Holidays are over and school is starting again. I hope this chapter makes you feel a little better as impossible as it seems.
Disclaimer; I do not own Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead is the lucky one.
After hours and hours of driving I had finally arrived in New York. Yeah, New York. It was very difficult for me to decide where I was going to spend the rest of my life, theoretically at least, as it was very easy for the guardians to find me.
That's why I chose New York city. A huge, overcrowded city and also a place where they wouldn't think I'd ever go. It was too obvious. Anyway I also decided to change my name. Not only for the obvious reasons but because it reminded me a lot of things I wanted to forget. The feelings and the thoughts I was remembering of him telling me the things he did. Roza.
From now on, my name would be Maria Wait. Yes, it was a terrible name but I couldn't think anything else. It also combined my real name. Rosemarie – Maria - and Hathaway – Wait.
And as if it couldn't be better, my new job would be in a library. Yeah, I was going to work as a librarian. Wasn't that a cosmic mockery; I hate books. I wished though that I could get a job that would include some action and not useless books. But it would be much easier for the guardians to find me in one of those professions. But at least I had in mind to start taking kickboxing lessons or I join a gym so that I would not lose my amazing shape.
Finally I stopped my car outside a grey building. When I went to find a job at a library near the city center, I asked the manager if she knew any place that I could stay and she suggested that I'd stay in a building which belonged to her uncle and he would offer me a special price. I don't know why but this woman liked me very quickly and it was weird since I went into the library, dressed pretty 'inappropriate', as Kirova would've put it. Worst was that the woman was quite identical to her. As I said; weird.
Anyway I got inside the hotel whose name was Dimis' place - seriously, what had I done to deserve that? I waited in the reception until a man around forty five, maybe fifty appeared. He was hot for his age and seemed quite modern.
"Hello can I help you?" he asked politely.
"Yes I want to rent a room." I said as kindly as I could. I was already miserable and the fact that the name of the hotel - or better said my new home - was Dimis' didn't help the situation.
"Are you Maria Wait, the girl who's working with my niece?" he asked obviously surprised.
"No- Yes, I mean." Damn it, I hadn't get used to my new name yet. "But how do you know who I am?" I didn't care but I asked him anyway to steer away from my little mistake.
"You know this is a hotel where we only in special occasions rent out rooms, usually to young people who need help, so…" he said apologetically.
"Okay, so I guess that you've already prepared my room." I asked a little mockingly. What to do, the habits, difficult changes...
"Yes we have Maria, if I may call you by your first name." I nodded in response and he continued. "So if I don't want to ask too much why a girl like you, work in a library - no offense." he said grinning, showing my body. I laughed and answered back.
"I wonder why a guy like you who might be hotter than Brad Pitt, work as a receptionist in that awful building." I shot back.
"Oh you are good, very good… Great comeback, but you really hurt my feelings. Although I liked your comment about my appearance." he said, grinning. "By the way, I'm Dimitri Mane, but you can call me Dimi as you may have already guessed by the sign outside." He pointed towards the exit and the sign.
"I prefer to call you Mr. Mane. Would that a problem?" I asked a little embarrassed. "There's no way to put another Dimitri in my life. One is more than enough." I added.
"No, not at all." he said as he was giving me the keys for my room. "Is he a terrible and idiotic ex? The guy who has the same name as me, I mean." he asked a little curious and maybe a little worried about the quick change of my mood.
"No." I yelled as I was heading to the elevator across the room. "I wish he was but he was just my teacher." I added and I heard him laughing before the door of the elevator closed completely.
If he only knew, I thought to myself letting a tear fall from my eyes.
DPOV
It was just a dream. Calm down. Rose was safe. She was in the Court. In the hospital.
Oh my god.
It was seven am and I had just woken up from my long sleep. The last four days I hadn't slept at all. When I was out of duty I spent my days by Roza's side. I couldn't sleep knowing that Rose was in danger, but last night on my way to the hospital, guardian Croft had told me to go to sleep or else I couldn't protect Vasilisa properly. So I couldn't avoid his orders, especially not now. I wasn't in the best position.
