I officially love all of you guys for being so supportive of my stories *tear* oh great now look at what you made me do *sniffle* you made me cry. I don't think I can write in this state…
Just kidding I would never disappoint you guys like that lol. Okay so now without further delay *drum solo* I give you chapter one!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the vampire academy characters; the wonderful Richelle Mead does (lucky duck).
Rpov
My alarm clock was blaring, "Stupid machine," I muttered as I hit the off button. I rolled over to look at the time: six o'clock in the morning or night for moroi. Moroi are good, mortal vampires while Strigoi are evil immortal vampires that feed on moroi. We, dhampirs, protect moroi from strigoi and kill them if they attack us. Except for the past two years I hunted down my brother who was turned strigoi against his will in an attack on the academy. Just the thought of my brother made my heart ache; we had a sort of unsaid promise to each other that we would kill each other if either of us was turned strigoi. I had fulfilled my promise to him, but I still felt empty. He was the only family I ever had and now he was gone. I pulled my long, brown almost black hair into a high ponytail; I also put on my gray sweat pants with my olive green sports bra. After putting on my hoodie I grabbed my water bottle and made my way to the gym.
After two years they still didn't bother to lock the gym doors. Sometimes I thought they did that because they knew Sammy and I used to train early in the morning and sometimes late at night. I chuckled at a certain memory a few months before the attack happened.
Flashback
I was having a wonderful dream of me and Cole guarding our future charges. We were just one big happy family, and I loved it so much. I said it "was" a wonderful dream because someone started to shake me awake.
"Go…way… let….me…leep," I said unable to open my eyes. I was suddenly flipped over and landed onto the floor with a thud. I looked around and saw that I was in the gym, sunlight spreading into the gym from the windows. I rubbed my eyes and saw a smiling Alberta staring at me. She laughed and pointed at my sleeping brother.
She went over to him and did the same thing to him that he did to me. He was shocked and glared at me, not seeing Alberta yet.
"What the heck, Rosie?" I started laughing so hard tears began to pour down my face. He shouted something else, and I think he finally noticed Alberta. By now all three of us were laughing on the floor.
End flashback
I'll never forget the time we fell asleep in the gym; that was one of my favorite memories. I smiled one of my rare smiles that I never showed. I only focused on training and not having so much of a social life; I couldn't afford to lose someone else that I loved.
Back to training: I started doing my warm-up stretches and leaned down to touch my toes. After ten minutes of warming-up I got out a punching bag and began to beat the crap out of it. Every time I trained I thought of Sammy who trained me. I pretended that it was the strigoi that had turned my brother and ended up either breaking the bag or breaking my hands. Whichever came first normally; then I would do my laps. I felt my hands starting to go numb until I heard someone calling my name.
"Rosemarie," it was Alberta I put my guardian mask on not showing any emotion, "are you okay?" she asked looking at my hands. I nodded, and I saw that she wasn't alone. A tall moroi was coming up behind her looking curious. He looked to be about my age with shoulder length brown hair that was tied in a ponytail. He also had a duster on that made him look like a cowboy, and had brown eyes that I could just melt in-. PAUSE, I cannot afford to think like this. They come first. Well technically he is "they". I was lucky that I was able to keep my guardian mask on while looking at him. He gave me a bright, shy smile before Alberta spoke.
"Rose this is a transfer student from St. Basils in Russia, I know you don't like to be disturbed during your training, but I have a guardian meeting and everyone else is asleep..." she looked at me with a slight pleading in her eyes. I nodded and she left leaving me with the new boy; I could feel him staring at my body and I hated it. I hated men who think they could one day own me, someone was stupid enough to make a rumor that I ran away to be a blood whore and that the academy had tracked me down and brought me back. No one really knew what I did those two years except for some of the guardians.
"It's not nice to stare," I said turning around once I had my hoodie on with my water bottle in my hand. I began to chug it while the new, hot guy turned a deep shade of red. Gotcha.
Dpov (Dimitri)
I didn't really want to start at a new school when winter break was around the corner but my uncle Nathan Ivashkov had insisted that I start here right away to be closer to Court. It helped a little bit that my cousin Adrian was here as well. His friend, Lissa I think he called her, specialized in spirit just like us so he said that they could help me with the darkness. Guardian Petrov or Alberta led me to the gym; I was a little confused she said that she couldn't show me around right now because she had a guardian meeting to attend to. It was too early in the day/ night I didn't think that I was going to get a tour until later until she opened the gym doors.
