Last Kiss
Disclaimer: This all belongs to Richelle Mead except for the plot, that's mine.
Chapter 21
Home. I thought smiling, taking a deep breath. We were at the airport, it was only an hour away from St Vlad's and I couldn't help but have a goofy smile on my face the entire time. Soon the gates appeared in the horizon looming over us yet my heart did a flip seeing them we were so close. At the gate there were two guards on duty, I didn't know them they were there to replace the ones lost in the battle five years ago. They soon verified that we were about to kill anyone, well anyone living at least.
Jacob was the designated driver, I don't know why he was chosen because "apparently" we drive on the wrong side of the road.
He drove up to the main office to find somewhere for us to stay, they headed inside as I wondered of lost in memories. The bench that I had broken which Dimitri then carried me shirtless, the gym where we shared all our heated moments, the cabin, and finally I found Mase his grave had leaves blown in the path. I cleared them away sitting cross legged pressing a hand onto he ground where his body lay as I opened myself up to him, forcing them to come through the wards, I had done it before at court.
Before long he was standing in front of me smiling, he came over and sat in front of me, "Hey Rose." he said touching my hand.
Every night in Russia we went out hunting not leaving until we had freed at least one soul sometimes up to three at a time, usually we were forced to torture them and found nests of Strigoi usually very expensive which is where our funding came from. But there was a after affect I didn't really enjoy, I was closer to the dead then any one had ever been, now they could talk freely with me and sometimes when I was close enough I could bring them back for brief periods of time, like right now, that was one experience I really wanted to forget.
I felt elated, being at his grave he was actual matter in front of me, I through myself at him, I had missed him like crazy. I felt sad tho as I realized he was still 17 and I was now 23. I relaxed into his arms and we sat leaning against his headstone talking, I regularly talked to him, seeing ghost regularly lessed the migrants I got down to headaches I could ignore.
"Rose," he said after we had lapsed into silence, "You should forgive him."
I was glad his grave was at the back of the cemetery, It didn't seem likely anyone would hear us as we talked and hopefully no one we would recognize.
"I have but I have gotten over him Mase."
"He really does love you."
"I saw you after I died how much you endured, years ago you were making a point now you're just being stubborn. Dimitri is just as crushed as you were after he said that, he did it to protect you."
"I don't needed protecting, who would he be protecting me from?"
"Him."
I stayed quiet my heart was telling me to forgive him then it was saying that I should hate him, I rested my head on his shoulder closing my eyes, it was getting harder and harder to keep him here and stay awake.
"I don't know," I mumbled, drifting off "I love him, but I'm no longer in love with him"
"You know what you have to do." he gentle laid me on the ground as he disappeared just before lightly kissing my forehead.
I felt arms encircle me and so I could smell Jakes familiar scent he must have gotten worried and gone looking for me I thought vaguely as I rested my head against his chest, his heartbeat was smooth and steady and so I fell asleep listening to it.
J POV
Rose had never been gone this long so I went out looking for her the others just assumed she had fallen asleep somewhere. I eventually found her by Masons grave curled up, she was sleeping peacefully unaware that it was raining and slowly become heavier, I picked her up and carried her back to our room, the guys helped me check her making sure she wasn't hurt before we changed her and laided her in her bed. We hoped she wouldn't get pissed we changed her, she changed in front of us all the time that it wasn't a issue anymore or we hoped it wasn't. I stood next to her bed for a few minutes smiling she was so beautiful, I loved her, but I knew she didn't love me, so I kept my feelings surprised , I just hoped one day she would feel the same way about me.
E POV
I left Dimitri in charge going to meet up with Alberta, she was still the head guardian, so I needed to talk to her and consider the guardians that could be used on the mission. The queens royal guardians were here with Lissa, they were the best of the best meaning if somewhere to be taken on the mission we would have to find more to replace them. After hours of debating, a kind way of saying what we were actually doing (not that way! For all the dirty minded people like my friends) we finally agreed on leaving the guards who were on their shift tomorrow morning and getting all other guardians on campus to report to the conference room to see who was willing or available to perform this mission.
Alberta then found an old speaker system that still worked and announced the details on the mission while I made photocopies of a brief note included all the details and posted them around campus hoping we could pull this off.
A/N: It's school holidays! So I have two more weeks to update to you guys and then it might slow down because round 4 will start yay *sarcasm* but I just wanted to know one thing does the academy have a wall around it? Because they have the gate out front but they kind of suggest there isn't one there in Shadow Kissed when the say about running back to the wards which I kind of implies that either there isn't a wall there or there's just a random hole which wouldn't be very helpful against Strigoi. Any theories?