Raising Sammy

Truth Be Told

"Dean, why in the hell am I just learning about my sisters death? And my sixteen year old niece?" Addy asks me calmly. "Like I said I wanted to protect my daughter from this life." I tell her once more. "Dean, she was my sister. I had the right to know, I wouldn't have said anything. Was Sam and Cas allowed to come around?" Addy asks. I look up the bunker ceiling and roll my eyes, "Yes, Addy. Look I handled things, not so great. Ok I'm sorry." I say. "DEAN, She was my friggin sister! I didn't get to say bye." She says. "For the love of god, Addy she wasn't even your sister. Your dad took her from these awful people and raised her." I shout at her and immediately regret it. Addy storms off and disappears down a doorway then a door slams.

"Dad, that was mean. Why would you say that to her?" Sammy asks. "Honey, it was wrong and I'm sorry." I say. "You should be apologizing to Addy, not me. I'm going to go talk to her." Sammy says walking off. "She's right." Charlie says. "I know, she got her mother's wit." I say sitting on the dull yellow couch that probably came from the early seventies. "Dean, that girl has been through a lot. After you all dropped her off here, she went into a depressive state. Especially when none of you ever called, wrote, e-mailed, or even visited." Keith says. Charlie nods in agreement and sits beside me, "Yeah Dean, why didn't you guys ever at least try and contact us?" Charlie asks. "I screwed up, Charlie. Keith, I don't know how to fix this." I say. Sam walks out of the kitchen with Cas with a couple bottles of water and tosses me one.

We sit and catch up with them. Apparently, rogue angels who were inadvertently working with demons, to find the Winchester Daughter set the place a blaze when they couldn't find anyone in the house. Thankfully they couldn't get in due the warding. Cas keeps apologizing for his brothers and sisters. Addy and Sammy come out into the living room area laughing. I stand up and walk to Addy, "Addy, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things. I should have called you and I most definitely should have visited." I say to her. "It's in the past, can't do anything about it now. I'm just glad you guys are here and I get to meet my niece. Who is beautiful by the way. Good thing she got Liv's looks." Addy says.

Later that night, we decide to stay here for the night and head out tomorrow. I'm not sure if Charlie, Addy or Keith are coming with us. Me being me, offered to stay up and keep guard just in case. Cas is above ground keeping an eye out with Crowley. Sam is sleeping, and Sammy is in Addy's room. I start cleaning my gun, something to pass the time, when I hear someone come up from behind. I slowly turn around to see Sammy. "Can't sleep?" I ask her. "Not really." She says wrapping a blanket further around her as she joins me on the couch. "What's going on?" I ask her. "Dad, is all this real? I mean we are sleeping in an underground bunker." She says to me. "Yes, Sammy this is real. And you were actually born in an underground bunker. You'll see it soon." I say. "What?" She asks. "It's going to be our new home, well your new home. Your uncle and I called it home for many years. Well he still does." I explain to her. She leans her head on my shoulder, and sighs. "Dad, is it ok to be scared?" She asks. "Yeah, you wouldn't be human if you weren't." I say and kiss her hair.

Charlie walks out and walks around the couch to sit across from me. "She's sleeping." She says to me. I look down and see Sammy's eyes closed tight in a deep slumber. "She's beautiful Dean." She adds. "I know. I dread the day she brings a boy home." I say. "I highly doubt any boy will stand a chance with you and Sam around. So give me the deets on what happened to Liv." She says. As the night goes on I tell her everything that happened that night. Every heart breaking detail.

"Dean, I'm so sorry. If you could go back and do things over, would you do them differently?" Charlie asks. I look down at my sleeping teenage daughter, who is nearly the spitting of her mother and smile. "No, I wouldn't because if I saved Liv and not our daughter, I wouldn't be sitting here now. For the simple fact that Liv would have killed me." I say and smooth back Sammy's hair. Charlie laughs, "You did good with her. I'm sorry you had to break your promise and bring her into all this." She says. "It was bound to happen eventually. I mean we she is a Winchester." I say and hear feet shuffling behind me. I look and see Sam and Addy rubbing their eyes.