Next Flashback was the worst...

And he didn't wait long. The next day...

I felt arms grabbing me as we walked back from yard time to our cells and pull me through a doorway. I could see the steam floating up in the air around me and I was shoved forward and landed at a man's feet. I swallowed hard as I tilted my head up to Brock's psychopathic face staring down at me, his eyes nearly black with lust.

The sound of a zipper pierced the silence, and I fought the arms of his buddies holding me down. Brock grabbed my hair and yanked my head up. "Do it! Bitch!" he snarled at me, and I fought his hold on my head. My arms were tight behind my back feeling like they were bent so far past what they could handle. "Initiation to our little gang. You already agreed. Don't you dare back down now. I saved your fucking life. Now you owe me!"

I looked around at the other two at my sides. They were not even people I knew but they must have been ones Brock dominated to do his bidding and were what? Just here to hold me down for him? Dear God.

"No way in hell! You literally tried to kill me!" I spat at him, slamming my mouth closed, feeling him pull my head down more.

I pulled out of the grip the men had on my wrists and slammed my head back and punched one of them, sending them spinning away from me. The other I backed up and leapt forward with a jumping punch and he went flying into pipes behind him. I heard him scream as his head must have hit something hot and he collapsed to the ground in a heap.

The first guy leapt on my back then and I threw him towards the pipes too and his hand just barely clipped the edge of a pipe before he pulled it away and I dove to tackle him full force into the wall, and he slumped down against it too.

Gasping for breath I stood back up but had forgotten that Brock was still there and had done nothing but watch me take out his little minions. Before I could turn around to even face him, I felt his fingers around my throat, and he dragged me up level with his face.

"I guess I know what your word is worth now! I will come after you Pretty, every day till you give in or beg me to kill you," he hissed right in my ear and slammed my body back hard against the pipes behind me!

I screamed through his other hand that covered my mouth as he held me back, his grip tight around my neck as every inch of me wanted to escape the scalding heat as the steam hissed.

I felt so weak, and my vision was getting blurry as I felt him let go and I crashed to the floor writhing in pain, my nerve endings on fire. I watched the other men just stumble out the door after him as he half dragged them with him. They just left me there as I felt tears stinging my eyes, the pain was that excruciating.

"Sara," I whimpered as I crawled forward, pulling myself on my hands toward the door. "Sara. I need you..."

I jolted myself out of the horrors of that first week of prison, our guns still raised as Brock smirked at me.

"Sara," he mocked me, pursing his lips. I glared back at him realizing I must have said that out loud. "Sara, I need you..." he mimicked me. I sucked in another trembling breath, my finger just itching to pull that trigger.

But I could not risk leaving her without me. Even if I killed Lesnar the same moment he killed me, the island was still crawling with freaks that wanted to hurt her.

No! I could not let him bait me. This standoff could go on forever with neither of us backing down and I knew he sure as hell didn't want to die either or he would have fired his gun the second our eyes met.

I regarded him calmly, trying to swallow the fear wanting to consume me. I still had not seen anyone nearby. No reason to believe what I had heard about her being caught. "You don't have her, do you?" I questioned, pretty damn sure I knew the answer. "She gave you the slip...right Brock?"

The psycho was shaking his head rapidly in denial, his eyes widening. "Oh no, I have her Pretty. And I am just waiting to drag your nearly dead and beaten body to her feet where you can watch ME enjoy every fucking inch of her. I want you to be so close you can taste her screams and feel her blood dripping down her body as she cries for you to help her. I told you the day I burned you that you would beg me to kill you and that day is here!"

I felt another shiver just ice my veins and I reminded myself to calm down and think clearly as I steadied the gun again, leveling it right between his eyes. His eyes were in my nightmares, and I longed to make them dead eyes. An unseeing and empty dead stare was what I wanted to give him. Right Fucking Now.

Everything about him made me sick.