I took a shower and dressed very quickly so I could go to see Roza before my shift started. Despite the early hour, a lot of people had woken up and the guardians were quite energetic. Under other circumstances, I would have noticed that great difference but right now I had a lot of things on my mind. Specifically one. Roza.
As I arrived outside the hospital and was about to go inside, guardian Croft called out my name.
"Good morning guardian Croft, how can I help you?" I asked in a serious voice, wearing my 'guardian mask' as Rose would've said. I needed to get inside, I was going insane not seeing Roza.
"I want you to come with me Dimitri. We've got something very serious to discuss." he told me and his voice contained concern and what was that? Pity?
"Yes sir, but I would like to see Ms Hathaway first. May I please?" I asked him formally.
"I'm afraid you can't." he said, keeping the same voice.
"Why is that? What is so serious that it can't wait a minute?" I asked, feeling myself get a little angry. I hadn't seen Rose since yesterday morning and as far as I could see there weren't any Strigoi attack around here, so what was so serious?
"Because she isn't in the hospital. She ran away. Again." With those words my world came crashing down again. It was the second time in five days now.
As soon as I got over the shock, I started asking Hans about Rose's escape but he told me to wait with the questions and then, he led me to his office.
When we got there, Rose's friends were already there. In Hans's office sat Lissa, Christian, Eddie, Mia, and Adrian. To my big surprise Abe and guardian Hathaway were also there. With them was an alchemist. Rose had mentioned her. I thought her name was Sydney.
"Dimitri!" Lissa exclaimed but Hans interrupted her.
"Well, we all know the reason we are all here. Rose…." He started but this time I was the one to interrupt him.
"No, I don't." I said harshly. "Rose escaped from Court. Isn't Court supposed to be the safest and most well guarded place in the world? How you explained that to me, ha? You still haven't told me all the details Guardian Croft. I have the right to know what happened." I said in a very indignant voice. I was almost yelling.
"Guardian Belikov, believe me when I tell you that none in here or none at Court knows more than you at the time about this... situation." Hans paused. "We don't have any other clues except Christian's saying. He saw Rose leaving in a car from the Court and called the guardians. That's it, nothing else" he said defensively.
"Okay, so what are we going to do?" I asked impatiently.
"I sent some guardians to find her but they couldn't find any clue about where she went and we can't afford to send more guardians after her. Also, she is an adult and she has a right to do whatever she want. We can't force her to come back. So we will wait for her to communicate with us." He said suddenly very tired.
"What?" I yelled and everyone looked over at me in surprise. I could usually hide my personal emotions but this was too much even for me. I couldn't keep my rage in but instead exploded out of anger. My Roza was in danger and they wouldn't do anything about it.
"Rose is all alone, in a world she doesn't know and you won't do anything because she's of age. Are you out of your minds? She's just a teenage girl, she won't know what to do." I knew that the most of what I said wasn't true but it was part of my persuasive speech.
"I really am sorry Dimitri but we can't do anything. Guardians are very important at that time and we can't waste their capacity for a mission which probably won't have any good results in the end. If Hathaway doesn't want to to come back that means she won't. May I repeat myself, but she is of age, we can't do anything else to get her back."
"No you can't." I said grinning and they looked me questioningly. "But I can and I will." I added to explain them what I was meaning.
"Dimitri you can't find her all alone, she could be anywhere." he said with pity.
"Yes she can." I said "But I promised her and myself that I'd always keep her safe. And I will keep that promise even if I have to turn the world upside down to find her." I said and I walked out from the office, slamming the door shut behind me and I left everyone else in there speechless. But I didn't care. Maybe once I would've, but not anymore. The only thing I wanted was to hold Rose, my Roza, in my arms. Even though I didn't deserve her, and believe me I didn't. Not after what I had done to her. She deserved something better, much better. And certainly it wasn't what she had now. That's why I was going to find her and give her, her life back. The life she deserved to have.
Even if it was the last thing I would do.
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