Alright, this is a pretty shitty chapter, but I wrote it really fast and my beta is in the hospital, so give me some credit. Updates will be a little sooner now, the show I was just costuming ended, so I am focusing on school and writing now. I love you guys, and I am so sorry it took so long!
Chapter 28: Just His Pet
Nessy's POV
"Well then, I think that uh, we'll just be going…" I said, pulling on Adrian's hand.
"Yah…" He said, following me out the door.
Lissa spoke up. "I am going to stay her and help Olena." She said, bending down and putting her hand on her forehead.
Adrian and I got out the door, and into the sunlight. We saw the foot prints heading one way, so we went the other. We were just walking, hand in hand, down the street. I wasn't on high alert because it was day light, and I was just staring at my feet, and every so often I glanced over at Adrian, blushed, and looked away.
"Where are we going?
"Not really sure…" He said, squeezing my hand. Both knowing that our physical destination was not the only thing we were talking about, we just smiled, not really caring about either at the moment.
Rose's POV
"God damnit!" I yelled, punching the nearest thing to me. Which just so happened to be a small tree. "Dimitri! Where the hell are you?" I yelled into the sky. The wind was starting to pick up, and I could feel the prick of ice in the air. A storm was coming.
Whoosh.
I was slammed into another's mind, and in my own body, the force was enough to make me fall over. But I ignored the pain as I looked through a terrified Nessy's eyes.
"Don't hurt him!" She screamed, her hair in front of her eyes, blurring her vision. And mine. God damn it! Calm down! And let me get a good view!
"Rose?" She asked, stopping immediately.
Thank god! This crazy three way bond had its ups.
In front of Nessy, a man started talking. "This is who you choose instead of me, Stela?" He said, still blurred by the thick strands of hair. "A Moroi?" I saw a thin slice of Adrian hunched over in front of her. He was kicked, and he toppled onto the ground. They were outside, and for the first time, I noticed two pairs of arms holding on to Nessy. She struggled to get free, but they just held on tighter; tight enough to make her scream.
Trying to get a grasp of where they were, I focused on the surroundings. They were under trees, I could tell from the moving shadows around them. The sun was still bright in the sky from how thick the shadows were.
"Stela, look at me!" The man yelled, picking her head up and effectively throwing her hair out of the way.
Wait a moment here. Kurtis? Strigoi Kurtis, in the daylight. In her peripheral view, I could see his henchman, Strigoi, white skin red eyes and all.
Lissa's ominous warning came back to me. They walk the dark, but they will come into light.
Crap.
Lissa's POV
Olena woke a little later, and looked around. Christian and I had cleaned up the remnants of the fight, and Rose's parent had left to the small inn we had all intended on staying at. She looked back to me. "Where's Roza?" She asked, a pleading look in her eyes. I glanced to Christian, pleading for him to jump in. What do I say? Tell her 'out searching for your used to be Strigoi son that ran off because he thinks you and the rest of your family hate him'? She I took the half assed way out.
"Searching for Dimitri…" I said his name slowly, and gauged her reaction. She breathed in and leaned back into the chair, he eyes wide.
"Is he really alive?" She asked, staring at the roof.
I nodded. "Yes. Rose brought him back."
She breathed in again, and closed her eyes. "What happened after I fainted?"
"Um… Well… Viktoria-"
Her eyes snapped open. "VIKTORIA!" She yelled out, causing me to almost fall off the chair I was perched on.
I tried to defend Viktoria. "Olena, you don't know-"
She jumped up and turned on me. "I do know that my daughter is the reason that my son and my daughter are out there right now!"
"Yes, mama?" Viktoria asked, coming down the stairs slowly, her head hanging. Sonya and Karolina were a little behind, glad to hear their mother's voice.
"What. Happened?" Olena said, trying to keep her temper down.
Obeying her mother, Viktoria started, and I could tell it was paining her. "I saw Dimka and jumped up to fight, thinking he was a Strigoi still…"
"He didn't look like a Strigoi did he?" Olena said, her fists balled and teeth clenched.
"No, and I realized that. It's just…" she sighed, and I could hear the tears in her voice. "When I went to Novosibirsk… I hid something from you." She lifted her shirt, and I saw a large scar across the side of her stomach. "I ran into some Strigoi, and we fought. They recognized me as a Belikova, and told me about Dimitri, and his new… pet."
I gasped, realizing that this 'pet' was Rose.
"They told me about how many people he had killed, how many he had slaughtered…" Her voice cracked. She started to sob, and I quickly went over to comfort her. I turned to Olena, who also had tears in her eyes.
"If Roza can forgive him, then we can. We have to allow him back into our home. He is not as he once was." She said, wiping her tears away, reaching to hug her three daughters. I quickly scooted away, and sat next to a stoic Christian.
Rose's POV
I pulled myself out of Nessy's head- no easy feat- and thought. I couldn't take on those Strigoi without Dimitri on my side, and it would be even easier if I had my mother with me. First is first. Find Dimitri.
Abe's POV
"I don't know, Abe," Janine said, pacing the floor of our room. "Something just doesn't feel right."
I sighed, about to tell her I was sure everything was fine, but she was right. "I feel it too." I said, getting up from the couch. "Let's go find Rose." We opened the door, and stepped out. The air had a cool nip to it, and the sky was covered in thick dark clouds.
We went back to the Belikova house, and searched for clues.
"Here are her footprints," Janine said, "They lead to the forest…" She took a deep breath and started into the trees. We keep going deeper and deeper, following Rose's footprints, when we came upon a spot where they abruptly stopped.
"ROZA!" A shout came from further ahead, and I could tell it was Dimitri. Janine started to run towards the sound. We heard a muffled scream, and another shout.
When we got to Dimitri, things weren't looking to good. About 10 feet away, Rose was being held by two Strigoi. Dimitri was in a fighting stance, waiting for one to turn his back, but no such luck. The Strigoi turned to Janine, and smiled.
"More company. This will make Kurtis very happy." One of them said, shoving Rose to the ground and standing over her. But, what he wasn't expecting was Rose to be that fast. In the moment that he had no hold on her, she flipped onto her back and shoved him back with her feet. He tumbled, and she was on top of him in seconds. Dimitri lunged for the other one, and pinned him to the ground. He was about to kill him, when Rose shouted, "Wait! We need them alive!"
His eyes still focused on the Strigoi, Dimitri spoke. "Why? They serve us better dead." He growled and pushed the stake a little more into the Strigoi's chest.
"They know where Kurtis is, and he has Nessy!"
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