Valeriya

Summary: Set after Shadow kissed but Dimitri does not get turned in the their night in the cabin Dimitri mysteriously leaves St. Vlads and Rose. Not knowing where Dimitri has gone or why Rose tries to deal with her feelings while fighting off the darkness caused by spirit as well as care for her newborn daughter. When Dimitri returns can Rose find it in herself to forgive him or will the two raise their daughter together?

Rated M just to be safe.

Chapter One:

Dimitri's Return

RPOV Decmeber 26th

The week after Valeriya's birth was hectic to say the least. Lissa and decided to postpone our move to Court when I found out I was pregnant and until Olendski gave the okay to fly little Val and me were grounded.

Val had also been screaming on and off since she was born. According to Olendski my poor baby had colic so I was currently rocking my daughter gently as she was swaddled snuggly and her head was rested on my chest where the beating of my heart soothed her. She was no longer crying but she was still whimpering at the moment as I gently bounced and rocked her but I knew it would last no matter how hard I tried to get my baby to sleep.

I looked up to my ceiling.

"Come on Val," I said pleadingly, "Mama can only take so much, you know." I shifted her, my arms growing tired, and this only caused her to start to cry again. "Strigoi, madmen, psychos, heck even Stan Alto, I'd take them all on one at a time if only you would stop crying!"

Val looked up at me with a quivering lip I glanced to the clock. It was feeding time.

I sat down on my bed, grabbed a pillow and propped her up in my lap as I quickly bared my breast so that she could eat.

Once she latched on I sighed. This kid was already making my life hectic but I loved her much more then I thought I would have. I had never thought myself as the mother-type but once I first held my little Val I knew that I would move heaven and earth for her.

As Valeriya continued her meal there was a knock at the door. I sighed and grabbed a blanket to through over Val and my naked boob.

"Come in!" I called and began to pat my baby's bottom as she nursed.

Lissa opened the door and quickly shut and locked it.

I cocked my head in confusion as she looked at me wild eyed; her breathing was coming in heavy pants.

"Liss Wha-" suddenly her emotions came through the bond like a tidal wave, for some reason my hormones from my pregnancy had been having some weird affects on the bond and her emotions would come to me a little late or delayed but now I was hit full force. She was nervous, worried about me and incredibly angry.

Lissa sat down next to me and looked at me with sympathy.

"Rose," She said as she played with her fingers nervously.

"What is it?" I asked prepared to hand Val to my best friend while I went to find whoever had put her in this state and beat the living snot out of them.

She took a deep breath.

"Dimitri is coming back."

Abe POV

I walked toward Rose's door. Janine had decided it would have been in Rose's best interest for her to know me and I her, not to mention little Valeriya. I had my suspicions about the father of my grandchild especially when the Princess and Adrian would talk about the Guardian who mentored Rose they seemed to hold some kind of resentment toward him, Rose, on the other hand, refused to speak of him if possible.

"The baby does have the Belikov looks though." I thought. Already my granddaughter resembled the Belikova women with their proud but delicate features and dark eyes. That's not to say that the child had not also inherited the a few Mazur and Hathaway traits as well but the resemblance, to the only son of Olena Belikova was startling, even if it had been years since I had dealt with the boy.

I had had many dealings the Belikov family in the past. They didn't particularly trust me; not many in Baia did, but Olena Belikova was a kind woman who was willing to open her home to any that needed a place to stay.

I had seen the only Belikov boy when he was younger and he was always a responsible and respectful child. Though I had heard about the incident with his Moroi father, which I had found amusing. It served the fool right, no man should ever beat the mother of his children.

I came to Rose's door and knocked. I waited for a minute until Vasilisa opened the door and peered out timidly.

"Oh thank goodness," she said as she looked back into the room, its just Abe." She then moved to let me in. As I entered the room Rose was adjusting her t-shirt, having just finished feeding little Val. The baby was swaddled snuggly in her basinet sound asleep. I walked calmly to the crib and smiled down at the tiny baby.

"What do you want old man?" Rose asked as watched me cautiously. We had been introduced when she had been near six months pregnant and though we had grown close as father and daughter it seemed she still refused to call me Dad, or Baba, unless she was feeling particularly affectionate.

