Roman woke up on his right side with his left arm safely secured around Beverly's waist. She was lying on her back still asleep and he took his time to watch her. For three days they had shared Seth's bed. Seth had graciously given it to them while he slept on his couch with Dean on an air mattress on the floor next to him.
Nothing had been going on in Seth's bed other than them sleeping next to each other and Roman always holding on to her. It wasn't that he didn't want anything to happen but it was neither the time nor the place to start anything. And to be honest, he was scared to break her with how skinny she had become. He could feel most of her bones and he hated that that fucked up place had turned her into a skeleton.
"What are you thinking?" She asked.
He hadn't realized she had woken up while he had been thinking about what could have been if things had been different and they had met out in the real world. He moved his eyes to hers and gave her a little smile.
"Just a bunch of what ifs," he answered.
"What if we were never there? What if the monsters hadn't been real? What if Finn, Sasha, Baron and Sonya hadn't died? What if we had never met?" She sounded a bit angry.
"Yes," he said.
"Children's games won't do you any good, Roman. We were there, the monsters were real, people did die and we did meet no matter if you wanted to or not," she said.
"Meeting you was the best part," he said.
"Because I got you out alive," she said.
"Not just that," he said.
He let his hand run up her side until he reached her face and ran his fingers through her hair. He leaned in a bit closer.
"If this is the last time I'll ever see you, I gotta do this," he said.
He leaned in and kissed her. Their lips moved softly against each other while their tongues experimentally played together. He groaned at the sensation. He sure could get used to this.
"Are you awake?" Seth knocked on the door.
Roman broke the kiss and smiled at her. He got the same smile in return from her.
"We're getting out of there," he said firmly. "We're gonna tear that place down and we'll get out of there together and start a new life. Together."
"You talk a high game," she said.
"Your brain and my muscles, baby girl. No one stands a chance," he said.
"I think Kraken might argue on that one," she said.
"Guys!" Seth knocked again.
"We're coming, damn it!" Roman shouted.
"To be continued," she smiled at him again.
After a solid breakfast they moved out to Seth's car. Seth drove while Dean sat in the passenger seat guiding the way. They stopped after a couple of hours to get some more food inside and get gas on the car and then they drove for a couple of hours again.
"There," Dean pointed at the chain of mountains.
"There's nothing there," Seth said.
"We came out through that mountain," Dean said.
Seth stopped the car and looked at the stone wall in front of them.
"Open Sesame," he tried.
"There's a way in and we're gonna find it," Dean said.
They all got out of the car and Dean moved to the trunk. Shortly after he pulled out a harpoon. Beverly looked at him with wide eyes.
"Where the fuck did you get a harpoon?" She asked.
"Dean's always had a thing for weird weapons," Roman said.
"No guns or anything useful?" She asked.
"Don't worry, great one, a harpoon is very useful. We just need something to keep those fuckers standing still. And I only recall that Jeff guy having a gun," Dean said.
"You don't know that for sure," she said.
"That's why Seth brought his gun," Dean smirked.
Seth fished his gun out from the trunk and showed it to her.
"Roman?" She asked.
"I can kill a guy with my bare hands," Roman answered.
"But you're taking this rope," Seth handed him a long, rolled up rope.
"And me? What the fuck do I do?" She asked.
"Stand back and survive," Roman kissed her temple. "You saved us last time. Time for us to save you."
"Let's find the way inside," Dean said.
They moved over to the mountain where Dean was dead sure the vans had driven out from. He moved his hand over the stone wall, hoping to somehow being able to push it open.
"Guys," she said.
She squatted down, pushed some long grass down with her hands and revealed a plate in the mountain filled with buttons with pictures of different creatures on them.
"Great, we need a fucking code," Dean muttered. "Get us in, great one."
"Why do you think I know anything about codes?" She asked.
"You know the creatures," he said.
She looked at the pictures and memorized their way through the world inside.
"Maybe it's in the order we met them," she started pressing the buttons as she spoke. "Medusa, siren, werewolf, vampire. Wow!"
The stone wall started opening.
"What? No Nessie or Kraken?" Roman asked.
"I told you, they are real," she said.
"And the dragon?" Dean asked.
"We never had to fight that or anything," she answered.
Dean looked at her with a big smile on his face.
"I knew you could do it," he said. "I still don't get how you think Nessie and Kraken are real."
She got up from her squatted position, ready to take the floor one more time. This was her world and he wanted to know the answers.
"Well, Kraken is the big eight armed octopus. There was one even bigger with ten arms. Both were thought to be myths but one day a skeleton of the ten armed washed ashore. It's only happened that once but it proves it's real. So if the biggest one exists, there's even a bigger chance the smaller one, Kraken, exists too," she said.
"And Nessie?" Roman asked.
"She's believed to be the plesiosaurus. Like some animals evolved from water to dry land, it's believed the dinosaur learned to breathe under water and survived the ice age. And of course there's more than just one since no creature can survive that many years. But they're a small pack," she said.
"So they created the others but somehow found a Kraken and a fucking dinosaur, kidnapped them like you and put them in here," Seth said.
"I guess," she said. "It would make sense since they were able to change things about the ones that don't exist."
"Whatever!" Dean cracked his neck. "It ends today."
He started moving in and Seth, Roman and Beverly quickly followed. Inside was another plate to close the secret gate again but they left it open in case they needed a quick retreat. It didn't matter. No one was out there to see it.
