The new Rose;
Chapter 1:
It has been a week since I lost my virginity to the man I love and it has been a week since we've been doing any school work, only because off the raid we played on the Strigoi. I let my mind wander back to what had happened.
"Rose!" Alberta and Stan screamed at the same time. But I didn't hear, all I knew was Dimitri was still in there and I couldn't let him suffer. If it was anyone else; Lissa, Christian even Kirova, we'd go back but because he was one of US, we weren't allowed to. But screw the rules. I was going to. I would never leave someone behind, not when I had the power to stop them. Not now and not ever. Dimitri was in there. MY Dimitri.
I ran back in the cave, kicking the first Strigoi back into the rest, I staked him. 1. The next one. 2. Pulled another stake out from my belt ad I stabbed another. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. I made my way through the first barricade of Strigoi and kept moving. Killing every Strigoi with every new turn I made. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. I was running off adrenaline and fear of the unknown. I kept running until I came into the opening where Dimitri stood, chained to the rock wall.
"Rose," he said. "Go!"
I shook my head. It was a trap. I knew it and he knew it. The blonde Strigoi appeared, smiling.
"I knew you'd come back," he said, grinning, showing me the full length of his teeth. I could tell he was much older. From the paleness that was chalky white, almost grey colour of his skin, the way he moved like he was a predator about to pounce on his prey. "What should I do with you? Kill you? Turn you? Oh yes, I will turn you and use you to get to Vasilissa, oh how good it'd be to drain the last Dragomir."
"You'll never touch her!" I yelled, my voice sounding menacing and roaring. My anger bubbling, but no, I wasn't going to fight with anger, I was going to use it to my advantage, calculating his moves, using it as a weapon. Not fight him like a child and use my anger and just send untimely punches. No, I was going to win and this was how I was going to do it.
He moved like a snake, ready to strike, he lunged and I side-stepped out of his way and he plummeted forward and before he could regain his composure I kicked him in the back, sending him flying forward, he fell and I used that as my five second gap to shove my stake in to his back. I was dripping with blood from my enemies that I was destroying but that wasn't going to stop me. He screamed and pushed me off, rolled over so he was on top of me. He bent down to bite me but I lifted my hand and plunged it up into his nose, heard a crunching sound, he snarled. I kept pushing his face away from my neck and he kept trying. We were two bodies, meshed. I didn't know where my body ended and his began but I knew I was going to make it out. He was going to lose. It was the only way. I wasn't going to die, not like this.
I wrapped my legs around his waist and rolled over, straddling him. "Mmm... you really are sexy for a Dhampir, Strigoi would look good on you," he said. Grinding his hips against me.
"Oh really?" I asked him, bringing my stake down and into his chest. He lied still against the rocky floor. 21. "Creep." I ran towards Dimitri where he was chained. "Oh my god! I was so worried! I couldn't leave you! I couldn't!" I stepped up on my tip-toes and kissed him passionately. "I'll get you out!"
"Roza," he said, eyes shutting. I fumbled with the chains, unscrewing the tiny bolts with my fingers until they came loose. I got him free and he slumped against me. I wrapped my arm around his waist and help guide him to the way out, I handed him one of my stakes, just in case. I turned a corner and was face to face with a hoard of Strigoi, they were growling and snarling.
I let go of Dimitri and he stood, barely, but ready to fight. I wasn't going to let him do all the work in his condition but I couldn't do this alone. Not again. I charged forward, kicking, punching, staking. 22. 23. 24. 25. I got thrown against the hard rock wall by a Strigoi. My seen stars in my vision but blinked them back and silently told them not now or ever. I peeled off the wall, spun and kicked him in the chest, he fell back onto his Strigoi mates and they collapsed against the cave floor. I jumped on him, staked. 26. The next one I staked. 27. I kept going 28, 29, 30. I kept going, blazing on. Muscles aching, head aching and my bones feeling so fragile they'd break. I blocked a punch, ducked away from his hands, and at the same time I jumped up, I plunged my stake through his heart. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. I kept persevering. Dimitri by my side. 37. 38. 39. 40. Soon there were no more and Dimitri collapsed against the wall, I ran up to him.
"No resting yet, Comrade. We have to get to safety," I told him soothingly.
"Roza," he moaned. His eyes closing.
"Don't pass out in me, Dimitri! I can't carry you!" I yelled, panic arising in my voice.
