The man stood as he watched the vampire's crowd around him. Some were on their knees beside him while others stared at him with anticipation. He could feel their nerves and hunger emanating off of them and this fact just made the smirk on his face widen.

"It is almost time my friends, soon your Master will be returned to you and your family will be reunited," the man yelled out hearing the vampire's cries of joy. His smile widened even further with his eyes glinting with his happiness. Soon he would be able to get his revenge upon that one man who had eluded him for so long. Soon he will get the one who had gotten away, the one who had ruined everything. "Everything will be back to how it should be."

The man cackled as he walked over to a lone vampire chained against the far wall. He stared into her defiant eyes and this just caused his happiness to overload. "It's time my Princess, it's time for you to play your part and don't mess it up. You know what happens if you do. I won't them both brought to me alive...well as alive as possible. I'll expect you back here in two hours, don't fail me!"

With those words the chains entrapping the female was released. She stood there for a moment staring into his eyes making no attempt to move. "I'll hurry along now dear before it becomes too late. You don't want to make me angry now do you...you know what happens if you do..." her eyes widened almost comically as she bowed her head slightly before sprinting out of the door.

"Good girl," he muttered watching her retreating form.

Everything was going exactly to plan...Soon he will have his revenge...soon he will have what he has waited so long for and nothing was going to get into his way. Nothing...

The late evening moon shone down on the couple as they walked through the woods hand in hand. Every once in a while they would glance subtly at one another with goofy smiles full of adoration plastered on their faces. Neither one spoke a word, their touches said more than they could ever vocalise. And sometimes that was enough. Sometimes in a world full of evil and misery that was all someone could ever need.

Dean knew that it was all he would ever need in this dark existence and he was alright with that. He was more than alright with it; the hunter knew that as long as he had the vampire by his side then he had a form of hope alive inside of him.

"A penny for your thoughts?" the vampire whispered beside him bringing him out of his thoughts while he squeezed the hunters hand passionately. The pair continued to walk at a leisurely pace just enjoying being in each other's company as they spoke.

"Dude, the last time I looked this was America..." Dean scoffed rolling his eyes in amusement.

"It's a figure of speech and you know it jerk," Sam replied with his hazel eyes glittering under the moonlight, that one sight was breathtaking for the young hunter and it was taking all his self control to keep his upstairs brain in control. Well...for now anyway. "What's up? You have your thoughtful face on."

"I have a thoughtful face?" Dean scoffed playfully as he led the vampire away from the path towards a giant willow tree.

"Shocking isn't it. Who would have thought that the great Dean Winchester actually has a brain amongst all that air..."

"Shut up bitch I'm not just good looks..."

"No," Sam whispered leaning down so his words ghosted through the hunter's ear which in turn caused a shudder of pleasure to run along his spine. "No there is a brain underneath that perfect body that chiselled chest those blond spikes those impossibly long eyelashes those perfect cock sucking lips and those incredible jade eyes. You're the whole package..." the vampire nibbled lightly on the hunter's earlobe as they continued to walk over to the willow tree. "Now stop distracting me and tell me what's on your mind." The vampire smirked as he pulled away leaving the hunter panting heavily with want.

Dean narrowed his eyes slightly while muttering the word bastard under his breath. He squeezed the hand encased in his as he sat down underneath the tree, pulling the vampire down beside him in the process. Their hands remained entwined as they sat on top of Dean's thigh. Sam's hazel eyes peered down into his emeralds.

"I've just been thinking..."

"Dangerous," the vampire smirked earning himself a smack on the arm courtesy of one playful hunter. "Alright, alright so what has Dean Winchester all thoughtful?"

"I've been thinking about what your Sire said that's all."

"Sire?"

Dean nodded tearing his gaze away from the vampire's and out towards the woods. He could feel the immortal's gaze boring into the side of his head yet he refused to meet the stare not sure whether he could get the words out if he met the vampire's eyes face on. "Yeah."

"What did he say?" Sam asked and Dean could feel the vampire squeeze his fingers lightly as his gaze continued to bore holes in the side of his head. Still he refused to meet the hazel orbs that he now considered home.

"He told me what I needed to hear."

"What did he say?" the vampire repeated.

The hunter drew in a deep breath as he turned his head and gaze back towards the vampire. A small smile crossed his lips and before he knew it he had pulled the immortal into his arms with their lips crashing together once more. Their tongues swirled around each other effortlessly, with both men fighting for dominance. Dean's hand released Sam as he brought it up to curl in the immortal's chocolate locks and in turn he could feel the vampire's arm wrap itself around his waist, practically lifting the hunter up onto the vampire's lap.

After a couple of minutes passed Dean broke his lips apart with the need for air overwhelming him. He pressed his foreheads against his lover's. "He told me to stop running, he told me to face up to my fears and he told me I've been an asshole to you..."

