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Indigo Spell spoilers ahead!

Passing someone a note during a royal Moroi dinner is inappropriate. Keeping in mind that this is an emergency, I slip my letter to Jill underneath the table. She briefly looks down on her lap and gives me a questioning look but nods at me. Jill was sitting right across from me whit Adrian right beside her. He was just a little too far away for me to reach. I cast a glance at Adrian and see him peek under the table. He looks at me with a confused expression, and then looks at the wall behind Rose, who stands next to the queen protectively. He looks back at me, with his eyes big and filled with panic.

There, behind the queen, was Hopper sitting on the other side of the windowsill. As to how he got there, I have no idea. Considering he was in the little aquarium in my bed room,-in Palm Springs-which I was sure I had locked.

Hopper's little hands claw at the window, and is unmistakably looking at Adrian and me longingly. Luckily no one else has noticed the little dragon, (still refusing to call it a demon) trying to get through the window and to its "Parents." I was sitting at the end of the table, which was facing the wide window. And the queen was facing opposite of me with her back against the window. Everyone else was sitting on the sides.

I push back my chair loudly, making a screeching sound against the marble floors. I can feel everyone's eyes on me, and my cheeks start to grow warm. But I keep my eyes trained on the little devil dragon.

"Just going to the bathroom," I mutter.

Even though I say that, I can still feel everyone's eyes following me to the door. After I'm safely out of their view, I start running.

My feet squish in the wet grass as I somehow miraculously found the same window Hopper was sitting at. But I couldn't see him anywhere.

". . . weird" I hear someone murmur.

I look up and see through the window Rose talking to the queen. I momentarily forget my mission of getting Hopper, in favor of eavesdropping in on their conversation.

"How was that weird? She just wanted to go to the bathroom," says the queen in my defense.

"Yeah . . ." Christian says. "But she had this panicky look in her eyes and kept looking at the window."

Was I really that obvious?

When he says that, all three look at the window I'm spying through. But fortunately, Hopper decided to come out of his hiding spot and jump on me with a loud sequel. Caught off guard I stumble back and out of sight of the window.

Someone catches me before I can fall, and when I'm standing right again, I whip around so fast, that Hopper has to clutch my dress tighter. I was afraid that the person saw me listening in on the queen's conversation. But When I realize who it is, I calm down.

"What are you doing here?" I whisper fiercely.

"Just helping you look for our beloved son," Adrian whispers back.

"You scared me!"

"Sorry."

Adrian the glances at the window, and says, "Were you eavesdropping on Lissa?"

"What? No" I splutter. "Why would you think that?"

He raises his eyebrows and gives me a crooked smile. Adrian lifts a hand and brushes a strand of fallen hair out of my face, and gently caresses my cheek.

"You're so cute when you're mad." I see the amusement and love in his eyes, and realize that he was teasing me. I flush.

"We're alone," he whispers.

I look around and see that he's right. "Then why are we whispering?"

He laughs and uses his other hand to place on my waist.

Ever since Zoe became an Alchemist, it became harder to obtain a relationship with Adrian. Since she followed me around like a lost duckling. I wouldn't normally mind her doing that, except I couldn't see Adrian as much anymore or that every time I saw the golden lily on her cheek, it was hard to hide my anger.

I was so lost in Adrian's beautiful emerald eyes that I forgot about the dragon holding on to my dress. Adrian pulls me closer, making my whole body tingle. When our faces are an inch apart my breath hitches. But before he can kiss me, an annoying loud screech jerks us apart.

"God!" Adrian said, covering his ears. "How did we not hear that before?"

Irritated, I pluck Hopper off my shoulder as gently as I can, and hold him in my cupped hands. I start walking, assuming Adrian will follow.

"I suppose you don't have anything to feed him with you?" I inquire.

Adrian shakes his head. "No, but I think we should take him to dinner with us."

I stop walking. "What? Why?" I ask, surprised.

"Why not take him with us?" He shrugs. "Plus I also kind of want to prank Christian with him."

His eyes are so pleading, that I sigh in defeat. "Fine," I grumble. "But you have to feed him."

He nods enthusiastically. "Yes ma'am."

…...

Just outside the dining room door, I hand Adrian Hopper. "Wait a minute before you come in."

I slip in, this time without anyone noticing. I take my seat across from Lissa. Jill shoots me a questioning look but I just shake my head, meaning that I would explain later. I guessed she didn't see it through the bond.

After a minute like I told him to wait, Adrian walks in with his hand shoved deep in his pocket. He casually gets to his seat, and while no one was looking he takes a small éclair and puts it in his pocket.

I didn't want to think of how messy his pocket was now. I simply wanted to shudder at the thought of doing something like that. Like a child smearing his food all over his clothes.

We all sit in silence eating our food when suddenly someone yells.

"What the hell?" Christian shouts.

He jumps back from the table. He stars at his plate with a look of shock on his face. My eyes zero in on the little dragon happily eating away at the queen's boyfriend's food.

I gawk at it, along with everyone else. Only when Rose comes up behind it, do I snap back to my senses. But before I can open my mouth, Hopper starts to run around the table. Almost everyone he run's by squeals and jumps to the other side of the room.

While some of the guardians try to catch the fast dragon, I simply just stay in my seat.

Jill's the first to manage to catch Hopper, and when Rose comes to take it away from her; she just tosses him to a laughing Adrian. And when Rose goes after him, Adrian tosses him to me. I felt terrible for Hopper, being tossed around like a ball.

Rose finally gives up on the game of monkey in the middle, and says, "Who's responsible for that . . . thing?"

"Me," Adrian and I chorus together.

Dimitri this time steps up. "Both of you own the, uh, . . . lizard?"
Adrian and I look at each other, and I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing. Soon Adrian joins me, and we both stand there laughing.

"Yep! It's our darling son." Adrian walks over to me, and wraps his arm around my shoulders.

I'm still laughing when Christian says, "What's so funny about putting a lizard in my food?"

"Your face," Adrian states bluntly. "It was hilarious."

Christian shakes his head in disbelief. "Okay, whatever, it's not really an original prank though, so you should just stop laughing."

"It's not a lizard" I finally manage to add. "It's a dragon."

"A what?" People all around us shout. Except for Jill who knows what Hopper really is.

"So you put a dragon in my food?" Christian asks. "How do you even own a dragon? How do they even exist?"

"Believe me you don't want to know."

"Plus neither of us put him in your food, he must've escaped again." Adrian cocked his head to the side. "Well I think it's a he."

Christian looks at the dragon (really a demon, but I'm not telling them that) in my hand.

"Why is he all lovey dovey with you guys? He was just about ten seconds from destroying my face."

"He considers us as his parents, because we were the first people he saw when he was born." I frown. "Okay now enough with the questions I'm going to put Hopper away, and we'll pretend this never happened alright?"

There's a challenge in my voice, daring anyone to object. But they all nod, and I leave with Adrian snickering by my side.

Hoped you guys liked this one! I know it was shorter than the other one's I wrote but I think it's the best so far. Please review and feel free to give me any suggestions to help me write better, or any ideas.

PS. Sorry for taking so long to update.