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Rose was still sitting next to Dean, he was getting paler by the minute.
"Are you sure you don't want me to heal you?" Rose asked.
He shook his head again. She nodded her understanding.
"Well we can't just stay here. Where's your phone?" Rose asked him.
Dean motioned to his pocket. Rose tried not to cause him any pain and pulled the phone out. He gave her a look...even in his dying state he was giving her a hard time for grabbing his phone from his back pocket.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing." he whispered, grinning.
"Oh please Dean, we both know I've done it before,worse in fact."
"Yeah." he coughed out. "How did you get that hand of glory out of my suit pocket?"
"I'll never tell." she teased.
"What if it's my dying wish to know?" he asked.
"Don't think so. You're not dying."
Rose found Sam's number on Dean's phone and called. It rang several times but no answer. She then found Bobby's number and dialed it.
"What are you.."Dean started.
"Will you please shut up."
Dean just rolled his eyes, but then grunted in pain.
Finally Bobby answered.
"Yeah." he answered gruffly, thinking it was Dean.
"Bobby."
"Bela? This is a surprise. Hearing you're alive is one thing...wait why you got Dean's phone?"
She didn't both trying to tell him she called herself Rose now. She stepped away from Dean.
"It's Dean, he's dying. He killed Klaus...but he's hurt, and it's bad. I tried reaching Sam to get Castiel here to save him but they aren't answering."
Bobby sighed heavily.
"Great. Can you get him out of there, hospital? We both know you can think of something to tell them."
"He says he can't be moved. I'm not sure how long he has."
Bobby couldn't help but be shocked at her concern, but he was more worried about Dean right now.
"I'll get Cas' attention. Look, just stay calm and keep him alive."
"I'm fine. We'll be fine."
"Yeah, you don't sound fine."
"Just get him here. We're waiting." Rose said, pulling herself together.
She walked back over to where Dean was and sat down.
"Think you can stay alive a while longer? Bobby's finding them."
He just nodded. Rose let out a breath. She was wondering where Damon was. Not that he could do anything...
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Damon brought Elena back to the abandoned home and sat her down. Stefan finally arrived after they did.
Jeremy and Alaric were there waiting, they'd come back after taking Jenna home. As soon as Alaric saw Elena he was on the phone in the corner of the room with Jenna telling her Elena was alive.
"Klaus?" Jeremy asked.
"Dead." Damon answered.
Stefan was in the corner drinking from a blood bag healing the rest of the stab wound on his back.
"You okay?" Damon asked Elena.
"I'm okay." she answered. "I'm surprised Rose and Dean aren't back yet. If Klaus is really dead."
"I heard the shot when we left. Besides Klaus would've already killed them and come after us."
Finally Bonnie arrived at the house.
"Hey. So you waited, Klaus is dead?" Damon asked her.
"Yeah, but Rose needs you. Dean was hurt in the fight. It didn't look good."
"How'd that happen?"
"I don't know, Klaus was dying but I saw him shove Dean into a tree pretty hard."
Damon nodded. He gave one more glance at Elena and Stefan before he headed out the door.
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"I know I told you to shut up...but I need you to talk Dean." Rose said to him. Him going quiet on her wasn't a good sign, she needed him to stay with her.
He wished he could laugh at the situation.
"Mm...anything I should know before I die?"
She shook her head.
"Come on...last minute confession time."
"If you're the dying one shouldn't it be you confessing?"
"Okay fine." Dean started. He thought about just telling her something from the past couple years that he never talked about, but decided to go with something from his time of knowing her. "There was a small part of me that liked your suggestion of angry sex...before I pretended to be offended."
She laughed, and produced a real smile. "I knew that already. So what do you really want to confess because that's not good enough?"
"Right...After I hung up, there was a second I felt bad about leaving you to die. I knew I couldn't do anything, but there was a part of me that thought of turning around, even if it only meant I'd have to..." he paused.
"Have to what?"
"Bury you..or salt and burn really. No one really deserves that kind of death."
She thought about what he said. She was a bit surprised, he seemed so sure when he told her he'd see her in hell, she figured he wanted her dead.
"Maybe not, but I deserved your hate."
"I don't know...hey Bela?"
"Yeah?"
"You told me several weeks back that you faked the files and had Rufus lie to me. So what else was a lie?" he groaned out.
"What do you mean?"
"You lied about killing your parents, and more. I don't buy that a young girl had her parents killed just to get rich...unless you're a pyschopath, but that doesn't seem true. You couldn't tell me before, but I'm asking that for once you just tell me the truth. Why?"
"Who says you'd believe me now?" she asked. She should've known he'd never really let it go.
"I do. I'll believe you Bela. No judgments here, we've all done bad shit."
"I don't want your pity..."
"Okay, I won't pity you. Just tell me, I won't even respond."
