Hope you enjoy this chapter! I hope to get another one up in the next couple days but we'll see what happens!
Chapter 24
Rose's POV
I woke up in a farmiliar place.
The white tile ceiling...
Quite beeps from the machines around me...
Uncomfortable bed...
Smell of antibacterial everywhere...
Yes I was in the clinic. Like always. I looked to my right to see Luke curled up and asleep in one of the chairs. I shook my head.
Why was I here this time?
Pulling the cord things out of my arm and the heart monitor off my finger I got up to make my secret escape.
Only one fault in my plan.
When the heart monitor was off my finger the alarm went off and Luke woke up startled and Dc. Olendzki and a nurse barged in. There was big commotion all three tried to get me back in bed but I refused and grabbed the pile of clothes on the desk walking into the bathroom.
When I came out in jean shorts and a a red shirt Dc. Olendzki clucked and said
''Rose honestly next time just press the call button.'' I smirked and said
''but I was going to make a grand escape!'' she laughed and said
''Your free to leave when you like, take it easy for the next bit I don't want to have your young man here bring you in here at least for a little while'' I smiled at her before frowning as I turned on him. He lifted up his hands in surrender and said
''hey you passed out for no apparent reason! So I brought you here and they said that you had just overworked yourself with no sleep.'' I frowned but grabbed my red flats and dragged Luke out of the room. We walked down the hall in silence passing by the receptionist and leaving the room I turned and said
''Do they know?'' He nodded and said
''Before I brought you here we'd all explained after I got here I got a txt from Lissa saying she'd explained in more detail to all of them.'' I nodded looking around I asked
''What day is it?'' He smiled and said
''Friday night you got me out of Field Experience for the rest of the time they said we 'Exceeded beyond what was believed to be possible' I believe was what they said.'' I smiled then paused before running to my room.
It's Friday!
''Rose why are you running? Your supposed to be taking it easy'' He said running behind me trying to catch up. I giggled and said
''I've never been one to listen to the doc. And besides do you remember what am I going to receive today?''
''WHAT?'' then he dashed ahead catching up to me he paused before saying ''Ooh no wonder your excited I have to admit though I haven't seen many girls get all excited about knives and bullets before.'' I giggled and said
''Well there's a first time for everything!''
Luke's POV
How on earth does Rose come up with her brilliant idea's? What goes on in that beautiful head of hers?
I sighed before looking around the room.
We sat in the dhampir guest dorm with the bullets and knives surrounding us. The moroi sat around organizing and planing out what magic would be used on each set of knives and bullets.
I looked up at the surrounding stain glass windows. I could now see that it looked an awful lot like Rose and Lissa. I wondered if this was a display of past actions, I wondered when this had happened.
I glanced at Rose, she stood in front of a dummy she'd dragged up here and was passing her knew silver knife from hand to hand before stabbing the dummy. She flung the knife around dangerously the light glinted of the sharp edges but she always caught it with ease before stabbing and slashing again.
I looked over at Dimitri and Tasha.
Dimitri sat on the couch inspecting the bullets and knives while Tasha was sitting close to him talking very seriously to Hana, Lissa, Christian and Adrian who all listened intently. They added there own thoughts in every once in a while and wrote quick notes on the notebook erasing andrewriting them every couple minutes. Eddie had been tolled but he was making sure no one decided to head over here. I could already tell but Rose and I had agreed that the least amount of people should know.
Looking back at Rose I watched as she gracefully plunged the knife into the dummy. I watched her stop mid lunge then turning slowly to wards the door. She walked eyes narrowed and she pulled open the door.
Now I wasn't concerned about someone seeing us but I did wonder as she stared at the plain wood doors. I wondered what the hell went on in that complex mind of hers.
Rose's POV
I passed the knife from one hand to another as I thought.
This discovery... If it worked out it could bring moroi and dhampirs together.
I paused before lunging and attacking the dummy. I backed of after a couple of hits then flipped the knife in the air watching the wickedly sharp point gleam in the air.
This knife could very possibly make moroi break even with the dhampirs except us as equals.
My mind thought as I skillfully wielded the knife.
I was impressed with the way I could handle the knife. I picked this one out of the bunch it was more of a dagger though and I just knew how to work with it only to swing it a certain way.
Most of the 'knives' in the box had actually been daggers. This one I had picked had a beautiful design on it. It reminded me of some design I'd seen before. It caught my breath when I saw it, the beauty of the design took me even without colour it was breathtaking the silver shone. The design itself was a stick like thing in the middle with lines that ran through the stake almost as if the vines had become a part of the stake... Somewhere there was design like this...
