Okay guys. Well I'm writing this on the bus to my tourney. Unfortunately it's like 5 hours away, so I had to get up at 4 freaking am. It sucks, but a lot of us brought our laptops so did I and now I'm writing. Plus we are there all day, and we like 2 hours between some games. So I should be able to put some chapters up. Well here you go.

DPOV

I didn't know where I was going. Some Moroi by the name of like Harry was shadow kissed, and got my soul back or something like that. I don't know what he did, but apparently I am now a dhampir. The thing is is that I can't remember what happened when I was a Strigoi. Nothing, it was as if I was in a dark time.

Now I am apparently in Pennsylvania, and I have very little money. I have to find Rose. I don't know how long I have been a Strigoi, so I don't know what has happened to Rose. She could be graduating tomorrow, or she could be dying tomorrow. I would not know. All I know is that we both love each other so much.

For the past couple of days I have been trying to find her. I have been hitch hiking to the Royal Palace. I got a ride to this little town. I was only 30 miles away from the palace. My first thought was to call Lissa. But I have to find a phone first.

I went into a little store. There was a plump old lady behind the counter.

"I know you are new here. I know everyone in this town. There aren't that many here. Well, if you don't include that school up the road. I don't remember the name, but it's supposed to be a good school. Your too old to be a student, and too young to be a teacher, so I know your new." She said.

"Well, I have a sister at that school. My car broke down up the road a few miles up. I was wondering if you would let me use your phone so I can call her, and so she can send a car for me."

"Sure sweetie. Here you go." She said handing me the phone. I grabbed it and smiled and then dialed Lissa's number. The old lady turned and went to go and check on something in the back.

"Hello?" Lissa said when she answered.

"Princess Dragomir?" I asked.

"This is her. May I ask who's calling?"

"Princess, this is Dimitri, I need your help."

"Where are you?" She asked. She was then shushing someone in the background.

"I'm in the town next to the palace. It's about 30 miles south."

"Stay there, I'm on my way."

"Thanks Princess." I said.

"I'm on my way." With that she hung up.

The old lady came back. "Is everything okay sweetie?"

"Yeah, my sister is on her way."

"Okay dear, well I hope you have a good time with your sister."

"Thanks have a good day." With that I walked out and walked down the road and waited for Lissa to come.

After 40 minutes I saw a black car come up. It had the letters VRP on the car. It was daylight, so they knew that if I was standing in the sun I wasn't a Strigoi. I had the sun bearing down me and it felt so good. The guardian that wasn't driving got out and went over to the door. When he opened it Lissa stepped out of the car.

She ran over to me and gave me a huge hug.

"Dimitri, you have to tell me everything." She told me.

"I wish I could, but I don't remember anything Princess." I said.

She had a big sigh, "How many times do I have to tell you, call me Lissa. Please. I mean you hooked up with my best friend, so you don't have to be formal." We both laughed.

"Yeah, how is she."

"She's well, she's good. The whole palace is very depressed right now. The queen died two nights ago. Adrian won't go outside now because the auroras are so bad. He doesn't drink anymore."

"Really? Didn't think that was possible."

"Come on, we should be getting back to the palace." She said and we made our way to the car. She went in first and I went in after her. When I got in there I saw a car seat with a little girl. She couldn't be older than 4 months old.

She had blond hair brown hair growing, and she had such green eyes. She was in a little sundress. She had a stuff animal and was happily playing with it. She smiled at me when I got in the car.

"She's beautiful Lissa, you and Christian must be really happy. Where is Christian?"

"He's with Alexei, Ana's twin."

"Twins? You had twins? Congrats." I said.

"Dimitri?" she asked. I was playing with the little girl. I think Lissa said her name was Ana.

"Yeah?" I said not looking up from the girl. She was so beautiful, but looked a bit familiar.

"I don't have kids, the twins are Rose's. Christian and I are watching them, while Adrian copes with the whole queen death."

I felt as if my world crashed. Rose and Adrian. Adrian and Rose. He had sex with Rose? My Roza? No, no. This isn't true. This can't be. Me and Rose are supposed to be together. She was and is my Roza. We've been through so much together. She can't be with him. NO!

"Dimitri, we're here. Come one." She unbuckled the car seat and got out of the car. I followed her. We went in the building that must hold her and Christian's apartment. Her guardians must have gone somewhere because they weren't around us. We went to the elevator, and she pressed the 15th floor button. It looked like they got the highest apartment. When the elevators opened, Lissa walked out and started to walk down the hall. We stopped at the door that said Ivashkov on it.

She walked opened the door and walked in. I walked in and man was it impressive. Christian got up and walked over to me. He was holding what must be Alexei. He had brown hair and green eyes as well. Like his sister he was gorgeous. He was the spitting image of Rose except the hair and eyes.

