Chapter Six
Two days later,
Sam had to sit down to figure things out. Cassie was at work and Lilly was napping while he was trying not to panic. He wanted to be with Cassie that was a given but could he really give up hunting? To live a normal life he needed a job, a 401k, maybe even some side income in the real world where Cassie lived.
He paced the room as his hands began to sweat. He wasn't just going to give up the idea because it all seemed some how foreign to him. Think he thought. He could finish his law degree online, he could work in an office and they could live none lavishly till he finished his classes. It all sounded good except that he was a ghost hunter by trade it was all he knew though office equipment and that sort of thing was not hard to deal with. He just didn't think it would compare to his time saving lives.
He was being a snob, people lived every day lives doing small things to help the world. It didn't have to be life or death demon hunting. Yeah that was it he would scale back and be a regular Joe. He could do that for Cassie and Lilly he could do that for himself. How hard could it be, he considered with satisfaction.
He knew he had to make choices. He had chosen Cassie, maybe if he made it sound really appealing she might agree to him hunting now and again. He laughed aloud at the thought, no woman would do that. It wasn't that he thought her unreasonable but he understood that women worried more than men. He sighed, what had he gotten himself into by falling on love?
That afternoon.
Cassie came home to find that Sam had made dinner and Lilly was grinning at her as though she had done something naughty.
"What's up you two?" Cassie asked as she put her things down in the chair.
"Nothing, we are just happy to see you," Sam said before he kissed her.
Lilly giggled.
Cassie leaned out of the kiss to look at her child then she realized she was wearing purple egg shaped slippers.
"What do you have on your feet?" she asked Lilly who was glowing with happiness.
"Eggs mommy," she said as she modeled them for her.
Sam laughed this time.
"She talked you into those I gather."
"It wasn't hard they were kind of fetching, it's the season you know," Sam said before he led her into the kitchen.
Sam pulled the chair out for Cassie before he put Lilly safely in her seat.
"Fried Chicken? Really?" Cassie asked with an upraised eyebrow.
"Yes and I fried it myself, while Lilly was napping," he said he wanted to make sure she knew that her daughter had not been in danger of flying oil.
Cassie smiled, she had never known any man to cook chicken, the thought was amusing and sweet.
"I can't wait to taste it," she said before Sam sat down beside her.
Twelve years later,
Cassie groaned as Lilly paced the room. She had been in her closet and out of her closet looking for something to wear on her date. Lilly was one day from being sixteen; it was the magic day for teens everywhere. Cassie and Sam had decided to let her have the date night before they gave her the big Sweet Sixteen party the next evening. However, Cassie had begun to think letting her go out was a bad idea. It wasn't that Lilly was nervous so much as she didn't want to dress up at all. Cassie thought she might have been wrong about trying to get the teenager to be more girly for the occasion.
"Okay, I give up; go get your jeans on and a nice shirt."
Lilly turned to her mother with a smile. She knew she could wear her down. She and her mother wore the same size but her mother's clothes though youngish were just too much for her. She left the room with a "Thanks," over her shoulder.
Cassie sighed before Sam came in the room.
"What's going on?"
"Nothing I ….never mind. I guess I have to remember that Lilly is going to be herself no matter how hard I try to make her into a young lady she is a tom boy."
"Yeah but a beautiful one that knows what she wants just like her mother," he said before Cassie went into his arms for a hug.
-Marco showed up just after Lilly was finally dressed in her favorite jeans and a nice blue blouse. It was a simple vee neck shirt and she wore a gold amulet around her neck that she never took off. The shirt fit her snug and the outfit hugged her curves. She generally wore boots with her jeans and a leather purse in brown that matched them.
Cassie had to smile as she saw her almost grown up daughter walked down the steps at the sound of the door bell ringing.
"See you all later," she said before Sam opened the door."
Cassie groaned. Sam wasn't going to let them leave without chatting with Marco even though Lilly had gone to school with him for three years and he was one of her best friends.
"Come in for a second," Sam said to Marco as he opened the door for the young man.
Marco, who was part Italian and part Hispanic smiled at Lilly as she stood behind Sam.
"Sure," the younger man said before he followed Sam into the kitchen.
"Mom?" Lilly said as she glared at her mother.
Cassie sighed loudly, "Just give them a second. Hey it's a rite of passage for a father to talk to the young man taking out his daughter.
Lilly almost commented that Sam wasn't her father but he really was as far as things went. He had raised her and loved her; besides she loved Sam very much he was a good man. He had been the one to soothe all her boo boos and make things right for her and her mother over the years. He had never let her down or missed a school function. He provided for them when things were bad and stayed around when her mother was stubborn as she tended to be.
"Okay," she conceded before her and her mother went to take a look at her hair situation.
