Seth and Dean were quiet as they walked to the new camp Roman had picked out, Sarah had insisted that there was safety in numbers and told them to move their things. Of course Roman had protested at first but she had fixed him with glare and the issue was drop, the Samoan was obviously still feeling guilty of his absent mindedness in the raid earlier that made him more compliant. The two men hadn't complained too much, more opportunities to court the femlae was not going to be passed down.
If it wasn't for the fact said female was solely focused on the handsome prisoner they had retrieved would've made the task much easier.
"Has he awakened?" Roman called from across clearing, setting up a low fire to cook on.
"Not yet but he's stirring," She answered, she had not left the unconsious man's side since they had set up. "If he rises I'll call you."
"Good," He murmured, not really answering but just making noise. Dean was beside him now, setting down more rocks to help control the fire. "Where's Seth?" He asked the paler man.
"Hunting," Dean answered. "He said he scented deer near by, should be back soon, never takes him long to finish a hunt." Roman nodded along, about to respond when he heard Sarah yell.
"He's up! Go time!" She said, the blonde young man was blinking tiredly up at her, trying to move to rub his hands to his eyes. When his arms couldn't move he woke up fully, swinging his head round to try to figure out his situation. "Morning sleepy head." She said in a fake sweet voice, he stared at her as if just noticing she was there.
"Who are you? Where am I? What the hell is going on?" He had a scottish accent and wide hazel eyes that looked too naive for this world.
"Ooooo, you have alot of questions, Sweetness." She smirked, not so subltly dodging his questions, Roman and Dean approached from behind her, the bound man eye's widened. "Why don't we start with your name and maybe if you're good I'll give you mine."
"I'm Drew, atleast that's what they call me." He almost stuttured.
"Good we're getting somewhere." She smiled and patted him lightly on the head, the two men behind her tensed, ready to attack but Drew didn't make a move to bite her. "Now who is they?"
"The group that's gonna kill you all," He said solomnly, Roman growled and started for the man.
"Who is gonna kill us, no one can kill us."
"That's what everyone says but Hunter has targeted you and he'll slaughter everyone." He shook his head and Sarah pulled her companion away from their hostage.
"Why do they want to kill us?"
"Not all of you, just the men." He stated.
"Why?!" She growled, flicking out her knife threateningly.
"Power." He said terrified. "This town gets alot of wanderers, Hunter watches them and finds one or two members out the group that he wants and the group will get it for him."
"Why does he want me? How do I give give him power?" She put the knife away slowly.
"A mate," He blushed lightly. "We could smell your untouchedness from miles away, made tracking and watching you much easier." Roman growled and Drew flinched, Dean rested a hand on the larger man's arm.
"How long has he been doing this?" Dean asked.
"Since the viruse first broke out, it was much smaller then and it's been steadily growing over the years."
"Why is he looking for a mate now? He's had years to find one." She spat, angry.
"His last two mates weren't umm," He hesitated. "Well they weren't virgins and they didn't produce any vaible offspring, he get's off on ownership and wants to have a legacy to leave so one day his liniage can run the new world."
"God that's sick," She mumbled, feeling the need to vomit. "Then'll we'll leave, you and Seth with us too." She said to her companions.
"He'll track you," Drew said, from his tone she figured the same had happened to him. "He's unstoppable when he wants something."
"Did he do the same to you." Her voice was softer now, gentler and the man flinched like she had struck him, unused to kindness.
"He saw 'potential' in me a couple years back, back then he made offers before he killed the others off. He told me if I joined him, I'd have power, but when I wanted to bring my mates with me... He didn't like it very well. He threatened us and when we tried to leave, we got maybe 30 miles north before he finally caught up to us." Sarah pouted watching the down cast man with empathy. "He took my Heath and Jinder from me."
"Why did you stay? You could've left after he let his guard down." Dean asked.
"I have no one left," Drew shrugged, memories making him depressed. "Life in this world isn't meant to be alone, Hunter didn't keep good on his promise, I'm in charge of some people but I'm not as powerful as he said I would be."
"Your mates were men?" Sarah tried not to sound judgemental but she had never heard of that before, of course her only experiences in the world were with Roman and wandering.
"Yeah, not alot of females can make it in this world, the ones that do are few and far between." he shrugged. "And one's that are fertile and virgin, that's why he went crazy to get you."
"i'm fertile?" She looked at Roman who shrugged. "Why did no one tell me this?"
"It was in your scent," Dean said. "We kinda thought you knew."
"How was I supposed to know? I haven't talked with another woman for years." She pouted but shook her head, focusing. "We have to take him down. Will you help us?"
"I don't wanna get involved." He started but Roman cut him off.
