Going Home

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DPOV
"Dimitri", I heard Adrian yell as he jumped out of the car to help. He was quickly restrained. He may have been a royal moroi but we had run away so they were not treating us nicely.

"I would like to do this the easy way", I sighed in defeat, answering the girls question. I had been knocked down by a girl, how embarrassing. She got off my back and helped me up.

"Mr Belikov, we have come to take you back to St Vladimirs where you will hear of your punishment", she said in a formal tone.

I could tell she hated doing this part but loved her job. She was beautiful I had to admit that. She had long dark brown hair tied up in a pony tail and was wearing the guardian uniform, black slacks and a white blouse with a black jacket. I could see she had several molnija marks on her neck and held back a swallow. She was probably involved in that strigoi attack a few years ago.

She stared at me, probably waiting for an answer but I just kept staring at her stupidly. Eventually I found myself being ushered into a car. Soon after, the brown haired girl got in beside me. Adrian was riding in a different car but I didn't mind.

"I am Rose Hathaway" she introduced herself holding out her hand with a smile.

I could not believe it, she was the Rose Hathaway. Master of killing strigoi. I just stared at her dumbstruck, the Rose Hathaway was in the same car as me, not only that she was sitting right next to me. She started getting impatient so I shook the hand.

"Dimtiri Belikov", I stated. She just grinned. I couldn't help admiring the stake that was tucked into her pants. It add a pattern on it that looked a bit like vines. Or a Rose stem I thought as realisation hit me. I grinned, not modest at all are we Roza. Roza, did I just give this guardian a Russian nickname? Oh god, what was happening to me.

We got out of the car and hopped onto a private jet. I finally got to talk to Adrian.

"Did they hurt you", I asked him.

He shook his head, "no but they're watching us so keep quiet".

I casually looked into the reflection of the window only to find that he was telling the truth. Rose was watching us her eyes narrowed. There were two other guardians with her. A red haired boy with freckles and one that I had seen around campus. His name was Eddie Castile.

Soon after we took off Rose demanded that Adrian and I be separated. She thought that we were planning an escape. Oh yeah Rose very simple. 'We only have to get past a crap load of guardians and jump out of a plane and then we will be free', I thought sarcastically. Rose was sitting with Adrian and the red haired boy with freckles came and sat beside me.

"She is really something isn't she", he said with a sigh.

I was shocked when I realised he was talking to me.

"She can be annoying sometimes but most of the time she is alright", he said oblivious to my surprise.

I just stared out of the window getting madder by the minute. How dare he talk about my Roza like that. I was about to say something, or punch him in the face, when Rose came up.

"Mason, get off your butt and try talking some sense into that guy", she said gesturing wildly at Adrian.

"All he does is stare at me with big puppy dog eyes", she whined. Not exactly the tone of an elite guardian but Mason obeyed her anyway, probably knowing how bad ass she really is. Mason got up and Rose replaced him sitting next to me. I just looked out the window purposely looking away from her. In the reflection of the window I could tell that she really was beautiful. Devastatingly beautiful in fact.

"Why didn't you just come back", she asked with a grin on her face.

I just shrugged not wanting any attention. If I looked at her then I would probably end up staring at her and that would be really weird. I just couldn't believe that she was here right in front of me.

We finally arrived and were pushed into Headmistress Kirova's office. I sat down in a chair next to Adrian as she looked at us with a calm expression. Adrian was sitting down in his usual slouch like he didn't have a care in the world. But Dimitri could tell, he was worried, really worried.