"I was wondering when you'd call." She sneered.

"Meet me at the edge of Court," I growled as I sped to the forest where I'd meet her.

"Your wish is my command," she laughed evilly then hung up.

I waited at the forest's edge leaning on a tree for five minutes until I saw her car and watched her get out. She stocked over to me with a smirk on her lips. "Where is he, Natasha?"

"Where is who, Rose?"

"Dimitri! Where is Dimitri?" I could feel darkness starting to swell in me again as I tried to control my temper.

"Ohhh him," Tasha smiled baring her fangs at me. "He called me—obviously you know that because you called. He pleased with me to take his mind off you just like I always do. He came to me, so naively, just wanting to get away from you. So I did what he asked. I took him from you and now I'm going to take care of you permanently."

I barely had anytime to take a defensive stance before Tasha lunged at me with fire blazing in her hands. All my training took over and I grabbed her arms first knowing to keep the fire away from my face. Using Tasha's unbalanced weight I took control and threw her to the ground. She yanked me down with her and realizing that her hands weren't getting anywhere she extinguished the flames but began to heat her skin. The burning sensation in my hands was uncomfortable but not painful yet so I took my chance to elbow her in the face momentarily distracting her. I rolled her over and pinned her to the ground making sure to keep her arms firmly in my grip. "Where is he?" I growled.

"You'll never be able to find him without me," she chocked out. My knee that I pinned her down with dug into her upper back cutting making it her for her to do anything.

"Actually I can," I then released her arms and quickly grabbed her head and rammed it into the root of the tree I'd been leaning on. Effectively knocking her out but not killing her. I didn't have time to call for back up so I hope that leaving her there would not back fire on me.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to calmed my self, preparing for what I was about to do. "Please don't let me regret this," I whispered to myself as I slowly slipped deeper and deeper into the bond. Slowly the sound of the outside world faded as I focused on the sound of my heartbeat. Eventually I picked up the sound of another heartbeat that was keeping time with mine. I willed myself to follow the sound and found myself right where I needed to be. In Dimitri's head.

He was conscious, barely, and from what his memories told me Tasha had locked him in a small cabin not too far from where I was. What I didn't understand was why he was so tired, until I looked deeper into his thoughts. Tasha, the bitch she was, had drank from him, nearly drained him, after he told her he'd never loved her. She'd left him lying on the bed fighting for his life as she came to end mine. The blood lose was taking a heavy toll on him and he was fading fast. With ease I pulled out of his head and started through the forest to where I now knew the cabin was. It took me about three minutes to find it and once I did I ran to the door. Using all my strength I twisted the knob and once I heard the lock break I pushed the door open.

Dimitri was lying on the bed just like I'd last seen him, except now he was unconscious. "Dimitri," I ran over to him and sat beside him on the bed. "Dimitri, I need you to wake up," I shook him and slowly his eyes opened.

"Rose," he acknowledged me weakly.

"I need you to stay awake from me, ok?" Slowly I tried to pull him up, but his dead body weight was too much for me.

"I can't, Tasha—she—" He couldn't even force the words out without his eyes closing.

"I know," I caressed his face to get him to open his eyes again. "Hey you have to stay with me ok?"

"Why? You didn't stay with me. You didn't keep your promise." He mumbled weakly, closing his eyes again.

"Dimitri I have to get you out of here and I can't do that if you're unconscious." I chose to ignore what he'd said deciding it would be best if we talk about our fight another time.

"I won't make it out of here without blood," he words came out weaker than before.

"I know," I had already made up my mind on how I was going to get him out of here and it seemed that he'd finally caught on.

His eye snapped open, "No."

"There's no other choice."

"Rose, I'm not going to drink from you."

"We don't have any other option."

"Rose—"

"Stop wasting your energy. The faster we do this the faster I get you out of here." I leaned down so he would have easier access to my neck and waited for him to bite me.

He hesitated for a second then put his lips to my neck and kissed it. "I am so sorry," He whispered and then he sunk his teeth into me. The slight pain lasted for only a second until the endorphins took over. It took all my will power not to give into the high as Dimitri pulled away and slowly sat up. I stood up cautiously and held out my hand to pull him up. I didn't have time to focus on how amazing the bite felt or how the endorphins were starting to affect my body as I pulled Dimitri's arm over my shoulders to support him and lead him out of the cabin. The three minute run to the cabin before now took ten minutes as we walked slowly back to my car.

The lose of blood and endorphins were making me tired and weak, but I channel all of my training and forced myself to keep going. Finally we clear the trees and found my car as well as Tasha's.

"Is she dead?" Dimitri asked as we limped past Tasha's unmoving body to my car.

"No," I answered as I opened the passenger door and helped him in.

