2. Waking up
When everything got back to me I started to get dizzy. I needed to know if it had worked I needed to get up, but as soon as I tried my head started to hurt and I let out a groan. Only seconds later Dr. Olendzki came through the door, she took one look at me and came running.
"Rose, you're awake, finally. How are you feeling? Does anything hurt?" she said with clear worry in her voice.
"I'm fine, my head hurts a little but I'm fine. How is Dimitri is he alright?" She took another look at me and told me to lie down, Dimitri was stable but she couldn't tell me anything to specific because she didn't know anything here self either. We could only guess how much this affected him so we had to wait and see. And then she left to call my parents and Lissa so they could come see me.
It was only 10 minutes later that Lissa came bursting through the door. She fell right into my arm and hugged me without saying a word. When she backed off a little I took a look at her and I could see that she had been out of her mind with worry about me. "Hey Liss... calm down I'm fine I'm not going anywhere."
She took a step back and smiled at me "I'm sorry I was just so worried about you, how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, just worried about Dimitri. I need to know if he's okay." I hoped that she might have heard something about it but I was afraid she didn't, so when she spoke I was a little surprised by what she said.
"He's going to be fine Rose. When you left your body, you lost your Aura just like the Strigoi. But then 5 minutes after your mom dragged Dimitri in both your Aura's where there again. They kept flickering but after a day or 2 yours stopped doing that and kept getting brighter and brighter, I knew you would be awake soon just like I know he's going to be awake soon. His Aura stopped flickering 2 days ago, I was a little bit scared it wouldn't stop anymore because it went on for 5 days but it stopped and is getting a little bit brighter every day." She smiled at me then and I just smiled back, I was so glad he would be fine.
"Ooh Liss you have no idea how glad I am to hear you say that. Thank you." But when I said that she looked a little bit guilty so I had to ask. "What are you not telling me?"
"I'm so sorry Rose, I didn't know how to tell you this but I actually do know how glad you are. I can get into your mind now it's not easy but Oksana told me that if I learned to get in there we might be able to talk to each other." I was taken by surprise by this
"What do you mean talk to each other?" I didn't like her getting into my mind but I did it to her so I couldn't complain, the talking to each other I didn't get though we were talking now weren't we?
"Well you can feel my feelings but you can only hear my thought if you are in my mind or if I send them to you. Oksana told me that if I'm able to get into your mind and we would work on it you would be able to send me messages too. Like we would be able to really speak to each other through our thoughts, I can already send them and you can receive now we just have to learn to do it the other way around." I thought about that and I didn't sound so bad I wasn't sure if it would work but we could try. I figured I should just try.
"Thank you". I saw that Lissa's eyes almost popped out and she let out a giggle.
"Should have known you would be able to do it right away, but don't use your strength like that right now we'll work on it" She smiled at me and we sat there for a while.
She told me that there had been 10 Strigoi, not counting Dimitri, and that some got hurt but everybody survived, at least on our side they had. I didn't ask for the whole story because there was just so much to talk about and I could get the details later when everybody was there. She told me everybody was fine or was going to be fine in some cases and she told me that the whole school decided to wait with graduation until I was better. The only thing we didn't talk about was Victor, I didn't want to bring him up right know so I just pretended that he wasn't out there.
After half an hour there was a knock on the door and my mother walked in. "Rose can we come in?" she asked a little bit unsure.
"Off course you can, where is dad?" I was starting to get used to calling him that. I got to know him a lot better when we were planning how to save Dimitri and he helped a lot. I found out Abe Mazur was my father when I came back to the USA.
At first I was a little bit mad at him for not telling me himself but he was trying to make up for it. He was still a little bit scary but for some reason he cared, he cared about me and I couldn't keep myself from caring for him. Sure we argue but we are a lot alike and I was glad that I know knew that both my mom and dad where total badass.
"Here I am." He walked in behind my mom and looked me over like he was checking if I was complete.
Lissa stood up and told us goodbye, my parents told her that she didn't have to leave but she said that she had to go and tell Christian I was me again.
My parents just stood there looking at me not knowing what to say. So I decided to break the ice, I wanted to ask them something for a while and now was as good a time as any.
