This is the final chapter for this story, I hope that anyone who reads it enjoys it.

PAID FORWARD

Heat so much heat and Jensen shouldn't be surprised that he had ended up in hell.

At first he couldn't see anything and then there was Jared.

"I thought we were friends but you killed all of us because you had to save Arandi and you couldn't even do that." Jared yelled.

"You would have done the same for Jade." Jensen defended.

"I would have done what I needed to do on my own not take the whole team down."

"I told you to stay behind, I told you that it was going to end badly but you and everyone insisted!" Jensen went on fighting angry tears.

Jared smirked at him and disappeared.

Then Arandi was in front of him looking at him with so much pain in her eyes. "You killed me."

"I didn't want to I just wanted to save you and I tried." Jensen whispered.

"You have saved countless people but you couldn't save me." She taunted.

"I….I…..just please Arandi…."

"You are as worthless now as you've ever been." Arandi said as she morphed into Alexis.

Jensen stared at the image and he knew. "Fucking fevers." He groaned and let himself be dragged down into nothing.

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Jensen opened his eyes slowly, he felt cold and he knew that he was in the hospital by the all too familiar sounds and scents.

The reason he was there came back to him in vivid vicious color. Why hadn't they just let him die?

He felt the warm touch of a woman's hand and his heart sped up but it wasn't her, it wasn't his Arandi, he turned to look anyway.

He blinked hard to focus and saw that it was Candy sitting with him.

"Who….." His voice cracked with dryness and lack of use. "Who got me out?" He forced past his lips.

"I did." Candy replied. "I never thanked your team for saving my niece so I thought it was high time to pay it forward."

"How did you…?"

"Agent Ackles I haven't worked for the Agency for so long and not picked a few pointers and abilities. I just wish that we had gotten to you sooner to help with this mission. You ended the Vegas and for that you deserve a medal." Candy continued.

"I just want my family back." Jensen whispered brokenly.

"Are you sure about that, I mean I think that we had a very genuinely academy award winning goodbye for when our lives are made into a movie." Misha's voice cut in.

Jensen nearly sobbed as he turned to see Misha in a wheel chair at the end of his bed. "Misha I thought you…."

"The rumors of my death were extremely exaggerated." Misha smiled softly. "You know what they say brother only the good die young."

"You're older than dirt old man." Reyes voice joined them.

Jensen's heart raced with relief that he wasn't alone and he hadn't been the cause of everyone that he cared about death.

"Jared?" Jensen asked hopeful.

"Do you really think I would let a Vega take me out?" Jared asked appearing by Jensen's side. "Besides I wasn't letting you get all the glory." Jared took Jensen's hand squeezing it hard and saying a million things with just his eyes, their brotherly connection stronger than ever.

"Arandi?" Jensen whispered.

"We all made it man a little worse for wear but we made it, Arandi is alive but she hasn't woken up yet. Only you can make a shot like that non-fatal."

"My God I shot her." Jensen murmured feeling so nauseas.

"What they would have done to her would have been a worse fate." Jared whispered.

"I know and that's all I could think about." Jensen said tiredly as his eyes slid shut.

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"I'm so sorry baby." Jensen whispered to Arandi as he sat painfully on her bed. "I was supposed to protect you."

"And you did." Tom said behind him. "You can't blame yourself for this Jensen this is our job and you did a damn good job taking down that cartel without planning a damn thing."

"Look what it almost cost me."

"It didn't though blood and pain but we're all alive and kicking, well not so much kicking as making the effort to lift the foot off the ground at all."

"This time." Jensen insisted.

"Time to retire then, this would be going out with a bang."

"I thought I would die doing this job but now that I have Arandi I well I don't want to die at all." Jensen sighed.

"Well then I guess you better be an even better agent than you are now." Tom said evenly.

"I don't know what to do." Jensen whispered.

"You'll figure it out." Tom said as he patted Jensen's shoulder.

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After a heated argument with Jared Jensen won the battle to stay close to Arandi and he was glad that he had fought so hard when she woke up in the middle of the night.

She looked scared until she felt him close and she began to cry.

"Don't cry baby you're ok." Jensen whispered as he painfully leaned into hold her.

"You're alive, I'm alive." She sobbed.

"Everyone is alive baby we all made it and the Vega's are dead and gone."

"You got them?"

"Do you think that I could shoot you like that and not kill the bastards?" Jensen asked.

"You shot me." Arandi stated evenly.

"Sorry about that." Jensen flinched.

"You saved me."

"That I'm grateful for."

"You took out the Vega's so all this is worth it." Arandi suggested with a wince as she tried to shift.

