Hey guys! I do not own VA incase you didn't know that ;-)
Also I know it has been a long time since last time but I've been busy sorry about that. This is Eddie and I know I switch to past but I don't want to rewrite it so just deal with it okay I don't want any complaints I started then stooped then I started again I forgot the tone.
Epov
Its Wednesday. Normally I hate this day, it is the middle of the week too long since weekend to long till it is weekend again. Now this Wednesday I actually looked forward too. Today is my first training. I don't know what this training will be or who will be teaching but I've seen enough of this place to know that these guardians have skills and I will need those kind of skills. Oh and seeing Belikov being teached is going to be entertainment enough in it self.
So there we stood 13 trained guardians sent back to school the sight must have been hilarious as we all stood there feeling and looking awkward. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence we hear voices then a door that opens and closes. I turn my around seeing Rose and a tall muscular dude walking in and stooping up looking surprised to see us.
"That is more than I expected looks like we have our hands full." Rose said smirk on her face, I suddenly remembered that this was indeed the same Rosemary Hathaway that I went to school with. That is it! I suddenly figured out why she seems so different; this is the Rose I went to school with, not the strigoi hunter but Rose, sweet, badass, nerve chilling Rose.
"Looking good Rose." It flew from my mouth before I could stop it but it was true she did look good. She had a ponytail with a few lose strays, kneeleght shorts and a top that left her stomach exposed. She was skinny, really skinny, she had always been fit but this was diet too, you could see the outline of her rips and muscles move under the skin. Surprising she smiled at me.
"Take a picture and drool over me in your own time Castile this is my class." That got a few snikkers. I took out my cell.
"I see well stand still so I get a clean cut." She made a face and turned her back to me then bend forward showing me her ass.
"Oh yeah baby that's it shake it for me." She then laughed and sprang up shielding her ass with her hands
"Shut up!"
"Never!"
Her positure changed and she turned serious.
"Okay everyone I am Rose I'll be your trainer in this class for the next 3 months."
Victoria raised her hand. What now?!
"Yes?" Rose looked annoyed. Victoria looked challenging.
"Why are you teaching? You're not a teacher not even a guardian actually you never were were you?" Rose jaw clenched - not good...
"No I am not, no I weren't. I was removed before I got my assignment but I am still one of the best athletes that this school, country perhaps, have ever seen and I can beat any of you so do not challenge me."
It seemed like a closing line but Victoria continued.
"Why were you removed? Not good enough or unloyal? I heard you let down your charge told them you didn't care." Roses eyes narrowed.
"You shouldn't listen to gossip."
"Well I have to if I want information you aren't giving me any." Rose slowly walked towards Victoria and stopped about a meter from her glaring.
"I was stripped of my title because of issues with my health! I did not do anything wrong and I was the most promising guardian at court at the time. Now if I were you I would back down now; don't forget that I am going to be your teacher for the next 3 months and if I want you to stay an extra hour every day, you will."
"You can't do that, it is not legal."
"Actually it is. Now do you wanna doubt my skills anymore are can we start the class?" She was silent thinking about her options and trying to figure out if she could take down Rose in a fight.
"I will" A black haired guardian down the row said
"Excuse me?"
"I am doubting your skills. They wouldn't strip you of your title if you were that good, I'll fight you to prove you are not as good as you claim."
"You wouldn't stand a chance."
"I was the best at my academy teachers said they had never seen anything like me. Are you scared?" She smirked
"No! lets spar."
And then they took positions on the floor he was in fighting position she was just standing there arms crossed. He shoot her a questioned look she shrugged
"Come on attack I don't have all day."
And he did. He moved faster than anyone I've ever seen maybe he could even beat Dimitri, Rose was going to get her ass kicked. At least that is what I thought, but no. She moved so fast I almost didn't see it and then he was laying on his back her foot on his chest.
"A perfect example for what I am about to teach you. Strigoi have all the advantages. If the fight takes too long you'll get tired but they won't. I'll tell you something that you are not allowed to forget, I want to hear you mumble it in your sleep when I am done with you okay?"
All nodded still awe stock by her move.
"Be quick, be quiet and be effective. That will be your new mantra. Don't waste time take them out quickly. Don't make noises it will attract both people and other dangers and lastly be effective, make sure they are dead when you leave them so they cant take you by surprise later, another fight might drain you. Everybody out on the tracks"
No one dared to disobey so less than a minute later we were all standing in a big bunch waiting for orders.
"Okay everyone we'll start with the first point: Be quick. I want everyone to take two rounds around the tracks, run as fast as you can, run as if you had a god damn PSI on your tracks okay? The goal is to be as fast as I am we keep running till at least one of you can keep up okay? Because it is the first time ill give you 10 seconds forespring ready?"
People hurried to get out of each others way ready to run, most had the attitude that they could easyli outrun her whit a 10 seconds forespring on the 500 meter track.
"3, 2 , 1, GO!" And we ran as fast as we could, Rose stood at the start waiting for the 10 seconds to be up then she ran. She out ran the first within 5 seconds and before the first round she was the third. A half round from the finish line she ran from Dimitri himself. When we all got in she was standing hands on her hips, her skin was gloving but she didn't look like she had made much effort.
