Chapter 25! :)

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DICLAIMER: DON'T OWN VA

DPOV: (Dimitri)

It was just like every other night. I laid in bed, unable to sleep, my mind spinning in endless thoughts that would torment me all night long. It was always the same, I would close my eyes hoping for a dreamless sleep but all I would get were painful memories. I would see Rose like the last time I'd seen her before she left the Academy. That image alone was enough to cause the pain in me to grow. Then I would see Tasha and hear her threats to go after Rose so clearly I'd swear she was in the room with me.

Four months had passed and there had not been a second that Rose hadn't been present in my mind. I thought about her day and night and there were moments where I believed I couldn't keep going on. Not knowing where she was or how she was was slowly killing me. If it hadn't been for my family, I don't think I could've lasted this long with the pain and guilt that ate at me in the inside.

My family knew everything and their support was what kept me from breaking down and giving up. I remembered the day I had told my mother everything, that day I had let everything out and nothing could stop the sobs that came from deep within me. I confessed my deepest fears and let out all the hate I felt towards myself.

"You'll find her Dimka, you will find her and she'll forgive you because the love you too have is stronger than the lies of others."

Those were the words my mother gave me, words that filled me with hope, but it was what my grandmother had said that truly kept me going.

"You have to fight for her Dimka. Roza needs you and you're the only one that can fight alongside her."

My grandmother's words gave me strength and determination. Gave me the will to get up in the morning and believe that we would find her before it was too late, but sometimes not her words could make me forget.

I was a different man. I didn't speak to anyone, not that it was much a difference. If I wasn't out for my shift, I'd be in my room, doing exactly what I was doing now, thinking and remembering, wish that things were different. The whole school knew everything that had happened if not completely, most of it anyway. The other Guardians looked at me with sympathy and pity, something that surprised me. I was waiting for judgment from them, for the things that I had done and for falling in love with my student but I never received that. It was like they understood all the things I had lost and felt sorry for me. I knock on the door cut me from my thoughts. I was surprised to find the Princess at my door trying to catch her breath.

"Princess - I mean - Lissa, is something wrong?" I asked her and immediately went on alert and checked our surroundings for any danger.

"No, no, nothing like that. Dimitri, we've found Rose."

The moment I heard those words it was as if the earth had been shaken and had finally stopped. Those words meant a new hope, a new possibility, a second chance. But then I remembered the other times we had thought we had found Rose. How terrible we all felt when we came back and knew that we had been wrong. How each time the chances of finding her seemed smaller and smaller, almost impossible.

I stepped aside and motioned her to come in, she sat in a chair while I sat down at the edge of the bed, still processing what she had said and what it meant if this time we were actually right. I asked her the question that was running in my head, demanding for an answer.

"How sure are you that this is really Rose?" I asked her, I don't think I could take another false hope.

"Mr. Andrews is really sure this is Rose. He told me she's in California and that she is living with Janine, Abe, Adrian, and an alchemist. Dimitri, I really think that we've found her. Something in me tells me that we are really close to finding her. We could see her again Dimitri, I'd get to tell her how much I miss her and how sorry I am." Hope radiated from her, hope and excitement. Lissa looked at me and it seemed that she could see what I was thinking.

"Dimitri, I know this is hard but we have to believe that we will find her, that this time we are right, we can't give up. Not now."

Her words brought my hopes up. I knew she was right and that we couldn't give up, no matter what happened we had to keep on fighting, just like my grandmother had said. And we would find her and then nothing would stop me from being with her.

"You're right, Lissa. The last thing we can do is give up, Rose needs us and no matter how hard it is we have to keep going." she smiled at me and it seemed my words had made her excitement grow.

"We are leaving right after Graduation, as much as I would like to leave right this second I know Kirova wouldn't let us go." she said and a annoyed expression crossed her face.

Graduation. The day my Roza had been working for for so long, it felt wrong without her here. Without her loud and crazy personality to give light and joy to us all. The thought that I might be with her in less than two weeks filled me with happiness and determination and I just hoped that this time we were right.