"Is it Arandi because there is just a hundred more waiting to replace them out there and I don't know if I'm ready to take the next one on?"

Arandi gripped his hand and said nothing because she knew that for Jensen to be thinking like this that he might be in more danger if his heart wasn't in the game anymore.

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The entire team was given a six week leave to recuperate and celebrate. They received medals and more money than they could spend in a lifetime.

They all lay on the beach of the tropical island where they were taking their vacation.

"So everyone has been walking on eggshells but I want to know are we retiring or what?" Reyes asked.

"Dude we all almost died." Marcus pointed out.

"You make it sound as if that's something new." Reyes scoffed.

"We have made more than enough money to retire in comfort." Jared said staring at Jensen.

"We don't all have to retire at the same time." Tom said.

"One person leaves Team Elite and it just isn't Team Elite anymore." Reyes sighed.

"They'll replace whoever with someone just as good or better." Jensen offered gripping Arandi's hand tightly.

"As if." Jared grinned. "We are the best there is and the best there will ever be."

"So then we train the newbies." Jensen continued.

"Then we get bored and want to go back in the field." Arandi sighed.

She had a point when you had lived this type of life for so long it was very easy to get bored. Still though Jensen didn't want Arandi in danger anymore and he knew that worked both ways.

He wasn't even sure that he could keep his head in the game anymore after this near disaster. What if he wasn't the world class agent he had been for so long?

He so needed the proverbial sign.

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Desperate moans of passion filled the room as Jensen and Arandi made love as if there was no tomorrow.

She met every deep bruising thrust needing to feel him, needing to feel everything to her core.

Jensen was hungry for her sweet sounds of pleasure and he was going to fuck them out of her until she was hoarse and begging him to stop.

He loved her so much and in his lifetime never would have believed that someone could take him completely heart and soul.

The best part was that she loved him back just as intensely and she wanted him, the real him and she couldn't know how much that meant to him.

There was no getting tired of being with each other, it was impossible at this time in their lives and the more they got the more they wanted.

Ecstasy so complete it burned through their veins, pleasure so pure it was fast becoming an addiction, a love so real no other romance could compare in their eyes.

They belonged together and any fool that tried to change that was going to be in world of agony.

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Careful what you ask for they always say right?

Jensen got his sign as they all walked to head out for a day of sightseeing.

They were all in shorts, t-shirts, and flip flops.

"Help me!" A woman yelled. "Those men just took my children!" She pointed to three men running with a boy and girl in tow heading toward an awaiting speed boat.

Pure instinct kicked in and the agents were in full blown 'save the children' mode in milliseconds. Well trained they were on the move as if they had all the details planned out ahead of time.

The kidnappers seeing that they were being chased now began to fire at them but they had all left their weapons behind since they were on vacation.

It was time to improvise. Jensen, Jared, Misha, and Reyes headed toward ski jets by the water. Jensen got on one behind Misha while Jared did the same with Reyes and the sped away after the boat while the rest of the team made sure everything was clear on the dock and that no one would come after the mother.

The agents zig zagged in the water to avoid the gunfire and took their chance in the few seconds of pause to reload when they idled the boat in the water. Misha and Reyes brought the jet skis close to enough to the boat for Jensen and Jared to tackle the kidnappers to the floor. Jared knocked one out just as the other came at him with a knife.

Jensen struggled with other man who was well trained in hand to hand and Jensen smiled, he loved a little challenge.

They fought with thunderous blows as the children watched and cried.

Out of the corner of his eye Jensen saw the man that was supposed to be driving the boat head to attack Jared from behind as he struggled to take the knife from the man he was fighting.

Jensen was there in the nest breath knocking the man clear across the boat with a powerful round house.

Seconds later the breath was knocked from his lungs as the man he had been fighting tackled him full force and they both tumbled into the water.

Jensen barely had a breath left in him as he continued to struggle with the man under water, he had to go up fast but the man held him strong.

Arandi's smiling face filled his mind and he suddenly had new found strength twisting the man furiously to one side and Jensen felt a pain through his back as he twisted harder and then the water was red.

He couldn't see the other man anymore so he pushed to surface so that he could breathe again but his body had other ideas and he just floated into nothing.

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Jared having taken care of the man that he had been fighting with now stared at the water willing Jensen to surface.

"Jensen come on man." He mumbled hearing the jet skis circling not daring to near and accidently hurt Jensen.

The boat suddenly jarred hard and Jared held on his heart racing knowing that someone had just met a nasty fate with the boat propeller and emphasized by a multitude of bubbles and the water turning red.

