Remember the Name
Chapter 1
Her name was legendary before she was even born, but she was getting ahead of herself. To fully understand her story she first had to start with another one. It had all started when Rosemarie Hathaway had met Dimitri Belikov. He had made a promise to train her and within fulfilling that promise he had fallen in love with her as she had him. They had had an epic love story until one night it all changed.
From what she had heard in the stories of her childhood was that the night Dimitri and Rose finally gave into their love the school got attacked by what her people liked to call Strogoi's.. Some students had been taken in result of the attack and Dimitri and Rose had gone on the rescue mission. During the rescue, Dimitri had got bitten and turned. Rose had been so devastated. Devastated enough to go after him and try to release him from the new hell that was his life and when that failed Rose had found another way. With the help of Vasilisa Dragomir, Dimitri was restored to his full Dhampir state and after many trails Rose and Dimitri had finally ended up together, but there was one thing they didn't know, something that had taken them a long time to figure out.
A few years had passed until they had discovered that Dhampir's who were once strogoi could have kids with other Dhampir's and this is where it had all started for her. Her name was Valeriya Belikov and this was her story.
Her long brown hair reached her waist as she ran her fingers through it looking at her new red highlights that she had just gotten for school. It had been fifteen years since she was born and she had finally managed to convince her parents that she should be going to school at St. Vladimir's academy.
After countless arguments and a lot of guilt tripping, Valeriya had finally gotten her way and now her parents Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway were taking her along with her best friend Erik Ozera. She looked over to where he sat beside her and smiled. His blonde hair fell over his eyes as he concentrated hard on whatever he was doing. He sent a quick text to whoever he was talking to and looked up at her his blue eyes meeting her brown ones. She gave her one of her best Valeriya Belikov smiles as he smirked at her making him look so much like his father Christian Ozera that it was ridiculous. She shook her head at him turning her attention back to the road ahead of her as her phone buzzed in her pocket.
She sighed and pulled her cellphone out to see who had texted her. Declan Ivashkov's number flashed across her screen as she opened her text expecting more of his witty banter that she was so accustomed to.
"Hey Val, just letting you know that I got to St Vlad's safe and sound. I can imagine you're relieved seeing as how you can't imagine a world without this, but I hope you make it safe and sound and I'll see you when you get here. Bye Bye Belikova!"
She shook her head and texted him a thanks and a correct name pronunciation before she pocketed her cellphone trying to hide the huge smile from her lips.
Like her and Erik Ozera, Declan Ivashkov had been her friend since childhood. Ever since she had been in diapers she had been hanging around Declan and he was probably the only one in the universe who got what she was going through. He was the only other person like her in existence and that had made them form a bond like nothing else she had ever felt with someone before. She felt safe with Declan like someone had finally got it. When she told people who her parents were they would react in shock saying their was no way she was the daughter of Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway, but she was and she never doubted that for a second. She had too much of both of her mother and father not to be apart of both of them. Now Declan was another story. His mother had died at birth and his father had abandoned him giving him to Adrian Ivashkov and Sydney Sage.
It had been easy to full everyone when he was born but the more he grew up the more he looked like his real father and less and less like Sydney and Adrian. After the truth had came out people had treated him like some sort of disease saying he was unnatural and that his parents should be ashamed of themselves. These things had also been said to her parents as well, but like the good matured people they were they just turned the other cheek determined not to let people get to them or her, but Valeriya had to admit it stung a little bit. Her parents had no real clue what it felt like to be on the outside looking in, but Declan did and that was something she could appreciate.
"Where's your head at Val?" her mother asked turning around to face her.
"I just can't wait to get to St. Vlad's mom. It's been a while since I've seen Declan and Sydney and I'm excited."
To ensure their son's safety at the school, Sydney Sage and Adrian Ivashkov had thought it would be a good idea for her to apply as a teacher at the school. St Vladimir's had been hesitate at first but after some thought they had hired her as their new elemental arts teacher. Valeriya had to admit that it was a pretty fun class to sit through and possibly one of her must favorite subjects.
Valeriya turned her face to the window looking at the trees as the academy came into view. She smiled as she elbowed Erik in the ribs causing his head to jerk up and his eyes to narrow before she pointed to the school.
"We made it Ozera." she said lookinga th the school where her parents love story began and hopefully hers would too.
Erik smiled at her and squeezed her hand. "We made it."