"Good enough, boys get to work. When you are finished bring all the tools and spare parts with you too."
"Thanks Baba. Will you make sure everything I've asked for is done, I need to rest? She drains me."
"Get some rest little girl. Everything will be loaded and ready to go when you wake up." I smiled at him and walked a few feet away before I started to collapse, thankfully my Russian God caught me.
(DPOV)
"Roza!" I watched her stumble and begin to fall, but thankfully I was close enough to catch her. Since I was standing right by her side, like always.
Lifting her in my arms, and sat down, I hear Abe say, "She's never passed out after 'the slayer' took control before. I'll get Liz to come check on her." I sat on the ground, cradling my Roza against my chest. When out of nowhere, Roza started screaming bloody murder, and jerking all over. It was like she was being tortured in her sleep or having a seizure.
"Roza, Roza, Roza baby wake up, please." I pleaded.
"Darkness, so much darkness." I heard her say, through gritted teeth.
"Roza you promised me you wouldn't take anymore of her darkness. Please stop Roza." I cried, as I watched the love of my life jerk and scream for help.
"MASON! Help her." I screamed.
"Rosie fight it; you can do it."
"Roza you promised, please don't leave me. Stop taking her darkness PLEASE!"
"She's not taking it Dimitri they are forcing it into her."
"Oh God, please don't take her from me. I can't lose her, I just can't." Over and over I begged for God or someone to do something. We were surrounded by our people and yet none of us had a clue what to do.
"Rosie, you have to sever the rest of the bond. They are using it to force their darkness into you, if they can't have you, they are going to do everything in their power to make sure no one else does either."
"Can't…might…need…it." She told Mason.
"No Rosie you will never again need it. You already have all the powers the darkness gives you. All the strength, agility, magic and speed it gives you; you already have within you. 'The slayer' is a replacement for the darkness. You have to fight it Rosie, fight. The reason you can't control 'the slayer' is because you also carry the darkness. Sever the rest of the bond and you will be able to control her, fight Rosie. Dimitri talk to her."
"Roza baby, Mason said you have to sever the remainder of the bond. If you do that you will be able to control 'the slayer' and not have to worry about the darkness. You have to do this Roza please, you must do this." I told her, then a thought occurred to me. "Do it for me Roza, do it for me and our children, baby. Do it for us, please. I love you Roza I can't lose you again, it will kill me. Please Roza, for me and the children fight this, fight it for us Roza." I hoped those words, gave her the strength to fight this.
"I love you, Dimitri Hayden Belikov." She said, and then she screamed like she was dying. Which I was afraid that was exactly what was happening. "AAAHHHH!" Then nothing, absolute complete and total silence, for about ten seconds.
Then I heard the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard in my life. My Roza took a deep breath. Then I heard more screaming, this time from the cells.
"I guess they don't like getting what they give out." My fiancée said, myself and everyone else, let out the breath we were holding, as we all cried.
They didn't want to lose their friend, sister, daughter and queen; but I couldn't lose my wife. And although we are not legally married yet, husband and wife is exactly how we saw each other. We had pretty much acted like a married couple, since the day we met. Fights, loving each other, and making up. Is all a part of being with someone, forever.
"Oh God, thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you." More tears filled my eyes as I looked down into the eyes of my Roza. "Oh baby, I'm so glad you are ok. I love you so damn much." I sobbed.
"I love you too Comrade, more than you will ever be able to understand." I sat on the ground with her head resting in my lap, and cried as I stroked her hair. I had laid her down on the ground, when she started jerking so much, So I could hold on to her head better, and keep it from slamming into the ground.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again Roza. I almost died when I thought I'd lost you."
"I'm fine my love, a little tired, but other than that I'm fine. Help me up I want to go to the cells."
"No. After Liz checks you out, then you can get up and go to the cells, and not a moment before." I told her very firmly, leaving no room for arguments.
"Gees, pushy much? You think I almost die, you get bossy. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. What's next, bed rest for a hang nail?" She joked.
"Roza." I growled at her.
Holding up her hands she said, "ok, ok, ok. I'm sorry I know I scared you, hell I scared myself."
Putting her hand on my cheek she said, "I love you Dimitri. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have made it out that time either. You've always been there for me, when the darkness has taken or tried to take me. And I thank you so very much for that, my love. I was almost gone, when you asked me to fight for you and our children, thank you for reminding me of all I had to lose. Now before you say another word, shut up and kiss me."
I didn't have to be told twice, pulling her further into my embrace, I kissed her, until neither of knew our own names, much less each other's.