"So dad... are you two sharing are room or is your fire not enough to get the sparks back again?" I grinned at him and a grin stretched over his face, my mother didn't laugh but at least she didn't glower at me either.
"Ooh Rose, you know that I am capable enough to get any fire started." And with that he turned to my mom and kissed her.
"Hey! I don't want to see any of that you hear me." I said laughing and my parents broke apart. When they turned to look at me I saw a smile on both their faces.
"Rose... Are you okay? You have been out of it for a week but we couldn't find anything wrong with you. Lissa told us your Aura was flickering but to be honest I didn't get it." My mother's voice sounded worried and a little bit frustrated. She didn't understand the spirit stuff and it annoyed her.
"Yeah mom I'm fine. Having an out of body experience isn't really easy to deal with for the body I guess." I blushed when I said this and my mother saw it so I elaborated.
"Robert told me that I might not be able to get back, you need allot of will power to get out of limbo. Because I'm shadow kissed I have to walk on the line of the dead and living for the rest of my life and getting sucked into the dead isn't a good idea. But I was sure that I could get out if I could find Dimitri soon enough. There is no way in hell that I would die after I got him back" I blushed again and my parents just stared at me. "I'm sorry I put my life on the line and I'm sorry I didn't tell you this before but I just couldn't. Please forgive me."
My mother looked at me for a second and then nodded. My dad just smiled at me as if it didn't matter he was just glad I was whole again. Then there was a loud ringing and my dad took out his cell phone.
"Abe Mazur" he stood up and walked out off the door. I looked at my mom to see if she knew what that was about but she just shrugged.
Abe was back a minute later a big smile across his face.
"What's up dad?" he looked at me and then my mom and then shrugged and went to sit down.
"Well I guess I can tell you now. You didn't really break out Victor" he paused for a second to see my reaction but I just looked at him and kept my face blank. I had no idea what was going on but if we didn't break him out we wouldn't get in trouble so I decided to wait for him to go explain himself.
"While we were planning all this we had to involve a lot of people you know that. I mean even the alchemist know. I knew that everybody was very disturbed when Dimitri turned, he was one of the best and nobody wanted to lose him. So when we had to get Victor out of jail I stepped to the guardian council I told them what we wanted to do and asked if they could help.
They didn't want to do it at first but when I told them about you and all the friends you have to help you, they tried to help. They have great respect for you Rose they know you will be a great guardian, off course they also knew a lot of the friends I spoke to them about and they knew there was no change in hell they were going to stop us from trying.
We decided that with your mother, Pavel and one extra guardian we should be able to keep Victor from getting away." I looked at him and didn't know what to say so I just said the first thing that came to mind
"Why the hell didn't you tell me about this?" it sounded so whiny that I couldn't keep my face straight. I looked at my parents and started laughing "Thank you, very much." And then added a little more serious "But next time keep me informed I can keep my mouth shut you know."
My dad stood up and came to give me a hug "Anytime dear, anytime."
There was still a lot to worry about. I didn't know what Kirova was going to do and I had no idea what would happen if this all got back to Queen Bitch. We had been able to keep it from them before, but with Dimitri back it would be kind of hard to keep the fact that we brought him back secret.
When I asked my parents about this they told me not to worry. They had already told Kirova what happened but left out the romance part, somehow they had been able to leave that little thing out and Kirova seemed to buy it.
The fact that the Guardian council was in on it came in handy when it came to the Queen. If we played this right we might be able to make this work and with Dimitri back, everything would be fine. I was 100% sure of that.
After a while Lissa came back with Christian. Apparently Christian wanted to see me to be sure I would be ready to guard Lissa when graduation came. So I decided to make sure he knew I would be
"Ooh Sparky, just admit that you can't live without me in your live we all know it." Lissa laughed and after a second Christian started to laugh too.
"Alright, I see you got your snappy self back. Glad to see you alive Rose." He said still smiling.
They left soon after that little conversation and my parents left to, there still was a lot to discuss.
Dr. Olendzki came back and she told me to get some sleep, it was getting late (or early that depends on how you look at it I guess) and I needed to be fit the next day because apparently there were more people that wanted to talk to me.
