Sam
The beating Matt gave me a week ago was enough to break my nose, chip my cheek bone, burst my lip, and give me a black left eye, to the extent that I could barely see out of it. I didn’t want to go to dinner with James, Cooper and Hannah because my face would put any person off their food, plus I was doped up on a ridiculous amount of painkillers, because Hannah had insisted on taking me to the hospital to check for a concussion. Way to make a man feel good about himself, babe.

I was in my room, packing up enough of my things to last me two months and my laptop and other tech things. I hadn’t mentioned it to Dean, but I knew he wasn’t going to come with me, why should he? He needs to be here for his daughter, she just got both of her parents back and Dean just can’t up and leave Beth, he would never. I could hear Dean coming up the stairs and walking along the landing towards my bedroom, I knew I was going to have to explain myself to him now.

“Hey, Sammy-“ He stopped talking when he walked into my room as soon as he saw what I was doing “What are you doing?” He asked in his low, gruff voice.

“Leaving,” I told him simply.

“You’re leaving?” He asked, raising his eyebrows “Why? Where to?”

“Yeah, I’m leaving because I need to do something else with myself, I don’t have anything that’s my own here anymore,”

“What are you talking about, Sam?” He asked, sitting down on my bed and looking at how much I had packed “You have Hannah, she’s crazy about you and the two of you love each other,”

“But she’s not mine!” I snapped, before closing my eyes and letting out a long, slow breath “She still lives in that house, Matt is still trying to get her to marry him and she doesn’t know what to do, she’s a mess, Dean.”

“She’s a mess?” He scoffed “Why?”

“Because she doesn’t know what the right thing to do is,” I said, running my hands over my face “She knows that she is happier off being with me, but, being with Matt saves both of our asses,” I reached up and touches the remaining bruises on my face “You’ve
seen what he can do to me, and I’m a big guy, imagine what he would do to her if she tried to run off with me,” Dean physically cringed.

“I’d rather not,” He muttered.

“Me neither,” I sighed “So I’m going to leave for a couple of months, let her decide what she’s better off doing and then she can let me know, I’ll either stay away or I’ll come back,”

“Where are you going to go?” He finally asked after just staring at me for a few moments.

“I’m gonna go stay with Dad for a while,”
~~~~
Hannah
Breakfast was quiet this morning, given that Jimmy and Brian had been celebrating absolutely nothing last night and well into this morning, they had just gone to bed when everyone else started to wake up. I’ve been awake since six o’clock, the sofa may be comfortable but it isn’t easy to sleep on. I had plenty of time to make a good breakfast for everyone.

“What’s the special occasion?” Erin asked, taking her plate off the counter and taking it to the table where she sat next to Beth who was eating her breakfast with the help of Zack.

“No reason,” I shrugged, fixing up another plate and handing it to Johnny as he walked through the room “I was up early enough and we have food we need to eat before it goes out of date,”

I was fixing up the last two plates, mines and Matt’s, when suddenly I felt him behind me, standing so close.

“Sleep well?” He asked, and I could practically hear the smirk in his voice.

“No,” I smiled a tight-lipped smile and turned around and handed him his plate “Thanks for asking,”

“You could always come up to the bedroom,” He reminded me, sounding somewhat sincere “The bed is much more comfortable
than the couch,”

“I know that, I slept in the bed before,” I reminded him “But you’re there, and I’m not sleeping beside you,”

“What’s wrong with me?” Matt asked, raising his eyebrows.

“I could give you a whole list of things, but I’ll take the couch over your bed any day,”

We joined the others and we all ate breakfast before going our separate ways to get ready for the day. I showered and dressed in
Erin and Zack’s room once they were ready to go and do whatever they had to do, which was meet with their own wedding co-ordinator. Once I was dressed, I walked downstairs, and walked right into Matt in the foyer.

He caught me by the shoulders so that I didn’t lose my balance completely and fall over. Still holding onto me, he pulled away a little bit and looked me from head to toe, ignoring the fact I rolled my eyes at him, and he let out a low whistle of approval.

“Looking a little fancy today, aren’t we?” He asked, finally letting me go so I could finish my text to my brother.

“I have places to go and people to see, arrangements to make, so I need to look my best,” I quipped “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to be late to lunch,”

“With whom?” He asked.

“An old friend,” He gave me a look to continue talking “Remember the woman in my old building, she was having a baby?” He nodded “Well, she had the baby a month ago and I haven’t seen her, but I have a surprise for her,”

“Can I come?” He asked. I thought about it for a minute before caving, and letting him come with me.
~~~~
Matt
Hannah drove us to lunch in her car, the radio was playing softly in the background while we sat in a somewhat comfortable silence. We finally got to the nice café, and we were greeted by a woman sitting outside at one of the tables. She was dressed just as nice as Hannah, she had long auburn hair that was styled into neat waves, but it was the baby boy cradled against her chest that caught my attention most. She looked good for a new mom.

