I'm going to write a series of one-shots kinda inspired by songs I like, all of them will be updated in this file.

So I will start with "Still loving you" by Scorpions because for me the lyrics fit perfectly into the history of Roman and Seth in the WWE, or at least to me it seems that it does. This story is located before WM33.

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Remember that english is not my former language and this is probably poorly written, I apologize in advance.


STILL LOVING YOU

Time, it needs time to win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love can bring back your love someday
I will be there, I will be there

Seth watched the rain fall from the window of the little cafeteria... now he was alone, lost.

"But it's what I deserve after everything I've done."

He sighed with longing. Well, people say that jelousy greed and envy won't get you very far in life becasue you'll always feel discontent and unhappy about yourself, your life and the people around you.. and that was true.

Seth had it all: a great career, the love of the crowd, was part of the most powerful and beloved faction in WWE.

"And I had him." Another sigh. "He was mine in body and soul. Every time I've said that I own him, it was true... I was his owner, the owner of his love, his future that he was even planning. I was the owner of his smiles, his yearnings. I was the owner of Roman Reigns. I had him wrapped in my pinky finger and I took that for granted. But that was not enough, I wanted more."

And there he was, sitting in a cafeteria outside Dean's house. They had finally been given a couple of days off and despite being on different shows, Roman and Dean as expected had taken refuge... together.

Seth, like the rest of the employees of the WWE and even the fans, suspected of the closeness of both wrestlers, they were inseparable. But they never confirmed anything... yet they didn't deny it either.

"After all, it was I who threw them into each other's arms when I hit the love of my life with a chair. When I chose my greed for a great future over our love. And I thought I would move on, I thought that a relationship, even if it was so deep and beautiful as ours, couldn't be worth more than the dreams for which I fought my whole life. Roman would be fine, he is the son of a hall of famer, he has everything at his feet to be a star in this industry, I should take the only opportunity I had and I did it."

Seth looked down at his plastered knee. Again he was injured, fortunately not serious enough to miss another Wrestlemania, although nothing was said yet.

"And in the end that didn't help... They betrayed me, they changed me for Kevin. I gave them all of me and I lost what I loved the most and when I got injured and it was no longer useful for their plans they replaced me."

Roman finally left the house and for Seth's fortune, Dean didn't was with him. It was now or never.

Fight, babe, I'll fight to win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love can bring down the wall someday
I will be there, I will be there

Roman entered the cafeteria and sat down at a lonely table. Seth stood up and went for him, and it was not an easy task for someone walking helped by a crutch.

Seth sighed. Roman was wearing glasses and was looking at the newspaper. He wore a white T-shirt and his hair was pulled back into a high bun. Seth remembered that it was he himself who suggested to Roman to tie his hair like that, because he himself liked to tie his hair the same way.

The waitress approached Roman. "Can I take your order."

"This gentleman wants a black coffee, chocolate waffles, scrambled eggs and bacon. Orange juice with no sugar and a piece of watermelon."

Roman looked at Seth in awe. Despite all that had happened and all the damage done, Seth remembered things like these. Roman looked at his former partner, brother... lover. Seth was thicker now and his hair no longer was bleached, it was loose and as always he wore the most shamelessly tight clothing anyone could wear. Roman always saw as an art the fact that Seth could work wearing tight clothes and much more now that he had a injured knee. But there was something that looked the same: his gaze. It was the same as when they were part of The Shield.

"But you... you're injured. You're supposed to be at home." Roman said confused.

Seth looked at Roman with wide eyes. Why all this was so difficult? Why couldn't things be as before? Why had his greed ruined everything?

"Can I sit down?" Seth asked nervously.

Roman looked around, the place was almost empty. The Samoan nodded.

"And what will you want?" The waitress asked Seth.

"This gentleman wants hotcakes with honey, scrambled eggs, fruit and yogurt and orange juice as well." Roman said softly.

Seth almost smiled seeing that Roman still remembered. The waitress returned to the kitchen.

"I've been here for two days. Looking at you from this same restaurant, staying at a nearby hotel." Seth admitted.

The Iowan was nervous. Roman had been avoiding him ever since they put them together in RAW. It is assumed that both were now in "good terms". Seth even helped him a couple of times and they had to fight together as a tag team. Roman was a professional and had become an expert controlling his emotions in front of the crowd who always wanted to eat him alive. However, when the show ended Roman ran away from him like Seth was the plague.

