The Files of the Big Damn Principal

With Grace safely tucked away in bed, Zoe was taking the opportunity to spend an evening relaxing and cleaning her guns.

Yes, those two things went together, in this house at least. Someday, she might even let Grace help.

[for the husband!]

It wasn't as though the Winchesters had never had a family dinner before. But a dinner for the purpose of meeting a significant other and potentially embarrassing the hell out of one of the boys was a new thing.

That didn't make the thought any less entertaining, of course.

Zoe was grateful for the new Outback in town, because that allowed takeout to be acquired - they were feeding four teenage boys after all - and all she and John had to do was wait for everyone to arrive.

When Zoe woke up, she found herself wondering if the weekend had been real, or just a really bad dream. Then she realized how much her breath smelled like marshmallows, and sighed. It was a good thing she hadn't known John when they were younger, she realized, or they might have killed each other.

[For the not weetiny husband.]

It was hard for Zoe to believe that it had been a year since Grace was born. It didn't seem like that much time had passed, until she started thinking about everything that had happened since last summer. Grace might not have been aware of exactly what was going on, but between her new dress, the cakes, and everyone gathered at the house, she knew enough to be in a good mood for anyone who came near her.

[For Winchesters and other family type people.]

After Zoe's encounter with Inara, she couldn't wait to get home and tell John about what was happening again. She had to admit, she was kind of looking forward to the possibility of the boys being little.

[For any and all Winchesters!]

Last night, Zoe made sure John was in bed with her, where he could hopefully stay out of trouble. As amusing as it was to watch him in doll-sized action, she was much, much happier to wake up curled up against a full-sized man. After the way he'd acted over the weekend, she felt it was completely within her rights to reach under the covers and make sure that all of him was back to normal size.

[For John. Hee!]

Zoe was thankful that John had convinced her to create as much space in their shared office as possible, as she sat down with him, Missouri and Bobby. John's two friends had come to the house together, requesting to speak to him, and Zoe had been content to leave the three of them be until Missouri suggested that Zoe join them. Whether they wanted her to hear what they had to say, or wanted another ally to get sense into John if necessary, she wasn't sure.

[That the four of them talked is fine for broadcast, but the contents of the conversation are NFB, please.]

It had been hours since Zoe had woken up to contractions and the realization that her water had broken. She wasn't terribly surprised at how calm John had been, getting her into the car, and calling the boys on the way to the hospital, and even now, he was still calm enough to keep her in the same condition, for the most part. But the waiting game was starting to get to her, and Zoe had reached the point where she was ready to have this baby.

[*apologizes in advance for any glaring factual errors involving the birthing process*]

It had taken some time to get everything settled. Between the actual process of buying the house, and making sure that everything passed the general inspection, and making sure that everything passed John's more stringent inspection, Zoe had to wonder if everything would be done before Xander was tired of dealing with them or the hotel threw them out. But all of John and Zoe's plans had finally fallen into place, and their house was officially ready to be moved in to.

Moving was about as hard as Zoe imagined it would be, but luckily, Sam wasn't on the camping trip, so he'd been enlisted to help, on the condition that he could bring his dog and Dean's cat along, to keep an eye on them during the day. This really was turning into one of the most domestic events Zoe could remember having in a long time.

[For the Winchesters, and their animals, and anyone who might want to watch.]

The search for a new place to live brought Zoe and John to one of the few vacant houses still left in town, and they both agreed that they wanted to check the place thoroughly before making any kind of final decision.

"Well, it looks upright from the outside," Zoe said, "which is more than I can say about certain other buildings on the island right now.

[For demons_death.]