We arrive at the infamous pit of souls. In front of me, there's an enormous pit in the ground. It's circular and its sides have a stairs shape, like a coliseum. But the center is so black, I can't see anything in it.
"What is this?" I ask.
"There's one of these pits in each kingdom." Roman whispers.
"Why?"
"Sometimes the souls of the people inside here are too much evil to just receive the same punishment of the others." Roman's smirk is gone, "Sometimes they have to spend a time here, doing their way to the buildings. This is a way of entertainment for us. We see the souls failing and falling into horrible punishments. They have to stay there for years til they finish the way to the other side. To be honest I've never heard about anyone that had succeeded in any of the kingdoms. Everyone that falls in these pits have to stay here during all the time of their punishment."
"I'm alive… it can't be the same for me."
"It can't but… this is something unseen before and if you fail…" Again, Roman is contracting words. I realize he does it when he's nervous or maybe afraid.
"I'll return to my world… I know it."
"Can you see the analogy? Just like them, It's a horrible way to punish you… fail in your quest and there's a big chance you fail. I never thought he'll ask you something like this."
"I won't fail." I firmly said.
Roman looks at me making his best to smirk, but failing. Softly taking my chin with his right hand. "Oh my darling Dean. I had wished to spend more time with you."
"This is the kiss goodbye moment, isn't it?" I softly say looking at the ground.
"Yeah. But you won't kiss me." I raise my gaze and notice he's watching to the pit now, also avoiding the eye contact, but still holding my chin, "And you won't get it."
"I like when you contract words. You sound more like… human." I whisper as he keeps his gaze to the black pit. I take his free hand with mine, "I'll get it. I have a strong motivation. There's no way I fail. I simply have no other option than succeed."
He looks at me still faking the smirk as he entwines his fingers with mine, "You're so determined to see him again."
"You know my feelings." I say.
"Yes, I know your feelings, little one." He tightens a little his caress in my chin and his grip in my hand. I close my eyes. "If you still think that love is what binds you to Seth… Apparently you're the one who doesn't know his own feelings."
He's not saying this out if jealousy or bitter. And that's why I can't be angry at his words. I can't help but melt in his touch. It's so soft.
"I apologize for interrupt your romantic moment but he has a task to complete." Leviathan says devilish smiling.
"Sure." I whisper as Roman return to his foxy attitude.
"I can not believe this… This is so embarrassingly obvious. The Lord of the Lust behaving so pathetic. You are fucked little brother. And this creature knows it." Leviathan keeps trying to chagrin his brother.
"There's nothing that even seems like pathetic in him..." I dare to say to the demon that thinks he's the best creation inside this valley, "You're just jealous because even being flawless and perfect, your brother prefers an imperfect creature like me."
"What?" Leviathan's confident gaze shows a hint of surprise, "How you dare to talk to me like this?"
Finally I get to see a hint of the sultry smile in the Lord of the Lust, and I like it.
"I'm being honest, even if you think it's disrespectful. I'll finish the way to the other side. I'm sorry but…" I try to keep calm and don't fall in his game, "You'll have to see the only creature you feel worthy of you, the only perfect creature that inhabits this valley, going away with an imperfect human."
"Do you want to stay with him? This is so bizarre." Leviathan is so angry.
"You don't know the kind of relationship we have. I ain't telling you and I'm sure he either. That's our business." I smile pleased and then look at Roman, "Trust me, I'll get it. We'll leave this place together."
Roman keeps his tiny smile and says nothing.
The center of the pit lits and I can see a row of square blocks. The rest of the pit is still dark.
"A wrong step and you will say goodbye." Leviathan looks at me but his conceited smile is no longer present, just the anger.
I have no other option but walk. I have no time to waste and there's nothing else to do. I'm standing in a single block in the center and have to run and jump to one of the blocks in front of me. The first looks raggy like it was about to give up, the second is made of gold or something like that. The third looks like solid rock and the fourth has a hole in the center. If I fail in the jump I'll fall. The obvious option is the second or the third block.
"There has to be some kind of trap here…" I whisper.
