I thought it should be Eddie who found about them first in my book, seen as though I haven't seen anyone do that before. So anyway, this chapter is mainly Rose telling Eddie about Dimitri. I hope you enjoy reading it. Alex... x


Chapter Eight…

Shit. He couldn't mean that could he. He couldn't know! "Know who what is?" I asked, playing dumb.

"I know who you like. It's Belikov. Isn't it." He said looking me straight in the eyes.

"I…ur…" I stammered. Eddie's stare was making me feel even more uncomfortable than the question itself.

"I knew it!" Eddie said. I couldn't tell whether he was mad or not. He just looked at me emotionlessly.

"Well…I…err…aren't you going to say anything?" I asked him. I just needed a response. Anything to let me know how he was feeling.

"Why don't you tell me about it first. Is it both of you, or just some stupid crush?" He asked. I didn't see the point in lying, so I told him the truth.

"Both of us." I said quietly.

"Whoa…" Eddie said. "Okay. Well how far have you gone?"

I blushed when he said that. Eddie looked gob smacked. "Oh…My…God…" He stuttered out. "You haven't have you?" I nodded. "Bloody hell. So how exactly did all this start?"

With that, I started on the long story that was mine and Dimitri's relationship. "Well, you know how when we came back Kirova was going to kick me out, well Dimitri noticed the bond, and told he about it. She was still keen to chuck me out obviously, but Dimitri persuaded her to let me stay. I still have no idea why he bothered after I called him cheap foreign labour, but Kirova said that I would be far behind, and that if someone didn't mentor me, I would fail. Dimitri said he would do it, and that's how he ended up being my mentor. Nothing really happened until that night I was in the lounge with Jesse. Do you remember how Dimitri caught me in there?"

He nodded. So I continued. "Well, being Dimitri, he chucked Jesse out, but he seemed so angry. I have only seen him lose his control a few times, and this was one of them, he was completely seething. Then he turned to me. I was only in my bra and jeans, and he just looked at me. He wasn't checking me out or anything. He just looked. I remember thinking that him just looking at me turned me on more that Jesse had." I laughed at this. Just remembering how I had been all over Jesse made me feel kind of ill now though.

"Obviously he didn't do anything, he got mad, then he told offered me extra training sessions because I didn't have time to learn anything properly in the time that I had. So we did them and nothing really happened except we got closer. He told me about his family, and he helped me out when those rumours were going around. Then came the trip to the mall. When I was in the hospital, he almost kissed me. I honestly think he would have done if it hadn't been for the doctor coming in. So, anyway, you know that necklace that Victor got me that had the charm on it, well it wasn't exactly an attacking charm." I paused. "It was a lust charm."

Eddie gasped. "Wait your telling me that Victor Dashkov put a charm on a necklace that made you have sex with Dimitri?"

I shook my head. "No, well in effect yes, but Dimitri figured it our just before we were about to, you know, and then we went to see Lissa. I didn't see him for a couple of day after that. When I did, he told me he didn't want me and that it had just been the charm. I thought he meant it, but I still wanted him as much as I had when the charm was on. So I went to see Victor to ask him to finish the charm. He said that it was already finished and that it was me who wanted it. That the attraction had to be in both of us for it to work. I told him he was lying because Dimitri said he didn't like me in that way, and Victor said he was lying. Then Strigoi Natalie came and attacked me. It was Dimitri who saved me, and when we were on the way to the infirmary he told me that he lied, and he did want me, but we couldn't be together because of the age, student-mentor thing, and that we were both going to be Lissa's guardians. So then we both tried to stay away from each other."

"Wait. You said because you were both going to be Lissa's guardians? What does that have to do with anything?" Eddie questioned.

"Because if he let himself love me, then he would throw himself in front of me instead of Lissa. So anyway, we stayed away from each other then, until I kissed him one day in the gym. I was so angry and pissed off, and I just needed to know that he wanted me. So I kissed him, he told me to never do that again, and we didn't speak much after that. Tasha asked him to be her guardian, with 'fringe benefits' I might add. I was devastated again when I heard that. I cried. I hadn't cried for ages. Then when I went to that banquet with Lissa at the ski lodge, and my mum kicked me out, I went up to the roof and he followed me. We talked and I told him to take Tasha's offer because I wanted him to be happy. I honestly meant what I said, no matter how hard it was to say it. We didn't speak after that, until Spokane." At the mention of Spokane we both flinched and a tear ran down my face. Eddie now knew about me and Dimitri, he also knew about my feelings for Dimitri while I was with Mason. He couldn't be happy about that.

"When we were back at the Academy, he told me that he couldn't take Tasha's offer because he loved me and it wouldn't be right to do that to her. We agreed to still stay apart from each other. That's until the night that Lissa lost it with Jesse, I absorbed the darkness from her and it made me want to kill him. So I tried to. Dimitri took me to the cabin and calmed me down. Then he told me how much he really did love me, and seeing me in pain like that made him realise. Then we slept together in the cabin. We decided that after graduation he would be reassigned, hopefully to someone at court, and we could make it work. And then here we are now." I finished. God, I didn't realise how long mine and Dimitri's history really was, considering we had known each other for a short time really.

"Wow." Eddie said, still in shock. "I really didn't have Belikov down for one who broke the rules. But I can really see it now, when I first mentioned it, it was just a hunch, but when I really look at it, it's so obvious. The way you look at each other, the comments which have underlying meanings. I can't believe I didn't notice it before!"

"We're not that obvious are we!" I replied exasperated. "So, anyway, how do you feel about, well…"

He looked at me, and I couldn't quite read his face. "I don't know. I don't quite think the whole forbidden relationship thing is great, but I can see your happy. Really happy, and that's all that I want for you Rose. You seemed so unhappy for so long, but now you smile all the time, and its nice to see you like that. He makes you smile just thinking about him, and I can see that you really love him. So, honestly, I'm happy for you."

Eddie wasn't one for emotional speeches, and I was touched by his comments. I leaned forward and hugged him, I had a few tears running down my face. "Thank you Eddie. You don't know how much it means to me that you approve." I pulled back and he smiled at me.

"So, who else knows?" He asked.

"Apart from Victor Dashkov, only Adrian." I said.

Eddie looked shocked once again. "Adrian! Whoa, I didn't expect that. But it kinda makes sense. All the comments and stuff. How did he find out? I cant imagine you told him."

"Yeah, he calls him my 'cradle robbing mentor'." I said laughing. "He heard me and Dimitri arguing at the ski lodge and he kind of guessed, also he can read aura's, so I bet that helps."

Eddie smiled at me. "Wow, I still can't quite believe it." He said laughing. "Now come on, lets go, I bet we are at least half an hour late."

We both got up and began walking. "You won't tell anyone will you?" I asked Eddie.

"No," he answered shaking his head. "Your secret is safe with me."