I know that it's been 84 years :"v but this is my favorite fic and believe me, the story is complete in my mind. This is the penultimate episode so only the final chapter would be missing. Final chapter that I have clear how I want to write it, so if someone out there is still reading this or is still interested, leave me a review and I will post the final chapter on december 30th, since I would like to end the year with this fic completed.
That said… Merry Christmas you all! This fandom is my baby, ambreigns will be always in my heart. Maybe I don't have the time but, I will always love Dean and Roman and I will always try to finish my fics. Let's start finishing this one.
"Ro... Roman." Dean made a choked sound.
Roman was watching through him. Like he was an illusion.
"I killed all those people..." His voice was hollow. "I also killed Elias."
Dean gulped. Roman's eyes showed all the pain in the world and Dean knew that his own mirrored that feeling.
"It was Randy. You weren't aware." Dean tried.
"Actually it was me..." AJ finally found his voice. "It was me, Roman. You are innocent."
The pain and sadness in the Samoan's eyes changed to unbridled anger.
"You're right. It was you. You did this to me." Roman clenched his teeth.
A lonely tear rolled down AJ's face. He seemed resigned. "I will not beg for forgiveness. I deserve whatever you want to do to me. I love you, Roman, but my love destroyed you."
Dean was scared. He didn't know what to expect from Roman. But if anything, his body language overflowed with anger and resentment. Roman glared at AJ, his eyes focused on the shorter man.
Dean could only see how things developed.
"Roman, please. I know you're angry, you have the right to be, but..." Dean stuttered. "You're not a..."
Roman glared at him. "A murderer?"
Dean didn't know what to do or say.
"A murderer". Roman pointed to himself. "That's what I am now. There is no way I can get back what I lost."
"There is always a way." Dean stifled a sound. "If you just leave me help..."
"You can't help me!" Roman shouted. "No one can help me, especially you! Do you really think this makes you a hero? This power is of no use. Having these skills and knowing that you are useless anyway. Because you can be controlled, because you are like a weapon that others can use to hurt and destroy... to kill. You were never a hero and neither will I be."
Roman started walking towards AJ. "What I really am is a murderer, so what's new? I can kill more people. I can kill the one who did this to me."
"And I deserve it..." AJ didn't move. His eyes showed no emotion, he was ready to face that destiny.
Dean was desperate. He limped as fast as he could and put his body between Roman and AJ.
"You're a murderer, right?" Dean looked Roman straight in the eye. "Then you can kill me too. That's what a murderer does. If you really believe that you are one, this will be a piece of cake. You'll have to kill me first before you get to AJ."
For a moment Roman felt his body shiver. Dean showed no fear. He was in front of AJ.
Roman ran to him and pushed Dean. The auburn-haired man was weak and Roman could easily hurt him. Even so, Dean managed to stand up and stop Roman, who was now on AJ, trying to choke him.
Dean grabbed Roman's back, trying to free the scientist. And although the auburn-haired was still weak, he was still stronger than an average human. So Roman had no choice but to let AJ go, to try to get rid of Dean.
Roman pushed his ex-boyfriend, who fell over a panel, breaking it and injuring himself in the process. Then Roman tried again and this time he hit AJ and the scientist was bleeding on the floor.
"I know I will die, but I just need you to know how sorry I am." AJ stifled a cry. "I realized everything I had been doing wrong, Roman. Everything. They are mistakes that I can't repair, but what I did to you, I did try to fix it. Neither Randy nor anyone else can hurt you again. I know this doesn't change what we did to you, but maybe you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and realize that it was our fault and not yours. Maybe you can forgive yourself and move on with your life."
Roman was surprised to hear AJ's words. "I can understand what you're saying. But I don't feel that way. It's not that easy, it will never be."
Roman was about to give the final blow and Dean in a final attempt covered AJ's body taking the damage.
The auburn-haired was bleeding on the floor.
"Why are you doing this?" AJ was amazed.
