OK GUYS HERE IS THE BEGGINING OF THE BLACK ROSE... ENJOY, AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK...
RPOV...
SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE THE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BEING WITH OUT DIMITRI...
Its been four long and miserable fucked -up years since I last saw the love of my life. But I had no one to blame but my self.
I still didn't have a great relationship with my mother. I tolerated her on the best of days, and completely ignored her the rest of the time.
the only person that could bring me from my what the team liked to call my "brooding" moods was liss.
I guess you can say , I turned hard or cold. I killed ruthlessly, with out mercy and trained my team even worse than the training
Dimitri, put me thru. I had a team of 12 that I was responsible for, every so often we would have to recruit a new member.
In the last four years we've lost a lot of good men. Only a few from the begining still remained, and I made sure that they stayed on there game.
Mason, Pavel, Mikhail, Gavin...
Mason, always keep things strait laced while working, off duty he always tryed to get me to loosen up, but my guard was never down.
he tryed on several ocassions to get me to go out with him , claiming it was just a freindship thing. I always declined.
But make no mistake Mason was lethal. or as lethal as a human can be.
Then there was Pavel. Ah what can I say about Pavel, well for one he was the teams male man whore.
He flirted with any woman with a descent face and legs. yes he also flirted with me, but it was just the way pavel is.
But with Pavel , it was different. Any male in general that rubbed me the wrong way, well lets just say pavel was as ruthless as me.
Pavel was the only team member that was even close to being as deadly as I am. He never questioned my judgement or asked questions,
his only response to an order was, " when , where, and how you want it done boss...
I think it had alot to do with the fact that I basically knocked his balls into his spine once for calling me his sweet roza petal...
what can i say, it was a sore spot, and he happened to be the one in my path...
Then there's Mikhail, he was the brains to any operation. he was also mean as nails and tough to boot.
He was are weapons detail. he designed and had upgraded weapons and gadgets made for the team.
per my request he even made suits for the team when out in the field. do to the fact we had lost a few
men who suffered fatal blows to the chest cavitity.
the suits looked like a black pair of army style pants and a tough nylon/ teflon type vest over tight fitting black tees.
the vest actually had titanium metal plates in them to decrease the damage any blows the team would recieve to the chest.
then there was Gavin, or Gav for short. he was just as skilled as the rest, but also he has knoweledge of
computers, security, hacking, and any electronic devices at all.
these where the only men that have mananged to stay by my side without being killed in the last four years.
Now imagine working with these guys that looked like freaking the freaking male model's you see in sex books...
ripped with muscles and taned, well you get the gist...
And yet here I stand on top of the ST. Louis Cathedral, in jaskson square, in New Orleans, in the middle of the night watching
the tourist arrive for Madi Gras ! and all I can think about is what my life could have been like with Dimitri.
No one ever even came close to the russian God I once knew...
wondering if he still thinks about me or even if he might even love me still.
Lost in the memerories that flood my mind, as I watch not only the tourist, but also my team that is scattered
at different points through out the crowd, I hear pavel thru my ear piece.
"Hey Boss, you gonna come join the living ,or you gonna stay on top of the cathedral looking like the angel of death?"
my only response is . " Be there in two." as I jump off and land on my feet blending into the crowd.
I creep up slowly behind pavel and place a knive at his throat, then say. " always on guard pavel, never get destracted by the females."
he snikkered and said, " I am on guard boss." as he looks down pointly to show he has a gun aimed at me...
I laugh and say. " Its about time, your getting better pavel." as I holster my knive.
"well I learned from the best , you made sure of that every time you knocked my balls in to my spine." he said as he cupped himself and scrunched up his face in memory of the pain.
"well you learned something , so stop complaining, plus the team is waiting , lets move" I said as I patted him on the back.
as we made are way thru the crowd, the team was meeting up at the "acme oyster house" in the french quarter.
New orleans has been home for the last four years and we all loved it here. we traveled alot to different places where ever we
where needed, but after the mission we head home .
the oyster house was a favorite of the team as well as myself, we frequent this place so much that they had a special room for us away from the hustle and bustle of the tourist.
As pavel and I made are way into the hidden room for the team, the rest of the guys where already chowing down.
I grabbed mason's beer and took a swig. he looked up and said.
"hey boss, up on the cathedral again." I smirked but didn't reply.
as a few dozen oysters was place on the table by our waiter, and a fresh round of beers.
liss walks in moments later and kisses my cheek and said " hey sis" then looks at gavin.
he imedeiately gets up and offers her his seat, she sits down and tells him to pull another chair up to sit next to her.
Gavin is so into liss its hilarious, but liss never offers more than freindship, I think she is to scared he will die while out on a mission.
An hour later and ten beers and 20 dozen oysters later, my work phone as well as the teams all beeps signaling we are being called into head quarters.
we all throw some cash on the table and I look up at liss she has a worried look on her face, she always does when we get called in,
I look over at Gavin with a knowing look as he said. " Tell alberta, i'll be over after I get liss home ." then grabbs her hand and leads her out.
30 minutes later we arrive at head quarters. its more like a compound.
walking into alberta's office I take a seat and prop my feet on her desk, she smirks at me but then gets a worried look on her face.
as we wait for the other top four members of my team to arrive.
as one by one they make there way into her office.
you can feel the tension on my men rolling off of them in waves.
I sit back looking as calm and relaxed as ever, so my men will relax, it works as they take in my posture.
one thing I learned over the years is to never show fear in front of your team, it can get them killed.
Alberta clears her throat then turns to me and said. " Rose, we have a problem, I need to ask, have you had any contact with anyone from the past or who knew you previsously."
she knows dam well that i haven't had any contact with anyone , not that anyone human would know me. so I answer her saying.
" Alberta, you know dam well, I have no past contacts or connections with anyone, so what the hell is going on." I say with acid.
It took alberta one year to completely trust me, but since then she has never questioned my jugdement, considering I even brought her live vamps to do testing on. we keep them in special silver inforced holding cells , when ever they need blood samples they where ordered to sit down in special made titanium, and silver chairs that would electronicalyy secure them in,
if they attemped to escape sharp silver daggers would shoot out of the chair all over there body and several where pointed toward the heart as well.
thru this testing they discovered a way to make a sirum that was like using complusion, so whoever didn't make the team they could erase there memory of them even trying to make the cut. I liked to call the siruim " the green eye fucking meds..."
Alberta spoke up after taking a deep breathe and said, " Then Rose, you may have been comprimised, here is what I am talking about."
as she handed me a picture of my old house with a dead couple on the floor, with the writing in blood on the wall saying
" come out, where ever you are roza." in that moment in time my whole world was shaking.
could dimitri have done this, could he have killed human people just to make me come out of hiding...
well one thing was for sure if this was dimitri, and he was trying to send me a mesage, well then he just got his wish.
but I couldn't tell them dimitri was still alive when they thought I killed him four years ago.
and if he really did kill these innocent humans then it was my job to kill him.
"Rose, we need the sitiuation contained, you and your team move out in 20 minutes. As always rose you have my full support,
what ever you need will be at your disposal." said alberta.
standing up and looking at my four oldest team memebers I said, " Ok girls its balls to the wall time , suit up and move out."
i said, as they left to prepare.
walking to my office, I go into my private bathroom and suit up and do a weapons check, then walk back into my office.
looking out the window into open space.
Would Dimitri, really kill these people just to get my attention...
the truth was i just couldn'd be sure, but who else could it be, no one else ever called me roza...
heading toward the tarmac, we loaded up and took off...
all the while my mind wondering could I kill dimitri if it came down to it...
