Finn started to pant heavily with anger, his eyes still glued to the photographs of Seth and Dean. It took Roman shaking his shoulder to snap him out of it, yelling something about the pictures. Finn had to calm his breaths, but the fire burning within him engulfed his mind. Those two had taken the most important people to him. And they were waiting for Finn to show up, presumably only to mock him and his failure to protect them. No. Finn would not allow it. If they wanted to meet with Finn, then they got their wish.

Turning over the photos, Finn saw the drawing of a tree on each one, and Finn threw them to the ground in frustration. Of course, the cabin! That's where Braun said the clues were leading to. That whatever they had planned, it wasn't good. He needed to get there and fast.

"Finn, please tell me that Dean isn't dead," Roman begged.

Finn shakes his head and walks hurriedly to his car, Roman right on his tail. "He's not, but if I don't hurry-" Finn didn't even want to finish that sentence. He couldn't bare the thought of having another person dead, especially if it was Seth or Dean. "Look, pick up those photos and report it to the station. That's evidence that Dean is innocent. If they don't believe you, tell them to check on Sami Zayn at the hospital. Sami Zayn, got it? I'm going to call another friend of mine so she can back you up. You three are the only ones who can help me now."

"What about you?"

"I know where they have Dean. I need to hurry. Just go and take the photos to the station! There's not much time!"

He didn't have time to hear Roman's words before he shut the car door and sped off, dialing for Bayley at the same time. When she answers, she sounds worried for him, asking where he is and if he's alright.

"Bayley, all you need to know is that I know where our true suspects are. It's a landlord named Bray and Alexa Bliss."

There's a momentary pause before she speaks. "You mean our Alexa Bliss? But Finn, how could that-"

"Sami woke up from his coma. He told me everything. Alexa was tampering with the evidence and she was possibly the brain behind every past victim. Bray was her accomplice. Listen to me, Dean's friend is going to show up at the station with evidence and I need you to tell Charlotte. Where Alexa is right now, she has Dean and Seth held captive."

"Wait, where are you now?"

"I'm heading to those private cabins just outside the city. That's where they are. Alexa will be expecting me."

"Finn, don't. They'll kill you. Just wait for us to inform Charlotte and we'll send in our forces."

"If I don't, Seth and Dean very much might be killed. I won't let them take anyone from me again, Bayley. And this way, I can buy you guys some time until you get here. Just prove the truth to Charlotte and if things go right, we'll finally be able to arrest them."

"Finn...please be careful. I don't want to lose you and Seth. Stay safe until we get there."

"...I'll try."

Hanging up, Finn started getting anxious, wondering if that was the last time he would ever hear Bayley's voice again.

Finn makes sure not to park right in front of the various cabins, not taking the chance of either Alexa or Bray seeing him. The sun is in his eyes as he hikes himself up the grassy path, the area looking very much like where the pictures showed Seth and Dean knocked unconscious. Looking around carefully for any sudden movements, his hand lowers down to Seth's pistol, spotting three cabins ahead of him. With sunlight going down, there's only one cabin with the lights on and Finn assumes that's his destination.

Stalking his way slowly and out of sight towards the house, Finn swears that he hears the crunch of leaves behind the trees, but turns around to find nothing.

"Focus, Finn," he whispers to himself. "Baby steps."

It wouldn't be a smart move to go straight to the front door, so Finn eases his way to the side of the cabin. There had to be a window he could crawl into. He heard it again, a noise to the back of him. He takes the pistol in hand and turns to face the noise, where he is met with a swing of a hard branch across his chest and arm.

The gun flies away from his grasp and sees Alexa as his attacker before she swings again, Finn barely dodging it in time. Alexa strikes for the leg instead, getting a good hit on his knee before she drops the branch and runs straight for the gun. Finn winces in pain but tries to rush to the weapon first. It's a loss cause as Alexa beats him to it and now Finn has the pistol aimed at his face.

"Hands up and don't move, Finn."

Having no choice but to compromise, he lifts his hands up slowly. Finn wished looks could kill because if willing, Alexa would be begging for mercy right now. The shorter woman grinned up at him while Finn would feel the throbbing in his leg and arm from her hard hits now.

"Did you get my photos? Gotta say, you took forever to catch on. Thought those pictures could've helped you."

"Where are they, Alexa?"

"Wow, just want to cut straight to the point, don't you. You'll see them, eventually."

"Are they alive?"

"For now."

Finn's eyes darted from the gun to Alexa. She gestures for him to turn around and commands him to head to the front door. He doesn't need to turn his head to know that Alexa still has the gun pointed at him. When they enter the cabin, Finn stops himself in the middle of the hallway, looking and listening around for anything suspicious.

"Why?" Finn mumbles.

"Why what? You'll have to be more specific here, detective."

"Why would you do this? Why did you kill all those innocent people? Why?"

"Oh, that. Well," she fakes a yawn as she makes Finn face the wall. "You see, I have what you could call a deadly temper. It might not show at first, but the day we met, you knew I was annoyed easily. Let's just say I lost my temper once with somebody a long time ago and well, it didn't end so good for them. It felt good and I never caught."

