Warning: I have a steamy moment in the story but hopefully it is still acceptable for a T rating. I have never wrote a T rated story so I'm trying to tame myself. Please let me know if it needs to be altered.

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Maria didn't waste anytime getting to my room. It felt like the moment I hung the phone up, she was pounding on my hotel room door to let her in.

"Rose it's me Maria. Let me in. I'm here to help you." I heard her shout. However, I knew that in my current state I was both too emotionally and physically spent to be able to walk to the door to let her in so I remained in the spot where I was. After a couple minutes, I heard Maria shout again.

"I'm coming in." She said as I heard the door open.

As soon as the door close, I heard the sounds of footsteps coming down the hallway to the bedroom where I was sitting on the floor crying.

I knew Maria had found me when I heard the footsteps stop suddenly. "Oh no! Rose, are you okay?" Maria said running over to me and kneeling down beside me.

"Tell me what happened?" She said wrapping her arms around me and pulling my head to her chest.

"I think...I think... he may be gone." I said struggling over the last word.

"Who is gone sweetie?" Maria said rubbing my hair gently.

"Dimitri."

"Dimitri? Was he your charge?"

"No. He…he…is the love of my life." I said.

"Was he killed by the Strigoi?"

"No!" I said moving abruptly from her arms. Although I had come to accept the idea that Dimitri had been killed, I wasn't ready to hear it out loud from someone else.

"I'm confused." Maria said giving me a concerned look. "I think you should tell me what happened." She said wrapping her arms around me once again and holding me against her chest.

By this time, I didn't care that I just met her and that she was a complete stranger to me. I needed someone to be here with me. To hold me and make me feel like everything was going to be okay. For some reason, even though she was a stranger to me, I felt comfortable with her presence. So comfortable that I decided to tell her the story of how I arrived in this predicament.

First, I took a deep breath and then proceeded to explain to her about the Strigoi attack, leaving out the detail about being able to sense Strigois, and how I had been knocked out. I also told her about how I woke up in the alley by the Nightingale and that I believed Dimitri was waiting here for me. As I was retelling the story of what happened, I found myself becoming more and more tired as I continued. Soon the words coming out of my mouth began to slur and I was sure they were barely recognizable. I knew that sleep would come eventually. However, after what felt like the longest day of my life, I welcomed sleep. Soon I found myself struggling to remain conscious. It was the feeling of someone picking me up and carrying me that half way broke me out of my sleepy daze.

"It is okay Rose. Go to sleep. I will stay here with you and make sure your okay." Maria whispered to me. She then began to hum a song that I found to be familiar. As I tried to focus on why the song was so familiar to me, I felt myself being placed onto a bed. I then felt someone push the hair from face and then pull the covers over my body gently.

"Sleep Rose. You don't need to worry anymore. I will take care of you." I heard Maria say.

"Okay." I said allowing sleep to overcome me.

As I drifted into sleep, I began to dream of a moment between Dimitri and I back at the court while I was in the gym training.

As I was in my twentieth round of kicking the punching bag, I felt someone come up behind me.

Following my natural instincts, I turned around suddenly to attack my intruder. As I threw my fist in front of myself in hopes of catching my intruder off guard, I found myself being slammed into the mats on the floor. At first, I was surprised that I had been so easily dominated but then my body was filled with anger. The angry that now consumed me wasn't due to my intruder but with myself. I had let myself be beaten.

"Hello beautiful." I heard Dimitri whisper into my right ear as he encircled his arms around me waist.

Suddenly my anger was gone. My intruder had been Dimitri. Although I still sulked at the notion of being beaten, but the fact it was Dimitri made me feel a little bit better. Dimitri and I trained together often. He knew the moves I was going to make because he not only taught me them but had trained with me enough to know what I would do before I did it. Well I guess our deep bond also probably came into factor as well.

"I heard you were in here training." He said kissing my neck.

"Oh really." I said running my finger through his hair. "And you thought that you would sneak up on me and surprise me?"

"I won." Was all Dimitri said but I could hear the slight disappointment and worry in his tone.

"You won because you know me too well." I said trying to relax him.

"Still…I…" Was all I allowed Dimitri to say before bring his mouth to my own and kissing him. I could tell Dimitri was about to give me a lecture on letting someone sneak up on me but I wasn't in the mood to hear it. Although Dimitri would probably continue this discussion later, I could tell that in this moment my distraction had worked. The only thing Dimitri was concerned about was my kiss.

As the kiss began to heat up, Dimitri broke away from my mouth and started to gently kiss my neck. Soon his gentle kisses began to travel from my neck to my shoulders. As his kisses continued to slowly travel southward down my body they became more fierce. It would appear that this moment was no longer a tender moment between lovers. Dimitri wanted me and I was more than willing to give myself to him. As I lost myself to his kisses, I felt his left hand, which had been resting my on side during this time, begin to move up my shirt. When the tips of Dimitri's fingers reached the bottom of my sports bra, I knew that we had to stop. This was a public gym. Even though it was late, there was still a possibility that at any moment someone could walk into this room and catch us.

