Raising Sammy

Seeing Things

I wake up to the sound of the most annoying bird chirp in the world. I reach under my pillow for my gun, and remember it's hidden in the woods. "I'm going to kill that damn bird!" I shout waking the cabin up. "Dean, shut up. You know it's only 4am?" Sam says. I sit up in the bed, "Tell the damn bird that." I say getting out of bed and walking over to the window opening it, "Hey, ass hat. Keep it down." I shout at the bird. It squawks louder, "You wanna fight, I'll come out there and rip your feathers out!" I yell at him. "Mr. Levine?" Miss. Porter says from outside. "Hi." I say. "Good morning to you too. Are we having a bad morning?" She asks. "The bird was annoying. How are you even awake?" I ask her. "Oh I see not a friend of our nature friends. I like to hike early in the morning. Everyone will be getting up at six. See you then." She says. "Wait. Let me join you." I say. She smiles and nods. I quickly get dressed and head out the door.

I walk out and notice she walked around to the front door. "So how far do you usually walk?" I ask her. "Depends on how I feel." She says as we begin walking. "Oh goody." I say to myself as I follow. "Mr. Levine you're not usually a morning person are you?" She asks. "No, Miss. Porter I'm not." I say. "Mr. Winchester, you may call me Rachel." She says as we make our way up a steep slope. "Well, Rachel in that case call me, Dean." I say trying not to seem winded. I spot someone from the corner of my eye and I turn to see and I freeze where I stood. I find myself staring at Olivia. I blink about a hundred times and shake my head and look again, she's gone. "Dean! Are you ok?" Rachel says. "I'm fine, I need more sleep. Maybe I should head back." I say retracing our steps. "Ok, I'll walk you back." She says walking with me, then I see Olivia again down the road a ways. I turn around. "No, I'm fine really." I say. She looks startled, "Sorry, just wouldn't want you to miss out on your morning routine." I say quickly running off.

I've lost my damn mind. It's been sixteen years and now I start seeing her. I know she's not a ghost so what gives? I think to myself. I reach our cabin and see Sam and Sammy are up. I loved Olivia for naming our daughter after Sam but since he's alive and around still it can be confusing sometimes. Sam immediately notices something is off with me. "Dean, what happened?" He asks. I look at him then at Sammy debating if I should say this in front of her. She rolls her eyes, "Dad, come on. We're all family here, we don't hide things." She says. "Fine, I've been seeing Olivia." I admit. They are both silent and exchange glances with each other. They know something. "What did you two do?" I ask. "Nothing." Sammy quips. "Dean, Sammy's been seeing her too. And so have I." Sam says. "What? And I'm just now hearing about it." I say. "Look, she came to me and told me because she wasn't sure how you'd you take it. Dean, how are we seeing her?" Sam explains and asks. "I don't know. But for right now the Okami is on the back burner." I say.

"So, are we gonna like use a oujia board or something?" Sammy asks. Sam and I both look at her remember back to a time when I had to communicate with him through one. "No. We've never dealt with anyting like this but that's not gonna stop us from figureing it out." I say. "Dad, is mom back?" Sammy asks. "I don't know. Let's go look around these woods and see what we find." I say to them. We grab our bags with our gear and head out. We run into Miss. Porter just outside the door. "You three going somewhere?" She asks. "Just gonna take Samantha, out for a walk in the woods. Some father, daughter, and unlce bonding." I explain. "Oh, well I hope to see you later for the games." She says. I smile at her and we head off for an explanation. What the hell could be causing Olivia to be appearing to all of us?

We get about a mile in and I see Olivia sitting on an old tree stump. "Olivia?" I call out. She looks up and immediately I see those big brown eyes. She looks confused and lost. "Olivia? Is that you?" Sam asks. I get closer so that now I'm kneeling in front of her, "Olivia, It's me Dean. How are you here?" I ask her. She looks at me, "Who's Olivia?" She says. "Great." Sammy says. I look back at her then back at Olivia. "What's the last thing you remember?" I ask her. She thinks and looks down at the ground. "I don't know. I think I was with an older man and we were tracking something." She says. Her dad. "Ok your name is Olivia and that was your dad , Curtis. You two, like us are supernatural hunters. I'm Dean Winchester, this is my brother Sam and this is mine and your daughter Samantha." I explain. She sits back stares at us, "I have a daughter? With you?" She asks.

Sammy sits beside her, "Mom, you are more beautiful than dad has ever described." She says and hugs her. I can see the confusion on Olivia's face and I look at Sam. I walk off and call Cas. I wait a few seconds for him and start to walk off when he shows up. "Dean, what's the matter?" He asks. I point to Olivia. He looks and takes a step forward, "Dean, that's Olivia." He says. "No, shit. How is she here? She has no memory of who she is." I tell him. He squints and looks back at her, "I'm not sure, but I'll figure it out. Are you happy she is back?" Cas asks. "Well of course. I just don't want this to turn bad and affect Sammy the wrong way." I say. He nods and is gone instantly. I join them, and Olivia looks at me and stands up. "Dean?" She says. What the fuck? She's gaining her memory back? "Yeah, It's me Dean. Do you remember?" I ask her. Before she can answer Sammy bursts into a speech, "Yes, Dad. I showed her the notebook you put together of all your guys' things you did and she started to remember things. Dad I helped mom remember." She exclaims.

Olivia smiles and hugs me tight. She keeps a hold of me and looks at Sammy. "Dean, you did so good raising our daughter. Although, I'm not entirely pleased she is in the hunting business." She says. "Mom, it was my choice. Dad, uncle Sam and Cas fought me pretty hard on it. Hunting is in my blood." Sammy says. "Well there's no doubt she's mine. Where is Cas?" Liv asks. "He was just here. I asked him to figure out why you're back and make sure it's not some temporary thing." I tell them. She nods and sighs, knowing this is a strange circumstance. "Dean, we have to get out of here without anyone seeing Liv." Sam says. "Dad, I got this. you guys go and load up the car and I'll handle Miss. Porter." Sammy says taking off for the campsite.

Sam rushes off and I start to when Liv grabs my hand and pulls me back. "Dean, how did you not flip when I died?" She asks me. I take both her hands in mine. "Because I had our daughter to take care of and I knew she needed me. Olivia, you have no idea how much I love you and I'm glad you're here but do you have any idea why you're here?" I ask her. "No, Dean I don't. I'm just glad I'am." She says and leans up to kiss me. Man, I've missed her. Her soft lips and coconut scent. "Dean! Hurry up!" Sam shouts. I could kiss her forever but I don't need Sammy's teacher asking who the lady is we found in the woods, especially since her and Sammy look so similar. "We're coming!" I shout. I taker her hand and lead her to baby.

Once we reach baby, Cas appears. Olivia hugs him tightly. "Castiel, I've missed you." She says. Cas looks at me confused, "Dean, I thought you said she has no memory." He says. "Sammy helped her." I say to him. "Oh. I have some sort of information about our situation. It appears there's an angel who is rectifying some wrong doing. I'm tracking him now to find out more. Just wanted to check in." He says and disappears again. Sammy comes running out from where the campers are, "Hurry lets go, now!" She says. We scramble getting in the car and start it quickly. "What happened?" I ask her as we pull away from the camp grounds and onto the open road. "I told Miss. Porter there was a family emergency and we had to go now. But then she wanted to talk to you and I said you weren't feeling well, then she really wanted to see you. I think she might have had a thing for you, Dad." She says and I can feel Oliva's eyes starring at the back of my head. "Well good thing you're quick, kid. So Dean where we going?" Sam asks.

That's a damn good question where are we going? Oliva is back. But for how long and why?