Chapter 4

When I woke up I noticed that Dimitri was still asleep so I decided to get up and go get something to eat. When I got to the kitchen I saw Abe sitting at the small table, "okay old man, what are you doing up so early?" He looked up, "I'm always up early and you shouldn't be asking me any question's like that, I should be asking you that." I gave him a smile, "well when people make me stay in bed and make me sleep a lot I seem to not be able to sleep in like everybody else, so I'm up early and I'm hungry." I made my way to the fridge to see on what we had, "hey old man is there any thing good here?" He looked back up at me, "yeah there's some donuts on the counter top behind you." I turned around and grabbed two donuts out for now, the went to set down at the table, "so what are you reading?" He kept reading, "it shouldn't be any of your concern on what I'm reading. I mean you will have to read it someday but until that day comes then don't worry about it and keep out of my work." I finished my donut's and went back up the bedroom to lay next to Dimitri again, but when I got up there he was already awake, "morning, Comrade, did you have a good night sleep?" He turned around and looked at me, "yeah I did and it was better than any night so far and I know that it's just going to keep getting better."

I couldn't help but to smile at that, "I know that you would love to have me sleeping next to you every night but what happens if the reassign you to somebody else like they do with a lot of great guardian's?" He started walking towards me, "Rose, you know Lissa will never let that happen, she loves you too much to see you hurt over them reassigning me to somebody else away from you and her. I also think that if they did then she would have a whole lot to say about it and she would make them reassign me back to her." He stood in front of me now as I put my arm's around his neck, "I know that your probably tired of me telling you this but I love you and nothing is going to change that." He leaned down and kissed me, "Я люблю тебя больше, чем ничего, и я никогда не устанут ты мне говоришь, что любишь меня." I looked at him, "are you going to tell me what you just said?" He just looked at me with a smile, "maybe later or maybe I will make you take Russian so that you will know what I'm saying." I gave him a kiss, "you know that's mean to do that to me, but since I will have a lot of free time on my hands, so I can take a Russian class or two just as many to get me caught up with everybody else." He just looked at me, "well if you take Russian language classes then your going to get really tired of all of the studying." I pulled him as close as I could, "maybe I won't get tired of studying, I know that you wouldn't mind having somebody else to talk to in your native language. I could be the one who can help you not feel so home sick, unless talking in your native language will make it worse."

He placed his arms around my waist, "Клянусь, Roza, you always say thing's that make me question some thing's about you but now your saying them even more." I looked away from him, "you know that I'm pregnant so I don't understand why you are complaining about it. But if you look at it this way Lissa can learn from me and we can stay here close to your family and not have to worry about the Queen and everybody else." He brought my face back to his, "well that would work but I can't ask Lissa just to give up living in a protected place. Plus, I think that it would be hard for her to start over." I leaned into him, "I think that she is looking for a place to start over so she can live like she want's to and I think that she will want you to be happy too." He held me even tighter, "you can't be sure that she will be up for starting a new life out here, but your right she will want me to be happy, she want's everybody to be happy." I moved away from him a little, "come on let's get downstairs before somebody comes looking for us and plus I need a buffer cause me and my dad kind of got into it a little about why each other was up so early." He just shook his head, "you can't keep out of trouble and your not in school. That's bad, Roza, real bad." I couldn't help but to smile at that as we left the bedroom and went downstairs.

Once we were downstairs my father looked at us, "so what took you two so long to make your way down here," Abe asked with a smile on his face. "We were in the bedroom talking about some thing's if you do not mind that. I do need to ask you something dad if you don't mind me asking you questions," I said the last part with a little bit of an attitude. "I don't care as long as you don't keep trying to figure out what I do all the time," Abe said as he looked at Dimitri and then at me. I nodded, "if Lissa want's to start a new life here in Siberia then would it be okay if we stayed here if you do not need this house, and now remember this one thing Dimitri said that you had all of this set up for us after you found out what was going on." Abe just stood there looking at me for what seemed like forever, "it's fine by me, mainly because this is one of my houses that I do not use that much but all I ask of you, Lissa, and Dimitri is to take care of this house while I am not here. But that is if Lissa want's to start a new here in Siberia." I nodded, "think you dad, you don't know how much this mean's to me." I gave him a hug which was a shock to me and him, "okay what was that for Rose?" I moved away from him and took my place at Dimitri's side again, "well we got into it a little earlier this morning and now your going to let us stay here if Lissa agrees to this." Dimitri put his arm around me, "come on before you two get into another fight again," he pulled me to the kitchen and gave me a kiss.

