LAST MAN STANDING
Dean stood on the porch of his house watching the trees sway with the slight breeze that was cooling the night. He couldn't sleep as his thoughts raced and jumbled up in his mind.
"You have the horse race down for sure." His dad said at the door. "If he pisses you off enough I'm pretty sure that you can kick his ass too."
Dean huffed a laugh as John joined him. "I have three whole days to practice."
"Are you sure you're ready for this son?"
"I can't lose her again dad. I just can't." Dean said meeting his father's eyes so he could see Dean's desperation.
"You don't have to tell me that Dean I was here when you lost her the first time and we lost you. I mean you were here in body but everything else about you was gone. I don't think I can lose you again either."
Dean smiled and blushed. It was a rare thing for his dad to be so open about his love for him. "Did you ever have to take a challenge for mom?"
John sighed rubbing the back of his neck. "As much as your mom rules my world it was nothing quite as extravagant. When at nineteen I realized that I was in love I panicked and all my friends told me that I was too young to settle down with my first girlfriend that I needed to live it up and see other girls. Like a damn idiot I listened and broke up with her and went out with another girl. The second I kissed her I knew that I had made the worst mistake of my life. And it turns out that my so called best friend had given me sage advice so that he could go out with Mary. I nearly beat him senseless. Mary though refused to speak to me and I couldn't blame her."
Dean listened intently never having heard this part of love story of John and Mary Winchester. "So how did you get her back?"
"I was helping my dad out working on a roof and I was distracted and fell off. You know how small town rumors roll up and get bigger and bigger as they get retold. By the time the story got to Mary I was at death's door and probably paralyzed for life if I survived when all I had was a broken arm and a large lump on the back of my head. She came running crying that she didn't want me to die that she forgave me. We made up I mean really made up and have been together ever since."
"Classic love story." Dean grinned.
"Lifetime channel worthy you think?" John chuckled. "Well your love story will be movie material for sure."
"I have to win first."
"Son you have won the most important thing and that is Arandi's love. You have to be a blind fool to not see how much she loves you. Just the fact that she gave up so much for this life with you says a lot."
Dean had never thought it that way and he felt a lump in his throat as he stared back at the trees.
"Go be with her Dean as much as your mom wants to believe that you're holding out for marriage we both know better. We didn't wait either if you're wondering." John grinned smugly. "Take that first cabin and stay with her so that you don't have to sneak around and traumatize the horses."
Dean turned red but laughed. "Thanks dad."
"Just dad." His mom chimed in from the door.
Dean blushed deeper just the thought of his mom knowing that he was having sex was embarrassing.
"Thanks mom."
"You're an adult Dean and you're in love so go baby and tell her the good news."
Dean hugged his parents and then rushed to Arandi's room and found her awake on her laptop.
He rushed in pushing the laptop to the side and laying over her to kiss her.
"Dean your parents…."
"Just gave the go ahead to take the nearest cabin and be together." He said excitedly.
"Really?" Arandi smiled.
"Really. They know we're in love and they know that we haven't been saints so they are letting us take the cabin so we don't have to sneak around anymore."
"I kind of thought the sneaking around was hot." Arandi said with a twinkle in her eye gently moving her knee against Dean's groin.
He moaned lightly. "Let's get to that cabin." He moved to sit up about to close her laptop when he caught sight of the words on the screen. He stared at them and then turned to Arandi.
"Are you…?" He barely managed his heart thumping wildly at the thought.
Arandi lowered her eyes. "I'm over a week late." She admitted quietly.
Dean stood up wide eyed running his hands through his hair as he paced.
"Please don't be mad." She said worriedly.
"Mad?" Dean asked confused then realized that his actions were less than the look of man thrilled to find out that he might be a father. He pulled Arandi to her feet and lifted her off the floor and spun her around. "My baby having my baby is the best news in the world."
Arandi giggled against his neck. "I'm still not sure so don't get too excited. Let's get going to the cabin my love I feel like making love to you until the sun comes up."
"Yes please." Dean growled as he pushed her carefully against the wall and kissed her breathless.
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Dean had watched more than one love story movie and had heard more than once how the earth moved and angels were heard singing and fireworks were everywhere or stars depending on the mood he guessed when two people met and fell in love and made love.