"Something tells me you were going easy on us." The words were out of my mouth before I realized it. She smiled.
"If I gave you my best you would never be able to reach the goal, this is the speed you should set as your goal. We won't do anything but run till you have reached it 1 km on 2 minutes and 11 seconds!
"How long did it take you to reach it?" Victoria once again but now more humble. Rose looked at her this time more gentle but still her words came out harsh.
"I've been running since high school my record is 1 km on 1 minute and 36 seconds the time you should aim for? Took me 1 year and 8 mouths but didn't have me as a teacher." Dimitri's Jaw clenched he seemed to be taking it as a personal insult.
"Keep running around the tracks 10 rounds then I'll show you how to stretch and we'll be done."
So we ran for that hole hour till she learned us a few new stretches then we went back tired as hell. She had forced us to keep doing our best still none was even near the time. Next morning I were tired yet not as sore as expected guess the stretches worked. I didn't see her before last class phycology. She was a natural knew her teacher well. I had had the class before but didn't listen, I was a guardian here to protect. When class was over I stopped her in the hallway.
"Rose!" She turned around and lifted an eye brown
"Yeah?"
"I was thinking, we only have training once a week I wont reach the time when we only train so rarely what would you recommend I do between practice? Any special exercises?" She looked at me a bit less coldly. Then sighed.
"Run, every morning just a little route and diet you know not much food but full of protein and milk products."
"Sure thanks." She turned around to leave when I stooped her.
"Rose I know we haven't talked in a long time but I had the impression that we were okay why are you acting coldly?" She looked at me like she was considering if she should tell me the truth or not.
"I.. I am not as I was when I left Eddie." She said looking at the floor. "You wouldn't even recognize me anymore."
"But I do." Her head snapped up and she opened her mouth to tell me I didn't but she didn't get the t I DID I was probably the only one who did.
"I know your not the same person you was when you left court but you are the same person as you were when you left the academy. Not when you left to hunt down Dimitri but when you ran away with Lissa or maybe even before the crash. You're happy, bitchy maybe but happy more than you were when Dimitri brought you back." She seemed to consider my words then nodded.
"I am happy."
"Well then I am happy for you." I gave her a small smile before turning away.
"Eddie?" I turned to looked at her
"Yes?"
"I.. I would like to be your friend but… I won't go near Lissa okay? I just won't."
"I don't hang around Lissa that much."
"I know but I just wanted you to know that you can't hang around us at the same time, you cant even speak of her near me I don't want anything to do with her."
"Why not? I mean you were best friends."
"Well best friends grows apart too."
"You didn't grow apart you ran from her so fast it was hard to see you from the dirt and dust you kicked up." She smiled
"Yeah well she gave me a pretty hard punch so I fell all the way to hell I believe."
"She regrets it and you know I refuse to believe she didn't send a apology over the bond." She grimaced.
"I haven't used the bond since I decided to leave."
"Then why haven't Varlissa gone crazy yet?"
"I still take the darkness it is not like I have much choice but I don't check on her mind I think its better for me not to."
"Rose…"
"No Eddie I wont have anything to do with her, as far as I am concerned there is no Dragomirs left and if there is I don't know them." And with that she left. I yelled after her but she didn't look back. How could two people who once were so close now be so cold towards each other. I didn't know what Varlissa had said to Rose but it must have been worse than we thought.
Rpov
I am so sick of them already! Who do they think they are coming here snooping around! Talking with Eddie had been good and bad, it was good to see him again but somehow I would have rather not.
I felt the anger rise within me, I need to get out of here before I hurt someone. I've never been good at controlling my anger, the last 2 years I've actually become better at it, but that little stuck up princess awakes feelings so strong I become scared of myself. I walk faster down the hallway passing a few friends hoping they won't notice me, then burst out trough the door at the end of a abandoned wing and close it quiet behind me.
I look around to make sure no one is around then turn and slam my arms against the wall resting my head against the cold surface of the bricks. A wind takes a stray of my hair and I stand there listening to the sound of my own breath. I finally lift myself of the wall and start pacing.
"Its okay Rose your strong you can do this. They doesn't matter they never have, you are a new person now they don't even know you." I took a deep breath
"arrgh they do know! they wouldn't have known it was me if I hadn't been so god damn stupid to talk to Victoria arrrrgh! I could have spent all year not having to bother about them if I had just shut up!" I fall together on the stone steps of an old staircase that have ones been pretty but now was mistreated.
"No no no I ruined it I ruined it all everything i fought for. It is going to be just like before it'll all be ruined." I was on the wedge of tears this couldn't be happening.
"Is everything all right?" Fuck! I whip around but I already know who it is. I'll always know when it is him.
"What are you doing here?!"
"Taking some air, you?" I narrow my eyes
"same thing."
"Sounds like some heavy breathing" So he heard my little outburst
"Maybe I am having some trouble breathing." He looks at me trying to read me like he used to do, and I prey that he can't.