I kept him upright and kept walking, holding him up as he stumbled. His eyes not wanting to stay open. I held him up but that didn't stop me from staking Strigoi lurking in the shadows. 41. 42. 43. Finally I reached the opening and fell through it into the setting sun. "Rose!" Alberta yelled, rushing forward to help me with Dimitri. She had tears in her eyes. "I thought we were going to lose you. I knew we had to go, had to leave you. But I couldn't leave."
"Thanks," I said breathlessly. "There was 43, including the blonde guy. I got them Alberta. They're could've been more. I don't know but we killed them." I breathed a sigh of relief.
"You mean. You killed them," Dimitri said. He laughed but moaned in pain. "I only killed five. The day the student outdoes her mentor is the day we all dread."
"Shh," I said smiling. "It's okay." I moved his hair out from his face.
Dimitri got rushed into the infirmary, he had a few broken ribs, a broken leg and a lot of bloodloss. But I visited him everyday. I tried him to let Lissa heal him but he wouldn't allow it, saying something about how a warrior becomes a stronger and better fighter after experiencing the pain. On one hand I understood that, because you wouldn't allow yourself get hurt during a fight again, but on the other hand it was stupid when you had a perfectly amazing girl that could heal you of your injuries. And I argued with him daily after school about it. I even offered that Adrian could do it and Dimitri could be a test dummy. But no, apparently, not.
I got 43 new molnija marks and a battle-mark. Apparently, I'm the youngest girl my age to EVER have this many molnija marks. Mum sent me a letter saying she was proud of me, probably the nicest thing she's ever said, not that it changes anything.
But, today, Dimitri was getting out of the infirmary and I'm meeting him at the Gym after the school day ends to train, so I'm sitting in my last class for the day, bubbling with excitement, jumping up in my seat as soon as the bell rang. I grabbed my bag, threw my stuff inside and was the first one out the door, sprinting to the Gym across campus.
"Dimitri?" I called as I walked inside, he wasn't there. I checked the office, not here either. I took this moment to start stretching. I got down into the splits and leaned forward, stretching out the back of my leg that was in front. I did the same with the other leg.
The door opened and Dimitri walked inside, crutch in one hand. "Oh Comrade," I sighed at the sight of him.
He turned and locked the door behind him and I thought maybe I was going to get lucky again but his face said I wasn't. "Rose, you shouldn't have come back for me," he said, referring to the cave situation. "You could've gotten hurt or killed."
I'm speechless. My throat closed up. "I came back because I love you," I told him, looking up at him from underneath my lashes.
"You shouldn't have. It made me realize. What if it was a completely different circumstance? I got trapped and you had to run Lissa to safety? We can't keep her safe if we're worried about each other. If I got trapped, would you come back for me or get Lissa away?" he said.
"This was a completely different circumstance!" I yelled. I sighed. My anger wouldn't do this any good. "'They come first'," I said. "Lissa is my best friend and everything. She means the world to me. I'd never put her in danger."
He looked at me sadly. "I do love you Roza, I do, but I have to take Tasha's offer. You can live a long and happy life... with Adrian."
"I don't want Adrian. I want you!" I whispered.
"That's all, Rose. There's no more to discuss," he said, turning and leaving.
I stormed out but he was already gone. I made my way to the track and ran as fast as I could until my lungs were aching, legs were shaking and then I couldn't go any more. I collapsed, holding myself like I was the tape keeping myself together and cried. I help my face in my hands and sobbed, and sobbed and sobbed until I couldn't cry any longer. I couldn't move, all I could do was sit here, staring at the grass, feeling the pain I couldn't escape. The pain of a broken heart, the pain of fighting, the bruises I still had from fighting Strigoi. The violation of giving the one thing up I could to a man I love and getting left. I could feel every slither where my heart broke and I couldn't go back. I couldn't escape. I couldn't run from it. I could run from anything-but a broken heart, apparently, you couldn't run from that.
Okay guys! I'm re-writinf every single frigging chapter because 1) it's been so long since Ive written this I've kind of forgot everything about it 2) it was horrible laid out and I have a new plan for how I want this story to go, so PLEASE read it. And Keep yourself open to the new ideas I have and don't judge too quickly and reason 3) my writing technique has changed and I feel my last version of this story wasn't written to the best it could be. So remember. Keep your views open, don't judge too quickly an review. I hope you enjoy it written the second time round as much ad you all did the first.
I love you all and thank you for staying with me even when I wasn't with it. I hope you enjoy :)