"Dimitri." I said annoyed with myself for what I was about to ask him. "We…" Was all I was able to say before Dimitri's mouth returned to mine and had suceeded in convicning me to forget what it was that I had wanted to say before.

As the kiss grew, I noticed that Dimitri's fingers had found their target. With the newfound wave of pleasure, I allowed myself to be consumed by Dimitri…

Before I could finish the memory I was suddenly being thrown into another dream. However this dream was unlike the others I have had, it felt to real. All I could see was blackness but there was a familiar voice. This wasn't just anyone's voice. This was the same voice that told me so many times before that he loved me and would never leave me. It was the voice that had the power to calm me when I was angry and could make my frustrations and fears dissipate. This voice belonged to Dimitri.

In my dreams, Dimitri was calling my name repeatedly. A few times, I noticed that his voice carried a panic note. This surprised me, in the few years that I had known Dimitri, he rarely ever showed signs of fear. Yet, as he spoke my name in my dream, it was hard not to recognize the fear entwined in the way Dimitri said my name. The true terror in his voice scared me. As Dimitri continued to call my name, I tried desperately to reply to him but found myself unable to. As the dream progressed, I also noticed that Dimitri wasn't the only person calling my name. There were other voices too. Only I didn't recognize the other voices that were trying to talk to me. To be honest, none of the other voices matter. Only Dimitri's voice mattered. If there was anyone who could bring me out of my unconscious state, it would be him.

When I finally woke up, I found myself staring up at the ceiling. As I looked around to see where I was, I noticed two women sitting in the corner of what appeared to be a hospital room. When the younger woman saw that I was awake, she got up and walked over to me.

"Hello Rose." She said with a slight Russian accent. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay." I said in a groggy voice. "Where am I?"

"You're at the hospital. You suffered some serious injuries."

As she mentioned the word injuries, I looked at my left leg to see that it was in a black cast."Huh…did I break my leg?"

"I…I don't really know what happen to you leg. Do you want me to get a doctor for you?"

"You're not a nurse or something?" I said confused. I then heard the older lady in the background snort at my comment and then say something in Russian to the younger lady by my bedside. By the looks of it, it seemed like the older lady had just insulted me. This enraged me.

However, before I could say anything, the younger lady by my bedside said."I'm not a doctor or a nurse. Do you want me to go and retrieve one for you?" she asked concerned.

"Maybe in a few minutes…but first…could you tell me who you are." I said.

Again, the older lady made a comment to the younger woman in Russian. I don't know what it was about this older lady but she was really starting to piss me off.

"Look if you have some sort of problem with me why don't you just say it." I said to the older lady.

In response to my comment, the older woman began pointing her finger at me while speaking in Russian. I could tell by the tone of her voice that she didn't enjoy the fact that I had talked to her the way I did. Knowing that I had caused her some sort of distress, in return, made me gloat. I had never seen this person before but I could already tell that didn't like her.

"It is hard to understand you since I don't speak Russian." I said smugly. Despite being drugged up, I was surprised that I still maintained my usual 'Rose attitude.'

After my response, I expected the older lady to jump out of her seat and come after me. And I had no doubt she would have if the younger woman didn't say something to her in Russian. From the sound of the younger woman's voice, she was trying to calm the older lady down. After exchanging dialogue for about two minutes, the older lady finally stood up and walked to the door. Before she left the room, the older woman turned around to face the younger woman and stated something in Russian but this time I heard a name I recognized. Dimitri.

"Do you know Dimitri?" I said to the younger woman before looking back to where the old woman once stood. However, when I turned to face her I noticed that she had already left the room.

"Yes, I know him. My name is Olena. I'm Dimitri's mother." She said giving me a slight smile.

To say I was shocked would be an understatement.

"You're his mother?" I said abruptly.

Instead of replying to my question, she gave me a reassuring nod.

"You came all the way to Saint Petersburg to see me?" I asked confused.

Olena frowned at my reply but then said. "You're in Baia. This is the hospital in our town. You don't remember coming here?"

All I could do was shake my head 'no' to her. I then began to think about the last thing I remembered.

"I was at the hotel in Saint Petersburg with Maria...I fell asleep. That is all I remember. Did Maria bring me here?"

"Maria…?" Olena asked puzzled.

"She was an older Dhampir that I met in Saint Petersburg. She helped me back to my room." I said. "If she didn't bring me here than who did?" I said looking at her confused.

Before Olena could answer my question, I heard the door open.

As I turned toward the door to see who had entered, my world froze.

In the doorway, stood Dimitri.

I apologize for not updating in a while...like a month. Hopefully this chapter makes up for it.

Thank you for reading.