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Chapter 10 :]

Rose POV

Holy... How the hell did this happen? I mean, I know how it happened. But why was this I first heard about her coming to this academy? I can see a look on her face that tells me she doesn't want to be here. She just wants to get away from us and be on her own.

Lissa still seemed frozen after Paige first showed her face. I wonder if she could really be my daughter. The child that Dimitri fathered. She looks so much like him too. She has my long dark hair with his eyes and mouth but with my nose, and of course my attitude. I just hope she gained some of Dimitri's control too. Oh, my. Why am I already making assumptions about her. For all I know, she could just look like us but be the daughter of another woman who gave birth to her.

When Lissa didn't make a move, I unfroze and spoke up.

"Hi Paige. It's nice to meet you. I'm Rose Hathaway, the head Guardian here at St. Vlad. As you know, this is Vasilisa Dragomir. The headmistress here, and the queen." Paige just stared at me and didn't say anything. "Queen Dragomir, why don't you get Miss Solstice her schedule and room assignments so I can show her to her room."

Lissa finally moved from her stance. "Yes. That I can do."

"Paige, why don't you wait outside and I'll meet you there in a minute."

Paige just turned around and walked off without a word. Great. So much like me. Except with Dimitri's control. Just what I wanted. Fantastic.

"Rose... did... did you see her?" Lissa asked me once the door was completely shut.

"Yeah, Rose. She looked almost like a mini version of you and Belikov. Who knew," Christian piped in. How did I forget he was still in the room?

"Shut up you two. She could hear us. Yes of course I saw her. How could I not. She was standing right there. Lissa, I need you to call... wait no! Christian! I need you to call Dimitri for me and tell him I need to meet with him in twenty minutes in the gym. Normally I wouldn't go there, but it seems like a safe place to talk. It has mats and everything. Don't tell him anything though." I said.

"Yeah. No problem. I just love being your little slave."

"Oh just shut it and do this for me. Too much has happened tonight and I don't need your sarcastic ass ruining all this. Just do it," I told him.

"Okay. Fine. Go."

"Hey, Liss. Thanks again. Oh, and you and I will talk later. Okay? We'll find Marie. Don't worry."

"Thanks, Rose. You're the best."

With that I walked outside of Lissa's office to find Paige sitting on the floor, knees curled up into her chest and her head in her knees.

"Hey, Paige. You ready?" I asked.

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes.

"Hey, hey. What's wrong. Are you okay?"

She glared at me. "No. I'm not okay. I just moved away from the one place that I call home. I moved away from my best friend and boyfriend to be sent here in the middle of nowhere to find that I'm all alone again. Just like I was my whole life. No thanks to the woman who ditched me after I was born."

I flinched. I hoped she didn't notice because that one hurt. A lot.

"Well, on our way to your room, why don't you tell me what you've been through. Maybe it'll help." I told her. Not only that, I wanted to know what she has been up to for the last seventeen years.

"Okay." Wow. She agreed easily? So not like me or Dimitri for that matter. We're both stubborn.

I helped her stand up from the floor and we started to make our way to her room.

"So tell me," I started. "What have you been through?"

She took a deep breath to steady herself.

"When I was born, the woman who had me either didn't want me or couldn't take care of me. But I never really found out. To this day I still don't know who my biological parents are, as sad as it seems. When I first realized I had no parents, I was four. I was living in a foster home out in California. When I was six, finally someone came and took me in to live with them. I was actually happy to have family. But I screwed it all up when I beat up their oldest son. I was nine. They were so mad at me, they shipped me back to the foster home. I became angry, upset, and lonely for the longest time. Finally, when I was twelve, another family adopted me. This lasted longer. But once I moved to one of the academies near California, the family I was with at the time didn't want me anymore. So I lived and breathed that academy. I was sixteen when they decided they didn't need me. I used to get into a lot of fights too. That's why they decided to move me to another school So here I am now. I'm almost eighteen. I could have had a choice if I would have stayed back in California. But I had no choice. I had to move here to the middle of nowhere to go to a school where I don't know anyone and school is almost over for the year." Tears started to fall from her eyes. "From when I was four, to when I was fifteen, I was so mad at my birth mom for giving me up. I used to scream all the time asking why she would do that to me. But one day, I traced my records back to the hospital where I was born." Oh no. I took a deep breath steadying myself for what came next.

