He opened it and said, "Will you marry me? At least just for the hell of it."

"Yes. You didn't have to ask twice." She answered as he put the ring on her finger.

Shade leaned in and kissed him, putting her arm around his neck.

Logan set the now empty box on the nightstand again. Logan, already down to a wife beater and boxer shorts, pulled off Shade's tank top and jeans.
"Mmm…" Shade tried to say but Logan's lips got in the way.

Logan moved to her neck, "What?" he asked gently.

"When…when do you want to have the wedding?" Shade asked.
"I don't know?" Logan mumbled against her neck. He could hear her heart beat pick up again.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing."

"Yes. There's something. What is it?" he asked sitting up.

"There's no way in hell this wedding can happen before Rose takes off again." Shade answered.

"Look just forget all of that for now. I love you and you love me. Stop worrying otherwise you'll wear yourself out even quicker." He said comfortingly. He laid back on top of her and kissed her again.

Just as Shade was starting to relax, she felt Rose decide to run, yet again. She pushed Logan off, got dressed and ran downstairs to find only Gambit in their room.

"Shit!" Shade hissed. She ran outside to find Rose somehow already over the fence.

"Shade! Don't try to stop me. I'm going for good." Rose said.

"Don't worry. I'm not. I'm coming with you." Shade said, climbing over the fence herself.
When Shade jumped down, Rose noticed the ring on Shade's finger.

"What's that?" Rose asked, pointing to it.

"Nothing. Let's go."

"Sure looks like something."

"It's nothing! Leave it! Now if you wanna go, let's go!" Shade snapped.

They picked up a pick me up truck from the school's garage and head for Canada again, only Shade was driving this time.
"We have to go back to Adrian's." Rose said.

"Who's Adrian?"

"That creepy place we went right before Logan caught us."
"Are you serious!" Shade nearly screamed. "I hate that place!"

"We have to. Oh-and you might want to take off and hide all expensive jewelry." Rose suggested, eyeing Shade's new ring.
"Fine. Just tell me where to turn." Shade said frustrated.
Right before they walked in to that creepy place again, Shade reluctantly took off her ring and hid it in the ash try of the truck.

Rose led the way with Shade walking cautiously behind her, ready to attack if necessary.

"Back so soon?" Dimitri asked.

"Kind of. I don't need money, though." Rose anwered.
"Well-come here and we'll see what you do need." Came a voice from behind them.

Shade, startled by the sudden voice, turned, snarling, her claws came out quick.

"Easy Shade." Rose said putting a hand on her shoulder

Shade glared at Adrian and, never taking her gaze from him, slowly let her claws in.

Rose stepped in front of Shade.

"Sure, let's go." She said, sending a pleading glance toward Shade to behave and not kill anyone.
After they went into a room, and closed the door, Shade turned on Dimitri. She stood along the wall, watching everything but especially Dimitri. She couldn't trust him. Not for a second.
"What's your name, beautiful?"

"Fuck you!" Shade spat and let her claws out.

Dimitri took a defensive stance.

"A little feisty aren't we?" He asked.
Shade growled loudly and sprang for him.

Dimitri barely dodged it, but somehow he did.

Shade immediately jumped on top of him and put her claws at his throat, threatingly.

Rose and Adrian, hearing the commotion ran into the room finding Shade about ready to kill Dimitri.

"You crazy bitch!" Rose went over and helped Shade off. "Please don't kill my Dimitri…" Rose pleaded, holding the big man's arm. Shade just glared at him. "What did you say to her?" She slapped the big man's arm loudly.

"OW! I asked for her name!"

"How?"

"What?"

"How did you ask?"

"What's your name beautiful?"

"Oh…it's Shade. Don't call her anything like that-please."
"Okay…Shade is in-beautiful is out."

"Where were we?" Adrian asked as they walked into the room.

"Sorry about earlier. Just tell me. I mean, I'm trustworthy. Just ask Adrian." Dimitri tried to convince Shade.
"I wouldn't trust either of ya if my life depended on it." Shade growled.

"Do you want me to just shut up?" he asked Shade.
"Yes." She mumbled.

"Okay."
"Adrian-I need some…extra…protection. Apparently-I'm in more danger than usual." Rose said.

"Well, me and Dimitri-we love ya Rose. We'll come along. Where are you going?" he answered.

"You? Dude, you're girly compared to me! And next to Shade? You're practically gay!" Rose said giggling.

"No…No I'm not." He said defensively.

"You…Yes you are." She snapped back.

"You have a bad habit of fighting with people."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes, Rose."
"No Adrian. Listen-I'll go talk to Shade about that, kay?" Rose said walking for the door.

Shade had heard, after she finally got silence…that is after she duct taped Dimitri's mouth shut, and was at the door just as Rose opened it.