He was looking right into her eyes, and she wanted to shut down and not answer him, but she just couldn't. She'd avoided telling him the truth for so long. And she'd been happier if he had just found out somehow.
"The demon offered me freedom and I said yes. I didn't know they'd die, I thought I was the one who was being taken away from him. She said she'd take care of them for me, that I didn't have to stay with him anymore...so I said yes."
"So, it wasn't about your parents...just your dad?"
She nodded. He wanted to dig further but didn't have the strength. She could tell, so she continued.
"Honestly Dean, I regret the deal, but I have never felt bad that he's in hell. I know that's where he is."
"What'd he do?"
She thought for a second. Did she tell him about her father's abuse, the way he touched her? Or did she simply tell him that her father was responsible for her mom's death?
"I hated him...I was the only one who knew what he did, the only one who knew he was the one who caused my mother's death. But I couldn't say anything, he didn't allow it."
"W' happened?" Dean managed to get out.
"She decided to leave with me, to get us away from him. He found out, pushed her around. She was 8 months pregnant and fell. She lost the baby and then bled out, I never got to say goodbye. She was strong, amazing really...and he made sure I never told anyone what happened."
"The woman who died with him wasn't your real mom."
Rose nodded.
"So you agreed to the deal so you could get away and tell people?"
"No, I agreed to the deal to stop what he was doing to me. I couldn't take it anymore, I wanted to die." she finally confessed. "And it took years before I ever let a man touch me again."
He sighed and took a painful breath. He wished he'd known earlier. He nodded. He never replied, didn't say sorry...because that's what she wanted. He understood. So instead of talking he grabbed her hand that'd been lying on his wound and squeezed it.
Rose suddenly felt good and bad at the same time. She was happy he knew, thankful he understood...but he was trying to comfort her yet he was the one dying.
Dean's eyes began to close again. Rose didn't know if she should hurry away and find someone to help or stay with him. She didn't want to leave so she just stayed right next to him, both leaning on the large tree trunk. She scooted herself closer.
"Dean, you need to stay here with me."
"M'not dying yet...just need to rest." he said slowly, keeping his eyes closed. She listened closely to make sure his heart stayed beating as he fell asleep. She too closed her eyes.
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Damon finally got back to the spot where the sacrifice began to Rose and Dean, Dean's wound evident. He walked to Rose and she opened her eyes.
"Damon."
"What do you need me to do?" he asked.
"Can you get anyone here? I don't care if you compel someone, a doctor...something?"
"I can't promise they can do anything, but yeah, I'll try to find someone."
She nodded. "Hurry, please. He saved Elena."
"I know. I don't care about that, you asked me to help and I'll help. I'll hurry back."
"Thank you."
He nodded and rushed off.
Damon couldn't tell Rose about the bite just yet. That was the last thing she'd be ready to hear. The hits just kept coming.
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About 15 minutes later Rose heard a noise and looked up. She finally spotted Sam and Castiel walking towards them...Bobby must have found them.
"What the hell happened?" Sam asked.
Rose jumped up from the ground.
"He killed Klaus, but Klaus hurt him too. We can explain in a while." Rose turned to Castiel. "Just heal and ask questions later."
Cas nodded, and walked to Dean. He placed his hand on Dean's forehead. A second later Dean finally awoke and took a large breath. He looked up at Cas.
"Oh look, I'm not dead...again. Thanks Cas."
"Does this mean you've forgiven me for my betrayal?"
"Almost." Dean said. "Crowley?"
"We found him." Sam said. "Haven't killed him yet, Bobby said you were dying so Cas brought us here."
"Well guess that's on our to do list."
"I will take care of him...but if you have to stay with me to make sure I'm not lying I understand." Castiel said.
Dean nodded, and turned to Rose.
"Thanks." Dean said. She smiled, but said nothing.
"Cas, I trust you. If you need to go back after Crowley go ahead. Don't let us down." Dean said.
Castiel nodded to him.
"I can go. You're healed, but you look exhausted." Sam said to Dean. "I'll go with Cas to help. You can stay at the motel tonight."
"Fine." Dean replied. Really Sam had expected an argument from him.
Rose had pulled out her phone and texted Damon to tell him Dean was fine.
Castiel looked at Rose. "Miss Talbot, I have a promise to keep once I return." He and Sam then disappeared.
Dean looked at her, confused for a moment.
"Human..." Rose whispered. "Can he really do it?"
"Probably. Nothing surprises me anymore. I'm tired, let's go." Dean said.
Rose agreed. They left, and a few minutes later arrived at Dean's car.
"I'll talk to you soon." Rose said, starting to walk off.
"Hey." Dean said. Rose turned around. "It's a long walk, even for you. I can drop you off at the house on my way."
She thought about it...after her confession she wasn't sure she'd want to spend a whole car ride with him. Oh well, she was fairly tired and needed blood.
"Okay." she said, and they both got inside the impala. Dean drove off to the Salvatore's house.
End Chapter.