A/N: Hey All!

So, we're at the second last chapter now, what will happen?

Will Adrian find out?

Will Dimitri walk away?

What was his plan?

Did Rose give her child up?

Find out in the next two chapters

The Song is; The Scientist by Coldplay

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25. The Scientist

3 Years Later

"Roza, we are coming back here, you don't have to back your whole closet."

I looked at Dimitri in frustration, you'd think after being married for three years he would have learned when to shut up.

"Dimitri," I said in an irritated sigh, pinching the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger. "We're going to a wedding, not just a wedding the wedding, I cannot and I repeat cannot go unprepared." I shook my head and got back to packing, thinking I would need another suitcase.

"Fine, just as long as you're packing lingerie, I'm happy." I whirled back around and threw my arms around him, pulling him down to me in a kiss that had us collapsing to the bed.

At 21 I was not as immature as I was when I graduated and became a new guardian. I was more focused and more agile now, lethal. Dimitri and I had only killed two Strigoi protecting our charges and they had alot of other guardians, un-promised ones as they are called, so Dimitri and I spent alot of time with his family in Baia. Dimitri and I had been spending everyday together for the last three years and the brothers didn't care where we went or what we did, they rarely needed us, which made me feel irresponsible since they were my charges but it gave my husband and me some quality time...

...until his sister came in and ruined the moment, like say, now.

"OHMYGOD! Can you two, like, hold in your hormones please!" Dimitri and I groaned but get off the bed. Viktoria was notorious for her big mouth. Even at 20, she still acted 15, we bonded instantly and she was like my best friend.

But not like Lissa was.

I haven't seen any of my friends from the academy since the night I left for my honeymoon. It was nobody's fault but my own, Dimitri had tried to get me to go back but I would always think of some excuse not to and after a while he stopped trying. Lissa even spoke to me through the bond but I ignored that to the best of my ability. Christian and Eddie had written me letters which I had piled in my closet, unable to read. And Adrian...Adrian, he made no effort to speak to me, not that I blamed him but it hurt so much. I knew that if I saw Adrian I would have to tell him about...

"Mama?" My baby, our baby.

Her little voice spoke from the door way. She walked over to me, grabbing my leg as tight as she could. "You can't go Mama!" She pleaded and then her little head snapped up as Dimitri re entered the room, his suitcase in hand. "Not Dimi too!" Dimi was the nickname she had for Dimitri since she could say it.

"I'm sorry baby girl but we have to go." I crouched down while stoking her hair straight and looked into her eyes. The eyes of her father.

She had a slight tan, not as much as Dimitri and I but she was only three. Her hair was a shade lighter than mine, but darker than Adrian's. Her eyes were round and innocent, emerald green exactly like Adrian.

"Adria," Dimitri spoke and her head turned at hearing her name. I had wanted her to know about her father when she was older and in a way to always remember him I named her Adria, something Dimitri liked but wasn't happy about.

"Your mother and I wouldn't leave if it wasn't important and you know we would love to take you with us," not once did any of us call Dimitri her father, we didn't want her growing up in a lie.

She was fighting back tears, I could tell, but she nodded, like the strong girl I knew she was.

"Our plane leaves soon, love, we have to get going." Dimitri whispered to me and I nodded.

I took Adria's hand as Dimitri and Dennis, Viktoria's, though she won't admit it, boyfriend, though he was older than her, he was also a dhampir, took the bags to the car. Dimitri and I had a house in the same 'community' as Dimitri's family. It was only us three but Vikki loved staying over, mainly because she loved Adria, like everyone that met her.

The bags were in the car and Vikki and Dennis hoped into the front seats, Dimitri and I would be in the back as we drove to Novosibirsk to get a flight to St Petersburg and then too America. I was dreading it.

"Okay Baby, I'll see you in a few days," I stoked her cheek and held her close to me, not wanting to let her go. I could feel tears in my own eyes; I always got emotional when I was leaving her. "You be good for Olena, do everything she says." Adria nodded and I kissed her forehead as Karolina came out of the house and took her hand. "Goodbye." I kissed her cheek and then took Dimitri's outstretched hand as he led me away, saying his own goodbye to her.

