Kindling the Flame

Chapter 2 – The past is catching up

Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait for this chapter… I wanted to build up suspense for the official 'start'. Anyway, thank you so much for all the reviews and love, it means a lot.

This chapter was kind of hard to write. I'm not the best in fighting scenes so sorry, but hope you enjoyed and please review!

A song that inspired this chapter was Ruelle The Other Side

-Three years ago-

"Out! It's getting dark" the guardians yelled, doing their best to get everyone out before it went dark and the Strigoi may come out of the cave.

I was running, Dimitri close behind me, making my way to the cave opening. We had gotten all the captives- Eddie, Meredith, and some more-and we were more than ready to leave these caves, ready to leave this all behind-

"Arghh" I heard someone yell and turning around instinctively I saw that the person screaming was Dimitri. There was a blonde haired Strigoi on top of Dimitri-holding him down-and clawing at him. His hands-his nails-so easily scratched Dimitri across his face. Dimitri shrieked again in pain as the Strigoi started pulling Dimitri's hair and pushing his head in the ground, hitting hard. He then screamed again.

I stopped, not moving. I couldn't leave him.

"Rose! We have to go now" my mother yelled, running up to me trying to pull me but I fought her off. No. I won't leave him. I began running toward the Strigoi and Dimitri, the Strigoi took Dimitri's stake and was aiming it at his heart- and then I jumped.

I put myself between Dimitri and stake, pushing the stake away, pulling mine from my boot and with the second of surprise I had on the Strigoi; I staked him.

After staking, I fell to the ground, gasping and looking at Dimitri who first looked stunned and then picked me up in his arms and hugged me. But quickly pushed me away as we weren't alone.

We quickly then after made our way out of the caves as fast as we could and into the vans making our way back to the academy. But on the ride back I noticed something- Dimitri sat as far from me as possible. And he seemed lost in thought. But I didn't think anything of it… at the time.

We arrived at the academy shortly after, and we all walked to our respective rooms. But as I went to go talk to Dimitri, he was gone. I then continued to walk to my room, trying to understand why Dimitri would leave without a goodbye or… thank you.

Once in my room, I took a shower and laid in bed and quickly fell asleep…

The next morning I was woken up to knocking on my door, and looking at my clock I saw that it was 5 a.m (5 p.m vamp time) yawning, I went to open the door to see who was bothering me at 5 a.m.

Opening the door, I gasped. It was Dimitri. What was he doing here?

"Hey, is there something wrong?" I asked, worried

I saw a flicker of something in his eyes. Regret? I didn't know.

"Uhm… no Roza. I'm leaving. With Tasha-"

"Wait, hold up. Repeat I thought you just said you were leaving"

"I am."

"W-Why?" I asked, confused,

"I just- cant be here. With you." He said sternly,

"What do you mean?" I asked, feeling tears brim my eyes.

"I cant stand you and we were a mistake-"

"Oh, so what we had was a mistake?" I asked,

"yes."

And my tears poured over. What did he mean? Everything was wrong? We were a mistake, the night we shared was a mistake?

As tears filled my eyes, and poured over my eyes, I saw his face soften then harden and then he left.

I ran down the hall, trying to catch up.

"Dimitri?" I cried, looking, but he was gone.

"D-Dimitri, you can't leave me" I yelled,

"You can't leave me" –

"Ah" I woke up, in tears. Tears everywhere. Pouring down my cheeks, and a layer of sweat on my forehead and neck.

I sighed loudly, gasping for breath.

I've had this same dream replayed in my head for the past month. The reality of my life keeping me awake at night. It wasn't really a dream, just a replay of what happened. Of when he left. He left me without any context, alone. He was the only person I ever really had with Lissa busy and everyone else leading their own lives. But not only was he the only one there he was the only one that truly understood me. He was my solace and someone I counted on. And then he left.

Feeling nausea sweep over me, I ran to the bathroom connected to my dorm, and let everything out.

I had been sick for a while…

I felt changes in my mood, I felt hormones take control, and nothing really tasted good. I also had morning sickness.