“Andrea,” Hannah smiled, turning to me with her hand still on the woman’s arm “This is my friend and housemate, Matt.” Andrea gave Hannah a look and they giggled a little “Matt, this is Andrea, we used to live in the same building,”

“Nice to meet you,” I smiled, reaching my hand out for her to shake, which she did.

We sat down and soon our orders were taken food and drinks. Once Hannah was halfway through her pasta, she realised that Andrea had barely been able to touch her food because of the wriggling infant in her arms, but he cried whenever he was put in his pram.

“Here,” Hannah said, putting down her fork and holding her arms over to Andrea for the baby “Give him to me, I’ll hold him while you eat something,”

“Thank you,” She sighed with a smile, handing the baby over.

Hannah took the little boy in her arms and rocked him ever so slightly while smoothing the tips of her long fingers over his little tuft of hair.

“He’s gorgeous,” She whispered “He looks a lot like his mommy,”

Seeing the way she looked at him, held him, spoke to him, cradled him and touched his tiny face and hands, her face even lit up when he wrapped his hand around her little finger. I knew she was mother material, that’s what she was supposed to do with her life… have kids, a whole bunch of them.

“You wanna hold him, Matt?” Andrea asked me “Let Hannah finish her pasta, since you’re all done,” She chuckled “I can see you’re dying for a hold of him,”

“Uh…”

“Here,” Hannah smiled, holding him out to me.

I’ve never really held a baby before, only Brian’s little sister once, but that was for a minute when Brian had to piss on babysitting duty, and I held Mac at arms-length.

“He won’t bite you, Matt.” Hannah laughed “He doesn’t have any teeth yet,”

I held my hands out and took the little boy in them, he looked right at me and then started to fuss a little, but when I held him closer to me, put his chin on my shoulder and rocked him against my chest, he stopped fussing and just settled for drooling on my shirt.
~~~~
Hannah
At lunch, while Matt held Aiden, I gave Andrea her surprise. I got her out of her apartment by paying the first six months of rent on a gorgeous, big house, well, big enough for her and the kids.

“What the Hell is this?” She whispered, choking on her tears as she looked through the contents of the envelope I’d just given her
“Hannah, what have you done?” She looked up at me with a huge smile.

“You can’t stay in that apartment anymore,” I told her “It’s got two bedrooms, you share with your daughter and your twelve year olds have a crib in the corner,”

“I don’t know how to thank you,” Andrea sobbed, finally letting the tears of joy fall from her eyes.

“Just say thank you, and start packing your things, the movers will be over in two days to move everything,”

“Thank you,” She said, standing up and holding her arms out to me. We rounded the table and hugged each other. She cried into my shoulder while I rubbed her back “You’ve done so much for us that you didn’t have to do, you’re a freaking saint,”

“I wouldn’t quite go that far,”
~~~~
After lunch, I had to run some other errands, and on the first two I made Matt sit in the car, eventually, he got bored and asked me to take him home, just in time too, because I was on my way to see Sam next.

I pulled up outside Sam and Dean’s house, climbed out the car and walked up the path. I stopped in my tracks when Dean stepped out onto the porch with his shotgun, he wasn’t going to shoot me, he was just going to sit out in the sun and clean the weapon.

“He’s not here,” Dean grumbled without actually looking at me.

“Where is he?” I asked, continuing up the path and stepping onto the porch. Dean finally looked up at me.

“He left,”

My heart almost fell out of my ass. I hoped Dean didn’t mean what I think he meant.

“What?” I choked.

“He left,” He repeated “He packed up some of his things and left, he’s gone to stay with our Dad and Bobby for a while,”

“Did he say when he would be back?” I asked, rubbing my hands down my face.

“When you made your decision on what to do, get the two of you killed and run away with him, or marry Matt,”

“I’m not even engaged to Matt,” I sighed “Why would I marry him?”

“Because if you don’t, and you run away with Sam instead, then you know Matt’s going to come after you and kill you both,”

“So what?” I asked “He just fucked off and left me to deal with this on my own?!” I snapped, raising my voice “I can’t believe him!” I turned on my heel and stormed back to the car.

“Hannah, wait!” Dean called out, getting to his feet again, stopping me when I opened the door to turn back and look at him “What are you going to do?”