As soon as Dimitri was in the car, we took off. I looked back and saw Adria being led into the house. I knew I would see her again, but it felt different this time, like the next time I would see her something would be different.

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"Roza, don't be so nervous, just breathe." Dimitri soothed as we drove the long, twisting roads up to the woods we a cabin was. My nails were digging into my palms.

We were going to Lissa's secluded grand cabin, which was more of a mansion cabin; well that's what Christian told me.

"I haven't seen them for three years, what if they hate me?" Though I had spoken to Christian and he was keeping our arrival a secret from the guests and the reason the guests were there he was keeping secret from me.

"Roza, they could never hate you. Some of them may be upset with you, but not hate." He said soothingly, taking my hand and rubbing circles into the back of it.

I didn't know what to say or do, so I kept quiet for the rest of the trip.

Lissa had hidden her cabin well and I was grateful the Christian had given us the exact location and gotten us a car with a GPS. It took us an hour but we got there, and I gasped at what I saw. A three story timber house that went on for miles was right in front of me. It's pathway leading to a cedar red circular door and a fountain of an angel in the middle of the path up to the door. The exterior was breathtaking, I was a little worried about what the interior would look like.

Dimitri came out of the car first, opening my door for me and as I stepped out I saw the multitude of vehicles here, we certainly were the last to arrive.

"Rose!" I heard my name and turned just in time to be crushed to Christian's chest. "I missed you hot stuff!" He put me down and gave me a once over. "The name still fits!" He hugged me again and then helped Dimitri with our bags.

"Geez Rose, planning on staying long?" He asked in his usual Christian tone whilst carrying one of my two bags, Dimitri was able to carry my other and his while I got the carry-on bags. Dimitri shot him a knowing look.

"Oh shut up, the both of you." I was nervous enough already.

"Don't worry Rose; I have your entranced planned. There are clothes upstairs for both of you, in your room of course and no one will see you until you come back down to the entertaining room, as Liss calls it."

Christian led us into the house and I didn't have time to look around as I was worried I would bump into someone, but luck held with me and we made it to Dimitri and mine's room.

The walls were red, rose red, and the sheets were black. A vanity and a walk in closet. I was home.

"This is my room." I knew it; Lissa had this room especially designed for me, in case I ever came back. It brought tears to my eyes.

"She knew you'd love it." Christian said a fond tone in his voice. "Just like she knew you'd come back to see it." I smiled at him and he nodded, telling us where to go when we were done and when to listen for our entrance. Dimitri knew I needed a few minuted alone, so with a quick kiss to my forehead he ducked into the bathroom to change as I looked about the room at was mine.

I knew, from the clothes already in the closet, the colours of the walls and sheets, the books on the shelves, this was my room. We had talked about it so much, how we would decorate it and this was it, including the most recent photo of the two of us, from my wedding, along with others from when we were little up to the day I left. Lissa and Christian both knew I was pregnant, and now so would everyone else. My mother and father knew, Christian had warned me they were here, though I wanted to see them, I had only spent a short time with Abe Mazur, and why he was still here, I wanted to know.

I picked up the dress that was lying on the bed. Black, with silver sequence down the bodice and ruffled. It was short, mid-thigh length and had a pair of black heels with four strips of fake diamonds down the center.

When Dimitri emerged from the bathroom, smelling of his aftershave I was ready. My hair was straight and I had light make up on. He took my hands and I stood with him. The look in his eyes so intense I had to look away.

"Hey, hey," he said putting his fingers under my chin to make me look at him. "This is it you know, he's down there." Adrian, I knew he was Christian hadn't only warned me about my parents.

"I know, I'm ready, as long as you're with me, I'll be ready." I took one of his hands and locked our fingers together as we walked to way Christian had told us before.

I had to tell him, I had not only promised myself, I had promised my friends, I had promised my family and I had promised Dimitri. Adrian would know about his daughter tonight, whether he liked it or not.