He felt every single of those gushy analogies and many more as he moved into Arandi praying that if she wasn't already full of his baby he'd get it accomplished tonight. It didn't matter that he was barely eighteen. He was ready for everything as long as it was with Arandi.
She cried out his name as he brought her to completion for the third time and he kept going hungrily wanting to reach his own.
She turned them over and took over and soon his head was thrown back with a mantra of her name one hand fingers digging into her hip the other clawing desperately at the sheets. This right here and now was something that he would never get tired of and he sure as hell wasn't giving it up to some man that thought he should own all he wanted just because he was royalty.
"Don't you dare bring him into our bed." Arandi hissed.
"I'm not going to let him take you." Dean breathed as she moved against him like silky magic. The eruption building inside him hotter and higher, sliding through his veins inch by inch until he arched off the bed with her name ravaged from his throat. The orgasm taking him over completely and his world melted into it and he lost everything into the overwhelming bliss.
No one else could do this to him of that he was sure and it would be a day in Antarctica down in hell before he gave her up without giving his life's blood to keep her at his side.
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Three days wasn't very long at all to prepare for what had been thrust at him but damn if that was going to stop Dean from going at it a hundred and ten percent.
He was never more grateful for the hard work that he did at the haven and how it kept him strong and in great shape.
His skin nearly came off his bones the water was cold as he dove into the lake and he was afraid that his dick might just disappear completely from the cold.
He was shivering and a bit blue when he made it to the other side where Arandi was waiting for him with hot chocolate and her warm body.
It wasn't long before they were tangled on the pier as the sun set and falling into the water didn't do much to stop them. Dean only held her firmly against him with her legs wrapped around him until she threw he head back in ecstasy and seconds later he joined her.
They were barely coming down from the high when Sam and Jade appeared to tell them they were late for dinner.
Arandi hid behind Dean as she adjusted her swim suit and Dean grinned like a fool for nearly being caught in action.
"Fair warning little brother if unless you want to see a moon other than the one in the sky please be louder when you're walking up on me and Arandi when we're alone."
Sam snickered. "As if you would even hear Godzilla making his way towards you."
They headed back to the house together.
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While Arandi was in the shower Dean got the bed ready for the night he lifted the mattress slightly to tuck in the sheets on Arandi's side of the bed and felt a bump. He pulled out a small vial and stared at it.
It wasn't labeled but he knew exactly what it was and his gut twisted in equal parts of anger, fear, and disbelief.
Arandi stepped out talking a mile a minute until she saw what he was holding and Dean turned intense green eyes on her.
"I can't believe that you would even consider it." He said through gritted teeth.
"Dean I told you before that I would rather die than let another man touch me." She said stepping towards him.
"So that's the faith that you have in me. That you're all set to kill yourself and maybe our child because you're sure that Tobian is going to win?" He spat and threw the vial with so much force against the wall it shattered into nothing.
Arandi flinched and closed her eyes her heart beating furiously. "I have all the faith in the world in you Dean but Tobian is not a man of honor and in case he found that loop hole that he will dig for until he finds I just wanted to be prepared."
"Our baby?" Dean hissed.
"How well do you think Tobian with handle that his wife is carrying another man's child?"
The implication hit Dean like a runaway train. "He wouldn't dare harm a child."
"A child that is not his would not matter to him."
Dean felt nauseas at the thought. He could never harm an unborn child. If things had been the other way around and Arandi had come to him pregnant from another man, he would have gladly taken them both in and raise that child as his own.
"Not everyone has a heart as pure as yours." Arandi whispered.
Dean pulled her into a crushing hug burying his face into her neck. "You can't think like this Arandi I won't let anything happen to you no matter what I have to do. Just promise me that you will never think like this again."
"Anything for you." She breathed into his ear.
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Dean sat on the porch watching the sun rise. Three days had flitted away like nothing and today he fought tooth and nail, fang and claw for his love.
He had gotten some sleep but had been up for hours already just waiting. His mom made him a light breakfast and he stood by Arandi as she threw up everything she had eaten because she was so nervous and maybe had morning sickness.
