A/N: I need more review to continue

Chapter 9:

Ever wanted to know what goes bump in the night and gives you a fright? Maybe that was what Adrian was searching for that night, to find what the source of his unease was and to make peace with it.

Unfortunately what he found was Rosemarie Hathaway.

The rescue mission that night was not wasted on Rose. But as she lay back in bed with him at her side she did not see Adrian Ivashkov stroking her hair and whisper that everything would be okay. No, Rose had someone else in mind; she saw her dead lover and mentor, Dimitri Belikov. He had many times calmed her in her personal storms using these exact words in a hushed voice as Adrian was now.

Maybe Adrian didn't realise it then but as she drifted further into sleep it became more obvious. She softly whimpered his name as silent tears fell down her cheeks not knowing in the blackness of sleep that someone was watching her. Adrian was still awake, so were Lissa and Christian though. Rose would be quite disturbed if she were awake for this and sucked into Lissa's mind but then again, Rose's emotions would over-power Lissa's in fact they would probably overpower all the students at 's emotions combined.

Lissa and Christian sat in the Church Attic with a few candles lid around them. Lissa had decided to bring them up for lighting a few weeks before. They both spoke in soft voices so that nobody would know they were there.

"Christian..." Lissa groaned.

"Lissa, I'm just telling you the truth. You asked why she'd be up there not leaving for food or drink and sitting alone in darkness all day, well, it is not impossible that she is hurt or worse. We have to think about these things." He said in a stern but still quiet voice.

"I know, I know. It's Rose though, she wouldn't! I know she could never do that. She wouldn't leave me. Ever, she's just going through a rough patch. She'll be –" Lissa choked on a sob and looked away from his piercing, icy blue stare.

"Lissa, I don't want you to be sad but I think we need to figure something out, she's not going to suddenly decide that she's okay, even if she is Rose." He stated as he caressed her arm.

Right then he reminded Lissa so much of what Rose used to be like that she cried even more and buried her head in her knees as she brought them to her chest.

He didn't understand and moved to sit behind her, pulling her into his lap, in a concerned whisper he spoke into her ear, "You're okay, I'm sorry. Shh... Rose will be fine. Don't worry about her, she's just fine. She'll be curled up in her warm bed now, fast asleep and dreaming of something wonderful. You don't need to worry about her tonight. We'll think of this in the morning, I'll figure something out." He kept whispering until she had calmed down and was wiping the tears off her face.

She looked around at him, "No talking about it tonight?" She asked as if she hadn't heard him.

He smiled at her, "Nope. I have better ideas for tonight."

She smiled curiously, "Oh?"

He leaned forward and kissed her slowly in reply, she turned around to face him and kissed him back but he pulled away and turned his head to the side. She was confused; it wasn't like that was unexpected. After a moment he slowly turned back and looked down at her sadly,

"I don't know if I'm ready for this yet..." He said shyly, batting his eyelashes at her.

She grinned wickedly, "Oh, Shut up." She laughed and kissed his nose teasingly.

When he tried to kiss her again she pulled back looking shocked, "You're not ready." She stated in a disgraced whisper.

He winked at her and kissed her again until they had to catch their breath,

"Oh, I'm ready." He said smiling at her and playing with a piece of her hair.

Adrian was starting to drift to sleep but he sat up and decided to get his thought together. He needed to talk to Rose but he couldn't say it and she wouldn't listen. So as a last resort he decided to write a note for her. He grabbed one of her notepads and pulled out a page, getting a pen from the desk.

Rose,

I'm always here for you. I'm not going to desert you.

I know it's hard but you can make it through this.

It's what Dimitri would have wanted; do you think he asked you to kill him just so that he could destroy your future? I didn't know him very well so tell me if this is incorrect but he wasn't that person, he cared about you.

I don't expect you to read this and decide to be okay – that's impossible. But just keep trying, they say time will heal all wounds – they lie. Time will only heal what you work to repair and that's hard. Go to classes when you think you're ready even if you don't want to.

I can't imagine how much pain you're in but I can watch you and I can feel it. When you were sleeping you were so sad, not peaceful like you should be. I figured it must be bad when even sleep is no escape.

"Give me your hand and I'll help you up." Little Dhampir, I'll help you up or just help you whenever you want me to.

You know how terrible I am at this sort of thing, but I had to try. Please don't hate me more for this.

Can you please just tell me when you're okay? Not even great just okay. Only tell me when it's the truth and I'll understand.

Love always,

A.

He needed her to be okay, she was the only girl who could make him feel like crying just by hating him. She was the exception to everything in his life. Broken-hearted from the realisation that whoever helped her would be her worst enemy right now he sat on the floor and fell asleep.

Christian and Lissa went their separate ways to bed, each thinking of Rose as they had agreed not to.

So this night it seemed nobody needed a reason for anything and they were not each other's reasons. They were the last ones to find peace in 's Academy that night, if they did find peace. It seemed that peace was now more like 'distressed' for the bonded best friends – Rose and Lissa.

A/N: Now that you've read that, I think it would be nice if you paid attention to this.

I have a poll on my page please vote and I'll write another VA fanfic. I know the poll isn't related to VA but I decided to be unfair. You want another fanfic with Dimitri in it this time, then come and vote!

Oh, Thanks for reading and REVIEWING! I just know you're going to.

Otherwise I'm not going to keep writing!

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