"It's not about you. You deserve to die." Dean said almost in agony.
Then he looked at Roman. "All those people you killed. It wasn't you. You weren't aware. You were controlled by other people and you didn't know what you were doing. You're not a murderer for that. And even if you can't see it now, the death of those people is in Randy and AJ's hands. They must carry those sins in their consciences... if they had one."
Roman was wide eyed. He had hurt Dean so much and the man was still trying to help him.
"But if you kill AJ, that would be a conscious decision. A choice you would be making." Dean said spitting blood. "That would make you a real murderer, and I won't let that happen. Even if I die in the process, I'll try to avoid it."
Roman grabbed his temple, dropping to the ground. A part of him shouted that Dean's words were true, that he still had a chance to save his soul, to end all this and run away, run away with the man he loved.
Another part of him remembered Elias' face trying to reassure him, as he threw a concrete slab at him. He remembered the faces of panic of each of the civilians he killed, under Randy's control. He remembered that even if he wanted to escape and try again, he could never forget those people.
The memory of their faces would never allow him to live in peace and be happy.
It didn't matter how much he loved Dean. It didn't matter how much Dean loved him too... to the point of almost sacrificing his life to make him come to his senses.
Roman was a murderer, that could not be changed.
He had to atone for his faults, that couldn't be changed either.
He could never be happy with Dean or with any other person, because he couldn't forgive himself.
But there was something he could do to try to remedy this situation a bit, and he was going to do it.
Roman took Dean gently and laid him on a stretcher. Then he looked at AJ. "If you want to do something for me, heal his wounds. No matter that I am now a monster and that… I hurt him. Dean is the man I love and I want him to be fine. But now, I must do the right thing, and the only thing for which these skills can be useful to me."
AJ nodded understanding everything. Dean was wide eyed, also understanding the meaning of Roman's words.
"You won't be able to do it alone. Please, wait for me to recover a little. Besides, Seth can also help us and..." Dean tried to sit down but didn't get it. Roman had caused him a lot of damage... again.
"You know Dean, we weren't meant to be. That didn't stop you from loving me, much less that stopped me from loving you back. I love you the way I've never loved anyone, and the way I won't do it again, because it's no longer in me to harbor such feelings. You'll always be the love of my life." And for the first time since his transformation, Dean could see something of the old Roman in this new version of the Samoan. "Thank you for allowing me to love you, because your love gave me the best moments of my life, thanks for trying to save me. Don't blame yourself for not having succeeded."
That said Roman left the lab at full speed.
...
"Look at you, Sethie. You're so perfect. Everything about you is damn perfect." Randy forced kisses on the younger man. "Even that disgusted expression on your face doesn't make your beauty less pleasant."
The image of both of them on the huge monitor in the room where Finn was held prisoner was grotesque. The journalist wanted to vomit, wanted to scream.
He wanted Randy's head detached from his body.
"Seth! Seth!" Finn no longer had a voice.
Brock smirked, enjoying this new form of torture to which they were subjecting the prisoner.
"You damn puppet with no brain!" Finn said when he saw Brock smiling.
Finn returned his gaze to the monitor and then the screen turned black. It was only a few seconds and then, the images returned, but there was no audio. Finn saw Seth changing his expression completely and it was the younger man who took control of the situation.
Whatever was happening, Finn could not say what it was, because nothing was heard anymore and besides Seth no longer seemed scared. Finn looked at the monitor and it was obvious that something was wrong there, Seth looked too satisfied. Was he enjoying being with Randy?
At that moment Triple H entered the room where Brock kept Finn guarded. "I came to supervise the prisoner. AJ just told me that Brock must go to the laboratory on the 20th floor…"
And then Triple H was shocked to see the monitor where Seth threw Randy on the bed and mounted on him, looking quite pleased... all that in front of his boyfriend who hung on chains as a prisoner.
"It seems that Randy finally got what he wanted." Triple H said wryly and smirked at Finn. "So are the rich and powerful, you cannot trust them. They love to humiliate the idiots around them."
