Witch Way to Life or Death

Chapter 18: Family Building 1

With Dean & Amy

Sitting by the fire with Amy in my arms after being separated even temporarily was incredible. I still remember though a life time ago that she was set to die and it had become one of my greatest and recently most occurring nightmares. I would be doing some chore I helped in everyday whether it was hunting, fishing, or leading a training session and on my way back there she would be as beautiful as ever. Her blonde hair swaying in the breeze, blue-gray eyes with that twinkle reserved just for him, and sunshine smile on her lips. She was breathtaking to him. No matter her doubts of it, he found her perfect. Maybe it was because of how in his life before he had failed relationship after failed relationship. Maybe it was because he had chosen a 'stable' job this time around that didn't have him traveling the world. Or maybe it was just that she was what he had always wanted but never found. On those horrible nights, he'd see her there opening her arms to him or even heading his way to welcome him back when from a person in the corner of his eye, just behind her, or who had been sitting only a few feet away became a walker and latched onto her neck before he could shoot them down. Every time he was just a second too late or hadn't seen the second one hidden by the first.

He was determined not to let the nightmares rule over them. He'd told her about them. How he feared losing her and knew that as far as he was concerned she was it for him. If he lost her there wouldn't be another woman in his life outside those in his family. He hadn't bothered to include Andrea and she knew exactly why, though they ignored it for the most part. Andrea had been the one issue between them. He knew Amy had begun noticing the exact things he and the others had. She asked about it at first. Asked why he stayed away from Andrea after the first few weeks in the camp. 

It was during a training session she realized just why it was. Andrea may have tried to be subtle but Amy had grown up watching her big sister from the window when she came home from a date or had a 'friend' over when babysitting her. Amy knew her moves, hell she'd used a few of them herself on him. She'd wondered at first if he enjoyed her attention before noticing how he would quickly move away or find a reason to leave. It was then Amy started focusing on her sister's behavior. After all, she had her man, she had the ring, and she had the big sisters that doted on her as if she was one of them. She was Aunt Amy to his nieces and nephews and she would be damned if anyone, even her own sister, (the sister who had kept her to the side and gave little thought to before suddenly coming up with her little road trip idea after learning about Dean from their parents) tried to take that away from her.

She had built her own little family in his and hoped someday they might even build a little one of their own to add to it. She knew of the three-way relationship between Violet, Shane, and Rick. She hadn't understood it at first, at least not until they had spoken about it. Dean had told her of how Violet had been drugged by a coworker one night in the hope of ruining her reputation in the small town they lived in because she was with Rick. He told her of how his little sister had woken up and realized that the night had mostly been a blur for her though she remembered a few details and how she had ended up in bed with both Rick and Shane and later found out she was pregnant from that very night. It had been even more shocking when she had asked about the Chris and Wyatt's father and learned they were bi-paternal fraternal twins.

Learning the man she loved could do magic and was a 'skin-changer' as he called himself was a shock. Though she had moved passed it and asked about her beloved mermaids of fairytale afterwards. She'd practically gone into cardiac arrest when he took her out to his pool, stripped and gave himself a tail. He hadn't been able to make it last long, something about mermaids not being real and partial transformations being unstable. It had been real enough for her and while she didn't mention it to him she had told the twins of how their uncle had made her think they were a modern Prince Eric turned mermaid for him with her being Ariel playing Cinderella. The girls had laughed of course but Hazel had smiled and told her how she would make a good princess for her uncle while Heather just ew'd away before agreeing so long as she didn't have to see them being 'all kissy-face and lovey-dovey'.