"You're already involved," The Samoan growled. "You think this guy will be happy to have you back if I cave 'traitor' into your abbs?" Drew flinched.
"Roman stop it, that's not how you make friends." Sarah rolled her eyes, turning to speak softly to the bound man. "Please, we need all the help we can get."
"He's got an army."
"We have a Roman." She smirked, motioning to her friend. "He's taken out more men than I can count, partly because it's alot but mostly because I failed kindergarten twice." She joked, earning a chuckle out of the blonde.
"I don't know your name." Drew trailed off.
"I'm Sarah, that's Roman, he's Dean and Seth will be back with dinner soon." She smiled and flicked her knife out to cut him loose, as if on cue Seth stalked back into the camp, a doe thrown over his shoulder. "That's him, Seth come meet a new friend." The man dropped the deer and glanced confused at Roman and Dean, both men shrugged and shook their heads.
"I'm guessing the intergoation went well?" He asked slowly.
"Yeah, I'll fill you in later but we have an ally and now we're gonna go take on an army." Dean smirked and Seth gaped.
"What the fuck did I miss?" He was led off by his blue eyed friend.
"Sarah I don't think releasing him is a good idea." Roman started but she glared once more.
"The last hundred people I let you slaughter weren't good people," She growled and he blinked, he thought he had hid the massacres from her so well. "I could tell, I could smell the lies and evil seeping out of their pores, but this man." She pointed to Drew who stayed seated awkwardly. "And those two men out there." She pointed across the clearing to Dean and Seth skinning the doe over conversation. "Are not like the others."
"Okay," Roman murmured, pulling her close to him. "I believe you, but I'm just trying to look out for you."
The rest of the day was spent discussing plans and preparing the deer meat to be smoked and salted for preservation. Drew was quickly tiring of the constant questions but he enjoyed the friendliness of the group, something he hadn't experienced in years. "So if he wants me, then why did that group shoot at me too?"
"It was a mistake," Drew said. "I was in charge of the mission, we were only supposed to threaten you into coming with us, and once everyone was seperated you three would be murdered. But Roman surprised me by being out of the shop, it was impossible to scent anyone with Sarah so close and being aroused." He explained, the three men turned to the small female.
"You were aroused?" Roman asked, how had they not noticed, she had smelled like she always did.
"You couldn't tell?" Drew seemed surprised not letting Sarah answer. "She's aroused now, I can smell it!"
"She always scents like this." Roman tried to think back to when her scent had changed, when she'd hit puberty maybe but he wasn't sure.
"So basically she's always aroused?" Seth filled in, he had noticed the scent but hadn't been around a female in years, it was hard to tell if it was her natural scent or something more.
"Can we focus on how the plan went wrong?" Sarah glared at the chuckling men.
"Right, right." Drew smiled lightly. "Well when I went to take him out and got my ass kicked, thanks for that too." He said to Roman who nodded and smiled. "I guess they just panicked and went wild. It was new recruits, only been in the gang for half a year, they were the last batch before you all. Hunter likes to send out the newbies to test their loyalty and worth, they're probably all dead by now for their failure." He muttered.
"So how do we beat him?" Sarah asked.
"They are a few things you can do to escape or make him lose interest." Drew said. "One would be to fake your death, I think that would easy, leave alot of her blood somewhere pretend to bury her and then change her scent."
"I don't wanna escape," Sarah dead panned. "I wanna kill him."
"Let's just hear him out on this plan okay?" Roman pleaded, he didn't want her going into a fight. "How do we change her scent?"
"Well her entire scent is arousal, fertility, and virginity." Drew contniued. "The easiest thing to do is mate with her and she'll lose atleast two out of three components."
"No." Roman growled, setting down the knife he had been using to skin a leg. "No one's mating with her."
"Let's just hear him out." Sarah teased, smirking when the larger man sent her a glare.
"I take it we don't have an opinion in this matter?" Dean motioned to himself and Seth, Roman punched him in the shoulder.
"The only problem with that is we don't know if it'll change at all, sometimes is does sometimes it doesn't." Drew ignored the outbursts. "And if it doesn't change and Hunter finds out, no one will be spared."
That sobered the smirking wanderers, looking around to each other, it was a game of chance and one they couldn't afford to lose. Roman glared at the sky, he had been charged with protecting Sarah, and now he was gonna fail. "No," He murmured and all eyes turned to him. "We'll slaughter them all." The brunette at his side smiled widely.
A/N alot of key plot moments in here, I thought it would be cute to make all of the bad guys in this story to be Faces in the WWE. Did you see the Avenger line thrown in? I was watching them while I did this. I hope you liked it, sorry it took forever.