Last Kiss
Disclaimer: This all belongs to Richelle Mead except for the plot, that's mine.
Chapter 25
it wasn't long before we flew out, this mission needed to be completed and fast. Unfortunately Adrian came along for the ride, I completely opened myself up to the ghosts seeing them flying around me, most enjoying throwing vicious looks to each other, a few perfectly content to enjoy doing nothing, finding a small amount of peace in this world. I heard about people able to send images between our world and theirs, I caught the eye of one and projected an image of what I wanted. They complied not long after, they had gotten the message. I began to concentrate closing my eyes to do so, Adrian noticed that and slowly his chatter drifted off as he looked at me quizzically, "What are you doing, Rose?"
I concentrated slightly more and then . . . Bam there it was, I thought as I heard Adrian scream and hastily tried getting out of his seat. The ghosts were right in his face and eventually I got him to see them.
The actual incident wasn't funny, but hearing him scream and fall out of the chair added to the hilarity, at least for me, I was laughing my ass off as everyone watched, slightly amused at seeing my reaction.
"Ha-ha very funny Little Dhampir." he said clearly not impressed as he got back into the chair.
"I thought it was," I said trying to stop laughing so my stomach could recover.
"Shut up."
I just sat there and grinned at him thinking of other pranks I could pull on him.
D Pov
I was guarding Christian and Alisha and hate every second of it. Something didn't feel right about the trip I needed to be there with Rose, they had only been gone half an hour and counting.
I knew I was radiating worry and a feeling off not wanting to be there but I did my best to concentrate on my job, protecting Christian after the recent attacks.
"Go Belikov," Christian said.
"No, I can't."
"You and me both want to be there, but Lissa and I are needed here with Alisha, we will be fine, I can protect us."
"No I-"
"Go Dimitri. Use one our jets."
He left no room for an excuse and after hesitation I complied, something didn't feel right about this.
R Pov
We landed. It was late at night by the time we got off the planes. Straight after we all piled into the cars heading off to our temporary base.
After an hour of constant high way driving we reached our destination an abandoned cabin about 10 minutes from the high school and town. She was staying on campus so we decided the best thing to do was go in , all but kidnap her and leave, and in the mean time had 4 guards minding the house. We had a little over 4 hours until the sun rose, so I wondered outside breathing in the fresh air, eventually sitting down against a tree not too far from the cabin but gave me an excellent view of the sky. My mind wondered, and I began thinking about different star constellations, the big dipper, southern cross, Orion . . . I would be a horrible space scientist, right now I would be able to pick out at least 50 different stars that could create the southern cross even though we weren't even in the right hemisphere.
As my mind wandered I kept an eye out on my surroundings, just as I was about to get up and go back inside I heard footsteps approach, instantly I drew my stake and tackled the intruder as he walked around the corner. I should have picked him out instantly, not many people, normal people are that bloody tall.
"What the hell, Dimitri?"
"I had to come, something wasn't right."
"How are you here? You are meant to be guarding Lissa? Remember? Your charge."
"They told me to go after you; they knew something was up as well."
Eventually I decided I might as well let him get up and I moved back to my original position sitting, looking at the sky but with him next to me.
"I am truly sorry Ro-se." He said my name as two different words, I knew he wanted to call me Roza and I knew what he wanted to talk about, but I never wanted to go there again.
"Dimitri," I took a breath preparing myself. "Dimitri, you have got to be kidding me if you think you can just wander on in here say "I'm sorry." and I'm just going to go fly into your arms like nothing ever happen, like you just didn't rip my heart out." I said having my little rant.
"What can I do to make it up to you? I did what I did to protect you. I can remember you spent so many hours, days practicing, just to protect Lissa. I could let that be taken away from you forever. I didn't mean the words, it was the only thing I could do to give you the dream you had always longed for."
"Couldn't you have just told me that?"
"Would you have listened? Because you were most certainly not listening to me before that."
"No probably not, but why did you give up on us so easily? I would have still been Lissa's guardian."
