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Blondie 20000: Tnx for the review. About Leila, you don't have to worry about her; we won't be seeing her after this chapter. As for Michael, he is a bit side-tracked right now.

Dean finds himself back in the bunker, in front of the kitchen.

"You got the pie?"

He hears MJ shout from the kitchen. He walks in smiling, lifting up a grocery bag.

"Got four. Just in case!'

MJ smiles at them and moves her hands towards herself telling him to bring it over. They both sit at the table and start eating. MJ closes her eyes, clearly enjoying the sweet taste of pie in her mouth. All the time Dean just kept looking at her, smiling.

"You're getting to slow, old man!" She says seeing what he is doing.

"Old Man, huh? You calling on a race?"

MJ nods and they both dig in, smearing the cherry pie all over the table and their mouth.

"Aha! I won!" Dean shouts victoriously.

"Nah. I let you win."

"Sure you did." He replies sarcastically.

Dean finds himself in the main hall of the bunker. Cass and MJ were trying to decorate a Christmas tree.

"No, no, you're doing it all wrong!"

They both turn to him frowning. MJ says

"What's wrong with it?"

"First off, you put the big decorations on the bottom and the smaller ones near the top."

MJ smiles looking at Cass "And let me guess, the angel goes on the top?"

They all burst out laughing.

Benny and Jay kept fighting one monster after another when they came across another Leviathan. After taking it down with a big struggle, Jay sits down to rest.

"I'm getting too old for this."

"You're not giving up on me, brother?"

Jay smiles a bit saying "I'm not sure."

Benny looks back at the man. He looks wore down and tired. He sits next to him, not too close. " You got anyone topside? A woman? A family?"

But Jay said nothing and Benny continues " If you have someone, fight for their sake. Fight to see them again."

Jay looks at him with a blank expression "And if I don't?"

"Then you gotta keep fighting for yourself. Whether or not you have somebody waiting for you, you should always choose to fight. "

Jay nods. He couldn't believe he was getting life lessons from a vampire. He couldn't believe he was actually listening to him in the first place.

"The empty I told you about earlier. It was a dark and a cold place and I was there for so long, I lost track of time completely. But then someone else came. A woman. And she made me see there is hope. She got me out. That's how I ended up here."

"What happened to her?"

"I don't know. I don't even know how exactly I got here, but I am sure it was her. I can only hope she got out too."

Dean finds himself in front of MJ's room. He goes and knocks on the door.

"Go away!"

"I'm not gonna do that until you tell me what happened."

MJ opens the door. She looked a lot younger and her face was covered in tears, her makeup all smeared. "He cheated on me, that's what happened. The son of a bitch cheated on me!"

Dean goes over and hugs her saying "It'll be ok. There will be other guys, some will break your heart a bit, and you'll break even more hearts."

She smiles back at him. "Thanks Pops."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I got a boy to beat up."

"Ough, don't bother. I already did."

He smiles back at her "That's my girl."

Dean finds himself walking down the bunker's steps. The whole place was in dark, but he could hear movement. Naturally he pulls out his gun and moves slowly towards the light switch. The flips it.

Everybody shouted at him "Surprise!" and confetti popped all over the place. Dean instinctively pulls the trigger, but luckily the bullet ends up in the big cake on the table. Rowena and Donna screamed while Jody turned to MJ "I told you this would be a bad idea. Never throw a surprise birthday party to a hunter."

"Well there it is. We should go before more monsters come crawling." Benny said pointing at a top od a hill. A white-blue portal was pulsing.

Jay nods. He decided to take the vamp top side. If for no other reason at all, he wanted to find out if there really was a cure. He cuts his arm and says the incantation "Conjuncti sumus, unum sumus!"

Benny gets engulfed in a red and white glow and then gets sucked into the cut, which then heals. Jay felt slight pain during this process, but felt fine after that. He could hear Benny inside.

"Now, let's go!"

Jay nods and goes through.

A moment later he appears in the 100-Wilderness in Maine. He breathes in the fresh air, felling it for the first time in a long time. He turns around looking at his surroundings. Then he feel pinch in his arm. "Ok, ok, hold on."

He goes around looking for a disturbed ground.

"It should be near here."

Jay kept looking. On a side of a tree he finds a shovel and right underneath it a pile that looked like a grave. He started digging.

Soon enough, Benny was restored to his old body.

"Now, let's go find a phone."

Sam just woke up. He was in the motel room. He glances over at Dean's bed and smirks at it, seeing it empty and undisturbed. For a moment he felt like he went back in time, when the boys were just on regular hunts, no angels, no apocalypse, and no destiny. Like the good old days when Dean would ditch him to hook up with a waitress or what-not.

His phone rings. The display said Hooper.

"Hey, Hooper, what's up?"

"Um... I... Um..."

"Hooper?"

"It's MJ, Sam. She's... She's alive."

"Where is she? Where are you?"

"Charles A. Dean Hospital in Greenville."

"I'm on my way!"

Dean finds himself in a bed. He hasn't slept like that in a long time. He looks over and spots Leila, still sound asleep.

Dean recalls his dreams. But there was something off about them. As if they weren't really his dreams, not really his memories. But before he could think about it more, his phone starts ringing waking Leila up.

"Hello?"

"Hello, old friend."

"Benny?"

"It is me, brother."

"Where are you?"

"In a club near where I got spit out... Hey, what the hell?... Baugh..."

"Benny? Benny? Benny if you can hear me I'll be right there!"

Leila turns to him with a confused look on her face. He looks up at her as he was getting dressed. "Sorry honey, duty calls."