The Hunting Trip : My Take.
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I woke up. The sun was pouring through the windows, there was a nice day ahead of me. Which was unusual since I am normally awake at night. Then I remembered…
Today was the day, the day of the hunting trip. Just before Lissa's coronation for Queen, Abe had decided to take my boyfriend - who is 7 years older than me- on a hunting trip, then my mother decided to jump in and said that she would like to join them in this experience. Most embarrassing moment. But now I had to go through with it, which would be even worse.
We had to change off the vampiric schedule because we would be out in a human community, and it wouldn't be right to be there at night. As a dhampir I had good senses - but not that good.
I opened my mind up, trying to find out how Lissa was. Why did I keep forgetting! It had only been two weeks since the bond had been broken, but I still wasn't used to it. I wanted to know how Lissa was, who knows what spirit was doing to her now she didn't have me?
I sighed and rolled over in bed to see my Russian God staring at me.
'Will you stop with all the starting? Its creepy' I exclaimed.
'You are just so beautiful, I like to look at you' he protested.
'Cause that not creepy…' Then I got serious.
'You ready for this? Y'know its not to late to flee the country…' I asked him.
'Yes, Roza. If I can handle you I think I can handle Abe.' Dimitri replied softly.
I jumped out of bed enthusiastically. 'Right, we better get ready, the parentals will be here soon.'
It took a lot of convincing but my mother finally agreed to let me come on this trip - I didn't trust them enough out there with guns - I had to be there to protect him. My best friend - and also Queen of the moroi - had given me a few days off my duties to go on this trip and Christian had done the same for Dimitri.
Abe and Janine arrived shortly after we were ready. I grabbed a box of a dozen donuts to go from the local guardian café. I had to eat after all. And no one was having any of them. If they knew me, they would be sure not to try anything.
After we left Court it was a three hour drive to the place we were going, I hadn't actually asked where because I would probably forget anyway. It was quite most of the journey, it was times like this I still wish I had the bond with Lissa, at least it would give my something to do - unless she was in a council meeting, those were just I think Dimitri was still a little uncomfortable around my parents, which didn't help much.
'So…' I broke the silence.
'Yes, Rose?' my father replied, almost too sweetly.
I couldn't take it anymore, when were they going to ask…
'Are you actually going to say anything or is this whole trip going to be filled with silence?' I exclaimed. I looked Abe directly in the eye, and got that look. The one that said 'you'll find out sooner or later'. I'd much rather it'd be sooner.
'Please?' I batted my eyelashes at him.
'Okay - if you want to talk - Lets play a game' Maybe I made a mistake…
'What kind of 'game', old man?' I said fiercely.
'The-game-that-you-cannot-lie-when-someone-asks-you-a-question.'
Okay, big mistake!
'Bring it on…' I countered.
I had been nervous and scared a few times in my life - like the day Liss, Eddie and Me had broken Victor Dashkov out of prison, I kept asking myself: What if we get caught? - but this event was on a whole new scale. I didn't want my parents finding out what happened when Dimitri was my mentor at St. Vladimirs. No way. But right now, there was no avoiding it. Unless they didn't ask the question…
'I'll start then, shall I?' My mother had finally spoken, not taking her eyes off the road. 'Rose, what was the real reason you left St. Valdimirs on your birthday?'
This was an easy question, I think she was starting off light - and I didn't want to know what would follow.
'To hunt and kill Dimitri' I replied. I looked to Dimitri who was sitting on my left, staring blankly out the window. I had a feeling he didn't want to relive his strigoi days but it was inevitable right now.
I started to zone out, because they were asking Dimitri questions on his childhood. I was just staring at Dimitri - god, he was hot - when suddenly I noticed a change in his expression. I change my viewpoint to my parents who were looking shocked. They had asked Dimitri about his father, and how he bet him up when he was 13.
'Would you ever do that to Rose?' Zemy asked, sounding almost concerned.
'No!' he exclaimed. 'I would never dream of hurting Roza, I love her so much and she is the best thing in my life!' Well that was sweet.
'Even if he did, I could probably take him' I joked, hoping to relax some of the tension in the car. The rest of the trip was silent.
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