Chapter 4: A Long Way From Home

AN: We own nothing but the baby.

We went to my room to gather some of my things. Then we went to Lissa's. On our way there we ran into Aaron.

"Hey. I see you're out of the clinic. How you feeling?" He asked.

"I'm feeling busy." I said. "We have to go." I grabbed Lissa's arm to go to her room. She jerked away. 'Ugh! Not again' I thought. I turned around and she was crying.

"Why? That's all I want to know! Aaron, I gave you everything. And then you and Mia-"She stopped. She looked at me. And walked away towards her room.

"No, Lissa. What's going on?" I asked. "What did you do, Aaron?"

"Nothing, Lissa just needs to get over herself." Lissa turned around.

"I do? No, Aaron. You do." She yelled. "You're the one that slept with Mia while we were still dating. Guess what, Aaron? We're done. Completely. You're a stick in the mud and you're a bloody bastard. I'm not wasting any more time on your blood-thirsty, worthless ass." And she left.

"You what?" I asked him.

"I slept with Mia. Okay? And it was a mistake. I regret it. And I told her thinking she would let it be. But, I guess not." He walked away. I grabbed him by his arm and jerked him around.

"Let it be?! How could you do this to her? After everything she's been through! You're so sick and twisted. Did you know that? Because it's true, Aaron. Too true. And guess what? "

"Yes. Let it be. I'm sorry, Rose. I have to go." He started to walk away again but I stood in front of him. I punched him in his face.

"That's from her." I punched him again. But, harder. "And that's from me!" He stood there holding his nose, because it was bleeding. I kicked his legs from underneath him. I leaned over the top of him. "And that's from the both of us. How's blood taste now? I hope you suffer." I left him lay there on the floor and I walked away.

The next day, we left at Guardian Shift hour. So we didn't have to compel any guardians or anything. We got money from Lissa's credit card. We stayed the night in a hotel in Helena, Montana. The next day, we took a bus to Chicago, Illinois. Two days after we stayed in Illinois, we moved to Brighton, Illinois where we stayed for the next four months. While we were there, someone was watching us.

We then started heading south towards Texas and after two days of traveling and a $300 rental car under our fake ID's, Lissa and I made it to the Corpus Christi were we stayed form a month and a half before we ran into a Moroi and her guardian at the mall where we barely got away. So that is when we decided to leave to Portland, Oregon.

Lissa and I were staying in an apartment in Portland. It has been almost 6 months since we had left the Academy and I am 7 months pregnant with the baby. I don't know if it's a boy or a girl and I still don't know what to name it. All I do know is that being pregnant sucks especially when you have to keep moving around, because you're on the run. Lissa tries to cheer me up when the aches in my body and hormones collide, but it doesn't really help. The only thing these days that keeps me going, when I feel like I should just give up, is the fact then when it's all over…we can live a happy life together with a beautiful baby.

We started to prepare for the baby. It was now 8 months. It was almost time to give birth to the most amazing thing of my life. And I thought to myself every night about how it was possible for me to be pregnant with Dimitri's baby. It couldn't happen. It's been proven for centuries to never happen. EVER. I try not to let Lissa see that I'm scared, but it's really hard. I don't know what we are going to do when I have to have the baby and I don't know if the baby will be okay, since I haven't had medical assistance. When we were at the Baby store shopping, there was a lady 7 months pregnant. I'm 8 months and she was bigger than me…by far. And when she said she was 7 months and her belly looked that big, I began to worry about mine. Because, I was smaller than her, but further along. A series of questions were repeated in my mind, and again…not an answer.

"Hey, Rose. Come here." Lissa yelled. I walked into her bedroom. She had a bag of something.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's a present." She took out an outfit. It had a saying that read: "I love my Guardian." It had pink angels and purple hearts. Then she pulled out some bottles and binkies. They were different colors.

"Lis. We don't know what it's going to be yet. What if it's a boy? It's going to wear girly clothes?' I started laughing.

"Hey. Whatever helps you sleep at night…" She started laughing along with me.

"Well, thank you anyway. It means so much to me, Lis. I have a question." I was going to surprise her with a question that I knew she would say yes to.

"What? Don't ask me if I'll change shitty diapers…Because, No. I certainly will not." She was laughing.

"No. Gross. But, will you be the godmother of my baby. You have been there my whole life and it would mean so much to me if she could have someone like you in her life. I love you and so would she."

"No." she said.

"What?" Did she just say no? This is important to me. And the baby. If it only has one person in her life, then that would be sad.

"Yes, Of course I will silly. Why would you ask such an absurd question?"

"Absurd?

"Yep."

"Okay?"

"Rose, now I have a question." She sounded sad. Like someone had just told her the saddest thing of her life.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Are we ever going to go back to the Academy?" I don't think she was sure on whether she should have left or not.

"What do you mean? I thought we agreed to stay away from there? So, I could keep the baby. Lissa, this is a part of my life. And if we go back to the Academy, they will take it. I will never see my baby again. Do you realize how shattered I'd be?" My heart was sinking at the thought of losing my baby. Tears were coming out like a waterfall. It wasn't like she was saying that she wanted to go back, but just the thought of going back is what hurt.

"Rose, I'm not saying that I want to go back. I'm just asking. Like everyone is probably worried about us. And eventually, if not already, there going to come after us. Then what?"

"Then we keep running, Lis. Because, I'm not going to put this baby in-"I felt something running down my legs. I looked down at my pants and they were wet. It didn't feel like I was peeing. I looked up at Lissa. "Lis, it's not time yet."

AN: Hey guys. I'm just writing this to let you know that not many people have been commenting. It would mean a lot if you could comment. This Fan Fiction story is to see how many neither good nor bad comments I can get. This story is for my writing career. It may not be the best, but it's a start in a direction. And it's up to you if this is starting in the right direction or the bad. Thank you. I love ya'll.