Hi readers! So sorry for the long wait.
i got some motivation back for this story so here you all go :) hope someone is still reading along!
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He'd tried to ignore the fact he found that tattoo and the dream about Dean. Surely he couldn't be slowly going insane himself. He just got his life back on track and he had no wishes to actually check in at his work place. He let out a bitter laugh at himself as he got dressed for work, desperately trying to think about normal everyday things. It had been a week or so since he'd moved in and had the strange dream about the mysterious tattoo.
He tried to just calm himself down by saying his brain was just making up strange stories in his subconscious.
Tonight he was working another night shift. He had actually started to like doing them as they were usually quiet and he had time to read a book, or focus his attention on the monitors in the security office like a watchdog.
As he made his way from the apartments to the main building he cursed and ran as it was raining and not a little bit either. Pretty drenched from running just a few meters, he sighed and went to his cupboard first to change into a his spare overalls he kept there. Walking back to the office with all the security monitors in it, he relieved a happy Brie from her shift and warned her for the weather. He settled into the comfortable chair and scanned the monitors lazily.
A few hours went by and everything was as normal. Seth felt pretty content with his night shift even though the storm outside seemed to be intensifying. He made sure he turned all the lights off everywhere around the time the patients went to bed. They all had their own little lamps in their bedrooms if they wished, but it saved the facility a lot of money to control all the hallway lights among others the way they did. Seth made sure to fill in the logbooks they kept where he'd report every two hours if anything unusual had happened. Suddenly he realised that he'd be able to read through the logbook, to read how other shifts had gone, but he resisted the urge a moment longer before shaking is head. He couldn't imagine not having heard about anything serious anyway, the place wasn't too big and gossip went around like hot buns amongst the nurse team.
He'd plugged in his headphones at some point to rock out to some of his favourite tunes, time passing more quickly as he was enjoying signing along softly and playing air guitar in the swivel chair.
'Aw shit..' he muttered softly, seeing the flashes outside very clearly now and the roaring from the sky was even heard over his songs. He turned the music off, wary of the weather as he hoped the lightning wouldn't strike anywhere in the building. The wind was blowing so hard against the rain that it seemed someone was throwing buckets of water against the windows with massive strength and Seth sighed, frown on his face.
His mind wandered to Night of the living dead, that old horror movie he had seen so long ago. He shivered and tried to forget it, getting up from his chair to make himself a cup of tea. Reaching for the kettle, the loudest boom yet reached his ears and suddenly he was stood in complete darkness.
'…Fuck!' he hissed at no-one in particular, quickly fumbling for his cellphone and turning on the led light he had on it. Shining around he saw the main group of monitors where still on and the security systems where still all in place. He felt relief wash over him before he straightened his back and told himself to go and do his job. From what he could see half of the building was without electricity at the moment. Luckily block A & B where still fine, but Block D seemed to have lost power as well as the offices, staff room and reception area.
He grabbed his little toolbox, fishing out a bigger flashlight so he could turn his phone off and headed out of the office, checking the security system of block D was still in place one last time.
He went to systematically turn back all the switches again, testing if the lights worked and it seemed like a pretty standard black out.
Seth sighed when he eyed the elevator that would take him to D block, trying to empty his mind as he stepped inside and flashed his ID card over the scanner before the elevator started moving smoothly.
As the doors opened and closed again behind him he was wrapped up in complete darkness, suppressing a shiver. He clicked on the flashlight and started looking for the panel to reset the switches. He found it, but as he finished it fairly quickly and tested it, he found out it only worked for half of the long hallway. Groaning he realised the other panel must be at the end of it as there was just rooms in between.
He walked briskly through the hallway, trying not to look into the rooms, keeping his gaze ahead of himself. He heard some noises but tried to block it out, heading for the furthest wall next to the room of the disturbed man he had seen before with Randy. He reached the panel and found it easily, sitting neatly on the wall. It didn't take him long to fix it, but he nearly pulled a switch off the wall when thunder hit hard and some of the patients screamed and wailed in it's wake.
'Jesus christ,' He mumbled under his breath, even letting out a nervous laugh at himself before finishing up and turning the lights at the end of the hallway on to test them.
He took a step to the side and more into the hallway to check all the lights where indeed on. He slowly turned his head to the room he was almost standing directly across from, but he'd made sure to keep a distance now.
He hadn't been prepared for what his eyes met.
