Fear raced through my body as I watched the horrific scene before me. My mentor, best friend, lover, and soul mate was pinned underneath a strogi struggling for dear life. I couldn't believe this was happening. Less than 3 hours ago dimitri and I were in the cabin together showing each other how much we really love each other and now he's fighting to remain alive. I heard a ear piercing scream as the srtogi threw Dimitri against the cave wall knocking him unconscious. I soon processed that that scream was from me. I started to run towards Dimitri to help with but was suddenly pulled back by a pair of strong hands.
"Rose what are you doing?! More are coming we have to retreat! NOW!" My brain could not register anything at that moment but to just protect the love of my life from being dead or worst; turned. I fought through the hold on whoever was trying to restrain me.

"ROSE! STOP!" I heard as I was sprinting towards the caves but ignored it. Only 2 things were running through my brain at that moment: kill and save. Once I reached the caves I was immediately surround by at least 5 pair of red eyes. One of them, the leader I supposed, smiled wickedly at me while walking towards me.
"Why isn't it Rosemarie Hathaway." He said. I gripped the stake that I had in my hand tighter, so tight that im pretty sure the color was draining from my hand. I was ready to kill that son of a bitch. "You'll be a wonderful asset to us once we make you one of us."
"I'd rather be killed by the person I love than to become one of you!" I spat at him. And that's when the fighting began. He ran at me and attempt to throw a punch to my face but I was ready. I dodged his punch and kicked him hard in the stomach. Around me I could hear the sounds of the guardians coming to fight the rest of them off.

He recovered quickly; so quickly that I actually was not ready for his next move. He grabbed my hair and threw me Hard at the wall just like they did Dimirti. Black stars clouded my vision but I refuse to let it overcome me. In a matter of seconds I was on me feet again facing the strogi.
"My my miss Hathaway. They were right about you, you are a tough one."
They? Who was this "they"? I didn't want to focus on that right now. My mission was just to kill him. With my vision still a little out of focus, I ran towards the strogi, which in theory was a bad move. Strogis were insanely fast. Me running at him may have looked like I was running in slow motion to him. But I had a plan. I ran at him as fast as I could. I could tell by the position of his feet his was ready to either throw me again or step aside. But what he was not ready for was this. Once I was arms length away from him, I slide in between his legs and staked him in his..well "manhood". Automatically, he fell backwards in pain and that was all I need. I jumped on top of him stake at the chest.

" Never miss with the people Rose Hathaway loves" I said looking dead in his eyes. He looked back at me. Pain was still evident on his face as I looked at him yet he smiled at me just as he did earlier "I found the key to unlock the door." I was perplexed by his statement and he used my momentary distraction to his advantage. He punched me in the face which sent me flying back off of him. I heard guardians coming towards me and the strogi but I couldn't comprehend much. I could feel blood soaking my hair and my vision going in and out. I couldn't remember much after that, but I do recall hearing the sound of my sweet Russian. "Rose!" He yelled. Even though his voice was laced with frantic and worry it was still comforting to me. I thought I was going to loose him. The black stars soon become too much for me and I blacked out but not before I felt me being carried away in a pair of strong hands that I knew all too well.

As soon as I opened my eyes shut them due to the brightness of the lights. I groaned from pain. My head was throbbing like a bitch. I opened my eyes slowly this time not wanting to make the lights worsen my throbbing head pain. Once my eyes were in focused I noticed a figure sitting in a chair near the door. Dimitri. His faced had scars on them and his black shirt was ripped and stained with blood. His eyes were closed but he was breathing evenly meaning he was asleep. I couldn't tear my gaze away from him. I almost lost the most important person to me. Just looking at him and thinking of the previous events made me fall in love with him even more. I threw the blankets off of me wanting to be closer to him and immediately groaned when I looked down. My groan must have been louder than I thought because Dimitri eyes shot open and scanned the room before his eyes finally rested on me.

He rushed to my side and crashed his lips next to mine. I was a little caught off guard at first but once the shock was over I responded to his kiss.
Our kisses were usually gentle and innocent. But this! This kiss was the kind of kiss that you see in R rated movies right before they...well you know. His tongue traced the bottom of my lips and I parted them so he could enter. Our tongues danced with each other which made me feel like I've died and went to heaven.
He pulled back and looked at me panting from lack of breath. "I love you." He said looking into my eyes.

"I love you too." Though it probably came out differently since I was panting too. He smiled at me; the kind of smiles I rarely get to see and always gives me butterflies in my stomach. "What's wrong? Your groaned woke me up. But once I saw you awake, I just had to kiss you."
I was temporally lost for a second and then I remembered. "What's wrong is that I wake up and find myself wearing one if these horrible hospital gowns. Like seriously theses things should never been seem by any living creature." I said smirking at him.
Just then the door burst open making me jump a little. Dimitri, of course was always on guard and turned towards the door to see a crying Lisa running towards me.
"Oh my god Rose! I thought I lost you. When they brought you in you had so much blood on you and your hair was so bloody and...and I'm just glad your awake. Oh Rose!" She rambled. I just held her and traced small circles on her back.

"Shh Liz it's ok I'm fine. Remember who your dealing with. I'm a Hathaway, nothing can keep me down for long."
"But Rose you don't understand" she said trying to regain her composure. "When I saw you like that..lying..I..I..my whole world just died. Your more than my best friend your my sister." I did a quick glance towards Dimirti. His mind was somewhere far away. Probably remembering the attack that happened...wait how long was I out.
I was just about to ask when the doctor came in the room. She looked surprised to see me awake but walk over to the bed I was in and looked at the chart.
"Well I'm glad to see your finally awake Miss Hathaway. You had all of us worried."
"Yea well about that; how long was I out?" I asked.

She checked some things off the clipboard and placed it back on the end of my bed before replying. "Just 24 hours."
24 hours? It only seemed like I was out for few minutes. "We'll Rose your ok to leave but take it easy for the next few days. You can work out but no physical activities. And no running for 2 days. I don't want you to move your head around much." With that she left out the room.

"Rose ill be back with a change of clothes I'm sure you don't want to put those back on." Lisa said nudging towards my bloody clothes in the corner. "Thanks Liz." She gave me a quick hug and though the bond said "we need to talk soon" and left me and dimitri alone. I looked over at him. He still had that distant look. "What are you thinking about?" I asked breaking him out of whatever state he was in.
He looked over at me and did a small smile. " How much I love you and that I never want to come close to loosing you like that ever again."
"Trust me Comrade you won't." I looked at him and realized that he wasn't as badly injured as I thought.

"Not that I'm not happy that your up on your feet and all but why are you? You took some nasty hits." I was sitting up in the bed by now. "I'm a bad ass Russian god. Nothing can keep me down Roza." He said with a breath taking smile. "I know that...all too well Comrade." I replied. He chuckled and picked me up bridal style and brought his lips down to mine once again. I responded immediately. "I love you Roza."
"I love you too Comrade."