My Immortal

A New Offer Is Made

 Dean paced the living room impatiently waiting for Keeper to rejoin them so they could start the damn process of strengthening his connection with his Raven. Keeper had gone to the basement to prepare himself; whatever the hell that meant. No one spoke; all of them knew though that Keeper still didn't know about Dean being able to mindlink. As he paced his Raven sat perched in its usual spot on Dean's shoulder, silently observing. He had no idea what the hell Keeper was doing, he's been down in the basement, alone for over 20 minutes now and Dean was beginning to get pissed off. He was ready to go downstairs and drag the son-of-a-bitch up to the living room. He stopped pacing, pinched the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes sighing; sensing his aggravation the Raven became restless.

 "Alright, we're ready to begin now." Keeper announced smiling, breaking into his thoughts, as he came into the room.

 "About damn time, Keeper!" Dean said bitterly. "What the hell took you so damn long?"

 "Oh, calm down, Dean." Keeper said sighing, unmoved by Dean's anger like usual. "I had to prepare, things like this take time to perfect." He added, Dean rolled his eyes in annoyance.

 "Enough bullshit, Keeper, let's just get this over with." Dean ordered.

 "A little impatient, aren't we?" Keeper mocked smiling.

 "Keeper, I swear to fucking..."

 "Alright, Keeper, can you just get on with it and stop trying to get Dean worked up?" Roman demanded annoyed, cutting Dean off.

 "Fine, fine." Keeper replied sighing. "Alright, Dean, sit down on the couch and command the Raven to sit here in front of you." He ordered, as he put the birdcage on the coffee table in front of the couch.

 Dean sighed annoyed that he had to be ordered around by Keeper, he bit his lip, stopping himself from saying something like he wanted to so badly. He sat down on the couch and ran his hands over his face.

 "Raven Of Mourning, I order you to come to the birdcage." Dean commanded, instantly the Raven did what Dean wanted.

 "Good, good, now, before we begin the rest of you must remain completely silent. There can be no noise and no distractions, I need Dean to concentrate and focus on mindlinking." Keeper said firmly, everyone nodded. "Okay, now, Dean, close your eyes and completely empty your mind, I want you to listen to nothing, but my voice, understand?"

 "Yep." Dean replied, before he took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

 Dean took another deep breath, waiting for Keeper to tell him what to do next, even though he already knew how to mindlink, having Keeper do this he'll finally learn how to do it whenever he wanted. He cleared his mind and seconds later, he heard Keeper speak, at first, it was quiet, he couldn't make out what he was saying. He shook his head slightly, squeezing his eyes tighter, focusing harder on Keeper's voice. The harder he concentrated, the louder Keeper's voice became. Finally, he could hear him perfectly clear, as if he were inside his head. He only listened afraid that if he spoke back he'd lose the connection. He needed a way to let Keeper know that he could hear him though.

 Suddenly, he heard Keeper suggest that he enter Dean's mind and guide him that way. Dean didn't want the son-of-a-bitch inside of him, but had no way to stop him without breaking the connection. Before he could react though, he was suddenly standing in a completely dark room; confused how he had gotten there he began walking around. He opened his mouth to speak, but was stopped by someone touching his shoulder, scaring the shit out of him. He turned around quickly, his first reaction was to swing, he barely missed Keeper who was standing there.