"Can a man not come to see his daughter and granddaughter?"

"Whatever you say Zmey." Rose said as she got up off her bed and went to her window.

To this day I still have no idea where she had learned of my Russian nickname gifted to me by many of the Russian towns I visit on regularly, particularly Baia, but she never wasted an opportunity to use it.

"I've heard that your mentor will be back." I said slyly, "Apparently his mission was very successful." I smirked as Rose stiffened and looked over at me.

"Yeah I know," she said tersely. "Lissa told me I'm sure Guardian Belikov was very successful on his mission." As I observed her I could detect a hint of bitterness in Rose's tone.

"Kiz," I said as I eyed the two girls. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were angry with the man for doing his job."

Rose scoffed but it was Vasilisa that spoke.

"He should have at least let Rose know that he was going."

"Hmm," I hummed as my mind processed the princess's comment. I walked to the bassinette that Rose had put the baby in once she was asleep and looked back down at little Valeriya, or Val as her mother had taken to calling her. Yes the more I looked at her I could see hints of the Belikovs as well as Rose.

"I'm sure Guardian Belikov will be wrapped around little Val's fingers in no time. Why I dare say I bet that there will be an almost father/daughter bond between them by the time she is a teenager don't you think Kiz? "

Rose looked me in the eyes and I saw a flicker of shocked surprise flash in her eyes before she replaced it with petulant defiance.

She scoffed. "Don't be silly Abe."

I chuckled. "Despite how you feel about the situation Kiz I'm sure your mentor will be back soon, he is still the Princess's guardian is he not?"

RosePOV

"Crap." I thought bitterly. Of course Abe would be the one to remember that Dimitri was still Lissa's sanctioned Guardian. I wasn't sure how I was going to handle seeing Dimitri again. He had left but it had been on the orders of the Queen herself.

Then there was the fact that Dhampirs weren't supposed to be able to have children together. Val was a miracle, nothing more and nothing less. I glanced back to Abe, my father; he was smiling down at my sleeping daughter. He may have been eighteen years late for me but he was here for Valeriya and that was what mattered now and so I tried my hardest to get use to this strange and flashy mobster that was now in my life. I watched as Abe glanced to me with a sly knowing look in his eyes. It was as if he thought he knew something, like a secret that he planned to use for leverage one day.

"He couldn't know… could he?"

I shivered as I thought about what Abe and my mom might do to Dimitri if they knew that he was Val's father.

My door opened suddenly and Adrian came running in looking disheveled.

"The Russian just got here!" he said. Then he began to lock the door to my room.

"Adrian what are you doing?" I asked even though knowing that Dimitri had finally returned had my heart beating like a war drum.

"Isn't it obvious?" Adrian asked. "I'm not letting little Val out of this room."

"And why is that?" Abe asked sneakily. Then he looked to Lissa and me while Adrian paled. "Is there something that you want to tell me Kiz?"

Adrian spoke up. "Probably not, but I really don't like the Russian, he's boring and all serious."

We all looked at the blonde haired Moroi like he had lost is mind, which, considering he was a spirit user, he might have.

He smiled at us and I had the feeling I wasn't going to like what was going to come out of his mouth. "And I don't think him not getting laid is the problem."

I face palmed. Adrian Ivashkov was a moron sometimes.

I looked up in time to see him lighting one of his clove cigarettes and that is when I had had it!

DimitriPOV

I stepped out of the car. I took a deep breath of the fresh Montana air and I saw that a heavy layer of snow covered the ground.

It had felt like a lifetime I had been back in such a familiar place.

I smiled as I saw Alberta waiting patiently for me. She smiled and nodded as she walked toward me.

"Belikov," she said as we shook hands. "I'm glad to see that you are back safe and sound." I nodded. It was nice to be back but I was also surprised. I had expected for the Queen to have Princess Vasilisa and Rose come to Court but since my orders were to return to the Academy and I hadn't been reassigned I knew that that wasn't the case. When I said as much to Alberta she shocked me with news I had never expected to hear.