Two weeks later…

Lissa, Christian, Eddie and I were all in a plane heading for Los Angeles, California and as the minutes passed my heart pounded harder in my chest. Graduation had been a bittersweet day for all us. I could see it in the faces of the others, they felt happy that they finally finished school and that it was over but at the same time… someone was missing and I knew how they felt. I'd imagine that day of pure happiness and satisfaction. I would've stood next to my Roza and I'd show her how proud I was for her accomplishment and that she finally got her dream, but instead all I got was to stand at the back of the room and hear as Alberta skipped Rose's name like if she had never even existed.

As planned, Eddie was named Christian's Guardian and I was named Lissa's. Kirova had insisted to name someone else as my partner but Lissa denied it completely.

"If Rose isn't going to be my Guardian, I don't want anyone else. I won't replace her with anyone, no one will be like Rose."

That was what Lissa had told Kirova before storming out of her office and I knew she was right. No one would ever be like Rose, Rose was one of a kind and unique. Irreplaceable.

"We are five minutes from landing, please remain in your seats and Welcome to California."

The pilot said through the speakers and it was as if electricity had been shot straight through me. In only a couple of hours I would be my Roza and there would be nothing that would keep me way from her. I knew that this time we would find her, if I was skeptical at the beginning all of it had faded with one phone call from my grandmother. It was the day before graduation and just as I was getting up my phone rang.

"Hello?" I said into the phone wondering who it was, I'd been to lazy to check before hand.

"Dimka, its your grandmother."

"Babushka, is something wrong?" I asked her, immediately worried. It was late into the night in Russia and she'd never called me at this hour.

"We are fine Dimitri." I knew that whatever it was she was serious, she only ever called me by my name when she was serious.

"Then why-" she cut me off before I was done speaking.

"Dimitri, you have to be strong. Hard times are heading your way and you need to be strong, not only for you but for Roza. She is going to need you more than ever and you are the only one that can save her."

"What did you see Babushka? Are we going to find Rose? Tell me what did you see!" I demanded her, she knew something and that it had to do with Rose.

"I can't tell you more Dimitri, just be ready for what is awaiting you."

"No babushka, you can't just-" she hanged up on me before I was even done speaking, leaving me with millions of unanswered questions. I cursed as I slammed my phone shut.

I knew that I wouldn't be able to get anything more from my grandmother, that was just how she was. Many times before she'd done the same but never before with something that truly mattered. Later on I realized that her call was reassuring. It was like a sign that this time we were right, that we would find Rose, that this was it, the moment we've all been waiting for.

Finally the plane landed and at the exit was Mr. Andrews waiting for us with a car, we were leaving straight to the address he'd found. It was night time and we were lucky for that, I'd be much easier for the moroi to be outside especially with the weather here. I sat in the front with Mr. Andrews while everyone else sat in the back, after going through a few instructions we all went into a nervous silent and the tension was palpable. I heard Christian reassuring Lissa.

"I'll be okay Lissa, you'll see that we'll find her." he whispered to her and I saw him take hold of her hand.

"I really hope you are right." she whispered back and I found myself thinking the same thing.

I had no idea how I would react when I saw Rose, I didn't know how she would react. I was afraid of her rejection, but I knew that I couldn't blame her if she did, not after everything that had happened. I was scared like I'd never been before and as we got closer to our destination my fright only got worst.

Be strong, you have to be strong, not only for you but for Roza.

Those words ran in my head and they only scared me further. My grandmother had said those words for a reason and I was afraid what that reason was.

"We are almost there." Mr. Andrews said and broke the silence in the car.

I looked around, we were surrounded by houses, no mansions was more like it. It was obvious that only rich people lived around here. I put the window down to get a better look and what I saw made my blood cold.

"Stop!" I yelled at Mr. Andrews.

I was out of the car before he'd even stopped.

"What Dimitri? What's wrong?" I heard Lissa ask as she got out of the car followed by everyone else, but it was as if I'd hadn't heard her.

"Rose! Roza!" I screamed.

There, behind the gates of the house, I watched as Adrian turned towards me with my Roza in his arms, I felt my heart give lurch both of happiness and worry. We'd finally found my Roza, but was it too late?

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