We stopped where we were meant to and I gave Christian the signal. He had given me a watch that had a button on it that would send a little electric shock to the matching watch; Christian's and he would know I was ready.

"I know you miss her," I heard him say and everything went quiet.

"Her?" Lissa asked.

"Rose, I know you want her to be here, you're about to be queen, of course you want your best friend to be there for you."

"Christian," that was Eddie. "Not one of us have seen Rose for over three years, she isn't making an appearance now." That hurt, but Dimitri squeezed my hand in comfort.

"Eddie's right, she hasn't even called." Lissa sounded so bad I choked back a sob.

"I know, but, if you asked for one thing, one thing at all, what would you ask for?"

"What's the point?"

"Sometimes wishes can come true. Ask."

A sigh and then. "I wish Rose was here, right now, I want her to be here more than anything."

"Wishes can come true." Christian said and that was our cue, holding onto Dimitri's hand as tight as I could without potentially breaking anything, I walked to the doorway where Christian was waiting for me.

I walked into the room and heard shocked gasps and saw wide eyes. Dimitri wrapped his arm securely around my waist.

"Rose!" Mia squealed, the first one to react as she ran at me, hugging me and trapping Dimitri in one too. "I missed you guys!"

"Rose and Dimitri," Eddie said, next to gain back his composure and hugged me fiercely, giving Dimitri a manly shoulder clap and grinning like an idiot.

"I cannot believe you!" I looked over and saw Lissa pointing in Christian's face. "Bringing Rose here? Really?" Uh-oh. "Without even telling me?" This did not sound good.

"It was a surprise." Christian kept a level head.

"Well it is by far the..." She grabbed his face and kissed him hard. "Best surprise ever!" And then she ran at me, practically tackling me and then she did the same to Dimitri. I was baffled by her strength.

"You're really here!" She screamed, jumping up and down in excitement that I almost missed it, but I didn't.

"What the fuck is that huge thing on your finger?" I grabbed her hand and took a good look at the ring. "It's fucking huge!" I said again marvelling that a little gold band could sustain holding that diamond.

"I know," Lissa gushed and then she leaned in closer, seeming to remember something I wanted to forget. "You're telling him right?" I nodded. "Then stop focusing on my rock and do it!"

I wasn't about to argue with her.

"Well Liss, you aren't the only one with news." I took Dimitri's hand but stared straight at Adrian. Those eyes reminding me of what I had to do. "I have a little announcement myself." I breathed in and let it out, letting the words spill out too. "I have a daughter." Eddie's jaw dropped while Adrian's clenched.

"Who the hell is the father?" Eddie exclaimed.

"Why don't I tell you about her? She looks like him, she has his eyes, definitely and she is the most beautiful baby anyone could ask for." Another breath and release. "I named her after her father, and she knows that Dimitri is not her father, we didn't want her living a lie and then when she is old enough to understand, we didn't want her to be shocked. Though she knows Dimitri will always be in her life."

"What's her name Rose?" Eddie asked flatly, wanting to get to the juicy part of who I slept with, though if he used his brain he could figure it out.

"Adria is three years old, with big, emerald green eyes." I said and that wiped the look of his face, but I didn't have time for that, I looked straight at Adrian, gauging his reaction. His brows were furrowed in thought and then his glass slipped from his hand as understanding took over his features.

"She's...mine...?" He asked shakily.

"Yes Adrian, you have a daughter, we have a daughter." I said walking forwards, taking my hand from Dimitri's and standing in front of Adrian.

He was quiet for a while, just staring into my eyes.

"We have a, a child?" He asked again and I nodded, tears in my eyes—seriously I was crying far too much these days—and smiled at him.

"Do you wanna go somewhere and, talk about it?" I asked and he nodded vigorously. I took his hand and looked back at Dimitri, he knew this could happen so he just nodded and smiled at me, I smiled back and Adrian led me to a room, no doubt his, where we could talk about this.

We were seated on the bed for about ten minutes when he finally spoke.

"Were you ever going to tell me?" He asked.

"I promised everyone, myself included, that if I ever saw you again I would."

"Didn't you think I had the right to know?"