I saw fresh donuts in the kitchen and I grabbed some more, "I seem to be wanting to eat more, now." Dimitri looked at me like I was crazy, "well your eating for you and the baby now so it's normal." I looked at him, "okay how do you know so much about women being pregnant?" He just smiled, "I have a mother and two older sister. I only remember my mom being pregnant with Viktoria and Karolina being pregnant with Paul so I know a little bit about women being pregnant." I shook my head and gave him a smile, "I keep forgetting that you were the only boy out of four children. I guess I picked the right man to have in my life, even if I don't like your plan. I however understand that you already know on what happens and you can help me through it and you do know what you are talking about, so I trust you completely." He just shook his head, "Я люблю тебя, Roza even though you are acting strange." I hit him just for saying that I was acting strange but of course we couldn't have that much fun without people looking at us. "Okay what did my son do to you this time," I heard Olena ask. I turned around, "he just said that I was acting strange and I don't think I am so I just hit him." She started smiling at that, "that seems like Dimka the best thing to do is ignore him when he say's things like that." I looked up at him and he had a smile on his face so I hit him again, "you know that's mean, don't you, Dimitri?" He kept smiling, "well you wouldn't ask that you would just keep hitting me until I didn't say that about you, so it's the truth, but I do know that it's the hormones doing that to you." Me and Olena just looked at him and then Olena spoke up, "he is right about that part and just so both of you know I will be cooking something later so I want everybody out of my way."

Once she was gone I took a seat in Dimitri's lap, "I can't wait to see what your school looks like, if it's anything like what I've seen so far then I might not want to leave." I heard him laugh a little, "only if you grew up here then you would have gotten to know more about everything and then maybe we would have met while I was in school." I looked at him and he continued, "I know you would have been great friends with Viktoria and you would have been over all the time." I was looking at him and then I noticed that he looked like he didn't get enough sleep, "Dimitri did you get enough sleep last night?" He looked at me, "no I was woke up sometimes and I while I was awake I was thinking about things. But don't worry soon I won't have anything to worry about because we will be at the school." I knew once he said that, that he was thinking about his dad and on what his dad could do to me. "Were you thinking about your father again?" He let out a sigh, "yeah, I think that he will find us and try to do something to you now." I moved around and put my arm's around his neck, "you know that my father's guardian's will help you protect me and your mother, even though me and my father don't see eye to eye on a lot of things."

His arm's went around my waist, "I know but I just can't shake the feeling that he's going to do something to you." I laid my head on his shoulder, "you can always ask my father to look into it. I mean I don't think he would mind looking into it because if you think that I'm in danger from another Moroi then he shouldn't mind it." He started running his finger's in my hair, "I know that he would do anything for you but I don't feel like bothering him with something that may not be true." I looked up at him, "don't look like that. I hate it when you look like your going to fall to peaces even though it don't happen that much." He let his head rest on mine, "I'm sorry I know that you pull a lot of strength from me but there is a lot that I think about that makes me so unhappy and you don't get to see it." I pulled his head to my mouth and kissed him, "do you want to talk about it?" He kept his face close to mine, "no you don't need to worry about it. I just want to deal with it on my own." I started smiling, "okay comrade, how about sparing. It will be better for you to get your mind off of what your thinking about." He just looked at me, "you don't need to be sparing since your pregnant."

The smile faded from my face, "well then how am I appose to keep up with everybody when I start training again?" He kept looking at me, "you will do it just like you did before. I will help you just like I did when I brought you and the Princess back to St. Vladimir Academy." I couldn't help but to start smiling again at that, "you always help people no matter what. So will you help me with Paul while I'm pregnant?" He nodded, "you know I will and he will listen to me, but when you are able to start being his mentor again it will be hard for him to listen to you when you will start training with him again." We stayed close for a while until Olena came in.

