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Chapter Twenty-One…

My jaw dropped, along with everyone else in the rooms. I watched in horror as we made out on the TV screen. Luckily it cut off before anything more explicit happened.

I met Dimitri's eyes, seeing the panic, fear and love - which always seemed to be there when he looked at me - I was feeling mirrored back to me. Before anyone could get over their shock, I bolted out of the commons.

I could feel Dimitri behind me, as he also escaped the certain ridiculing from our fellow students. We didn't go to the cabin, that was far too obvious. Instead, I found a small stream, which was dangerously close to the wards, but not over them.

Dimitri's arms encased me from behind, and I spun around to bury my face in his chest.

Sobs and tears sprang free as I thought of the consequences now. I knew Alberta would fight for me and Dimitri to stay together, but I didn't know what on earth everyone else would think about this. Kirova had always hated me, what were the chances she was going to be all forgiving to me now? I didn't know what the other guardians would think, and it was obvious the rest of the students would be all over this for the rest of the year before graduation.

I carried on crying into Dimitri's chest, who picked me up gently, before carrying us over to a bench which I hadn't even noticed before. He cradled me in his arms, resting his head on mine, burying his face into my hair.

"I'm sorry." I whispered. "If you had stayed with Tasha, none of this would have happened."

Dimitri's head snapped up. He put his hand underneath my chin, making me look at him. "Don't ever think that." He told me, sternly. "I would trade everything just to be with you."

I smiled through my tears. "I know." I replied. "Because I would too."

We resumed our previous positions, making small talk and completely avoiding any negative topics. We talked about our baby and our wedding. It's amazing how happy we could imagine things were going to turn out, when we both knew there was no chance of it ever happening now.

Smiling, I fell asleep in Dimitri's arms. I could tell we were both exhausted and we had spent the whole day out here, avoiding everyone and everything, just being content in each others company.

As soon as I fell asleep, the blackness around me transformed itself into Ski Lodge. I recognised it as one of Adrian's dreams instantly. The only difference was that instead of normally having to call Adrian before he appeared, he was there straight away, and pulling me into a hug. Tears filled my eyes once again as he tried to reassure me that it was going to be okay and stroked my hair softly.

He pulled back a minute later. "Are you okay?" He asked, already knowing the answer really.

I shook my head. "I can't believe this is happening Adrian. It was all going so well, and now it is going to end." I quickly switched my ring, realising I hadn't told anyone about our engagement. Adrian's eyes widened. "We were getting married! I'm pregnant! How is that even going to work out now!" I cried, hysterically.

I was going to tell everyone about our engagement tonight. I had decided it was best not to tell anyone anymore. Not under the circumstances. It would more than likely be used against us.

A bench appeared between us, and he pulled me onto it, similar to how Dimitri had. He cuddled me to his chest. "I'm so sorry Rose." I was surprised when he called me Rose, instead of 'Little Dhampir' but it just showed how much he really meant it. "I was happy for you."

I smiled slightly, Adrian was giving me his blessing, in his own way. "I shouldn't have let him stay." I repeated my earlier words to Dimitri. "He should have stayed with Tasha. None of this would have ever happened to him there. How could I be so selfish?"

Adrian tightened his arms around me. "That's a load of rubbish, and you know it. He would have depressed if he stayed with Tasha. I can tell he would give everything up for you. You're the most unselfish person I know Little Dhampir." He told me, the sincerity ringing through.

I knew what he was saying was the truth. Dimitri would give everything up for me, but I never wanted him to have too. I wanted to live with him like a normal couple, never having to even consider giving everything up for each other.

Why couldn't something have just gone right for once? After all the crap we had been through, it just had to get worse.

The dream started to fade around us, and Adrian kissed my forehead softly, before fading completely.

My eyes fluttered open to see we were surrounded by four guardians. Alberta was stood the closest to us, about to wake me up. Dimitri was snoring softly, his face buried in my neck. "How long have you been here?" Alberta asked quietly, not wanting to wake Dimitri up until we had to.

I shrugged. "Ever since this morning. What time is it anyway?" I replied, looking at the sky to try and gage the time.

