AN: Hey guys, this is my first story! I hope you like it! Please feel free to give me any constructive criticism, but no hate or I may have to use my guardian training on you!
For the past few weeks, when Dimitri had been cleaning the kitchen, he had been finding strange charred lumps of something in the oven. He had no clue what they were or how they got there, but obviously they were something to do with Rose.
He was planning to ask her about it, but recently he'd been super busy. When Christian had first become his charge, he had still kept up his formal guardian behaviour. It had lasted exactly a week. Christian had snapped him out of it quick. He had said that he'd rather have a guardian as a friend than a shadow. Dimitri had soon warmed up to Christian and through repeated double dates with Lissa and Roza, the two had almost become thick as thieves. In the past month, he had barely spent any time with Roza. Between accompanying Christian to meetings across the country to helping Hans develop new defensive strategies against the strigoi; he had been leaving early in the morning and returning late at night. He knew this infuriated Roza to no end and had been planning to talk to Will (Christian's other guardian – a very laidback dhampir from England) about taking a day off to spend with Roza. Unbeknownst to her, he had been saving up his holiday to take Roza away to Russia to meet his family.
He knew she had already met the rest of the Belikovs, but this time he wanted it to be under better circumstances. Secretly, he had always hoped his family would love Roza. He wanted her to go shopping with Vika, wanted Sonya and Karolina to treat her like a sister, wanted Olena to love her like a fourth Belikov daughter she never had. She had told him that his family had been lovely to her (which of course he had expected them to be – he would've been disappointed if they hadn't been), but the whole visit had been marred by Rose taking the unfortunate task upon herself to tell the Belikovs about that. He shuddered just thinking about it. He shook his head as if to shake the memories out all together. His phone rang and he snapped it open quickly.
"Belikov." He always answered calls with his last name; to him it just seemed professional. "Hey man," it was Christian. Immediately Dimitri felt his rigid posture relax as he felt at ease - well as much as a guardian could. "Look, you can take the rest of the day off, okaaa-" Dimitri heard Christian being pulled away from the phone and he heard Lissa giggle and grab the phone "Hey Dimitri, it's Lissa. Christian is at my suite and I've given Rose the rest of the day off too. Maybe you guys could spend some time together?" By that point, Dimitri knew there was no point in arguing with Lissa. He had already started walking to his and Roza's house which was attached to the back of Lissa's royal suite. This was meant to make guarding Lissa easier for Rose but instead it just made it easier for her to prank Christian and steal Lissa's food at 3am. Christian had another apartment that he'd been given when he moved to court, but now he just used it as a personal man-cave for him and Dimitri, complete with gaming consoles and a fridge filled with beer and light snacks for Christian to eat between feeders.
As Dimitri neared his and Roza's house, he could hear lots of loud whooping noises and some shouts of "HELL YEAH!" This brought a smile to his face as he knew that it was his Roza. He chuckled as he speedily entered the code into the lock on their gate. Even though they were the most badass guardians in court (as Rose liked to remind people when she was angry), they still were provided with a ton of security equipment for their house – not that it was necessarily needed, everyone at court, possibly in the whole moroi/dhampir world knew not to piss off Rose or suffer the disastrous consequences. He dropped his keys in the bowl noisily to give Rose a bit of warning that he was in the house as she was a bit preoccupied with the hollering... "Hey Roza, you having fun there?" He chuckled as he walked into the kitchen to see the love of his life dancing round the kitchen like a 7 year old child at a disco party. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around Rose's small body – well she seemed small to him at 5 7" but then again everyone seemed small to him. He placed a kiss on top of her head, still laughing at his girlfriend's childish antics. "So, what made you so happy?" Rose pointed to a large, brightly coloured tin on their granite worktop, smiling like a child at Christmas. Dimitri walked over to the counter and gazed at the tin, on which rested a note written is Rose's rough script. It read:
Look what I made!
Just for you...
Love, your Roza x
Dimitri smiled and looked over at Rose who was wearing the same silly grin attached to her face. He easily lifted the lid off and found... a loaf of black bread. Suddenly it made sense what those charred lumps in their kitchen were; they were his Roza attempting to make his native, family recipe of black bread. Rose drifted over trying to gauge his reaction. "Do you like it?" she asked inquisitively, eager to find out if he liked her surprise gift. "Roza," he said, the smile evident in his voice "of course I like it!" Rose let out the deep breath she had been holding in. "Oh thank god," she said laughing "I had to phone Olena and get the recipe, and then it took me all week to get right!" Dimitri turned round to look at Rose with what could be only described as nothing less than complete love and affection. "Oh Roza, I love you" he murmured with pride springing out of his words. "I love you too, I really do."
A.N: Hey guys, hope you liked! Please don't forget to review! I'm hoping to update this fic at least once a week, so until next time...
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