So this is my first Vampire Academy fan fiction and I hope you all enjoy it. This is my favourite book series of all time and so I only hope I can do it justice
Disclaimer – I do not own Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead does and no matter how much I begged her to give Dimitri Belikov to me she wouldn't let him go
Chapter 1
Christian's POV
I stuffed my hands in my jean pockets and started to make my way to the chapel to meet Lissa.
I'd been outside most of the day or night in my case since I was a Moroi, a type of vampire. I'd been working on my magic; practising using it offensively but since most of the Moroi and Dhampirs frowned upon this I was left to do it under the cover of the trees out of sight of teachers and guardians as well as other students.
I'd been working harder and harder on developing my magic lately after seeing how useful it could really be against Strigoi our mortal enemies who hunted Moroi and Dhampirs down so that they could turn them into Strigoi too or just snack on them.
Strigoi could also be made willingly. A Moroi could choose to become one of the undead and immortal by killing another when feeding and this was what my parents had done before they had been killed by Guardians.
I sometimes felt like I had to prove myself to others now that I wasn't going to turn Strigoi any minute, it was the reason I went to church every Sunday like today because Strigoi couldn't enter holy ground but people still tended to avoid me. These past few weeks however things had begun to change.
Me and a friend Rose Hathaway had fought against a whole army of Strigoi and using my fire magic and her badass fighting skills as a guardian to be we had killed more Strigoi than any two people had killed before. This was the reason I was training harder than ever; I wanted to carry on taking these suckers out and kicking some ass. Rose and I actually worked well together as a team and although I'd never admit it to her I hoped she would consider fighting with me in the future.
All of a sudden I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket and pulling it out I was shocked to see it was my Aunt Tasha calling.
"Hey" I answered
"Christian" sighed Tasha "How is my favourite nephew?"
I laughed down the phone "I'm your only nephew Aunt Tasha, so I'd hope I was your favourite"
"Fair enough then" she laughed
"What's up anyway, its very strange for you to call me I thought you didn't like technology"
"I have some news for you and I think that its a breakthrough for our family, maybe people are finally resigned to the idea that were not going to turn Strigoi"
I wondered what her news was and even I couldn't hide my curiosity as I asked "Well spill then Aunt Tasha, I'd like to know by time I graduate"
"Christian..."she sighed again this time in exasperation. "You're so impatient"
"And your still withholding this big news are you trying to annoy me" I laughed.
"Well...I thought I'd let you know I've finally been assigned a guardian"
"Really, who?" I asked. I was really happy for her; she'd been out in the real world for too long alone and even though she was tough and had stood against Strigoi herself and survived she was not a Dhampir and if it came to hand to hand fighting she wouldn't win.
"It's actually one of the Guardians at St Vladimir's; they've let me have Dimitri"
My thoughts flitted to Rose and I wondered how she would react to this news. I knew her and Dimitri were close they seemed like good friends to me and I knew she looked up to him AN: Don't forget Christian doesn't know about Dimitri and Rose.
"That's really cool Aunt Tasha; I know you and Dimitri are good friends"
"Yes and I'm hoping that maybe we can even be more...I'm willing to have Dhampir children Christian and I do like him more than a friend, I even pushed for him because the academy guardians were reluctant to let him go at first"
"I'm pleased for you but look...I've got to go now I'm meant to be meeting Lissa and I'm running late"
"Okay Christian I'm not one to keep true love apart" she joked
"Very funny, bye Aunt Tasha"
I hung up before she could tease me anymore about me and Lissa and set off again across the quad.
I was processing everything that Tasha had told me on the phone. Last time Tasha had requested a guardian she had been turned down with the excuse that there wasn't any available at the time what with numbers being so low. Either she had pushed really hard or things were finally turning around for the Ozera's since the battle at St Vlads.
I was that caught up in my own thoughts I didn't see Rose walking my way and ended up crashing into her nearly knocking her to the ground.
