AN: At the request of I'm going to try to squeeze in one more chapter before I have to leave my house for practice. A lot of stuff is gonna go down this chapter. Get ready for the confrontation that you all have been patiently waiting for and you're going to be able to see the darker side of Greg ;P ENJOY. Once again I don't own VA.

Chapter Twelve: GPOV

Dimitri's back? Dimitri as in the man who broke my princess's heart and left her all alone to deal with it. What if he wants to take Mason away from me... Mason is my son. He has been my son to me since I first saw him on the sonogram and nobody is ever going to change that. Rose and me are getting married this summer and if he thinks that he can just waltz on in here and take her and MY son away from me, he is sadly mistaken and we are going to have some problems. I meant when I told her that I would protect her from everything. I will do just that. If this Dimitri guy takes a single step in a direction that I'm not okay with, me and him are going to have a nice chat.

RPOV:

Greg and I decided to go to the dinner for Christian. He was a friend and we weren't just not going to go all because my ex boyfriend (and biological father of my child) was going to be there with his new sex toy. Ugh disgusting picture.

Since it was Christian's birthday, we decided that everyone should be dressed nicely so I put Mason in a cute little white button up dress shirt and tucked the shirt into black slacks. He was matching Greg while I was wearing a tight, straight purple dress with a deep neckline. I was wearing diamond earrings that Lissa bought for my 21st birthday, a silver necklace that Greg bought for me one day when I was really stressed out, and of course my gorgeous engagement ring. We all looked great and every bit as a family as we were.

While we were walking to Christian and Lissa's, we got about halfway there before Mason stopped and asked Greg to hold him. "Daddy, can you carry me? I'm tired."

Gregory laughed but picked him up. "You're tired, huh? Well, I guess that means early bedtime..." Mason screamed 'no' and me and Greg started laughing non stop and by the time we got to the apartment, it felt like no time had passed.

We didn't really bother knocking because the door was open and they were expecting us. As soon as we got in the apartment, Mason kicked his way out of Greg's arms and ran to give Christian a happy birthday hug. Christian was expecting it so when Mason came over, he bent down and picked him up. I smiled at Christian and Mason. It took him awhile but Mason finally warmed up to Christian and he became just as loved as "Addie (Adrian)" and Eddie. I was just walking over to them when I saw Dimitri sitting with Tasha. I tried to make myself as invisible as possible but it didn't work as well as I thought it would. This became apparent to me when I heard Tasha speak.

"Rose! Is that really you? It's been so long!" I tried to give her a happy and genuine smile but it didn't work out as well as I thought it would. I did, however, avoid any and all eye contact with Dimitri even though I knew he was looking at me.

"Oh my gosh! Tasha, Hi!" totally fake enthusiasm. Thankfully, I was rescued by Greg when he walked with Mason in him arms. Greg came right over to me and kissed my cheek and I could have sworn that I saw him give a glare to Dimitri. I repressed a laugh. He was definitely a keeper.

I saw a shocked look come from both Tasha and Dimitri. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Lissa come to the dining room from the kitchen and she immediately stopped when she saw all of us making eye contact with each other.

Tasha cleared her throat, "Uhh... who's this Rose?" I laughed without any humor and asked which one she was talking about. "Well, both I suppose. I don't remember ever meeting either of them." she responded.

I smiled and took Mason from Greg's arms, "This is my little man, Mason." Mason immedietly complained and corrected me.

"Mommy, I'm not little!" I laughed and assured him that he was right, he wasn't little anymore.

"This is my mini man, Mason," I corrected myself, earning a smile from everyone in the room, including Dimitri. I then turned to Greg and smiled big. I put my free hand that wasn't supporting Mason's weight and placed it on Greg's shoulder. "And this, is my fiance, Gregory Allan." Greg smiled at being introduced as my fiance and he bent down and kissed my temple. I think that I saw Dimitri scowl in the corner of my eye but as soon as I looked, it was gone and his guardian mask replaced it.

Mason got up to go play with Eddie and left me and Greg sitting with Christian, Lissa, Tasha, and Dimitri. Dimitri wasn't saying anything, he was just sitting in silence unless Tasha brought him up. I sat and listened to all of their stories and I participated and acted interested and laughed when it was appropriete to laugh. It wasn't easy but Greg rubbed my thigh the whole time in order to keep me calm. Dinner went by smoothly and thankfully, whenever things got even a little awkward, Lissa jumped in to keep the conversation going.

Christian was turning 22 so he didn't really get any presents but he did get a bunch of cards, weird and funny and even some inappropriate cards (from Adrian and Eddie). The only present he did get was from Mason. It was a choker necklace, typical for Christian, that I'm assuming Greg helped him with. It said "Uncle Chrissie" on it and Christian even teared up a little bit. It was a cute uncle/nephew moment.

When dinner was over, I helped Lissa take all of the dishes to the kitchen. We were both doing them when Lissa said that she needed to go ask Christian something real quick. I didn't ask any questions, I just carried on with what I was doing.

I heard footsteps come back to the kitchen, "Lissa I-" I stopped in my tracts when I turned to see Tasha instead of Lissa standing in the entrance of the kitchen. "Oh, hey Tasha. Did you enjoy the dinner?"

She gave me a serious, straight faced look. "Don't play coy with me, Rose. You don't like me just as much as I don't like you." I just gave her a smirk before turning back around to get back to the dishes. "So tell me, when Dimka left your ass, who did you fuck before you got knocked up and had that little brat." I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself while I secretly wished that Greg would come save me again.

I took another deep breath, "That's not really any way to talk to someone is it Tasha?" I really had gotten better with my self control since I had Mason but her calling him a brat and saying that I got knocked up and basically implying that I was a whore. It actually cut deep; so deep that I had to fight back my tears. It's not that I really am soft now but he was my little boy and he was the most important person in my life.

"I don't really give a shit now do I Rose?" she shot back at me. I spun around fast and stormed over to where she was standing until we were face to face.

"Mason was NOT a mistake. I didn't get knocked up." Okay, so it was a slight lie but he wasn't a mistake to me, he was a gift in my eyes. "And for your information, the father is a dhampir."

She laughed darkly at me, "Yeah right, Rose. How pathetic can you possibly get?"

I was raising my hand with the intent of beating the shit out of her when Greg walked in. "Rose, sweetheart, what's taking so-" he saw me and Tasha. "Oh... uhm... Rose, Mason's tired and he wants to go home." I nodded and walked away from Tasha and out of the kitchen. Greg picked up a sleeping Mason in his arms and we told Christian "Happy birthday" once more. Right before we reached the front door of the apartment, I was stopped by the voice of someone saying my name.

"It was good seeing you, Roza. I hope we see each other again before Tasha and I leave." I didn't bother turning around until I felt his presence behind me. I could feel anger radiating off of Greg.

"Yeah... me too." I responded.

Unexpectedly, Dimitri stuck his hand out to shake Greg's. Greg shifted Mason in his arms and stuck his hand out to meet Dimitri's halfway. When they met hands, it looked as though they were both trying to squeeze the life out of the other person's hand. It actually looked kind of painful.

"Uh... Greg... remember... Mason needs to get to bed..." I said in attempt to break the two of them up. Greg nodded and him and Dimitri let go. We all said our goodnights and we left.

Those two do not like each other, I thought.

AN: Wooohooohoooo... things got tense there in the end. Do you think that Tasha will catch on to who the dad is? How do you think Dimitri feels about Rose's son and about Greg? Let me know. Don't forget to review! Love you guys :) -Sammy