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AN: I find the Lisa/Dean relationship fascinating, because from Dean's POV, he was in love with what she represented. He loved being a father to Ben and not having to save everybody all the time. From Lisa's POV, however, which is much less often explored, she was honest to God in love with him. He was somebody she didn't forget years after they first met. He gave her the best year of her life. And then erased it. And I'm not even going to go into how terrible it must've been for Ben. Because he saw Dean as his Dad, the first decent one I think that he'd had in quite a while, and Dean was his family. And suddenly all he has is his mum again and a hole in his heart where somebody should be.


Lisa finds the photo on a Thursday.

She's just gotten off work and has decided she needs to sort out this house, because she's missing about half her stuff in the moving clutter, although they've been in this house for almost a year now.

It flutters out of a book or something, and at first she ignores it to balance that box on top of the other box so that box didn't fall down and crush her. But when she looks over, confusion takes over. It's her, looking happier than she's looked in what feels like forever (she can't remember the last time she smiled, really, properly, honestly smiled) and she's wearing her favourite top and there's a man standing behind her (holy shit Adonis alert) with his arms wrapped around her waist and his head resting on her shoulder, and he's smiling one of those insanely happy smiles as well.

It's an intimate pose, and she thinks she'd remember being that close to someone. It looks diagonal almost, and she recognises Ben's famous photographing skills where he simply cannot hold a camera straight. She spends a while, sitting there on the carpet, mind niggling at her, saying you know him you know him.

Then she has to get on. She has more boxes to unpack and then she has to make dinner and then she has to go over Ben's homework with him and then she's got to sleep because she's got the early shift tomorrow-

And Lisa thinks that his name will come to her.

It doesn't.