"Ok I know he didn't say that," Sam interrupted with a smile upon his lips.

"Good as..." Dean smiled and pulled his forehead away from the vampire but before he could move off of his lap the arm around his waist tightened in warning along with a growl erupting from the vampire's lips.

"No. You. Stay. Right. There." Sam hissed out.

The hunter chuckled under his breath but the smile upon his face contradicted this reaction completely. "Possessive bastard."

"Only for you," the vampire breathed out with his breath snaking its way across the hunter's neck which caused goosebumps to rise on his skin. Dean could feel the immortal's lips press against the skin upon his neck gently. "Always for you."

The hunter tilted his head back further to allow his vampire some more access, a move that many people would have been afraid of making with a vampire's teeth so close to their jugular vein. But Dean knew that Sam wouldn't do anything without his permission, he trusted the vampire with his life. His eyes slipped closed briefly as he became lost in the sensation of Sam littering his neck with gentle kisses and forceful sucks.

"I could stay right here forever," Sam whispered in between the kisses and Dean nodded his head while he hummed with approval. "Just right here, under this tree with you...that's all I need for my eternity."

Dean's heart pounded violently in his chest as he opened his eyes so they connected with the vampire's hazel orbs. He lifted a hand and cupped the immortal's cheek while he attempted to control his breathing. "Why don't we?"

"Huh?" the vampire questioned lifting his head away from the hunter's neck.

"You know you and me...for eternity..."

"Dean..." Sam sighed out as he adjusted the grip he had upon his mortal. He kept one arm wrapped around the hunter's waist while his other hand reached up to stroke through the man's short hair. He could feel his deceased heart beating rapidly in his chest, fuelled with the immense amount of love running through his veins. More than he thought was possible for someone to feel at any one time. "Dean," he repeated breathlessly unable to comprehend what the young mortal was hinting at.

"It makes sense..." Dean added with his emerald's eyes sparkling, the vampire knew that he wanted to spend the rest of forever staring into those orbs, he knew that he wanted to spend forever side by side with his chosen mortal, after all it was fate but he didn't want to put his mortal through those sacrifices...

"I can't ask you to do that..."

"Good thing I'm not asking," Dean said with a small smile crossing his lips. "Speaking to your Sire made me realise something..." the hunter paused as he appeared to compose himself which had Sam tighten his grip around the man's waist in the process.

"What?"

"You're going to make this into a massive chick flick aren't you," the hunter exclaimed deviating away from the subject but this time the vampire wasn't going to allow his mortal to get off that easily.

"What did it make you realise?" Sam pressed wanting...no needing to know where this was headed.

The hunter sighed deeply in his arms as his emerald eyes turned glassy and full of sorrow. "He made me realise that I have something worth living for in my life, something that I would fight for, something I would walk to the end of the world and back again for. You..."

"Dean," Sam breathed out feeling a bloodied tear of happiness press heavily against his tear duct.

"Please Sam just let me finish, I don't think I could say this again..." Sam nodded as the hunter paused giving him a sense of reassurance to continue. "I know I have been a pain in the ass lately but it's just been so...so...hard. I've seen my world crumble all around me and I thought I would drown yet you were there. You've saved my life Sam, you have saved it and I now know that my life belongs to you. My life and my heart are in your hands and please shoot me now before I grow tits..." Dean groaned slightly but his eyes betrayed this motion completely.

Sam pushed the lump that had formed in the back of his throat down before he pulled the mortal tight against his chest so that he could feel the man's heartbeat against his own. He buried his nose in the crook of his mortal's neck and breathed in the scent that was his lover.

He had wanted to hear those words from Dean for so long now that he had finally accepted that the man wasn't one to share his feelings openly. But to hear them, to hear just how he had affected the man's life was a dream come true. At this moment in time Sam didn't know how he had gone through life without the mortal by his side. He felt more alive than he had ever felt while he was technically still living. And that was all down to the one man who he held onto for dear life.

Slowly he pulled his head away from his mortal so he could look into those brilliant eyes once more. "You've saved my life without realising it too Dean, before you I was just another vampire following in his Sire's footsteps trying to be someone I'm not. With you I can just be me, I can be plain old Samuel Konvinski...I can be Dean Winchester's Sammy..."

"You're such a girl Samantha," Dean interrupted affectionately.

"Look Dean there is something I haven't told you..."

"Huh?"

"It's about us."

Dean's eyes narrowed and his expression became guarded once more. Sam could feel the hunter's muscles tense in his grip as he mentally kicked himself for causing this reaction. He should have known that his mortal would have jumped to the wrong conclusion.

"What about us?"

"After freeing you from those vampire twins I went to speak to Sire and he told me something about us..." Sam stalled while he noted the hunter's expression before continuing. "He told me that we were meant to be."