When I fell asleep I was dreaming about the academy. It didn't look like one of Adrian's dreams because he never took me too somewhere so obvious, but it did feel like one of his dreams. So I just started to yell his name.
To my surprise his name started to form like little clouds and they floated away from me. Hmmz this was really weird, but it was a dream so I started to follow the clouds that formed his name. They let me back to the infirmary; I followed them in and called his name again.
"Little Dhampir" I heard him call me from a room in the back, so I went there.
When I opened the door I froze. Adrian was laying on one of the hospital beds, flipping through the different TV-channels. He seemed fine to me, just chilling on the bed watching some TV so I checked the rest of the room.
When I looked to the other side I saw him. Dimitri was lying in the other bed and he looked like he was sleeping. I just kept staring at his face for a while, he looked peaceful.
"He isn't really here you know, not like we are" I turned around to look at Adrian
"What do you mean? Why is he here? How is he doing? How are you doing?" I looked back at Dimitri and then at Adrian again.
Adrian was still watching the TV but then he suddenly turned it off and sat up straight. "Come sit here on the bed and I'll tell you what's going on" I did what he asked and sat down on the other end of the bed and then faced him.
"Well let's start where we left off okay? After you left to get his soul back Dimitri was brought in by your mother. When she came in he had been dead for 5 minutes already, there had been too many Strigoi for her to come back right away. Lissa got worried when she heard this, she knew that there would be a change that it would be too late to bring him back if we waited and Robert told us that I could bring him back but I couldn't heal him.
So I did what he told me, I healed Dimitri just enough to keep him alive. Because he was alive I knew that when his soul was back, I could see his aura again. As soon as I saw that I tried to heal him but I couldn't, not completely. I kept him alive for five minutes and it drained me, I was exhausted. Lissa wanted to help him but she couldn't because you where still out of it, your aura was there but you didn't react. It was like you were sleeping and nobody could wake you, there was nothing wrong with your body or at least not besides the fact that it's heartbreaking off course..." He trailed off and turned his head. He looked at Dimitri and let out a sigh.
"You know, I can't even be mad at him. I was watching his aura when I heard you yell my name. I have never seen anything like it; it flared up and left me blinded for a couple of seconds. Even now when you're just sitting there his aura is shining, and yours is too but I guess that could just be because you can actually see him. He doesn't even know your here Rose, not really.
I wanted to see you but I couldn't leave, I need to keep an eye on him and heal the darkness out of him as much as I can. He has been Strigoi and I think he knows what he did, at least at some level. There are shadows in his aura that aren't coming from me and I need to keep them away so he can heal enough to deal with them himself." When Adrian looked up from his hands I made sure my face was blank, I was very thankful but I was stunned too. Adrian went on.
"Well with Lissa being no option and with Robert trying to heal you I just gave it everything I had. I passed out and woke up here, at first I wasn't sure what to do but when I was watching him to see what was going on I saw that his aura got all dark. I saw it happen before to you but this was different his started to fade a little bit, so I went over to his bed and healed a little bit out of him. It was weird seeing that happen because of me, I never really thought about it but when you're the one who's causing it... it leaves you no option but to make it atleast a little bit better." He looked up at me again and I saw something in his eyes. He felt guilty; I've never seen him feeling guilty over anything. Adrian was the most arrogant guy I knew and it was weird seeing him feel guilty about something he did to Dimitri off all guys.
"Don't look at me like that. I know it sounds weird, me caring about him but I understand it better now. I knew he helped you a lot with the darkness but until now, I never really understood. He's keeping them away from me now too, I know it will be hard but I'm feeling better and he makes you happy." I looked at him a little surprised but he was right in some way
"Okay I understand, but why did you come to my dream... isn't it better not to use spirit right now?"
"Well getting into dreams is kind off my thing and I've been in yours so many times it's very easy. The reason I'm here is just because I wanted to check on you, I heard that you where getting better but aren't allowed to leave your bed yet. So I thought about it and this was the best way, I thought you would like to see him." He looked up at me again and I smiled at him.
"Thank you Adrian, you don't know how much this means to me. I will come see you both as soon as I can leave my room." Adrian looked at me with a grin on his face
"It will be fine little Dhampir. Now go to sleep I'll see you soon." And with that I sank back into my deep and dreamless sleep.
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