Wiping my mouth, I opened the cabinet under my sink and grabbed a napkin to better clean my mouth. But when I opened the cabinet, I was met with a pregnancy test. I had bought it on n outing a little over a week ago. I didn't know why, I never even tested myself. I was too scared to test myself, scared of the reality.

I mean, I've only been with a dhampir it's not genetically possible. But all of the symptoms were there…

Deciding it's now or never, I opened up the test and decided to just do it.

Looking at the instructions, I did what it said, Pee, use the stick and then wait 2-4 minutes. Now, that may not seem like a long time but it was the longest few minutes of my life. I just kept it on the bathroom counter laying on the floor counting the seconds.

When the time was up, I went and picked up the stick with shaky hands.

Reading the test, I felt tears build up in my eyes and blow over and I realized what happened.

Even though it's genetically impossible, my ovaries had other plans.

Present:

"Mommy!" Lexa screamed, running into my arms. All thoughts of Dimitri and Tasha vanished and my motherly instincts kicked in and I quickly checked if anything was wrong with Lexa. But as I could see, nothing was.

Someone, through her screams, the ceremony continued, and no one noticed. Thank God.

Whispering, I asked "Baby, what's wrong?"

"Noting mama, I jus wanted to be up ere wif you" she said, leaning her head into the crook of my neck.

"Ok, just be quiet" I whispered, rubbing small circles on her back, hoping to soothe her to sleep.

But of course, with my luck, she didn't fall asleep. If anything, she gained more energy after the ceremony and was squirming in my arms, begging me to let her go. Kids.

The ceremony just finished, and we had taken our respective seats and I promptly ignored the elephants in the room and looked up not making contact with Tasha nor Dimitri. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of looking at me.

There were two extra seats at our table, since all the tables had 6 seats and there were only four of us, but that was until…

"Tasha? What are you doing here?" Christian yelled in happiness, jumping up to hug his aunt.

"Well, my classes were canceled, and I decided to surprise you!" she finished.

"Aww, well, please, take a seat" he offered, pointing to the seats at the table.

"Rose…" Lissa said through the bond.

"What?" I said back innocently

Of course, Dimitri sat in the seat next to mine.

They caught up a little and talked and everyone ignored me, it was awesome. Until, they turned all of their attention to me.

Turning the attention to me, Tasha asked, "So, how are things Rose"

"Juusssttt Peachy" I said,

"Uhuh I see." Seeming curious and bored, Tasha asked "Who's that little girl?" but before I could answer Lexa answered.

"I'm Alexandra Mason Hathaway!" she said excitedly, bouncing in her chair.

"Very nice to meet you, Alexandra. Who's your mom?"

Looking at Tasha as if she was the dumbest person in the planet, she answered pointing to me, "She's ma mommy" and then she crawled onto my lap.

I could see the confusion crawl onto Dimitris face. He must had been trying to do some math,

"Alexandra, how old are you?" He asked

"Two" she answered happily.

Wanting to get out of here, I picked up Lexa and announced, "I'm going to go get some food for Lexi" and then stalked off, but I quickly heard a chair pull out and footsteps behind me. Great.

When I made it to the food table, I did my best to ignore Dimitri and I asked Lexa what she wanted to eat.

"Rose."

Ignore.

"Rose?"

Ignore.

"Roza"

I didn't ignore. I snapped around and hissed, "Don't call me that" as I started piling the plate with all kinds of foods that Lexa wanted.

I then promptly walked away, back to the table and sat down seating Lexa in her seat. I gave her a fork and let her start eating as I picked off her plate.

'So…" Tasha said… she and Christian had already caught up last night since I was told they were on facetime by Lissa, there really wasn't much to talk about. It was really just awkward silence until…

"So, Alexandra, who's your dad"

I felt my anger begin to boil.

Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed, sorry for the long wait then bad chapter but I had some writers block. Me updating during the week is rare so you'll usually will see me active on this story during the weekends, with that said…

Did you like the chapter? What did you think of Rose's reaction to Dimitri leaving? What do you think of her parenting skills? What do you think may happen with Dimitri back? Any scenes you would like to see happen between the two?

Also, anyone see VA's facebook post? Are we getting a TV show? A reboot? Let me know your opinions!

Have an amazing day/night/evening!