"I don't understand. You should focus on your recovery and get your revenge." There was still bitterness in Roman's words.

"I'll get it for sure." And even if this phrase had been a display of arrogance in another time... now it was more a sign of perseverance. "I need that revenge to put an end to this stage of my life. I lost too much becasue I pleased them and now I must do this if I want to start over and reclaim what I lost."

Roman chuckled. "It's good to know that some have a chance to get revenge. Not all of us are so fortunate. Good for you if you start again, but what you lost is exactly what you took from me. There are things that can't be reclaimed becasue they can't be recovered."

Seth wanted to say so much but Roman had built a wall between them. Roman was right, Seth tooky everything from him: his trust, the love that Roman gave him for so long. And the icing on the cake was his Wrestlemania moment. Seth took that too. They were too many things, unrecoverable.

The waitress came with the orders.

"Can you give me another breakfast just like mine to take?" Roman asked.

The waitress nodded and returned to the kitchen.

"Roman I..." Seth tried to say.

"Seth, I'm starving. I want to have breakfast in peace. You must be grateful that I am not claiming my right to a revenge to end a stage of my life as you will do. Believe it or not, when I heard about your injury. I decided to leave everything in the past, but there is no way I can trust you again. However, I am here trying to be cordial, after all, we are co-workers and we can be polite. But nothing more."

By God that Roman's indifference hurt. And the words hurt more than his punches, that his injured knee. Had Roman stopped loving him? Well it was not crazy, it was Roman who suffered most after what Seth did. However, despite everything that happened, Seth could never bury the feelings he had for Roman and now that he was in the same place where he cruelly put his ex-lover, he could understand him. Seth still loved him madly and refused to accept that Roman had forgotten him.

Or worse, he would have replaced him.

They ate breakfast calmly while Seth thought: What in the universe could be enough for Roman to forgive and forget? To let him into his heart... To make him trust again. Seth felt so desolate.

They finished breakfast and Seth still didn't know what to do. Roman wiped with his napkin and the waitress approached. He paid for his breakfast and the extra he had ordered, Seth did the same. Roman stood and made his way to the door. Seth grabbed his crutch and followed him as fast as he could. It was raining harder outside. Roman took his umbrella and was about to cross the street.

"Is it for him?" Seth shouted so Roman could hear his voice in the rain. "Breakfast is for Dean? You are together, right?"

Roman turned and saw Seth standing in front of him, supported by a crutch and his rain-soaked clothes.

"You must take refuge." Roman approached his former partner.

"Just tell me the truth," Seth pleaded.

Roman grabbed the bag with the other breakfast tightly. "My private life is none of your business. You know I'm very secretive about my personal affairs."

"Do you love him?" Seth's face was soaked with rain, his hair dripping water and he looked like a kicked puppy.

For a moment Roman returned to those times, the time when they were together and he only wanted to protect and worship the lively boy who had taken over his heart. Roman closed his eyes and pushed that thought out of his mind.

"It's not your problem." And that was it, Roman started walking toward Dean's house.

Seth was not really thinking when he followed Roman. Walking with a crutch in the middle of the rain is not the smartest decision and yet, Seth followed his ex-partner because his mind didn't process anything other than Roman.

"Roman, please wait!"

Roman turned around and it was then a guy on a bicycle lost control and headed straight for Seth. The Samoan moved as fast as he could, leaving the umbrella on the ground and grabbing Seth. Nevertheless the bicycle still reached him throwing both to the ground, the crutch fell a few meters away and was crushed by a car.

Roman looked at Seth who was scared. "Did he hurt your knee?"

Seth was finally able to process what had happened and above all, the genuine concern in Roman's eyes. There was no longer indifference.

"It hurts but I'm sure is nothing serious... my crutch is torn to pieces." Seth pointed to the destroyed item.

"Come on, I'll help you." Roman got to his feet.

The man on the bike didn't even apologize. He climbed back into the vehicle and fled.

"You must dry." Roman led Seth to Dean's house that was a few feet away.

