Dissclaimer – Richelle mead owns Vampire Academy and all the characters. Only this story and any characters I make up are my own.
A/N – Wow you guys really do make my week, seeing all the reviews, favourites etc… I was asked how long have Dimitri and Rose been married and the answer to that is five years. [Some other things I will explain as the story unfolds further I just don't want to give every little detail away!]
Memories
There were too many tubes attached to her that Rose couldn't count them all: one down her throat breathing for her, one down her nose, keeping her stomach empty, one in her vein, hydrating her, one in her bladder, peeing for her, several on her chest, recording her heartbeat, another on her finger, recording her pulse.
It was quiet except for the sound of the ventilator that was breathing for her –in, out, in, out. Rose stood over her lifeless body. Her skin was chalky white in colour and her eyes were taped shut.
The door opened and Rose watched as her husband walked inside. He stood at the edge of the bed and gasped as he looked down at her, lying there lifeless. A large bruise, along one side of her face where her head at come in contact with the airbag.
She watched as he slowly moved his hand to brush her hair away from her face. Then it stopped. Dimitri had loved her hair. Maybe he still loved it. He had used excuses to touch it and had asked her to never cut her long dark silky locks. She hadn't cut it but instead she had left it grow long just for him.
His hand hovered there, and the world stood still as Rose waited to see what he would do. After what seemed like an eternity, he let his hand gradually fall back to his side.
He'd hesitated. He'd been afraid to touch her. Maybe in case he hurt her.
"You can hold her hand, you won't hurt her." The nurse who entered the room said.
His hand trembled again and Rose watched as he reached forward and took her hand in his large masculine hand. She thought perhaps she would feel a connection between them when their hands met. But she felt nothing.
Both Rose and Dimitri observed the nurse as she did her checks on the fragile Rose that lay there before them. Nurses had come and gone every half hour or less to monitor her heart rate and moved her so that she would not suffer from any bedsores.
"Can I have a moment alone…with my wife? Please." Dimitri asked the nurse.
"Sure,"
The nurse closed the door softly behind her and Dimitri turned his attention back to his wife.
"Roza?" Dimitri whispered.
"Roza," Rose noticed her husband's voice quivered slightly.
She gazed at her husband who ran a hand through his dark brown hair and turned his attention to the window. The weather had worsened since the accident.
"It's rain outside, just like the first time we met. Do you remember that?" Dimitri asked.
"You were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen….you still are the most beautiful woman I have ever met."
Rose wondered if he meant that or if he was just feeling guilty now that she was lying there in a coma. Lost deep in her, own thoughts until Dimitri began to speak again.
"Please don't die…I couldn't…I can't loose you too."
Rose glanced up at her husband and caught a glimpse of his face. There were tears in his eyes. He leaned forward and covered his face with his hands. The sound that came next was like nothing she had ever heard before –the sound of her husband crying was more than she could bare.
The last time she had seen him cry, had been the night she had lost their unborn child. Reaching instinctively to her stomach she would have been nearly full term if she hadn't miscarried. She imagined her belly swollen and the fetus kicking from inside her.
She walked over to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. His whole body shook with emotion. After some time had pasted and Dimitri had wiped away the last few tears the nurse came back in to check the monitors beside Rose's bed.
"Не оставляй меня, моя любовь." He muttered in Russian
She watched as Dimitri leaned over her fragile body and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
Rose closed her eyes and took a deep breath trying to stop that lump in the back of her throat from forming again. "Love fades, mine has." She kept repeating those words over and over again.
"You've got you're self a good man and God knows they're few men as good." The nurse uttered in a soft tone.
"You just make sure you wake up for him, you hear?" The nurse said as she gently brushed Rose's hair away from her face.
Rose glanced at the nurse and wondered if she would feel the same way if she knew the truth about Dimitri. Would that change the nurse's mind if she knew that her husband wanted a divorce?
The nurse quickly glanced through the chart that was clipped to the end of the bed and did another check on her vitals before her mother in-law Olena and Dimitri's grandmother, Yeva walked inside.
She loved her mother in-law; as for Yeva the old woman never had a kind word for Rose. She watched them as they spoke Russian in hushed tones. Olena immediately moved towards the bed and kissed Rose's forehead while Yeva stared right at the spot where Rose stood gazing at them.
"You can't stay here any longer," Yeva said.
It was as if the old woman could see her standing there. It gave Rose the chills because Dimitri had told her once that his grandmother had a special gift. She had had laughed at this but Yeva's eyes had truly frightened her in that moment when she had spoken. Those dark eyes were sharp and alert and seemed to bore into Rose's soul.
"You can see me?" Rose stuttered.
But the old woman never replied and instead shuffled over to the bed and took Rose's hand in her own.
"This isn't where you belong." Yeva added.
Rose backed away from Yeva and observed both women from the opposite side of the room. She waited for her to speak again but the old woman stayed silent for the remainder of their visit.
"We'll see you soon Roza. You get some rest." Olena said.
Olena uttered some words in Russian to Yeva and both women glanced back at Rose before heading out the door of the room.
Rose slumped into one of the blue plastic chairs in the ICU, a little freaked out by Yeva's words to her. She had wondered what those words had meant
"You can't stay here any longer,"
"This isn't where you belong,"
Did that mean that she was suppose to die. She hadn't seen any bright light. Hell she hadn't even had her entire life flash before her eyes. Ugh she really hated that old woman and her all those damn cryptic clues.
Rose thought perhaps Yeva was wrong but then the woman had predicted a lot of things and they had all come true including Dimitri and her getting married.
She mutters to herself then where the hell am I suppose to be if not here? She really wished that her parents were here. What was keeping her parent's? They should be here by now.
She pushed past the patients on the trolleys and all the doctors and nurses. She stopped outside the waiting room where most of her relatives where. She looked in at them all and observed their sad faces. Lissa's eyes were red and puff from crying and Christian was holding her in his arms. They must have been on the road when Rose had been in the accident.
She looked over and saw the rest of Dimitri's family, her in-laws. Dimitri's older sister, Karolina, with her baby girl Zoya and son Paul. Viktoria was also there and of course Sonya. Nobody breathed a word.
Well what do you think of Yeva? And Dimitri? ….Please review and let me know what you think. As I promised I made the chapter longer. Next chapter will have some Janine & Abe, Lissa, Christian etc coming soon
-Crazy Damphir xxx
Не оставляй меня, моя любовь = Do not leave me, my love