"Hey there Belikov." He stuck out his hand which I shook.

"Call me Dimitri."

"Then call me Christian."

"Okay, this is a nice apartment." I said, I was still amazed how well it was laid out and how it was decorated. It was neat, but you could tell that kids lived here. Toys were just lying around.

I turned around when I heard a gasp. I turned around and I saw my Roza there. Adrian ran out.

"Rose, what's wrong?" When he saw he said, "Dimitri."

"Roza." I said.

"Don't you dare call me that Dimitri. Don't you dare." She said with venom in her voice.

"Rose, it's okay, he's dhampir. Look at his eyes. And are you nauseous?"

"How?" she had tears in her eyes.

I told her the whole story. When I finished, Alexei started to cry. Rose went over to him and picked him up. She started to rock him back in forth and was trying to calm him down. Adrian went over to Lissa and took Ana from her arms.

"You two have beautiful children. You must be really proud. I knew you would be a good mom Roza."

"I TOLD YOU TO STOP CALLING ME THAT!" She quickly handed Alexei over to Lissa, and ran to the bedroom.

Great, just great. Adrian went after her with Ana still in his arms.

9 Months Later- DPOV

Rose doesn't love me anymore. It pains me every time I have to say that. I love her so much, but as long as she is happy, then that's all that I ask for.

I went to the guardian board, and I asked if I could be assigned to a Moroi in the Royal Court. Even though some of the Moroi don't like me anymore because of the fact I was turned Strigoi, the board decided that I was really good, and I shouldn't let my talent go to waste.

Well I think that this was a coincident but, I got assigned to Adrian. Apparently one of his other guardians went and ran off to find this Strigoi that they were in love with or something.

I share a room with Eddie. Our room is so small. When you walk in, on your left is a door that leads to a private bathroom. There are bunk beds on the left wall. On the right side there are two dressers. One the right side on one, and the left on the other, are two closets. We have one window, but luckily we have a window seat. Guess who has the top bunk?

Every Monday, Thursday and Saturday from 2am-8am then 10am-4pm I have guard duty so I stand outside the one door that leads to either the stairs or the elevators to the Moroi apartments. They have a good way of guarding things. On Thursday I guard the door on Rose's floor, and on Saturday, I guard the elevator.

Anastasia, and Alexei will be celebrating their 1st birthday tomorrow. November 26th. Anastasia is very smart. She can already walk, and she said her first word, the classical 'Dada.' She is so smart. But she is very different. Even though she has the characteristics of a dhampir, she can use magic. Rose freaked out when Ana said to her "Ama, you ah gowin ellow! (Mama, you are glowing yellow/gold) Adrian said that she could see auroras like he could.

Lissa said that maybe because Rose is shadow kissed, she can have kids that are both dhampir and Moroi.

A couple of weeks later, Alexei started showing signs that he might have spirit in him. Rose was freaking out. He too like his sister started walking early, and talking early.

I walked up the stairs to Rose's apartment. I go there every Sunday dinner, with Eddie, Lissa, and Christian. They got married about 8 months ago, and they are now 4 months pregnant. Lissa loves being pregnant. The king had announced her as his heir to the throne. She was only 22 and she was named the heir. That was impressive.

When I opened the door, Ana was running to me "Uncle Dimwitri!" She said, but before she got to me she tripped and fell, bumping her head hard on the floor. I was to her in a second and she started to cry so loud. I squatted down trying to calm her down. Rose ran over and squatted next me. Alexei had run over to and hugged his sister. It was such a cute site, except that Ana was screaming her head off.

Rose picked her up and kissed her head. Ana dug her head into her mom's shoulder and cried. Rose kept trying to calm her down and after 5 minutes she stopped.

"Better Ana?"

"Yeah." Rose kissed her head. "Love you Ana." "Wuv you to momma."

Rose set her down and went into the kitchen. Ana came back over to me.

RPOV

"Adrian, let's put them to bed." Anastasia and Alexei had fallen asleep on the couch.

"We should clean their faces first." He was right, they both had frosting over their mouths from the cake. All the family left except for Lissa, Christian and Dimitri. I went into the kitchen to get a wet washcloth. I was thinking about Dimitri. When he came back I was scared. I thought I had gotten over what happened when I went after him, but seeing him I realized that I wasn't.

I love Adrian more than Dimitri, and I love my kids more than anything, but it took me awhile to realize that. Adrian was very patient with me. It also didn't help that Dimitri came the day before the queen was buried. She was buried in Georgia where she grew up. So we all had to fly down there for that. Over the months though, Dimitri and I became friends. He is Adrian's guardian, and I am his friend.