If we go again all the way from the start
I would try to change the things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong that I can't get through
Is there really no chance to start once again?
I'm loving you

They both entered the house. Seth was shaking. Roman left him in a chair in the living room.

"I'll go get a towel." Roman said softly and left Seth in place.

Seth had been here many times. The place was exactly the same. Dean never changed anything, he didn't move anything. Even the living room sofa was the same, Seth remembered how once the auburn-haired man caught him and Roman having sex on that same couch. Then he scolded them for half an hour for having disrespected his beloved couch.

"And now, Roman is sure fucking Dean on that couch." That thought caused him great sadness.

It was then that the owner of the house appeared. Dean was just waking up, he just wore underwear and an old t-shirt belonging to Roman from the time he played football, that was like a direct dagger in Seth's heart. It was he who wore Roman's clothes. So Dean was his replacement.

The ohioan smirked, "I thought Ro was joking when he said you were here. The nerve."

Roman said he had forgiven but could not forget, after all Roman was the mature of the group, he appeased the fights and held them together. Dean on the other hand, the auburn-haired man would not forgive or forget...

"You're trying to worm your way to Roman's heart. You want to manipulate him all over again. Now you're playing that game of the redeemed, that you're very sorry for all your evil deeds." Dean was direct as ever.

It was useless to explain anything. Dean was not going to believe him. Also probably Dean was the rival.

"You're together..." Seth didn't even try to hide the pain he felt in uttering these words.

"Do you mind?" Dean cocked an eyebrow. "You rejected us as if we were trash. Whether we're together or not is not your problem at all."

"It is!" Seth knew he should be apologizing to Dean, after all he made his life miserable when The Shield imploded but seeing him wearing Roman's clothes, he felt he couldn't. "I know I was wrong, I screwed up but..."

"But nothing," Dean raised his voice a little. "You turned our lives into hell and now you're going to say... let me guess, you're going to say that you're repentant as if everything you did could be forgiven and you will say you still love him... am I wrong?"

"I have paid dearly for my mistakes, I have lost everything. The only thing that kept me sane is the love I still feel for him." Seth said desperately.

"You lost everything, uh?" Dean smirked "Welcome to our world. Let me remind you what it is to lose everything."

Dean approached Seth dangerously. "Being hit with a chair in the back by the person who said he loved you. Know that the one you loved as a brother, to whom you opened your heart to tell the horrible things that you lived in your past, sold you to the enemy. Be hit against a brick wall by your little brother. Even steal the most memorable and significant moment in the career of the man you swear to love! That is to lose everything!"

Seth began to cry. "I deserve this, I... exchanged you guys for fame and success, the success that I believed deserved by my hard work. I wanted to be succesful quickly, because I felt that I had been fighting for this since my childhood. I did everything wrong, but we all deserve a second chance. You have no idea how I felt after doing what I did. You were not there!"

Seth had suffered and wept for every one of his bad deeds, yet that was the price to pay for the ephemeral success he gained while the authority protected him.

"Who has no idea of anything is you!" Dean leaned against the wall at the sight of Seth's tears. "Do you know how we feel after being betrayed by you? We were sore, we were heartbroken and you were the one who was not there! You were not there when Roman missed you, when he needed you most. You were not there to mend his broken heart. Certainly you were not there when he had to mourn having lost his most important moment in WM31 and of course you were not there when he defeated Triple H in WM32 and finally had in his hands the title you stole from him... But guess who was there?"

Seth opened and closed his mouth several times unable to refute Dean's arguments. He just couldn't.

"Here's the towel," Roman said looking at the interaction between them.

Seth was in a sea of tears and Dean was upset. Roman handed the towel to Seth and took Dean by the arm.

"Just be patient. He will leave soon." Roman tried to appease his friend.

Seth couldn't believe everything was lost.

"Do not you realize?" Dean pushed Roman to be free of the grip. "Now he's playing the victim's card. It's going to be the poor prodigal son fighting for redemption and you're going to fall hook line and sinker. You may forgive him, after all you were the one who was in love with him but I will never forgive him. And one of the main reasons I can't forgive it's you! All the things I had to do to get you out of the hole you were in becuase of him, even when I was suffering too because I loved that bastard like a brother. All that is going to go to hell if you let yourself be manipulated by his game of repentance and false redemption."

