At that moment I thought my life was over. I thought that one of the two people that I loved in the world was going to be ripped away from me mercilessly.
Without thinking my feet were pounding on the ground beneath me. I felt when Alberta tried to hold me back, but my arm flung out and made contact with her stomach. I heard Janine yell out for me to come back, but I didn't listen. I was only paying attention to the task at hand: Get Dimitri back.
I heard two other sets of footsteps coming up behind me. As soon as we reached the mouth of the cave all three of us took our stakes out. Every step we took was cautious we didn't know what was lurking around the corner so we had to be careful. When we were sure that is was clear we continued into the depths of the cave.
"We don't have much longer. The sun is almost down," I heard Alberta say. "If we don't find him in the next five minutes we have to leave."
As soon as she finished her sentence I heard a grunt. The pain in it gave me more strength and pushed me to go faster. We go to the area the Strigoi and Dimitri were in we all took a fighting stance.
The Strigoi didn't hesitate for a second. He dropped Dimitri like a sack of potatoes and charged at me. The first thought I had was, Make Dimitri proud.
I used the blonde's momentum to my advantage and dropped down to kick him over my head. As soon as he was behind me Janine and Alberta attacked him. They looked like they had it under control so I ran to Dimitri and I kneeled down next to him and took his hand in mine.
He was still semi-conscious and his eyelids were fluttering open and close.
"Roza," he mumbled.
"Yeah, it's me Comrade," I said with tears in my eyes.
I had always thought that he was invincible. That he was my own personal Badass Russian God, and he was but it hurt me to see him so weak and helpless.
"Stay with me, don't go to sleep," I said when I saw his eyelids start to close.
When I heard something heavy drop I looked up to see the Strigoi dead on the floor. Alberta came over and picked up his feet while I carried his head. Janine grabbed hold of his midsection and we ran to the exit as fast as we could carrying dead weight.
When we got out the sun was setting quickly and some of the men guardians came down and helped us carry Dimitri up the hill. As soon as we entered the ward he was put on a stretcher and taken away.
I sat down on a rock along with several others. Lissa came running up to me with Christian trailing behind her.
She threw her arms around me and said, "I'm so glad you're ok, Rose. You have no idea how worried I was. I was just in the infirmary with Christian and I heard you went back in the cave, but no one could tell me why. Oh, Rose I was so worried!"
"I'm fine Liss, just a few scratches here and there, but other than that I'm fine," I said. I got up, "Well, I'm going to, um, go check on something."
I felt the strong suspicion coming through the bond, but I didn't care I had to go see if Dimitri was ok.
When I walked into the infirmary it was hectic. Everybody was running around and there were a couple of poor Guardians sitting in a chair all beat up.
There was no one at the reception desk so I snuck behind it and typed in DIMITRI BELIKOV. I waited as it searched but nothing came up. It was probably so crazy in there that they weren't even bothering to register the patients in.
I let out a frustrated sigh and started wandering around. I was on the third floor when I found him. He was in room 306 sleeping. I walked into the room and saw that they had just hooked up some I.V.'s and set him on the bed. They didn't even bother to make him look in the least bit comfortable.
I looked around and saw a blanket on top of a chair in a corner and I took it. I laid it over Dimitri's still body and sat down. The beeping of the heart monitor was weak but it was there.
The adrenaline was long gone so I was beginning to feel the effects of the battle. My body was sore and I was extremely tired so I took another blanket from the closet and cot cozy on the chair and drifted off to sleep.
I woke up to the voice of my own personal dream come true, "Roza? Wake up."
I opened my eyes to chocolate brown ones looking down at me.