"Ro-se. You forgot. They Come First. Being with me would have destroyed your reputation, and knowing how the moroi world works, I doubt that you would have ended up as Lissa's guardian even if she is queen."
"Yeah, Well, They suck." He chuckled and we sat together in silence, we were slightly closer but I still hadn't forgiven him.
"Come on," I said after a while. "I've got a diabolical plan in place and you have a diabolical plan to crash." I got up and extended my hand to him, offering help, he took my hand but I felt no pressure at all. I knew he didn't need it but it's the thought that counts right?
We walked back slowly, thinking everything over. The plan was easy, go in, get the girl, leave.
"Hey, so was this what you were planning with me and Lissa, like the whole stalk us and then kidnap us?"
"Yes, but then you got the drop on us and we had to move."
"Huh." I thought to myself, de ja vu much except we were on the other side now, cool.
We arrived back just as the sun was beginning to rise, Eddie had begun to sort out the guardians, we were going to replace the guardians that were out there now, a precaution in case and lunatic moroi killers were here and any Strigoi that like to live on the edge. We had decided earlier that I would go in and find her, and convince her to come back with us. The easy job.
We set off almost immediately, hearing and talking devices were being handed out amongst the guardians as a form of communication, I had just finished fixing mine when we arrived. We all climbed out and dispersed in different directions, them to replace the guardians and me to the front door, I ran over possible explanations in my head, "Hi, you don't know me, but right now you need to come with me, a complete stranger, because you're a vampire who's being hunted by other vampires." I had walked a mere 3 steps when I realized Dimitri was following me. I noticed that Adrian was left in the van with another guardian.
"Look Dimitri, just because Eddie allowed you to come on the mission doesn't mean I need a baby sitter."
"I have a bad feeling about this Ro-se."
We reached the door and I knocked and it wasn't long before a girl answered.
"Um . . . Hi?" I thought how we looked a huge muscled god and sexy, beautiful and too small for anyone to notice girl. I turned around to Dimitri and gave him a look to back off a little so we didn't look like we were going to kidnap someone or kill someone, we wanted her to come peacefully.
I looked back to the girl, she was about 20 black-haired, brown eyed and couldn't stop quaking at Dimitri, I concluded she probably wasn't Lissa's sister.
"Hi," I said cheerily trying to draw her attention to me "I'm looking for a Zoe, she was a old friend of mine?"
"Zoe? Yeah, um she's not here she spent the night, again, on campus studying. If it helps about 10, 15 minutes the school has a thing that she had to be at for some reason, it's a geeky extra curriculum thing, something about a science experiment. I don't know she does too many extra curriculum things for me to remember."
"Thanks, bye." I said, I wanted to punch someone I had managed to keep a smile plastered on my face until the roommate shut the door and I all but yelled into the microphone.
"What. The. Hell. You guys are suppose to protect her and you didn't even know where she was?!"
"What's going on Rose?" Dimitri asked me, he had stepped away far enough that he hadn't heard the conversation.
"She's not here." I said, fuming.
Quickly I headed towards the hall, it was years ago that I was last here but the layout was simple and I remembered where everything was, as we walked I spoke over the microphone describing were all the doors were and which way was the faster to get to them, I told them over the microphone Dimitri and I would sweep the place, the sun was up now so any Strigoi who didn't have a death wish should be inside now.
Dimitri and I heard over the microphones "Everyone's in place" just as we stepped inside to a rather unsettling scene. We had just walked into a hostage situation in the hall.
Who looked like the leader turned to use holding a gun pointed at us saying "I suggest you don't move, one pull and you're dead."
I nodded and he lower his gun slightly "Now come over here." he commanded, they were all wearing ski masks and wearing completely black outfits, no one else had a gun. I began slowly walking forward, searching the crowd as I did looking for Zoe, I spotted her instantly, she look like Lissa when she was 15 but with slightly different eyes and nose, traits of her mum no doubt.
"We just want to talk to the girl, Zoe. We don't want to interfere in any way." I was about 2 meters away from him at this point and I could hear Dimitri wasn't far behind.
