Chapter Six…

Me and Adrian were walking in an uncomfortable silence. "What do you want Adrian?" I asked. I couldn't stand to walk in this silence any more. Something needed to be said.

He gave me a sideways glance. "What makes you think I don't just want to spend time with you little dhampir?" He asked, giving me a smirk.

I turned serious then. "Cut the crap Adrian, tell me you really want."

He sobered up too and stood in front of me so I couldn't continue walking. "When you were talking to Paul. I noticed something, in you aura and your face. I cant even remember what he said but you looked like you were about to cry. Your aura showed so many things. Regret was the main one. What was wrong."

I didn't want to tell him. I couldn't tell him that it was because I couldn't have kids with Dimitri. It would break his heart even more if he knew I was that serious. Sure Adrian pissed me off, but I did feel sorry for him. Loving Adrian would be so much simpler. If only I didn't have the Russian god on offer.

Instead of telling him the truth I looked down. "It's nothing."

Adrian placed his hands on my shoulders. "No Rose. It's not nothing. It's been bugging you whatever it is, you need to tell me."

"It's just that… well Paul was saying all these things. You heard him didn't you?"

He nodded. "He was going to ask you if you loved Dimitri, and then something about getting married and having kids." When he said the last one he gasped. He had obviously been checking out my aura again to see which one had been bothering me. "That's it isn't it. It's something about having kids."

I nodded. "Well actually more like not having kids." I looked up at him. I had tears running down my face freely now. "He wants them so bad Adrian, and I can never give that to him. You saw how he was with Paul. He would be the perfect dad, but he has given all of that up for me! I feel so guilty for taking that away from him. He should have taken Tasha's offer, he could have had everything." I was openly sobbing my now.

Adrian just tightened his hold on my shoulders. "Don't you ever think that little dhampir. He has given that up because he loves you. He loves you so much. If he had wanted them more than you then he would have gone with Tasha. But he hasn't. He stayed for you. Don't think that your taking that away from him. It's his decision to make." I just sobbed more and he pulled me into a hug. I sobbed for seemed like forever until I heard someone clear their throat behind us.

I turned around to see Dimitri glaring at Adrian. That was until he saw my tear-streaked face. Any sign of his guardian mask was gone and he rushed up to me. He gripped my shoulders as Adrian had done a minute ago.

"Rose!" He asked me desperately. "What's wrong?"

I just shook my head at him. Adrian spoke to me then. "You have to tell him little dhampir. When he tells you how he feels you will feel better. Your emotions are based on something that you think he feels, when he explains you will feel better, I promise."

Dimitri had let go of my shoulders by now to just stand there with a confused look on his face. I turned and hugged Adrian. "You really are like a brother to me Adrian." I said into his chest.

"Shame that's all I will ever be." He said sighing. "Now go talk to your cradle robber."

I let go of Adrian and looked at Dimitri. "Can we go to the gym or something?" I asked him. He simply nodded and we began to walk towards it.

When we got there I sat down and he pulled a chair up to sit opposite to me. "Please Roza, tell me what's wrong?" He pleaded in a strained voice.

"Well you know earlier when we were at lunch, Paul came in and started talking to me, while everyone else was listening. He was going to ask me if I loved you, but I cut him off. Then we started arguing about how Yeva said that she saw it, and I told him she must be lying. Then he was saying about how we could get married and how we could have kids. But when he said that it made me think how selfish I was being. We never could have kids and I have taken that away from you." I was crying again by now. "You want kids so much, and it's something I could never give you. I see how you are with Paul, you would make a great dad! I feel so guilty for taking that away from you Dimitri. You could have taken up Tasha on her offer and had everything. You would have been happier."

Dimitri just looked at me as if I had gone mad. "How can you say that Roza! I love you more than anything. I would give up everything in the world to be with you - even having kids. I wouldn't want kids if they weren't with you Roza. As for taking Tasha's offer, I wouldn't have been happy. I can never be happy without you."

I listened as he was speaking. The emotion in his voice was obvious. He really did love me enough to give that up for me. And it just made me love him even more, if that was possible. We both leaned forward at the same time, and our mouths locked in a kiss. It grew quickly, just like we knew it would. Before it could get out of hand we heard the gym doors opening and we jumped apart.

I wiped my eyes of any excess tears just as Paul jumped into the room. Dimitri gave me an encouraging smile and I got up out of my chair. "Hey Paul!" I shouted at him. "Ready to kick some butt!" I did still feel guilty about the kids thing, but Adrian was right, talking to Dimitri had helped.

Paul nodded excitedly. "OH YEAH!" He shouted. Dimitri laughed and looked the happiest I had seen him for ages.

We positioned ourselves on the mats. I was going to spar against Paul first, whoever won was going to fight Dimitri. Paul lunged at me, I let him hit me on purpose, and stumbled back in fake pain. He smiled widely thinking he had hurt me. I kicked him softly and he stumbled back like I had. Then he rushed at me and shoved me over. I let him pin me and he brought his hands down over me as if he was staking me and I laughed. "Wow Paul. You really are good." I said to him.

He smiled ecstatically. "I can't believe I beat you!" He yelled at me. "Now I can beat Uncle Dimka!"

"I'm sure you can." I said to him. I knew that Dimitri would let him win, just like I had, but it would still be funny to watch Dimitri get his but kicked by a 10 year old - even if it was fake.

They stood opposite each other on the mats. Dimitri was probably twice the size of Paul and a lot stronger. Paul went to kick Dimitri, he didn't bother to dodge or block and the kick hit him in the shin because Paul couldn't hit much higher. Dimitri recovered quickly and punched Paul gently. This carried on for another two minutes, until Paul somehow managed to get behind Dimitri and kick behind his knees. The kick actually looked quite forceful, and if I didn't know any better I would have said that Dimitri genuinely did fall to the floor and didn't fake it. Paul quickly jumped on Dimitri, pinned and fake staked him.

I cheered loudly, yelling whoops and skipped over to high-five Paul. "Told you you could do it!" I told him. He just yelled louder. Olena walked in just as we were high fiving, she took one look at Dimitri who was still on the floor and laughed out loud. She walked over to tell Paul that it was time to go.

Once they had gone I walked over to give Dimitri, who was still on the floor, a hand. He took it, but instead of pulling me up he pulled me down on to him.

"Well, hello there Comrade." I said, my face inches away from his.

"Hello Roza." He said, and then our lips met.