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It Takes You + My Family To Complete Me.

Chapter 34.

RPOV.

"You guys are all awesome, but I'd really like to wash Robert's tainted magic off, thank you very much. And besides, it's getting late anyway, I'll be fine." I told my eager group of friends. They were all insisting that I shouldn't be alone right now in case Robert decides to attack again. Sydney shot me a questioning look. At first I was confused as to why but then I realized that I sounded exactly like her or well the old her. As I stood there looking around ready to leave, a question suddenly popped into my head,

"Mom?" I asked trying to get her attention.

"Yeah, Rosie?"

"Where are you and baba staying while you're here?"

"We were going to stay in guest housing, or your father was going to rent an apartment," She said to me. I had no doubt that Ibrahim Mazur could pull that one off. If it were any other moroi and a non-royal one at that, it wouldn't have been all that easy but my father was pretty powerful and people rarely said no to him.

"Nonsense! There is no way you guys are going to rent an apartment or stay in guess housing when there's a perfectly good house with spare rooms available! Come stay with me." I said looking directly at mom.

"I'm serious; tell baba when he gets back from, well whatever he went to do." After all the time that passed, my father's job was still a mystery but it didn't really bother me, he wasn't hurting anyone well, not with good reason or I don't think there was any making Janine Hathaway stay with him. She nodded and I left her to her conversation with Lissa.

I suddenly had a feeling of nostalgia as I was about to walk through the adjoining doors between the two houses. I spun on my heals and took the other way out or I was going to until Adrian stopped me.

"Where are you going little dhampir?"

"I told you, I need to wash Robert's magic off." I said.

"Yeah, so why aren't you taking the other way?" I shook my head at him, told him it wasn't anything to worry about then reminded him to dream walk me later to which I received one of his million dollar smiles.

It wasn't a long way from Lissa's to my house so I walked slowly relishing in the golden rays of the early morning sun. There were times when I just wished that we operated on a human schedule. I'd always loved the sun but I rarely got to bask in it's warmth. I sighed in content as I neared home trying to let go of all my worries. It was futile though because they all came rushing back the moment I opened the door and was greeted by an unwelcomed silence. One that I could never seem to get used to. In all the time that Dimitri was gone, every time I walked in here I was stunned by the almost airy silence. I walked over to the radio and turned it on, only to have it come on on an eighties channel, I turned the channels a few times and every time country music or eighties music blared through the speakers. With a vile nasty curse that would have earned me some chastisement from my Russian lover, I hit the off button. Only, I'd hit it too hard knocking the radio off the counter. I swore again and placed it back where it belonged. Remembering that I'd actually wanted a shower, I sprinted up to my room, but before stripping out of my clothes, I ran a bath. While the tub filled with clean warm water, I stripped out of my clothes. Before stepping in the tub, I poured in some of my favourite bubble bath which had been a present from Dimitri. It smelled faintly of lavender and vanilla. I stepped in the water and felt like I was doing something horrible. Startled by my reaction I hopped out. And just like that I realized why I felt that way. I opened the shower instead and climbed under as I scrubbed every inch of myself with the body sponge. Maybe I was being irrational Robert hadn't actually touched me but I didn't really care I washed my hair with a vanilla scented shampoo and condissioner. The cool water did nothing to relieve my aching muscles. There was only one thing that could help me now, I climbed back into the tub and just relaxed or well, I tried to. My body felt calm but my mind was racing with images of Dimitri's body bruzed and bloodied, him as a strigoi or my deepest fear come to life, Dimitri limp and unmoving, dead. A shudder ran through my body at that and as if sensing my mood, the babies began to move around. I gently rubbed my belly trying to calm them.

"It's okay angels, Mommy is going to take care of you. No one and I mean no one is going to hurt you." I said but even as I said it, a few traitorous tears rolled down my cheeks. Dam it Rose, get it together! My name is Rose Hathaway and Rose Hathaway doesn't cry. My emotions have been a roller-coaster lately and it was time to put an end to it, now! Crying wouldn't help Dimitri one bit! If only I could contact him somehow. Adrian had tried today to contact him by a dream visit just in case they were on a different schedule from us, but that was futile. Then suddenly, I had an idea. I climbed out of the tub and grabbed my phone off the nightstand. I dialled the familiar number and waited for him to pick up.

"Rose? What's wrong?" He sounded panicked and I honestly couldn't blame him. Hell, I would've been panicked as well seeing that he'd just left me less than an hour ago.

"I'm fine," I said. I then proceeded to tell him my plan. He agreed and we agreed to meet up in an hour.

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What's Rose's plan? Who did she call? Don't you all think that she's being hard on herself? Shouldn't she give herself some time to grieve? Leave me your thoughts in a review!

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Roza