Chapter 11

She could hear his cries of pain even through the darkness. The light bulb above kept flickering on and off casting ominous shadows throughout the narrow hallway. She could feel the stinging in her eyes from the overwhelming smoke that slithered all around her as if she was caught in a snake's crushing grasp. Rose covered her mouth from the thick smoke. She needed to get to him. His painful screams ripped through her heart like a knife. Deep and penetrating right to her very core. She needed to save him. She could hear taunting laughter all around her, echoing through the dark halls. How can you save your lover when you can't even save yourself? The harsh words felt damning and she could feel the tears stinging her eyes.

Rose couldn't give up on Dean, her very heart depended on it. She ran down the hall towards the screaming. She knew it was Dean, he needed her. She couldn't let him down. No Rose, Stop! Go Back! You promised me you would save our baby! Rose could hear his words in her ears. She faltered from her running. She had promised to stay safe and to save their baby. "Our Baby!" Rose said with concern and she rubbed her stomach lovingly. Her heart felt torn but with one more heart wrenching scream Rose took off again. She wanted to try, if she couldn't she would leave but she had to try. She stopped when a wall appeared in front of her. She stared at the wall frustratingly until she looked to the side and saw a door.

Rose shook off her fear and slowly opened the door, she felt relieved when the door was quiet with no creaking sounds. She peeked her head into the room carefully and scanned the room with her eyes. It appeared to be some sort of laboratory. In the center of the room was a gurney with a body lying still. "Dean!" Rose said softly as she walked lightly through the room. She was careful to make sure she didn't walk into anything that would make noise. She tiptoed over to the gurney and saw Dean laying there unconscious. His face was pale white, there were bloody laceration marks across his chest. He was dressed in cotton white pajama pants and strapped down to a bed hooked up to a whole bunch of machines. Rose covered her mouth in horror.

Suddenly Rose heard a door open and a long legged blonde waltzed in wearing a nurse's outfit and a surgical mask. She was carrying a syringe and she walked purposely toward Dean and Rose. "Who are you, what are you doing to him?" Rose shouted angrily ignoring the tears rolling down her cheek. "Don't give that to him!" Rose pleaded. The nurse stopped as if she just now noticed Rose.

"It's time for his medicine." The nurse's voice was pearly sweet but an overwhelming surge of fear and foreboding overcame Rose but she refused to walk away. She had never felt such evil.

"No it's not time yet, it's too early." Rose hoped she came off as strong though she felt anything but.

"It's never too early when you crave the drugs."

"He's sleeping right now, maybe later he will need it. I will look after him." Rose couldn't believe how calm she was being though she was shaking inside.

"Would you like some then?"

"No I am feeling fine." Rose wiped the tears away and tried to smile but it was only a partial smile.

"You have a sickness growing inside of you, a disease." Though her voice sounded sweet to Rose's ears, her blood ran cold with terror.

Rose shook her head. Rose protectively covered her stomach. Rose knew she was referring to her baby. "No I am fine."

"Are you really?" The creepy nurse asked tilting her head. "Your smile is lacking. I could help you smile wider." The nurse removed her mask showing off a grotesque Chelsea smile. Slashes on each corner of her mouth expanding her deformed smile. Rose gasped in disgust. "If I remove the disease you will be healthier and much happier."

Rose began backing away from the evil nurse. Her baby was no disease; it was a symbol of the love she shared with Dean. She had to protect her baby. She continued backing away as tears fell down her face. "I'm so sorry Dean!" Rose cried out.

"Medicine Time!" The nurse said maniacally and she jabbed the needle into Dean's arm. Dean screamed in pain.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rose cried out shooting straight up in her bed. Her breathing labored. Her fearful eyes scoured the room looking for the evil nurse and more importantly, Dean. "Dean." Rose whispered as tears slid down her face as she shook in fear. Her hands went to rub her stomach.

Rose combed her fingers through her hair to get the tendrils out of her face. Her whole body shivered as vivid images played continuously in her mind. Dean's screams, his still form, the blood, and the evil nurse. Just picturing the nurse's grotesque grin made her shiver. Out of all the nightmares she had experienced this one made her blood run cold.

She breathed a sigh of relief once her heart rate began to slow and she could breathe normally again. She grabbed a bottle water off the night stand and took a few sips. It was lukewarm but at least it wet her dry mouth. She had lost count of the days that her father had her locked in her room. She knew that the secret passageway was a way to escape but she decided it was best to make everyone believe that she was cooperating with them. She hoped with a little more time, they wouldn't be so worried about her trying to escape. Her father had to bring up the issue of marriage but she broke down into hysterics and Cho convinced her father that she was traumatized by what Dean had done to her and she needed time to recover.

