared, Chris and Jeff, they were spending the majority of the weekend surveying the land outside of the current city border.
They were in need of at least 20 new homes, there hadn't really been an expansion done in the two years since they had arrived and even now, there were still people showing up at the gates.
Survivors who were worn down and beaten to the point of finally giving up, they had stumbled across the city by chance and were given a new hope that they would be okay, that the struggles they had been through weren't for nothing.
There were still some rough days of course, the earthquakes were a little less frequent but they were still stressful and had caused various amounts of damage over the years and the occasional storm would roll through that would be so severe that they couldn't even leave the house, but it was still a lot safer inside those walls than it was outside.
As he approached city hall, he could see Jared and Chris waiting on the steps, there were several other people gathered around and he recognized most of them and was good friends with about half.
A few minutes later, he saw Jeff and Mark come out of the building. Mark was the project manager, he was also their neighbor and had become a friend.
Once Mark had checked everyone in, he led them to the back of the building to the office that had been set up for this specific task.
There were papers and documents scattered across the tables, blueprints for the proposed new area and old maps that weren't entirely useful anymore.
They knew that this was going to take a while before the new suburb was completed but the sooner that they could get started, the better.
"How are the teams going with clearing the west woods?" Chris asked. "I heard that they were having water problems."
Jensen narrowed his eyes at him. "What are you talking about, what water problem?"
Mark sighed heavily as he placed a stack of papers onto the table. "Every time they remove a tree, water floods the area, it's been happening for weeks now."
Jensen had no idea what he was talking about. Neither did Chris.
"And you have no idea what's causing it, do you have the water tables for the area?"
"Of course we do but the tables we have, show that there isn't water in that area, at least not enough to produce the amount that we're seeing."
"Okay, so what does that mean?" Jared wanted to know.
"It means we still have a lot of work to do." Mark told him.
****
Jensen slumped down on the couch and put his feet up on the coffee table.
He could hear Misha moving around in the kitchen and a few minutes later, he appeared carrying a cup of coffee which Jensen happily accepted.
"How did it go out there?" Misha asked as he sat down beside him.
"Not how we thought it would," Jensen told him. "We were supposed to be surveying the east side of the boundary but we ended up having to inspect the west side."
"What do you mean, what happened?"
"Honestly, we're not even sure. Something about a large body of water not being where it should be."
Misha narrowed his eyes at him, nothing about what he just said made any sense.
"I don't think that it's anything too serious," Jensen told him when he noticed Misha's concerned expression. "We're still moving forward with the expansion, we just might have to find the resources elsewhere."
"Okay, well if you're sure. Misha said.
Jensen nodded back at him. "I am sure, so don't worry."
Jensen finished his coffee and placed the cup onto the table and laid down, resting his head on Misha's lap and within minutes, he was sound asleep.
****
The team had spent almost a month mapping out the area and preparing the sites.
Things had been made exponentially more difficult with no power but they were chipping away at it and they were making progress, slowly.
They hoped that in a few weeks they would have all 20 sites cleared out and the builders would be able to come in.
Over the past few days, Misha had been helping them out, Jensen figured it was because he liked being on the other side of the wall.
He couldn't blame him for that though, there was something incredibly freeing about being out there.
They were about to call it a day when Mark called them over, he placed a small cooler down onto the table in front of them.
"Not many of these lying around anymore but I thought that we deserved a drink."
He opened the cooler and pulled out a bottle of beer.
"Shit, I wouldn't say no to a beer." Chris said.
As they sat around the table, watching the sunset and drinking their beer.
It was about as normal as anything could get and Jensen relished in the moment.
When the sun finally disappeared, they gathered up their things and headed back behind the wall.
"I was thinking," Jared said as they were making their way home. "I might bring Echo over tomorrow. I thought that Wyatt might like to play with him."
"Yeah, he would love that," Jensen replied. "We'll see you tomorrow."
They stood and watched for a moment as Jared crossed the street and disappeared around the corner.
Six months after arriving in Cayden, he had moved out of the house and was now sharing one with Chris and Adrienne a couple of streets over.
When they got home, they found Donna in the living room with the boys, who were curled up on the couch, fast asleep.
"How did it go today?" Jensen asked her.
"It was good," she replied. "Cole took a few steps this afternoon, I just wished that we still had cameras so that I could have captured the moment for you."
Jensen sat down on the edge of the coffee table and stared down at his sons. To hear that he had missed a moment like that, bummed him out but in this new world, he had to deal with things like this happening.
"Well I'll leave you two to put them to bed," she said. "I'll see you tomorrow."
****
Early the next morning, Jared arrived with Echo.
The moment that Wyat laid eyes on him, his whole face lit up and they barreled through the living room and Jensen cringed when they almost knocked the end table over.
Jensen exhaled sharply as he folded his arms across his chest.
"You know that Wyatt is going to be heartbroken when you leave, now he's going to want a dog." Jensen told him.
Jared gave his shoulders a shrug. "Yeah, I did think about that but that's a you problem."
Jensen narrowed his eyes at him. "Thanks."
"You know," Misha said as he came into the room. "I was a little surprised that you got a new dog, I mean after Jax..."
Jared lowered his gaze to the floor before he looked back up at them. "I went back and forth for more than a year after Jax passed but he had a good long life and Adrienne thought it would be good for me."
"I agree," Jensen said. "So, do you wanna stay for breakfast, then maybe we could take them to the park?"
Jared nodded back at him. "Sounds good."
****
A few days later, Jensen, Jared, and Misha were walking back from the work site.
It was getting really late, it must have been almost 10 o'clock already.
Donna was with the boys, so they had missed their bedtime but they had the next few days off and had planned to spend as much time with the kids as they could.
As they approached the edge of the park, they could see the gates across the street, the light was a little lacking and there was a lot of cloud coverage tonight.
"I'm pretty sure we're going to get slammed by a storm tonight." Jared said as they heard thunder echoing around them.
"What gave it away?" Jensen replied as he stopped and stared up at the sky. He glanced over at Misha. "Looks like we might be spending the weekend with the boys inside."
Misha gave his shoulders a shrug. "I'm alright with that."
Another boom echoed around them and Jared wrapped his arms around himself as the rain began to fall.
It came on quickly and before they knew it, they were soaked through, of course, the rain lasted only long enough to drench them.
Jensen and Misha began walking again but Jared called out to them.
He was still staring up at the sky and when they walked back over to him, they saw that he was pointing at something.
"What the hell is that?" Jared asked.
Jensen strained his eyes to see what it was that Jared was seeing.
"Tell me that you can see what I'm seeing," Jared continued. "You can see it right?"
Jensen glanced over at Misha and it was clear that he was struggling to see it as well.
"Jared, I'm trying, I really am," Jensen replied. "But I don't see anything."
Jared shifted to the right just a little and pointed again. "Right there, those lights."
Jensen took a step closer and his eyes grew wide when he finally saw it, strange lights in the sky, lights, unlike anything he had ever seen before.
He glanced down when he felt Misha grab his hand and he sucked in a deep breath.
"What the hell is going on?" Jared asked. "What are those?"
The three of them stood at the edge of the park, staring up at the darkened sky and watched as the strange blue lights danced around the sky.
"Jensen, what do we do now?"
****