I hated that he could get to me so easily, remembering his hands gripping my hair, forcing me lower against him. seeing him so aroused by me as he gripped my neck. He knew how to scare the ever-living shit out of me with what he did to me and wanted to do to my girl. He was using that knowledge in spades right now.

I studied his face so closely. His eyes were flitting back and forth, and he looked to be shaking ever so slightly too. "No," I shook my head, chiding him, clicking my tongue in my mouth, reigning in my fear. I could do this. I could beat him at his own game. I was not going to let him manipulate me again.

"You don't have her." I felt a smile growing from the corners of my lips. "You have no idea where she is...do you?"

I had been in enough interrogations to know when perps were lying, and this bastard was blowing smoke big time. I was on a roll being able to see through Dolph's weaknesses and now I saw the nervousness all over Brocks's face and he dropped the scissors back in his pocket. Somehow that was the clue.

No, he didn't have her. If he did, he would have dragged her out to me and used them on her right then.

But something else caught my eye and I glanced up...

Holy shit! A big, long snake just twisting its way slowly off of a tree branch behind where he was standing!

I fought with my face to remain indifferent and focused on him as I saw it fall, coiled up in a ball before its head popped up from the center of its curled-up body.

Jesus it was huge! It looked like a King Cobra!

I felt my breath just heaving out of me and it took everything in me not to show him that there was anything behind him.

If I could just keep his focus on me for just a few more minutes…

"Brock, you can't fool me," I spoke out smoothly, my eyes locked on him, but I could just barely make out the big ass snake from the corner of my eye. "That is why no one is around anywhere right? You probably sent all those thugs to the ends of the island you were so pissed off you couldn't find her. You think you are the king of them but you're just an alpha male douche bag."

He hissed at me like he was some kind of animal himself at that and I could not resist smirking at him, as the snake slowly made its way closer to him on the ground, apparently curious of the hissing sound that came from him.

The slight wind was constantly moving my hair in my face and flipped it back again, my eyes still zeroed in on his trigger finger and darted back to his eyes. He was glaring pure fire back at me, but I dared to keep his focus on me and not the snake moving closer by the second and kept talking.

"Let me guess that you told them the first one that comes back to the beach without her gets a dirt nap? That they all have no choice to do your bidding. Who died and crowned you king? They will get sick of your holier than thou shit I can promise you that and I would love to be there to see it!"

"Oh you won't be there to see anything Pretty. I'll have killed you by then right in front of her and your girl will be my fucking queen," he snarled at me. His hand with the gun at my head wavered just slightly as the snake moved with stealth like precision just a few more feet to his bright orange pant leg just waving to it like a red blanket to a bull. The water was barely deep enough at the top of the falls there to cover our boots and I could see the snake's slow movements towards him as it slid into the water and toward him.

Every word from his mouth made me sick and I swallowed hard again.

But Brock was not Dolph. And I was not going to be that lucky as to distract him by pissing him off alone. He was too smart for that. We had circled each other the whole time we talked until the second I saw the snake. By then I was standing just to the edge of the falls, my back to the roaring water. I could feel the mist on my skin.

All I needed was a split second of his attention on the snake and I could go in for the kill shot.

Brock was laughing, actually laughing at me and I just started laughing right back at him for a very different reason. The cobra was barely a foot away from him and I squinted my eye ready to shoot...

He was never touching my Sara ever again!

But a split second later I saw his eyes dart to the side, and I knew he had seen the snake just as it lifted its head! He jerked himself back the same second, I fired and my bullet missed him by inches.

Damn it!

The next second he fired his gun toward me too and I dove down into the water behind me to avoid it!

It felt like it all happened in slow motion. I jumped as he fired and felt my hand jerk fast and the gun I had been clinging to was ripped from my grasp, like somehow his bullet hit my gun hand. No! I needed that weapon!

The water swirled me fast into the current next and rushing over my head as I took a deep breath. When I surfaced next, I was being pulled down deeper in the water and I could hear Brock screaming and fall back, shooting the gun wildly at the shallow water where the snake was before turning it back toward me.

