To Loves Lost and Wars One
RPOV
To love someone would seem like a miracle, unless you lost them forever. I'd been depressed in my room since it happened and no one seemed to have an effective way of getting me out of bed.
Flashback
"Hathaway, stay back!" Dimitri called from afar as a Strigoi was brutally attacking him. All other times I might have listened in trust that the god like man could take care of himself. But right now he looked helpless, and I had enough training I knew I could help. "Not this time, comrad! I won't lose you today."
With that I lunged at the Strigoi, tearing it off the one I loved most. When I heard a loud thud from his body hitting the ground I looked, and I screamed. This was what he was protecting me from. My father Abe was laying where I threw him, his eyes glowing red with a grin showing his fangs. I cringed at the sight. I couldn't handle the thought of my own father turning into... that.
I could faintly hear Dimitri yelling at me to run and get away. Either my body wouldn't let me react, or there was some serious magic use here. Or maybe it was the fact that my dad stood in front of me with a look of satisfaction twisted on his face. "Daughter, don't look so disappointed, you can be just like me and have all the power in the world."
Disgust wrapped around my body and rage engulfed me. "Not in your dreams, old man." I must have given something away, because when Dimitri snuck up on him, he flew around and snapped his neck. Instinct took over and I staked my father, full of spite. His eyes widened as if he didn't believe his daughter would be the one to head his life.
It only took a moment for me to realize what happened. Dimitri lay there un-moving and I had one hand clutching my stomach and one clutching my mouth about to vomit. I couldn't handle the site.
Both of the men I loved lay at my feet, and I wouldn't be able to get either of them back. After vomiting for the hundredth time, I let out a mournful wail that echoed around the campus. I was sure everyone had heard me but I didn't have a mind for it as I hovered over my dead lover.
It didn't take long for my group to gather around me. Lissa was the first at my side while I was weeping over Dimitri. She tried her best to sooth me, but she didn't understand. I'd had sex with this man not four hours before, and now he wasn't breathing and had no pulse.
And then there was my mother who wept beside me, not for Dimitri, but for my father. We wept over the two bodies as Eddie, Mason and Adrian gathered around us. Lissa I could hear sobbing along with me and my mom while the guys were calling campus security.
End flashback
So there I was, curled up in my room. It'd only been two weeks since we had buried Dimitri and Ibrahim, my lover and my father. And it'd only been three weeks after they'd died. I couldn't explain the reason I threw up every morning or why even when I barely ate I was gaining weight.
My thoughts were on the first and last time me and Dimitri made love. The way he was so careful with me as, if he were going to break me. The way he helped me through the fear on the first time, the way he called out my Russian nickname when he climaxed. I cried again, because I knew we would never have that reunion again.
That's when Lissa walked into my room. I could feel her irritation through the bond. I really didn't want to face this right now and really wish she could not care so much. "Rose... You can't stay in here forever, you know the trials are in a few months and you need to start getting back into shape." I groaned. There she went about getting back into shape, getting onto the field again. I couldn't think of a real reason I would want to. But to please her I rolled out of bed sighing, "If it will get you off my case I'll go to classes today, but don't expect too much out of me today." She took that as a win and did her high squeal.
I made my way to the bathroom, undressing as I went. "Lissa, I'll meet you in math." She wouldn't have it, "No, I am going to have breakfast with you." I groaned as I turned the water on, "Alright fine, get some cereal and I'll be out in a moment." I shook my head as I climbed into the shower. The hot water felt so good running over my body, maybe this is really what I needed, maybe Lissa was right. I needed to get back to classes. I felt my energy rise and sighed, I guess I would be trying in classes today.
When I came out of the bathroom I saw Lissa sitting cross legged on the floor and smiled. She was meditating, trying to release some of the dark energy that lingered from using her spirit magic. She must have noticed my presence because she looked up and grinned. "You almost look like your old self Rose. Get some food in you and let's get down to our first class."
Math, the only class me and Lissa had together. Or Lissa and I as her parents used to put it. Taking a deep breath I put all my thoughts to the side and began the steps to putting my future on track. Getting a bowl of cereal I wondered what the talk would be like today the gossip around st. Vladimir can be cruel.
Lissa watched me as I ate wanting to make sure I was actually eating an I looked at her mid bite. I could feel her focusing on me confusion crossing through the bond. "Lissa? What's wrong?" She looked up at me snapping out of her daze. "Nothing." Smiling through her lie, I could feel it was something but I could get it out of her later, for now I was going to leave it alone.
"Lets get to class Lissa I know I've been here and uninterested but now I know I need to get back in the game." She looked at me so proud and I could feel happiness leak through the bond. I couldn't help but smile at her and grab my bag as we headed off to class.
