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RPOV
I woke up to someone shaking me gently. I was about to punch them when I heard a soft voice spoken in my favorite sexy Russian accent "Time to wake up Roza, we're nearly there." Well, I guess sense it's him waking me up, I don't have to punch anyone. Well unless Adrian got to close. I might punch him just for the hell of it. I open my eyes, and realize my head is resting on Dimitri's shoulder. I quickly sit up and look around. The first person I see is my mother. I think she was mentally strangling Dimitri with the looks she was shooting at him.
"Morning Mom" I say, trying to distract her from killing the love of my life with her eyes. She looks towards me, and her face softens just a tiny bit,
"Rose. Are you aware you talk in your sleep?" She asks me, face hardening again.
"Uhh. No actually I didn't" I thought about asking Dimitri why he didn't tell me, but thought better of it. If my mom knew we had been spending nights together, she might blow a gasket. Then it hit me, my mom's glare, Dimitri's amusement. Oh God. "what did I say?" I ask, hoping it wasn't really that mortifying. I tried to remember what I was dreaming about. Oh God. My dreams came flooding back to me. Me and Dimitri, in the cabin. Oh no. Suddenly the look on my mothers face made perfect sense. Dimitri leaned down to whisper in my ear.
"Let's just say you have a good imagination Roza. If it was me, I would need a cold shower right about now" He chuckles, which makes my mom glare more.
"Did we forget about the 'facade' you too are supposed to be presenting. Let me be the first to tell you, you suck at it" She hisses at us, and gets up to move. Once she is far enough away we both bust out laughing.
"I guess we are going to have to try a little harder comrade" I get out, still giggling. My smile dropped suddenly as we landed, we had reached court. Well, this should be interesting.
We were ushered off the plane and shown to our rooms. Me and Lissa had adjoining rooms, so we just opened the doors between us, so we could talk while we unpacked. I had just finished when someone knocked at Lissa's door. "Can you get that Rose?" She calls to me. I walk into her room, as she comes out out of her closet to get more cloths out of her suitcase. I pulled open the door to reveal Alberta.
"Rose" She greets me. I nod and step aside. "Princess" She bow's to Lissa. "The queen would like an audience with you"
"Now?" She squeeks.
"As soon as possible, Princess"
"Can Rose come?" Lissa asks, sounding a bit desperate. Last time we were here the queen has specifically wanted to see her without me.
"She didn't say she couldn't" Alberta says hesitantly. Lissa smiles and nods at her. Alberta says goodbye and lets herself out.
"What do you think she want's?" Lissa asks anxiously.
"Don't know Liss, I guess we'll have to go see." She nods and turns to change. I walk back to my own room to change into the guardian's outfit Dimitri got for me when we were here for Victor's trial. When I was ready I head back into Lissa's room. She was still getting ready so I sit on her bed to wait for her. Finally after changing three times and fixing her appearance, she's ready to go.
We leave her room and walk across the grounds towards the main building. I can feel her nervousness through the bond and it's making me kind of jumpy. After what seems like the longest walk of my life, we reach the double doors into the queens favorite thrown room. The guardian's there give me a look of displeasure, but let the queen know we were there. She must have been okay with it, because they let us in.
The queen was sitting on her 'thrown' in the middle of the room. There were six guardian's present around the perimeter of the room. The queen gave me a disdainful look before smiling at Lissa. "Vasilisa! Thank you for coming on such short notice" She smiles, as if we had a freaking choice. "I asked you to come visit in hopes to get you familiar with court, seeing as you will be living here next year." I don't miss the way she emphasizes her words. Lissa must not have either, because she asks me through the bond 'what do you think she means by that'. I shake my head slightly so she knows I don't know either.
"Thank you for inviting us, your majesty. I am sure me and Rose will be very happy here next year" Lissa says innocently. I see the queens lips purse into a straight line, and her eyes narrow at me.
