Hope For a New Beginning

Chase

Alice stirred in her chair as she listened to the demons bicker back and fourth.
"Can you just shut the hell up? Both of you?" Alice spat out, making everyone whip their heads towards her in surprise. She stood up and went to get a glass of water from the kitchen trying to bury the memories of her mother and Dayna's arguments.
"Ali..?"
Alice was surprised when she heard dean's voice. She looked up at him in response.
"What's going on with you?"
"What do you mean?" She asked as she slammed the cabinet back and put her glass in the sink. She winced at the sound of the cabinet thudding shut, knowing Dayna had most likely heard.
"You're snapping at everyone and I know something's going on... Just talk to me about it.." Dean said while shoving his hands in his front pockets.
She pursed her lips and forced a smile.
"Dean nothing is going on..."
"But the way you snapped at lamia and Crowley and-"
"Dean," she cut him off and his eyes snapped up to lock with hers.
"..The bickering just brings up bad memories, okay?"
"Bad memories?"
"Mom and dayna used to bicker like that..." She sighed and continued.
"Dayna did everything for our family. She took care of me, the bills, the house, my mother, everything." She said as she could feel the resentment towards her mother burn inside of her. "She even snuck us out sometimes so we could see Bobby..."
Dean pulled her into a tight hug and sighed into her shoulder.
"I think they stopped bitching in there.. Do you want to go back out?" Dean asked.
Alice gave a weary smile and nodded slowly.

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Dayna sighed as she watched her sister storm off into the kitchen.
"I got this.." Dean said, planting a kiss on the top of Daynas head and following Alice into the kitchen.
Dayna couldn't help but frown at the fact that Sam looked like a puppy that had gotten ran over and walked over to him.

The demons had stopped arguing but were still talking about what lamia had taken, not even paying attention to Dayna and Sam.

"She'll come and apologize, Sam. You didn't do anything wrong.." Dayna said.
"Yeah I know.." He grimaced, not lifting his eyes from the floor.
"But, how are you feeling?" He asked.
"Me? I'm fine..." She smiled yet continued cracking her knuckles, something she often did while in deep thought.
Sam straightened his back and looked her in the face.
"Cmon Dayna, there's been tension between you two since she got back with.."
He then turned his head at lamia.
There was a long pause.
"She drove to our special place. Where we'd go just to talk, you know? It was our thing..." Dayna said, feeling nostalgic and remembering all the times they'd drove up there. It was a safe place, much like the field on the edge of their fathers property had been.

Sam's voice snapped her out of thought yet neither one of them had noticed Lamia and Crowley eavesdropping.

"I don't think she realizes how that hurt you, maybe I can try talking to her once she cools down?" Sam suggested.
"Thank you Sam.."
"Always here for you, you make my brother happy and hold this family together. We all love you.." He said and hugged her as well.

As if on cue, Alice and Dean joined them. Alice had sat next to her sister, already apologizing without Sam's interference and tears brimming in her large green eyes.
"I know I shouldn't have and I'm sorry, i didn't know where else to go, but that'll always be our place. I'm sorry, D..." Alice said and hugged her.
She took a deep breath as she stood up to sit next to Sam and he greeted her with a small smile.
"Im sorry sam, i didn't mean to snap at you like that, at all. I've just been majorly stressed out especially with the baby living inside of me, but there's no excuse for me lashing out on y-"
"I understand, babe.." Sam half interrupted her and kissed her forehead, wrapping his arms around her so that she could collapse into his broad chest.

"So glad the Mystery Gang is all made up. Now, can we get back to the serious issue here?" Crowley asked in his usual annoyed tone, turning his attention to where Lamia should have been standing.
"Where the bloody hell did she go?" He asked, voice rising with each word.
"Probably very far away from you, which is exactly where I want to be." Dean rolled his eyes and took a sip of his beer.
"Right." Crowley interjected. "It's all a game to you Winchesters." He smoothed out his jacket and snapped his fingers, vanishing from the farmhouse.

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After tidying up the living room Dayna walked over to the side of the couch where Alice had fallen asleep.
"I'll never understand how horror movies can put her to sleep.." Sam spoke quietly and Dayna giggled as he began to lift Alice off the couch.
"Be careful with her Samuel." She scorned jokingly.
"It's Sam." He winked and disappeared up the stairs to their bedroom.

"Hey D, can you come here?" Dean called from the sun room.
Upon entering the room Dayna immediately relaxed. Her lavender and honey candles were lit in the corner with her many plants and Dean was sitting on the small sectional with his laptop and her favorite cardigan.
"I thought this was ruined." She said, plopping down next to him and curling her feet up under her. She smoothed out the thick fabric and searched for where the blood stain once was. It had been stained horribly when her and Alice were attacked some months ago by the futuristic hunter.
Dean laughed quietly to himself and smiled.
"Yeah well I called up Ellen and she told me how to get the stain out.." He said cautiously and frowned when he looked up to see Dayna grinning from ear to ear.
"What?"
"You did laundry.." She giggled and he rolled his eyes.
"Yeah well I wanted to you have it for when you go into labor. I know you love that thing." He paused, looking down at Dayna once more and smoothing one of her curls off her forehead.
"I've been thinking a lot lately," he swallowed. "How do you feel about Chase?"
"For a baby name?" Daynas eyes lit up. "I love it honey. That's perfect."