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To tell you the truth, I don't really like writing in Rose's point of view. She's like the female Holden Caulfield if you know what I mean. If you don't, go read Catcher and the Rye.

And nobody sent me the name of the 'T' royal so I just made one up that sounded Russian. ;)

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RPOV

I carefully walked passed the guardians stationed around the commons and up to my room. I opened the door to find Lissa sitting on my bed. I blinked and ignored her to go into the bathroom. I changed into my bathrobe - not to take a bath, only because it was warm - and brushed my teeth.

"So how is he?" Liss asked.

"He's fine. He misses doing his normal schedule. He hasn't changed his alarm clock from the time we're supposed to train," I called back.

It had been four days since I had first went to see Dimitri in his room. We basically only talked and sometimes kissed but that was it. I understood why but it made me sad that my mother didn't approve of who I fell in love with. She'd respected him as a guardian, but not as my lover. How insensitive.

"I see." Lissa walked to the doorway of the bathroom. "So, the Queen is coming today, we might have enough votes to keep you here, and I think I might be pregnant."

If I had been drinking water, I would have done a spit-take. I turned to gape at her. "You- you're pregnant?!"

Her expression morphed. She grinned widely and did some sort of skip-walk over to me where she laid her left hand gracefully on the bathroom sink.

I gasped. Her third finger had a sparkling diamond on it, so big that it would have fit in my eye socket.

"OH MY GOD, CHRISTIAN PROPOSED!" I screamed.

I think we went into a screaming frenzy for about an hour. After that, we talked about it and would scream at random times.

When she finally had to go, we screamed really loudly one last time and she left, still squealing.

I didn't know why I was so excited. I mean, technically, I wasn't really supposed to like Christian, but it made me happy to see her so happy.

I went back to the bathroom after noting the time; I had exactly an hour and twenty minutes before the queen came. I stripped and got in the shower, letting the hot water run down my body with the soap and shampoo. I had almost fallen asleep when there was a knock at the bathroom door.

"Roza?"

I didn't open my eyes, just a mumbled for him to come in.

"You okay?" He asked through the curtain.

I nodded, but when I realized he couldn't see me, gave another mumbled reply.

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"Do you not want me here?" He replied jokingly.

"No, that's not what I-"

"I know, Roza. But I heard that the Queen was coming (insert: that's what she said. I'm such a pervert.) and wanted to spend as much time as possible with you just in case…" He trailed off.

I smiled to myself. "Of course."

He laughed but cut himself off. Now was not a time for laughing.

An idea came to me. "Do you want to join me?" I asked.

He didn't respond immediately. "I'm not sure if that's a good idea…"

"But you just said you wanted to spend as much time as possible with me," I countered.

Before I could say anything else, his hands were on my waist and his lips were on mine. I had missed his lips in the short time I had not had them. My hands ran down his chest and my lips found his neck. His hands trailed down my back and cupped my ass, making me jump slightly. I laughed at myself quietly so he couldn't hear, and kissed my way to his stomach. He pulled me back up for another kiss before I could go any further, and forced his tongue into my mouth.

Finally, he turned me around and we continued our night in the cabin. I almost collapsed to the ground in exhaustion but forced myself to stay standing. He was grinning down at me and gave me one last kiss before we finally started cleaning each other, and by the time we got out, we only had a half an hour before we had to be down at the auditorium.

"Is it casual or fancy?" I asked.

He picked up his guardian uniform from the ground and shrugged.

"Wear something nice, but don't wear a gown or anything. Put your hair up as well."

I nodded at his suggestion and picked out a nice pair of jeans and a plain white t-shirt. I pulled my wet hair back and turned around.

"How do I look?"

Dimitri smiled wickedly and growled. "If I could, I would take you right here and now. But we have somewhere to be…" I looked down to see his bulging erection and smiled. I loved that he did this to me.

"You know, we really shouldn't have done it a half an hour before a rape trail."

He laughed and took my hand. "Let's go."

We walked down to the auditorium together and were instantly separated before we could even enter the room. Alberta took me and put me in front of a podium, making me face a crowd of people. Dimitri was at one opposite me, looking at me silently. I gazed back coolly, trying to remain emotionally in check.

"Order!" A voice called. Queen Tatiana Ivashkov. I internally scowled.

Once everybody had settled down and some announcements had been made, Tatiana had Dimitri step up.

"Dimitri Belikov, what do you plead?"

He chuckled lightly. "That depends."

"On?"

"What we're talking about here. No, I did not rape her. Yes, I had sex with her. I did it because I love her, and no, I was not taking advantage of her."

There were a few gasps from the crowd but mostly everyone stayed silent. Tatiana let out a snort.

"Rosemarie?"

I smiled. "Yes?"

"What do you have to say about this statement?" She asked.

"I agree with all but one thing. He didn't have sex with me, he made love to me. There's a difference," I scoffed, proud of myself.

A few people rolled their eyes, but I ignored them.

After a very long, exhausting, and unnecessary trial, we came to jury.

"Now each family-"

"We know how it works," I interrupted.

I looked at Alberta. It looked like she was trying to hold back a laugh. I couldn't have agreed more.

"Fine," Tatiana said, annoyed. "We'll start with the most obvious. Dragomir?"

Lissa laughed and smiled. "What's the decision to be made?"

Tatiana glared. "Will Dimitri Belikov go to prison and Rosemarie get expelled?"

"No."

Straightforward, calm, perfect. I loved her a little bit more.

"Ivashkov?" Tatiana said, motioning to Adrian's father. "Jack?"

He barely turned enough to let us hear a gruff "No."

I smiled. Adrian had won his fight.

"Lazar?"

"Yes."

"Szelsky?"

"No."

"Ozera?"

"No." Thank you Tasha.

"Badica?"

"No."

"Conta?"

"Yes."

"Voda?"

"Yes." Well, obviously.

"Dashkov?"

"Yes."

"Drozdov?

"Yes."

"Zeklos?"

Shit. This couldn't end well. Jesse was going to-

"No."

I let out an involuntary gasp. That was basically it. Now, Tonakova could tie it up, or help us win. I looked at the woman in front. I didn't recognize her face, but I vaguely remember hearing her name somewhere. Megan…

"No."

I silently thanked whoever was up there for getting me through this without forcing me to kill anyone.