"But I can't just leave him. He can't even walk. I'll just help him, that's all." Roman justified his actions.

Dean smiled sadly. "It's not. Being close to him will be your disgrace. You're going to fall into the same hole and he's going to fuck you again. You are a good man and it's sad to see that you go straight to the trap that he's setting for you."

Roman wanted to reassure Dean, wanted to tell him that he was wrong and yet he could only look at him in a deep silence. He couldn't utter a single word.

Dean closed his eyes knowingly, "You see, three years is enough to know you like the back of my hand. Still, one way or another I always knew that this moment would come." Dean returned to the room visibly disappointed. Roman took several breaths and looked at Seth. He was sobbing and trembling wrapped in the towel.

"You must go back to your apartment," Roman said, avoiding his gaze. "I should have left you in your car instead of bringing you here."

"My apartment is in a building four blocks away, I came walking early in the morning when it didn't rain. I just have to go for a cab." Seth said resignedly.

"With this rain you won't find any. I'll take you to your place. " Roman walked over to Seth to help him get up.

"Dean is going to be upset if you do." Seth admitted with sadness, his face was the epitome of defeat.

"It'll bother him even more if you stay." Roman held out his hand to Seth.

"You're going to get in trouble with him," Seth said doubtfully.

Roman said nothing and only helped him to his feet.

Try, baby, try to trust in my love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, our love just shouldn't be thrown away
I will be there, I will be there

Roman took Seth to his apartment. He had to help him in, because the younger man was soaked and didn't have his crutch. Seth was still shaking.

"I'm going to prepare a hot bath for you. Tell me where your clothes and other crutch are so you can move."

Seth closed his eyes. For a moment he moved to that time when this would be a domestic scene in their lives. Roman preparing a bath for him and then both would bathe together and Roman would make love to him in the shower and then later in bed. Both would hold hands while Roman was inside him as they declared their love over and over as they reached the climax, then laugh and kiss with tenderness.

Something he never felt again since that fateful night.

"I don't have another crutch. I know it's silly but, I have not been thinking clearly lately." Seth admitted, still shaking.

Roman closed his eyes and nodded. Seth was somewhat sloppy and this was no surprising. Roman prepared the bathroom, returning to the living room Seth was trying to remove his shoes. The Samoan crouched without saying a word and did that for him. He took off his shoes and socks. He would have to help him with his pants.

"I've never been able to figure out how you can get in these ridiculously tight pants." Roman said in a calmer tone.

"I've always liked to flaunt my body. Besides, you said you loved to see me in them. So even if my knee is fucked, I wore them to see you." Seth admitted, eyes still watered by tears.

Roman gave a small smile. "They still look good on you but, this was stupid. I feel the only way to remove them will be by cutting them off."

"You can take them off, just be careful." For a moment Seth had a slight hope that at least Roman might see him as a friend.

With a little work and great care Roman could remove the pants. Seth took off his t-shirt and there he was, just wearing tight boxers and his sculpted body, Seth was even more beautiful now. Roman closed his eyes trying to stifle a sigh and failing miserably.

Seth closed his eyes and his cheeks blushed. Why couldn't Roman forget and forgive and... make love to him as if nothing had happened?

Because the things I did are unforgivable. Because Roman now has someone else...

"You never told me if you and Dean..." Seth said almost in fear.

"It's complicated..." Roman said extending his hands to Seth.

The Iowan grabbed Roman's hands and wnet to the bathroom. Once there, with the help of his ex-partner, Seth got into the bathtub. The water was still warm, Roman crouched beside him. Seth was very still in the water. Roman looked straight into his eyes and there was so much to be said. But Roman felt that speaking was just like tying a rope on his neck and jumping.

"Roman, I still love you. Even if you don't believe it or if you don't care anymore, I still love you, I never stopped loving you." Seth said through tears, if he had a hope even if it was small, he would spill his heart now. Even if it was useless, he had to. "I've been waiting for the moment when we could finally talk alone but you always ran away from me. I wanted to apologize for everything I did to you, to both of you. Even if you no longer love me and if I have to accept that I have lost you, I want to be close to you. I want you to let me prove that I am not the same greedy and evil person who sold his soul to the devil. I want to pay for my mistakes and I'll do whatever you ask me to be forgiven, whatever."

