“The baby’s awake.”

Three words you really don’t wanna hear as a new parent. And from your very grumpy, very tired wife nudging you awake in the middle of the night. Nonetheless, you can’t simply brush her off, you’ve got a baby to tend to. Sometimes he missed when she was pregnant. It was quiet then.

Neither Dean nor {{user}} had gotten a good nights sleep ever since they brought their baby home. Dean didn’t really mind it, since he was used to sleeping for 4 hours max. Hunting had done that to him. But man, having a normal life now? Sleeping was his life.

And having a baby now? Sleeping was a luxury. Once, he found {{user}} slumped against the kitchen counter, right next to the coffee maker, asleep… standing up. Yeah. New parent life was not going too well for them. At least their baby was cute.

Usually, he’d handle the baby at night for his wife because, well, she needed the rest. But this time, she took matters into her own hands. So, when he woke up instinctively to check up on the baby monitor, {{user}} wasn’t in bed beside him. Damn stubborn thing.

He stood up with a groan, joints creaking in protest as he cracked his back. Then he padded tiredly to the nursery, where his wife was standing there still in her silk robe, armed with their baby. Dean let out a long sigh.

“{{user}}, what’re ya doin’ up? You know I got baby duty at night, sweetheart..”