Sorry for not updating yesterday I only just finished this chapter!
Ok another warning for this chapter, some descriptions of moderate violence and references to rape.
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Ok now for your questions,
This story is based after Last Sacrifice, so yea basically this is a continuation of Vampire Academy and the series but this just has my own plot, Rose was kidnapped when she was 21 and now she is 24. So Lissa is still queen and Dimitri is still Christian's guardian and he was a strigoi!
Remember that everyone, including Lissa, is still shocked that Rose is still alive and back. Lissa is also pregnant, so she has the mood swings and hormones. But then again Adele might or might not be up to something! Don't you think that Adele taking Rose's place in everyone's lives is suspicious? Or maybe it's just me!
Disclaimer: I do not own nor claim Vampire Academy as my own, Vampire Academy belongs to Richelle Mead. I Ashleigh Wood claim this plot as mine and no one may copy any ideas from this story without my written permission.
Ok so on to chapter 6
Chapter 6
Previously on Gone forever?
My greatest fear had just been confirmed, not Blake coming after me again, but my friends and family feeling as if they had been abandoned by me. I felt lightheaded and then all I saw was black!
Present...
I sat at the kitchen table, my head down, looking at the breakfast which they had served me; it consisted of two eggs, 3 pieces of bacon, two pork bangers, fried tomato and two slices of toast. I just pushed my food around my plate. Lissa and Christian were chatting animatedly to each other barely even noticing me.
"So Rose do you think we should do it today?" I looked up and said my genius response, "Huh?" "Weren't you listening?" "Aaah, no?" It came out like a question. "Should we go and talk to Guardian Croft about getting your old job back!" I felt my eyes go wide, "my old job" I said quietly.
Did I really want to get my old job back? Right now I didn't know if I wanted to? Maybe, I might take my old job back, but I don't know right now! I looked up at her and answered honestly, "I don't know if I want my job back right away, I think I'm going to wait until I'm settled down and know exactly what I want! If that's ok with you guys!" I added the last part after seeing their shocked faces. Christian recovered first, "Of course it's ok with us, and you've been sponging off of us for a while now!"
Lissa hit him, "Don't listen to him Rose, you've been through a lot and you have every right to wait until you're ready and we'll be here to support you no matter what!" This was obviously an attempt at trying to get me to talk about what happened last night when I had fainted. I didn't want to tell her that over the past 3 years I have started fainting more and more, I think it might be a survival reaction.
When Blake and I had our "dates", as he liked to call them, I would generally black out half way through the "dates." When it first started I thought it was because of the pain but then when I realised that sometimes I blacked out when Jason used to talk about hurting my friends and family, one of the times I remembered when Jason was trying to get the information from me.
He told me that when he had Dimitri and Lissa, he would torture for hours and hours on end. He told me that he would tie up Dimitri, he would turn him around and he would whip him and he said that he would not use the leather whip but that he would use the steel whip. I tried to ignore him; he then said that he might even get, Elijah and some of his other strigoi friends to turn Dimitri back into a strigoi.
I paled and was sick to the core, tears streaming down my face, when he continued describing the things he would do to Dimitri, I broke into violent sobs. I still remember the exact words he used, "Oh, you obviously don't care about your man that much, how about your best friend? What if I brought her in and tied her to the bed and let my men ravage her body over and over, mmm how would you like that?"
I started screaming and then I just passed out. I woke up twelve hours later, alone in my room covered in my own vomit. I cleaned myself up and threw away the clothes. At least this morning I woke up in clean clothes with clean sheets. The room had been cleaned and the first thing I thought when I had seen the room was Lissa.
When I had come down Lissa had forced me into the kitchen and cornered me. She had told me that she had not meant what she had said, she blamed it on "pregnancy hormones" She had said that Adele could have never replaced me in hers nor Dimitri's life. And that they both still loved me and that would never change! She then told me to sit down at the table because she would be serving breakfast soon.
There has got to be something going on with this Adele chick, she seemed so familiar. It was just like with Jason, her features were so familiar but I couldn't put a name to the face! Something in side of my head clicked, I shot up, Lissa and Christian both got big frights. "This is going to sound like an odd question but do you have a picture of Adele?" they both gave me really odd looks, Lissa pointed toward the book self and told me that there was a photo album which should have a picture of her in it.
