A/N Yay next chapter, I did receive some follows and reviews so as a result you get this chapter... Hope you like!

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The next time Jane awoke she was in a brightly light room with white walls that she did not recognize. She was lying on a bed that was so soft she felt as though she was lying on a cloud.

"So you're finally awake" She turned her head to see a man with white wispy hair and wrinkled face, his eyes were sky blue, he looked down at her sternly as though she had been a naughty child who had gotten caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

But that did not stop her from becoming scared at being in a strange room she did not recognize. "Who are you? Where am I?" She asked him.

"Calm down, you're fine" The man told her. "For now at least. You did a very stupid thing trying to kill yourself like that. "

Jane glared at the man. "It was a moment of weakness nothing more." She told him harshly.

"Bit more than that, you're dead darling" The man said as though she was not the only person to talk to him like that. "Moment o' weakness or not, there's no coming back from that."

Jane's eyes widened. "But how... my mother pulled me out…."

"By then it was too late." The man said. "You had been in the pond too long."

Jane looked down, according to her priest suicide was a one-way ticket to hell. "What's going to happen to me now?" She asked quietly.

The man sighed. "They are thinking of making you into a grim reaper." He said.

Jane's eyes widened. "A grim reaper? You mean like an angel of death?" She asked the man.

The man tilted his head sideways. "Yes and no. Contrary to public opinion humans do not become angels after they die, humans are too free spirited to ever be considered an angel, no a grim reaper is what we call the humans who have been sentenced after death to reap the souls of the departed."

"But why make me a grim reaper?"

"You're young, and a child grim reaper was recently let go, we need someone else to take his place. To collect the souls of the children, and you're just the right age for someone to collect children, young enough to be considered like them, but old enough for the younger children to take you seriously."

Do I have any other options?" Collecting the souls of children was something that she didn't want.

"Purgatory" The man said. "Where you'll burn for several years until all your sins are forgiven."

Jane looked away her eyes watering with tears. "I just wanted to see them again." She whispered her voice choking as she tried to hold her tears at bay.

The man put a hand on her shoulder. "Your brother never made it to the after life" The man said softly. "He's still on earth living as the spirit of winter."

Jane looked at the man wide eyed unable to believe what she was hearing. "What?"

The man nodded. "The man in the moon transformed him just before we could claim his soul, as a result he is still living on earth, bard from heaven until he dies a second time."

Jane could barely comprehend what she was hearing... man in the moon, spirit of winter, her mother had always told her that that was just some old wives tales.

"I know that that is a lot take in" The man said. "But it's true."

Jane closed her eyes. "What of my husband?" She asked him out of politeness. The boy who she had married had been kind and sweet but Jane had not found it within her to want to form an attachment to him out of fear that he too would leave her as her brother once did.

The man smiled. "You shall be happy to know that he waits for you at the gates of heaven."

Jane looked down feeling guilty, her husband Thomas had always been a kind and generous man it would make sense that he go to heaven.

She turned to the man her mind turning back to thoughts of her brother."Would I be able to see my brother, if I chose to become a Grim Reaper?"

The man looked at her emotionlessly. "Perhaps, but he may not see you, you becoming a grim reaper would mean that you're invisible to everyone."

Jane looked down tears falling down her face. "How do I know you're even telling me the truth?" She asked angrily. "How do I know that this isn't just a dream?"

The man sighed and put a hand on her arm. "I know it's a lot to take in, but listen, if this is a dream, then there's no harm done, you'll wake up in your bed, alive and well, if this isn't a dream... then you truly have to decide if you'd rather be a grim reaper or burn in Purgatory for several years." The man said. "At the end of both you'll still receive heaven, all though if you chose to be a grim reaper, your sentence will be longer, but still either way you still have to choose."

Jane looked away, the room had only one window but outside it she could see angels flying through the clouds.

It looked so beautiful, that it in no way could have been real, and yet something inside her told her that it was.

She didn't want to burn, but neither did she want to collect the souls of children. Her husband was waiting for her in heaven, however it was her brother who she had been longing to see again since he died 6 years before.

She closed her eyes for a minute as she made up her mind. Her brother? Or her husband?

An image of a baby past through her mind and guilt filled her heart as she thought of the little girl she had so selfishly left behind.

She would see her husband again, that she knew, but who knew how long it would be before she saw Jack again? Especially if he was now a spirit of winter. Or what of her daughter? There was no way of knowing if she would ever see her daughter again (although she prayed that she would see her little girl in heaven one day). At least if she became a Grim Reaper she could watch over them, and check on them whenever she was in town.

She looked back at the man, hating herself for her stupidity at what she had done, even as she said the words. "Alright" She said, feeling as though shackles were being placed upon her wrists even as she acknowledged that she was willingly making this choice. "I'll do it. I'll become a Grim Reaper."

The man smiled. "Excellent."

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