You may have noticed I have previously published these two short stories, but I decided to do it again and make these two the only ones, the Frostbite thing is now it's own one-shot.

This one is how I think it should have gone down when Lissa staked Dimitri. Don't get me wrong, I love the way Richelle Mead writes and there isn't anything wrong with her way of writing (I mean, it's the original after all! And no fanfic beats that) I just wish it would have gone this way...

Disclaimer- Thank the universe for Richelle Mead, she owns VA, not me.


-Staking Dimitri-

I'll never be able to say how long the next series of events took. In some ways, it felt like only one heartbeat passed. At the same moment, it was like we were frozen in time. Like the entire world had stopped.

My stake was moving toward him, and as Dimitri's eyes fell on me once more, I think he finally believed I would kill him. I was not hesitating. This was happening. My stake was there—

And then it wasn't.

Something hit me hard on my right side, pushing me away from Dimitri and ruining my shot. I stumbled, barely avoiding hitting anyone. While I always tried to be vigilant regarding all the things around me in a fight, I'd let my guard down in that direction. The Strigoi and guardians were on my left. The wall—and Lissa and Christian—were in my right.

And it was Lissa and Christian who had shoved me out of the way.

I think Dimitri was as astonished as I was. He was also equally astonished when Lissa came toward him with that stake in her hand. And like lightning through the bond, I read what Lissa had very, very carefully kept from me the last day: She gad managed to charm the stake with Spirit. It was the reason she'd been so keyed up during her last stake-practice session.

As her hand came close, Dimitri went to swipe her away, and I moved quickly to stop them both, but a ring of fire came around Dimitri. I moved away and so did Lissa, Dimitri just looked surprised. Christian was keeping control of the perfect circle of fire, closing in on Dimitri.

Lissa moved in again, but I reached out and put my hand under hers on the stake, stopping her movements.

"I have to, Rose," she pleaded.

"Then we do it together."

She put her other hand on top of the stake and I put my other one on top of hers. We moved in on a still distracted Dimitri, and with my, much stronger hands holding onto Lissa's, we staked him.

Everything lit up, a super bright light and I lost my connection with Lissa, I was unable to feel her and that scared me. If not for my hands, strongly clasped onto hers, I would have thought she vanished. The light became so bright everyone in the room stopped, needing to look away.

Lissa lost her firm grip on the stake, and I lost mine too. We both flew to different corners of the tiny room. I hurt, but I knew it wouldn't last.

I landed face down on the floor with a thud. I looked up to see Dimitri on the floor too, right where he had been standing as a Strigoi. I crawled over to him, weak from the power Spirit had let out so close to me.

As I got closer, I reached out for him.

He slowly opened his eyes. They were a perfect brown, no taint of red around the rim.

"Roza," he whispered, so confused. My heart clenched.

"Dimitri," I tried to say, but my voice was so croaky. The tips of my fingers reached his cheek, his smooth, perfect cheek. It made me so warm inside, all the Spirit wielding through me had confused my mind, my sense of hot and cold, but that small touch made me see sense.

I didn't know where Lissa was, the bond was broken, and while I hoped not permanently, I couldn't worry about that for the moment.

"I'm so sorry, Roza," Dimitri said, his voice trembling from the tears building up in his eyes. I'd never seen him cry before. "I love you..." he whispered, just before I felt unconsciousness creep over my mind. The last thing I heard was Lissa yelling at some guardians to leave him alone, but his words were the ones burned into my mind as everything went dark.


What do you think? These are just my brainstorms in words really, so you can tell me they're crap if you think they are. Anyway, reviews much appreciated.

So I hope you liked it :)

WIWR xx