Title: Dreams of Time
Pairing: Finn/Bella
Summary: She didn't know when it truly started or why, neither did he but for once in his life Finn felt right in the dreams of the young woman, accepted. Now all he needed was to be undaggered.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

The sheer and utter destruction that Finn left in his wake was beyond words. Those that traveled with him did their best to cover his tracks as he raced through city and forest with such a force of a hurricane. Klaus pulled in all his men to clean up the messes that they themselves didn't have time to do. The murders, the bloodshed and so on, so many people's lives now gone at the hands of the Berserker.

Klaus would be worried, should be worried that the 'accidents' would scream out loud that his brother was awake and even just a whiff of him… He didn't wish for their father to hunt them once more, not till he himself was free from this curse.

But, Klaus had never seen his eldest brother so ripped asunder, so brutal in his killings or care to even allow his beast free once more for a mere mortal woman… except she was anything but a mere mortal woman. She was someone who had shown his brother he was not a monster; that they were not monsters, had pulled his form from the depths of the daggers embraced and taught him, love. No, this woman was his brother's mate and a mate in their world was as rare as anything.

In a blink they all came to a stop, the Berserker gone from view with a mere blink of an eye and left them all wandering aimless in the forest.

"What just happened?" Klaus demanded, turning to find which way his newly awaken brother went.

Kol growled low and breathed in deep yet no scent beyond their own and the forest remained. "This is impossible, his scent stops right here!"

"He was pulled," Maddox states as he and the cold one come to a stop, the werewolf breathing heavily beside them. "I do not know where but the magic is strong."

"If his mate pulled him then we need to hurry, if she did this in a dampening house then who knows what that's done or power she possesses!?" The panic was noticeable in Kol's voice but not on his face, no, that panic reflected easily on Maddox's face.

Maddox prayed to every deity he knew that was not the case, he had seen the damages of what happened to witches who had lived through those houses, his grandmother being one of them. He had seen the horrors from her memories and can still feel the echo of emptiness inside followed by the sheer utter agony of magic ripping asunder… Even a Swan Witch could not break a seal so easily… and if she did, if the Swan Witch managed to do so then there was no saying what could be left of the girl's mind.

FxB

Finn snarled as he impacted with the ground, his head snapping up as the stench of cold one filled his nose and burned into his lungs. Fury unlike before rippled across him as his mates' scream tore through the forest, calling him like a moth to a flame. He was up and on his feet with a blink and blurred towards the sound breaking everything within his path and completely ignoring the smell of dog and vampires that joined him.

He came to a sudden stop as he caught sight of the cold one grasping his mate tightly, his teeth bared in fury and hand clenching tightly around her throat.

"LET GO OF HER!" He snarled furiously, his whole body tensed and ready to strike.

Edward roared and gripped his pet's hair tightly and yanked. "SHE IS MINE!"

"She was never yours!" The Berserker hissed low, the veins around his eyes darkening to the point that his eyes looked like voids.

Bella watched all this with wide eyes, her mate was here, finally here. Her heartbeat wildly in her chest as she realised that she stood so close to her mate and the only thing stopping her was the fucking asshole behind her. Rage began to bloom in her chest, she could feel her magic ripple under her skin like an itch, heat blooming and burning to her neck.

Edward screamed in agony as he yanked his hand back to see gold burning into his flesh. Time seemed to slow as Bella stumbled, blood flying across the ground as Edward's nails scratched into her chest causing the Berserker to attack. Yet, Bella could see her mate move towards Edward whose eyes now reflected that of a hungry Cold One and she could see the stake he had hidden now in his hand.

A scream tore from her lips as Finn grew close, she could see it now, the stake piercing his heart and he bursting into flames and a white pulse escaped her. Everyone who was within the vicinity and too raced towards Edward flew back from the blast, landing with a thud and in some cases a few snaps of a broken bone.

"Bella!" Finn roared as he got to his hands and knees. He tried to move forward but was unable to as the light continued to pulsate outwards from his mate who was now levitating several inches off the ground, her eyes a milky white.

The forest around her began to be made and unmade with a blink, leaves changing from green to colours of fall to barren and back. But what shocked Leif and caused the horror to well within him was the Cold One burning to cinders and back like new, it was a massive power surge and only once in his life had he seen it and it was the thing that herald the death of his Aunt.

"Shit, shit! YOU NEED TO STOP HER NOW FINN!" Leif's voice boomed over Bella's screams. "SHE WILL DIE!"

Finn's head snapped around to Leif before back to his mate. He pushed himself forward with all his strength, hissing as his skin began to sting as he pushed further into the barrier. "Isa! Little Swan!"

Everyone watched as Finn continued to push forward, falling to his chest with each wave pulse only to get up and slowly crawl forward inch by inch, blood slipping down his arms and dripping off his face. A whine escaped Sam's lips as he shifted back, his broken leg moulding back into shape as he did so but he had an idea. "Bella stop! Bella!" He cried out. "You're hurting your mate!"

Milky white eyes slowly moved down to face Finn who was staring back unnervingly, it took a blink of an eye, a beat of a heart for the white to recede and the brown to come back. It was a moment more before Bella's feet touched the ground, and for the shields to stop.

"Finn?" Bella asked hesitantly, her voice hoarse from screaming.

Finn was up and at her side within a moment, his hands cupping her cheeks delicately. "My Little Swan, how I longed to do this in person and now I can."

Though his face was dripping with blood it was of no matter to either of them as Finn leant down and took her lips with his own. Fire seemed to burn through them both, sparks of life that had been there since the beginning and Finn felt for once whole, as if some foretold Destiny was now complete in some way.

"Finn," Bella breathed as she pulled away to breathe, a brilliant bloody smile on her lips. "I love you."

"Ek ann þér, Little Swan. Ek ann þér." He replied with a breathless smile, pulling her close. Finally, finally.

Author Note: *Casually drops this here and runs away*