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Chapter Seven
Seeing as there were too many questions and things to be done, the elections would be held in a few days time. That way the council will have time to decide what to do on both accounts - Lissa's sister and Tasha's murder trial. That, however, didn't concern me much. Right now I was snuggled in the embrace of my Russian god, feeling at home. We were given an apartment in the guardians building, every time we went out we were stared at - I was starting to understand how animals in the zoo felt. The good thing was that Dimitri and I stayed mostly at home, the only times we went out was to go to Lissa and Christian's. Today, however, I had a meeting with Lissa, we had made plans to see each other like in the old times - just the two of us. I wanted to ask her if she really heard me those few times.
It was hard for me to leave my lover's arms, I felt so warm there, but I had to. So with a lot of effort I got up and looked at his sprawled body. He looked heavenly.
"So, Comrade, what are your plans for today? Seeing as I won't be here most of that time."
"Well, Roza, I was thinking of going to talk to Hans to reassign me, to Christian, maybe, and then I was thinking of taking him and going to talk with Tasha..." he said, his voice cracking when he said her name.
"Please be careful with her, I fear she will use compulsion and try to turn you on me... About Christian - I wouldn't want anyone else guarding him apart from you, well...maybe Eddie, but I heard Adrian wanted him." I said with a smile, happy that my brother will have one of the best guardians. "And I'm happy you're taking him with you to visit her. I know he needs to talk to her too." then I pulled him with me to the bathroom. It took us a little over 30 minutes to get out of the shower, feeling refreshed and energized. I put comfortable clothes - sweat pants and a T-shirt, took my sweatshirt, kissed Dimitri goodbye and went to Lissa's.
I knocked on her door and a few moments Christian opened, fully clothed and ready to go out.
"Hey, Fireboy, I heard you had plans today. Please be careful and take care of my man." I told him, while hugging him hello.
"Don't worry, I know how to take care of myself and your man doesn't need me to take care of him, you should know that better than anyone else." he said back to me, with a smile. "Lissa is in the shower, you can wait in the living room, I left you breakfast on the kitchen counter." he told me before closing the door.
"Thanks, you know me so well." I said, not raising my voice, knowing he could here me even through the door. I went to the kitchen to find my breakfast - it was a simple toast and scrambled eggs but damn it was delicious. That's when Lissa came out of the shower, dressed almost like me - she just had a long-sleeved shirt instead of a tee. We went to her bedroom and sat on the bed.
"Rose, I have something to tell you, before we get to the heavy stuff." she was bouncing in her seat, and was hiding her thoughts.
"Okay, Liss, spill. You're killing me here." I smiled at her.
"Well...Christian and I were talking and we decided that we wanted a house of our own, and we wanted our sanctioned guardians with us - meaning we want you and Dimitri to move in with us." I think I took the role of a fish - opening and closing my mouth with no sound coming from it. I tuned in briefly to Dimitri, and found him walking with Christian to the cell's block. Christian had just told him about their idea, and he too didn't know what to say.
'Comrade, what do you say?' I asked him in our way.
'Well, Roza, that would be easier on both us and them, and we'll be closer to them, and...Yeah, I like the idea. Now go back to Lissa before she has called to to ask why you are staring off into space.' he told me with a chuckle. I got back to Lissa's and found her staring at me anxiously.
"Sorry, I was talking with Dimitri. Liss, that's an amazing idea." I tackled her to the bed, hugging her. "By the way, that is how I look to other people, while talking with you." I said, without a thought. She looked at me like I had lost it.
"You...were...talking with Dimitri? How...? What...? Rose, what is going on with you - first I hear you in my head, like you were answering my thoughts; then at some times I found myself staring at Dimitri, and I knew you two were together at these times; now you tell me you can talk to him in your head!? I don't know what is happening, Rose, and apparently I can't figure it out on my own, so please help me!" Lissa was breathing heavily from her outburst.
"Okay, Liss, just calm down. That was the 'heavy stuff' I wanted to talk about. Well...our theory, mine and Dimitri's, is that after he was turned back our, mine and yours, bond grew." I started, not sure how to continue. "I don't know how to tell you, so I'm going to relate from the beginning. The first time I noticed it was when you were going to your second exam - you wished for me to be there and I told you that I soon will be there; and then at the end of the exam. Remember?" I asked her.
"Yeah, I was so shocked, but I told myself it was wishful thinking."
"I know, but it wasn't - I really thought that line and you heard me. After that I was trying the charm that Sonya made me, and asked in the car how I looked - Sonya, obviously, couldn't see the change; Jill was amazed beyond words; and Dimitri - he had his mask on,but then I heard him like I hear you, and then I thought I had imagined it. Then we met with Mikhail and Adrian. That's when I saw something, that I shouldn't have been able to - I saw Dimitri's aura. At first I didn't know what it was, but then Adrian started talking about it and what colors it had and I realized that I had seen just that. I looked around to experiment if I could see any other auras, but I couldn't. Then my eyes locked with Dimitri's and somehow I knew he could see the same and only on me. I heard him again in my head and thought I was going crazy. After we finished with our mission, we checked in a hotel for the night. That was the night Dimitri forgave himself completely. After a while, " I winked at her and she blushed, knowing what we had been doing in that 'a while' "we talked about what we had 'seen' and 'heard' and we concluded that it has two reasons - us being soul mates, and both of us being touched by Spirit..." I couldn't continue because Lissa squealed and tackled me on the bed.