"Rose and Vasilisa will be leaving in the next few days after they've had their last examination."

I gave my former boss a confused look. "Examinations?" I asked. "Are the girls alright?"

Alberta averted her eyes looking uncomfortable.

"Vasilisa is well but Rose, well, she…"

I began to get worried. Rose could get into a lot of trouble if she had a mind to and I worried that she had done something foolish while I had been gone.

"Is Rose alright Alberta?" I asked trying to hide the panic I felt deep in my stomach.

"Dimitri," she said. "Rose had a baby."

I froze, surely I hadn't heard correctly. Rose and I couldn't have children together it was genetically impossible. My mind went to the only logical answer, that Rose had had a relationship with a Moroi and as my mind played images I never wanted to see my heart broke.

"When?" I whispered. I didn't understand what I was asking. Was I asking when the child had been born? Or was I asking when she had become pregnant and by who or maybe it was all of them.

"About a week ago," Alberta said. "She had a little girl,"

I sighed and ran my gloved and through my hair. I glanced to the left and could have sworn I saw Adrian running away. Dismissing that I looked back Alberta and contemplated what I had heard.

I didn't know what to think of this news. I knew Rose had had some encounters with some of the other male students but I had thought it had never gone further then a little making out, certainly no further then what she and I had done before the Strigoi attack the week before her birthday.

"I guess I should stop in to see her then." I pulled my duffle bag onto my shoulder and Alberta smiled completely oblivious of my heartache.

"She would like that," she said. "I think Rose had wished you had been here during her pregnancy. She had a lot of complications."

My heart only broke more at hearing that. Rose had probably been terrified, scared at the prospect of being a mother so young and then to have had complications with the pregnancy I could imagine that Rose had been more then stressed while I had been away.

"And the father?" I asked with little more heat then I should have. Surely the father had been there to support Rose as she carried his child. Alberta shook her head sadly and I had my answer. Of course the father wouldn't have been there to help and support Roza, Moroi men rarely stayed with their Dhampir lovers.

"Rose wouldn't say."

I growled angrily deep in my throat. If I got my hands on the Moroi that had done this to my Roza I'd thrash him then force him to take responsibility.

"I see." I then began to walk through the snow toward the Dhampir dorms.

"Dimitri," I stopped and looked back at the older woman. "I know this is disappointing but its not the end of her career she can be a good mother and a wonderful guardian."

I nodded. I agreed with her completely. What bothered me was that my Roza had had another man's child and all I wanted for it to be mine.

After putting my things away I made my way to Rose's room to see for myself that Roza was healthy and doing well and also to see this child of her's with my own eyes.

I made it to her door but before I could knock the door opened and Adrian tumbled out, a lit cigarette in his mouth.

"Damn it Ivashkov," Rose growled as I stepped to the side as the Royal fell to the ground. "I told you not to smoke those damned things around Val!"

Rose hadn't noticed me and neither had Ivashkov so I stayed quiet and observed.

"Little Dhampir I believe we have more important things to worry about." Then his eyes landed on me and he paled but it went unnoticed.

Rose stood in all her glory dressed in an over sized t-shirt and night shorts that were hidden under said shirt made her strong muscled legs look long and flawless. Her dark hair was piled on her head in a messy bun and even from behind she looked fierce with her legs shoulder length apart and her hands on his hips, she looked like a she-wolf protecting her young.

"A horde of Strigoi could be having an all you can eat buffet outside and I'd still take the time to kick your butt for smoking around Valeriya."

I watched, slightly amused as Rose gave the Moroi a piece of her mind, then Vasilisa and, to my surprise, Abe Mazur stepped from Rose's room and in Vasilisa's arms was a baby quietly fussing as if she had just been awoken from a nap.

"Rose you woke the baby." Lissa said.

And then as if that was her cue the baby began to cry.

Rose looked back and for a second we made eye contact and she froze.

"Little girl?" Abe asked as he followed Rose's line of sight.

"Ah, Guardian Belikov." He said with a large and almost sinister smile.

Zmey was well known in my hometown of Baia and though he had never done anything to myself or my family I still didn't completely trust him, after all he was known for being involved in a lot of shady business.