It all made her sick to her stomach and she couldn't even look at herself in the mirror because she felt so disgusted with this farce. It made her nauseous just thinking of how she had to go along with her father claiming that she was kidnapped and raped just to save face. One doctor went so far as to say she suffered from Stockholm Syndrome which was how it all was even possible. She nodded though she felt like she herself drove a knife straight into her own heart. But it had to be done, all for her baby. The mornings were no longer rough; it was an all-day thing now. A mixture of grief, sadness, and depression mingled within her freely.

She had been cut off from all internet services and phone calls so know she really felt as if she had been kidnapped. She hoped that soon her father would trust her enough to give her any type of communication device possible. She repeated what Dean had said to her over and over so she wouldn't forget, she needed to remember so she could get in contact with a member of Shield. She had to be patient. Thankfully Cho was her ally. Cho knew the truth without any type of explanation. Cho knew the type of man Dean was. Cho also recognized Rose's morning tummy aches didn't come from stress as Rose tried to portray. Cho just smiled and handed Rose a water with crackers each morning. We didn't speak of these things just in case there were ears close by. Rose did mention to Cho that Mara must be kept away from her, that she wanted to hurt her. Cho became her confidant, watching over her continuously.

Rose heard a knock on the door and Cho entered all worried. "Rose are you ok?" Cho asked with concern as she took in Rose's disheveled appearance. Cho knew that Rose was suffering on the inside and it broke her heart for the young woman she considered like a daughter. "I had a nightmare." Rose's voice broke. Cho brought her into a hug and Rose broke down and cried harder than she had did since being back. All her pent up fear, grief, worry, sadness just all unloaded at one time.

Cho quietly held Rose as she cried her heart out. Cho knew that Rose needed this release. It had been kept inside for so long. Finally, after Rose felt like she couldn't cry any longer she pulled back with a few hiccups. "I'm sorry Cho." Rose hiccupped. "I got your shirt all wet."

"MY shirt will be fine; how do you feel?" Cho was so caring and patient. Rose was so thankful for Cho.

"I hate myself for not helping Dean." Rose sniffled. "For letting his memory be trashed." Rose brushed away fresh tears. "What kind of a person does that make me. Dean was one of the sweetest men I have ever known and I have to say he did all kinds of bad things to me and none of it is true. I am a horrible person."
"You stop that right now! I know you are hurting but this is not your fault and you can't blame yourself."

"But Dean…"

"Dean wouldn't blame you either and this is what must happen, Dean knew that. You know his heart and he knows yours, don't listen to all these gossip mongers that are only trying to protect their own hides. Dean did what he had to do to protect you and you must do what has to be done to protect the little one. That was what Dean wanted."

"I know Cho, I just hurt so badly, I feel as if my heart is breaking in two."

"I know Baby Girl but you must focus on what is important, you and the little one." Rose knew Cho didn't want to say baby just in case but saying what she said about Dean could get her into trouble.

Rose grabbed a water and too a big gulp and then took a deep steadying breath to calm her nerves. "I just have to be patient. How long have I been back Cho?"

"One-week Baby." Rose nodded. "I am cooperating as much as possible but Dad is pushing for me to see a doctor. I have to hurry up and come up with something."

"Are you hungry?" Rose nodded. Her appetite had definitely increased since becoming pregnant. Her stomach was so nauseous in the mornings that it was all she could do to nibble on crackers but once noon hit she was so hungry that she wanted to eat everything. She kept poor Cho working overtime just to feed her.

"I will go make you some soup. I will be right back." Cho said with a smile. She kissed Rose on her forehead before leaving. Rose laid there still feeling so lost. She missed Dean already. She loved the way he felt when she cuddled next to him and the way he smelled when she kissed him.

How was she supposed to just give up on her future with him? Rose looked down at her belly and rubbed her stomach lovingly. I guess I still have a future and then she remembered she wasn't out of the woods yet. "I'm going to get you to safety my love, I promised your daddy." Rose smiled sadly. "I failed him but I won't fail you. I just need to get a hold of Shield." She knew she was taking a chance on talking out loud but it made her feel better to talk to her baby. If anyone catches her, she will just claim insanity. "Do you have any suggestions?" Rose smiled knowing the baby couldn't answer back. "Not yet? Well just keep thinking, we have to figure out something."

Rose heard a knock on her door and she sat up. "Come in!"

Rose's father walked in. He looked very stern and angry. Rose stood up slowly and bowed her head in respect. "Father!"

Rose didn't like the way he looked at her with disgust. "The guards have told me that you have been sick every morning. "
Rose nodded. "I am OK! I am just suffering from stress, I keep reliving nightmares and it makes me sick." Rose's voice trembled slightly.

"But you are fine by noon."

"I keep myself occupied so I don't think about what happened to me." Rose hoped she sounded convincing.

"Mara seems to think you are pregnant."

