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Story time with peach.

Dean and the others continued to walk with Jade and Blade ahead while Dean and May walked far behind them with May leaning on to Dean as they walked .

Dean could not get his mind off what had happened earlier .

Luckily , the siren had distorted everything so that the others did not hear what he had said or he hoped that they had not heard .

Why did Juan think he was a Winchester ?

No , that was not the right question for now .

If someone had met one of the Winchesters either Alec or any of his father's two brothers , Thomas and Simeon , then it would be highly possible they thought he was a Winchester .

Dean bit his lip hard , he should have corrected Juan immediately but he had not and Juan had only seen him with a shocked expression that he would assume as an expression of guilt .

Now that Dean was on the subject of Winchester , he noticed that a lot of the items and food that they carried had the WIC logo emblemed on them .

It was hard to notice but could not still be used as proof that the WIC was in anyway related to this.

The WIC had a lot of products , companies and sub - industries , so telling people that they were behind it just because their logo had popped up was going to be worth nothing .

Dean yelped from a sudden sting on his right arm , he turned to May wondering why she had pinched him but was startled by how red her face was and the amount of sweat beads on her forehead .

" I have been calling your name for a while now , what were you thinking about ? "

Dean ignored her question to ask one of his .

" Why are you sweating so much ? Do you feel okay ? Does anything hurt ? "

May shook her head and Dean placed the back of his palm on her forehead to feel her body's temperature .

She was definitely not okay with a temperature that high .

Dean looked at her skeptically , they still had a long way to go and they were already walking as slow as possible .

If he tried to carry her , they would only be slower , that was if she even let him carry her in the first place .

He opened his arm around her wider to let her rest more on him .

As long as she did not fall asleep , they would be okay .

" On a scale of one to ten , how bad do you feel ? Be honest ".

She was quiet for a moment before she raised her fingers .

Dean tried to count it but her fingers kept going up and down , he did not know if he was supposed to count that too or leave it be .

She finally answered by herself .

" About a twelve , I am so tired that I don't feel any other thing in my body and I am beginning to literally doze off which is just the worst because I hate feeling vulnerable . Tell me a story to keep me awake ".

Dean shook his head .

" It does not work that way May , you should be the one telling the story so that you do not fall asleep , so tell me something really fun ".

More of her weight sunk into Dean as her raspy voice came again .

" Okay , let me tell you a funny story that happened to my mum and I , it starts with a confession though ".

" Remember when I said that I had never been to school ? That was a lie . I went to kindergarten ".

Dean waited for the confession and soon realized that she was not adding anything .

" Wait , that is the confession ? May , I do not think that going to kindergarten counts as going to school at least not that I know of ".

May wheezed and Dean patted her shoulders to calm her down , when she was calm , she slapped his hands away .

" You know , my mum was not always this gambling addict and alcoholic that she is now . She used to be glamorous, an accountant for a big law firm in the city ".

She was silent for a while before Dean pushed her to wake her up .

" What ? I was not sleeping. Anyway , She was an accountant in this law firm and that is how she met my father , he was a partner at the law firm and they worked closely together .

I don't know the exact details but only after a month after they had known each other , my mum proposed they live together and he agreed to it ".

May paused again to catch her breath and inhaled loudly before continuing and Dean let her be to continue at her own pace .

" She was so in love that she felt there was no other step she could take from that juncture and my father must have loved her very well too because he readily agreed to her plan . Both of their houses were not large enough for extra people , so they got a house and moved their things and did everything they had always wanted to do while dating until my mum got pregnant for me ".

She paused briefly to exhale softly and adjusted herself on Dean's forearms .

" They were elated and the first thing they did was to put my name on a waitlist for a fancy kindergarten that they had heard of while my mum also quit work to focus on preparing for my arrival . When I finally did come , I was a month early and even though I was healthy , mum took me to every child doctor she could find to check if nothing was truly wrong with me ".

Her voice had gotten lower and they were walking even slower.

Dean had decided to refrain from making any comments that would further tire her out .

" When they confirmed that there was nothing wrong with me and that I was only early , they returned home and continued their lives with Dad working more and more because my mum was a lavish spender and she burned through all of their savings while she stayed at home . That was when the fighting started , She wanted him to be home whenever she wanted to see him but he was too busy making money because she was blowing through it so fast and there was a general conflict of interest ".

" However, she refused to see reasons with him and was convinced that he was seeing someone else , she would fight with him whenever he was home and follow him as soon as he left for work while she left me at the hands of different sitters . Dad came home less and less while mum went around picking fights with any females that my Dad had spoken to and inevitably causing problems for Dad's work . This went on till the year I was supposed to get into kindergarten ".

May turned slightly to Dean's arm and punched it then proceeded to fluff it like a pillow before she settled down again .

" I felt like I did not have parents at all because mum had began to drink and whenever dad tried to see me , she hid me away to hurt him hoping he would go back to how he used to be .

Dad finally sued for sole custody , they had never been married so there was nothing to dissolve .

When Dad filed for custody , mum convinced me that If I told everyone that I wanted to live with her , Dad would also come to live with us so I did as she said not knowing that she was using me as leverage for Dad ".

" Dad lost the case and mum got to keep me but Dad did not come home , he moved to another city instead but he kept sending money to mum. She used the money to hire different Private investigators to monitor Dad's new life while I struggled with my first days at kindergarten ".

" At night , she would drink and throw the bottles around and scream while I curled and uncurled in bed trying to fall asleep . Eventually , Dad got a new family and stopped sending money to us so Mum could no longer pay the bills . She began to do the stalking herself and was arrested for drinking and driving in a different state from where we lived . She called an expensive lawyer but with our other crippling debts , she had to sell off the house to pay her bail and the lawyers fees ".

May's voice had grown cold and detached as she talked for longer , her voice dwindling like a candle that was lit outside on a windy day .

" Dad would not give her money to buy a house as big as she wanted so she used the money he had sent to stay in hotels till it got exhausted , all of this while , I had long stopped attending the kindergarten . We moved to a creepy apartment that had peeling walls and hallways full of junkies . Soon, she was bringing several men back to the apartment and to bed and hanging out with the junkies on the street and at night while she drank and looked at pictures of my Dad and her , she would curse me for being born and ruining the relationship between Dad and her . She did it all at the top of her voice ".

" I should have left her years ago but I kept hoping that one day she would look at me and think that I was worth changing for but I guess I was not worth that much and now she has eventually sold my organs to show how much I was worth to her ".

She was quiet but she was not asleep as Dean could see ,she had promised a fun story but this was very far from a fun story and Dean did not know what to say to her.

Her mum was a fool if she did not love someone as awesome as her daughter.

Since Dean did not know what to say to her he said something that had stuck with him .

" It is called a paediatrician ".

May raised up her head , with a confused expression .

" What ? "

" You called it child doctor but it is actually paediatrician ".

May hissed and looked ahead when Jade whistled loudly , they could see the church now.

" We are almost at the church so I guess it is going to be okay now ".

Dean turned to her to inquire what she meant when he saw her eyes close, he put his palm out to feel her temperature.

Shit!

He grabbed her and lifted her bridal style while heading for the church.