I can't keep thinking. The blocks in which I'm standing began to move and I see the entire row is falling to pieces. It can't be the obvious option but I jump to the block with the hole in the middle. My jump isn't enough and I loose falling in the hole, but fortunately I get to reach the edge and don't fall.
"Dean!" Roman' voice calling me.
"I'm here… I'm ok." I say as I climb to the block.
Then I see that block where I was standing and the first row of blocks don't exist anymore. Under the only block there's nothing… just a black hole. But I can hear people yelling and crying for help. I can't imagine what is happening down there.
I look at the third row of blocks. Every block seems like the other. I see them with attention, the symbols are pretty similar but not the same. I kneel and touch the blocks, I have to take off my hand because they're so hot. All but the third block.
Feeling how the block I'm standing moves, I have no choice but to jump again. This time I'm going to the block that is obvious, and although they were only seconds, I think I saw my life pass, if I fail I will fall and be back in my world... without Seth.
A straight jump to the block that isn't hot and see how the others melt. Ok, there's no obvious pattern, it's not always the block that seems difficult. The third row of blocks appears in front of me and this time all of them have a hole in the center and in each there's a person sitting on the edge.
It is obvious to me that if I skip one of them, the other three will crumble, so that the souls that are there to fall. There are two teenage boys and two adult women.
Everyone looks at me smiling wickedly.
"I can't save you all." I said pleadingly.
One of the teenagers smiles wickedly. "No matter what you do... your fate is to fall."
They don't want to be saved, they will push me. I close my eyes and jump, all I can do is jump into the second block that is the closest. Once I'm there, the women in that block looks at me with a distorted face and pushes me. I fall and in my dismay I grab her, she loses her balance and I see her cry and fall into the black hole but not at all, she doesn't really fall, she grabs my foot.
The row of blocks trembles and hear the screams of the other three falling into the pit.
"You can't handle my weight, so I'll take you with me." She says evilly.
"Therefore you deserve to be here, I don't." I say, "I'm trying to save you. What do you win if I fail in my quest?"
"I win nothing". She gets heavier stirring to make me fall. "Just the pleasure to make someone's fate miserable as mine."
What I have to do?...
…
We were in a dumpster, doing drugs. I had smoked several speedballs, I was almost floating about to reach the state of euphoria. Seth was with other junkies who we met recently, they were with Seth and I was a bit far.
I heard screams in the distance, "He's dead!"
I tried, despite my alienated state, to focus my gaze. I saw them run leaving Seth on the floor. I could see a needle close to my lover. Seth was injecting the h, normally we smoked the stuff, never thought he would try injecting. These idiots should have convinced him.
I crawled toward him and through my ecstasy tried to react. When I touched him I regained most of my alertness, but not my body control. My body was reeling before I could steady myself.
He's almost not breathing and his eyes are so unfocused. I vaguely remembered the first aid classes I received at school. Oh God, help me. Remember Dean, remember... First I tried to Recognize how fucked was this situation. His muscles felt so spastic, His breathing was so slow almost shallow, sometimes like choking. His eyes were open so I could see the pinpoint pupils. His lips were so pale and dry. He was lightly spasming.
An overdose!
"I'm dying you can do nothing." He said.
How's possible that he's talking.
"I won't let you die."
"It's useless. I'm dying are you coming with me. You can't be alive without me." Seth smile is sick as he is stering at nowhere. "Take the needle and inject the h. You will die with me."
Then he fainted. I had no time to think on his words. We were in the middle of a dump, in the middle of the night. Those morons left us and there was no possible way I could save Seth. But I wasn't going to lose my lover that night.
I tried to rub his breastplate. But it wasn't working, he was still unconscious. Never in my life, I ever felt such a despair. This was so horrible. I couldn't lose Seth. Oh my God what else to do.
I left the place, saw everything black, my steps were erratic. I spent Seth's arm on my shoulders and dragged him for about 8 blocks to a hospital. Nobody ever handed us a hand. I didn't even know how I got there. I just remembered seeing the light of the entry hall with Seth as I passed out.
Upon waking I was in a hospital bed, in the next bed was Seth. He was awake, his skin began to recover more normal color. His eyes seemed normally again.
"Seth, Seth oh my god," I was crying, "Never again do something like this. Never."