The leader was still deciding what to do with us when I shot Dimitri a look over my shoulder, before I turned around again and pounced, I knocked the gun out off his hand and began trying to take him down, I heard in the back ground that Dimitri was calling in the other guardians and they were locked in their own battles, these guys were Moroi I guessed. From so far away and wearing masks I couldn't tell they were Moroi, I dropped low and sweep his feet from under him and he feel to the floor, I moved to hold his hands to together when suddenly I was sweating heavily and it felt like it was 50 degrees (Celsius so about 122 Fahrenheit remember this is an exaggeration) inside when I realized the leader was a fire user there was a ball of fire hovering over the group of students, I could see the guardians had taken down all but two of the moroi but I realized the Moroi didn't know who was the princess, since I had picked out Zoe immediately I didn't pay attention to the other girls until now, they all looked the same, tall, beautiful, most of them where blonde, not many had green eyes but that no one said that Zoe had the Dragomir jade eyes, Zoe's was a more blue aqua colour, the moroi had just assumed that they would be able to pin the girl, kill her and leave.
"You guys don't know if she is here." I said I couldn't believe it.
"She is here, she is right there." he pointed to another girl, and I could understand his reasoning the girl was tall vibrant green eyes and strawberry blonde hair.
I made eye contact with Dimitri who was near the princess looking from him to the princess, I was going to tackle the guy and if the ball dropped I couldn't let her get hurt. I turned back to him and tackled him hoping that the ball hadn't dropped or Dimitri had protected the girl, I was lying next to him, immediately I picked myself up and held the knife to his throat as I heard the guardians take down the remaining moroi.
The leader got a dangerous glint in his eye and my stake began to heat up, some other guardians rushed to my aid but not before he plunged the stake into my stomach and everything was black.
D Pov
I saw the whole thing, he killed Roza, I was standing by Zoe making sure no one came near her when he did it. I saw the stake begin the glow it was the smallest thing ever but when he held the stake it was glowing red and I knew it was another attempt of using his magic. Immediately after Roza was stabbed I rushed to her side, I knelt beside her, trying to apply pressure without removing the stake, soon others joined and I moved to cradle her face calling to her "Roza, Roza you can't leave me!" calling her name nothing worked, she was gone. I felt for a pulse but there was nothing.
E Pov
I was standing nearby I had just knocked one moroi out when I glanced over and saw it, Rose was stabbed. I saw other guardians gave up on holding the moroi hostage and just knocked them unconscious as well. I rushed over to help, I took over Dimitri's job of apply pressure he was clearly freaking out and wasn't much help. Come on Rose. I thought, I can't lose you as well.
R Pov
It was black, peaceful, I was disorientated and slowly began to sit up, as I did so the black faded to white until I was fully standing and a fog began to creep across the ground, I looked down to what I was wearing, exactly the same as before just minuses a stab wound and a lot of blood. I tried expanding my hearing, faintly I could hear a car, driving along, I turned towards the noise and there was a door, It was white and had an air if darkness surrounding it, slowly I walked forward, the fog following me I reached the door and opened it, inside, it wasn't a room but it was I could see it, it was the accident replaying over, I reached my hand out, it was like I was there I could walk in and everything was real.
Just as I was about to take a step forward I heard Dimitri's voice, curious I turned around another door this one was a deep red colour an feeling of happiness surrounded this one. I opened the door, Dimitri was there shirtless, while I stood in front of him and I reached out to kiss his chest. I looked at my dress it was the night of the lust charm all over again. I heard another voice.
"Hey, Rose, check this one out."
"Andre?!" I couldn't believe it he was standing in front of me. Looking him over now, he would give Adrian a run for his money. "What are you doing here?!"
"What do you mean? Life cool, I get to chill, watch Liss and you and everything I left behind." I could tell he was trying to be happy but couldn't, there was a sadness in his voice.