Seth was so honest in this. Roman knew this man very well. They loved each other for a long time and Roman had to admit he had felt a change in Seth a few days before the betrayal but thought to ask after the show. He never imagined what was about to happen.

However, now Seth was being honest but Roman didn't know if that would be enough to correct his mistakes. Too many things, too much damage.

"I don't know what you could do it, Seth." Roman decided to be honest too. "I don't know how you could mend all the damage."

"You don't love me anymore?" Seth's gaze was filled with despair. "Did you manage to forget me?"

"There were times when I hated you like crazy, almost the same way I loved you." Roman admitted. "There were many times when I loved you like crazy and I hated myself for it. I tried to forget you in many ways but there was always something, be it love, hate, rancor, but I could never forget you."

Seth was speechless. It was an answer and at the same time it was not. Roman looked into Seth's eyes and there was so much confusion in them. Roman was confused and overwhelmed, perhaps as much as he, perhaps even more.

Roman held his gaze and saw a great desperation in Seth's eyes. "But although I could never forget you... I could not forget what you did to me either. Besides, I never thought we'd both be in this situation. I never believed that life would teach you a lesson and put you in the place that you put us. Much less I believed that you could still love me. In fact I thought you never did, after all, who betrays like this the one he loves?"

Seth began to cry more copiously. "Life will not be enough to get your forgiveness. However, that's all I'm going to use my life for. Even if I never get it, even if I have to see you with Dean or anyone else, if I have to see how you give your love to someone else. The love that I lost for being a damn bastard. Even if the only thing I get is just to be a part of your life."

Roman couldn't take it anymore. God, he knew this would happen, and as Dean told him, he went straight to the trap... Roman pulled Seth into his arms. Seth sobbed on the Samoan's shoulder soaking him in the water that wet his own body and his tears. Roman stroked the younger man's back and he only cried non-stop. It was as if he had been holding back the tears for a long time and now it was impossible to contain them.

"I'm so sorry for everything I did. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to do it. I know nothing. But for God's sake I will do everything you ask me if you let me come back to your life."

If we'd go again, all the way from the start
I would try to change the things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong that I can't get through
Is there really no chance to start once again?

Seth was crying for at least twenty minutes. The water was cold and Roman decided to take him out of the tub or he would catch a cold. Roman gently dried him and carried him to his room. There Seth put on soft shorts and lay back on the bed. Nothing was said yet. Roman had not forgiven him, he had not accepted him in his life. Seth didn't know if he and Dean were together or were just two friends who sought solace in each other's arms because of the damage he caused them.

Roman was soaked now. "I must go for your crutch."

"First you should change your clothes," Seth murmured. "I... when I decided to do what I did... I stole your clothes. It's in my suitcase. Wherever I go I carry those clothes, at first it was because your scent was the only thing that made me calm, now they are really like a memory of what I lost, something to hold on to now that I no longer have you."

Roman nodded and took a The Shield t-shirt and his old trousers. The clothes were well-kept, in fact Roman didn't even remember losing them. After all, at that time, the last thing he would have thought of was missing clothes.

Roman put on his dry clothes and looked back at Seth. The younger man was not even the shadow of the selfish, arrogant brat who almost destroyed their lives. Neither was the vivacious boy Roman fell in love with. Seth was more like an empty shell. Seth had life but he was not alive. And Roman felt his heart breaking. Everything was so confusing. The Samoan would have wished things were different. Now he could lie down next to him and take care of that knee. Plan together how he was to be revenge against Triple H. Fight together, dream together.

And be betrayed again.

No matter how hard he tried, that shadow would always be on them. Like a knife hanging over their heads. It was very risky, it was almost silly to trust.

Roman sat on the bed next to Seth and gently stroked his damp hair. Even if he wanted to forget he couldn't, at least not now. It would take more time, he needed something tangible.

"I could go on hating you... but that wouldn't do me any good," Roman said softly. "But trusting you would be stupid."

Seth sat down and crawled over to Roman resting his head on the other man's shoulder. "What are you going to do?"

"You have to win my trust," Roman said softly. "You must ask Dean for forgiveness. You must amend the damage you caused to him. When he forgives you, when he receives you again as his friend, I will trust you. But if I somehow discover that everything is a lie, you're going to get the revenge I never took against you. And I swear it will be relentless."

