OK! So since so many of you wanted an update, and I had wanted to write something like this, I decided to skip ahead a little. This is the first night after his day with Rose. PLEASE DON'T FREAK, OR THINK I AM LEAVING ANYHTING OUT! I really want to do Stan's class, as well as the conversation on the way to lunch, but I don't have my book! If someone would please just type up what Stan said to her and what she said back I could get the next part out! It would earn you a major shout out! PLEASE!
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As I walked back to my room that day I knew that it would be a while before I would be able to sleep, and I knew that the letter waiting on my desk was ready to be read. I had
received the previous day, but had not had time to open it due to the search for the princess, and Rose. It was a letter from my mother in Russia, and I knew there would be one
from Natalya my favorite sister, also. As I walked to the desk, I was intimidated, these were the only people who had ever seen me without mask, and I was worried that my mask
would break. Even with no witnesses it made me feel weak, and I had been closer to losing the mask today than I ever had before. The letter was in Russian but I read the English
words in my head without even thinking.
My dearest Dimka,
I am sure that you know how much I miss you, I say it in every letter, but I will say it again, you are the only man in the house, and I miss the presence that you always had, your hands
would bring comfort and peace to everything they touched, and I know that what you are doing is right, but I do wish you could do the right thing closer to home. Your sisters are missing you,
even though they deny it, I can see in their eyes what it does to them. I am glad to hear that things are going well at the academy, but you only talk of work, are you so unhappy that you do
not do anything on your time off? Knowing you Dimka, I'm sure that in your spare time you patrol the halls? A mother always knows. I do hope that you have made some friends, and that
you have somebody to talk to, it worries me, that you are away from us. You never were one to make fast friends, though everyone has always liked and respected you.
я тебя люблю, mat
(I love you, mother)
The letter was sweet, and full of concern. I did not like for her to worry, and I knew that she was right I had never been a people person, on a good day. I kept to myself. I had
guardians here at the school that liked and respected me, but that was because I was never one to hesitate in helping them, more than half the guardians here owed me favors, and
I felt confident that if I needed something badly enough to ask, the other half would not hesitate in lending a hand. Even with all of this, I still spent every day I had off running extra
patrols, or doing somebody else's shift, this didn't bother me because; I simply had nothing else to do. If another guardian chanced to ask me out, I would just do the gentleman
thing and politely refuse. I always enjoyed lounging about, reading a new western novel, but I always felt guilt for relaxing when other guardians were working. Every since Ivan's
death I vowed never to take a day off; that was when the mask started to become more permanent, instead of just using it on duty, or around superiors, I began to use it around
everybody. It helped, if you didn't show the hurt, then you could pretend it wasn't there, and if people believed that you weren't hurting, then they knew you were tough, and they
stopped bringing it up. It was easier once I was away from Russia, even if I kept the mask on, my mother and sisters knew me, and they knew how much I cared for Ivan, they didn't
see it, but they knew the hurt had to be there.
That's what worried me about this letter, if she started to think I was hurt, she would bring it up, and demand me home. I couldn't do that, not now. I considered telling her about the
latest novel that I had a chance to finish earlier this week, but I gathered from the letter that she would not approve of me spending Sunday in my room with a book. I thought for a
moment longer and then I decided to tell her about the mission for the princess, and about my mentoring Rose. I wrote the letter in English because I knew that writing in my home
language would be more than I could handle, Natyla would translate, and the mask would be sure to fall then. It was already softer; I could feel it, almost a smile, but not quite.
The letter was short and simple, but also caring.
Dearest Mat,
The academy is wonderful. Everyone has been so welcoming, I feel right at home! (A necessary lie for her sanity) I also received a mission! It is to go find The Princess Vasilisa and her friend
Rose. I left two nights ago, observed them for 48 hours, and then brought them back to the Academy. The Rose girl tried to put up a fight, but she had already suffered blood loss, and was no
match for me, let alone the other 11 guardians surrounding her. I am still quite confused about why she tried to attack me while surrounded, I asked but her answer was vague. She is
extremely interesting; you would not believe the things she says! Her actions are even louder than her words in most cases, parson the cliché. She is known at the school for being wild, and
disrespectful, but if you look past that, then you realize how much she has given up protecting the princess. She was almost expelled, but I convinced them to let her stay, she was too much
of an asset to lose. (I can not tell my mother of the bond, because it is confidential) the problem with her staying was that she would need private lessons, and mentoring, both of which had
to be given by me, or else she was expelled. I could not watch an innocent girl lose her entire future, so I agreed to mentor her, it has taken a lot of my free time though, and I have not
gotten to know all of the guardians like I wanted to. She is a sarcastic, ungrateful teenager, but she is also fierce, and determined, and I have high hopes for her in the future.
я по тебе скучаю, Dimka
(I miss you, Dimitri)
The second letter was much shorter, and I was so surprised it took to long for it to register in my head what Natyla had meant. It read:
Dimka,
You are lonely, get a girl! I miss you!
Love Natyla
I could not believe that my sister would say something like that, not only was it fairly insensitive; because she did not know whether or not I had tried and gotten turned down; if
that had been the case this letter would have been a very hurtful reminder. The fact that I had been the one turning down girls was no excuse. The letter was also- pushy, I had a
feeling if she were here I would have already been on a surprise blind date. She knew that I was a guardian, and that I had much more important thing to do than date! I quickly
wrote a similar reply, refusing to give her more than she gave me, but also knowing it was always common courtesy to reply.
Natyla,
I do not have time for such relationships, I am a guardian and we are at war.
Miss you to, Dimitri
I signed with my full name so that she would understand that I was serious. This was not a game, people were dying and she had to know that.
I got to bed shortly after that, taking a quick shower in the cold so that I was alert enough to spring from bed at any moment. As I lay in the bed I thought about what I would
dream, if I let the mask go. I saw pictures of Ivan, dead in a closed coffin. I immediately felt my face harden in reaction to the pain, with very little effort on my part. As I close my eyes
I drifted into one of the best night of sleep I had ever had since the terrible night of the incident (Ivan's death).
I woke up and felt a strange feeling, I realized that the mask was gone, completely vanished, more than it had over the entire time since that night. I got up and looked in the mirror,
surprised to see that it was not a grimace, but a smile. A dazzling, heartfelt, smile! As I tried to remember my dream last night, I saw one thing. Rose. I had dreamt of the first time I
had seen her, and then of the conversation on the plane, after that I dreamt of every encounter with her since then. I also dreamt of the training that was supposed to take place
today.
I told myself it was because this was the first session, and it was something my mind had pondered in sleep. Trying to find out what the unknown would be like. As I said this the
smile faded away, until I wore a mask again, but under the mask was something different. A memory of what it was like to smile, and feel warm. Then I headed off to training.
Wondering what it would be like. I could make no guesses.
So…was it good?? I liked the letter part, because there isn't any communication between him and his family in the VA books that we see anyways. Please review!! I NEED
YOUR OPINION! To short?? OOC?? Was he tough enough?? To tough?? What do you think?!?!?! The Green button is Calling Your NAME!!!
