Note for this chapter. I am NOT manipulating anything..it's my story and I'll write it how I please. Second i know where this is going you don't so please don't get mad at me saying I'm trying to trick Roman fans into not liking Roman and turning this into the "Seth Show"... it's not like that. It wouldn't say Roman/OC if it was Seth/OC. I mean how boring would this be if there was no drama? There would be pretty much no story so... Anyway now that that's been addressed, I rewrote this chapter because the first one seemed to graphic and I didn't want to make it horrible.
review please!:)
*Romans POV*
I suddenly jerked awake. I had a bad feeling in my gut. I got up and walked to Jessica's room she was sleeping soundly and fine. I sighed and went down stairs to get a glass of water hoping it would calm me down but it didn't. The bad feeling kept getting worse and worse where I felt like I was getting punched in the stomach and had to puke. I walked back upstairs and into Dean's room to see if he was okay. When I opened the door I noticed he was sitting up.
"What are you doing up?" I asked.
"Dude you scared the shit out of me!" He said grabbing his chest.
"Sorry man. Why are you up?"
"I have no idea i just got this really bad gut feeling. Why are you?"
"Same. It's getting worse too. I checked on Jessica and she's fine."
We stayed quiet for a moment.
"I just have a feeling something bad is about to happen." I said not particularly to Dean. "FUCK!" I exclaimed pacing back and forth.
"What is it?" Dean asked.
"He said she was a dead woman and we both get this bad feeling...something has gotta be going on." i said more to myself.
"Maybe we're just paranoid." Dean said in a hopeful voice but I could tell he was nervous.
"I fucking doubt that Dean."
"Don't get mad at me. I didn't do anything!" Dean yelled
"I know. I'm sorry." I sighed. "I'm going to go check on her alright?" Dean nodded and I headed down the stairs to leave.
*Rox's POV*
When I saw Jason crawling out of the window I took off as fast as I could. I had started running through people's yards to try to be able to hide from Jason. This was like a nightmare come to life. I had no where to run to and eventually I knew he would catch up with me it was just a matter of time. It was hard to make myself keep running and hiding knowing it would all be for nothing. If he was anything like his brother, which he proved he was, they were going to make good on Aaron's promise. Tonight. I stopped running, hiding behind a bush in someone random persons yard. I told myself to get up and run that eventually someone would help me but then I would think no one would. I was fighting with myself and it made me second guess every choice I was going to make. No one would find me or get to me before he does. It's fighting a losing battle the only thing I was fighting for was if it happened now or later but it was going to happen. I just hoped he would do it fast.
Jessica's face kept popping into my head and I wanted to see her one more time. I just wanted to say bye as soon as they killed me they would have no reason to mess with Roman or Jessica anymore. I was really close to Roman's house but even if I got there I would need to find a way inside. It seemed pointless to even try for it but I found myself getting up and bolting towards Roman's house.
I was running as fast as my legs would go trying to make it to Roman's when I suddenly got tackled. By Aaron.
"You really think you were going to get away?" he laughed evil while sitting on me holding me down. I started struggling against him but to no avail. He put his hand on my throat while the other reached behind his back and pulled a knife out of his pocket. I pictured Jessica again and found strength I thought I didn't have. I reached my right hand up and punched him in the temple as hard as I could. He groaned and rolled off me while I got up to run. As soon as I went to take my first step Aaron grabbed my foot and I fell flat on my stomach with a loud thud.
"You're going to pay for that." he said in the most serious, scary tone I ever heard. He climbed up where he was sitting on me again. He grabbed my hair and pulled back forcing me to lean back to me while he was still sitting on me. He put the knife to my throat and I grabbed his arm trying to pull it away. I managed to get his hand away from my throat and he pulled my hair tighter before slamming my head into the ground. I was out of it. I was extremely dizzy and felt like I was going to vomit. My damn concussion making this all so much harder. I tried to grab the knife from his hand but I couldn't get my body to move no matter how much I tried. I heard more laughing before Aaron grabbed my hair again pulling me back up. Jason kneeled down in front of me laughing.
"You're going to go to the cops huh? I tried to protect you! I almost killed my own brother for you! And this is how you repay me?!" I sat there quietly Aaron holding me up. "Answer me bitch!" Jason yelled then slapped me across the face. I tried to answer him but no voice came out. "I said answer me!" he said again this time punching me in the jaw. I tasted blood in my mouth and my vision was blurry from my head getting slammed into the ground.
"You want to do the honor?" Aaron asked Jason amused.
"You know I do." Jason smiled widely and I watched as he took the knife from Aaron. "The only question is how do I want to do this? I could slit your throat." he got up walking back and forth in front of me playing with the knife with a thinking face on "or I could stap you.. repeatedly, I could do this in a really gruesome painful way like... what do you think Aaron?" he said stopping in front of us looking at Aaron and me.
