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Home Is Where You Are.

Chapter 10.

RPOV.

I had no idea where I was. "Oh come on! This is getting really fucking annoying!" I exclaimed to no one in particular. As I imagined, there was no one to hare my choiced words. So, I looked around to where I was most likely gunna be trapped for a while. "Maybe some other ghost would come rescue me." I muttered.

I wish I could describe this place but well, I really couldn't. Mainly, because there's nothing to say except for the fact that it was grey and dismal. Really creepy if you ask me. It wasn't easy to freak Rose Hathaway out, but this well, this gave me paws.

After wondering around for God only knows how long, I found my mind going blank. I had passed out again if that was even possible.

Adrian's POV.

I closed my eyes and searched for the familiar connection that would lead me into the mind of Rose Hathaway. What I found was really weird and so not what I had expected. Her mind was blank. I couldn't reach her. I opened my eyes and stared at everyone in the room.

"What's wrong, Adrian?" Asked Lissa.

She had calmed down again but I wondered if it was because Rose was pulling the darkness. Now, she stared at me in a way that I would know anywhere. She was looking at my ora.

"I can't contact her." I said.

"What do you mean?" asked Dimitri his voice breaking, he maybe good at keeping the emotion off his face but his voice projected it loud and clear.

"I connected with her mind, but well it was blank. I don't know how to explain it. I've never experienced something like this before."

The doctor came in not long after ending our conversation. She checked her vitals and a small frown appeared on her face. Since Rose had been out for over a day, Abe had sent to the academy for Doctor Olenski. He thought that it would at least make a difference seeing that she had taken care of Rose since she was very young.

"Her vitals are reading the way they should," she said, "But I can't understand why she wouldn't wake up.

" The emotions playing on the doctor's face ranged from disbelief to confusion to dismay. It was then I realized that doctor Olenski considered Rose as more than a patient. I had always known that they had a mutual relationship but I've never noticed the extent of that relationship. It occurred to me then that since Rose was practically raised in the academy and was hurt rather frequently, it was obvious that doctor Olenski would have come to care about her.

"Let's give her a bit more time shall we? I think her body is exhausted she will wake up in time." She said pulling herself together.

"I'll try again to dream walk her." I said when doctor Olenski left the room. For some reason I didn't feel very comfortable dream walking her if the doctor was in the room.

Closing my eyes again, I focused on Rose's mind. There it was that connection that hadn't been there just moments ago. I didn't really feel like picking a place so I left it up to Rose's subconscious.

RPOV

Somewhere in the darkness of my mind, a world began to materialize. I focused all my energy on going to that place. This feeling, I knew it but it had been so long since I'd felt it. A spirit dream! Adrian was dream walking me? The dream materialized before me and I stood in a beautiful garden. I would know this garden anywhere. It was Sonia Carp's garden. I had only been there once but those events stuck in my mind. And there standing between some flowers was Adrian.

"Adrian!" I exclaimed running to him and into his arms.

"Little dhampir." He said.

The old nickname stirred a mix of feelings in me. I was happy to hare it and then surprised. Adrian hadn't called me that in years.

"I'm so glad you're ok." He said.

"But if you're ok, why won't you wake up, Rose?" He asked with a small frown on his handsome face.

"Because… because I can't Adrian." I said my voice braking.

"What do you mean you can't?" Adrian asked.

"I can hare everything going on around me but I just can't seem to wake up. It's like I can't control my body." I told him everything about going to the world between the living and dead, meeting Mason and then finally how I ended up in that dark, grey and dismal place. Adrian looked confused.

"Adrian?" I asked softly surprised at how vulnerable I sounded.

"Little dhampir," he said slowly

"I don't know how to help you. I've never experienced something like this before." He looked guilty.

"Adrian, don't. You're helping me right now. Hell you got me out of that hellhole that's my mind." I said trying to make a joke of a situation that was in no way funny. That was how I rolled though. I made jokes; I tried to keep my friends happy.

A small sad smile appeared on Adrian's face.

"I've missed you Rose." He said.

"I'm sorry. I've been too caught up with feeling sorry for myself to try to fix our friendship."

"Adrian," I said

"You haven't been feeling sorry for yourself. Besides, you don't need to. You've got Sidney just like I've got Dimitri." I said trying to make him feel better.

"Yeah, I've got Sidney and I really do love her. But, she isn't you little dhampir." I was sure my jaw hit the floor because Adrian laughed and said,

"Easy girl, I don't mean I'm in love with you. I just mean that you're one of my best friends and I don't wanna fight over something that probably wasn't even there in the first place. I did love you, but maybe it wasn't the kind of love I thought it was. I don't know." For some reason, his speech brought tears to my eyes.

"Adrian," I said a tear leaking out of my eye. Adrian wiped it away.

"Don't cry," He said soothingly.

"I really did love you, Adrian. Just not in the way that you needed me to. Dimitri owned my heart then and he does up to this day. I don't think that would ever change." I said,

"I know." He agreed,

"All I'm saying is that we just let go of all the pain and heart break and just be friends. I saw how miserable being in the same room with me made you when all I did was ignore you. I'm really sorry for that Rose. I never meant to ever cause you pain." That ache in my chest that I always associated with Adrian subsided.

"Adrian you have no idea how happy that has just made me. I hated that I'd hurt you in the first place. I hadn't meant to but that didn't make it okay. I wanted to tell you that forever but I just couldn't. I'm sorry Adrian. You will always own a special place in my heart." He blinked and I was sure that he was blinking back tears. I wrapped my arms around him and he returned the embrace.

"Rose, you have to come back to us Lissa is freaking out. Belicov isn't doing so good either. No one but Lissa and I can tell his emotions thanks to that guardian mass he's mastered. Oh and Rose?"

"Yeah?" I asked. The look on his face was priceless. Whatever he was going to tell me wasn't good.

"You and Lissa are bonded again." There's something different about your ora though. I would have to take a look at Lissa's to figure out what it is." He said as casually as if he was talking about the weather.

"What? Adrian, you sure?" I asked

"Positive little dhampir. I got to go. Keep fighting rose. We'll all be cheering you on." He said. He pumped his fist up in the air like a cheerleader. I cracked up laughing.

"Adrian that's priceless!" I said clutching my stomach. With a final smile, the dream dissolved around me, leaving me with a feeling that I would be okay. Adrian and I were back in familiar territory and I was glad for that. Now all that was left was to get back to my friends and Dimitri. Surely I can manage that. I was Rose Hathaway and Rose Hathaway didn't back down.

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