Hayden & Dean (The Sequel) - A Tethered Love

Chapter 49: Family is Always Family

I can move my feet again, whatever Amara was doing to stop me, she lifted and I walk out to where Dean and Amara can now see me "what is she doing here?" Dean spits, taking a few steps back now.

He doesn't know that the bomb he has inside of him would kill Paul, but he's stepping away, he doesn't want me to die. Amara says to me "tell me Hayden, are you and Dean family?"

I look to my husband then I look to her, the tears still streaming down my face. But I tell her. I tell her everything "no matter what happens to Dean and I, he'll always be family. Even if we didn't share a son" I look at him "Dean and I shared so much while we were together, we'll always be family. His brother will always be my brother, his angel" I chuckle as I say it "will always be my angel" I look back to her "even when you fight, and you go years" She raises her eyebrows and I fix my wording "eons without talking, they are still family."

Amara looks at me, then looks at Dean. She snaps her finger at her sides and suddenly Chuck is sitting in front of us "what? Why did you bring me here?"

Amara exhales then says "brother," She looks to Dean, then to Chuck "in the beginning it was just you and me, and we were family. I loved you, and I thought" She corrects herself "I knew that you loved me."

"I did" Chuck sighs "I do" he steps two steps closer to her.

"But then you went and you made all these other things. I hated them. I hated you for needing something else, something that wasn't me" Her arms shake at her sides and I worry more that this won't end ell "and then you locked me away, and all I could think about was making you suffer."

He steps closer "you had your reasons."

"I did" She assures she knows "and I thought revenge would make me happy." I somehow find myself standing next to Dean, watching this all unfold "but I was wrong. What you've made it's beautiful. It took me a long time to see that. I know that we can't go back to the way things were. I don't want to, but I wish I wish that we could just be family again.

A tear falls from her eye and Chuck responds "I do too" He lifts his hands up and Amara lifts her, they connect and the moment their hands touch there's a glow emitting from it. The dark sky begins to lighten. The dark blue hue turns into more of a greyish orange as the sun we could look at becomes brighter and brighter. When the sun is too bright to look at, I focus my eyes back onto God and Amara. Amara is now using her own strength to fix her brother. The two of them turn to us and Chuck says with a smile "I think we're just gonna go away for a while."

Dean utters "hey, yeah. Family meeting. I get it."

Chuck steps up to Dean "but first" He raises his hand to his chest and I watch as he pulls out some kind of light out of Dean. He asks "better?"

Dean puts his hand to his heart and nods. Chuck returns to his sister and I ask "what about us? What about Earth?"

"Earth will be fine." Chuck smiles "Its got Sam and Dean Winchester."

Amara then says "Dean, you gave me what I needed most. Thank you. Hayden" she looks at me "you are Paul's mother, the only one, and Dean is his father. You two belong together, you're family." She smiles "and family is the most important."

She looks over to her brother and then suddenly, both of them disappear into a cloud of dark and light like dust. Dean and I stand there. Amazed, fascinated, confused, relieved, I can only think of some of the ways I am feeling at this moment. I turn my head, Dean and I still holding hands and I say to him "Dean, I uhmm, I don't know what's going to happen between us but I want to try."

Dean spills "Hayden, I will do whatever it takes. You're it, the one and only."

I nod once, look down to the ground then back to him "it might take some time though, I uhhm, I'm really broken right now" the words come out in an almost whisper.

He nods, pulls me into his chest and says "as long as it takes, I'll wait forever for you Hayden." He rubs his hand down my back. I don't relish in the fact that he is holding me, but in the fact that we did it. We got the mark off of Paul and the darkness is no longer threatening our life.

A/N - HOLY COW! I have an important question for all my readers - Do I continue into a THIRD book for Hayden and Dean or do I wrap it up here? I can leave it here, add another chapter or two for follow up OR I can make a third book and continue on in their journey together. My Hayden & Dean series has been going on for a few years and I am so blessed to have so many of you like and comment on the story. If enough of you want to stick around for another book then I'll do it, but if you think this is a good time to stop then I respect that as well. Please comment your thoughts or questions or anything, I'd love to interact and get your feedback. Thank you for sticking with me! What a journey!