"Come on Rose, don't worry about me, I would prefer to be alive but right now I get the privilege of seeing the life of Rosemary Hathaway, come on, check this one out. It's my favorite." I looked to the door he was standing near, I was a beautiful red could I could almost see the love that surrounded it. I glanced back to the door I had just opened it was gone. I walked forward and began opening it
"I'm blaming you if this blows up." I said smiling.
I opened the door and immediately wished I hadn't. I shut the door quickly; it was the night I lost my virginity to Dimitri. Although I personally wouldn't mind reliving the experience, I would prefer Andre not to see it although he already had from his comment of 'this is my favorite'.
"Oh My God! You are so disgusting! You watched us?! Words don't describe how disgusting you are!" I said as I punched him in the stomach.
"Wow, damn you strong for a small thing! Btw I didn't watch I took a hour break." he winked at me "Although with the way things look like they were going I probably needed the whole day of" He said winking again and I guessed he knew we only did it once but if Dimitri didn't needed to get back and nobody found us we would have probably gone at it like rabbits. "Asshole" I muttered and punched him for good measure.
Thankfully the door had disappeared I turned to face another door; It was a simple, plain, white door. I noticed the fog that was following me moved under the door, I glanced to Andre before opening this one. I saw the fog was swirling around the frame, the door showed me a memory of slipping into Lissa's head, which I guessed was what the fog represented. I saw before me Lissa opening the door to an Adrian who strolled in to find Christian laying on the bed Adrian put the pieces together "Huh, so that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea."
Christian replied "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business."
"Hey, Rose" Andre said pulling me away from the scene unfolding before me. He was slouching against the door frame "I found it the door you need to open." He said pointing to another door.
I turned around to find another one this one was gold, the colour I imagined Adrian and Sonya talked about in my aura. I glanced nervously at Andre wondering why this one was so important. The fog had returned to my feet as I walked over to the door opening it to find me and Dimitri in hospital. Dimitri handed the other me a bag, the bag with the lipstick. I remember the conversation we talked about presents then about me and guardian angels, then Lissa.
"So I'm gonna take a stab and say either your meaning I'm gonna end up in hospital again or your my guardian angel?" I asked highly skeptical.
"As honored as I am by that comment not exactly what I was aiming for. This is your future."
"This is my past." I said, "That happened years ago."
"But, it is a symbol of your future. With Dimitri, protecting Lissa, in between being the hospitals number one patient." He said smiling.
"Okay, if you're going to be all knowing why didn't I want to help earlier with this mission?"
"The group behind the attacks didn't know where Zoe was but as soon as they knew you felt compelled to help, so this way Zoe is reunited and the moroi group has been found and all but hanged now."
"What's with the little show here?"
"You were being to god damn stubborn for your own good. Forgive Dimitri, already! Without him knowing you, you will end up dead and so will he, because you are too stubborn to admit that you can get over anything and are the couple of the century." Andre said it gently, but I could tell he meant it.
"But I like being stubborn." I said smiling, jutting my chin out.
Andre just shook his head at me smiling as he faded away into blackness, just before I woke up I heard.
"Guardian angels never lie . . . See ya next time Rosie."
I gasp awake, I hurt everywhere especially my stomach, it felt like it had being laughing hysterically for the last week. I opened my eyes to see Dimitri above me staring at me in wonder. I rolled over onto my side puking up blood, thankfully I missed whoever was on the other side of me. Dimitri immediately pulled my hair out of my face, again I could hear him calling my name asking what was wrong
"I'm fine . . . I'm fine Dimitri."
I turned to look at him,
"I have a guardian angel." I said smiling; he smiled too, thinking of our conversation all those years ago, and his comment of "You have an amazing body."
I remembering what I had dreamt and guessed it didn't take as long as it did in the dream, I thought to the golden door. I knew I had my soul mate, my best friend, and my guardian angel protecting me, by my side.
Everything that had next, well it didn't matter, that's how the cookie crumbles, everything was going to be fine.
A/N: This is going to be the last chapter, if anyone has any ideas on extending it or anything review or send a message, otherwise I'm gonna end it here.
P.S Who can pick out the Vampire Diaries and We Bought A Zoo references ?