When I reached the couch I took the wet cloth and wiped Alexei's face. He stirred but did not wake. I then went to Ana's face and wiped her face. She did wake kind of "Momma?" she asked tiredly. "Go back to sleep sweetie."

I picked up Ana and headed to her room. Adrian followed me. I changed her into her nightgown that was pink and said 'Anastasia' in gold cursive writing. I put her in her crib and Adrian kissed her forehead, and then I kissed her goodnight, put the blankets and her stuffed panda, and closed the door.

Adrian walked into Alexei's room, while I went back to the living room and picked him up. I walked into Alexei's room, and Adrian was waiting for me with his pajamas. They were orange with dinosaurs on them. We quickly changed him and put him to bed and kissed him goodnight.

We walked back into the living room. About midnight Lissa was getting really tired so she left with Christian. Adrian said that he was going to take a shower. He told Dimitri goodnight and gave me a kiss. I got up from the couch and started to clean up a bit. I gathered paper plates, and cups, and threw them away. I cleaned the kitchen up so it was clean again.

When I came back into the living room, I saw that Dimitri folded the blankets, and organized the presents.

"Dim, you didn't have to do that. I could have done it myself." I smiled at the nickname I secretly gave him after the whole Tasha thing happen.

"It's okay." He looked at me with loving eyes. I realized my mistake.

"Dimitri, I'm sorry, but I love Adrian so much. He is my world now. Him and Anastasia and Alexei. I'm really sorry. I want to be your friend though. I love you, but as a friend." I said.

"Roza, it's okay. Really, I should be going." He grabbed his leather jacket and walked out of the apartment. I let out a sigh. I loved him, I really did. We had so much history. But I love Adrian with my whole heart. He was the love of my life. I felt bad about the whole thing.

I walked around turning off lights, and then going into the bedroom. I was getting ready for bed when Adrian came out of the bathroom with just a towel on. I had only my bra and underwear on. He walked over to me from behind. He slid his arms down mine and pushed me closer to him. I smiled and turned around. We kissed, and walked back to the bed. We had a good night. Thank god the kids sleep through the night now.

APOV

I woke up and looked at the alarm clock. It was 8 am. I heard the shower running from the bathroom so I knew that she was in the shower. I got up out of bed and walked to the dresser. Opening my drawer, I pulled out pair boxers, and pulled them on.

I walked to the closet where I pulled on some jeans, and a white beater. Then I grabbed a dark blue button down shirt and put it on. I didn't bother tucking it in. Rose didn't like my shirt button down.

I went over to the bed and started to make it. Rose came out of the bathroom, with straight legged jeans, a white silk top with a dark blue cardigan over it. She had lunch with Lissa today and some of her other girlfriends.

She helped me finish the making the bed, and gave me a kiss. We left the bedroom. She went into the kitchen to get breakfast started and I went into Alexei's room. He was always the easier one to wake up.

I walked in and he was sitting in his crib playing with his stuffed dinosaurs that were in the crib. He looked up at me when I came over to his crib. I lifted him out of his crib, and I kissed his forehead. We had wood floors in the apartment, so they sometimes got cold in the fall and winter mornings. Since he didn't have footsies pajamas, I put on his dinosaur claw slippers.

I gave him his toy and said, "Al, go find momma. I think she's in the kitchen making you some breakfast!" With that he ran out of his room, and down the hall. I laughed because he was so darn cute in the morning. I walked over to his crib and grabbed his blanket. I folded it in half, the set it over the bar. I then went to open up his blinds and let some light in.

Walking out I went to next room. It was always harder to wake Anastasia up. As usual she was still sleeping. I knew I had to get her up. I walked over and bent down and gave her a kiss. She started to stir. I rubbed her back, while saying "Ana." Over and over again. She finally rolled around on her back. I picked her up and walked to the rocking chair that was in her room. I held her like a new born, and was rocking her. After ten minutes, I stopped. I put on her slippers that matched her nightgown with an 'AVI' stitched on them. She handed her arms out to me, and I picked her back up. She leaned her head on my shoulder and yawned. She was like Rose, never a morning person. I carried her to the kitchen where I saw Alexei in his high chair, Rose feeding him some baby food.

I went to Ana's chair that had her name painted on it with red paint. Al's was painted in green. Rose already had Ana's food there for her and started to feed her.

Alexei grabbed the spoon from his bowl. Rose went to get some coffee for me. SO he took the spoon, got some food in it and tried to eat it. He missed and it ended on the tray of the high chair. Rose started laughing and so did I. We continued breakfast with me feeding Ana and Al was trying to feed him. I looked at my family and man was I am lucky man.

Hey guys, I was writing this all through the day. We ended up placing 1st in our tournament. I am very tired so I hope I get a chapter tomorrow. 10 reviews would be splendid!

-Ali