-TMLL Chapter 15-

"Something the three of you want to tell me?" Ace asked the men in the room. She looked around the room and noticed the puzzled look on everyone's faces.

"Uhh…" Sam stuttered.

"What did you see up there?" Bobby finally asked. Sam looked steadily at her and Dean folded his arms across his chest and leaned against the kitchen counter.

"I saw this place." Ace answered looking around.

"Your "heaven" is my house?" Bobby asked sort of surprised.

"I guess so. I've come here so many times in the past…and it's where other things happened." Ace said. She cleared her throat and Dean's eyes burst open in realization.

"You saw your daughter…" Sam noted. Ace instinctively crossed her arms across her stomach and Sam received a swift smack in the back of the head by Bobby.

"Don't mention that you, Idget. " Bobby whispered to Sam.

"It's ok, Bobby." Ace said as she inhaled slowly. "She looked like your brother." Ace admitted. He and Ace locked eyes and he could sense it was hard for her to relive this. He began to inch towards her, but she shook her head as tears welled in her eyes. "They, umm, the angel, wanted to make me choose."

"Make you choose between what?" Sam asked her.

"They wanted to make me choose between staying with her…" She started and then turned to Dean, "And coming back with you three."

Ace's grip around her stomach became tighter as the silence in the room grew thicker. Dean didn't know whether to be happy that Ace came back or angry that she left their daughter. He went full stride and reached out for Ace, but she moved just out of his grip. Ace looked up to the sky and blinked back tears and went to her safe place outside. Dean stayed behind and just watched her attempt to keep her composure. Just by watching her, he realized this was the toughest thing she'd ever been through. She could deal with everything else but her feelings. Dean was the same way, but her emotions right now raised the bar about a hundred times upward. Dean couldn't imagine choosing between family and love. It was something he couldn't fathom dealing with.

-Later that Night-

Ace and Sam had gone to bed, while Bobby and Dean stayed up with the company of a little liquor. They stared blankly at the TV screen as it played an old episode of Ghost Hunters. Dean smirked at the amateurs thought they were hunting down an actual ghost. The house was quiet with the only sounds coming from the mindless chatter of the show. Bobby gulped down the last of his beer and turned to Dean. Dean looked at him and could tell something serious was on his mind. He picked up the remote and switched off the TV and faced Bobby. Bobby cleared his throat ad prepared his question.

"If Ace had had the baby…what would you have done?" Bobby questioned.

"I would've dealt with it." Dean answered simply.

"You can't just "deal" with a kid, Dean." Bobby noted. "You'd have to give this life up. Would you be able to do that?" Dean turned to Bobby, unable to say what he should say. He'd never thought about it. Having a family, that is. This was his family. Bobby, Sam, and now Ace were his family. He'd never thought about adding another to the bunch. Deep down he knew he'd do anything for his family, but hunting was his life. But if it came down to it…he'd choose the three of them hands down.

"I think I could do that." Dean finally answered. Bobby flashed an uncertain smile and got off the couch and began to head to his room, but was stopped by Ace in the hallway, but she wasn't herself.

"Ace?" Dena blurted out from the couch. She turned to him with a blank expression. She outstretched her hand towards him and walked forward. Dean, uneasily, took her hand. She squeezed his hand and her image of heaven flashed from her to him. The memory of their daughter flew through his thoughts. Dean fell to the wooden floor on his knees. Ace's eyes opened and looked down at him on the floor.

"Have you seen her?" She asked him. Dean nodded. "Then it is finished." She finished and fell into Dean's arms.

"What the hell? Alyssa?" Dean said shaking Ace out of her sleep. Her eyes opened slowly.

"Dean...did you…" Ace stuttered.

"Yea…I did…" Dean said. Tears began to well in his eyes as well as Ace's. He looked at her hazel eyes and brushed her red hair away from her eyes. The two got up from the floor and embraced.

They turned around and looked at a very confused Bobby and a newly awakened Sam. The five of them went to bed. As Dean engulfed Ace in his arms as they lay in bed he pictured his daughter here with them. He brushed Ace's face and his thoughts went to Bobby and Sam. His substitute dad, his baby brother, and his love were all right here…with him. This was his family.

To Everyone:

Thank you so much for reading this. I'm gonna be honest, I never thought this story would get this far., maybe two comments at most and a few readers, but never this many. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the comments and support to keep going. It means a lot. I'll definitely continue writing and I'll try not to disappoint. Love you all.

~Jill