“I’m going home to get engaged again and finish planning my wedding,” He gave me a look like he couldn’t believe me “If Sam can just go and live his life, I’m going to do the same thing!”

I jumped in my car and sped back to the house. Tears brimmed my eyes for more than one reason; Sam leaving, my life falling apart all over again, the fact I was about to go home and get engaged to Matt… I needed a drink.

I pulled into the rounded driveway and cut the engine, jumping out the second the car was stopped and hurried inside, practically running in my heels through the house, down the corridors until I came to Matt’s office.

“Matt!” I yelled, bursting through the doors, making him jump in his chair and slam his laptop closed. I hate to think what he was just looking at, but the fact that the sound didn’t stop as soon as he closed the laptop, I didn’t need to ask.

“What?” He asked, fixing himself and rounding his desk “What’s wrong?”

“Where’s my ring?” I asked “The engagement ring you got for me, I want it back,”

“What? Why would you-“

“I want to make a deal with you,” I cut him off “I’ll marry you, be your wife and whatever else, but I need to be trained, I want to be part of the gang, not just Beth’s glorified babysitter, alright?”

“Hannah I don’t think-“

“I want to get out there, Matt!” I snapped “I can’t just marry you and then sit around the house, or perform at the club all day and all night,” I stepped closer to him and pressed my body against his, making him stiffen and groan “You train me up some more, get me
back to being as good as I used to be a few years ago and let me back out there with you guys, running the business and calling the shots, I’ll marry you in one month,”

He reached into his pocket, pulled out his wallet, and pulled the engagement ring out of it. I held my hand out to him and he slowly pushed he ring onto my finger. My hand moved up his arm, over his shoulder and onto the back of his neck so that I could pull his face down to mine and crashed our lips together. After a second, he started to kiss me back, his hands moved to my waist and pulled me even closer against him and he deepened he kiss.

“What was that for?” He asked when I finally pulled away, although he seemed reluctant.

“That’s how you seal a deal with a demon, Matt.” I chuckled, wiping my lips with my fingertips.

“Let me guess,” He laughed, rubbing his hand over his hair “I’m the demon?”

“Correct,”
~~~~
Erin
Once Zack and I had finished seeing the wedding co-ordinator, we took Beth to the movies and then we headed home. What we found when we walked into the kitchen was a surprise to us all, Hannah and Matt were sweaty, soaked in their own sweat actually, and Matt was wearing only a pair of shorts, while Hannah wore a sports bra and short shorts, her usual workout clothes. Matt was wrapping Hannah’s arm with an already blood soaked bandage.

“What the Hell is going on here?” I asked, hurrying over to Hannah to see what was wrong “What happened?”

“We were training,” I took a step back and looked at Hannah completely shocked by her answer.

“What?” Zack chuckled, placing Beth on his hip. Hannah and Matt nodded at each other before she held up her left hand, revealing her engagement ring that was back on her finger.

“Why?” I asked.

“We made a deal,” Matt answered “Hannah and I are going to be married a month from Saturday, and in return, I’m going to train her back up and she’s going to run this whole thing with the rest of us,”

“Hannah,” I said lowly, looking at my best friend through narrowed eyes “Can I speak to you outside for a second?” I didn’t give her a chance to answer me, just grabbed her wrist and yanked her out the back doors, ignoring her hiss of pain as I tugged on her arm.

“What?” She growled in pain, pulling away from me and holding her wound with her free hand.

“You’re marrying Matt?” I asked “What about Sam and everything you two have had for the past few months?”

“He’s gone,” She sighed, closing her eyes “I went over to see him today and Dean told me that he just up and left,”

“Well, where did he go? Why?”

“He went to stay with his Dad and Bobby for a while, he’s going to work with them for a while I suppose…” She rubbed the back of her neck “Dean said that Sam claims he’s saving both of our asses by running away without me, because if I went with him we all know that Matt would come after us both, hurt us, kill us… worse,” My face softened and I looked at her with sympathy “So if he can just up and leave me to marry Matt, then I might as well do it, but there is no way in Hell I am living in this house, married to that man without being at my full potential, able to protect myself and everybody else in this house,”

She was getting hysterical, and her eyes were filling with tears that she was trying to hold back, so I quickly wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into a hug. Shushing her erratic breathing and the tears that were threatening to fall.

“Alright, alright,” I said softly “Don’t you worry about a thing, everything is going to be fine,” I looked up at the sky in silent prayer that everything really would be alright, because to be honest, I didn’t know how everything was going to turn out.

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