Finn scoffs but she continues.

"I hadn't hurt anybody for a long time and I thought I finally got rid of that thrill. I figured I had a knack for learning about crime. I went to college to become a forensic specialist, sure, but all it really taught me was that I could go back to that thrill with an even greater chance of getting caught. But I couldn't do all that dirty work by myself."

"Is that how you met Bray?"

"Yeah, I used to live in that same crappy apartment building as your boyfriend. Bray Wyatt was just the kind of guy who understood me, y'know? That everybody was beneath us, beneath me. He put me on a pedestal, would've done anything I would've asked him to do. So I made him have a little fun, claim a victim every now and then. But those victims, they were all me, Finn. Wanna know why? Because they were just ignorant morons who pissed off the wrong woman."

"That doesn't explain why Braun Strowman and Kevin Owens were a part of this."

"I told you, I couldn't do everything by myself. This girl has her ways. I'm good at making people submit to me in fear by threatening them or even just by my acting alone. Braun and Kevin didn't scare me. It was more the other way around."

Finn frowns. "You should get an award for that, Bliss. Were you planning on bringing them here in the first place?"

"Not at first. I won't lie to you, Seth is a good guy. A sweet guy. He comforted me after Sami's hit and run when in reality, that was my doing. I would've let him go if he wasn't so keen on getting Charlotte's approval like a neglected kid."

"Then what about Dean?"

"Oh, him. Well, it was convenient for me that Bray had an eye on him. Braun tried and tried to warn him, but that Dean is a difficult case, huh? Never knows when to say die. He got on my nerves with how desperate he was to know that it was us who killed his little sister. The original plan was to kill him at the best opportunity, but that's when you got involved once again and ruined everything. What the hell was he gonna do? Cry and tell me how much I've hurt him? Is that what you want to do right now, Finn?"

Finn began to see red, his mind flaring with rage as he felt the gun barrel at the back of his skull and Alexa's hand on his shoulder.

"You didn't think I would forget Elias Samson, did you? Oh, he was so close to cutting the fun short. You know, he was begging for you and Seth to come and save him. Too bad. You must've felt like shit. I thought you were out of my hair until you came back and started working with Dean to find us. That's why it ends here."

"The only thing that's ending here today," Finn growls through gritted teeth. "Is the two of you."

Alexa smirks. "Cute. Go down the hall and go to your left. The boys are waiting at the table for you."

Finn doesn't want to follow her orders but it's the only way to know if Dean and Seth were okay. Turning left in the hall, they walk into a stylish dining room, where Bray was smiling at him.

When Finn saw them he wanted to break down and wake up from this nightmare.

There they were, both Dean and Seth, tied up to wooden chairs and gagged. Judging by the bruises and blood dripping down their faces, it was clear that they had been beaten. The fear in their eyes when they saw Finn made the detective want to kill Bray right here and now. But if he wanted all of them to make it out of here with their lives, he had to pretend he was calm. With the gun still pointed at the back of his head, he was ordered by Alexa to sit down across from them.

"Bray. Let them go."

He laughed. "It's not going to be that easy, Finn. Alexa told me you're close to these two men, yes?"

Finn stayed silent.

"Allow me to answer for you, then," Alexa smiles. "One is a man you've worked alongside with for years. A dear friend. The other, a man who has supposedly fallen in love with you. Someone you had met merely by fate. Two very important people in your life. For all that you and I have put each other through, I am willing to make a bargain with you, Finn. Call it a life for a life."

"Alexa. Bray-"

"You have a choice," Bray continues for her. "You can choose to save Seth Rollins and prevent another one of your colleagues from dying because of your negligence. A chance to stop history from repeating itself. You alone can cleanse yourself of your past sins. You can save both Seth and yourself. You don't want him to end up like your other old friend, do you?"

He stalked his way over slowly to Dean, pulling him back by the hair and held the sharp knife to his throat. Finn could feel his own fingernails cut his palms with how hard he was clenching his fists.

"Or, you can choose love. Prove to Dean that you truly care for him. Both of you have felt heavy losses. One lost family, the other lost a friend. Save him and you can earn the happiness you lost long ago. Prevent yourself from losing another man you care about. At the price of losing Rollins."

Seth began to sob and shake his head as Dean held his eyes closed, afraid to let Finn see how vulnerable he felt in that moment.

Finn felt choked up as well. There was no way he was going to play into Alexa and Bray's tricks. Not anymore. To choose between them was a task he refused.

"Dean….Seth….it's going to be okay. I'm going to get us out of here. All of us."

He couldn't tell whether or not he was speaking the truth. At the moment Seth's own gun was pointed at the back of his head and the two most important people in his life were tied up beside a monster, with the man he loved having a knife pointed at his throat. And he could do nothing to fight back.

All eyes fell on Dean, who was struggling to say something with the gag still on his mouth. Bray smirked and removed it with one swift move, Dean gasping for air.