"You could just make little cuts all over.. or you can use this.." I saw him hand Jason a gun. "You know how to make them not fatal right? You could do that. Or you could cut her open slowly and watch as she bleeds out."
"I'm thinking it would be more satisfactory to me to slit her throat and watch her bleed to death. As long as she suffers." he smiled evily while leaning back down to get in my face. "You know... I did actually like you then you let big macho Roman get in between us and look where we are now. This never would have happened if you would have just stayed faithful Rox. You have no one to blame but yourself." he smiled at me then at Aaron.
He put the gun on the ground and replaced Aaron's hand on my hair with his own and moved to the right side of me. He put the knife across my neck and pressed it in a little. I felt some blood running down my neck and started crying. I thought I escaped all this years ago. I thought this was all over and now I was about to die.
He went to pull the knife across my throat when someone shoved him down to the ground. I immeditely put my head down and put my hand on my throat while Aaron got off of me.
"Son of a bitch!" I heard Aaron yell. I could hear the people fighting but didn't have the energy to look up.
*Roman's POV*
I walked a out of the drive way and saw three people a little bit ways away. I slowly started walking up to them when I noticed it was Rox, Aaron and Jason. I saw Jason have something to Rox's throat and bolted to them shoving Jason to the ground away from Rox. When Jason hit the ground I walked up to him and kicked him in the gut as hard as I could while Aaron came up behind me knocking me to the ground. I heard Rox breathing hard and just wanted to get to her as fast as I could. Jason was on the ground coughing when Aaron reached for something and I saw a knife coming down at me. I grabbed his arm trying to keep him from stabbing me with the knife. I over powered him and was able to throw him off of me. In the process he dropped the knife so I bent down and grabbed it and turned around. Aaron came running at me and I stuck the knife out. It went right into his gut and he let out a scream. Aaron fell forward pushing the knife further into his gut.
I turned to go face Jason but he was already up tackling me to the ground. He punched me in the face repeatedly. I wasn't expecting him to be this strong. I was able to start getting my own punches in when Jason rolled away from me over to Aaron. He flipped Aaron over grabbing and pulling the knife out of him and lunging at me. I moved aside and got him in a choke hold. I threw him to the ground and went to go punch him in the face when he pulled me down and got on top of me.
*Rox's POV*
I finally looked up and saw Jason on top of Roman. I noticed the knife was in his hand and he was punching Roman with his other one. I saw him reach up with the knife and knew he was going to try to stab Roman. I crawled forward grabbing the gun. I slowly stood up and walked a bit closer. I aimed the gun at Jason's side and fired. I heard him scream and fall off of Roman grabbing his side. I gripped the gun tight as Roman looked up at me then back to Jason. He stood up and slowly walked up to me.
*Roman's POV*
I walked up to Rox as she watched Jason on the ground bleeding out.
"Babe...baby girl drop the gun it's all over now okay?" She wouldn't look at me. She just kept staring at Jason and gripping the gun. Suddenly she looked at me and raised the gun fast in my direction and fired. She dropped the gun as I jumped and looked behind me. Aaron was lying flat on the ground behind me with a bullet in his head.
"He was going to hurt you..." she said quietly looking at me. I looked at Aaron and Jason then back to Rox.
"Are you okay?" she asked me.
"I'm fine Rox. Are you okay?" she casted her eyes to the ground and I touched her arm trying to get her to look back up at me. Instead she wrapped her arms around my waist and squeezed me tight. I wrapped my arms around her shoulders as tight as I could.
"It's okay now Rox okay? It's all over."
"I thought I was never going to see you again. How did you know to come for me?" she asked pulling back and looking up at me.
"I had a bad feeling and needed to come check on you. You're bleeding Rox."
"It's fine." she said.
We heard sirens and she turned around and stood next to me as the cops pulled up. Detective Burch and Morgan step out of the cars and saw Jason and Aaron on the ground.
"What happened here?!" Detective Morgan said.
"I told you you couldn't protect me." Rox answered.
"Come over here with me you two." Burch said.
Rox and I went over to the side with Burch and told him what happened.
"I'm sorry we weren't here to protect you, like we said we would Rox." she just glared at him and grabbed my arm, hiding behind it in a way.
"I'm going to go get the camera and take pictures of your wounds so we can prove this way self defense and it will match your statement and hopefully it ends there okay?" I nodded my head and he walked back to his car.
I looked down at Rox and put my arm around her shoulder as she snuggled up to me.
"I want to see Jessica." she said looking up at me.
"As soon as this is done you can. I promise."
Burch walked back up to us and took pictures of our wounds separately then told us he'd be in touch and said we can go home for the night.
We walked into the house and Dean was on the couch.
