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Explaining the Obvious

I woke up in the morning to the smell of bacon frying. I love bacon. I rolled over expecting to see a Russian God but the bed was empty. I noticed all the bags from the other day with my new clothes on the floor. I jumped out of bed hoping to find something to wear. I remember buying a pj set that was modest and that meant I could wear it downstairs without looking half naked.

I pulled the pink tank top on and the black and pink pj pants and headed downstairs. Dimitri was sitting at the table with the rest of the crew going over a map. Olena was cooking, pilling pancakes on a plate, bacon on another, and a big bowl of scrambled eggs. "Good morning Roza. Help yourself." She told me. I piled on the food. It smelled so good I couldn't wait to dig in.

"Rose did you sleep well?" Christian asked snickering. Lissa laughed and covered her mouth when I gave her a look.

'You guys were a bit loud' Lissa told me through the bond. My cheeks blushed and she just had to rub it in. 'Is the big bad Rose blushing?"

'Ah, shut up. I'm sure I wasn't the only one having a fun night. I got sucked into your head once." I told her sticking my tongue out at her.

'Take a look at Adrian. I think he has a thing for Viktoria. They would be cute together. What would Dimitri think?" I looked over to Adrian and he was talking to Viktoria with a big smile. They both laughed at something when he whispered in her ear.

'It doesn't seem Dimitri is paying much attention. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say as long as I keep him happy he'll be ok with just about anything. But I'll ask him later." We both laughed.

"Would you two stop. It's annoying!" Adrian whined at us. Little did me and Lissa know everyone was watching us.

"Oh, you just can't stand not to be included." I sat down next to Dimitri. He leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. "Good morning my Roza." He whispered in my ear giving me goosebumps.

"How long have you been up? I woke up all alone." I stuck my bottom lip out and gave him the biggest puppy dog eyes I could.

"I've been up for a few hours going over these maps. Sydney called she'll be here in a little bit." Dimitri was wearing a pair of loose sweat pants and a white tee-shirt. His hair was pulled back tied at the nape of his neck. I reached up and walked my fingers from his shoulder to the back of his neck. He pulled away laughing. "Stop tickling me unless you want to get it back. I won't stop till you pee your pants." I loved when he threatened me.

I started eating my food while looking at the maps. I didn't matter what anyone said until I talked to Sydney. The information I needed from her would tell us where to start our search. Dimitri put his hand on my knee under the table. He leaned to me then whispered, "You're not going to believe this. I know you have information from Las Vegas but when I moved my hand over this last map, it glowed above one place." I turned and looked at him. He nodded at me than to the map. His hand was glowing.

When he moved his hand from the area his hand stopped glowing. I looked down and was pretty shocked to see where we would most likely be going, Hawaii. I reached out my hand just to see if I would get the same reaction. I started in California, nothing, I moved it to Las Vegas, nothing I then moved it over Hawaii and there it was the glow. "This is so cool. But how do we know its right?" I asked.

"Can't you feel it? Put your hand over Hawaii again and wait." Dimitri pulled my hand over the state, I closed my eyes and could see the back of a girl. She had the same color hair as Lissa, she had the same build and she was noticeably a Moroi. But when she turned everything was gone. Damn it.

We were pulled out of our little experiment by a knock on the door. Yeva had been sitting in the living room and opened the door. Sydney walked through the living room following Yeva until they both were in the kitchen. I don't know what possessed me but I jumped up and hugged her. She pulled away raising an eyebrow at me. "Are you ill?" she asked.

"No. I guess I missed you." I returned back to my seat, Dimitri wrapped his arm around me. "So how long did it take to clean up our mess?" I took a bite of my syrup drenched bacon.

"Over an hour. And by the way there was one hundred and five. There was twenty four about five miles down the road that you forgot to tell me about." Sydney wasn't happy about that. Me and Dimitri exchanged a look. How in the world? "So where'd all the guardians come from. I mean you had to have a lot in order to beat them all. Me and Dimitri, along with everyone else in the room were shaking our heads.

"What?" she was obviously confused at why we were shaking our heads. It was kind of funny, we looked like bobbling heads but shaking instead.

"It was only me, Dimitri and my mom." I had to laugh. She looked so deer in the headlights look. I know what was going through her head, there was just no way we could do that. "It's hard to explain but we have new powers. Look I'll show you." I moved my hand over the map nowhere of importance and then over Hawaii where my hand glowed. "This is a part of that power. We are super fast, strong and overly confident."

"So, this power came from where? It just magically appeared out of nowhere?" I could tell she really didn't believe me. Even with the glowing hand. And I guess if it had been me I would think someone was trying to pull a quick one on me.

"Well you know how Roza is shadow-kissed. Her powers or abilities started changing. She could move extremely fast and her strength was more than doubled. Instinct told her to touch me yesterday when the Strigoi came. When she did she transferred some of her powers to me. Then she gave some to Janine." Dimitri was so good at putting things so simple.

"So the three of you killed all those Strigoi together without anyone else?" Sydney was asking Dimitri and not me.

"So you believe him but not me?" I had to ask her. "Well duh. Have you met Dimitri? I know you well enough to wonder." Sydney looked back to Yeva. Who gave her a nod. "Wow. So how did you kill all those Strigoi? They had holes in their chests that looked like they had been burned."

"We hit the ground with all our strength." I told her, she looked at me like I was nuts. So I turned to Dimitri. She believed him. "You tell her, she seems to believe you." I gave my breakfast my full attention, shuffling food into my mouth. Dimitri kissed my cheek and laughed lightly.

"This power came with what can only be described as instructions. I don't know how we knew to do the same thing or how we knew to punch the ground but when we did the glow went through the ground and out the Strigoi's chest. We didn't know about the twenty four Strigoi five miles away." When Dimitri was done he let Sydney process it.

"I guess that could come in handy. Now Rose what did you need from me?" I had to swallow what I had been chewing on before I could answer. "Well I need that file on Erik Dragomir."

Sydney looked at me like I was an alien or something. "You know I can't do that." I had no idea how I was going to convince her to get me the files.

"Oh yes you can and quickly." Abe said from the living room. I didn't even know he was here. But when he stood up my mom stood up too. Alrighty that's a little weird. He walked into the kitchen and smiled at Sydney. You could actually see her cower away from him. Whether it be because she was on his payroll or just afraid of him I was sure she could get the information we needed.

"Janine will be going with you." Abe told her. We all were a little confused. "There are a lot of people out there that know you have a relationship with Sydney. She is no longer safe."

"What do you mean I'm not safe?" Sydney asked.

"I mean that word is going to spread about the three of them having power and then they will be hunted. Moroi will want them for protection, Dhampir's will want them for the powers and Strigoi will want to change them so they have the power on their side. You could be used against them. So for now on you're with us or you have one of them go with you. It's that simple." He paused then looked over to Janine. "I'm not willing to lose Janine or Rose because we were foolish not to protect them." I noticed the look he gave my mom. He loved her still. She smiled at him and I realized she still loved him too.

"Hey what about Dimitri?" I asked my dad. "Dimitri has always been able to take care of himself with or without his new powers." That was a compliment. My dad actually liked Dimitri or he would never have said that.

Sydney left with my mom while we all sat around the living room. Lissa had fallen asleep on Christians lap, Adrian and Viktoria were somewhere out back. Yeva sat down beside me and patted my leg. "He loves you very much." She told me.

"Yeah Dimitri does, I love him too." She shook her head at me. Dimitri had his nose buried in a book and wasn't paying attention to us. She put her hand on my stomach and said, "Oh! My mistake, they love you dear." She stood up and walked into the kitchen.