"It's about an hour past curfew." She informed me.

The other guardians were just standing still around us. I could see the shock a few of them had seeing me and Dimitri cuddled up on a bench together, with him sound asleep, but they were trying to hide it. "You need to wake him up, I'm sorry." I knew she didn't want to do this at all, but she didn't have a choice.

I nudged Dimitri softly, but his armed tightened around me. "Roza." He mumbled into my neck. I tried to hide my smile, but it didn't work. My mouth curled up in a grin. Alberta chuckled at my expression.

"Wake up, Comrade." I spoke a bit louder.

He stirred, but didn't wake up completely. He managed to pull me even closer to him, however. His hard chest was pressing into me and it was slightly distracting.

"Dimitri." I shouted at him, trying to cut off my inappropriate thoughts.

He jumped up startled. He was still to groggy to notice the other people around him. "Did you really have to shout at me?" He teased.

I laughed. He seemed to realise the other people now, and tensed up. Not moving his arms from around me, he faced the guardians. Alberta looked apologetic. "We were sent to find you. You were both supposed to go and see the Headmistress, but we didn't expect it to be so late when we found you." She explained. "You can both rest until tomorrow."

I sighed and leaned my head on Dimitri's shoulder. I would stay here, on this bench, forever if it meant I could just be with Dimitri.

We got up to walk back to campus. I decided I should check on the bond, seeing as though I had been blocking out Lissa's emotions for most of the day, not wanting to remind myself of anything that was actually happening. Living in my bubble with Dimitri.

When I opened the bond, I was hit by a tidal wave of emotions. Panic, alarm, sympathy. They were all whizzing around her, and they were all for me. She couldn't believe what Jesse and Ralf had done. She wanted to go and murder them for ruining the happiness I had just managed to achieve.

I could feel that her emotions weren't only fuelled by Jesse and Ralf's actions, but the darkness that was growing steadily inside her. Automatically, I took it from her, making me be slammed back into my own head.

The anger burned inside me. My hands curled into fists and I gave into my emotions, forcefully punching the closest thing to me. A tree. My fist slammed into it, causing blood to smear on the tree and my fist. One of the guardians stupidly tried to grab my arm, as I pulled it back, ready to hit it again.

I spun around, aiming a blow at his face and delivering it correctly, causing him to stagger backwards. Dimitri was instantly in my face, pinning me up against a tree - not the one I had covered in blood though.

"Calm down Roza." He said softly. "It's Lissa again. Don't give into her darkness."

He spoke calmly, the opposite of what I was feeling exactly. I tried to manoeuvre my knee and land a blow to his gut. Unfortunately, he stopped me, pressing his body even harder against my own, completely cutting off my movements.

"Stop it Roza. This isn't you." He still had the soothing tone to his voice, but I could here the underlying concern. Even in my darkness induced state, that struck a nerve. I never wanted Dimitri to be hurt because of me, and all this anger was.

The anger drained from me, as Dimitri kept whispering soothing words to me. Whether they were in English or Russian, it didn't matter, only the fact that he was the one saying them did.

My body began to shake, but with fear instead of anger. It had taken Dimitri a lot longer to calm me down than it normally did. It was getting worse, and more often. This had happened to me three times in the past two days.

Dimitri wrapped his arms around me, crashing me to his chest, as I cried and wet his shirt. "I'm so sorry Dimitri, I didn't mean to try and hurt you." I choked out.

"It's okay Roza." He whispered. "I'm not hurt. You might want to apologise to the other guardian you hit though. He's going to have a nasty black eye tomorrow." He joked, trying to lighten the mood a bit.

He succeeded and I chuckled slightly, pulling away from Dimitri and wiping my eyes. The other guardians were looking at me as if I was mad. I walked up to the guardian I had hit.

I didn't recognise him, so he probably worked on the elementary campus. I knew all the staff knew of mine and Lissa's bond and her Spirit ability. He was holding his eye and trying not to show how much I had hurt him. "I'm so sorry." I apologised.

