Hey peoples! Here is chapter two. I hope you like it.
Disclaimer is the same as the last one. I don't like repeating myseld much.
Chapter Two
When I got in the shower I got thinking. Of course the first thing on my mind was the night I had with Dimitri. But I got rid of these thoughts and started making plans for today. First of all we had to figure out how to get the information from the alchemist and to find out who killed the queen; second we had to figure out how to get into Court and present Jill as the last Dragomir; and last but not least, how to clear my name and Dimitri's by default. For the last minutes of my shower I got back to thinking of last night – the magical night with Dimitri and how cruel I was to Adrian but it had to be done. After I finished I had a huge smile on my face. Then I realized that I hadn't gotten clothes so I got out to look for some, only in my towel.
"What has you smiling like that?" Dimitri asked when he saw me, while he was trying, and failing miserably, to hide his lust filled expression.
"If you must know – it's you, the reason I smile." His face lit like the sun when I said that. "But don't forget your promise" I added with some guilt, for ruining his happy mood.
His face fell. "I won't…Oh, Sonya dropped by and left these for you" he continued, while he threw me some clothes – black slacks and a white button-up shirt. I felt like at Victor's trial. I smiled.
"Thanks. Oh, would you mind calling Jill and Sonya here so that we can plan where we go from now." I asked him with a smile. He just nodded while still looking at my body. I went back to the bathroom to dress and make my hair. While doing that my mind wondered back to Adrian, how hurt he looked when I told him that we have to break up, it broke my heart. But it was what had to be done, it was the honorable thing to do.
When I got out they were all in the room waiting for me. "Rose are you okay?" Jill asked me. I guess I couldn't hide what I was thinking before I walked out.
"Yeah, Jill, don't worry. I was just thinking about Adrian and how hurt he looked." I said. Dimitri's face fell a bit and Jill looked confused. I told her with just a look that I would tell her later. "Now we have to figure out a few things. First we need to talk with one of the alchemists, Ian, he knew something that he didn't tell the other guardians. Then we have to figure how to get inside Court and present you, Jill, and last but not least – to clear our names." I said in a commanding tone.
"We need someone we can trust, someone who is inside Court and is out of suspicion and won't be difficult for him to help us." Sonya started saying, while I was thinking and I figured someone. Then I turned to Dimitri and he had the same look on his face, like he had figured someone too.
"Mikhail" we said at the same time. We looked around and Jill looked confused, while Sonya…well, she was almost heartbroken. I turned to Dimitri smiled lightly "Comrade, would you mind going out to find us some coffee and something to eat, while we have a girl chat" He just nodded and went out. I stood up and went to hug Sonya. The moment she got in my arms she started crying her eyes out.
"Rose, how did you do it. I still feel immense guilt over what I've done while I was turned. I know Dimitri's point of view and how he feels and felt, I also know your feelings for him and for what he has done. I don't know, though, how Mikhail will react? How will he feel towards me now?" She was crying so hard. I felt horrible for her. Jill looked shocked and scared. I beckoned her closer and then I went on to comfort Sonya.
"Look, he loves you so much. When I got to Court to look for the prison's blueprints, Mikhail found me looking in the archives and when I told him what I was looking for and why, he was the one who helped me. He knew how I felt, he could relate so he helped me. I know how he felt because he couldn't save you. He did it because he wanted at one of us to have his happy ending. He also helped me a lot when I escaped. Don't ever doubt his love." I stated, hoping to convince her. Then I looked at Jill, who looked like a lost puppy, so I decided now was as good time as any to tell her my whole story. So I looked at her and it was like with Adrian, when my filter had gone south. I just couldn't stop. "Jill, I will tell you everything now, I just ask that you keep it to yourself." She nodded. "About the remark to Adrian – I was going out with him, it was an arrangement after I came back from Russia. I had promised him a chance with me and I kept my promise. But that was when turning strigoi back was just a myth. When Dimitri was back I just wanted to jump back into his arms, but he pushed me away. So I tried with Adrian, this time more determined to make it happen. But Fate has strange plans, for my love life, it seems. I'm portraying my imprisonment. I had to be with him 24/7 for the last weeks and I tried to tell myself that my feelings were lessening but with no such luck. My love for Dimitri will always be big, filling my whole heart, but at the same time I developed feelings for Adrian and they were the reason that I had to be truthful with him - that nothing will happen between us. I hurt him so much but it was the honorable thing to do. As for my relationship with Dimitri…It started when we got back to the Academy, after Liss and I had run away. We tried so hard to ignore it but it was bigger and stronger than us. When we allowed ourselves to express what we felt it was…I don't have words for it, but it was short-lived. Because then the attack happened and he was turned. Then I made my decision to find him and free him from the misery of being undead, like we had promised each other so ling ago. That didn't turn out as planned because when I found him he got the better of me and had me as a prisoner for a while. I won't lie there was a time that I felt like he was back with me, but soon I realized that it was all a dream and I had to do my mission. I thought I did, I thought I had killed him and I felt elated and awful, at the same time. When I got back I found out that I had failed. H e started sending me threatening notes. Then I found out that there was a method to bring back someone from being a strigoi. I was hell bent to find all the information possible. Than plan backfired on me when we saved him. He felt so grateful to Lissa, even though all she did was drive a piece of silver through him. Not that I'm ungrateful but I did all the other work and he didn't acknowledge it. And that, along with the statement that he didn't love me anymore, hurt too much. So I tried to back off…But you can't tell your heart what or how to feel and for whom. So that is our story." I said taking a breath. I looked at them and they had a look of sympathy and something else that I couldn't place. Then I followed their gaze over my shoulder only to see a pair of pained brown eyes staring intently at my back. I could see al the despair, regret and love in them. But I also could see all the questions there. I just shook my head in a way to say 'we'll talk later'. That's when Jill's phone went off. She picked up with a surprised look on her face. Then she looked at me and told me.
"Adrian wants to talk to you."