Soon cars and trucks approached the haven and John instructed the arrivals on where to park and where to set up.
Dean frowned at the amount of people that were arriving. It had never dawned on him that it was going to be a spectacle.
He headed to the cabin with Arandi to get ready for the fight. Nerves churning through him but he knew exactly what he wanted to do before he fought Tobian.
Just past the door he began to kiss her heatedly until they fell onto the bed. The idea of making love to her with Tobian only yards away was intoxicating and he pushed into her with heated passion. He went at it intensely making her cry out again and again with bliss and part of him hoped that Tobian could hear this.
He bit into her neck marking her because no matter what she was his and his forever. She opened up to him and returned the marking knowing how it would be spotted by all and not caring.
They lay in each other's arms until Stepheno knocked and said it was nearly time.
They showered together and Dean put on the black shorts that he had to wear in order to move easier and Arandi helped tape his hands and slip on the gloves.
They kissed hard and heated then walked to the octagon cage that had been set up in the middle of a field.
Tobian sat calmly on a stool as the many people around him prepared everything. His eyes instantly dropped to the markings on Dean's chest. His mouth became a thin line as he stood up and turned away.
Dean noticed that Chris was there in the crowd and other's from his school and hidden away was Jeremy. He hadn't left yet. Dean smiled at him and he turned red but smiled back.
John came to stand by his son. "Your mom is waiting this out inside. She can't handle watching you get hit."
Dean nodded and turned to Arandi. "You don't have to watch if you don't want."
"It might be painful to watch but I'm not going anywhere." She said assertively.
Dean leaned in to kiss her but Stepheno stepped in. "It will be taken as taunting if you proceed." He murmured between them.
Dean felt utterly frustrated but he wasn't going to make things tenser than they already were. He entered the high cage and headed to his own stool, joined by his dad, Sam, and Stepheno.
His eyes scanned the people around them and he got many thumbs up and Chris made him smile by making a face at him.
'Great.' He thought if he was going down he was going down for all his hometown to see.
He took a deep breath and cleared his mind. They were called to the middle and the rules were explained patiently. Both men held fierce eye contact and Dean turned to look at Arandi taking her in and knowing that if he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her he needed to man up.
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The first solid hit to his jaw made Dean dizzy and he stumbled back a bit and shook his head to clear his brain and he bit into the mouth piece. He quickly moved forward and threw three quick punches and two connected solidly.
He saw the foot sweep coming and cleared it but Tobian quickly followed with high kick. Dean managed to avoid the brunt of it but it still made him trip and suddenly he was in a vicious arm bar.
He tried to not groan out loud. He saw Arandi's stricken face and he threw his weight off and broke free quickly turning and connecting a solid upper cut to Tobian's jaw.
He saw Tobian blink hard and hoped that it would be that easy but it wasn't.
It was easy to tire out fast no matter how much stamina you had and both men were covered in sweat making it hard to get much purchase on any grips but it didn't stop either of them from trying.
The air seemed to thicken as the minutes ticked away and they knew that they needed to up their game or be at this for hours longer. They glared at each other intently trying to read one another and they circled each other.
Dean watched Tobian remove his mouth piece and flick his tongue over his lips before inserting it again. Dean felt as if was being eaten by his eyes. He would give this man no satisfaction of intimidation.
He looked at Arandi again and she was nearly vibrating in her seat.
"I love you." He mouthed to her.
She mouthed it back and Tobian came at him like a raging bull. Dean had run from more than one of those in his life time. He couldn't run from this one, he had to take him down.
Punches flew and the leg sweep came fast as Dean tried to move away Tobian shoved him making him spin right into another arm lock.
He knew that Tobian wasn't letting go that easily and he wasn't going to tap out. He would take his last breath right here and now before he did that.
His vision swam as the pain cut his breath away and fell to his knees. He heard Arandi gasp and the commotion of the people around him.
He couldn't let her down, he just couldn't he wrenched his body forward and tried to roll but Tobian's grip maintained hard. Dean was glad for the mouth piece or he would have been screaming as he felt his left shoulder wrenched from its socket.
He lost his breath and his vision swam. The people were so loud but the only thing he heard was Arandi crying.
TBC
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