Collection of Destiel

The Moment

"You'd give anything for him, wouldn't you?" Sam asked one night over a few beers and a full moon.

Dean shrugged lightly as his eyes found themselves entranced by the sight of his husband slowly rocking their baby boy by the campfire. "I guess so. Why do you ask?"

The younger brother paused. "I am thinking of asking Jess to marry me."

"That's awesome!" Dean slapped him heartedly on the back with a childish grin.

Sam nodded but his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. "Yeah. But how do you know that it is right? How do you know that you can live with someone for the rest of your life?"

At this Dean found himself staring again at his husband, his finger instinctively tracing the ring bound around his left ring finger. "I knew the morning I woke up and his eyes were staring back at mine. My mind was still a little groggy and so maybe it was just that moment that it was able to hit me. But I stared into his eyes... and I saw everything and nothing. I saw the promise and I saw the fear. It's that fearful promise that made me feel it deep in my bones... deep in my soul that I would never wake up again without him beside me. And maybe it hits people at different times in different ways. It's just this knowledge that if he was gone... it would be like the light in your eyes would go dark. I never thought of myself as much of a marrying type until that moment. It was the moment that changed everything.

"No matter when that moment comes or how it comes about, you hold onto it and never let it go." Dean turned and stared at his brother with all the wisdom he could muster. "There isn't a day that passes that I don't think about that moment, that the way he looked at me isn't burned into the back of my eyes. You ask me how someone can know and all I can say is that if you have to ask, then you don't."

Silence fell among the two of them as Sam dropped his eyes to the ground to think over every word his brother had spoken. After a few heart beats his voice came to him. "She was ordering her food. I had already ordered so I just listened as she went through her favorite dish. I didn't want to go on a date where it wasn't her sitting across from me, asking for the mayo on the side."

Dean nodded and smiled as if he was the proud father who just learned his son had fallen hopelessly in love. "Then you know."

"I guess I do."

"Dean!" Castiel's voice rang out through their backyard. "Nolan is asleep but I am thirsty. Could you grab me a juice box?"

Dean snickered as he stood from the table sitting up on the porch and waved down at his husband. "Sure thing, babe."

"A juice box?" Sam chuckled with the shake of his head.

Another smile, this one more reserved simply for adoring Castiel, brightened Dean's face. "He's a weird guy but I love him."

As Dean started in toward his home for a juice box, Sam stared down at the camp fire and all those around it. Jess was fussing over Nolan as Cas giggled at what she was saying. John and Mary were curled up together on a wooden bench, their eyes mirroring the spark of smiles drawn across their faces. Bobby was explaining something to Jody which caused his hands to flail about.

Sam knew in that moment that this family was as perfect as anyone could ever dream.