Finn was enraged, because what he saw on the monitor was disgusting. "And you do know about that. You think you are powerful and you are nothing more than Orton's lapdog."
Triple H tried to mask his anger but failed. "I could kill you right now, dwarf. But letting you live, watching the love of your life fucking with someone as despicable as Randy must be enough punishment."
"You will not do anything because you have no power to do it, since Orton has not commanded you to do such a thing." Finn smirked. "Because let's accept it, you're just a puppet in Randy's hands. But something you haven't noticed is that when he has more super soldiers, he will get rid of ordinary and useless humans like you and your henchmen. Or are you such an idiot that have not questioned this? Did Randy care about the HBK's death? I was investigating and I know that Seth killed him. And if you think you're going to avenge him one day, you're wrong, because Randy loves Seth madly and will keep the man who murdered your best friend alive. None of the D-X has any value for Randy. So please take a seat and watch how the man who murdered your best friend, fuck with your boss."
Triple H clenched his teeth in rage, it was impossible to deny that Finn was right. He wanted so badly to hit the shorter man but Randy had made it clear that they shouldn't touch Finn because he needed him alive.
Finn started laughing. Triple H approached him and grabbed him by the neck.
"Come on puppet, kill me. And face the fate your owner will give you when Seth orders him to get rid of you." Finn finished his statement. "Or save your life by doing the right thing for a damn first time. You really don't have many options."
"Seth wants to kill Randy..."
"But Randy has me, and Seth loves me, so he will do anything to keep me alive..." Finn looked Triple H in the eye. "An option you didn't have with the one you loved... or am I wrong?"
Triple H wanted to refute Finn but the journalist was absolutely right.
"Maybe you can still save your life." Finn proposed. "I'm going to help you."
Triple H was thoughtful. Really at this point both: he and what was left of the D-Xs were trapped.
"Why are you doing all this?" Triple H questioned once more. "You should want revenge against me as your little boyfriend does. He has a good reason for wanting to kill me."
"If Seth fulfills his revenge, there will be no difference between him and Randy." Finn explained. "And I want to prevent him from becoming what he says he hates so much."
...
In the room, Seth laid Randy on the bed and climbed on top of him.
"You're scared, right?" Seth smirked. "You want me as much as you fear me."
"What the hell are you doing?" Randy didn't understand.
"Well, I can give myself to you as part of this blackmail. I mean, you're attractive and maybe with a little effort I can even have an orgasm." Seth was stroking Randy's dick over his clothes. "Of course I will have to imagine that I am with someone else. Someone who turns me on, instead of you, for whom I only feel sorry and disgust. But a dick is a dick."
"Bastard..." Randy wanted to push Seth, but he couldn't.
"Do you know that I could rape you?" Seth let out a small laugh. "Humilliate you by putting something other than my dick in your ass and you couldn't defend yourself."
"And Brock would tear Balor apart." Randy said trying to break free. "We are on a direct transmission to his room, they are watching everything that happens here."
Seth smirked, straddling Randy's member as he began to rub his own dick against Randy's, both still dressed.
"I don't think so." Seth smiled wickedly. "The Miz has already done me the favor that I asked for... and well, we now have audio problems. They will see us here enjoying ourselves. Or rather they will see me enjoying myself while riding on you and taking your life. They will surely think that it is only hard sex and not a murder."
"Godamn!" Randy tried in vain to get rid of Seth.
Seth smiled to see how the lust in Randy's eyes was replaced by true fear and helplessness. It was cathartic.
"I think it makes me horny me to know that you are nothing more than trash that I can crush." Seth was still rutting against Randy, even though he was no longer hard. "With Finn it's amazing because I love him and he makes me burn in his arms. With him I feel that every fiber of my being ignites. With you, I'm just getting hard because I'm going to kill you and see you die like the rat you are will give me the best of orgasms, so your brainless puppets won't suspect if they see one of us enjoying this."
