The New Beginning

Hey. This is my first V.A Fanfic, and it is pretty small.

Description- Dimitri and Rose had just faced off a pack of strigoi in the caves. Dimitri had been bitten and 'died'. Rose returns to the academy with half her soul and heart aching for Dimitri, the man she loved. Lissa was the only person who knew about their relationship and learnt to accept it. Lissa and Christian are still together and in love. Adrian is also still at the academy learning more about spirit with Lissa. But what happens when Lissa gets captured by the one and only, Dimitri Belikov as a strigoi? Can Rose save Lissa in the end? This is a short story…Enjoy!

Chapter 1

"Dimitri…" I ran my fingers along the side of his pale face. Tears were escaping my eyes as they silently fell onto his lifeless body underneath me. He had been bitten by a strigoi before Icould savehim. I had my other hand around his body as I slowly let go of the face I love. I rested my head on his chest for one more time as I closed my eyes for just a moment.

It turned out I had actually fallen asleep on his cold body but by the time I had woken, he was gone. The cave was gone. I was back at the academy, in the med clinic. Was the strigoi attack a dream? Was Dimitri's death a dream? Or had I just-

"Rose!" Lissa interrupted me with her concerned voice, confirming that what had just happened, had happened. The picture of his cold, dead face was all I saw with deep black darkness covering the rest of my vision. Until Lissa grabbed my hand. The vision left and I saw the med clinic, Lissa and Dr. Olendzki. I had wanted to see one more person staring down at me, but I know I will never see him again.

"Rose we were so scared. We couldn't find you. Then we did. And we found you alone. What were you-" I cut her off with my hand tightening. "Are you OK?" She asked instantly. "I was…alone?" I asked shakily. "In the cave…?" I continued. Lissa nodded her head. "But…Dimitri…he was there…" I whispered to myself but Lissa had still managed to hear.

"Rose, you were lying down, asleep, unconscious even, and you were alone. Dimitri, he's…missing, suspected to be, well…dead." Lissa continued looking into my eyes, but I had to look away. And so I did. I looked off to the left of the room where there was a window into the waiting room. There were blinds covering up my room but I'd occasionally see people standing out near them. I'd always noticed that. And for a second, I saw Dimitri's shadow lurking behind them.

I shut my eyes for 2 seconds then looked back to the window. He was gone. I blinked back a few tears and then looked back up at Lissa. She looked scared and worried. Dr. Olendzki looked like her usual self around me since I was here a lot. "Rose, when we found you, we tried taking you and well…you kept on sobbing and saying Dimitri's name. What happened in the cave? What happened to Dimitri?" She asked me.

"To be honest, I don't even know what happened down there. Except…there were strigoi…and Dimitri, he…he was bitten." I paused for a few seconds in between the sentence. I also had trouble hiding my tears back. My heart ached for the man I loved. He was gone, his life over in one night, one strigoi bite, one failing Rose Hathaway. He died because of me.

Dr. Olendzki's phone went off and she departed the room. "Rose…I…I don't know what to say…" Lissa still held my hand in hers in a comforting, friendly way. I loved her for it. "Rose, you can cry, it's OK to cry when you lose someone you love." Lissa's words were filled with sorrow and regret. Sorrow I understood but regret? I couldn't pull my head around regret.

And for the first time since we'd gotten back to the academy, I cried. Tears spilling out of my eyes as my heart was in constant pain. I cried myself to sleep that night in my dorm. I kept on reliving his death, over and over in my head.

We were running out as fast as we could. And again, I had thanked Dimitri for making me run laps. The Strigoi were fast but we were getting away. I had remembered taking a trip into the cave a few years ago and had remembered this path we ran on. There was a corner then the entrance was not far from it. We had made it, we had really-

A Strigoi grabbed a hold of me and threw me to the ground. I was used to this and so I jumped back up ready to fight, but as I had suspected, Dimitri was already in full fight mode attacking the Strigoi. I couldn't just stand back and watch so I jumped into the fight coming from the side. Dimitri was the one to push me away. "Run! Get out of here! Roza run!" He had used my nickname. I looked straight into his eyes for just a few seconds and began to run. I loved him, and it hurt me running away and not helping him.

As I reached the corner, I turned back, and began running back to Dimitri. I couldn't run from him. If it was only one strigoi, it shouldn't be too hard for him to defeat. But we had already been in a fight for most of the afternoon and night was creeping over us. Soon there could be more Strigoi attacking him, and I couldn't let him die. I couldn't let them take him.

When I took in the surroundings. I stopped running. I froze. I stood for half a second realising the Strigoi was coming right to me. I grabbed my stake out of my jacket and started running towards it. We had both stopped, having about a meter in between us. He had knocked out Dimitri. This Strigoi was going to pay. With all my anger I jumped right on him, not thinking about how I was going to kill him yet.

My stake was in my right hand and so as I jumped on the Strigoi, he faltered back as I jumped off him and threw my body weight into a kick that had made him stagger for only a second. That was my opportunity to stake him. And so I did. I moved faster than I had ever moved and lunged my stake into his ribs then to his heart. I stabbed it in further as I wanted him to suffer for hurting Dimitri.

The Strigoi stood there in front of me with wide eyes. I looked into his eyes. He had dark black eyes ringed in a blood red outline. His skin was pale, very pale as all Strigoi have cold, pale skin. His hair was night black but had ruffled in the fight. He was tall but not very muscly. He had been an early Strigoi in my eyes but Dimitri had seemed scared for my safety as if he was ancient and powerful. Then, his body collapsed falling back giving me sight of Dimitri. I ran over to him grabbing my stake on the way.

I shut my eyes tight and pushed the images of him lying there in front of me out of my head and focused on Lissa instead. The other half of me. In fact, she is my whole now even though my heart aches for Dimitri. He is over now. That part of my life is over now.

Thanks for reading! The next chapter will be uploaded soon! :]