The beast like man was standing right at his clear cell door, his face again covered by his long, tangled black hair. One of his large hands was resting against the door as if to reach out for Seth.
The half blond swallowed, freezing on the spot when the other's head moved up slowly. It was like watching a scary movie, but actually being in it yourself.
The dark man's head starting to rise, throwing it back into his neck and he shook his hair out of his face. It was like watching something in slow motions to Seth as the other's long hair fell away from his features and he properly saw the other for the first time. He was mesmerized by the other's strong jaw, or what he could see of it. The man's beard had grown long and looked untidy, but it was clear he had a handsome, timeless kind of face. Seth was about to move again when the patient turned his head and looked straight at him. Nothing of the animalistic side he had seen before was present now. Clear, steel grey eyes where boring straight into his soul and as if like clockwork, his head started throbbing.
Bringing up a hand to his head and he felt his left eye twitch in pain, Seth started moving again, wanting to get away from this place.
As he bend to grab his tools and flashlight, a dark, velvety smooth voice reached his ears and he clutched at the light in his hand until his knuckles went pale.
'You need to help me.' His voice boomed, but it wasn't unkind. Seth tried to stop his mind from running away with him. Tried to get rid of all the feelings of deja vu and strangeness he'd been running from the last few months.
He ignored the patient, grabbing his stuff and never turning his head to meet the other's eyes.
As he slowly started walking away, feeling like his shoes where made out of led, clutching his toolbox against his chest tight.
Just as he though he had passed and he was safe. He could already see the elevator again. Just then, he heard the other speak up again.
'Seth,'
The emotion poured into that one word had Seth stop dead in his tracks. He felt his eyes sting and he didn't know why. He swallowed and closed his eyes, counted to 4 and turned around. Just in view of the dark haired man's cell still.
He was still standing leaned against the clear wall with his hands. His shoulders tense and only then did Seth notice all the bruising over the man's body where it wasn't covered with his dirty facility uniform.
'H-how..' stopping because of his faltering voice, clearing his throat and trying again.
'How do you know my name?' he said just above a whisper, locking eyes with the strange patient again.
'It's really you,' The dark haired man said breathlessly, Seth watched the expression on his whole face soften and the man slumped against the wall a little bit. Confusion taking over and swirling through his mind and body, Seth didn't know what to say or how to react. What was happening to him?
Before Seth could think about anything else, his eyes fell onto the little name plaque on the wall. 'Roman Reigns'. He pressed his lips together into a thin line, wishing it didn't have such a familiar ring to it.
The dark haired patient's demeanor started to change slowly as he was breathing more heavily now. Seth looked over and blinked at him, watching the other get riled up at nothing in particular. Frowning, Seth moved a little closer, muttering an 'Are you okay..? '. His eyes went wide as when Roman looked at him, the other's eyes where wide with fear and rage, his hands balling up into tight fists when he started to bang them against the clear door over and over.
'LEAVE! You have to leave! They'll get you too.. LEAVE!'
His voice echoed and rumbled through the hallway, following Seth all the way into the elevator where he tried to catch his breath, pressing the button multiple times, only stopping when he felt the structure move him down to the lower floor.
The look in the other man's eyes had been something he'd never seen before. It had scared him.
When he reached the dimly lit hallway of the main floor again he tried to shake it off, but it was hard. He tried to tell himself, come on you're a grown ass man, no need to be scared. But his mind kept throwing the things that had been happening the last few months back at him and it scared him even more he couldn't explain any of it.
He watched his shaky hands as he finally made that cup of tea, moving back to the desk with the monitors as he didn't exactly feel like calling any of his co workers in the middle of the night because he was scared. He finished the rest of his shift without any other incidents, but he couldn't really say he'd been all there. His mind kept wandering to that man. Roman Reigns. He had even quickly googled his name, but nothing had come up. Seth had wanted to punch himself for doing something like that, his mind was running away with him and trying to plant seeds to get his hands on the man's casefile. His life was slowly turning into some kind of weird horror movie and he was letting it happen.
When he saw Cody's face peer into the office that morning he was more relieved than he had been before. The nurse didn't ask any questions, but gave him a pat on the shoulders before getting ready for his own shift.
Seth plopped down on his bed as it was getting light again outside. Still dressed, he fell asleep. Tossing and turning and when he woke up hours later all he remembered was deep red and a metallic smell lingering in his nostrils.