"Finn…" His voice sounded rougher than it usually did. It showed Finn how exhausted and in pain he was. There was no hiding it. "Finn. Choose Seth…it's okay. You need...to get outta here...choose him."

Finn felt the tears start to burn his eyes, refusing to let them fall. "No. No, no, no. We're all getting out of here, you understand me? You're not dying here today, tomorrow, or even years from now because...I need you!"

He wanted so badly to say he loved him, but Finn swallowed down the words. Not here, not when their lives were hanging by a thread. He promised himself that he would tell Dean once they got out of this cabin alive.

Bray shook his head as he tied the rag around Dean's mouth again. He picked up another knife from the table and aimed it at Seth's neck, he and Dean now both in danger.

Alexa rolls her eyes. "Tsk. Not the answer I'm looking for, Finn. I will give you one more chance to decide."

Sweat dripping down his forehead and pulse beating in his ears, Finn breathed out.

"I choose myself, then. Just...please...don't hurt them."

Finn hears their gagged screams while he watches Alexa's eyes widen in pleasant surprise. Bray removes the knives from their throats.

"Huh. Interesting choice. These guys really worth you dying over?"

Finn glares at her, then at Bray. "I know exactly what you're planning, Bliss. I've been a detective for years, you think I haven't learned a few tricks from criminals? I know damn well that even if I were to choose, you would still kill both of them. Or take it a step further, you already framed Dean enough to make it seem like he would be the one who kills Seth. No. You're not going to do that when I'm around."

"You talk a lot of shit for a guy who has a gun pointed at his head."

Finn laughs and this time, he's carrying humor with him. "It's because I'm done being a puppet to your game of cat and mouse. When you took Elias away, you almost won. I was close to throwing away my badge and my reputation as a highly skilled investigator. But then I met him."

Finn looks over at Dean who is staring at him with fearful eyes, but Finn gives him a warm smile. He wanted Dean to know everything was going to be okay.

"I suddenly had another reason to solve this case. I learned not to be broken by you again. I wish deep down I could make the two of you suffer for what you did to Elias and all those people. But you deserve to get what's coming to you behind bars. And you know what the funniest part about this is, Bliss?"

She doesn't answer and Finn widens his smile.

"You didn't count on Sami waking up from his coma."

In a split second, Finn is quick to swipe at Alexa's hand, causing the gun to go off between them and shoot into the wall. Both their ears are ringing, which causes Alexa to drop the gun in pain. Finn is quick to jump for it and with ears still buzzing, yells for Seth and Dean to use their legs to drop to the floor. Seth groans, falling onto himself to the floor, the chair breaking on impact. Finn is momentarily distracted though, as Bray is swift to grab one of the knives and stop Dean before he drops down.

The knife is pointed at his throat as Bray screams out, "Make a move and he's history!"

Forgetting about the gun, Finn hears the click of the pistol at the side of his head. Seth looks between both Dean and Finn, crawling back towards the wall, his body writhe with pain.

"I oughta kill you and your boyfriend right here and now!" Alexa shouts. "But why don't I break your spirit once more? Bray, kill that son of a bitch!"

"Alexa, please don't!" Seth begs.

Dean and Finn's eyes meet and Finn's heart stops before Bray's shoulder is suddenly shot, causing him to drop the knife and back away. Taking the chance, Dean falls to the floor and Finn could hear another click of a gun behind both him and Alexa. He doesn't turn around to see, but the voice is all he needs to hear.

"Drop the gun, Alexa Bliss." Charlotte orders. "We have you and your accomplice surrounded. Drop it and put your hands up or I will make you."

Alexa curses and drops the pistol to raise her hands while Bray does the same. Finn lets out a long sigh of relief, looking back at Charlotte who only gives him a nod as she puts Alexa in cuffs and begins to read her her rights. Bayley is behind her too and she wipes away a tear, happy that her friends are safe. Arresting Bray, Finn already spots a medical team assisting Seth in the corner, Seth finally believing that they're safe.

Not waiting any longer, Finn runs over to Dean on the floor and says no words, only hugs Dean close and tight. The gesture is returned and Finn could hear Dean sobbing softly. Or maybe it's himself, he couldn't tell. So many emotions were running through the both of them. Relief, closure, love, fear for the other's life washing down into comfort. Finn didn't want to let them go. He felt his face beginning to be kissed all over and Finn laughed softly.

"Don't scare me like that again," Dean whispers.

Finn sighs happily and returns the kisses, ignoring the copper taste of blood. It wasn't too long ago when Finn said nearly the same to him. "I won't. I promise. It's over now. We're both safe."

Somebody above them clears their throat and they both look up to find Charlotte smirking at them. "I hate to interrupt this moment, Finn, but we need to get Dean Ambrose some medical attention. You as well."

Nodding, Finn helps Dean to his feet. But he doesn't want to let him out of his sight again and Charlotte agrees to let them go together.

They stay huddled close the rest of the night, watching the police cars that carried Alexa and Bray drive away to the station. For the first time in almost a year, Finn fell asleep peacefully, smiling at the sound of Dean's heart.