Chapter 23

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I gasped. Sammy betrayed me. "How dare you! How dare you give me a blue five!" I said. He shrugged.

"You're lucky I have a five. Cass?" Castiel took my five and placed it in the deck.

"Reverse time Daph." he placed a red reverse card. I gasped dramatically again.

"I'm sorry??" I pointed to the blue reverse card I had in my hand to Cass. He took it out of my hand and put it in the middle.

"Uno!" I called out.

"Uno!" Dean said a second late. He cursed silently knowing he lost.

"Suck it up buttercup. Sam?" Sam placed a blue one in the deck and Dean got another card from the deck since he had no blues. I grinned and looked at them.

"No..." Dean said.

"Yes." I said.

"Cass, would you like to do the honors?" I looked at his hand take the last card from me and placing it in the middle. Sam sighed in defeat and Dean groaned.

"If we were taking bets, I would have more money than before." I grinned.

"Did we win?"

"Yes, Cass, we won UNO."

"What a strange game."

"You think everything's strange." I said. It was dark outside the window and they still haven't came back. Sam walked onto the window and he made his usually surprised face.

"What is it?"

"Someone came."

"Who?" I heard footsteps out the door and turned to see friendly faces. I smiled.

"Glenn, T-dog, you guys came."

"Holy shit, Daphne you okay?" Glenn asked.

"Totally."

"Who're they?" T-dog asked looking at them.

"Guys, these are my brothers, Bigfoot over there is Sam, my baby brother, and this idjit here is my older brother, Dean. And this is our best friend Castiel." Sam and Dean nodded in acknowledgement while Cass just looked confused like normal.

"Hello." He greeted.

"Hey..." Glenn greeted a bit confused. I looked to T-dogs arm and saw his arm was patched.

"How are you holding up, T?"

"Could be worse."

"And Sophia?" I asked. Both their faces sadden.

"Still no luck huh? Once I'm out I'll help again." They nodded and it became silent until my brother spoke up.

"Thank you for taking care of our sister." Sam said.

"She's been real helpful, her boy too. Whatever you need, we can help." I smiled at T-dog.

"Thanks, T." he nodded and they both walked out with Maggie. Hershel came up to me and lifted the blanket that was covering my wound. Dean looked away and closed his eyes. Sam did too.

"If they don't get back soon, we're going to have a decision to make."

"Which is?" I asked.

"Whether to operate without the respirator."

"You said that wouldn't work." Sam said.

"I know. It's extremely unlikely. But we can't wait much longer." Dean turned his head back and leaned them on his hands with his eyes still shut. Sam sighed and kept looking out the window. Cass was still quiet as ever but I can feel he was a bit nervous.

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I could feel myself slowly nodding to sleep. I had to keep my eyes open. I still had faith. And I wasn't going to die, I'm not leaving my brothers, Cass or my son behind in this god forsaken world. I kept fighting for their sake.

"Daphne..." I heard Cass' whisper. I looked over to him and smiled softly.

"I'm fine." He looked at me with sad eyes. I nodded and looked back at the ceiling. I decided to remember the good memories. Like the 4th of July of '96. I looked over at Dean. He tried to smile but he couldn't.

"July 1996, remember?" He smiled softly and nodded.

"I feel so bad burning that field up." I laughed slightly wincing.

"At least we got out without getting caught."

"The most beautiful 4th of July we ever had." I smiled.

"That was a good time."

"Think dad knew about it?" He shook his head. Hershel came in and checked my pressure again.

"She's still loosing blood faster than we can replace, and either the swelling in the abdomen, we can't wait much longer or she's going to slip away." I looked at Cass.

"Anyway you can reset my blood?" I smiled trying to make a joke.

"Yes, I can."

"Oh." Was all I said as he put his hand on my stomach. Suddenly I felt a bit less lightheaded. Hershel looked back at the thing around my arm.

"It's stable again- how-"

"He's a bit special..." I said before Cass could say his usual line of being an angel of the lord.

"This should give me more time right?" Hershel nodded still surprised.

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