*Disclaimer : I'm going with the last one about how I don't own VA because Leprechauns stole it. Damn Leprechauns Ahaa. All rights to Richelle Mead.
Chapter 10
We went to the park and seen everyone. Paul ran up to me and Dimitri and grabbed our hands. He stopped pulling, when we reached Mark and Oksana. They both smiled at me. I let go of Dimitri's hand and gave them both hugs. Paul had dragged Dimitri off to play. I sat and talked to Mark and Oksana.
"How's it going with you and your bondmate? Did she learn how to heal the darkness yet?" Mark asked. I gave a wry smile.
"I'm. . no longer bound to her." I said.
"What how's that possible?" Oksana asked.
"We're all guessing that when I got shot-" I was cut off by everyone surrounding us saying in unison "You got shot?" it sounded like it was planned. Almost like it belonged in a movie.
"Yes,"
"By who," Olena asked concerned. I didn't exactly know if I should say or not. But they had a right to know. They were my family.
"By. . Tasha." I confessed. I heard a lot of gasps, and cussing, and other things that were being said in Russian that I couldn't understand. I glanced over to see if Dimitri was paying any attention but he was still playing with Paul.
Olena and a couple of more people can to hug me and console me. I smiled and continued to talk to Mark and Oksana.
"Well yeah when I got shot, I managed to pull through on my own without her help and were guessing that since I didn't need help being pulled back from death, I freed myself from spirit and her." I said. Mark and Oksana smiled.
"At least that means you won't go crazy from spirit." Oksana said smiling. I smiled. Viktoria came by holding Nikolai's hand. She smiled and I got up to greet Nikolai.
"Took you long enough," I blurted out.
"Rose," Viktoria gasped wide eyed.
"Well I'm just saying. I kind of expected him to do it the last time I was here."
"I would have but she was kind of off doing her own thing." Nikolai muttered which got him elbowed from Viktoria. They walked off and I went to go watch Dimitri and Paul play football. I flopped on the grass and looked at them for a minute until I laid back to stare at the sky. The sky was pretty. It was bright blue and I saw white clouds. I noticed the space beside me shift. I turned my head to see Yeva.
"Hello Yeva," I said politely sitting up.
"Hello my darling, We should talk, yes?" I nodded and she started telling me something.
"News will bring you a sense of pain or betrayal but don't fall into it. Over look it. You will become a stronger person. If you don't over look it, you will lose things that are important to you. Roza, you have to over look it."
It didn't exactly sound like the start of a conversation. She sounded as if she was reading my fortune. But I nodded. I didn't fully understand it but I listened and took note of it.
"Just remember child, things happen for reasons." She said getting up to join the rest of family. I threw myself back onto the grass. I closed my eyes and thought of what possible news could come. Once again I felt the space beside me shift. I opened my eyes to see Dimitri.
"How's a road trip sound?"
"Right now?"
"No not right now. Tomorrow in the morning. It's a long drive."
"Okay sounds fun. Where are we going?"
"You'll see." I eyed him suspiciously with a smile. He got up and held out a hand. I took it and he helped me up. He brought his lips down to mine and we walked to the family. We all ate and laughed and everyone told jokes and Paul made a comment about Viktoria kissing Nikolai. She blushed so hard her cheeks were bright red. Everyone continued to laugh as she told them to shut up as she covered her cheeks. I leaned against Dimitri as everyone started doing their own thing. I looked up to see him looking at me. I leaned up to kiss him. We fell back onto the grass staring at the sky. The sky was no longer a bright blue but becoming darker and mixed with orange, red, and other colors. I started thinking about how things were going back at court. I kind of missed having a bond. My thoughts were interrupted by Paul jumping on me and Dimitri. We all laughed as Paul wiggled between us. Paul turned to me.
"I bet Uncle Dimka would be mad if you kissed me on the cheek. I want to show him I can pull girls too." he whispered into my ear. I let out a laugh and kissed him on the cheek. Dimitri looked at me then to Paul who was grinning broadly.
"Ha Ha Auntie Rose kissed me and not you," Paul boasted sticking out his tongue and tried to get up to run but Dimitri grabbed him and slung him over his shoulders and started spinning. When he put poor Paul down, that poor little boy couldn't walk straight.
"That's not fair," Paul said falling on his butt from the dizziness. Dimitri and I laughed. We all went home and went to sleep. Paul fell asleep on the way from exhaustion. Dimitri carried me up to our room and threw me onto the bed and stripped me. Then he got into bed with me and wrapped his arms around me. I fell asleep.