"When I asked the hospital if I could see my birth certificate, they told me no. They said that my mom had taken the only copies with her. That she wouldn't let the staff keep it on file. I still wonder who she is, but at this point I don't even care anymore. She left me behind, so I can leave her behind."

Ouch.

"Paige, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. That's not a life that anyone deserves." And it truly wasn't. If I had known what she had gone through, I would have picked her up as soon as I could even if the memories were painful. Why hadn't I kept her?

"It's okay Guardian Hathaway. I just learn to deal with it. I try to look after others. I would rather get myself killed for others instead of worrying about myself. It's who I am."

Oh my goodness. She is totally our child.

Right on cue, I saw Dimitri heading towards the gym where we were supposed to meet. But as soon as he saw me, he froze. This can't be good.

"Guardian Belikov!" I shouted at him. "Come over here."

Slowly, he walked over to where Paige and I stood. He just stared at her. When he looked at me, I just shook my head.

"Paige, I would like you to meet Guardian Dimitri Belikov. He was my mentor when I attended this school. Oh, and now he's a great Guardian. Guardian Belikov, I would like you to meet Paige Solstice. She is a new transfer student here at the academy."

Dimitri seemed at a loss for words. Great.

"Okay. Well, if you don't mind, I'm going to show Paige to her room and I'll meet you in the gym in a few minutes. Is that okay with you?" I asked.

He finally regained his voice. "Y-yes. That's perfectly fine with me. It was very nice to meet you Miss Solstice." He shot me a look saying that we were going to have to talk about this later. I totally agreed.

"Nice to meet you too, Guardian Belikov."

With that we left him standing in the middle of the path as we made our way to her room.

When we arrived, I handed her the keys and the schedule she would need to follow.

"If there's anything you need, please come and find me. I would be more than happy to help. Oh, and by the way, I'm going to be your mentor while you're here. Despite all the fights that you've been in, your record shows that you are one of the best back out there. Here, we'll just make you better."

She nodded. "Thank you so much, Guardian Hathaway."

I shook my head. "Please. Call me Rose."

"Okay, Rose. Thanks again."

I nodded my head once more and left her in her room to make my way to the gym to meet with Dimitri. He's going to have a mouthful to say when I get there. Great. Just great.

Paige POV

Ugh. It's my first day here and already I don't like it. So far, all the guardians here have looked at me like there's something wrong with me. But when I walked into the headmistress' office, I noticed a woman who looked a lot like me, it was quite scary. But the man, Dimitri, or whatever his name is, scared me too. He looked like me as well. And the tension between the two was so intense it made me uncomfortable to be around them.

I've heard a lot about both of these people.

Rose Hathaway was, or is one of the best guardians to have ever lived. She killed Strigoi when she was only seventeen and she just kicks some major butt. Dimitri Belikov is a Russian who fights like no tomorrow. He's quick and light on his feet and can kill Strigoi quickly. Not only that, he trained Rose himself. He made her what she is today. That's just crazy. But what do you expect when the greatest guardian teams up with a novice. He's going to make her as good as she could ever be. That's how she's going to train me too. Great. Fan-freaking-tastic.

I noticed that all my things were already in my room too. I guess that's what happens when guardians get ahold of your stuff and decide to take it away.

I started to unpack a little bit when there was a note that had fallen out of one of the boxes. I had never seen this letter before in my life. But it had my name on it.

Quickly I opened it up to find that the letter was from my birth mom. I gasped as I started to read the letter.

My dearest daughter,

I know you're going to be angry with me when you find that I had to leave you. Don't worry. It's not like I wanted to give you up. But I had to let you go. I was still in high school when I found out I was pregnant with you. I had no idea that you were going to come. But when I found out you were expected, I ran off to California where you are now and able to read this. I ran off so that I could leave you there to have a normal life. You weren't going to have that if I stuck around. I would have just shipped you off to an academy like my own mother did to me. I resented her for years. But somehow now we have a closer relationship than we've had in years. I don't mean to leave you behind. But this is something that has to be done.