"Holy shit are you two okay?!" he said standing up and walking up to us. Rox completely ignored him and headed up the stairs to see Jessica while I stayed down stairs filling Dean in on everything that happened. It was about 20 minutes later when Dean and I walked up the stairs and saw Rox just standing at Jessica's door staring in it. Dean looked back at me and told me a silent good night and walked into his room while I walked up behind Rox.
"Come on. You can see her when she's awake okay?" I grabbed her wrist and she looked at me then back to Jessica and nodded her head walking down the stairs with me and sitting on the couch next to me.
*Rox's POV*
I sat there staring at my hands.
"We should talk Rox." Roman said.
"Can I use your phone for a second first please?" he looked at me confused and nodded his head. I grabbed his phone and left Seth a quick message filling him in on what happened and told him I was at Roman's and he should come there when his plane landed. In the middle of the message I side glanced at Roman and saw him roll his eyes. I held back and groan and hung up the phone turning my body to face him.
"What do you want to talk about?" I said looking at him.
"You know what...on second thought you've been through enough tonight and I don't want to stress you out right now so we'll talk later okay? Why don't you go take a shower?"
"You sure?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"Okay well...I'll be back in a few then." I said getting up and walking to the shower.
*Roman's POV*
While Rox was in the shower Seth showed up with a panicked look on his face.
"Where is she?! Is she okay?!" he said in one breath.
"She's in the shower."
"What the hell happened?" he asked. I told him the whole story and he let out a shaky breath.
"Damn..I should have been home."
"It's fine. I was there." I said with a tone narrowing my eyes at him.
"Do we have a problem?" Seth asked straightening up.
"I don't know do we?" I asked.
"Not to my knowledge." he shrugged.
I heard someone walking down the stairs and saw Rox walking down the stairs. Seth peeked inside and saw her.
"Rox..thank God you're okay!" he said rushing in and hugging her. I felt out of place. I stood by the door watching those two hug and cleared my throat.
"How was your shower?" I asked.
"It was okay. Thanks." she said to me then looked back at Seth.
"Can I talk to you alone?" Seth asked her. I glared at them when she nodded her head and they walked to the back patio of my house. If they got together in my house I was going to kick Seth's ass.
*Rox's POV*
"What's up Seth?" I asked sitting down on the patio chair.
He took a deep breath and looked at me. "I have to be honest with you Rox. Promise not to hate me though okay?"
"What is it?" I said scared.
"Promise you won't hate me." he said again.
"I promise." i said slowly.
"Okay... so a while ago Nikki came up to me asking if I liked you and I started thinking about it and thought that I did. Well after hearing that Aaron was coming after you I was scared shitless. Then hearing your message and knowing that I could have lose you tonight it made me realize I do have feelings for you and I need you to know that."
I looked at him wide eyed. "What?" I asked sure that I heard him wrong.
"I like you Rox. I would like if we gave us a try."
"Seth..you're just saying this in the heat of the moment or in the shock of what could have happened."
"No.. I felt like this I just didn't know it for sure til now."
"You've known me for a while and suddenly you have feelings for me? No Seth it's the shock."
"Don't tell me why I feel how I do. I know how I feel and I know it's not the shock. I knew you for a while but I didn't actually know you til the the past few weeks and you know it. I think there is something between us. I think we should give us a try."
"Seth...I killed a man tonight- "
"I don't care Rox it was self defense." Seth interuppted me.
"No Seth you didn't let me finish. I killed a man tonight for going after Roman. Not for going after me."
He just stared at me and I sighed.
"If he went after anyone else I probably wouldn't have killed either of them.. but they went after Roman. I killed people for going after Roman."
He looked down and clasped his hands together.
"Seth you're amazing and I'm so grateful we got close and you're in my life but I love Roman. I'm still in love with Roman. Even if I wanted to try it I wound't because I can't be with anyone who isn't Roman. And you're like his brother and we both know that. No matter what you two would be there for each other and I would never be with someone close to him. I'm sorry Seth but... it's Roman. It's always been Roman."
"He broke your heart over and over again."
"When you love someone you can't just walk away Seth."
"He did." he scoffed.
"And he was the one who came back and saved my life tonight." I said back.
"I want you to be happy. If Roman makes you happy then I'll support you." Seth said after a few minutes of quiet.
"I.. i don't know Seth. I don't trust him and I'm still hurt but.. I love that man." I said looking at Roman through the sliding glass door.
"He's one lucky s.o.b that the girl he did all that to would still love him." he said.
"Maybe she's just dumb."
"Naw, that's not it at all. I hope you two can find a way to work it out." Seth said getting up and kissing me on the head and hugging me before walking back into the house. I watched through the door and saw them fist bump and Roman walk outside.
"Friends again?" I asked.
"Yup. Now let's talk." he said sitting down in the chair across from me.