"Yes, if you are who she assigned too" The queen says, then continues before we can say anything "There is something else I speak to talk to you about Vasilisa." Lissa just nods at her to continue. "I have heard you are in a romantic relationship with Christian Ozera" she sneers at Lissa. I see her tense slightly before answering her.
"Yes your majesty, I am." she tells her confidently. I am so proud of the way she is handling herself.
"Well, you see Vasilisa, if you are going to come here to attend college, you need to be serious and dedicated. He is a distraction. He's not good, and will not help your future position in the Moroi world." I can feel the anger and injustice coming from Lissa.
"Are you saying that if I want to come here next year, that I have to break up with Christian?" Lissa asks in an incredulous tone. She always tried to believe the best in people, and the queen was clearly showing her that she misplaced that belief.
"I think it would be best for your future." She says matter of factly. "Along with a set of capable guardian's." she says with a glare at me. Was she trying to ruin Lissa's life? I feel the bad feelings grow in Liss, and I start to worry.
"Excuse me" Lissa growls. The queen is startled by her tone of voice and looks up to meet her eyes. Bad move Queen Bitch, bad move. I can feel the magic flare up in Lissa. Great she's using compelling the queen!
"My relationship with Christian is not a distraction, in fact you want to invite him to court next year too. You want to offer him the same opportunity as you offered me. Rose will also be coming along, because she will be my guardian next year. Along with Eddie Castle." That shocked the hell out of me, I knew they were friends, but I didn't know they were that close. Well if that shocked me, the next words out of her mouth blew my freaking mind. "And you want to Guardian Belikov to be Christians guardian after graduation." What?! I knew she felt guilty about me and Dimitri not being able to be together, but he could have tried to be assigned here before she used compulsion! The queen was just nodding and smiling like it made perfect sense. Which I guess it did to her now. "And lastly, when me and Christian decide to get married, you will give us your blessing." What has gotten into her? Were her and Christian talking about getting married?!
"Yes Vasilisa that sounds like a wonderful idea." She nodded and smiled. Whoa, compulsion really was a scary thing. Lissa took her eyes off the queen and ran them over the guardian's who all looked confused. One by one she met their eyes and told them that they wouldn't remember any of this, that it was an ordinary meeting, and all the things said were the queens idea. They nodded and turned their glazed eyed forward again.
When she had compelled all the guards she looked back at the queen, who was still slightly out of it. "Tell us we can go now" Lissa says.
"Well this was a nice chat my darling, but I really must be going now. Have a nice stay at court, you are excused" the queen tells us with a smile. We bow and walk out. I wait until we get back to her room before I totally freak out. "Lissa are you crazy using compulsion on the queen?!? What if you had been caught? What if someone finds out? Why would you ask for Dimitri to guard Christian?" Then I remembered the most important question "are you and Christian talking about getting married?!" She just smiles at me and waits for me to get done ranting.
"Done?" She asks, and I nod. "I had to do it Rose, she was going to take you away from me, you and Christian both. I just couldn't have that. Being your best friend for so long I guess you have rubbed off on me. I was determined to get my way. This is the best case scenario, now we will all be here, and be together." She smiles at me "As for Christian and I, we have discussed the future, and we want to get married, someday, he hasn't proposed or anything but I have high hopes. This way it will be in place for when we do decide to get married." I guess that makes sense. Now when her and Christian want to get married, they don't have to worry about asking the queen's blessing first. They technically didn't have to have it to get married, but it made the marriage more accepted. Not that their marriage won't cause a uproar. It totally will. But I keep that to myself. "And I asked the queen to put Dimitri as Christians guardian so that you could still be with him. I know you guys couldn't be together because of me for a long time, I'm just trying to make up for it" She is feeling guilty again. I pull her into a tight hug.
"Thank you Liss, you have no idea what this means to me" I tell her sincerely. For the first time in a while I feel as if the future holds hope for me and Dimitri. I can't wait to tell him!!
Next Chapter will be DPOV.
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating it today!
I go to India the day after tomorrow so I will try to get a couple more Chaps up here and maybe even get some work done on my other story, because people seem to want to drag that one out!!