Unconditional Love

Part 8

Don't own em but love them.

"Thanks for all the encouragement, hope you to hear all your thoughts on this chapter, cause I know you all love these characters as much as I do. I'll do my best to give them there due." Kay

Writing this I chose to listen to Evanescence "My Immortal". And now Jo with the feeling of weight of world on some very young shoulders...

Jo didn't bother to even speak, she didn't trust herself to not start crying. And right now things were just to raw with Dean. So she chose to ignore him. Jo sat down leaning on a dead tree stump with her back to him.

Dean stood at few feet away, watching Jo. He wondered if she was going to be alright. She had always been tough. He had witnessed her comforting a lot of people over the years, including himself. Jo's approach had always been gentle but strong. He had tried to push her away when he had been hurting, but she would never walk away from him. Jo had saved him more than once. It seemed that if Sam or himself was hurting she had always been there.

Dean had found out that kind of friendship was special. Because for the most part, friends in general would miss those important things. The things that broke a person, made them give up. Dean thought the three of them had been through a lot, and were truly lucky to have each other.

But now Jo needed him to be there for her. He wanted to, more than anything, but he had let Sammy be this person for her for so long, he didn't know if he would be able to be what she needed. Sam had insight to Jo, because while Sammy had been studying Jo, Dean had been taking care of what was left of his family.

Dean making his mind up walked over and sat down next to Jo. He reached in her bag intending to pull out a couple of beers but felt something cold and hard. It felt like a lighter, he pulled it out of the bag. Expecting it to be Jo's, but to his surprise it was his.

He frowned looking down at it. Dean had lost this the last time he was here. Jo had given it to him last year for his birthday. He had looked everywhere for it. Dean felt a pang of guilt remembering how he had lost it. Somehow Jo had found it when he hadn't been able to. He got a beer for Jo and handed it to her and then opened one for himself. Finally breaking the silence Dean asked "Where did you find it, I looked everywhere."

Jo finished up her beer before answering. Staring off into the distance she said "Jemma, said to tell you she was sorry for taking it",Jo turned then looking into Dean's eyes and said "she just wanted to have a way to be close to you." Turning away from him tears slipped down her cheeks.

It was all to much at once. Her chest felt like it was crushed, breathing was more force of will than natural. Her mind betrayed her, flashing the imagine from six months ago. Jo had went to find Dean but had found a lot more than she was looking for.

The intimacy she had witnessed between Jemma and Dean had left a huge gash across her heart. And part of her tears today were left over from that night.

Dean put his head down knowing in his heart that Jo knew what had taken place between Jemma and himself. He doubted he could explain how and why things had happened.

He could see it had affected her. Dean reached over and cupped Jo's face turning it towards him. He was at a loss of words. Their eyes locked and a thousand words passed between them. Dean pulled Jo into his lap and held her tight. They had experienced so much pain, Dean wondered if they would ever get a real chance to be together.

He wanted it all to be over with. He wanted the demon that had killed his Mom and all the evil that continued torture people to just be over. Dean's eyes filled with tears remembering what his mother had once told him "Angels are watching over you Dean." Dean closed his eyes thinking about Jo, she was as close to an angel that life was going to send. He was for sure about that and he decided he would find a way to have her in his life.

Dean continued to hold Jo while she slept. Night had fallen, he would have to wake her soon before the temperature dropped to much. He wished things could stay just like this but he knew it wouldn't. His heart cried out for a few more minutes so Dean sat there under the moonlight enjoying the warmth coming off Jo's body.

Sam stood quiet watching his brother from the tree line. He loved Dean and knew that he deserved someone who could put him first before everything and everyone. But deep down Sam didn't want it to be Jo. Sam turned swallowing his jealousy for the moment.