He looked up and laughed softly. "It's okay. You have a hell of a punch though, he's taught you well." He complimented me and Dimitri.

"I did learn from the best." I mused, before turning serious. "I really am sorry though. Sometimes Lissa gets all mad from using Spirit. I have to take it from her through the bond and it gets me all mad and stuff as well. I have to get Dimitri to calm me down. I was in her head and I took it without thinking." I turned to Dimitri now. "I'm sorry I didn't warn you."

"You couldn't help it. You didn't hurt anyone." He glanced at the one I had more than likely given a black eye. "Severely." He added.

I chuckled. "Come on." Alberta interrupted. "We really need to get back."

We all complied and followed her back to our dorms. Dimitri and I obviously weren't allowed to go back to the same room, so he followed them towards the guardian dorms, while I walked back up to my own room.

When I opened the door, Lissa, Eddie, Adrian, Mia and Christian were all sat on my bed, looking glum. When I had been in Lissa's head I had been to busy with her feelings to even notice where she was.

They all looked up suddenly when I opened the door, making space for me to sit down. I slumped down onto the bed, between Eddie and Christian. I leant my head on Eddie's shoulder and sighed. "This is awful." I summarised.

They all nodded their agreement. "Does anyone know what's going to happen?" I asked hesitantly, not knowing if I really wanted the answer.

The shook their heads dejectedly. There was another knock on the door a moment later. "Come in!" I shouted.

The door opened and my mother appeared. I moved away from Eddie and gave her room to sit down. I leant my head on her shoulder once she sat down, to replace Eddie. "Do you know what's happening?" I asked her. I knew she would be the one out of all of us to have any idea.

She looked glum. "Sorry. Headmistress Kirova hasn't told anyone. I think she knows I would tell you anyway."

I smiled. "Okay."

We sat in silence for a couple of minutes, before Christian spoke. "I bet your tired Rose." Before I had time to agree, he continued. "We should let her get some rest. It's been a long day."

They all nodded their agreement and got up to leave. Lissa was the last out of the door. "I'm so sorry Rose." She had tears in her eyes. "I wish everything would just turn out alright for you for once."

I smiled sadly. "Me too."

She left after that and I pulled on some short shorts and a tank top to sleep in.

After lying down, I tossed and turned for about an hour. I sighed and got up out of my bed.

Opening the window and jumping out, I headed toward Dimitri's room. I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep without him after everything that was going on. After scaling the drainpipe which was conveniently places outside his window, I silently opened the window.

Dimitri was also tossing and turning, but he did have his eyes closed. I wasn't sure if he was completely asleep or not.

When he stopped moving for a minute, I crawled into bed with him. His eyes snapped open and then relaxed. "What are you doing here?"

"I couldn't sleep." I whispered. "Apparently you couldn't either." I teased.

He chuckled. "I couldn't."

We stopped talking after that. Quickly, I fell to sleep, content in Dimitri's arms.

We awoke to pounding on the door. "Belikov!" Stan was shouting. "Open this door!"

I chuckled and Dimitri grimaced. He opened the door, practically pulling it off his hinges. "What?" He growled.

Stan gulped, looking like a scared child. "I…I…" He stuttered, before composing himself. "I was sent here to get you for Headmistress Kirova." He spoke, guardian mask in place. "I am just going to get Miss Hathaway from her room now."

I couldn't help the snigger that erupted from my mouth. Aside from the fact I wasn't in my room, he would have gotten an even angrier performance out of me.

Stan peered into the room and scowled at me. "Or not." He said, before turning away and walking back down the corridor.

Dimitri came back towards me. He looked glum. We were both thinking about how the ending of this meeting was going to turn out.

After changing, we walked back to my room, so I could get changed. Since it was early in the morning, we didn't run into anybody.

The receptionist outside Kirova's office ushered us in when we arrived. We sat down opposite her desk. She looked stern. "Me and Alberta have been talking and made a decision about what will happen." She explained, gesturing to Alberta who I had been to preoccupied to notice. She was grimacing, meaning this definitely hadn't been her ideal situation.

"Your case with go to the school's Council."