Rose shook her head vehemently. "I am not, I am sick with the pain and humiliation I had to endure." Just hearing Mara's name made Rose's skin crawl. Her once best friend tried to have her killed and it seems she was still trying to make her life a living Hell.

"Why do you refuse to see Mara? She is your best friend!"

She was no friend to Rose, she never wanted Mara near her or her baby ever again. "I am just so ashamed." Rose hoped that was a good enough excuse. She had no proof that Mara wanted her dead and so she didn't know what to tell her father but one thing for sure was that Mara needed to stay away from her.

"You are a disgrace for letting that man touch you."

"You are right father, maybe you should send me away to family members that live overseas."

"So that they would have to put up with how filthy you are."

Rose stiffened at how cruel her father was acting toward her. Unfortunately, in her society, this was how a woman was treated if she had been raped. Though it was not the woman's fault, she was still left with an ugly stigma that would follow her until death and made to marry a man that would have not been good enough for her before. Some women had even killed themselves feeling that was the only way to gain redemption for letting the man rape her. If she had admitted to sleeping with Dean willingly though, it would have been much worse. Some women had even been stoned to death for committing such crimes as promiscuity. Even if she had escaped death, she would always be looked at easy goods which then men could have if they wanted because the woman had such low morals. It was a society were women were not human, they were property first to the father and then to the husband and Rose did not want her child brought up in such a society.

Rose's father had always loved her and treated her special. He had always claimed she was his miracle and now he looked at her as if she was his stigma. Rose felt an ugly twisting deep within her heart from the stabbing pain of rejection. Since they were alone, Rose felt this was a good time to ask her father how he felt.

"Father, what if I fell in love with this man, what if I had wanted a life with him, that he was good to me and loved me back the way you loved mother, isn't that what you would want for me?"

Rose yelped in surprise and shock when she felt the stinging pain flying across her cheek. Rose cried out from the pain of being back handed across her face by her father.

"How dare you mention your dead mother." Rose's father said angrily. "She would roll over in her grave if she knew that her daughter had behaved like a common whore." Rose's father seethed. "You are going to the doctor tomorrow, whatever your sickness is, I will make sure you will be rid of it by the time you are done. Her father shook his head disgustedly at her and walked out leaving Rose standing there with her hand over her stinging cheek.

Rose stood there at first in shock as a few tears rolled down her cheek until Rose realized what her father was talking about in removing her sickness. Her hand immediately went to her belly. "No!" Rose whispered. She had to get out of here. She couldn't stay. Rose paced around the room frantically sitting trying to come up with a plan when Cho entered her room.

"Cho!" Rose cried and she threw herself into the woman's arms almost knocking the basket out of her hand. "I am in so much trouble." Rose cried. "I don't know what I am going to do."

Cho quickly disentangled herself from Rose. "Well you won't until you eat. Nothing makes you feel better and think more clearly then with full belly." Cho was smiling which Rose found odd.

"What?" Rose couldn't think of food at a time like this. They wanted to kill her baby.

Cho grabbed Rose's hand and led her over to the small table. She sat the basket down. "I made you a delicious sandwich with your soup." Cho fished around inside the basket.

"Cho, Father wants me to go to the doctor, he will find out I am pregnant and he wants me to get an abortion." Cho was just acting so strange.

Cho smiled pulling out the sandwich container. "I made a very special sandwich for you dear to keep your strength up."

Cho…" Rose tried to get Cho's attention but Cho put her finger to her lips and then opened the sandwich container. There was a sandwich with wheat bread. "I made it extra special." Cho took off the top piece and then the lettuce underneath to reveal a cellphone. "I know how you love turkey." Rose smiled at seeing the smartphone.

"It looks yummy!" Rose replied. "Maybe you are right, I'm just very hungry."

"There is vegetable soup for you also so I will leave you to eat in peace and I will tell the guards that you have a headache and will take a nap after lunch and to not bother you."

Cho went to walk away and Rose grabbed her arm and smiled affectionately at Cho. Cho brought her in for a hug and whispered, "I love you!"

"I love you to!" Rose said giving her a cheek before letting Cho go. It was bittersweet to see a woman that had always treated her like a daughter walk out of her life but there was no going back now.

Rose stuffed the leaf of lettuce in her mouth because she was hungry and picked up the phone. Underneath the phone was a slip of paper with the password, phone number and email address associated with the phone.

Rose looked at the door before making her way to the bathroom. Rose turned the shower on before unlocking the phone. She went to Google and searched for the Shield website. She found it quickly and then searched around until she found Contact Us. She entered in the email address typed in The cow has been caught and penned and then pressed send.

Rose wondered how long it would take for them to get it, she was wondering if she should call Dean's family when an email popped up from Shield. She opened the email and clicked on the strange link. The web cam immediately went on and Rose saw a fair skinned man with dark hair staring at her. Rose knew this had to be Seth since Roman was Samoan.

