Okay. This is Vampire Academy stuff. I've rearranged some things. Please, bear with me. Because I'm such a sucker for love, I cried at the end of Shadow Kiss. I was so mad. So instead of Rose waiting for forever to go after Dimitri, she leaves the day after he was attacked by the Strigoi. For now, that's the only thing I've changed. Have fun reading, because I had fun typing!!

Disclaimer: The three little miracles are mine. The two adults are not.

I walked down the road, stake in hand. Could I really kill Dimitri? I mean, he was my true love, my one and only. He had told me that he wanted to be killed if he was ever turned into a Strigoi. But I wasn't sure if his decisions were still the same. He was Strigoi now. He wouldn't want to die. He wouldn't remember anything.

I came upon the cave where the final few Strigoi were waiting in the darkness for night to fall so that they could escape. I walked into the cave, my heart pounding erratically. I swallowed, tightening my grip on the stake. My knuckles were nearly white.

There was a blur, and Dimitri was standing in front of me, his eyes glowing crimson. He bared his teeth at me, fangs visible, as he lowered into a crouch. "Dimitri, wait," I gasped, holding a hand up, praying to whatever God there was that he would stop and hear me out.

He continued to lower, looking like he was going to pounce. "Dimitri, please. It's Rose. Rose. You know me, remember?"

His eyes widened, and he slowly straightened. "Rose?" he whispered. I nodded slowly. "What are you doing here?" he hissed worriedly, glancing over his shoulder.

"I came to . . . fulfill my end of the bargain." I showed him a glimpse of the stake, frowning, tears in my eyes.

"Oh." He sighed. "Well, I won't stop you. You need to uphold your end of the bargain."

Suddenly, three more Strigoi surrounded us. This must have been what Dimitri was worried about. "Oh, lovely little dhampir," one hissed, circling around me.

"Yesss . . . Where can we get one?" another chuckled.

"Not here," Dimitri growled. "She and I have business to attend to. Leave us."

"Hm. What kind of business, Dimitri?" murmured the final one. He was the one that had turned Dimitri into a Strigoi.

Dimitri growled. "None of your business, Tony," he snapped. "Now why don't you, Russell, and Caleb go back to the hole you crawled from?"

The one Dimitri had called Tony appraised him carefully before shrugging and slinking backwards, hissing a little. The two others backed away as well.

I looked up at Dimitri's familiar face. The only difference being his once brown eyes were now crimson.

"I missed you," I whispered, wrapping my arms around his waist desperately. It didn't matter to me if he crushed me or not. I needed to know that he was alive in some way. True, his heart had stopped beating, but he was still standing in front of me, flesh and bone.

"Oh, Roza, I missed you," he murmured, hugging me lightly. I reached up and kissed him. His hands cupped my face gently, his cool thumb tracing my cheek gently. "I love you," came his soft voice in my ear.

Tears began to form in my eyes, and it did not escape his notice. "Why are you crying?" he whispered worriedly.

"I can't live without you," I mumbled. "I can't do it."

"You'll be fine," he replied. "You have to make sure that I don't hurt anyone. I couldn't live with myself, knowing I'd killed a person."

My eyes strayed to the floor in embarrassment, knowing what I had to say, but not wanting to say it while there was a possibility that the other Strigoi were listening.

"You'll need to do it soon, Roza," Dimitri said. That made up my mind. Embarrassed or not, he had a right to know.

"Dimitri, you know - there is the, uh, slight possibility that I could be carrying your child," I whispered, my eyes glued to the floor. It was silent for a moment before he burst into laughter. "It's not funny!" I snapped. "I'm serious."

His face grew grave. "I'm dead, Rose. There's no possible way . . . that . . ." He trailed off, presumably remembering. He had been a dhampir that night. This wasn't so crazy after all.

"Will you at least wait? To see with me? Please?"

Dimitri swallowed, raking a hand through his hair. "I'll do my best, Roza. But I'm not even sure if Tony will let me leave."

"Well, try," I encouraged. "I have to say goodbye to Lissa anyway. I'll see you tonight." I kissed his cheek and darted out of the cave without letting him try to talk his way out of this.

I might have gotten him to stay with me after all.

Bum bum BUM... lol. So what happens? I feel like an evil scientist or something. What did you guys think? Good, bad, angsty, sad? (Hey, that rhymed. Weird.)

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