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It had been two months since Katrina had given birth to Alexander and they couldn't be more happy than what they were. Their son had grown so much in the past month and they made sure to keep a record of all of it by taking countless pictures. The past month had been hectic, but they wouldn't change it for anything.
"How's little Alex doing?" Asked Dean while he and Roman cleaned up to get ready to close up and leave for the night.
"He's doing great." Roman replied with a smile. "He's gotten a lot bigger which doesn't surprise me because I was a big kid when I was little too. Alex is smiling and cooing a little more. It's just amazing. Being a father is hard but it's amazing and a blessing. I don't know what I'd do without my son."
They heard someone knocking on the locked doors and they went to see who it was, thinking that it was one of Dean's students who may have forgotten something. Roman and Dean stop in their tracks when they see that it's Seth. Dean mumbled something as he went to go open the door.
"What are you doing?" Asked Dean. "We're closed, come back during normal hours."
He wasn't going to ask Seth how he found the place because Dean's school had been advertised all over the place and had been talked about like crazy because of how successful it had been since it had opened up months ago.
"I just wanted to talk to the two of you and when I found out that Roman spent some time here, I thought I'd stop by." Seth replied.
Dean just stared at Seth as he walked in and watched as he stepped back slightly when Roman began to step towards him. Seth had not forgotten what had happened two months ago at the hospital and he knew that Roman wouldn't mind getting physical. He was still taller and bigger than Seth and had gotten a lot more fit since they last saw each other. Seth raised his hands in surrender but began to mentally freak out when he saw that Dean was the only one in that place at the moment that could control Roman's temper for now because he wasn't going to do it himself against someone that he didn't like.
"Can we talk things out, maybe over lunch?" Asked Seth. "Tomorrow."
Dean pulled Roman to the side and talked to him. "He obviously tried to tell you something that day in the hospital. It must be something important if he's been looking for us."
Roman just grunted and went back to cleaning up and getting things together while Dean talked to Seth.
"He has a game on Sunday." Said Dean. "So tomorrow it'll be. But I promised my girlfriend that I'd spend the day with her and Roman is spending time with his family. So expect to see them come along."
"That's fine." Seth replied. They discussed the place and time that they would meet and watched him leave. Roman knew that he would have some explaining to do for Katrina as to why he was going to lunch with the same guy whose head he wanted to rip off when she was in labor.
The next day...
Roman and Katrina got of their car and took out a baby seat. They saw Dean and Renee waiting for them at the door with Seth. While Roman carried the baby seat, thoughts ran through his mind as to what Seth could possibly have to say to them.
Dean and Renee greeted the couple as well as their son who was wide awake and beginning to get fussy letting Katrina know that he wanted to be fed. When Seth tried to say something to Katrina, Roman let out a soft growl as he stepped towards Seth, letting him know that Roman still didn't trust him. Katrina grabbed Roman's arm and looked up at her husband. He whispered something to her and kissed her lips before going inside where Alex's blue eyes captivated everyone they passed by that saw the baby boy.
They all found a booth that was big enough for all of them and took a seat. An awkward silence filled the air as they all looked at the menu, deciding what to eat. When they finally ordered, Katrina took Alexander out and into her arms to feed him. She got up and excused herself, carrying her him and the baby's bag.
"He's your twin, Roman." Said Seth, breaking the silence within the table. "He looks just like you."
Roman smiled softly, but kept to himself. Dean noticed the silence that was beginning to fill the air again and cleared his throat as put his arm on top of the seat, allowing Renee to lean against it and Dean.
"So what brings us all together again?" Asked Dean.
"I wanted to start off by apolgizing." Seth replied. "I know you've heard me say 'I'm sorry' time and again, but I want you two to know that I genuinely mean it."
Roman opened his mouth to say something but closed it again, thinking of what to say. He kept his hands in his lap and looked down at the table before looking back up at Seth. "We forgive you, whether we believe the apologies or not, Seth. My thing is that, when it happened, I didn't believe you because if you were truly sorry, it would have happened only once. Not over and over again behind my back. The same thing goes for Janelle, so don't think that it's just you that I would be hard on."