I walked over picked up the large photo album, sat down on the couch, opened up the large book and looked at the first picture on the front page. There was a picture of us all, all being; Lissa, Christian, Dimitri, Eddie, Sonya, Mikhail, Mia, Adrian and there in the back was Adele. I was shocked; she was around before I was kidnapped. I thought back to the day that this photo was taken, it was Eddie's last day at court, he was moving on up and leaving us here. He had received his charge and had to move over to France, which was where his charged lived. He had received an Ivashkov lord, Adrian's Uncle or something.
I don't remember when I had met Adele, "Hey when did we meet Adele?" "Um, about 3 years ago just before you were taken!" Lissa said the last part slowly and quietly, saddened by the thought. "Cool, thanx" I tried to think about when I had met her?
I turned the page and there was a picture of Dimitri and I, we were grinning broadly at Mikhail and Sonya's wedding about 4 years ago, we were dancing and we didn't have a care in the world, only if I could go back to those times. I would give anything to go back. I guess it's true, that you don't know what you have till it's gone!
I turned towards the back of the book, where a picture of Adele and Dimitri was sitting. It was a picture of their faces but the smile on Dimitri's face was fake, how couldn't she see that. I looked at her in the picture. Suddenly a memory came back to me.
I was sitting in a park with Dimitri watching Lissa address a crowd of people, so far she had done wonders as queen. With Jill but her side, all the way! I had just turned 21 and was loving the freedom to drink whenever I wanted, not that I didn't do that before but hey at least I'm legal now, where as Dimitri was not liking the fact that I could drink now. When I had pointed out that drank before I had turned 21 and he didn't seem to have a problem with it then why should he have a problem with it now! He shook his head and said and I quote, "Roza, Roza Roza. I have always hated it when people drank!" That was then followed by an odd look from me.
We sat on the picnic blanket, waiting for Lissa to finish her speech and join us for lunch. "I'm so hungry!" I whined, "I think I'm going to die of starvation!" I fake fainted backwards into Dimitri; I had my hand against my forehead and everything! "I highly doubt that Rose you had breakfast 4 hours ago." He said while giving me an exasperated look. I looked up at him grinning, and then I gave him are-you-serious look, "You said it yourself, 4 hours how did I ever survive?" I said dramatically. He replied by rolling his eyes at me.
"-and I would just like to thank you for coming to the opening of this public park in honour of the guardians that have put their lives up, to save us!" a round of applause followed her speech. She hopped off the stage, well more like floated down the stairs. I stared at her trying to figure out how she walked down the stairs so gracefully.
But then something caught my attention, the opening of this public park. I thought that this had been a park for years! I looked around and saw banners and freshly painted coverings and tables with chairs. Dimitri obviously seeing my confused look, "this had been a park before but they've fixed it up and donated it to the guardians, not that a park would help save and bring back the lives of guardians that saved Moroi"
Lissa probably heard the last part of it, "Yea I told the council but hey they wanted it and as queen I have to listen to the majority as well as the minority and Dimitri your right doing this doesn't bring fallen guardians back!" "But if you do know a guardian that has fallen or even just a guardian, you can come here and think in a peaceful place about whatever you want, I guess this is a small step toward Dhampir rights!" I stated without really thinking about what I had said!
"I think you and Dimitri must have swopped brains when you were sucking each other's faces!" an annoying voice sated sarcastically, "Christian, do say that I'm not going to try and stop Rose if she tries to hit you!" Lissa scolded/warned him. I grinned at him. Just then a young woman walked over to us, the guardians swopped in and stood in front of Lissa in a split second. "Oh!" the women gasped and stepped back in fright. Lissa dismissed the guardians and they stepped back immediately. "Hi, um sorry, Good afternoon her majesty, I am Adele Lazar. I have heard so much about you and I just wanted to meet you. You're my role model and I want to be just like you!"
Before I could stop myself, I snorted. She turned to look at me but then got caught up when her eyes landed on Dimitri. "Hi!" she smiled, "what's your name?" she tried to flip her hair over the shoulder but it was tied up. I laughed at her "Dimitri," I said long and drawn out, he looked down at me and smiled, "can we have lunch now?" He laughed at me but it was Lissa who answered me, "Always the patient one hey Rose!" I decide to ignore her jab and started eating some fried chicken.
