Chapter 1
Dimitri was sleeping next to Tasha, his long time friend. He was trying to get out of her house but she would never let him leave. He had left Rose Hathaway three and a half long years ago. Rose never tried to call him after he left; she just let him go. Lissa said it was because she was afraid to be hurt again, and that was all he could do now.
Tasha was fast asleep on the other side of the bed when the phone started ringing. Dimitri just let it go, but the person kept calling back and kept it up. Not wanting to deal with Tasha's drama of being woken up in the middle of the night, Dimitri got up and left the room. He knew that Tasha could be a light sleeper sometimes, but tonight luck was on his side.
He had to look around the room some before he found the phone in the kitchen. As far away from Tasha as possible inside the house. He looked down at the number that implied that it was an unknown number. Thought about not answering the phone, but something inside told him that this one phone call was important and he had to. Life or death.
"Beliekov residence," Dimiri said, him and Tasha were not married. She wanted to get married, but he kept refusing her on the one thing, and having a child. After he had left, Lissa called and told him that he could have a family with Rose, because she was shadow-kissed.
There was quite sobbing on the other end of the line. "He hit me." Was the only thing Dimitri could make out.
"Who is this?" Dimitri hissed into the phone.
"Please, help me, he is trying to find me," the woman on the other end of the line sobbed out. "I told him no again, and he is trying to kill me. You are the only person I thought to call. Please."
"Roza, is that you?" Dimitri wanted to yell into the phone so bad.
"You little slut," Dimitri heard from the other end. There was a squeal as if someone was being picked up by the hair. Dimitri heard some commotion on the other end, and some more painful sobbing.
Dimitri wished with all that he was that he could be there in the midst of that fight, he did not like to see or hear that anyone was getting hurt. Especially if it was his Roza, but he was not sure if it was.
"Please. Help," Dimitri was able to make out, then at the end he heard, "Comrade."
That one sentence was all that had him running into the bedroom, not caring that Tasha was trying to sleep. He packed a bag really fast. Tasha awoke and walked over to him.
"You will go back to bed with me, hon," Tasha knows how to lighten the compulsion so people won't notice it as easily. It started working, but the sound of his Roza crying out in pain was enough to pull him out of it and back to what he knew he had to do.
He gritted his teeth and looked at Natasha." I will not listen to you again, Natasha."
After that he pulled out his duster that he had not had the chance to wear since Tasha had forced him to leave Rose. She was always trying to get rid of everything of Rose that might have the slightest sent of her.
Tasha hated one of the best people that Dimitri knew, and she wanted that person dead. That is the only reason that Dimitri was still here, Tasha kept threatening Rose. She tried one more time to make Dimitri stay, but Dimitri did one thing that he said he would never do, he knocked Tasha out, and left her on the bed.
When Dimitri had on a clean pair of clothes, he left. Not bothering to take a shower before he left. I will find my Roza.
Dimitri got about half way down the block, before he figured he should call Lissa to find where Rose might be.
He pulled out the little phone he had pulled off Tasha's bedside table. He no longer had one, Tasha broke it, wanting to make sure he had no was to contact Rose.
He dialed Lissa's number which never changed. To his luck.
"Hello," he heard a tired Lissa say. "Christian, can you get Andre he woke up?"
"Lissa?" Dimitri asked, feeling the panic now set in. "Where's Rose?"
"Who-" Lissa started. "Dimitre, what's wrong?"
Dimitri just let the line be silent for a bit. "I need to find Roza now."
Dimitri heard the sound of a baby crying, and calmint tones from the other end. "Her and adrian and living right outside of court. Why?"
"I'll see you later," and he hung up the phone.
When Dimitri got to the airport in Oregon, where Tasha and him had been staying. He had about a two hour flight in front of him. When he got onto the plane he started to panic, not knowing what to do. The last time he had been on a plane he had had Roza right there with him.
One of the stewardesses on the plane walked up to him and showed him where to sit. She gave him the run down as if he were a young child that was on the plane for the first time. He stopped listening to what she had to say to him, that was until she started flirting with him. Finally when she noticed that he was not giving her and attention she stopped and walked away.
Then the plane started for take off he lied back into his seat. He'd has almost no sleep because of Tasha before he left. He had shut off her cell phone because she kept calling him. Some small part of him was afraid to talk to her for fear that she might be able to use compulsion on him over the phone.
The next thing that Dimitri noticed was the same lady shaking him out of a restless sleep and back into reality. "Hey Sir, we are about to land. You need to put your seat up."
As he felt the plane start to descend from the sky, he knew he was going back to the life that he had left behind. He never wanted to leave, he does not even remember leaving, just waking up with Tasha there and a bad hangover. That's what Tasha told him anyway.
When he was on the ground, he quickly got off the plane before anyone could stop him. All the clothes he had backed were on carry on with him.
"Excuse me, Ma'am," Dimitri called out to an older woman with red hair and blue eyes. She smiled kindly. "Is there a rental car I can get?"
"Umm. . . hang on one minute," She said, typing into a computer. "Yes, only one. It has a scratch on the side, but that's all."
"I'll take it," Dimitri said, running his hand through his hair nervously, pulling in a deep breath. "How fast can I get it?"
With in minutes he was in the car. It was now five hours ago that he had heard from Rose, that was not good. He had to calm himself down by telling himself that it was because she did not have Tasha's number.
On the way to Rose's place he stopped at a phone booth. Pulling out the phone book he looked up Hathaway, the only one on list was Janine. Yanking the page out, he quickly found the address and went to the house hole.
Knocking on the door, there was some yelling inside the house. After a minute Janine got the door, balancing a child on her hip. "Mama, that wooks like Sissy's friend in that picure."
"hush, Johnie," Janine said, setting a finger on the boys lips and smiling. "What do you need, Dimitri?"
"Where's Rose?" Dimitri rushed out. "I need to find her."
Janine set the boy down, "Go to Daddy, Johnie."
The little boy made a face that looked just like Rose, it brought a tear to Dimitri's eye. "He looks like Roza."
"That's my son," Janine told him in a clipped voice. "Why do you want to find Rose? You hurt her."
Dimitri looked down, a tear running down his face. "I don't remember. I need to find her she's in trouble."
"How to you know, she refused to call you," She snapped, closing the door and stepping outside.
"That's the thing, she called me," Dimitri said. "about six hours ago now. Please just tell me where I can find her."
Janine walked back inside the house, walking back out a few minutes later. "Here this is her address, she is living with Adrian. Please get her away from that pig. He hurts her."
With that Dimitri was gone. Janine turned back into the house to talk to Abe about Dimitri. They had wanted him back for a while, he was the only one that could slow Rose down, but they could not find him.
While Janine and Abe got married, Rose just sat there with Adrian. At first he was really nice to Rose, getting her what ever she needed. Until one day Rose came home with a black eye and bruises on her arms, that was when Rose started to change.
Rose was letting the darkness from Lissa take over her body. She would disapear for weeks hunting, then she would come back with more tattoos and go back to Adrian. She lost all respect for herself, but he was getting really bad with her. She stopped calling Abe and Janine, even stopped talking to Johnie.
When Johnie was born, Rose was so happy. She stayed over at Janine and Abe's house for three months to help with Johnie. Rose was really good with children. But all that was gone, and she was gone too.
When Dimitri came to a stop in front of the house, he seen the door was left ajar and started to panic farther. He opened the door to the car, and walked up to the house. Pulling out his stake as he went.