Forgotten Twin

Happy Birthday

Sam looked over at Dean worriedly. Dean laid on his motel bed just staring at the ceiling disconnected from his current reality. "Dean you haven't left your bed in two days" Sam sat at the foot of the bed.

Dean doesn't move, he doesn't even flinch. Today was his birthday, once a happy day when he was younger but not so much since Alex's passing. "How about we go out to eat. I'll buy you so much pie you'll be throwing it up by the end of the night"

"It wasn't your fault" Sam sighs

"Please go away," Dean whispered, letting out a shaky breath as he rolled over and putting on his headphones.

    Dean was good at pretending to be okay, acting like losing his twin sister wasn't a big deal. People assume that because it was 20 years ago he should be over it by now, but to dean it feels like it was just yesterday.

Every time he closes his eyes he sees her. Every time he sees another pair of siblings he thinks of her. You see Dean will never admit this out loud to anyone but a piece of him died that day.

***

Sam sat at the table eating dinner alone across from an empty seat where Dean was supposed to be. Sam came back from the store with food, pie and a bunch of deans favorite snacks a little over thirty minutes ago but Dean wouldn't budge from his spot on the bed.

"Something happened" a monotone voice spoke out of nowhere. Sam quickly turned around to see Castiel standing in the middle of the room.

"Now's not a good time Cas" Sam groaned but Cas didn't seem to care.

"Yeah well the angles are up to no good" Cas points to the couch where a girl laid unconscious and covered in dirt. "who the hell is that" Sam asked causing Dean to look up.

"You don't recognize her" Cas asked

"Should I"

"What the hell?" Dean spoke from behind Sam and Cas. They didn't notice Dean get up from the bed "It's Alex," Dean choked out. Sam's eyes widened in disbelief "Wait a minute. Our sister? Alex?" Sam practically screamed.

"This isn't possible," Dean muttered to himself. "Micheal" was all the angel said. "Why?" Sam asked. "I don't know. Whatever it is, it can't be good. I know one thing for sure. We need to hide her now."

Cas puts his hand to Alex's chest and brands the Enochian symbols on her ribs to hide her from angels. Alex wakes screaming causing Dean to flinch. The girl looks around confused and surrounded by strange men.

"Where am I?" Alex asked looking from Sam to Dean. Dean walked over to the couch kneeling in front of the frightened girl. "It's okay. Just relax, you're safe" Dean reassured her by putting a hand on her shoulder.

Alex shrugged his hand off "Who the hell are you?" she snapped. "It's us Lexi," Dean whispered. Alex looked at Dean face full of confusion. Only one person calls her that. Her brother, her twin but the man standing in front of her wasn't her dean.

This man was old her brother was 11, this man looked like he was in his early thirties but still she had to ask. "Dean" she asked not believing it herself.

"Yes its me" he nodded

Alex shook her head. "Not possible, my brother are eleven and–" Alex looked over to the taller man "And Sam is seven" she says standing up. "She's the same age as she was when she died. You don't age in heaven" Cas told Sam and Dean.

"Do you know why Micheal brought you back" Cas asked

"He said I was a gift. To show Dean he can trust him"

    Dean ran his fingers through his hair "This isn't real. What if it's not her"

"It's her Dean. It's really her." Cas sternly spoke. "How is this possible?" Sam asked, mainly talking to himself.

   "Well, one minute I was in heaven minding my business and the next I'm sitting on a bed in front of some creepy pedo men who claim to be my family" Alex sassed.

Dean gave her a bitch face. "We're not pedos and we are your family" Dean said

    "Okay then why are you so old" she asked. Dean rolled his eyes. She really hasn't changed he thought.

   "Alex, you died twenty years ago, so when you were brought back everyone around you aged" Sam told her.

"If you're really Dean then you know our top secret twin power handshake we made up when we were five" Alex says sticking out her hand to Dean.

   Dean suppresses a smile "You really think i remember that that was so long–"

Dean didn't finish his sentence, instead he reaches for Alex's hand and they perform they're secret handshake in front of Sam and Cas.

Alex laughed "It really is you"

Without warning Dean pulls her in for a bone crushing hug. "What are you doing, we never hug," She asked. "I know," Dean says, not moving.

That's when it hit Alex. To her it feels like she never left but to him she's been gone for twenty years. So she put aside the fact that she hates hugs and wraps her arms around Dean.

   "You smell like ass," Dean says, finally pulling away seconds later.

"Yeah well i just crawled out of my grave what's your excuse" she joked "what's your excuse" Dean mocked his sister.

   Alex turns to Sam. "Sammy you got tall" She smiled.

Within seconds Sam made his way across the room to her and engulfed her into a hug. "I've missed you," Sam said.

   Dean looked at his siblings and for a brief moment he was happy. Then he realized that at any moment Micheal could take her back. His smile quickly turned into a frown.

Dean wrapped his arms around Alex and Sam protectively. "I'm gonna protect you this time" he whispered only for himself to hear. He wasn't gonna let anyone take her away from him again.