We went to take a seat in the living room even though Abe was in there. I sat down on Dimitri's lap and rested my head on his chest, I noticed that Abe was still a little uncomfortable with me and Dimitri being together. "Abe, why are letting us be like this if you are so uncomfortable with us," I asked him. He looked over at us, "I let you two be like this because I know what it's like to be told that you can't love somebody because there not like you or because it's forbidden." I looked over at him confused, "what do you mean by that?" He started to smile a little, "I love your mother but the queen will not let us be together so when I say that, I know what you two will have to go through, I really do know what that will be like for you two." I was still a little confused, "but why are you uncomfortable? I mean Dhampir's go off all the time and get married and the queen don't say anything about them." He kept smiling, "Dimitri is one of the best guardian's out there and when you graduate then you will be one of the best too and the queen will do anything in her power to stop you too from running off and getting married. That's why I'm so uncomfortable about it but I know if I let you two be like this until you go back to school then you will be able to focus on your school work and he will be able to focus on his work. I can take care of you both after you get out of school." I was looking at him and wanting to asking him more but he didn't let me, "Rose, I will let Dimitri work as one of my guardian's, Lissa will have you as a guardian and you can come and visit Dimitri anytime that you want or you and Lissa can stay with me so that you and Dimitri can see each other everyday." I really didn't want to think about that right now, so I left it at that because I knew that if I kept talking to Abe about that then he might get pissed at me for that.

I started messing with Dimitri's hair to keep my mind off of what was going on, "Rose quit messing with my hair." I looked at him, "why?" He looked at me, "because it's starting to get on my nerves." I was confused, "why are you being mean like me when you said that you got a good night's sleep?" He looked away from me, "remember when you asked me that question again?" I nodded and he continued, "I told you when you asked me again that I didn't because I was woke up and while I was awake I was think about things. You had your hand's in my hair almost all night," I was still confused but he continued, "there was sometimes last night that I got woke up because you was pulling my hair." I removed my hand from his hair when he told me, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to pull your hair." He just glanced over at me, "its okay I know that you didn't mean to." I was feeling bad about that, so I just sat there and let my head rest on his chest.

I was almost asleep when the nausea feeling came over me, I bolted up and went to look out the window. "Rose, what's wrong," Abe asked me. "Dimitri please tell me that you have your stake on you," I asked ignoring what Abe asked me. Dimitri jumped up with his stake in hand, "where are they?" I never looked back at him because I was looking for them, then we heard a scream coming from the kitchen. Dimitri and I didn't need to say anything as we took off towards the kitchen, "Rose, get my mother and her friend out of here. I will deal with this," I nodded and got them out of there, "Abe, where are you guardian's?" He jumped up, "there upstairs come on." He led Olena and her friend upstairs and I went to help Dimitri.

When I got back in the kitchen I saw that Dimitri had his hands full with five Strigoi, two female and three male. I noticed that one of Abe's guardian's dropped there stake in the kitchen, more than likely while they were eating. I made my way to the stake and started helping Dimitri kill the Strigoi. I went for one of the females first taking her down was nothing because she was fighting sloppy, once I had done that I went for the other female. The second female was better than the first, it took me about a minute to stake her. When I turned my attention back to Dimitri I saw that he was having a little trouble with his last one so I decided to help him with the last kill, it was hard to do but we took care of the problem within five minutes. "Think you Rose. I really needed the help but you shouldn't have come back to help you should have sent one of Abe's guardians to help," he said out of breath. "Don't worry about it, comrade. I couldn't have let you and somebody else take all of the credit," I said with a smile on my face. Dimitri pulled out his cell phone and made a call to somebody, "um, how can you call somebody after this happened?" He just looked at me, "I was calling somebody to come clean this mess up and now that you killed two more Strigoi then you will be getting two more molnija marks. I guess we will be up at the school sooner to get our marks." I was happy about being able to go back to school, "do you know how soon we will have to leave?" He shock his head, "I don't know and won't know until the people who will clean this up will be here." I let out a sigh, "how long do we have to wait for them?" He put his hand on my face, "they will be here within the hour so we just have to wait." I nodded and just watched on what he was doing.