I hope to come back to find you in the later years when you're grown and a guardian. But if you want to know about your family, your parents, then you should know who we are.

Your father is a good man. A man who has a drive to protect the ones he loves. That was including me but he left me. Your father is a dhampir just like me. Most everyone knows that two dhampirs can't have children together. Well at the time, I didn't know your father and I could. I'm shadow kissed, which means I was brought back form the dead. This means I'm able to have children with other dhampirs. Know your father is a good man. But he knows nothing about you. I never told him I was pregnant with you.

Please don't go looking after us. As much as you want to, I need you to stay put. Know that I love you and will never stop thinking about you. I love you so much.

Love,

Your Mom.

I looked up from the letter to find that I was crying. I was the only person in existence to know that I was a child of two dhampirs. I wonder who they could be.

Rose had told me I could go to her anytime I wanted. Well I need to see her now.

I ran out of my room towards the gym, well what I assumed was the gym, and stopped just shy of the doors. They were wide open and I could hear two people talking. I looked in to see Rose and Dimitri sitting in the middle of the floor on the mats.

I decided I wouldn't interrupt them so I sat in a corner very quietly while I listened to them talk.

"Dimitri, I don't know what to do. I didn't expect for her to come here. She has no idea that I gave her up when I was eighteen. She has no idea that I'm her mother."

Woah, wait. What? Is Rose my mom?

"Rose, it's going to be okay. I just found out you had our child this morning and I could totally see it. I really do think she's going to be okay if she finds out." he spoke.

"It's not that simple. I don't know if I can tell her."

"Yes. You have to tell her. You have to tell Paige we are her parents." No! "Rose. You kept this from me for eighteen years. She stopped looking for you a long time ago. I think it's time she finally found out who her real mom is."

I decided to step out into the open so they could see me.

I saw Dimitri look up and freeze. Rose turned around to see who it was and the expression on her face told me she was shocked.

"Rose, how could you not tell me you were my mom? How come you left me eighteen years ago? What did I do to deserve this?" I sobbed.

She quickly got up and came over to wrap her arms around me. This is the most love I've felt from anyone in my entire life. But I was so angry with her at the same time.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't take care of you. I had no where to go. I had no money. I thought you would have been in better hands if I left you behind and didn't contact you. But then you came here and I finally got my daughter back after all." That just made me sob harder.

"Paige, it's okay. We both love you."

"Woah, you're my father? How the hell did this happen? I thought you were her mentor?"

Dimitri just shook his head. "No. We were lovers. But then I left and I didn't know you're mom was pregnant. She never contacted me. I would have come to find you if I had known."

"Dimitri you didn't deserve to know. You left me for that evil woman!" she yelled at him.

"Yes i did! Rose, I wanted to start a family with you! That's all I ever dreamed about for over seventeen years! Now our child is here! We can start clean. We can all be together again!" she shouted right back.

Man. Maybe living seventeen years without them was a good thing. They seem to really love and hate each other at the same time.

Rose pulled back to stand by Dimitri. She took a deep breath to steady herself.

"Paige... I'm sorry I gave you up. But I had no choice. I couldn't tell anyone. I had only told Lissa, or Queen Dragomir as you know her, and my husband who is now six-feet-under. I wanted to come and find you for a long time, but I couldn't leave. Not without my son finding out. And now I'm going to have to tell him once this whole mess with Claire and Marie is settled and they're saved."

"And just so you know, I've only known about you since this morning, but I love you no matter what. You're my little girl who I didn't get to see grow up. But I would like to see you grow into a beautiful young woman. Rose and I want to become a family with you, and not mention Connor and Claire."

I couldn't believe it. After all these years, I finally found my mother, my father, and I got siblings in the middle of all of it. Maybe things would be good from now on.

"I would love that," I told them.

Rose walked up to me to hug me again and i hugged her back. Dimitri wrapped his arms around both of us. I felt like I had an actual family now. Things can't get any better than this. Mom and Dad, hugging me.

So there you have it! I'll have more up later!

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