"Watch where you're going Pyro" Rose exclaimed giving me her best death glare
"Hey its not my fault you nearly fell, aren't you guardians meant to have like superfast reactions and good balance...is Rosie not top of the class anymore"
"You know...if Lissa wasn't all hung up on you I'd seriously kick your ass right now"
"You never know maybe your losing your touch Rose"
"Whatever, Sparky" and she stalked off in typical Rose fashion. Rose and I had an antagonistic relationship but I had to admit I kind of liked her; she had definitely grown on me.
I carried on and reached the chapel in no time. I snuck in and made my way up to the attic which had become Lissa and mines secret hideout. As I entered the room I found Lissa sitting in her usual spot in the window seat but instead of jumping up and meeting me as soon as I entered the room like she normally did she stayed put looking unusually glum.
I stayed silent sensing that something was wrong with her and moved over to sit by the boxes of Vladimir's old journals that had been returned by Mason after he'd borrowed them for Rose once.
After a few minutes of silence Lissa finally decided to speak.
"How come you were late?"
Not wanting to make this anymore awkward I decided to just answer her question and let her tell me why she was acting this way. I wondered whether some of Spirit's craziness was affecting her.
"Aunt Tasha rang me to tell me some news she had, you know how she can go on sometimes"
"What's the news?" she asked
"She's been assigned a guardian finally...Guardian Belikov in fact"
Lissa nodded and then silent again. I waited a few more minutes and then decided to just go ahead and ask her what was wrong.
"Lissa, is something up with you, you really don't seem yourself at the moment, is it Spirit"
She sighed and looked out of the window as she answered me
"Christian there is something I have to tell you but...but I don't want to hurt you"
Oh my god, all of a sudden I was sure that I didn't want to hear what she had to tell me. I braced myself and put my emotionless mask on even though inside I was terrified.
"Just tell me" I said without any expression I hoped. "I can handle it whatever it is."
I watched as she got up off of the window seat and made her way over to where I sat. I felt her slide down the wall next to me.
"Christian, I want to break up"
There it was the words I dreaded hearing and yet expected as soon as she said she wanted to tell me something. I couldn't answer her and I just sat there staring at the wall in front of me as she carried on.
"Look, it's not something you did its just that I...I've been having feelings for someone else and I don't want to string you along when my feelings for you are becoming more friend like."
So there was someone else, I bet I knew who that was
"Is it Adrian?" I asked. I knew she had been working with Adrian on Spirit and I had known that they were growing closer. I had tried to let the feelings go and not act like a jealous jerk but now I knew that my suspicions weren't wrong. Oh Ivashkov was going down for this.
Lissa didn't say anything but in doing so said so much. I stood up abruptly and headed for the door.
"Christian, wait!" she shouted but I ignored her slamming the door behind me as I went.
Rose's POV
I could feel Lissa's anxiousness pouring through the bond and I wondered what it was that was causing her to feel this way.
I pushed the bond to see if I could slip through and into Lissa's head but she slammed up walls against me, something she had been practicing with since her and Christian had become intimate.
Unable to leave her feeling this way I tried again and in the middle of pushing I felt something hard collide with my body.
I looked up and saw that it was Christian who had knocked into me and I wondered how he had not seen me walking down the hall, he was not the one trying to break into someone else's thoughts and so it was him that was going to accept the blame.
Watch where you're going Pyro" I exclaimed giving him the best death glare I could muster up. Christian just glared back raising one eyebrow that actually made him look kind of cute.
"Hey its not my fault you nearly fell, aren't you guardians meant to have like superfast reactions and good balance...is Rosie not top of the class anymore"
Oh no he didn't just call me Rosie did he seriously want to piss me off even more.
"You know...if Lissa wasn't all hung up on you I'd seriously kick your ass right now"
"You never know maybe your losing your touch Rose"
I couldn't be bothered with arguing right now; I was late for training with Dimitri and I was too busy worrying about Lissa right now to add worrying about punishments for beating Christian to a pulp as well.