I dove under the water again and felt the rush of the falls take me down fast and hard, farther and faster down the probably 4 story drop to the surf below!

I fought to stay conscious as I kicked more to get to the surface in the darkness. The rapids were rushing me faster and faster down the winding river as I heard gun shots from above. Was Brock shooting at me from the top of the falls?! Did he freaking survive against the snake?! I had to hope he at least got bitten before he killed it.

My head burst from the water as I gulped in the fresh night air as I felt the river still pulling my body with it down through the overhanging trees. I fought against the current, coughing and sputtering as the water crashed up and over me again and again.

Gasping again from being pulled under, I found the surface and started kicking my way to the grassy bank closest to me. I was almost there, my fingers clinging to a smooth rock to pull myself up it when another rush of water sent me careening forward and falling in a hole in the ground.

I screamed, feeling nothing beneath me as I landed with a splash and whipped my hair from my eyes and squinted in the darkness around me. I was in a cave, dark rock walls were all around me as I pulled myself from the water and onto the solid, shiny cave floor. What was this place?

I looked around it in saw it was fully underground and deep and dark and yet there was a way back out up a wall of rocks just beside where the water had poured in and dumped me into the pool below.

My arms ached as I climbed back up through the hole in the ground and dragged my body to the bank of the river and just collapsed, my breath panting out of me. I lay there for a few minutes realizing I could hardly hear the waterfall from this far down stream. It was nothing but the dullest pounding on the horizon.

Sara, I needed to find my Sara

Now that I knew Brock didn't have her, I knew I had to make it back to the cave. I had no idea how late at night it was but the moon was high in the sky so it could not be later than maybe 2 in the morning. I looked around hoping something would look familiar, so I knew where to go. I walked about a half an hour or so and finally saw the shore close to where we had dragged ourselves up when we escaped the plane.

Yes! I knew where I was and then started just running back up and into the trees further east of where I came out. It was maybe 10 more minutes, and I could see where the small cave was so perfectly tucked into the hillside.

My heart was racing in excitement as I saw her, just curled up on the ground with Randy leaning over her.

"Sara!" I called, my face breaking into the biggest smile as I ran ahead. I watched her head snap up and I saw tears streaking her beautiful face as she saw me and jumped to her feet to run toward me!

We met in a crashing of lips as she flung her arms around my neck as I wrapped my own around her bottom as she jumped into my arms.

God, I had missed her.

I held her so tightly not giving a damn about the pain I was feeling right then that was radiating through my chest as she pressed against my ribs. I heard her whimpers as her mouth devoured mine and I slid one hand up to her face, cradling her head as my other hand held her up against me.

"Roman," she cried as she pulled back after a few minutes to look in my teary eyes.

"I'm okay Beauty. I'm okay," I nodded to her burying my nose in her hair as I kissed away her tears.

"I was so scared," I heard her mumble as she buried her face into my neck. We just held each other like that as she cried. I walked slowly carrying her back toward the cave, my hands curled around her as she clung to me.

"I'm right here Baby," I soothed her as I nuzzled her nose and kissed her all over her face. "I'm so sorry I had to leave you."

Randy was watching us with a smile on his face and I nodded at him. "Thank you, man. You have no idea how much it means to me that you kept her safe." I nuzzled her again, my face against her cheek and she had her arms so tight around my neck.

The pilot nodded back at me. "You don't have to thank me. I would never let anything happen to her or Bec. Those freaks would have to go through me to get to them. Oh, and I saw some idiot trying to follow us but don't worry I lost them. We are safe. We actually ALL are now, thanks to you. And well I guess both of you. If we had left sooner like we could have, we would have never gotten her safe too."

"Her?" I looked at both of them and saw them smiling at me.

Now, I was very curious too and Randy just motioned me closer and with Sara still clinging to me in my arms he pulled the fronds back in the cave to reveal that there was not just Becky and Dean all curled in the more than tiny cave. But there half wrapped up in Becky's arms it even looked like was the young pregnant stewardess Liv, fast asleep.

