Hello Guys! This is my first Fan Fiction! I have had experience writing before, but have never done this until my friend coaxed me into it. So please. Read and review and tell me what you think :)
~Sarah.
Chapter 1:
His fingers were the first thing I was aware of when I woke up. The pleasant bone shuddering chill that they provided in their wake. I could feel the goose bumps that were appearing on my skin. The fingers were then followed with a brush of breath on my neck. I smiled and slowly opened my eyes to find warm chocolate brown ones staring down at me.
"Good morning Roza," Dimitri said, his voice still husky with sleep.
"Mmm, good morning Comrade." I sighed in contentment.
"We have to get up Roza," he said climbing out of the bed.
I moaned. "But why?" I cried, throwing the blankets back over my head.
I heard Dimitri laugh and then he was suddenly there, peering under the blankets at me with a smirk playing around his mouth.
"We're going shopping with Lissa, remember?" he asked raising one of his eyebrows at me.
That's right; Lissa had 'persuaded' Kirova into letting us travel to Missoula to shop at the mall. Adrian, Christian, Eddie, Mia, Dimitri, Alberta and Stan would be coming with us, along with two other guardians that I didn't know.
I grinned. "Thanks for reminding me Comrade. Maybe I should reward you somehow." I smiled seductively and I saw Dimitri visibly gulp.
"Oh?" he asked again raising that stupid eyebrow of his. "And how do you propose to do that?"
"Oh, Well, I do have to stop by Victoria's secret." I smiled while winking at him.
For a moment Dimitri looked stunned before he leapt onto the bed, making me squeal.
"Get out of the bed, now." He demanded with a playful tone.
I pretended to think about it before shaking my head. "Nope." I said popping the 'P'.
"Alright that's it," he said standing up and pulling the covers off with him. I shrieked and made an attempt at trying to grab the blanket.
"Dimitri! Give them back its cold!" I screeched.
"Then get out of bed and put clothes on, and you'll be warm." He said smirking.
"Ugh! Fine! You win!" I cried jumping off the bed and making my way to the bathroom. "I'm taking a shower to warm up now." I added bitterly before closing the door behind me, but not before I caught the sound of his laughter.
Twenty minutes later I was ready to go. I had my short denim jean shorts on, with a white singlet and a red cardigan thrown on over the top. My white sneakers that was good for anything, (shopping and/or killing striogi). My hair was in a sleek ponytail so that it would keep the hair out of my face and so it would leave me free to survey my surroundings. A brush of makeup and then I was good to go.
I walked out to find Dimitri sitting on my bed, waiting for me to return.
"Took you long enough," he said standing up and stretching.
"I was only twenty minutes!" I exclaimed. "That's a new record."
"Girls," he muttered before opening the door and indicating that I should walk out first.
I sighed but paused to pick up my purse and stake. You never could be too careful.
Dimitri was watching me closely. And he snickered when he saw I couldn't find a place to put my stake.
"Give it here," he said and took the stake from my hand.
I handed it to him wordlessly and I watched as he put it in an inside is duster where I also caught a glimpse of his stake. We walked down the corridor in comfortable silence where we met the rest of the gang along the way.
"Rose!" cried Lissa and launched herself into my waiting arms.
I laughed. "It's good to see you too," I said and pulled back.
"I beg to differ," said a voice and I looked over to see Christian.
"Well, I had to spend time making myself look hot," I paused to look him up and down to see what he was wearing. "Apparently some of us don't know what the word hot means, ey sparky?"
Behind me I could hear Adrian and Eddie snickering, Christian however looked pissed off. He opened his mouth to fire something back at me but Lissa interrupted.
"Guys, can you save it so we can go shopping?" she asked and sighing I nodded.
We started walking out to the garages when Adrian fell in step with me.
"Little Dampir," he greeted.
"Hey Adrian," I said.
"I thought about visiting you in your dreams last night, but then I thought you were probably getting naked with Belikov, so I thought it was best to leave you alone." He said with a smirk on his face.
I felt my face heating and looked up to Dimitri where he was walking just a few steps ahead of us. His hands closed into fists when he heard Adrian's comment.
Adrian snickered. "Don't worry, little Dampir, your secret's safe with me," he said. Then with a pat on my head and a kiss to my cheek he galloped off to walk with Lissa up the front.
I glared at his retreating figure and walked up beside Dimitri.
"I don't care if he is a royal moroi or not, I'm gonna kill him," said Dimitri under his breath to me.
I smiled. "Aw, is someone jealous?" I asked and Dimitri glared at Adrian.
"He kissed you," he stated and it never creased to amaze me at how he could see things that are happening behind him without actually having to look.
"But you know that I'm yours?" I said laying a hand on his arm.
He turned to look down at me and smiled. "That you are." He said. And I knew if we were alone he would have bent down to kiss me.
We arrived at the mall 6 hours later and I walked up to walk with Dimitri and Lissa. Him and I would be looking after her, while Eddie and Alberta would be looking after Mia and the two other guardians that I discovered were actually Adrian's would be looking after him and Christian, who refused to have guardians was walking along side Lissa with his fingers linked with hers. Little did he know us guardians, despite our own charges, we would be working as a group to protect the moroi. I glanced over at Eddie and caught sight of his stake that was in his front jeans pocket. After the incident in Spokane the guardians had decided that Eddie and I were worthy enough to be given stakes whenever we went anywhere.