Seth nodded softly. "Whatever you wish Roman. I'll do whatever you ask but... Dean hates me, he'll never forgive me. But I'll try anyway. However, if I don't get it ... if he doesn't forgive me..."

"Things between you and me will remain the same," Roman said. "Dean was there for three years. He hates you and rightly so. I can't just pretend he doesn't exist and be your friend. I'm not going to do that to him. Especially after everything he has done for me. I wanted to even die and Dean, he saved my life. As he said to me it is easier for me to accept your apologize because I loved you, but it's not the same with him. And I'll never betray him. If you don't get his forgiveness you won't get mine either."

Seth nodded again. "Then you two never..."

"we always, Seth. But this is something I don't have to talk to you about. Dean and I have supported each other in every way you can imagine. I don't regret anything and I know he doesn't either. In my own way, I love him and for all that our friendship represents for me, he will always be a priority in my life. However, we both came to the conclusion that something serious between us would never work."

Seth gulped. "Why?"

"Because I could never forget you. No matter what I did, I could never get over you. What I feel for him is more brotherly, what I feel for you is different."

Seth looked at Roman and a beautiful smile lit the face of the Iowan. This was what he needed. This gave him hope, something to stand on. All was not lost. The price to pay to have Roman's trust was pretty high, quite difficult, but... he would. Seth would be able to redeem himself with his ex-partner of The Shield and with that he would obtain the trust and maybe the love of the man he never stopped loving.

"I'll get it, you'll see. I'm going to prove to both of you that I'm different. I will gain your trust. We will be a team again and I will regain your love. I still love you."

Roman finally smiled. "I still love you. I don't know if I can ever stop. But it's not yet time for us. First I want to trust again and then we'll see what happens."

Seth nodded vigorously. Roman kissed his forehead and Roman laid him on the bed and went to get a new crutch.

If we'd go again, all the way from the start
I would try to change the things that killed our love
Yes, I've hurt your pride, and I know what you've been through
You should give me a chance, this can't be the end

I'm still loving you

Roman returned with the crutch. Seth was sat on the sofa in the living room. He had managed to grab the walls and get there. Roman smiled to see that Seth couldn't remain still. Of course not, Seth was the epitome of vivacity. Roman loved that about him.

Roman handed the crutch to Seth and he stood up by himself. The younger man's smile was almost contagious. Seth was happy, happy to have an opportunity. And although it was difficult, he didn't lose hope.

"I have to go. I have to talk to Dean, he's going to get angry, but he'll understand. He always does". Roman stroked Seth's hair.

"But then what about us?" Seth was nervous.

"Well, we are just as we were before our meeting in the restaurant. When you get Dean to forgive you, we'll have a chance to get closer." Roman was now stroking Seth's cheek.

"Then it's not the end..." Seth said softly. "It is not all lost"

"It's not," Roman brought his lips to Seth's and finally they both kissed.

How much they had dreamed of this moment. For almost three years, this seemed like a fantasy, something neither of them could admit but that both felt. Seth's lips were as sweet and inviting as the last time they kissed. Roman thought he would be lost in that kiss. Roman thrust his tongue into Seth's mouth and Seth eagerly received it. The Iowan moaned and used his free hand to grab Roman's neck. Roman wrapped his hands on the waist of the younger man, feling intoxicated with the feelings that he always had for this man. They both kissed passionately until they had to break the kiss to be able to breathe.

Seth was ecstatic. Anything that would come would be worth it if with that he could get Roman back. Roman gently let him go.

"When you get what I asked for, we'll meet again." The Samoan passed his fingers by the younger man's swollen lips.

"And that will be very soon, Roman. Pretty soon." Seth said confidently. "I'm going to get it because I still love you. I still love you."

"Then we'll see you when you get it." Roman smiled. "I still love you, Seth Rollins."

Roman left the apartment and a Seth Rollins full of hope in the future.


As you see this is kinda kayfabe bc Dean finally forgave Seth lol so well, that's why that was the price Roman asked for his forgiveness. I swear I tried to shorten this story and this was the shortest I could do. I hope you have enjoyed it and if you did it, then support me with a fav and a review. That will also motivate me to add more stories to this file. Thank you. Love ya guys!