Chapter 4… This should be fun
When we got to the Sams it was closed, so I jimmied the lock with one of my bobby pins until the door opened. Once Jill, Adrian, Christian, and Lissa were inside I told them to hide in one of the back corners. After that I went back outside, only to see the battle had moved from the parking lot near Michaels to the parking lot at Sams. I saw Strigoi bodies everywhere but there looked like more Strigoi than ever. More must have come, I decided. There was still a barrier between Eddie and Dimitri and the rest of the guardians.
"There inside" I told Dimitri, and when he heard that he looked around, and it looked like for the first time realized how many Strigoi were actually there. He looked like he was fighting an internal struggle and then he looked like he had made a decision. He began talking into his earpiece meanwhile dragging Eddie and me with him to the entrance of Sams.
I was wondering if he had gone mad or something, he was bringing the Strigoi right to where the moroi were, but when they tried to follow us they stopped dead in their tracks. A few of them, the ones that were the closest, fell to the ground looking like they were suffocating, and then they turned to ash. The ones further away just hissed at us and began attacking Alberta and the other guardians.
I was too shocked to do anything accept stare and be dragged by Dimitri. When we got inside I noticed that the other guardians outside were beginning to retreat and go back to the vans. I couldn't believe that they were leaving the moroi, they were just leaving them to die. I hadn't really registered what I had just seen and started kicking against Dimitri to let me go because I had to protect Lissa.
Dimitri let go of Eddie and held me down on the floor "Rose, it's okay, they're safe." How could he say that, they are definitely not safe. "BUT THERE JUST LEAVING!" I screamed "WHAT ABOUT THE MOROI, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DIE TO PROTECT THEM!" I was pissed "Just let me explain" he said in such a calming voice that a part of me just wanted to let him, but a bigger part wanted to go and kick all of the guardians asses who were leaving us here to die. But every second that Dimitri looked at me that voice got smaller and smaller until it was barely a whisper.
When Dimitri felt me relax he let me go and said "Rose, Strigoi can't come in here, its holly ground." Now I admit sams is pretty cool, but holly? That's taking it a little too far. "Dimitri, it's a Sams" I said, skepticism clear in my voice. "I know, the person who founded sams was a Dhampir, and he put every sams through the same rituals and things that every church goes through, he made it so that no Strigoi could come in here. Then he stocked it with everything we would need to survive, look around here, there is enough food to last all of us a year if we needed it." Dimitri was right, there was a lot of food.
This was all starting to make sense, but I still didn't understand why the other guardians left. "Why did they leave?" I asked "Because I told them too, there were-are too many Strigoi, we wouldn't have been able to fight them off, we just have to wait in here until morning when they have to leave and then we will go back to St. Vlads." Ok now it was really starting to make sense.
"Okay, but we have to go find the others and tell them that they are safe." We didn't feel like looking around the entire store for five people that I told to hide, so instead I had the brilliant idea of just going to the intercom and calling out "Adrian, Lissa, Christian, Jill, Mia come to the front of the store, we have to talk, and we have some explaining to do." Then we waited. It took a while, Adrain was the first one, then Jill, next was Mia, then surprise, surprise, Lissa and Christian showed up together.
Dimitri went through explaining everything he did to me, just in more detail because he wasn't afraid of any of these people trying to attack him to get outside. When he was done I looked at Christian and realized that he looked like shit. Well worse than he usually does at least. I realized that he needed blood. "Hey Sparky you look like shit, Dimitri, this place doesn't happen to have a freezer with some blood bags does it?" I knew they didn't, but I had to ask before I was going to offer over a vein, "Actually, it does, I told you they have everything here that our race needs to survive."
I was shocked to say the least, but followed Dimitri to the back corner of the store into a door that said "Staff Only" when we went in there I was blown away. There were extra stakes, dummies, a treadmill, a weight set, a shower, and a freezer in the corner that I guessed had blood in it. Christian needed it the most, but everyone else had some to because it looked like there was enough to last at least a couple of months in there.
When we left everyone looked a lot better, and with the moroi have eaten, I decided I needed to eat too. I went over to the restaurant that was in the front of the store and looked for any leftover pizza. In one of the fridges there was an entire cheese pizza, my favorite, and even better it was cold. I brought it back to where everyone was, sat the box on my lap and began to eat. Everyone else soon came back with other types of food and drinks and we had a very unique dinner.
After that we went over to the side wall where they kept all of the mattresses, there were 4 mattresses, we decided it would be Lissa and Christian, Mia and Eddie, Me and Dimitri, and that means Jill was stuck with Adrian. I wasn't too happy about that situation and I had to make sure to threaten Adrian before I went to bed.
We spread them out so that we were just about within shouting distance of each other, because everyone still wanted their privacy, when I went to get changed. I never realized all of the things that Sams sold until you actually needed them. I went and got some PJ's while Dimitri said he would go and get some sheets. I also got toothpaste, a tooth brush, a hair brush, some face wash, and headed off to the bathroom, only to run into Lissa and Mia with relatively the same products in their hands.
We all got ready for bed together and said our good nights and then went off to our beds. When I got back our bed was all made up and had a big comforter on top that made me want to jump in and snuggle up, but the thing that excited me most was seeing my Russian god lying there in all of his glory reading… wait for it, a western. I can't believe it, even when we are stranded; he still finds some way to get in his daily dose of cowboys.
I crawl into bed and Dimitri puts aside the book to look at me. Thank god too, because I did not want to be one of those people who had to share their man with in animate objects like video games, or worse, westerns. When he looked at me it sent a shiver down my spine and I looked back at him with so much love in my gaze I felt like I was going to explode. "Well, we are all alone, in a bed, together, what do you want to do?" He chuckled softly and then leaned over and kissed me.
The kiss started out sweet and innocent and soon became passionate. I rolled over so I was on top of him straddling his waist, and I deepened the kiss. We just lay there, just like that for what felt like forever, just being content with each other. I then pulled away and snuggled into his chest and fell into a dreamless sleep.
When I woke up I looked at my phone and saw that it was only 5 o'clock. Dimitri was still sleeping beside me and he looked so peaceful. "You're starring" he whispers without even opening his eyes. "I'm gazing" I replied. "It's creepy" he said, and he still hadn't opened his eyes. "It's romantic" (A/N: Got that scene from Vampire Diaries good show) I replied. With that he opened his eyes and crashed his lips to mine. Unlike last night, this time it didn't start innocent, it started passionate, and also he was on top this time.
Soon I realized that it was actually morning and that the Strigoi would be gone. I pulled away and Dimitri looked at me questioningly, all I wanted was to stay there with him forever but we had to get everyone back to the academy. "its morning, well night time, well, ugh it's light outside" I said. It took him a while to realize what it being light out had to do with anything and then he jumped up and started to get dressed. I did the same and we went to wake up the others.
I checked on Lissa through the bond to make sure I wasn't interrupting something, which I wasn't. And God help Adrian if I was interrupting something when I went to wake him up because there would be hell to pay if he did anything to Jail Bait. Dimitri got up Eddie and Mia, and we all met back where we had dinner. When we were all together we went to the front of the store only to see flashing red and blue lights, and an army of police officers surrounding the building.
I didn't know why they were here, but it couldn't be good. As soon as they started speaking my suspicions were confirmed. We were quote "Dangerous criminals" and were going to be in here on lock-down. I guess I never expected Strigoi to have ties to the police. So turns out we were going to be staying here a while. Well… this should be fun.