Adele looked out of place, Lissa always being herself offered Adele lunch and she accepted she kept flirting with Dimitri, while I was sitting on his lap. I felt jealousy flare up in me, I stiffened, and he's mine! How dare she undress him with her eyes? "Dimitri we should go and see your family again soon, I mean remember Olena she practically begged us to stay for another week last time, and I know how happy you are around your family!"
He looked embarrassed to be the centre of the attention, "yea I would love to go back to Russia with you!" he said while he smiled to me. I laughed and rolled into him! A few hours later we stood up and packed away our picnic things and we stated home. Well the way of course after we said goodbye to Adele, I ignored her and she was happy to be ignored by me. I put my arm around Dimitri and stood inside his jacket with him it was starting to get cold now.
She hugged Dimitri and passed him a piece of paper, he looked confused and opened the paper, and it said "Call me! Anytime!" And it had her number bellow in her untidy writing, worse than mine and that is saying something. I huffed and lowered my head; Dimitri worried about me asked what was wrong I gave him a look that said everything. He then said "Roza I have eyes for you and only you, you are my world and nothing change that!"
I was abruptly brought back from the memory by someone shaking me; I focussed back in and saw Dimitri sitting on front of me on his knees with his hands on my shoulders, "Yes?" I asked, he gave me an odd look but carried on, "are you ok?" I nodded and asked him why he was here and he said he was here because he was Christian's guardian and Christian needed his help with something.
I thought back to last night, "Uum, Dimitri I need to talk to you, can you come find me, well I'll be upstairs but come and find me anyways!" I asked, he looked up at Christian and shrugged, he turned to me and said "I can talk now!" he moved his arm signalling me to take the lead and show him where I wanted to talk. I walked upstairs and waited until he followed me up, it took a while. "What are you getting to old to climb upstairs now?" he gave me a don't-start-this look.
There was a couch at the end of the hallway, I pointed at it and asked "Would you like to sit there or in the room?" "Couch" he said a little too quickly, I decided not to pursue it. We went and sat down, I took a depth breath and started my speech, "last night Adele said something and so did you, you said something along the lines of she doesn't mind being with a Dhampir,"I thought back to the memory, "what you see in her?" I blurted out, he looked up at me surprised, "Who?" "Abele?" it came ut as a question because I couldn't remember her name, "Adele." He corrected, but then tought about my question, then answered "She's fun I guess and and she doesn't mind being with a Dhampir."
Back to reality, I continued my earlier question, "why would you want to be with someone whose only "OK" with you being a Dhampir and after her comment about me being a lowly Dhampir just proved she doesn't think that dhampirs are worthy. And you said shes fun I guess, those don't sound like convincing foundations for a functional and happy relationship, you should have said that she made you want to be a better person or she made you feel loved when no one else did!"
He just stared at me and then finally said, "I couldn't have said those things about mine and Adele's relationship," I flinched when he said that, just hearing him saying kinda proved that it was true, he stopped when he saw me flinch but then continued, "I can't say those about the relationship, because this relationship isn't about those things, she doesn't make me want to be a better man, she doesn't make me feel loved in fact she makes me feel like my body is loved, like she's with me for my body and looks!" he raised his head and looked up at me, " the only relationship that has ever made me feel that way, made me feel loved and desired not only for my body but for me as a person as well, the only relationship that made me want to be a better man and made me a better man, the only relationship I've ever regretted losing is the one I had with you."
During his speech my stomach dropped, I felt like I had been punched, repeatedly, in the stomach and chest. I stopped breathing but as he said the last part my head snapped up and I sat and stared at him, he suddenly looked nervous. "Rose say something!" "You regret losing our relationship?" I asked flabbergasted, he nodded! I sat back and sighed, he stood up and said, "I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything" then started to walk away, I panicked, here he was opening up his heart which he never does and I'm rejecting him. I stood quickly and grabbed his arm. He stopped and looked at me, crap now that I stopped him what to do now?
I panicked like I did earlier but this time I didn't think about my actions, I reached up and kissed him. We kissed until we heard a gasp and someone running back down stairs!
Ok, maybe this is the restart of the relationship or maybe its not! Ha ha I feel evil! Ok, I'm starting the next chapter now. I just cant stop writing, I'm so addicted. Ok so please can we try and get 18 reviews!
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