Almost an hour later some people were here to clean up everything and they told us that we had to be up at the school at the start of the school day so that we could receive our marks. Once they were done and gone I looked over at Dimitri, "are you okay Dimitri?" He shook his head, "no I'm not. One of those men was my father." I looked at him and he didn't give me anytime to respond, "he was one of the Strigoi that I killed, he was the one that you helped me with." My jaw dropped, "I'm sorry that you had to do that, if I had known about that then I would have killed him for you." He put his arms around me and held me close to him, "I wouldn't have asked you to do that for me, I just hate that you had to see me kill my own father." I put my arms around him now, "it's apart of what we do so no matter what happened tonight you did the right thing. I mean my father was here and he's a Moroi, we are appose to protect them." He kissed my forehead, "only if I can see it that way." I looked up at him, "Dimitri, if you can't look at it that way then look at it this way, you won't have to worry about him coming back to hurt you mother and your sisters." He just sighed, "your right Rose but it doesn't help me any." I pulled him upstairs, "come on we need to tell the others that its safe to come out and I know that Abe will want to know on what happened." He followed me and it confused me on why he would be listening to me but I didn't push him for answers.

Once I told Abe what happened he told us to get cleaned up and rest for the rest of the day. I took Dimitri to what we used as our bedroom, made him lay down and I laid down beside him. Most of the day we laid there in quite and there was a few times that Olena or Abe came in to see if we were okay. It was a while since anybody came in and I looked at Dimitri and saw that he was asleep, so I got up to get something to eat. I almost ran into one of Abe's guardians who was bring up two boxes of donuts, "your father told me to bring these up to you two." I nodded and took them from him, "think you and tell my father think you." He nodded and left as I returned to the room and set the donuts on the dresser. I walked over to the bed and shook Dimitri a little, "Dimitri my father had one of his guardians bring up some donuts for us to eat." When he didn't respond I shook him a little harder, "go away." I gave a little smile when he said that, "I won't go away until you get up and get something to eat." He sat up and looked at me, "why did you have to bother me for, Rose?" I got up and brought over a box of the donuts, "because you need to eat and I got food for both of us." He just looked at me then got a donut, "Rose, I should be the one who is taking care of you and making you eat something not the other way away around." I smiled, "don't worry, Dimitri, I won't tell anybody about what goes on in here." He seemed to not have cared on what I said, "Rose it don't matter if you tell anybody or not the fact is you and me will know what happened here with you taking care of me even though you are pregnant. You shouldn't have to do that, there's just so much going through my head right now where I just want to talk but I don't feel like you should be the one to listen to my problems."

I just sat there looking at him while we ate, "Dimitri, I don't care if you talk to me about what's on your mind I know that you deal with me always telling you things and you always listen. I just don't understand why you don't want to talk to me about your problems." He motion for me to come to sit next to him, once I was next to him, he put his arm around me, "Rose, you don't need to worry about that much right now." I looked up at him, "its not worrying if it's helping you because we will be at the school when they start the school day in the morning and that means you will have to be okay for Lissa or you won't be able to be her guardian anymore." He finally decided to talk about it, "fine just for Lissa I will talk to you about it." I sat there waiting for him to continue and he did, "I was thinking about what could have happened if something happened to you today. Why did my father turn Strigoi? Was it because he wanted to kill me, or my mother, or my sisters, or you, or did he just want to kill all of us? What will happen if they find out about me and you? What will they do to our child if they do find out?" I moved closer to him, "nothing did happen to me today and you should know that in our line of work anything could happen to us at anytime. For your father you shouldn't worry about it now because he is the only one who could answer the question of why he turned and who he wanted to kill by turning, he's dead now so he can't answer. You should be happy that he can't harm anybody now that he's dead. If anybody else finds out about us then we will deal with that when and if they do, just like if they take it out on our child we will deal with that when and if that time comes. Now come on if you don't want to eat anymore I will put this back on the dresser, so we can get more sleep before we have to leave." He nodded and I took the box over to the dresser, then took my place next to Dimitri. It didn't take that long for me to fall asleep after that.

Russian Translation

Я люблю тебя больше, чем ничего, и я никогда не устанут ты мне говоришь, что любишь меня- I love you more than anything and I will never get tired of you telling me that you love me.

Клянусь- I swear

Я люблю тебя- I love you

Think you to Google Translator for the Russian.