Chapter 7 – Rose!

RPOV

As expected, as soon as I reached home with comrade on my back I was bombarded with questions.

"What the hell Rose?" Alexei asked in disbelief – he knew all about Dimitri.

"Oh Rose please tell me I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing" Abe spoke as I placed Dimitri on the bed in my room.

"Dad this is better than what would of happened if I hadn't taken him – he saw me with strigoi qualities and feeding off another strigoi. He would of attempted to kill me, and don't you think that would be counter productive." I told him. Honestly I have no idea what was going to happen next.

"Yes because bringing him into a smaller space where he will get a better chance of killing you is a wise idea" he replied sarcastically – I guess that's where I get it from as well as my wicked hair colour.

"He won't get the chance." I replied firmly and left the room to attend to my new guest. I was sat there for a couple of hours before he started stirring, I knew he would be awake in the next few minutes and I had absolutely no idea what to say to him. Though I can't get the déjà-vu feeling out of my head, not so long ago we were in reversed positions – him a strigoi kidnapping me after I had hesitated. Oh the irony.

A couple of minutes later I heard him groan in pain then sit up and stare at me looking confused.

"Roza?" he asked as if he didn't quite believe it was me. Then I saw realization hit him as he remembered what happened last night. This was going to be fun to explain or should I just act all badass strigoi?

"Yeah it's me comrade, who else would you expect? You should be careful you might get yourself taken – oh wait too late" I said in true Rose Hathaway fashion.

"Where the heck am I?" Isn't that what I asked him when the roles were reversed?

"You know I can't tell you that, I don't want to be caught and killed you see it would be counter productive to what I'm trying to do here."

"Roza you should be killed, you're strigoi, you never wanted this!" Oh how wrong he was right now but should I explain?

"Don't worry comrade I'm not going to hurt you or feed off you or whatever you expect me to do considering the situation." He flinched at the mention of feeding off of him.

"I don't believe you." Urgh men! I raced over to him and pinned him down on the bed.

"Do not start this, I shouldn't even be doing this, I'm already in a lot of trouble I should of killed you, you know that?" I spoke softly in his ear. "But I don't want to kill you." With that I kissed his cheek and got off him.

Typically Abe chose this moment to walk in, Dimitri's eyes widened.

"Zmey? What you doing here with Roza?" he asked incredulously.

"Helping her, if I had my way you wouldn't be here." Then he turned round to me. "Rose you better know what you're doing and don't let this stop you completing your mission." With that he left the room leaving Dimitri in complete shock and confusion.

"You got your own father to side with strigoi?" he yelled at me and then attempted to lunge at me. Quicker than he could have expected I pinned him to the nearest wall, my body flush against his. His breathing hitched and he tried to push me away but I was too strong.

"Comrade listen to me!" I was getting tired of this, he continued to struggle.

"I'm not what you think I am, yes I am strigoi and yes I did want it, I planned that escape. I'm not evil like you seem to think I am – since I am shadow-kissed when I turn strigoi some things change. If you haven't noticed I have purple ringed eyes, I am quicker than strigoi and when I feed off them if they were unwillingly turned then they come back to their original state. I'm the same me!" The battle was raging in his eyes, whether to believe me or not.

"Wait here I'll prove it." I told him then ran out of the house, grabbed the nearest strigoi and brought him back to the room. Dimitri looked like I was about the set the strigoi on him.

"Watch" is all I said before I began fighting with the strigoi. It took mere minutes to subdue him so I could sink my fangs into his neck. Luckily this one was unwillingly turned and within moments he was moroi again.

"Believe me yet?" I asked him as I watched his stunned expression turn into realization. He then cautiously approached me then wrapped his arms around me mumbling things in Russian while saying my name over and over again.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked.

"I couldn't. I was hoping you'd move on. Speaking of which – why are you in Russia? Please tell me you weren't doing what I think you were doing." He looked away sheepishly.

"DIMITRI! You shouldn't of, what if I was true strigoi? I would of killed you without a second though. You know that."

"I had to save you like you saved me." Was all he said.

"And look how that turned out! I have to bloody keep you with me now just so you don't go around telling people about my immortality status and getting me killed before its time." I sighed. "You could of just moved on comrade."

"I can't move on from you, I love you Roza." he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well since you're here you might as well help us. Unless you want to stay kidnapped. Though admittedly I have no desire to drink from you or anything." I swear I heard him mumble "I would deserve that."

Ignoring what he said I walked over to the window. "Not even asking what we're doing?" I said teasingly.

"What are you doing – wait do I even want to know?"

"1) Yes you do. 2) Finding the real murderer who tried getting rid of me by getting me framed for Tatiana's murder and 3) Finding the illegitimate sibling of Lissa." I told him.

"Wait what? Vasilissa has a sibling?" Here we go. I explained the story about the letter and what I was told in Vegas. He just sat there and nodded then agreed to help us.