"Meant to be?"

"Yeah, as in soul mates but I didn't believe him at first until he reminded me of our first meeting..."

"With those twins...Sammy I was a jerk to you..."

"No not that time," Sam interrupted. The hunter's brow furrowed with his confusion but he remained quite which the vampire took as his queue to continue. "The very first time."

"That was the..."

"No it wasn't not for me anyway. I was there in the hospital the very day you were born Dean. I was drawn to your hospital room and you looked at me with those great big green eyes. It was like you were seeing right through me but it was impossible, you were only an hour or two old! From that moment on I knew a part of me was missing but it took twenty six years to realise that the part of me was you...it was always you. Everything that has happened the way we met again was fate. I just wanted you to know that...offering up your mortality is a big step...one I would never ask of you..."

"So what, you would prefer to be the only immortal one in this relationship, you're telling me you would be able to continue being together as the months...years pass and I get older but you stay the same. You would be able to sit there at my death bed looking like you are now because I wouldn't be able to handle it."

"No...No I wouldn't..." Sam whispered knowing that his mortal was right. "I just don't want to take your mortality and life away from you..."

"Someone took that a long time before you Sammy; you just gave it back to me. I want to be with you, all of you for as long as we have together. Together forever for the rest of eternity. You're it for me, I know that now, there is no one else."

Sam felt one bloodied tear snake its way down his cheek as he removed his arm from around the hunter's waist. He smiled down at his lover trying to show all his love and admiration in that one look alone while his right hand delved deep down into his jacket pocket. Slowly his fingers curled around the desired object. "Turn around," he whispered into his mortal's ear.

"What?" Dean asked incredulously with his eyebrows rising in amusement.

"Turn around but don't move off of my lap," Sam instructed again, he received one more confused look but the hunter did as he was told, so now he was sitting on the vampire's lap with his back pressed against Sam's chest.

Sam pulled the item out of his pocket and leaned down so that his lips were right next to the mortal's ear. "I love you Dean Winchester. I love you and want to be with you for the rest of my eternal life," he paused to nibble lightly on the earlobe before continuing. "I promise that we will be equals one day but not right now, I want to enjoy your mortality with you for as long as we can. When the time is right, when the fates have decided then we will cross that last boundary. We will become bonded the only way a vampire knows how." Pulling away from his lover's ear the vampire lifted the object up so that his hands hovered over Dean's head. "But there is one tradition we can take part in beforehand. One that I have been waiting for the right time for."

"And this is it? What tradition?" Dean interrupted attempting to turn around but Sam used his force to keep the hunter in place. "Sammy?"

"Sshh Dean, there is nothing to be worried about. I give to you Dean Ross Winchester a token of my promise and a piece of my heart to show the world that you are mine and mine forever," with those words Sam drew in a deep unnecessary breath and placed the amulet around the hunter's neck. "Sire gave it to me a while back; it has been in our bloodline for generations. Sire had given it to his woman and now the time has come to give it to my man. This shows everyone that you belong to me, this shows everyone that Dean Winchester is taken and it shows everyone what bloodline you will eventually join."

Sam watched as the hunter played with the amulet for a few moments, his eyes were hidden behind his impossibly long eyelashes so the vampire had no idea just what was on his mortal's mind. "I love you Dean Winchester."

Sam's heart was pounding at an unnatural rate for a human let alone a vampire as it filled up with all the love he felt towards his mortal. Seeing that amulet around Dean's neck made it all seem real, it made it all final. Dean was his and he was Dean's. The way it should be. Together forever...yeah he liked the sound of that...

The mortal dropped the amulet so that it sat against his chest while he leaned his head back to rest upon Sam's shoulder. "I love you too Sammy." His emerald eyes peered up at the vampire and once more Sam felt himself pressing his lips against his mortal's.

The kiss was passionate and filled with so many promises of what the future had in store for the pair. At this moment everything was looking up for both hunter and vampire alike. They had each other and that was all that mattered.

The vampire broke apart after a couple of minutes. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end as he wrapped both of his arms around his mortal. His eyes searched the forest for the intruder he could sense was there all the while attempting to protect his lover, who was like a statue in his arms. Sam realised that Dean could feel it too, that sense of being watched...

Slowly a figure emerged from their hidden place amongst the tree's silhouette. They strolled over towards the pair with what the vampire could only presume as a sense of urgency. The moonlight shone down upon the figure instantly making their facial features visible.

"Jess?!"

TBC (Part Twenty One done and dusted, Please review as they always make me so happy and motivated to write as fast as I can. I'm sorry for the delay between chapters but real life keeps getting in the way. Anyway thanks to all you readers and reviewers out there you are all awesome especially GaelicAngel my own personal cheerleader and drill sergeant :P. Anyhoo hope you enjoyed and see you all in Part Twenty Two)