"I did, of course I did but, I couldn't, I couldn't face you without thinking..."

"Thinking what?"

"That you already knew."

"What?"

"Well, think about it Adrian, we used a condom, it must have broken, but how could you not have known that?"

"Rose, we had sex twice that night, remember?"

I thought back to the night of the dance, when I had lost my virginity.

"Yes my angel?" Adrian asked, drawing circles with his finger tips on my spine.

"Do you have a, you know, condom?" Adrian jerked under me and I felt his penis jerk.

"Yes I have several," he answered.

"Why so many?" I questioned, coaxing his penis to get hard again. It twitched under my touch and I smirked.

"Can't be to prepared, why do you ask?" Adrian seemed to be having a hard time controlling his voice.

"I want to practice putting them on bananas," I said sarcastically. "Why do you think?" I said more seductively, which caused a whole lot of twitching. "Where are they?"

"In the draw next to your head," He answered his penis finally hard. I reached into the draw and pulled out one of the small packets. Adrian took it from me and sat up putting it on. I lay down on the bed getting ready for what would be my first time. Adrian came up and hovered over me. "Are you sure, little dhampir?" He asked seriously.

"I'm positive," I answered, bringing his lips to mine. Adrian got the message and lowered himself until he was at my opening. He pulled back and looked at me, asking if I was ready for this, I nodded and he entered me, breaking me in a way. And that's when the pain started.

I cried out and Adrian froze, letting me adjust. I nodded when I was ready to go on and he hesitated. Then, slowly, he pulled out of me and then thrust back in. That was still painful but I could feel the pleasure in it now and moaned, more in pain but still in some pleasure. Adrian began thrusting in and out and the pain was eventually numbed out by the pleasure.

"Ahhh...Adrian babe...so good," I was over taken by the bliss.

"My angel...ungh...it feels so good to be inside of you."

"It feels so good having you inside of me," I said, panting and moaning.

"Hopefully I'll be invited more often," Adrian broke off in a groan, and I didn't bother answering his question. I could feel my walls clamping down and I looked up at Adrian, who began to thrust faster, but still trying to be gentle.

"Wait for me angel, I'm nearly there," Adrian said between heavy breaths.

"I'm waiting," I said back, willing him to hurry.

"My angel cum for me, scream my name," Adrian was thrusting harder and faster, making my walls clamp down harder until I finally gave into the ecstasy of it all.

"Oohh Adrian!" I yelled cumming now.

"Ahhh Rose!" Adrian yelled cumming straight after.

"Adrian that was amazing," I said once we were both under the covers, condom gone and Adrian's arms were wrapped possessively around me.

"That it was," Adrian kissed the top of my hair, and then right before he fell asleep he said. "I love you Rose, My angel."

I didn't say anything, I just laid there in Adrian's embrace; wishing the things he said to me were laced with a Russian accent.

I thought back again, trying to remember.

I had woken in the middle of the night and felt a warmness pressing against me.

I rolled over onto my stomach, on top of the warm thing because it was so cold and I felt something twitch beneath me, reaching down I touched the twitching thing and felt it twitch more at my touch. Then I felt a heat near my hand and the thing in my hand was hot too so I thought by adding those two together I would get warm. I moved the, now stiff object into the pocket of warmth and squirmed a little. It felt good when I moved to I did it again and again. Moving up and down, my hips going in a circular motion.

I sat up and felt warm things press into my hips.

"Rose?" I heard a voice croak and I looked down and my eyes went wide.

"I woke up and practically raped you." I said shocked, I must have repressed that.

"I wasn't complaining." He smiled and I finally looked at him, really looked.

He seemed to have aged a little, though he was still only 25, where as Dimitri was 27. Everything about him was the same except for his eyes, there was no light in them anymore, they were dead.

"Here," I rummaged around in the clutch I had and found what I was looking for. My most recent picture of Adria.

"That's her?" He asked as he looked at the photo.

"That's out baby."

"She looks just like you with a hint of me."

"Well sadly for you, she has my attitude."

He laughed and then something clicked. "What do you mean sadly for me?"

