Maybe If You'd Behave

Allergies

Chapter 43

*Short Chapter*

Saturday, 2:17 pm

In the bunker

Claire's POV

Dean: I'm not letting you go back outside.

Claire: But why not?

Dean: Because you have allergies, and they're starting to act up. Stay inside for a little while.

I already knew I had allergies, but I always forget that they're this bad. I didn't know Dean would care this much about me having allergies, but I guess he just doesn't want them to get too bad. They won't get too bad. They never have. I should probably just stay inside for a while, but I don't want to. I wanna go outside.

Claire: I just wanna go outside for a little while longer. It's not that big of a deal.

Dean: It is that big of a deal. You have allergies, and-

Claire: But why's that matter? I've always had allergies. It's just because the seasons are changing. I'll be fine.

Dean: Yeah, you'll be fine. Because you're gonna stay inside. If you go back outside, you're only gonna feel worse than you already do. You know you have allergies, and you keep going back outside.

Claire: I come back in for water, and now I can't go back outside?

Dean: I didn't see how bad your allergies were getting, before. So I let you go back outside. This time, I got a good look at you. You don't look good right now.

Claire: Gee thanks. Who doesn't wanna hear that? I say with a sarcastic tone.

Dean: I just mean that you look sick, and like you don't feel good. I get that you wanna go outside and run around with Krissy, but you can't. Not right now. You have allergies, she doesn't. She'll be fine if she runs around outside for a little while. You won't.

Claire: Why do you care? My allergies only effect me. It shouldn't matter to you.

Dean: Because I love you, and I don't want you to make yourself sick. If you make yourself sick, you're gonna run to me, complaing because you're sick. And I'm gonna say that I told you so.

Now that I'm really thinking about it, I don't feel the best right now. But it's fucking allergy season. Who, that has allergies, feels good right now? Probably nobody.

Claire: You act like I'm your kid or something. I've been sick because of allergies before, and I was fine.

Dean: Are you not?

Claire: What?

Dean: Are you not my kid?

Claire: I didn't mean it like an insult. I just meant like, biologically, I'm not your kid. So you shouldn't care about my allergies.

Dean: I like to think of all of you as my kids. You live under my roof, I keep you fed and hydrated, you come to me when you're upset, scared, or hurt. I think you're my kids, so biology doesn't matter.

Claire: You think I'm one of your kids?

Dean: Yeah. I do. Biology doesn't mean anything to me. I've always thought Jay was my kid. Krissy's grown to be like my kid, and so have you. You're all my kids. Right now, one of my kids is being stubborn, and won't let herself cool off, and she's gonna make herself sick because she's got allergies.

He never told me that he sees me as one of his kids. He's always been like a Dad to me, but I didn't think he ever felt like a Dad for me. I guess he did. Dean's got a huge Dad complex. He just makes you feel like he's your father figure. And he feels like he has to be a father figure to everybody. It's actually really calming to know that even though my Dad's not around anymore, I still have a father figure.

Claire: I'm sorry.

Dean: It's ok. Just stay inside for a little while, and if you feel better later, I'll let you go back outside. Ok?

Claire: What am I supposed to do, if I can't go outside?

Dean: Go see what Jay's doing. He's probably playing Minecraft or the other one. What is it? Roblox?

Claire: Ok.

Dean: Let me know if you think you need to take some allergy medicine. Ok?

Claire: Ok.

I go around him and take off my shoes, leaving them at the stairs. I go to Jay's room, where he's got the door wide opened and he's doing something on his phone.

Claire: Hey.

Jay: Hey.

Claire: What are you doing?

Jay: I'm trying to play one of those tycoon games, on Roblox, but somebody keeps killing me. I don't have any weapons yet, so I can't kill them back. I'm about to go steal somebody else's weapons, real quick.

Claire: I'm gonna come in, and we'll tag team them. I say while sitting down next to him, on his bed.

After a while, we've annoyed that person so badly, that they left the server. It's actually pretty funny. It's hilarious, actually. You think it's funny to annoy somebody, but when they do it to you, it's a problem. Pussy.

Jay: I heard you and Dean arguing. What was that about? Did you get in trouble?

Claire: No. It was just about my allergies. He didn't want me going back outside, because it's obvious that my allergies were acting up. Then we got on the subject of him thinking of us like we're his kids. Did you know that he thinks of us like we're his kids?

Jay: He's dropped a few hints, but he's never actually said it. It was always kinda obvious, though.

Claire: It's nice to know. Especially after what happened to my Dad.

I'm still working on forgiving Castiel for that. He was a lot different then, than he is now. He's a lot better now, than he was then.

Jay: It's nice to know. Especially when your Dad was never really there.

Claire: Do we have daddy issues?

Jay: Definitely. He says with a laugh. All of us have some form of daddy issues.

We both laugh. Having daddy issues is actually really funny, until they really start to impact you. Then it's not funny, at all. Let me laugh. This is my humor. It's how I cope with not having a Dad. If I don't laugh about it, I'll never stop crying about it. So let me laugh.