Jared waited another breath and then he saw Jensen pop to the surface, his face down in the water just floating and Jared was on the move jumping in the water to get his best friend.

He was never more grateful for working out than now struggling to get his six foot one and two hundred pounds of solid muscle 'big brother' onto the boat.

He lay breathless beside him and then panicked when he realized that Jensen wasn't breathing.

"After everything we have been through there is no way you are going to die by drowning!" Jared yelled as he began CPR.

Misha and Reyes circled watching for signs of any other arrivals.

Jensen coughed and began to stir opening his eyes to find Jared looming over him.

"I knew you had that Bay Watch fantasy going on about me Mitch." Jensen coughed.

"Yeah cuz you so remind me of Pamela Anderson." Jared sighed rubbing his lips with the back of his hand. "You're bleeding."

"I think I got nicked by the propeller." Jensen winced as he tried to sit up and Jared checked.

"Yeah a couple of stitches should have you good."

"Alright then let's get these kids back to their mom."

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They dealt with the authorities pulling credentials that had them on a pedestal in seconds.

Arandi and the rest of the team had dealt with a few other men who were now all under arrest.

The children returned to their grateful mother were thrilled to have been saved by real live 007 types and instead of being traumatized they were talking a mile a minute.

Jensen felt a tingle of something missing when the little boy had hugged him tight and he realized that he actually had hope of being a dad someday.

Jensen and Arandi exchanged glances and with nothing but communication with their eyes they knew exactly what they were going to do with their lives now.

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Jensen fired his gun pushing Arandi in front of him as they zipped from a five story window.

Gun fire flew a little too close as they hit the ground and took off running with everything they had with men in hot pursuit.

A cliff was in the distance and they ran straight towards it speeding up instead of slowing down.

They both turned back to fire one more time taking down who they could just before they jumped off cliff.

They grabbed the tags on their vest and pulled, parachutes opening instantly and they glided toward a couple of speeding convertibles one red one black.

They aimed for the black one unclipping the chutes and dropping with ease into the back seat of the speeding car.

Jared and Jade turned to smile at them and the red car sped along beside them and Misha waved from the driver seat with the rest of the team from the other side a blue convertible came speeding up with Tom and Erica.

Jensen threw his head back and laughed then he pulled Arandi into a hot kiss.

"Fuck that was close." He breathed.

"Always is." Arandi responded.

Jensen pulled his transmitter. "Delta Echo Alpha Nitro 1 Extreme Unit Elite reporting to Agent Bourne."

"Agent Ackles I take it that you were successful?" Bourne responded.

"As if we are ever anything else but yes sir Mission JFK Recovery is complete all data will be in your hands within the hour." Jensen continued.

"Look forward to seeing you Jensen." Bourne said fondly. "We miss you around here."

"Ah sir you're making me blush."

"I'll make you blush alright, over and out."

Jensen sat back pulling Arandi into his arms and sighed. They had all decided on semi-retirement taking missions that were deemed extreme which gave them plenty of time to travel and have a real life.

The fact that they all did it together attested to how close they were and that it would never change.

Jensen and Arandi had bought a ranch in Texas because they both loved horses and everyone else had just followed buying their own places nearby.

Misha swore that it was so they could always be mission ready, Jensen knew better but he didn't mind at all because he would have done the same thing if the roles have been reversed.

As much as Bronte had tried to avoid it she had fallen for Misha and they were now a couple also.

Jensen sat back looking over at Arandi feeling his love for her and smiled. He pulled her close and settled his hand lovingly on her belly.

"Do you know something I don't?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Only that I'm going to be having a blast filling you with my babies." He sighed contentedly.

"You're going to make an awesome dad." She kissed along his neck.

"You're going to be the sexiest soccer mom ever." He laughed.

"So what's up after we drop off the chip?" Jared asked.

"Let's head to Australia." Jade piped in.

"Sounds good to me." Arandi smiled.

"Australia it is then, we will travel all we can before well you know." Jensen kissed Arandi.

"I don't think I have ever seen you so happy?" Jared laughed.

"Then you weren't paying attention the day I fell madly in love."

"That's because I was too busy doing the same thing."

Jensen smiled wider cuddling Arandi closer feeling a contentment he thought would elude him forever.

This was the life and he had a bigger family than he could have ever hoped for in his wildest dreams, a family that was only going to get bigger as they all had their kids.

He pictured many birthdays and back yard barbeques and so many other things still to come.

His eyes met Jared's in the rearview mirror and they exchanged smiles. They were happy and only getting happier by the moment and like the heroes they were and would always be they sped into the sunset and their future.

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