I broke eye contact with Roza and looked to the mob boss standing before me.

I nodded. "Mr. Mazur," I said then looked to Vasilisa. "Princess." Then to Adrian. "Lord Ivashkov."

Abe chuckled. "Have you heard yet about my new granddaughter?" he asked me as he gently took the crying baby that was wrapped in a thick warm blanket that kept the winter chill from her fragile form.

She was small and seemed to have the same dark hair that her mother had and it looked to be as curly as Janine Hathaway's own fiery red curls.

"She's beautiful isn't she?" Abe asked proudly then he looked back at Rose and she glared at him.

"Cut it out old man." She growled as she walked over and carefully took her crying baby from the hands of the Moroi.

"Granddaughter?" I asked.

"Ah yes," Zmey said with a smug smile. "Rosemarie here is my daughter."

I wish I could say I was surprised but considering Rose's pension for getting into trouble, breaking rules, and general devil may care attitude toward certain things it didn't. Knowing that the infamous Zmey was her father and looking back on the time I spent with Rose I realized that she actually acted a lot like the notorious mobster.

"I see." I said as I glanced to Roza as she held the still crying baby in her arms. She was bouncing gently and humming trying to calm the little girl but to no avail.

"Yes is seems my little granddaughter has the Mazur hair and temper but I assume the rest of her features are from her father's family, wouldn't you agree Kiz?"

Again Rose glared at her father and he chuckled as he walked away.

"Princess Dragomir, Lord Ivashkov why don't we let Belikov and Rose catch up.

Rose sighed as the group walked away, Lissa and Adrian looking back anxiously. Rose smiled reassuringly as she tried to calm her crying infant.

Once they were gone Rose looked to me.

"Well you might as well come on in."

She then carried the baby, Valeriya, into her room.

I watched quietly as Roza tried to calm the baby but to no avail. I recognized the problem almost instantly. My nephew Paul had cried like that often when he was first born, colic he doctors had said. I winced in sympathy. Paul had not been an easy baby at first. It wasn't until he was a few weeks to a month old that he had seemed to adjust and calm down.

I sighed and steeped forward, my hands outstretched. I knew from my experience with Karolina's first time as a mother that Roza needed a break, or at least some help.

"Let me try," I said. She looked at me and for a moment I could see it there, she wasn't sure she could trust me, it hurt that she felt that way but considering I had been gone since the week after the attack without a word to anyone. It would seem, I suppose, to Rose that I had left her, abandoned her when she needed someone the most. No mater how betrayed I felt at this moment I'm sure she felt just as betrayed when I left. After mentally debating she nodded and hesitantly handed the crying infant to me.

The baby continued to cry until I began to speak softly in Russian. Then she stopped and looked up at me. She watched me curiously, her brown eyes unfocused, realizing that I was a new face and voice and so I took advantage of her quiet curiosity and smiled at her.

"Now," I said softly in Russian under the watchful eyes of my Roza. "What is all this crying about?" I asked as I gently stoked the baby's cheek with my finger. The baby's hand twitched and suddenly latched onto my finger as I rocked her.

RosePOV

I watched as Dimitri worked his magic and Valeriya calmed as he spoke to her. He smiled gently as he rocked his daughter, though he didn't know that little detail, and I suddenly realized that if I didn't try to tell him that he was Val's father I would never forgive myself and if he found out from anyone else but me he'd never forgive me.

"She's beautiful," Dimitri, said as he looked up from Val, now sleeping soundly in her father's arms. I could see the hurt in his eyes. I looked away. I knew that at first he wouldn't think she was his, hell his mind wouldn't even have entertained the possibility. We had been told all our lives that Dhampirs couldn't reproduce with humans or each other, it was genetically impossible, so I couldn't blame him for not considering that Val might be his.

I nodded. "Thanks." He looked at me with that heartbroken look in his eyes and I took a deep breath. I had to tell him, even if he didn't believe me at least no one could say I didn't try.

"Comrade," I whispered. "We need to talk."

A/N: Long chapter. This story is really just whatever comes from my head. I'm not sure where I am going with it or how long it will be. Please review and let me know what you all think.

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