"Rose, soul mates, that's huge, I'm so happy for you!" she had a 100W smile, which I knew mirrored mine.
"Yeah, it's amazing. And that revalation made me think that maybe our bond has increased since you stacked him, but we hadn't felt it because we were both stressed and had a lot on our minds. And now that we are more relaxed we can feel it and even 'train' it..." I trailed, no being able to finish, because I got sucked in my lover's head:
'Natasha, one thing I don't get - I've told you so many times that I don't have romantic feelings for you; when you came that Christmas, you immediately knew about my feelings for Roza, and even encouraged me to act on them. And then you go and frame the love of my life just so that you can have me for yourself. Why?' he was heartbroken.
'Roza, I'm sorry I pulled you in here, but I needed to feel you and to get a bit of strength from you'
'Comrade, don't apologize, I'll always be there for you when you need me. Now get back in there and talk to her, I'll be here and listen'
'Dimka,' Tasha sighed exasperatedly.'you can't know she is the love of your life, come on she is, what, only 18, in a few years she will decide that you are not enough for her and she will leave you for someone younger.' she said with so much venom in her voice. Dimitri got really angry, so I tried to calm him with thoughts of us in a few years - we will be living in a house, with Lissa and Christian, we'll be happy. That helped and he returned to his conversation, but before he could utter a word a new voice came, even angrier.
'Tasha, you know nothing about Rose and Dimitri's relationship.' Christian said. 'You don't know through what they've been, what they faced. Let me ask you something - would you have done any of the things Rose did for Dimitri, would you have travelled all the way around the world to tell his family, to save him? No, I know you. So stop playing games and ruining people's lives, you have done enough of that already.' Chris was really pissed, Dimitri was regarding him with awe. Then both of us got a thought at the same time - his family. No one had told them that he was turned, so no one has told them now that he was turned back.
'Comrade, finish there and we'll make plans to go to Russia' I told him.
'Thank you, Roza, you are amazing' he said with so much feeling in his voice.
'Dimka, are you really going to let him talk to me like that,' Tasha looked at Dimitri and her eyes glazed and focused. 'You will forget about Rose, about your life at Court and St Vladimir, all you will remember is that you have been my guardian all your life and now we will be getting married.' she tried to compel him, but she couldn't. He was furious, I guess having found your soul mate, also helps you to resist compulsion. That thought calmed him immediately, thinking about me put a smile on his face and Tasha thought she had won.
'Of course, Tasha,...' Christian looked at him like he was crazy, but then noticed the gleam in his eyes and stayed silent.'Well, there is only one problem with that statement - I never wanted to be your guardian in the first place. All that you said was in vain, because once you have found your soul mate, you are immuned to compulsion.' she screamed in anger and agony, trying to flame him, but he was a good few feet away from her and she missed. Then he and Christian went out.
'Damn, man, that was amazing! But what was that about the soul mate. there hasn't been any in a century.' Chris said, respect and amazement coloring his voice.
'And as far as the world will know, there still won't be.' Dimitri answered with a sly smile.
'You're good, Comrade, now I leave you to tell Christian. You can tell him what you want, I already told Lissa almost all.'
'OK, Roza, bye, see you later. Love you!' he said before I left his head.
When I resurfaced to Lissa, she was staring anxiously at me.
"Sorry, I had to stay with Dimitri for a while. It wasn't an easy conversation..." I said and recounted to her what happened in the cell's block. "...Yeah, and now they are talking." I looked at her, she had a calculating look on her face.
'Rose, can you say something back to me?' she asked in my/her head.
'Liss, can you hear me now?' I asked and she gasped - she had heard me. The next moment I was 'attacked' by whirlwind or blond and was tackled to the bed.
"Rose, that is amazing! Now we can talk all the time and be there, even when we're not" she was so excited. I think no was the time to talk about some vacation time for me and Dimitri.
"Liss, I have a request - Dimitri and I need two weeks vacation to go visit his family." I gave her the puppy dog eyes, to which she never said 'no'.
"Rose, you don't have to ask, you two need that time to relax and get back on track." it was easier than I thought. Then someone cleared their throat from the door - there stood Christian and Dimitri, smiling and looking fondly at us. Then they came to us and each got his girl in a hug.
'Roza, have I told you lately how amazing you are! Or how happy you make me!' I heard in my head. I just shook my head and leaned into him. Then I spotted Christian and Lissa looking at us, with looks saying 'what the...' and 'I know what you're doing', which was a weird combination. Then I got up and went to Christian.
"Fireboy, thank you, for what you said back there." I hugged him tighly. "Are you OK?" I asked him, whispering in his ear. All he did was nod slightly. Then I returned to my lover and turned to Lissa and Christian.
"Well, guys, we'll leave you so that you can talk, amongst other things." I winkled at them. "We, on the other hand, have a trip to plan." I told them. We moved to the door, waved and went to our room.
The moment we locked our door, Dimitri had me pinned to it, kissing me passionately. We came up for breath after a few minutes. He pulled me to the couch and went to get the laptop, so that we can book our tickets. We both thought 'The sooner, the better.' Of course he was nervous but I reassured him that everything will be alright. After that we went and finished what we started at the door.
I hope it is understood, what I tried to say, because I have a little trouble formattong some parts of the text - it had to be italized or underlined and it was in the document, but here it is just plain text. Please tell me if it's not understandeable and I'll fix it somehow. Thank you!