"Would something be stopping you from breathing?" He finally asks, in his usual sen voice.
"I have a habit of become very easily claustrophobic." I say dryly, if he thinks he can come here and invade my life…
"Why would you there seem to be plenty of space." he was perfectly calm, as he always had been.
"There was but now it seem to be a little overbooked."
We both know that's an attack but he doesn't shoot a snappy comment back in my face.
"What are your plans with my sister?" Woa well that came unexpected…
"Excuse me?" I said in my best offended tone. He gave me that 'cut the shit' look
"My sister what are your plans for her? Are you going to humiliate her by not let her on the team? Or accept her and then make her life a living hell at training?" Why did everyone always think I had an evil master plan?
"I don't have any evil plans with you sister Dimitri and before you give me that ' and you expect me to belive that' listen! I meant it when I said we could use girls like her, Devils moon have a long history of wining a cheerleader competition between the old universities and we lost most of our really good girls this year. Look everyone always think I have an evil master plan and yeah there is an other reason, Mindy and her little minions are outnumbering me this year and if I don't get someone I can somewhat trust she is going to take the team from me." He looked surprised.
"So that's it? No hidden agenda?"
"Nope. Mindy is popular cause she has taken a leader role for younger students, they look up to her wanna be like her god knows why, I am popular cause I am friends with older and former students. I am that girl who hangs out with the cool kids which makes me cool. Now most of my friends have graduated leaving me with very few people I can trust so I need to do as Mindy, take the leader position for younger students or I'll be outnumbered and in the end humiliated and dethroned be Mindy."
"That is some sick business." He commented and I snickered
"That's just the everyday bitch-fight at Devils moon, and if you thought Sct. Vladimir's were twisted…"
"I did. So you're queen at the moment?"
"Kind of. Mindy and I are at a tie due to my graduating friends, damn them, but I am going to fix that."
"By recutating new student like my sister. That's your plan for her; to make her your minion."
"Yes" I was not happy to admit it but he were right it wasn't out of simple kindness I had asked her to join the team.
"So how many are there?" What?!
"I am sorry?"
"Girls like my sister, how many are there?" oh he meant minions
"About 6 so far but I am working on creating an smaller army."
"Don't, keep your numbers low that way you can control them easier and make sure you have their loyalty." Damn Dimitri was a little bitch who would have know he was good at this stuff.
"I am not letting them into the inner circle I am just making sure they'll always feel like they owe me something."
"So you weapon is kindness?" He asked in disbelief
"Sadly yes trust me I am not happy about it but it'll make Mindy look like a bitch and they'll like me more." He nodded
"And the inner circle?"
"Wow you really pay attention huh?" He seemed unfazed by my surprise.
"What do one have to do to be let into that?" I looked at him for a long time. I knew what he was doing he was trying to help his sister getting up in rang. By getting her in with me.
"You can't DO anything. I don't let people in because they do a good job at being a minion but because I feel like I can trust them and talk to them as friends. That's what you have to do: You have to be my friend."
"And how do one become your friend?"
"That's the thing. There is no recipe either. I like you or I don't and even if I like you there is no guarantee I'll consider you my friend, friendship is mostly a thing I do with people I've known for a longer time, people I would still be talking to if we weren't in classes together."
"You knew Victoria before you went to school here…"
"And I would never have talked much less seen her again if she hadn't come here."
"You really believe that?"
"Yes I do I wouldn't have seen any of you and my life would have been happy and much less complicated than it is now."
"You don't mean that."
"Yes I do. Dimitri when I left I left with the intention to never see or hear from any of you again and I were quiet happy with that. I have a great life here, I have family and friends people who care for me." He looked at his shoes and said in a small voice
"We care about you." Excuse me? Did he really just say that? They hadn't even seen me in over 2 years.
"Yeah I know you sure showed that." I said dryly. He pulled on his guardian mask but hurt flashed trough his eyes.
"Rose I … what happened in the church … I didn't-"
"I know you didn't meant for me to leave only to stay away. Well there weren't any reason for me to stay I know the princess missed me but in the end I figured she would be to busy to actually pay notice to my absence. I know I was wrong she made sure I knew exactly what she thought of my departure not a moment after I left." I said surly. He looked at me in utter surprise
"What do you mean? She has apologized over and over to you through the bond!"
"When?! I don't know what she has told you Dimitri but all I've gotten from her is crap so I cut her loose."
"Cut her loose? I don't think I understand, don't you take her darkness anymore? If not wouldn't she be insane?"
"Oh I take the darkness you don't have to worry about her well being but I don't take messages anymore. I don't get pulled into her head and I don't feel her anymore I closed that part of I only take the darkness because I need it." The thought of darkness made me smile, oh the power it brings me!
"You need the darkness?! It makes you insane!" Oh I forgot he doesn't know.
"Oh trust me Dimitri it is not the darkness that makes me insane. Not anymore." With that I smiled slyly and left.
"Bye Dimitri!" I called over my shoulder disappearing indoor. I may not have gotten out with my craziness but I sure did get something out of going out I am just not sure what it'll lead to yet.