Randy felt humiliated, he was going to scream, but Seth silenced him with a kiss. And after so much wishing for this moment, Randy didn't enjoy it anymore, he was terrified. Seth put his hands on Randy's neck and began choking him in the kiss.
With all the weight and strength of Seth, it was impossible for Randy to move his body and because of the angle they were in, no one would doubt that he was having sex with Seth. Randy heard Seth moan as he rode harder and faster against him, while taking his life away.
...
Roman was going straight to the penthouse. He had been in this building enough times to remember where each place was. It cost him nothing to get to Randy's room because he had free access to the entire building now that he was one of Randy's puppets.
He didn't even bother to knock, he just knocked down the door and there was Seth, mounted on Randy. From the impression Seth released the villain, who was somewhat purple. Randy took long breaths trying to return the air to his system as he watched with relief that one of his puppets came to his aid.
Orton wanted to talk but could only cough. Seth stood up trying to accommodate his clothes and looked at Roman defiantly.
"This time you are not going to defeat me..." Seth tried to look calm but he really wasn't.
Roman smiled sideways. Randy realized that something was wrong, but being able to recover a little of his voice, he wanted to give Roman an order.
"Kill him now." Randy said in a scratchy voice.
"No." It was Roman's answer.
Seth raised an eyebrow and Randy leaned against one of his desks, while watching in amazement how Roman seemed to be free of his power over him.
"Actually, I'm sorry I interrupted you." Roman looked at Seth. "You can continue to choke him. It doesn't matter who do the job, the important thing here is to kil him."
Randy opened one of the drawers and took a small device in his hands. "That stupid AJ freed you from mind control. But that won't be very useful because I can still destroy you."
Randy clicked the button on the small device but nothing happened.
Raman smirked. "And apparentl, AJ also deactivated the bomb inside me. So now, you only have one super soldier left."
Seth started laughing as he walked towards Randy. "I guess this is where you die."
Randy took out his cell phone and suddenly an alarm went on throughout the building. "Maybe, I still have one super soldier, but that one is the most powerful, more than Dean, Roman and you together. The D-X and Brock are going to kill you."
"I wouldn't count on that." Behind them was a beaten Finn Balor being helped by Triple H. "The D-X have already resigned and are leaving this building. I think you're lost, it's time for you to surrender to justice."
"Justice?" Seth stopped very close to Randy and looked at Finn and Triple H. "Justice is this moment, when I have my parents' murderer and the biggest villain this city has ever had, in the same room. Justice is this moment where finally I can take revenge."
"Justice and revenge are not the same, Seth." Finn said almost pleadingly. "All that desire for revenge of yours has cost too many lives. You must stop. With everything that has happened, the entire city knows who the bad guys are and we can put them in jail."
"I want to surrender to justice." Triple H said looking trapped. "I have valuable information on all Randy's misdeeds and my men are ready to prevent Randy and Kane from running away while you take care of Lesnar."
But before anyone could give an answer, what was left of the door was destroyed by Brock Lesnar who entered the place guided by the alarm Randy had activated.
"The moment of truth is now, I suppose." Roman said looking at Seth. "I understand you want revenge, but Triple H is right. Lesnar is the bigger problem and we must solve it now. The D-X can take care of Randy."
"In a perfect and utopian world, Triple H and his henchmen would turn themselves in to the police and justice would be served." Seth looked at Roman with disbelief. "In this one, they will probably rejoin and flee together, I will not allow it."
Seth was very fast, he ran to Triple H, pushing Finn who was caught by Roman, which prevented the jourlnalist from hurting even more. Seconds later, Seth had broken Triple H's neck, killing him immediately.
Randy panicked, knowing he was next. "Lesnar, you must kill them all starting with Seth, Roman and Dean if he appears. Then destroy everything, destroy this damn city and all its inhabitants!"
Lesnar nodded at Randy and his first aim was Roman, who was still holding Finn.
Seth was running towards Randy but he triggered another device that blew up the penthouse floor completely.
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