AN: Here's the next chapter of Undead Underwater. I've tried to put as much as I could to show Benny's accent. Let me know how I'm doing. Reviews= longer work and more posts! Thanks for reading!

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Ch4- Connections

Dean felt like he was ready to actually start moving, instead of just going through the movements and being depressed. Benny had been on his butt to show him that just because they are supernatural, doesn't mean they are evil. Benny had started to show him the different things Dean could do, now that he no longer had the same limits he did while he was human. For the next week Dean and Benny got closer.
It was exactly one week since Benny had told Dean what he was, Dean had decided that while his family may not want to see him anymore, he could still hunt things and protect people. Maybe even better now that he didn't have to worry about injuries that would kill a human. Benny told him the plus side of being mer, they were nearly impossible to kill and couldn't be infected with supernatural nasties. Dean was thinking on how to break it to Benny that he couldn't stay any longer. His baby was still sitting hidden where he left it, and his cell phone in his car had to have a few messages on it by now. He was three weeks late with his report to his dad after all.
Benny knew that Dean was getting antsy, the boy hadn't been used to being in one spot, and being forced to be in one spot was even worse. Benny was going to have to have the conversation with him before he left. There was no way that he was letting his mate outta his sight, let alone hunting, without him. His instincts rebelled against it. Benny knew he was going to have to finish the conversation started a week ago. Especially if he was going to try and convince Dean to take him with him when he left.
"Shugar, there's something we need to talk about." Benny started as he helped Dean inside. Dean raised his eyebrow, knowing that Benny had to have picked up on the way he was feeling.
"This about me getting antsy to go?" Dean asked.
"Something like that." Benny replied with a depreciative smirk. He continued once they were set inside at the small table of the trailer. "You know how I mentioned that I'm a vampire?" He asked. Dean nodded.
"Well you might have also noticed that I'm not with a nest anymore." He paused as he waited for a reaction of Dean's. Dean just raised an eyebrow but kept silent, an unspoken prod to continue.
"Vampires form nests. The nests are their family. But there's a good reason for a vampire leaving and creating a new nest, or seemingly turn someone without reason." Dean looked like he was about to speak, but Benny held up a hand to forestall him. "We can scent our mates, it's something that is a remnant of being human, our soul mate becomes our eternal mate. We don't choose them. And after we've found them it would take a whole heck of a lot to tear us away from them."
Dean looked confused. "Why are you telling me this. I mean it's interesting and all, but what does that have to do with me getting antsy to go?"
Benny looked Dean in the eye. "I'm tryin' ta say Chere that you are my mate. I've known it since you first ran smack inta me. Where you go, I go."
Dean looked completely flummoxed. He'd rarely thought of guys, something his Dad and brother didn't even know that he had contemplated. And here was one, and a vampire that was saying they were soul mates. He had no idea what to think. He looked Benny over. There was no use denying that he wasn't attracted to him on some level. After all, the Cajun was built and his old fashioned clothes just worked great with him. But Dean didn't know how this was going to work. He didn't really have much experience with men, and what he did have was the quick dirty version. None of this romance and keeping together.
Finally after what seemed like forever, Dean cleared his throat. "so what does this mean then? I don't have much experience, but I mean how's this gonna work with you a vampire and me a mer?"
Benny had to calm himself for a moment before he could answer Dean. One, Dean was open to being Benny's mate. Two, Dean didn't have much experience with men. That alone raised his blood. Benny finally computed the question that Dean had asked. "I ain't sure shugur, but we're gonna find out. Normally you'd be turned, but that really isn't an option and I don't think you'd like it anyway. As far as I know, we're the first mates that weren't vampire and human."
Dean nodded as he thought it through. "Probably still works because we are both creatures that originally were human, so there's some part of our body chemistry that's still working together." Dean said. He wasn't sure, but it sounded about right for a reason.
Benny moved closer to Dean, he wasn't going to bite him right this instant, no matter what his instincts were screaming. He was going to go slow, especially since Dean was still dealing with being a mer and his family possibly not accepting him. "All I ask chere, is that you give it another week or so for you to get used to the idea of an us. We'll run into town, grab your car and stuff and head out back here. That work?" He asked trying to stop himself from running a hand through Dean's hair.
Dean nodded. It would solve some of his problems, while still giving them the downtime they needed to process the new change in their relationship.
They headed in and picked up the impala and Dean's duffel that night. Dean wasn't sure to be happy or upset by the fact that there were no missed messages on his cell, not even a text with coordinates for the next hunt. It just showed that maybe staying with Benny was the right thing to do.