Seth stayed quiet. "I see that I missed out on so much the past few years. Dean finally has a girlfriend and Roman's married and has a little family of his own and both of you with long careers ahead of you."
"You could have been a part of all of that, Seth." Dean told him. "But who knows if things would have been different, had things not changed as a result of what happened."
"It would have been different." Said Seth. "We proabably wouldn't be here for now."
Katrina came back with a happy Alexander and found her seat again just in time. The waiter bought their food as Katrina took a sip of her soda. Alex cooed when he saw Roman and smiled followed by laughter when his father began to tickle him. He kicked his feet and and had his laughter fill the diner.
Alexander calmed down enough for Katrina to put him down so that she could eat. Roman kept a protective vibe around the two as they ate and Seth was quick to notice. The way that he looked at Katrina was a way that he's never seen Roman look at anyone before. He was truly in love and anyone could see that when they saw the couple together. The same went for Dean. Seth looked at him with his girlfriend and saw the happiness in his eyes. Anyone who knew him as well as he and Roman did, knew that it had to be someone special to make Dean as happy as Renee made him.
"Another reason why I wanted to us to come together today, was that I wanted us to try to become friends again." Said Seth.
"What of Janelle?" Asked Dean as Roman turned his attention to his son for a moment, hearing Alex laugh once again.
Seth thought for a moment. "Well, I'm stuck with her for the rest of my life. We broke up about a few days before I saw Roman in the hospital. But because we share a son, we'll also share custody of him. So I won't be able to get rid of her."
"How did you know that I was in the hospital anyways and why were you anywhere near Katrina?" Asked Roman as if not hearing anything else that was said.
"Janelle was in the hospital because she had a bad fall." Seth replied. "I saw you walking around and decided to go look for you. I was going room to room, trying to find you. I didn't know that she's your wife. If I had known, I wouldn't have went in."
Roman and Dean looked at each other, hearing Seth's answer. They weren't really impressed but put some thought into what he was telling them.
"What I want to know," Said Roman. "Is why you and Janelle did what you did. And then why you treated Dean the way that you did for him trying to defend me."
Seth stayed quiet for a moment. "I was lonely. She gave me a call one day and said that she needed somebody to talk to and that I was the only person that she felt cofmortable talking to at the moment. So I stopped by to see if she was okay. One thing led to another and before you knew it, that was when it all started. Janelle and I knew that it was wrong, but we continued to do it anyways. That was our fault, you didn't deserve that. I lashed out at Dean because at that moment, I thought that he could get away with it and not have a care in the world about it. I was angry that he could do the crazy shit that he does and be okay."
"You say you were lonely." Said Roman with a straight face, after smiling at the baby. "Seth, you know damn well you could have had any other girl out there in Georgia or back home in Iowa. That was how great of a guy you were. But you went after the one that I had because you were lonely."
"I'm genuinly, sorry about that Roman." Said Seth. "I truly am."
Things went silent again as they continued to eat. "Seth...people expect me to be an asshole and to be crazy. That's just how I am and people see it coming from the moment that they meet me. It was different for you because that's not how people percieved you, Seth. You were seen as this really good guy who cared about the people that were in his life. Always trustworthy and honorable. What people expect from you is a lot different than what people expect from me, Seth."
He understood now, completely, what was being said. "I know, and I'm sorry."
"Stop apologizing, Seth." Roman told him. "We get it, and we forgave you. It's just going to be a while before we ever trust you again."
'We're not saying that we won't ever have some kind of trust with you." Added Dean. "But we just need to think about it. Things aren't going to change overnight."
At least they were going to think about it. That was the good thing for Seth. He wanted his brothers back in his life and he thought that this was a positive start to it.
A/N: What do you think about Seth trying to have a positive relationship with his former brothers and the fact that he and Janelle broke up?
