HEY EVERYONE!!!

I'm so sorry that I didn't update this story at all during December. So to make it up, I wrote a companion story to this one in Dean's POV all about his life and ending off in the same spot as Chapter 8 did in this story.

I couldn't continue with this story until I had Dean's history written out (I had the feeling like I needed to do that first).

Since I was reviewing some of the reviews, some people said that they didn't know or watch Dark Angel before so that's another reason why I wrote Dean's history.

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"A Life I Thought Would Never Return: Dean's Past" deals with Dean's life as an X5 and how he reunites with his family again after being taken away from them. Also it shows how Max and Dean got together and how their relationship was before we knew the married couple that's in this story.

It was written as Dean's thoughts so the only dialogue you get is from his memories or at the very end with Dean and Max picking Bella and Sam up (how the previous chapter had ended off).

I wrote this thinking "what if Dean was laying in bed and thinking back about his whole life.....since he has a great photographic memory, he can recall details very easily and emotions too."

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SO, while reading this, in the back of your mind, remember that you are Dean laying in the motel room on his bed and thinking back on everything that has happened to him (this is the missing part when Sam and Bella leave Max and Dean alone in the motel room while they go for their walk together).

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So I hope you guys take some time and check out the companion story. I spent a lot more time on it than I expected. It's the first time I'm writing in Dean (or Alec)'s POV, so I apologize in advance if either character seem off (but at times they do act the same).

Thanks to all your reviews for the last chapter (and previous ones), I greatly appreciate it. Don't hesitate to review some more =D