The door!
I paused mid lunge and turned slowly.
I could feel eyes burn there gaze into my back as I walked slowly towards the door.
It seemed like forever before I arrived to the beautiful wood doors. I flung it open. The designs beauty made me pause. My eyes ran up the vines following the stake. It took me a moment before I could begin to think again. Holding up the dagger to the designs. It was similar but different.
The designs on the door looked almost as if they fought... vines against stakes.
The one on my dagger seemed almost as if they were in harmony.
What does it mean?
I looked over to the crowd of people on couch. I waved them over they paused before coming. They stood around me looking at me curiously. I held the dagger up so that they could see the design.
''What do you think the designs mean?'' They looked at me curiously before Lissa said
''What designs'' I narrowed my eyes slightly then said
''The one on my dagger'' I said waving it around ''and the one on the door I said swinging my hand towards it. They stared at me before Dimitri said very softly
''There are no designs on the door or your dagger besides the school emblem.'' I growled and said
''of course there is! The stake with the vines growing around? The one where the vines are being stepped on by the stake?'' seeing confusion in your eyes I groaned. Lissa said
''Maybe it's a shadow kissed thing...'' I nodded unhappily and said
''SOMEONE get me a goddamned pencil and paper while I draw you dimwits the designs. Not you though Liss your not a dimwit'' Lissa gave me a small smile for that and Luke nodded before running to grab the notebook and pencil they'd used to take notes. Handing them over to me I sighed before saying
''You guys can go back to what you were doing I'll draw these'' I grumbled. Picking up the sketch book I quickly drew them and noted the colours of the vines. This took me ten extremely difficult minutes. After this I sat on the couch and drew the design that was on my blade. That took me about five more/ It was difficult getting the right curve of the vines the proud straight lines of the stake...
Once I finished them I found that they were no way as beautiful as the real one but that there was no way I'd manage to create a master piece like those on my dagger and those on the door. I stood and carrying the notebook I walked over to the group.
''Here they are!'' I said swinging it around so that they could see my picture. Adrian snickered and said
''What a lovely blank page with words on it Rose!'' I almost screamed. Instead I let out a small growl and turned hurling the dagger at the closed door.
It smacked right in the middle of it. There was a flash of light and I heard the others take in a slight intake of breath. I looked back to see Lissa approaching. She gently took the notebook out of my hand and held it up she giggled and said
''This is why...'' I frowned and said
''This is why what?'' She giggled and said
''I had this feeling while we worked on them... they didn't feel right there was always something missing... these designs! This is it!'' I looked at her and said
''What do you mean?'' Her eyes were glazed over as if she wasn't really in control of her actions. She walked over to the box of daggers and knives taking four out. We all stood around her as she laid three of them down. Using the other one she began to carve the design of the stake smashing the vines. She etched it in on the next one as well. She grabbed my arm and dragged me down onto the couch handling the dagger to me she said
''Carve this design in these two'' She pointed out the one where the vines took over the stake, and two daggers. The one she hadn't carved and one of the two that she had. Her green eyes beckoned me to carve and I caved giving her and odd look before doing so.
After five minutes of almost chopping my fingers of I finally had finished the designs. She picked them up and walked over to the door
''Be careful with those!'' I exclaimed. She ignored me and continued on she plucked my dagger out of the door placing it in her arms she opened the door revealing the design. Some gasps behind me were audible and after I successfully dragged my gaze away from the door I turned on the group behind me. They all stared at the breath taking design as I said hands on my hips
''SEE I'm not nuts.'' Luke came forward and turned me around to face the door. Lissa stood she had stuck two daggers in each door. She leaned forward and placed her hands on the door closing her eyes.
I was suddenly pulled into her body and I felt as she began to use her magic.
All of it.
She used fire and water, air and earth, and last but not least she used spirit. Vines of magic twirled in through the door to the knives she twirled them around the silver. The waves of happiness crashed thru her taking her energy with her. I felt my body move towards her placing a hand on her shoulder I took away the shadows in her mind slowly so that my mind would get used to it.
I was pulled in again looking thru her eyes I watched as the daggers and the door began to glow. Her eyes closed shut and I felt her muscle shake from fatigue I pulled out of her head which proved to be difficult. I held her up till she suddenly took her hands away from the door she turned and said
''There done.'' She abruptly fell onto me asleep. I chuckled and said over my shoulder.
''Hey fire boy? Get over here your girlfriend passed out.