"What the hell are you thinking?" Shade hissed so nobody but Rose could hear.

"Let's go outside for this conversation." Rose said and Shade half dragged her outside.

"So we need some help getting to Canada, right? They're gonna come with us!" Rose answered, nodding her head towards the boys.

"I won't sleep or eat anything cooked by them-I promise you that."
"They can't cook."

"Good." Shade growled as she followed Rose back in.

"You ready for a road trip?" Rose asked Dimitri.

Dimitri, with the duct tape still on his mouth, simply nodded yes.

"Take that tape off, your mouth, silly." Rose said jokingly.

He looked at Shade with the question in his eyes.
Shade gave a slight nod and he ripped off the tape, thankfully.

"We'll take off in the morning. Dimitri-could you get…Shade?...settled for the night? Rose, you're with me." Adrian said.

"Here, you can have my bed. I'll take the night shift. You can go ahead and sleep." He said gently.
"I'll watch. You sleep." Shade ordered and Dimitri wasn't about to argue with her.

As soon as the first rays of light started coming over the horizon, Shade got everybody up.

"Come on! I'm ready to go!" She yelled out the truck window.
"I hope we aren't going in…that!" Adrian exclaimed to Rose, disgusted by the truck's appearance.

"Unfortuantely, we are." Rose said.

Rose and Adrian sat in the back. Leaving Dimitri and Shade in the front. Shade drove for about half the day. When they stopped for lunch, Adrian declared that it was his turn to drive.

"Neither of you." Shade pointed at Dimitri and Adrian. "Are driving. It'll be me or Rose."
"Fine." Adrian said, giving up.

After lunch, Shade was about ready to pass out. So Rose drove. Rose and Adrian were now in the front and Dimitri was sitting in the back while Shade stretched out (as far as possible without getting too near Dimitri.) fast asleep.

Shade dreamt that she saw a heart. On one side was Rose's face and the other was Logan's face. The heart ripped into two pieces, and suddenly, Shade was being pulled by the two in separate directions. "Stop! Stop it! NOW! Please, please stop!" She started crying. She kept being stretched and just as she thought she would tear into two pieces, she opened her eyes to see Dimitri hovering over her.

"What's wrong? Why did you want us to stop?" he asked, worried.

"I must have been talking in my sleep. Rose-you got some medicine? I have a terrible headache." Shade said, sleep still in her voice.

"Here."
"What is this?"

"What do you think? Just take the damn thing."

"Okay. When we stoppin' for the night?"

"In about half and hour."

When they did finally stop, they had to wake Shade up again.

Shade was all looped up from the pills Rose had given her.
"Hey there, handsome. Why don't you come lay down with me?" Shade said to Dimitri.

"Okay-what is wrong with her?"
"What did you give her, Rose?" Adrian asked.

"A pain killer. Why?"

"For a headache?" Adrian said in amazement.
"Yeah-trust me…she needed it. Oh, by the way Dimitri…now is your one and only chance. So you better take it." Rose said with a wink.

"I'm not taking advantage of her like that!" Dimitri exclaimed, though the temptation was very strong.
"Oh, just have sex with her, we'll take to different bed. She won't remember anything!"
"Yeah but…I have night shift tonight. And-" Dimitri tried to reason.

"Just do it or I'll kick your ass." Rose yelled at him and pushed him on top of Shade.

When Dimitri fell on top of Shade, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pushed her lips to his.

He started kissing back, but then he pulled away.

"You guys sure she won't kill me?" he asked, never looking away from her face.

"Yeah. Now shut up and turn out the lights!" Rose and Adrian said in unison.

Dimitri got up and turned out the lights.

Let's just say, they all had a party in their beds that night.

"Damn. What the hell did you give me, Rose?" Shade said the next morning, sleep thick in her voice.

"A pill for a headache." Rose answered like a smart-ass while she dried her hair.

"Yeah, what kind of pill?" Shade asked accusingly.

"The kind that you don't need to know." Rose retorted.

Shade rolled over in the bed when she found herself staring into Dimitri's eyes she freaked out.

"What the fuck?" Shade screamed jumping out of the bed like it was on fire.
"Why the fuck am I naked?" She screamed again when she found that she was naked after jumping out of the bed. She jumped back in the bed, but stayed by the edge of it, as far away from Dimitri as possible.

"What's wrong…Shade?" he asked as he pulled her against his body. She felt that he was naked too.

Shade (inevitably) flipped out yet again.
"What the fuck is going on? Why the fuck are you naked and in the same bed as me?" Shade roared as she scrambled away from Dimitri again.

Rose and Adrian shared a look and a smirk. Rose went to bite her muffin, then they started laughing.

"What the hell is wrong you two?" This caused them to laugh even harder. "You two high on laughing gas or something?" Shade growled as she sprang for the bathroom, hoping to find some clothes.