"Dimitri are you sure you want to do this?" I asked with uncertainty. We were on the front porch of his old house in Russia. I told him he should go and tell his family he was alive, and he wanted me to come with him.
"Yes Roza I'm sure." He told me. I nodded and gave him a kiss filled with love and passion. Before we could go any further I pulled away. Then I knocked on the door. There was shuffling on the other side of the door, and Dimitri ran to hide behind a bush on the side of the house. Olena, Dimitri's mother opened the door. She looked at me shocked, and then with a gasp she pulled me into a hug.
"Oh Rose!" She exclaimed, "After you ran off I didn't know what to think! I am so happy to see you! Come see the rest of the family!" She pulled away from the hug and started to pull me inside the house.
"Wait Olena before we do that there's something we need to talk about"
"Oh ok." She said as I went to the bush and grabbed Dimitri's hand. She had on a look of more shock than before when she first saw me.
"Oh my God Dimka!" She started hugging and kissing him while sobbing into him. He held just held her and silently cried. "Oh Dimka you need to go see your sisters, they will be so delighted!" We went inside and were met with many familiar faces. First Karolina jumped into Dimitri's arms crying happily knowing her little brother was no longer a stigoi. Then she came over to me and hugged me saying, "Rose it has never been the same since you left. You love Dimka and you are like a sister to all of us girls." I just held her tightly and said, "I thought of all of you like sisters also and missed seeing you guys but I had to leave and find Dimitri." She nodded in understanding. Viktoria came running down the stairs and ran into my arms saying, "Rose you have no idea how sorry I am for the way I acted! I was a total bitch and you were right."
"It's ok Viktoria you had every right to be mad at me for what I did." Dimitri looked between us with a confused look and I just shook my head. Yeva came over and just stared at me. "I knew you would restore Dimka. All you had to do was stop sulking and find him." She said.
"Umm thanks Yeva." I said. I had no idea what else to say.
"Sonya will be getting off work around 11:30pm" Olena said. "So you two can head to bed and see her tomorrow because I'm sure you are exhausted from that flight". And she was right the flight was 26 hours and I had major jet leg.
"Thank you Olena" I said.
"Of course, Dimka show Rose to your old room, you'll be sleeping there." Dimitri took my hand and with our free hands we grabbed our suitcases. We walked up the stairs and at the end of the hall we went into a room I recognized because it was the room I stayed in when I came to Russia to kill Dimitri. When we got into the room Dimitri collapsed on the bed and instantly fell to sleep. I went to the connecting bathroom and took a shower. Then, I brushed my teeth and changed into my pajamas. With that, I went into the bedroom and fell into a dreamless sleep next to Dimitri.