I don't know, and I definitely don't care how long we sat there kissing. I do know, that at one time someone tried to get our attention, and we both waved them off, causing everyone to laugh. Afterward, Liz examined my Roza.
"She's fine, but…" With that one word my heart froze.
"But, but, but what Liz?!" I asked in a panic.
"Calm down Dimitri. Are you going to be like every time I almost die?"
"Roza, that's not even fucking funny. You better not ever come anywhere near dying ever again, do you understand me?"
Holding up her hands in surrender she said, "ok, ok, again I'm sorry. I get it, now is not the best time for jokes."
Turning back to Liz I asked, "but what Liz."
"Well I'm not 100% sure, but after she leaves the cells…I want her to take a pregnancy test."
"Wh…what? Are you serious Liz?" Roza asked her.
"Like I said I'm not 100% sure but I think so. With the cursory exam, I just preformed, I think so. As you know, the first week with a damphir, is like a month, for a moroi or a human. After that the time evens out."
"Ok. Let's get to the cells, get that done, so I can go take a test. Hurry and help me up Comrade." Not even thinking I picked her up, my brain still hung up on, Liz saying it was possible that Roza was already pregnant.
(RPOV)
"Mason, am I pregnant?"
"I'm sorry Rosie, but they won't tell me." He whined. "They said it's something you need to find out yourself. Ugh…that is sooo irritating. I don't understand why they won't just tell me."
"Think maybe, it's because you would be so excited you wouldn't be able to hide it, Mase?"
"Yeaaa, that maybe it. But don't worry, I'll be right there with you, the whole way." We heard him squeal, "I can't wait to find out if I'm going to be an uncle."
I knew if we could see him, he would probably be bouncing up and down, so I decided to ask. "Mase are you bouncing?"
"Uhhh…n…no?" Everyone laughed knowing that meant he was; he just didn't want to tell anyone.
As we waited for the elevator I turned to everyone, "ok everyone who has not finished your assignments please go finish them. Dimitri, Baba, Al, Chris, Eddie, Mia, Celeste, Yuri, Ivan, Jilly, Emil, Liz and obviously, Mason and I, will go to the cells. That's as many as will fit in the elevator. I thank you all for caring about me. I can't thank you enough, for your support. But I want to be able to leave here, at sunrise, with everything done, and us all having had a good night's sleep. So, please do your best to hurry, thank you all again." With that said, everyone not listed, left to finish their previous assignments.
Finally, the elevator opened and we all filed in. It was a short ride to the cell level. When the doors opened, I could still hear the whimpers of Dragomir and Ivashkov.
Dimitri still hadn't let me go, when he had sat me back down on the ground, he wrapped his arm around my waist. And going down the stairs to the cells, he held on even tighter, not painfully tight, but tighter.
"If I'm pregnant, am I going to ever be able to walk anywhere alone, ever again?"
I got a simple one-word answer to my question, "no."
Wrapping his arm even tighter around my waist. We all walked to the front of the cell, where Dragomir and Ivashkov still lay on the floor whimpering.
"If you don't like something, I recommend you not try forcing it into someone else."
We watched as they slowly stood up, "you bitch, it is your place to take the darkness from me."
"Actually whore, it is not now, nor has it really ever been, my place to take your darkness. I only did it then because I loved you like a sister, now I feel nothing for you but disgust. As for you Ivashkov, you tried to force something into me that was yours to deal with as well. You both use your magic as if there are no consequences. But what you Dragomir, are about to find out, the hard way, is that there are indeed consequences to your actions. You have used me from day fucking one. So, you could always have someone take up for you, protect you, take the blame for the things you did and to take your darkness. Well that time is over. Every bad thing you ever did, I willingly took the blame for, because I thought we were sisters, stupid fucking me. I should have looked deeper at you and your motives. But never again, will your darkness endanger me, or anyone I care about."
"There is nothing you can do about that bitch, we are bonded. If I have to, I will force it into you and out of me. I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be rich, famous, and successful. I deserve to have children one day if I so wish, I deserve love. God owes me all of that, after having taken my family away from me, and burdening me with you. You think you are so special, but what good are you really? You are just a filthy no good damphir, you are a worthless piece of shit, you stole my slaves!"
She screeched the last part. Not even noticing that all the remaining non-royals, except Kirova. And the remaining damphir, looked at her like they were truly seeing her for the first time. Which apparently, they were.
Finally, she noticed, "what are you all looking at? Alto, stop looking at me and lick my shoes clean." He and the others turned and looked at me.
"I tried to tell all of you."