Lissa suddenly grabbed my arm and dragged me off to the side and I saw Christian hang back to talk to Dimitri when he caught sight of the shop Lissa was dragging me into. Dimitri and I had decided that I would play the near guard and he would be the far guard, as so not to draw attention to ourselves. Mia came over with us and together we went into Victoria's Secret, while the boys waited outside the shop. Only Alberta followed us into the shop.
Immediately Lissa began throwing lingerie at me and demanded me to go try them on.
"I can't guys, I'm working remember?" I said with a pointed look to Alberta who was pretending to look at some lacy bras.
"Fine, what size are you?" demanded Lissa and sighing I told her.
Immediately she began fishing between the racks to pull out several different types of lacy underwear. She ended up picking out three outfits for me and there was one in particular I liked. It was red and black two piece underwear. The bra was half exposing the breasts and the g-sting that was attached was nothing but lace that left nothing for the imagination. We made our way over to the cash register when something dawned on me.
"Lissa, I don't have enough money for all three," I said reaching for them. "I'll just get one of them."
I tried snatching them off her but she pulled away too quickly for me to grab them. "Don't be stupid Rose, I'm buying them for you." she said. One of the many advantages to being rich and the last one in your line was that you had that much inherited money that it was limitless.
I smiled. "Thanks Liss." I said and she brushed me off with a wave of her hand.
We paid for our items and then went out to join the rest of the group and when Dimitri caught sight of the bag I held in my hand he raised his eyebrows at me, and I wiggled mine back at him seductively.
After 5 more hours of shopping and at least 10 bags in my hand and 30 in Lissa's we were ready to go. We walked back into the car park and saw that our car and a few others were the only cars that were left in the car park. I glanced around nervously and Dimitri caught my nervous glance. He came up to walk beside me and I stuck closer to Lissa. It was darker than what we guardians were happy with, but the moroi didn't seem to be worried about the late hour. I was just about to grab Lissa's hand for safety when it hit me. The nauseating feeling that alerted me to striogi presence.
"Stop!" I screeched and everyone turned to look at me in surprise.
I pulled my stake out and Dimitri seeing what I was doing followed me example. I reached in front of me and pulled Christian and Lissa back behind me and I saw Dimitri do the same with Adrian, although he wasn't as gentle, and Eddie pushed Mia behind him.
My eyes were scanning the area, and when nothing moved, I would have thought that it was a false alarm, but the growing nausea said otherwise.
"Where are they Rose?" Asked Alberta.
"I dunno, but they're here somewhere." I said.
Out the corner of my eye I saw Adrian's two guardians give each other doubtful looks.
"The pretty one is right," said a new voice.
They stepped out of the shadows and into the light of one of the street lamps. I gasped. There were at least ten of them that I could see of. Dimitri tensed and moved ever so slightly so that he was positioned ever so slightly in front of me.
I narrowed my eyes and purposely moved and stepped up beside Dimitri. He shot me a look but looked back at the leader striogi when he spoke again.
"I can't believe our luck," he muttered and smirked that made chills go down my spine. Then louder he spoke again so that we could hear him better. "Why, if it isn't Rose Hathaway and Valisa Dragomir," he said and I tensed and so did Dimitri.
"What do you want?" I demanded.
"Other than the last Dragomir and the crowning jewel? Not much." He smirked.
"The crowning what?" I asked.
The striogi smiled. "You darling. You're the crowning jewel."
I opened my mouth to respond but before I could he leapt and crashed into me. I was knocked to the ground and I smacked my head painfully against the pavement.
"Argh!" I cried and looked to the side to see Dimitri and the others engaged in their own fights.
The striogi was still on top of me and I rolled so that I was now straddling his waist. I brought my fist back and smashed it into his face and he grunted with the impact. I was about to strike again when he brought his foot up and kicked me in the stomach, making me fly backwards. I rolled to my feet and held my stomach with one hand and my stake in the other. Another striogi came over and now I was fighting two. I worked hard trying to keep them in line with one another so that I was only fighting one of them. I didn't see another striogi that came up behind me and grabbed my arm. I yelped and swiped out with the stake cutting his left cheek. He snarled and backhanded me sending me to the ground. One of the striogi brought his foot down and I managed to roll out from underneath it just in time. I was panting now and I struggled to get up. The striogi in front of me sprung forward, catching me off guard but before he could grab me he burst into flames. I looked behind me to see Christian with a ball of fire in one hand and Lissa safely behind him. I smiled gratefully at him and he nodded in return.
That small distraction was all that the striogi needed. The leader one jumped forward grabbing me around the waist and at the same time, he hit my arm, making me drop my stake. Distantly I was wondered where the other striogi went but I was too preoccupied with this one to care.
I struggled and tried elbowing him to let me go but he gripped my pony tail and pulled on it, forcing my head back. I cried out in pain and my hands desperately tried to grab onto anything to try and pry him off.
"Roza!"
I distantly heard someone yell my name but I lost focus as the striogi brought his mouth down to my neck.
"You're going to be my own personal blood whore," he whispered before I felt the piercing of his fangs going into my neck.
I screamed which then softened to a moan as the endorphins from his bite numbed the pain and before the blackness swallowed me, I saw Dimitri running over to me.