I breathed a massive sigh of relief and saw Sara looking at me too with such pride in her eyes. "Oh wow, she found you guys? She's safe too? We literally have all of us here safe and sound now?" I looked up to Randy too and he nodded at me.

Thank God, I could not handle more.

I felt my strength fading even though it wasn't my girl's weight I was feeling, I felt faint from how much I had pushed my body to get back to her. I leaned back against the outside of the cave and slipped down to the ground with Sara still curled up, pressing her every curve against me. I didn't care if she ever stopped holding onto me.

Randy sunk down to the ground beside us and I saw him breathe a sigh of relief. "Yes, Roman everyone is here and safe. Huge thanks to you leading all those cons away the other direction as terrifying as that must have been. Your girl here was so scared for you and almost gave us away and literally fainted in my arms with me trying to keep her quiet."

Sara was nuzzled in against me and looked up in my eyes then and I could see so clearly how sorry she was for so much. I kissed her head and rocked her more. We were all okay and that was what mattered. "It's okay Beauty, I know."

He got up and was back before continuing his story, laying a blanket over Sara and me and I pulled it up over both of us curled up on the ground. Randy leaned back against the outside cave wall and looked back up at me.

"While I was carrying her, I saw one of the guys really far away following us and so I hid and got him all confused and lost him. That little lady just stumbled whimpering out of a clearing while we were hiding, and I was able to get her to come with me and get her safely here too. She was shaking and cold and I think has said thank you a dozen times. And Bec just adopted her like a baby sister already."

Oh I was so glad. That meant all the women that were on the plane were safe here with us. I dropped my head to my girl's hair and kissed her and just breathed her in. Sara had still not let go of her vice-like grip on my neck.

"I'm so glad you got away. How the hell did you escape all those cons after you?" Randy asked.

I leaned my head back on the rock wall of the cave and closed my eyes. "It wasn't easy. I had some pretty major run ins with those monsters." I felt her arms around me tighten and I rocked her back and forth, whispering soothingly in her ear.

"It's okay Sara. I'm not leaving you," I mumbled against her neck. I wished I knew what else to do to reassure her.

She was sniffling against my wet shirt. "When I heard Brock scream your name and charge toward you I could not breath Roman. I heard the gun shots and I…I thought he had killed you!" Her face took on a more emotional look at me as the warm brown eyes looked scared and so sad. "I'm so, so sorry. It was all my fault. All mine!"

I smiled and pulled her in, holding her so tight in my arms, my head against hers as I gazed in her eyes. I wiped more tears from her eyes and just stared mesmerized into pools of chocolate that looked like they were trying so hard to be strong.

I bent and captured her lips tenderly, hearing her moan into my mouth as I buried my hands in her hair. "I know you are Baby girl. You have been through hell already and I honestly would do anything too to protect you and probably race though the dangerous forest alone to find you too. I knew you didn't want me to leave you at all in the first place after everything." I mumbled all that between so many kisses. "I was just so scared that Brock would find you, with Seth getting so close to where we were hiding. I had to get their focus on me."

"You could have been killed when Seth found you too," she said hugging me tight, and I winced more.

"I am so sorry. I keep forgetting that your ribs are so sore. And here I literally jumped in your arms when you got here." She dropped her head to my chest. "I just am not thinking at all Roman."

Damn it everything hurt. She was right. But she soothed everything too. I ran my fingers through her hair as she just lay against me, and I tried to focus on anything but the pain. All I wanted was her in my arms and that was more than I could have hoped for after facing off with Brock and nearly being killed!

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you. I was just so scared that I lost you," she whimpered, and I felt more tears dripping onto my neck. How could I sooth her more? She was shaking in my arms, her body so tight around me.

"It's okay Sara. You are helping so much too. Please know that," I told her, tilting her head up to look deep in her eyes and I waited to see her nod to me that she did understand me.