"Dean, I thought I was dying. I was dying for sure," He told me weakly, "Why didn't you inject the h?"
What kind of question was that?
"I saved your life Seth." I'm outraged.
"And what if you wouldn't make it. I would be dead and you… you would die by my side." Seth looked at me as he was trying to read my mind. "You are nothing without me, you belong to me if I had died you had have to do the same."
"If it had been me who od'd. I would never want you to die for me." I dumbly said.
"The next time you better fucking obey!" Seth looked at me with contempt, "This is what love means Dean. Nobody has ever loved you that's why you don't know how to react. You love me and you have to obey me. If I am not with you, you have to give up and die."
…
"Don't give up!" Roman's voice takes me off of my delusion, "Keep fighting!"
Despite how difficult it is, I start to climb. Not kicking her, although she's still trying to make me fall. After several minutes I climb. I take her by the arm and save her. She's in awe.
The final row appears in front of us, again another single block. Now Roman and Leviathan are in the other side.
"That block will hold only one person."
Leviathan says gently stroking his brother's arm but Roman is so focused on me. He's truly desperate, its like he wants to change places with me. He do want to change places.
"Let me do this, Leviathan!" Roman roars. "It's enough!"
"What is the fucking problem?" Leviathan is angry at Roman, "If he fails, that doesn't affect you!"
Roman is a demon that wants to see me succeed. He wants exactly the opposite than Seth wanted.
If you still think that love is what binds you to Seth… Apparently you're the one who doesn't know his own feelings…
Roman is right. Sami was right. Seth wanted someone to control, to manipulate and he wanted me dead if we can't be together. Seth loved me, but his way of love was selfish. Amazing is this demon, being one of the emperors of the Valley of Death, is being selfless with me. It's making me feel worthy and is not demeaning me.
Seth needs to know this is not the way to do things. I need to know why I killed him. We need to talk a lot about the nature of our relationship.
I feel the block where I'm standing is shaking and that takes me back to reality. There's only one block I front of me.
The woman looks at me almost crying, "The punishments if you fall are horrible. I tried to make you fall and you are still trying to save me."
"I want to believe even the most selfish people can change." I say.
"I did," She said to me.
The woman approaches to me and put her hands on my chest, "Because I deserve to be here, and you saved me today. I'm saving you."
She pushes me to the final block and I fell just straight in it. To my surprise both blocks shake. Roman is wide-eyed looking at me.
"Sorry..." I muttered.
His gray eyes lose their characteristic brightness and then I close my eyes. I begin to fall.
…
I wake up. I lost, I'm sure I'm in the cell. I will pay a life in confinement and will never know what happened. The first thing I see is his gray eyes. What the fuck?
"Time to go my darling." Roman tells me.
"But... the block was shattered." I say in awe.
"Yes but you won the pit of souls moments before. The moment you saved the soul of that woman. She finally left the pit and that was thanks to you. She changed and she will go back to your world soon. All the souls inside that pit failed because they kept being selfish and vain. You did something unthinkable, unimaginable. Leviathan knew nobody would never do what you did, and so the failure was imminent. You're the first to have achieved to get out of the pit. We must go now."
Leviathan sees us with an expression of anger and helplessness. Especially because Roman takes me in his arms, I'm very weak, I can't walk.
"You are right Roman," I can barely speak because I'm so goddamn tired.
"About what my darling." Roman says.
"About my feelings for Seth."
Then I used my last strength to take Roman's chin as I force him to look at me. Then I softly kiss his lips and before I can see his reaction, everything becomes black.
This story is not my most popular creation. But I am happy anyways because the few people supporting this story is the same people that has been supporting my shitty fics since the very beginning. I love you guys, thanks for put up with my crappy writing and childish plot.
And I am also happy because tomorrow will be my son's 8th birthday. I can't believe it's been 8 years now. Well, at this point you know how much in motherly mode I am lmao. Sorry about that. So yes I'm happy. And that's why I'm here posting another chapter of this story even if just 4 or 5 people are reading.
Back to the story, seems like Dean finally had an epiphany and just noticed the nature of his relationship with Seth. And that final kiss… well who knows.
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