I was shocked; there was a dhampir girl there, and she looked stunningly sexy and beautiful. With her long hair tied into a ponytail; along with her gray sweatpants and olive green sports bra on she looked just wow. However she also seemed deep in thought as she hit the punching bag. I could faintly see blood spilling from her gloves.
"Rosemarie are you okay?" Alberta asked. The girl, Rosemarie, turned around and looked at her with an emotionless expression. I had never seen a guardian mask that good. She nodded before noticing me, and she studied my ever move for a few moments before Alberta spoke again.
""Rose this is a transfer student from St. Basils in Russia, I know you don't like to be disturbed during your training, but I have a guardian meeting and everyone else is asleep…" she nodded off looking at Rose pleadingly. Rose nodded and Alberta left the gym just leaving us there alone. I wanted to kiss her-. Where did that come from? I had only met her two seconds ago, but as she pulled on her hoodie I couldn't help but stare at her. She was so beautiful it hurt.
"It's not nice to stare," she said while turning around to look at me, I couldn't help the blush that crawled into my cheeks. Her expression didn't change as she chugged some of her water and walked up to me. "I'm Rose Hathaway," she said, wait this was Rose Hathaway? The Rose Hathaway? The one that disappeared for two years to become a blood whore? She really did not look like one, and with the intensity of her training I think she was hunting but why would she be hunting. She extended her hand out, and I extended mine.
"Dimitri Ivashkov," I told her, she nodded and walked out of the gym. I followed her out until I was in pace next to her. "So where are the male moroi dorms?" I asked.
"Take a left at the end of the building and walk for a little while, you can't miss it," she told me. She looked at me with a curious look. "So what brings you here to St. Vladimir's? I heard St. Basils was a pretty good school," she asked me.
"My uncle, Nathan, thought it would be good for me to learn spirit from my cousin and his friend."
"Adrian and Lissa?"
"You know them?"
"No." I left it at that.
"Dimitri!" shouted a new voice, I turned and saw my cousin Adrian walking towards me. He came up and gave me a big hug, "How you doing cuz?"
"I'm doing well, you?" he answered with the same. I looked around for Rose, but she had disappeared. I wonder where she went.
"Yo, Dimitri?" Adrian said while waving a hand in front of my face, "who are you looking for?"
"Rose Hathaway was showing me around school," I told him while looking around for her again.
"You got her to talk?" he asked me with awe in his voice.
"Um… yeah?"
"No way, she doesn't talk to anyone except a few guardians."
"Why?"
"Well people think it's because she's mad about being dragged back here from being a blood whore, but I saw her aura. She's very depressed about something, and her aura's so black it could be a black hole."
"That's bad right?"
"Extremely." That left me wondering what was wrong. I wanted to help her so much right now, maybe I will see her later and we could talk then. Adrian and I walked around campus for a little bit and he introduced me to his friends after they woke up. We were now in the cafeteria eating breakfast. Lissa Dragomir was dating Christian Ozera, and Eddie and Mason were their future guardians. Mia was another friend and was dating Eddie. We made small talk for a little bit before I saw Rose sitting in a corner alone in the back of the room. Mason noticed my stare.
"Don't even think about it man," think about what?
"Think about what?" I asked him.
"She's been in her own personal world ever since she got back a few months ago, she doesn't open up to anybody," he responded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"She did with her brother," Mia said, "I wonder what happened to him?" I had heard of Samuel Hathaway, he was two years older than Rose and spend all of his time with her. Where was he?
"I don't know guys, Dimitri actually got her to talk to him this morning," Adrian said with a snicker while the rest of the gang looked at me with shocked expression before bombarding me with question like what her voice sounded like and if she was nice. I gave them the answer in my opinion before Rose came up to our table. She did not look happy.
Uh oh… Rose's mad everybody duck and cover! *wait till bombs stop exploding*
Okay I think she's done yelling at them so review if you want to find out why Rose is pissed or a pissed Russian will find you tonight…
Or maybe I'll send my KILLER PENGUIN! Yay penguin power. Lol
Love to all