Cassie noticed it could have been done a bit nicer. She pulled Lilly into the downstairs bathroom to instruct her on a proper pony tail.
-"So Marco, what are your plans?" Sam asked before he leaned casually against the kitchen counter.
He considered asking the young man if he wanted a drink but decided to make him sweat.
"Um…we….um….are going to the movies then maybe out for a burger," Marco said hesitantly.
Sam looked the rather tall young man over. Marco wasn't one of Lilly's friends that came around too often but Sam knew she hung out with a few young men. It was all platonic Sam realized. Lilly had been a tom boy all of her days. She learned to hunt before she was ten. She was well taught in defending herself. She had enjoyed learning about the demons, ghosts and other awful things over the years. She was smart and capable of handling herself he didn't doubt that. Of course, underneath it all she was a woman. It was what worried him about her going on a date with someone who had known her as a friend for so long. Sam didn't want Lilly to get hurt so young and then decide that love was not for her.
"Well, it sounds like a good plan but keep in mind even though Lilly can kick your ass, I can kick it better. Keep things on the up and up and we will all be fine," Sam said with a slight frown.
Marco moved back a few feet to touch the door. "Yes sir."
"Then we are good," Sam said before he walked back out of the kitchen with Marco following. Sam thought Dean would have been proud of the way he had handled the situation.
-The pony tail was more casual after they were done. Cassie had given Lilly bangs and they allowed a few tendrils of her naturally wavy blonde/brown hair to frame her oval face. The actual pony was long but they thickened it by doubling it in the rubber band. Lilly liked the look and they were done about the time Marco showed up again with Sam in the living room.
"Things okay now," Lilly asked with a slight smirk that reminded Sam of Dean.
"Yep, have fun Shortcake," Sam said with a smile before he hugged her and she blushed red in his arms.
"Thanks a lot, I could have gone all day without hearing that," she whispered to him.
"Okay you two be safe," Cassie said as the two teens walked out the front door.
-Ten minutes later-
Cassie and Sam had cleaned up the kitchen with thoughts of some quality time in the bedroom before there was a knock on the door. The knock was tentative and they both knew who it had to be.
They walked to the door together and Cassie peeked out with a smile. She moved to open the door to her six year old triplets. Her mother had them for three days and this would have been the last night. Angel stood at the door with a small grin on her face.
Cassie could only smile at her little sensitive child. The girl came in and flung herself into Sam's arms. The other two; Jade and Cameron ran in the house and straight to the kitchen with barely a hello.
"Shoes off," Cassie yelled at their backs.
Audrey, Cassie's mother frowned. "Sorry, I know we were due to come back tomorrow but I think the kids were bored with the old people," she apologized.
Cassie shrugged, "Don't worry about it. Thanks for keeping them; they bug us to spend time with you guys."
"Hey anytime, you know they're no problem, we love having them," she said before she hugged Cassie then Sam and went back to her car.
-Sam sat Angel on the floor. She was the only blue eyed kid in the bunch. Sam ran his hands over her hair as he squatted to her level. "You okay?"
Angel nodded, "Yes, Daddy. I missed you," she said before he pulled her into another hug.
Cassie watched Sam interact with his daughter. He was kind, gentle, and he never seemed to be impatient with the children. Cassie figured the other two were tearing up the kitchen looking for food so she headed in the other room to feed them.
-Cassie and Sam had waited almost two years to marry. Despite trying they could not get pregnant. Their relationship almost ended when Sam told Cassie about the demon blood.
{Flashback-eight years ago}
Sam had worried about telling Cassie the truth from the time he decided to stay around. He did everything to convince himself it wouldn't matter. The subject came up after they hadn't gotten pregnant despite trying. Lilly was getting older and they wanted her to have siblings.
"Cassie I have to tell you something though I do not know if it's why we have not had a baby."
Cassie put down her glasses as well as her book before she looked at him. Her heart raced and for some odd reason she knew what was coming was not good.
"Go ahead."
Sam explained everything about his encounters with demon blood as a child and his connection to the yellow eyed demon.
"I had no idea how it would affect a baby…."
"You did know at the point that we openly decided to have children. Why would you not tell me then? Have you considered that it could have somehow affected me too?"
Cassie yelled and moved to the other side of the room.
"Cass, no I …" Sam got off the bed and grabbed her by the arm…"listen...I love you and never would do anything to hurt you..." he said before she pulled her arm away.
Cassie looked down at her arm and up at Sam,"Really? Because that hurt just now."
Sam followed her out of the room into the hallway. Cassie turned to him with tears in her eyes.
"Can I trust you?" she asked without waiting for an answer.
It was two days before they spoke again. The discussion let them to a fertility clinic where things could be monitored closely. Sam's blood was the major concern he took a chance by going in but it turned out that it was fine. The treatments were the reason Cassie had three children at once.
{End Flashback}
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