A spirit dream disturbed me from my slumber. I saw Adrian appear from behind a tree, smiling.
"I heard you wanted to see me Little Dhampir, is it true?" He asked approaching me.
"Yes, Adrian its true."
"Ahh, well I wanted to see you too, but the way I want to see you, isn't the same meaning as yours," He said wiggling his eyebrows.
"Are these dreams that realistic?" I asked.
"Yes," He said amused.
"So if I hit you right now it would hurt?" He smiled.
"No need for violence, Little Dhampir. I was just saying."
"Aww but violence is my best feature, We go together like Milk and Cookies." I said smiling my man-eating smile. He blinked repeatedly.
"Did you just compare yourself and violence to milk and cookies?" He started laughing. I laughed with him.
"Yes, yes I did." He smile and slung an arm around my shoulder. We started walking over to a swing set.
"But milk and cookies are good, you and violence are evil." He laughed and I hit him.
"What's that suppose to mean." We started laughing even more. Once we got to the swing set he decided to push me before hopping onto his own swing. We swang for a while, talking and laughing.
"Sometimes I wish I met you first," Adrian muttered softly as the swings came to a stop.
"Hmm?" I asked I was kind of dazing off.
"Before Belikov maybe we would have worked out better," He mumbled looking down. I got up and walked to him. I leaned down to give him a kiss on the cheek. I ran a hand through his hair and rested it on the back of his neck. I smiled at him.
"Even if that would have happened, I don't think it would have. You're gonna find an amazing girl who understand and loves you unconditionally, I was never that girl. I love you but when you find her you'll see what I mean." He looked up. His eyes were filled with understanding. I actually missed kissing Adrian but I wouldn't do that to Dimitri. I hugged Adrian and told him to leave me to my sleep because I had to wake up early. I also told him to tell Lissa to visit me when she had the time. He complied and kissed my forehead and murmured 'I still love you Little Dhampir' before things faded into blackness.
"Rose," A voice said. It felt like there was an earthquake.
"Roza," The voice said again. It was that damn Russian.
"Leave me alone Dimitri," I muttered into a pillow.
"We have to leave soon, Rose get up." He said and the shaking me.
"Dimitri I will castrate you if you keep fucking shaking me." I yelled.
"I don't think you would." The next thing I knew I was getting lifted out of bed.
"Dimitri," I whined into his chest as I wrapped my hands around his neck. We walked downstairs and he put me in the car with a blanket. I continued to sleep. I heard the car start and everyone say goodbye.
"Was it really necessary to wake up this early in the morning?" I grumbled. It was about 5:51am.
"Yes, its going to take us a while to get there and we won't be able to go until tomorrow." He told me.
I just shrugged and tried to go back to sleep. When I official woke up from the grumbling coming from my stomach, I looked at Dimitri.
"Is that you're stomach or a bear?" He asked laughing.
"Ha ha ha very funny. I want donuts!" I exclaimed when the thought hit me. He handed me a container that was covered. I uncovered it to find the black bread.
"This isn't donuts but it will do." I said taking a bit out of a piece.
It was about one in the afternoon. We have been on the road for about eight hours and Dimitri told me we had another seven hours to go.
"Comrade, I'm bored." I was fidgeting in my seat. Staying still for this long was not easy. He reached and turned on the radio. I groaned.
"Dimitri, I don't wanna hear anything that is before the time I was born, change it or turn it off." I yelled over the radio. He turned it off. I stared at him.
"I was hoping you'd change it," I groaned and looked at the window. I was bored out of my mind. I really wish I still had the bond at least I could go off in Lissa's head. But on second thought she'd probably be sleeping because of the nocturnal schedule. I just decided to think for some hours. I couldn't sleep because I wasn't tired anymore.
I thought about a wide range of things starting with if Dimitri remember or not. I really think he did or at least was starting to. That or he just fell for me again. I thought about the idea of us getting married. If you would have asked me a couple of years ago, marriage never once crossed my mind. All I was concerned with was protecting Lissa and being her guardian. But now, with Dimitri I considered it. I also wondered what Yeva meant. How could I not fall into pain or betrayal? Was it physical pain? And then someone would betray me? How could I overlook it if they did? For the most part I wanted to know how they betrayed me. And If I didn't over look it what would I lose?