Randy stood up. "I'll give you guys some privacy and go check on Dean and our girls. Bec keeps mumbling in her sleep about someone finding her."

I looked up at him, raising an eyebrow. "Is she okay? Did she run into anyone when she was lost?"

Randy shook his head. "I'm not sure. We never talked about anything when I got back. Since I showed up with Liv and she was just so emotional and just shaking and scared all the focus was just on calming her down and so Bec and I didn't talk about anything with her getting lost or what happened yet. But you guys need some time, don't worry about us."

I nodded my thanks to him as he smiled back. It felt great to have someone else to be able to count on. I missed Dean a lot, but I prayed that by mid-day I when I gave him the antidote that it would revive him just as he planned.

Randy walked around the corner and stepped into the small cave, and it was just us clinging to each other on the ground.

I breathed in again just loving the feel of her in my arms. "You have no idea how much I need you Baby. How much you are helping so much just holding me right now," I whispered into her ear. "I love you so much." My gray eyes locked onto her as I saw her head tilt up as she smiled at me.

"I love you too Roman, so much." Sara curled her fingers into my wet hair pulling my head down against her trembling lips. I moaned as I delved my tongue into her mouth, my fingers sliding down her sides to find her smooth silky skin under the leather jacket. We kissed lazily, soothing the ache we probably both had from the fear of losing each other. All I wanted was to never stop holding her against me.

When we finally broke away to take in a much-needed breath I leaned my head on hers and tangled our fingers together as I got lost in her eyes. "Baby I want to show you something. Are you up for a little walk with me?" I could see her eyes sparkling in the moonlight shining down on us as she bit her lip before she nodded slowly to me.

"Sure, I will go anywhere with you Roman. Are you sure we will be safe?" I nodded, kissing her nose before shifting to lift her off my lap.

"Yes Beauty. I promise I will keep you safe and stay right with you." My eyes twinkled in anticipation as I stood up and twined my fingers with hers again. "I think you will love the surprise. But just give me a minute to check in on Dean, okay?"

She nodded to me, and I turned around to lean down into the cave, pushing the fronds aside while still not letting go of her hand. I think we both felt that we could not bear to be apart in any way right now after everything.

"Hey Randy," I saw him relaxing against the back wall, lying sideways with Becky curled up, with her back to him and Liv still mostly in her arms on the other side of her. Dean was still taking up the most room in the cave laying all the way on his back along the other wall.

"Yeah Roman." He looked more than cramped, but I knew he wanted his friend to feel safe knowing he was there.

"I wanted to thank you for the clothes. They literally save my life before to be able to hide without wearing bright orange." He smiled at me.

I looked back down at my best friend. "How is he doing? Any change?"

The pilot shook his head sadly. "No, sorry. He is still breathing, and Sara just changed his bandages again, but he is still not moving, nothing."

I frowned but I wasn't surprised. "Well, I can give him the liquid to bring his heart rate back up around noon tomorrow. We will be back by then."

Randy cocked his head in curiosity. "Where are you going?"

"Oh I found someplace that I think could make a great hiding place and I wanted to show her tonight to give us a safer place to sleep. It might to big enough for all of us to hide once my buddy is awake."

"Sounds great man. I'll start working on the radio in the morning and hopefully we can get some kind of signal to get a hold of your cousin."

I smiled at him glancing at Dean still so still in a near coma. "Amen to that. We need to get D to a hospital. So I am hoping we can reach Jey tomorrow. There are some really high hillsides that should help boost the signal. It might be a bit of a hike, but it should be worth it to finally get a radio signal to him to get us rescued. So far no one even has any ideas where the hell we crashed, and the plane is all the way submerged and you said the black box was lost like a hundred miles away right?"

Randy nodded, pulling the blanket higher up on Becky's shoulders as it looked like she was moving around a bit in her sleep. "Yeah, there is no way they will find us from any kind of homing beacon like most flights. So we need to pray that the satt radio will work some magic and get us in touch with your cousin."

