Turnaround

Part 40

"You know. You guys are creeping me out with the whole smiling excessively thing." Dean drunk some of his beer and petted Harley who was in his lap. He was sitting on the couch in the living room, watching a football game. It was the middle of the day, around 3PM and Dean has been getting excited smiles from everyone today. Especially Seth. Ever since Dean woke up it had been weird. Even Harley seem to know something. After Dean's visit with Roman there was something off, like the older man was hiding something. It worried him, what if it was bad?

This day would make a month since Roman has been in Rehab. Everything was still emotional but it wasn't as bad as it was before. Roman was showing some real progress and after Dean read that notebook from Roman he didn't bring it up to him on the talks they had. He just wanted to be quiet about it, he didn't want Roman to be put in a spot that he couldn't back out of. The man was at a help center. Suddenly Harley started barking and her tail started wagging excitedly. Dean watched her jump off his lap and run to the front door. "Who's out there, girl?" He was going to get up but Jimmy and Jey sat on the couch on the sides of him and kept him seated. "What the fuc-"

Seth opened the front door and Dean's eyes went wide when he saw Roman there with Shawn and Mark. Dean felt paralyzed, he didn't know what to do. This wasn't real. This wasn't happening. Dolph, Naomi, Nattie, Tyson, Jimmy, and Jey went over to hug Roman and ask how he was doing. Harley jumped all over the place until Roman picked her up and hugged her. "Hi baby girl." The Samoan man laughed when he was greeted with licks all over his face. "Alright, alright. I missed you too." He looked over to the couch and saw that Dean was gone. "Where did he go?"

When Roman finally came into the house with Shawn and Mark he went after Dean. To see where he could have gone to. Roman went downstairs quietly and heard random mumbles. "Dean?" Roman looked around the basement and smiled, it screamed Dean completely. He saw the joining bathroom and walked towards it, ducking down a bit as he went through the door-frame. Dean looked up into the mirror and flinched when he saw the older man looking at him with a smile. "Hi."

"This is not real."

"It's real."

Dean looked to Roman and poked his chest. Roman poked Dean's chest back then bopped his nose. "Are-are you home?" Dean stuttered out. Roman shook his head no and Dean furrowed his brows. "Then what the hell..What the hell are you doing here?"

"One free day for good behavior. I got to pick what I wanted. Since I've been progressing a lot and- I've just been doing a lot better. But I know I still got a lot of work to do still. I'm here to see you and I'm also here to talk to you about something serious." Roman grabbed Dean's hand and pulled him out of the bathroom. They went over to Dean's bed and sat down on it.

"What's wrong? Dean saw how sad Roman looked suddenly. "Come on, it's okay. Did something happen? You know you can tell me anything, we are together you know." Dean joked. Roman only looked down and Dean saw a tear drop down onto the jeans he was wearing. "Roman seriously, what's up?" He rubbed the older man's thigh then cupped his chin so they could look at each other.

"What I did to you.." Roman started slowly. "What I did to you..I wasn't healthy. I wasn't thinking. I'm the stupidest man a-fucking-live." Roman rubbed his face as more tears came down. "I'm so sorry. I wasn't in control and I just-you should of broken up with me. You should of left my ass. I don't even deserve you. And here you are, staying with me. Visiting me everyday and hugging me like nothing is wrong. There's so much wrong, Dean. And I just-" Roman stopped talking when Dean pulled him in for a tight hug.

"I forgive you, Roman."

"What? That easy. Baby I-"

"No. I forgive you." Dean ended the hug and kissed Roman on the lips. "And it wasn't easy. But as time went by and I went to visit you more and more..How can I not forgive you? You're doing all of this, getting all of this help to save our relationship. Yes, thinking about what happen stings a bit but guess what? I still want us to be together. You took me in when I was a fucked up asshole and helped me..Now I'm helping you. We're helping each other, get it? I saw you getting more healthy every time I saw you. I was proud. I was so fucking happy, but I missed you so much at night. So that's why I haven't brought that back up. Because I already forgave you but now you're just going through the process of forgiving yourself, Ro."