We had came to a stop at a gas station. It was familiar. Dimitri got out the car to get gas.
"Do you want any snacks or anything?" he asked. I nodded and went with him inside. I looked around until I saw some things that caught my eye. I offered to pay but Dimitri gave the man the money for the snacks and gas. I shrugged and headed back to the car. I placed all the snacks in the back. I took on more look around it. It hit me. We were going to Novosibirsk or past it. When I left to go find Dimitri with Denis , Artur, and Lev we stopped at this gas station. I smiled. I got into the car and waited for Dimitri. Once the car will filled with gas we started driving again. It was quiet. Too quiet, it was driving me crazy.
"We're going to Novosibirsk, aren't we?"
"How. .Yes ."
"So we're are we sight seeing over there or are we going someplace else?" I asked curiously.
"Rose, I'm not going to tell you. You just have to wait and see." I see what he's doing. I wouldn't tell him where we were going when we left for Baia and now it was his turn to torture me. I folded my arms.
"Will you at least give me hints?" I pleaded.
"Hmm. . " He thought for a second. ,"Its a beautiful sight to see." I stared at him.
"What the hell Comrade, that's not a hint. Its refers to almost everything around here." I blustered. He shrugged.
"You didn't say how precised the hint had to be." He smirked. I wanted to slap the smirk right off his face. He continued driving in silence.
"When will we be there," I groaned in agonizing boredom.
"When its about 9:00 or 9:30," He told me. It was about seven now which meant we still had two hours to go. What the hell was I going to do for two hours. I still wasn't tired, so sleep was still out of the options. I reached to the backseat to grab some chips and stared out the window. The sky was dark filled with purple and pink clouds. It was really pretty actually.
Surprisingly the two hours seemed to fly right by. We reached a hotel, in Novosibirsk at 9 and checked in. I found out that Dimitri had reserved a room. The room was very nice.
(I do not feel like describing the hotel suite at all but if you want you, can look at pretty pictures ,that are also on my profile ,of how I would possibly have described it to look like :)
I turned around to look at Dimitri, who was smiling.
"Dimitri it's so nice," I said as we walked to the bedroom to put our stuff down.
"We'll be staying here for a couple of days since where we're going isn't far away." He said smiling. I smiled. I saw the bathroom and thought of one thing. Bath. I wanted to take a bath right now. I looked at Dimitri, who was sitting on the bed and thought I might as well have a little fun. I let my hair out of the messy bun it was in. It fell to my ass. It probably looked wild. I started to take off my shirt. When it was off, Dimitri raised an eyebrow. I continued taking off the rest of my clothes, slowly, piece by piece. I started to moved closer to him. The lust in his eyes shone brightly. I kissed him and pulled away slowly. I smile my man-eating smile and started walking toward the bathroom.
"Wait, Roza where are you going?" His voice was filled with longing.
"I'm going to the bathroom. I want to take a bath," I, then, went into the bathroom and shut the door. I smiled, knowing that he wanted more than just that kiss. Hell, I wanted more than just that kiss. I started the water and waited for it to get warm, which didn't take that long. I heard the door behind me open. I smiled. I turned around to find Dimitri undressed and walking toward me. I remember the time he told me had more self control than me. Psh. Yeah right. I smiled when he reached me. He started kissing on my neck. I chucked.
"Dimitri, I'm about take a bath," I said.
"I see that," He murmured into my neck. I had to show him I had the better self control.
"And you're not joining me," I said bluntly. He pulled away. He had a frown on his face.
"Why not?" He said sounding extremely disappointed.
"Because I want to relax," I told him.
"I can help with that," He informed me, turning me around to give me a massage.
"Dimitri, I told you I had more self control than you."
"And I told you that I could do things to make you lose that control. Now do you want to do this easy way or the hard way?"
"Is that a threat?"
"Not exactly," He said kissing my neck. I turned around and pushed him out the bathroom. He continued to frown.
"Later," I promised and handed him a towel. He wrapped it around himself and I went to go enjoy my bath. When I walked out of the bathroom, with my towel wrapped around me I found Dimitri lying in bed, looking at me seductively. I figured he wasn't going to give up that easy.
"Fine, Have your way with me," I said smiling and jumped onto the bed.
The next chapter will be shortly after this one ! I have already started. A couple of things will be explained in there like if he remembers or not ! Review and tell me what you think ! :)