Saying Goodbye

Staying Strong

**Days Later**:

 The days passed, Dean and Roman kept moving on. They were happy and free to be in love, no one knew who they were and best of all no one had come looking for them! They never stayed in one place too long though, and they kept in constant contact with Paige; she would tell them anything about the family they needed to know.

 Seth was devestated Roman had left, and at first he thought maybe he had gone home. After talking to his neighbours though, he found out he hadn't. He had no idea where he could be, but he knew he was with Dean! He couldn't be sure though, but who else would he be with? Needing to know Roman was okay at least, Seth tried texting and calling Dean, but just like Roman he got no reply. To keep up apperances, not wanting to get Roman into any more trouble, Seth told Ford that Roman had had a family emergency and went home. Ford bought it and so Seth pretended everything was fine, while he secretly tried to find Roman while he was working.

 Paige struggled to act like everything was fine, so no one in the family got suspicious. She kept Dean's jacket at her apartment, never letting the family know she had it, so no questions were asked. She snuck around to contact the guys, letting them know if the family asked about Dean. She missed the guys; especially Dean like crazy, and forced herself to act as normal as possible so the family didn't question her.

**Three Months Later**:

 Days turned to weeks, and soon it had been three months since they left. Dean sat on the balcony of their latest hotel, he had no idea where they were now, towns and cities began to blend together to him. They'd be leaving again in the morning, moving on to another nameless town, living in a hotel or their car, running from their past, chasing a future they might not be able to catch!

  He looked into the room and saw Roman still sleeping, watching him Dean's guilt, that had been haunting him lately, grew heavier. He sighed as he turned his eyes back to the city lights. He felt horrible that he had agreed to run away; he loved Roman and wanted to spend the rest of his life with him, but Roman deserved so much better than this!

  He had turned his sweet, kind, loving, gentle Samoan Prince into nothing more than a common-low-life like himself! After reading the texts and hearing the messages from Seth on his phone and Roman's his guilt had grown worse! He felt like the worst person alive; no one had ever made him feel this way and for Roman's sake he needed to end this somehow! The only thing stopping him right now was the pain it would cause Roman, so Dean needed time to figure this out.

 "Dean?"

 "Hey baby boy, what are you doing up?" Dean asked, as he stood and went to Roman. "I thought you were sleeping?"

"I was, but I woke up and you were gone!" Roman answered hugging Dean. "I got worried."

"I couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd get some fresh air." Dean explained.

"You okay babe?" Roman asked concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Come on, let's go back to bed." Dean said leading the way inside.

"I love you Dean." Roman said, as they cuddled close in the bed.

"I love you too baby boy." Dean said, holding him close.

**With Paige**:

  As time passed Paige continued to cover for Dean, while struggling with her missing them. For awhile nothing was said about Dean, but by the third month Hunter and Stephanie slowly began to get suspicious. At first Paige was able to convince them everything was fine, but soon she couldn't hold them off any longer and they began looking into his disapperance. Scared for the guys she tried contacting both Dean and Roman, but for some reason neither would answer her and she became even more scared!

  Finally a week later, with still no response from either man and The Authority wanting to find Dean now, Paige did the only thing she could think of...she went to Seth for help!

**With Seth**:

  Seth hung up the phone, throwing it onto the bed, as yet another lead on Roman was a deadend! He paced the room like a caged tiger, he was surely losing his mind not knowing where Roman was. He had no one to blame; not even Dean for Roman's leaving, but himself! Truthfully, if he was Roman, he would have done the same damn thing!

  He sat on the bed sighing, as he ran his hands over his face. Sighing again loudly he threw himself backwards on the bed, his arms above his head as he starred at the ceiling. Suddenly someone knocked on the door, thinking it was Ford he ignored it. When the knocking continued he got up angrily and answered it.

  "I told you I'd..." Seth began, as he opened it, but trailed off seeing the one person he never thought would be there. "Paige?"

TBC...