Close to not enough - Jensen Ackles Fanfic

50º Chapter

#Jared POV#

I don't really know how I could really handle myself and pretend for the rest of the afternoon that I haven't heard what I heard.

The worst part was that I wanted to tell Jensen so badly, I wanted to finally yell at him how right I was about that snake of a wife he got. I wanted to punch him in the face for leaving Claire because of that woman, instead... I just pretended that everything was totally fine.

That is, until I finally closed the door of the kid's room, where they were already fast asleep after just five minutes of a bedtime story.

Gen, Claire and I agreed that after the party we should just talk about this and find a way of telling Jensen the truth that he deserved all along.

"So... how are we going to tell him? I don't know if it is a good idea to just tell him out of the blue, maybe prepare him a little?" — My beautiful wife was the one that spoke first, she shouldn't even be worried about this kind of thing, not when she is pregnant and should have other things in her mind.

"Maybe it's better to prepare him... it's a big bomb we are throwing at him, telling him that his daughter isn't his daughter? I think I would die if someone told me that." — Claire has her eyes glued on the fireplace that was currently unlighted, possibly she just needs something else to focus on.

"Yeah... let's not forget that he is going to receive two big bombs that day, Claire." — I looked at her, and she didn't take a second to look back at me. I know that it might be too much for someone to take, or maybe it is the truth that he needs to come back from the lie he has been living with that woman.

"Okay so... Baby, you prepared him, ok? And then, Claire might tell him both truths, maybe it's the best way to do this." — Gen was actually right. I can be the one that starts to perhaps tell him some things about both Justice and Summer, how Justice is completely the opposite of him and how Summer has some big similarities with him.

"Give me a second..." — Claire said as her phone started to ring somewhere in the kitchen island. She got up pretty fast, and before we actually noticed, she was back in the living room with quite a scared expression on her face. — "Okay, okay... give us five minutes, ok?" — She said to the phone, but she gestured for Gen to get ready to leave.

"What's wrong?" — Gen didn't take more than 30 seconds to be ready to get out of the house, but either way, both of us were as scared as Claire was.

"It was Mrs. Criten... Ruth passed out when they were having tea about ten minutes ago, I am her emergency contact." — Claire looked like she was lost in what to do right now, and before she could even register, I had them both out of the house. Something scary about living with two women is that when one of them wants to kill you, usually the other one wants too.

"Go. I'll stay here watching the kids, ok? Now go, and please tell me as soon as she's feeling better." — I gave Claire a small, fast kiss on the forehead, before leaning my body in the direction of my beautiful wife, so I could give her a sweet peck on the lips. — "Drive safe!" — I said.

I closed the front door behind me slowly, so I wouldn't wake any of the kids that were sleeping upstairs. Those little demons can be a pain in the ass sometimes, and all I want and need right now is to sit on the couch and watch the game.

My peace didn't last long though because as soon as I finally let my head rest on one of the pillows my phone buzzed with a text, making me roll my eyes.

I grabbed the device from the top of the wooden coffee table, seeing that it wasn't Gen that texted me, instead the name "brother" was popping on the screen. I opened the text with a pump in my throat, suddenly I felt a wave of nausea invading me, maybe he found out?

"Can I come over? I really need to talk with you."

Jensen is never so vague over texts, but he never actually texts me anyway, he usually just calls or just shows up without saying anything at all.

I typed a fast reply, telling him that it was ok for him to stop by and that Gen and Claire weren't at home at the moment.

I don't really know what to expect from this conversation, but I don't think I can lie to him. Not now when I know both truths about the girl that he loves like a daughter and raised as one and the girl that he only saw for the first time today because until today. Jensen had only seen Summer in the few pictures that I've showed him over the years.

I used to hang around the set, showing everyone that asked the pictures I took from both Gen and Claire when they were pregnant.

I even had to print one of the pictures, so I could hang it on the wall of my trailer to remind me of the two beautiful women that were back at home. Probably fighting over a piece of chocolate every time they were craving it at the same time.

All this time, I never really treat Summer differently from the way that I treat my own kids, she's my little girl too and Claire is pretty ok with that.

I love Summer as my own, but now that I actually know that her real father is not some jerk that banged Claire in a vulnerable time of her life, and it's actually my best friend... that makes everything different.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard a soft knock on the front door, at least Jensen remembered that the kids might be asleep, and thank God he did.

I got up from the couch, so I could open the door, but I wasn't expecting to see the view in front of me.

It was Jensen, but it was a red puffy eyes Jensen and a small bruise was starting to appear around one of his eyes.

I decided to keep my mouth shut for now, giving him enough space, so he could enter the house, but before he actually entered, I felt his arms around my body.

There were only two times that Jensen hugged me like this. One was when his dog died some years ago, the second was when he found out that Danneel was pregnant and now...

I felt his body trembling, and I caught with my ears the sobs that were leaving his mouth.

I don't know what happened, but I didn't hesitate in involving his body in a warm and tight hug, trying to be as comforting as I could.

Something is really wrong...