"Rose?" Seth asked nervously. She nodded.

"Yes, you must be Seth." Rose whispered with a half grateful smile.

"Yes, I take it Dean has been caught."

"Yes, about a week ago."

"Does your father have him?"

Rose shook her head. "No, a Russian woman took him."

Seth looked confused at first and then Seth knew who Rose was referring to. Seth was not happy hearing that. Seth frowned but he needed to focus on Rose at the moment. "Are you OK?"

"My father locked me in my room all week. A friend smuggled me in a phone. My father plans on sending me to a doctor tomorrow to get rid of my baby." Rose could feel the tears stinging her eyes at just the thought. "Please I need help. I promised Dean I would take care of this baby." Rose tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Either you can help or I will have to get out of here on my own which isn't the problem but I don't know what to do or where to go after that."

Seth didn't like the sound of that. "No Rose, I'm definitely coming in to get you, me and Roman. We will have to go on our own without Shield backing but we are going to get you out. Now you said you can get out?"

Rose nodded. "There is a secret passageway from the garden that leads to my room. Only me and my dad know about it but we haven't talked about in years so there is a good chance he has forgotten about it. I have purposely stayed away from it all week just in case my dad put guards at the entrance. I was hoping that after some time he would let his guard down giving me time to get away but with this appointment tomorrow, there is no way I can fake not being pregnant."

"OK so it's what could we look for to get in?"

"It's located in the garden, it's a gate with roses decorating it by some rose bushes. The gate should be unlocked."

Seth nodded writing all this down. "I have footage of the grounds so I'm sure I can pinpoint the entrance. Keep the phone on you, by morning you will be gone. We are just outside of jurisdiction so we are close."

"Are you sure you want to take this risk without Shield?" Rose was nervous. It sounded like he was putting a lot on the line to rescue her.

"If I go to our boss, he will insist on us on getting the country to clear us to go in. You saw how well that worked with Dean. You are not on the radar so he won't know anything until we turn up with you."

"Does Roman know? You know about the baby?" Rose was a little nervous about meeting Roman since he was Dean's brother. It was important to her that Roman accepted her and the baby.

"Honestly no which is why I am going to have to tell him. Listen sweetheart, Roman is different than Dean. Roman is all business all the time which is why Dean confides in me a little more on his screw ups."

Rose frowned. "Meaning me?"

Seth bit his lip. "Dean doesn't think of you like that, I saw it when he talked about you. I can tell he loves you a lot." Just hearing Seth say that made tears fall down Rose's face. She loved him to, it was crazy, it made no sense since they were together for such a short time but she fell in love with him and her heart was breaking. "Rose, Dean probably would have been dead a long time ago if it wasn't for you, that means a lot to me and it will too Roman as soon as I brief him. I'm sorry if I am coming off as too quick but by the sound of the water running in the background, I can tell you are taking a chance with talking to me."

Rose nodded as she wiped the tears away. She was taking a chance but she had to try and save her baby. "Yes!" Rose admitted.

Seth smiled hoping to reassure Rose. "I know this has to be difficult since you don't know me."

"I trust Dean and Dean said I needed to contact you, he would never put me in danger."

"Dean is one of my best friends in the world…" For a minute sadness crossed over Seth's features but he had to shake it off. Getting emotional only got people killed and right now, he had to save Rose. "Just sit tight, I am going to survey the property and pinpoint where you are most likely located."

Rose nodded. There is a bookcase that covers the entrance but I will move it aside some to make it easier for you to enter just in case I fall asleep."

"OK and Rose, pack light, real light, we will have to flee in a hurry to not be caught so we can't have things bogging us down and wear something dark." Rose understood and just as quickly as Seth appeared he was gone.

Rose cut the water off and went and put the phone under her pillow. She quickly finished up her lunch in spite of her jumpy nerves. Well, a plan was in motion now for better or worse, she just hoped that her trust in Dean was right and Seth and Roman would help her get to safety.

*Sorry for the delay but I am a very busy person so it's is hard to find times to write but I hope everyone enjoyed. I was supposed to tell you about the strange powder Lana blew in Dean's face in my last chapter notes but for anyone who is interested, it is called Scopolamine also known as "Devil's breath." It is not a recreational drug and it is mostly found in Columbia used by the criminal element because it has mind altering effects. I found it fascinating and UI wanted to use it. Also there really is a drug called Krokodil and it is the deadliest drug with the most horrifying side effects and it's most common in Russia. If you decide to Google Krokodil, be warned, it's not for the faint of heart. Also I just want to remind everyone that this is a made up society, with no known name. It is all in my head to not offend anyone so please enjoy, it's fiction. Feel free to leave me a review or a pm and Thank you to everyone reading!