"Shame," Dimitri joked as he leaned back into the seat and I shut the door.

I walked quickly over to Tasha's body and picked her up and put her in the back seat. I saw Dimitri grimace as I got in the car and started driving to the medical clinic. "What?"

"Do you always have to do the right thing?" He asked as he closed his eyes. I knew he wouldn't be able to stay awake for much longer so I started to speed up.

"No, I just try not to do the wrong thing." We didn't speak anymore and once we were closer to the center of Court I pulled out my phone and called Lissa.

"Rose!" She sounded extremely worried and I didn't blame her.

"Lissa get to the clinic and tell them I'm bringing Dimitri. He's going to need a lot of blood and also inform Tatiana I have Tasha."

"I will," she answered then hung up.

I woke up in my bed and sat up slowly. The clock read 3 AM as I stood up and stretched my slightly sore muscles. Some where between getting Dimitri taken care of and dealing with Tasha I'd passed out from a combination of exhaustion with the endorphins. I must have slept for only a few hours because the sun was rising when we arrived at the clinic and now it was setting. I threw on a hoodie and some jeans then walked into my bathroom. I couldn't remember if I had been looked at last night so I was surprised to find that there wasn't a scratch or bruise on my face. When I saw this I looked to find the bite on my neck was completely gone as well. My hand ran over the spot on my neck to make sure I wasn't hallucinating and sure enough the bite was completely gone. Without really thinking I started walking out of my house as I threw my hair into a ponytail and started walking to the Ivashkov manor.

The maids no longer reacted when I walked in the front door without knocking and walk up the stairs without an invitation. Once I reached Dimitri's door I hesitated for only a second then opened the door and walked in. The maids had cleaned everything perfectly and you couldn't even tell that Dimitri had destroyed most of his possessions only a day before. After looking around his room and seeing he wasn't there I was about to walk out when I saw the door to his balcony was open. I took a deep breath then walked outside into the setting sunlight.

Dimitri stood at the edge of his stone balcony with his hands on the railing as he looked out at the forest we had been in hours before. "I keep trying to figure out why I was stupid enough to go with her."

"You were distraught. You weren't thinking clearly." I said as I walked over to him.

"I was."

"No you weren't. You were angry; no one thinks clearly when they're angry." I stopped a few steps behind him not wanting to see his face.

"I still shouldn't have trusted her." He shook his head and looked down like he was trying to shake away what happened yesterday.

"It's over now. Everything's done and you're alive. That's all that matters."

Dimitri turned to me quickly looking outraged. "You think that's what I care about? I drank from you, Rose. I put you in danger. You could've been killed. And it would've been my fault." He started pacing in front of me as the wind picked up and blew his hair back.

"Dimitri it's my job. I—"

"Don't," he cut me off. "Please don't try to make all of this ok." He pleaded as he walked towards me and trapped my face him his hands so I could only look at him. "You were right about me making stupid decisions and no matter what I do it's always going to be you that gets hurt. That's not ok with me."

"Dimitri there was nothing you could do. Tasha was the one who hurt me, Tasha was the one who put you in danger and I wasn't going to let anything happen to you." My hands came over his and I laced my fingers through his. "It was my choice to come after you, mine to let you drink my blood, and mine to put you first. Nothing in this world matters to me if you're not in it."

"How did you find me?" His face was so close to mine and as he spoke his warm breath caressed my face. His scent flooded my senses and I knew there was no way to tell him so I showed him. I opened myself to him, everything I felt, everything I thought, everything I am was his. He saw how I found him, felt all of my emotions as I worried I wasn't going to get him to the clinic in time, everything I had held back for so long was there as if I was feeling it all over again. All these emotions I didn't even know were there I felt them all just like he did. When I saw him again at graduation I was awestruck by his beauty and the overwhelming urge to run into his arms was there, I just never opened my heart to feeling it. I relief I felt when I found him with the some girl at Lehigh and not dead. All of my memories from the past few months were spelled out for him like a book and he took it all in as his eyes never left mine.

"You used the bond." I just nodded because words would not come out of my mouth. A smile took over Dimitri's face and my heart stopped. I always loved it when he smiled like that; it made me feel as if I was home. And I was, but not completely. Before I had time to smile back at him, he started lowering his face to mine. His eyes never broke contact with mine as his lips inched closer to mine. Was I ready for this? Could I keep letting him in? Was this the right decision? All of these thoughts swirled in my head, but one was louder than all the rest and it wasn't even my thought.

Shut up, Rose. And let me kiss you, Dimitri's voice in my head was something I never noticed how much I missed. But now I would never have to miss it again.

This time I did smile at him and then his lips covered mine. For the first time in two years I felt whole.

It's not over yet I promise.

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