"Whatever, Sparky" I retorted smiling to myself as I saw him glare at the nickname I gave him and stalked off past him to the gym where I would take out my frustrations. I had to admit no matter how much stick we gave each other I was really growing to like Christian.
It didn't take me long to reach the gym and as I entered I noticed my Russian god Dimitri propped against the wall wearing his favourite leather duster, western novel in hand. I dropped my backpack on the floor by the door and at the sound of it hitting the floor Dimitri looked up.
"Hey Comrade" I smiled giving him my man eater Rose Hathaway grin and made my way over to the weights that Dimitri always had me start with.
Dimitri wandered over to where I was working out and I couldn't help but stare at his looming figure as he fell into my line of vision. He was the personification of perfection and I don't think a day could go by when I didn't dream about his chocolate brown eyes or think about the feel of those soft, kissable lips that melted mine.
As I studied him I noticed that he looked sad and not himself and I quickly put my weights down and joined him as he sat on a bench by the weights station.
"What's the matter Dimitri" I asked concerned. I was one of the few people Dimitri let his guard down with and I knew that if pushed he would confide in me. For him to show it now though something must really be eating him.
"Roza _" he began and I quickly wrapped my arms around him to comfort him.
"Dimitri, tell me please"
He was silent for a few minutes until eventually he lifted my arm from around his shoulders and looked me in the eye.
"Rose...I'm leaving"
No it couldn't be true, Dimitri couldn't be leaving me that was just impossible, and we loved each other.
"No Dimitri I don't understand, are the guardians making you leave. If they're reassigning you I'm coming with you even Kirova can't stop me from transferring."
"I'm not being reassigned Rose at least not in the way you think...I'm not being forced into this" he stated.
"Then what" I asked confused now.
"I've decided to take Tasha up on her offer of being her sole guardian"
I felt my heart break into pieces; it literally felt like a massive ache in my chest
"You're leaving me...but...but I love you and I thought...thought you loved me too" I sobbed. I felt the tears slide down my cheeks but I didn't wipe them away. Dimitri caused this and no way was I going to let him off by hiding how hurt I felt. If it made him feel guilty then tough.
"I do love you Rose" he began "but this can't carry on between us. You're my student and I am your teacher but most important of all you and I would both have been assigned as Lissa's guardian when you both graduate this school and it would make what we have even more complicated as well as endanger Lissa's life."
"But you just said you loved me" I shouted not caring if anyone walked past and heard us. "If that's true then we can work through this."
"I do Rose but you're not the first woman I have loved and you won't be the last"
The way he spoke those words created images in my mind I didn't want to ever think.
"Are you saying you and Tasha will be more than just friends?" I'd stopped crying now and I felt rage building up replacing the sadness.
"Maybe" he said. "Tasha is willing to have Dhampir children and she has feelings for me that are more than friendly, I hope that one day I can return those"
I felt sick. Dimitri, the love of my life was leaving me for another woman so that he could start a family and play house with a Moroi. I couldn't bear to hear anymore and so I stood up.
Looking back at Dimitri still sitting on the floor I spoke as expressionlessly as I could implementing the guardian mask Dimitri had learnt so well.
"I hope you and Tasha have a very happy life together"
I stomped across the floor and as I reached the door I noticed a dummy that looked similar to Tasha Ozera. I pulled the stake Alberta had given me after the battle with the Strigoi and drew a sharp line down the dummies face similar to Tasha's scar. I smiled to myself and then drew my stake right into the dummies ribcage exactly where the heart would be. Pulling my stake out, I put it away and stalked out of the gym without a backwards glance and after I had gotten far enough away I let loosed the tears and emotion that had built up within me during the whole confrontation with Dimitri.
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By the way I wondered who everyone supported i.e. Team Dimitri, Team Adrian, Team Christian or even Team Eddie
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