DISCALIMER: All characters are the intellectual property of Rachael Mead and Her book the Vampire Academy.

The Lust Charm

After leaving the dance, getting off of my guard duty, I went back to my room and decided to take a shower. After finishing the shower, I put on some pajama pants and decided to go to bed. Today had been a pretty long day and I was ready for some sleep. I laid down on my bed closing my eyes, and like every night since that night I caught her with Jesse, I dreamed about one person…. My Roza. I know that it was wrong for me to have these feelings but before I had realized what was happening, they were there. The only thing I could do now was to make sure I never acted on my feelings keeping them under control. And with Rose the way she was, it had been very hard to do.

Tonight I was dreaming about her in that black dress she had worn at the dance. It fit her body perfectly, clinging to her body in all the right places with her beautiful hair flowing down on her shoulders just the way I liked it. As soon as I saw her, I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She was so beautiful and I couldn't help but be jealous of that Mason kid she was with. I was starting to doze off when a knock came from my door.

I climbed out of bed to go answer the door wondering who it could be this late. I opened the door and was surprised to find Rose standing there, still wearing the same black dress I was just dreaming about.

"Rose?" I said

"Let me in. It's Lissa." Rose said. I didn't argue with her seeing the frantic look in her eyes and voice. So I let her in knowing something had to be wrong. I closed the door and turned towards Rose and asked, "What's wrong?"

Rose just stood there staring at me. The frantic look in her eyes was gone and was replaced with a dazed look like she had forgotten why she was even here. Out of nowhere she lunged at me trying to kiss me on my bare chest. Ok, something was definitely wrong, this wasn't like Rose.

"Rose!" I exclaimed, stepping back, "What are you doing?"

"What do you think?" She said starting toward me again.

I held my hands out trying to keep her away knowing if I let her get too close, I might not have the will power to resist her. And I couldn't let that happen.

"Are you drunk?" I asked because she surely wasn't acting herself.

"Don't I wish," she stated looking like she was going to try for me again but then paused, "I thought you wanted to – Don't you think I'm pretty?"

She had no clue how much I wanted her and how beautiful I thought she was. But there was no way we could be together for various reasons.

"Rose, I don't know what's going on but you need to go back to your room." I stated. I had to get her out of here. It was hard enough just being around her and resisting the urge to kiss her. But her practically throwing herself at me was testing that control. She moved towards me again, and I was going to catch her wrists and escort her out of my room. But as soon as I grabbed her wrist, an electric current shot thru me. All of the sudden all my resistance seemed to melt away and a wave of pure desire swept over me. All I could think was how much I wanted Rose.

I released her wrist, moving my hands up her arms, sliding slowly along her smooth silky skin. I looked into her beautiful eyes and a hunger started to swell in me. I pulled her into me, pressing her right up against my body. I moved one hand up the back of her neck, twirling my fingers in her hair and tipping her face up to mine. I brought my lips down, barely brushing them against hers.

She whispered against my mouth, "Do you think I'm pretty?" again. I looked her straight in her beautiful eyes and said, "I think you're beautiful."

"Beautiful?" she questioned. Why she would think she wasn't beautiful was beyond me?

"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes." I replied.

I moved my lips to hers, gentle at first, and then hard and hungry. Feeling her soft warm lips against mine sent electric sensations down my spine. I moved my hands off her arms and slipped them down her hips, down to the edge of her dresses hemline. I gathered up the fabric and began pushing it up her legs sliding my fingers up her skin. She started kissing me harder, pulling herself tighter against my body. I kept sliding her dress up and up until I pulled the dress over her head and tossed it to the floor.

"You… you got rid of that dress fast," she said between kisses, "I thought you liked it."

"I do like it," I said breathing heavily, "I love it."

Then I picked her up still kissing her and took her to my bed. We clung to each other and kept kissing and kissing and kissing and kissing. Exploring every inch of her body with my mouth. I had dreamed many nights of being with Rose this way and none of them compared to what I was experiencing now. But somewhere in all this, there was this tiny voice in my head saying something, not understanding what it was saying, being drowned out by my desire for Rose.

I looked at her with hunger in my eyes wanting so much more, more than we were right now. But I took it slow knowing Rose had never been with anybody before. At one point she shifted, getting on top of me, her beautiful hair flowing down around her shoulders. The moonlight coming thru my window illuminated her body, making her skin glisten. The light seemed to highlight the shape of her subtle breast. Her hands gently caressed my chest, tracing with her fingers every line on my body sending tingles over my skin. I just stared at her wondering how it was possible for somebody to be so beautiful.

I leaned up bringing my mouth to hers not able to take it anymore. I wanted her so bad, wanting us to feel like were one. I rolled her off of me putting my body on top of hers kissing her harder this time. I eventually moved down to her neck, tracing kisses down her neckline whispering Roza, Roza between each kiss. I looked back up into her eyes and they were burning with the same hunger and desire I felt for her. Her eyes telling me she wanted me just as much as I wanted her.

I slid my fingers to the back of her neck unfastening Victor's necklace. I set the necklace on the table beside my bed. As soon as the chain left my fingers, it felt like someone had slapped me awake from a dream. My head feeling groggy and still a little clouded I asked, "What happened?"

"I don't know," Rose said obviously experiencing the same thing I was.

I frowned wondering what was going on. The hunger I was feeling earlier was not there anymore. Now don't get me wrong my desire for Rose was still there, but all the barricades that had been torn down earlier were suddenly back up. I thought for a few moments of what could have caused this. That's when I saw Victor's necklace and remembered he could do earth magic and put charms on things. But why would Victor give Rose a lust charm?

I went to pick the necklace back up and as soon as I touched it the overwhelming desire, slammed back into me. It took every ounce of strength I could muster to fight the lust charm. I got up off the bed and went to the window, tossing the necklace outside. As soon as the necklace was gone, Rose suddenly remembered why she had come here in the first place.

Lissa was in trouble and had been kidnapped by Victor. All I could think was, Oh no, and hoped the time Rose and me wasted under the influence of the lust charm, that it wouldn't be too late.