"Adrian, I care about you, I do, I love you, but Dimitri and my life is perfect, nearly but its missing one piece."

"And what piece is that?"

"You. She needs you Adrian." I said seriously.

"Rose, I don't know. I mean, is she, happy?"

"She is, but I know she would want to meet you too. Adrian, she is your daughter, please."

He sighed but said nothing.

"I'm not going to give her away, she'll be staying in Russia with us, but we can come see you and you her."

"Bring her here, for the wedding, bring her here so I can meet her."

"Adrian, this is Mia's wedding, granted I still don't know who she is..." I trailed off as he raised a brow. "It isn't Mia's is it?" He shook his head. "Lissa?" I asked and he nodded, I would deal with her later.

"Rose, please, I'll pay for the flights and everything." I listened to and watched his desperate plea to see her and I knew I couldn't keep him away.

"Okay, but Viktoria will have to come with her."

"Anything as long as I can meet her."

"And then you'll tell me if you want to be in her life?"

"I will, tell you I mean."

I nodded. "Okay." And then I stood and walked out, I had a phone call to make.

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We were jittery, waiting at the airport.

Dimitri and I were ahead of the group.

Lissa, Christian, Eddie and Adrian the ones that were here with us, to pick up Vikki and Adria. This is where she would meet her father.

I saw them appear and as soon as she saw me a bright smile appeared on her face and she dropped her back pack running to me as I crouched down and caught her in a hug.

"Mama!" She yelled and then ran back, picking up her bag and giving me a sheepish grin. "You're really here!" She didn't quite have an inside voice yet.

"I'm really here baby." I said and kissed her forehead. I stood and hugged Vikki as she and Dimitri lugged their suitcases back to us.

"Dimi!" Adria yelled in delight whilst hugging Dimitri's legs, I smiled at the image.

"Adria," she turned back to me and I held out my hand, which she instantly took. "There is someone that wants to meet you." The peeked her interest.

"Who Mama, who?" She kept asking as I made my way to Adrian.

"Adria, this is Adrian Ivashkov." I said and Adrian smiled down at her as she smiled back at him.

"Hey, your name sounds like mine and Mama always said I was named after my father." She was a catcher; you had to give her that.

"Yes baby, Adrian is your father." I looked back at him and nodded. We both crouched down as Adria studied him curiously. I whispered in her ear and she looked at me for a moment before walking up to Adrian. She touched his face, his hands, his arms, his hair, anything she could before hugging him close to her.

"Dada!" She squealed in excitement.

I stood back up, taking Dimitri's hand and walking out to the car with the others, Adrian and Adrian close behind, him lifting her as she refused to let go. He looked so unsure, but given time, he would be well suited for the role of father.

We made our way back to Lissa's and Dimitri went to bed as soon as we got back as did Adria and Vikki. So I went to see Adrian.

"Hey," he whispered as I sat on the bed with him again.

"So..."

"She' so, incredible. I never thought I would ever be a father and now she, I mean I didn't raise her but, I hope I can." I smiled.

"I'd like that Adrian and so would she, she has already taken a shine to you." He smiled and took my hand; I thought it was for comfort.

"Rose," I turned to him and saw that his face was closer than before, his eyes intense.

I swallowed. "Adrian?"

Then he leaned in and kissed me and I forgot the world.

And she ends the second last one on a cliff hanger!

Bum-Bum-Bum!

So how was that?

What you expected?

How about Adria? Adrian's reaction? Rose and Dimitri? (Dimitri will have a bigger part in the next chapter and more dialogue)

So, alot of you are probably thinking, is Rose going to get pregnant again and no she is not and there is no sequel to this, but if anyone wishes to write their own sequel or one shot just ask.

So one more chapter to go and then this is finally done!

All I have left to finish is Taken and re-write the last chapter of Spirit bound; the return AND start the sequel, finish lesson learned and start updating Red Eyed Vixen (A VA FanFic) and Golden Eyed Jealousy (A Mortal Instruments FanFic) then once the sequel (which is only going to be short) is finished I am starting ANOTHER VA FanFic!

I'm on a roll!

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