I nodded back to him feeling Sara gently rubbing my back as we talked. Any way I could feel her near felt so good.

"K sounds great. Let me know what I can do then too. Can I?" I asked as I reached over and tucked a couple things in Randy's bag, unpacking the radio and the sat phone. I saw him wink at me nodding his approval of my choices. "Thanks again. Night." I said smiling back at him zipping up the bag and swinging it on my shoulder. He nodded back at me, and I slipped back out of the cave.

Right away I felt my girl bury her head in the crook of my neck and heard the cutest little whimper from her lips. I closed my eyes just reveling in the sensations of her in my arms; her soft lips against my neck, my nose in her hair, her head nuzzling my chest as I nearly gasped at the feel of her fingers finding the edge of my shirt and the warm skin underneath. I groaned holding her tight. "Mmm Baby, do you have any idea what you do to me? I thought I would never find someone as amazing as you."

She giggled against me. "And I thought love this incredible would never find me either." She lifted her head, so her eyes met mine again. "You have no idea how much I fought this connection I felt with you either Roman. Finding you in a prison is not the best story to tell our kids."

I beamed down at her smoothing a lock of her hair behind her ear. "Our kids? Ooh Beauty, can we get started on that goal?" I knew I was being crass, and she made a face at me just like I predicted but it was so worth it to see her reaction to me bringing up sex for the first time. But the silence that followed made me feel like that might have not been the best thing to say so I took her hand and pulled her along.

"Sorry Sara. I can barely think with you so close. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. You just bringing up kids just took me by surprise. No pressure, I promise. I am so excited for you to see the surprise."

Sara nodded and we kept walking as I led her through the darkness and pushed aside the branches and over hanging palms in our path keeping Randy's bag on my shoulder. I knew where I was going even in the dark and I was happy I had my dad's good memory and sense of direction. I could hear the dull pounding of the falls building as we walked hand in hand through the trees.

I kept a close watch of our surroundings and made sure I could hear if anyone was close at all in any direction. I knew it was a risk to go out again but to have a safer place to hide was very much worth it. And exploring more at night rather than in the brightness of the day I thought was less dangerous too.

We walked in a comfortable silence, and I just enjoyed her presence and the closeness I felt with her hand in mine. It felt unreal that just barely 24 hours ago all I had remembered us doing was me rubbing her hand in mine.

And now I clearly remembered how I cradled her against the wall in the prison staff shower as I kissed her with wild abandon, brought her pleasure and felt her trembling against me. I wanted to talk to her about all of that so much more. My time in the hospital and what I heard her say to me when she thought I was still unconscious, and what I said the last time I thought I would see her before she showed up on the plane.

I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I barely realized we were almost there. I was on guard level auto pilot watching our surroundings while just walking and holding onto her hand and still thinking about the past too. I heard her gasp and she pulled on my arm as we rounded the bend to be in view of the river flowing through the trees. I adjusted the bag on my shoulder as I saw her eyes light up in wonder.

"Wow Roman, this is beautiful." Sara leaned her head on my shoulder as she pulled our hands up to her chin and I felt her lips on my knuckles.

I smiled down at her. "That's not all of it yet, but you have to trust me, and we might get a little wet." Her eyes widened at that, and I pulled her along looking for the opening to the underground cavern. I stepped around carefully on the edge of the river until I saw the hollow tucked in the middle of the rushing water.

"So my love, do you want to get a little wet or a lot wet?" I winked and waggled my eyebrows at her. I hadn't even meant it as any kind of sexual innuendo, but I could see the blush coming over her skin shining in the moonlight.

I laughed and pouted at her, shaking my hair back and forth a bit feeling it was drying somewhat since the rain had stopped. But we were about to get a lot more wet now possibly, depending on her answer.

"No, Baby not like that. At least not if you don't want to." I stuck out my tongue at her and stepped into the water just before where the water dropped off into the cave. "C'mon Beauty. A little or a lot wet..." I waited with bated breath biting my lower lip for her reply...