Chapter 53

Adrianna POV

Classes had finished for the day and I was heading towards the gym for my afternoon session, my morning session was cancelled and since it was Monday it had been a few days since I had seen Nikolaus since he also cancelled my Saturday session. Normally if he has to cancel them because he is doing guard shifts someone else takes the session, it was only when there was meetings he out right cancels them and I had a feeling he was cancelling them because he was avoiding me since Friday.

I screwed up big during Friday's afternoon session, I was in a bad mood and I took it out on Nikolaus and I feel incredibly bad for it, seeing the hurt flash through his eyes was enough to stop me in my tracks and allow him to storm out without me stopping him.

It wasn't just one thing during the day that put me in a bad mood it was a domino effect ever since breakfast.

I walked into the cafeteria to hear rumours that Jeremy had slept with some Moroi slut the night before and don't get me wrong I wouldn't get back with him and it's been a whole summer since we broke up but there's still something there, something preventing me wrong from completely forgiving him and allowing us to return to being friends. It was the same thing that caused the pain, I honestly thought I was over him especially after what happened during the summer but seeing the guilt on his face when I sat down at the table with our friends was enough to know it wasn't just a rumour.

Classes came about and I got three please see me after class, I couldn't believe I got three. Yes I did get them every now and then especially if there was a big party on the weekend and my studies slipped because of it but I had been trying to so hard this year and getting three in a day was bullshit and I couldn't take it.

When I entered the gym I practically threw my bag against the wall not even realising that it wasn't completely done up and my books were sent flying across the room. I walked over to the closest one and kicked it not even caring that it was my body guard theory textbook.

"What did the textbook do to you?" I heard Nikolaus speak behind me

"It's a fucking piece of subject that help lead to three please see me" I snapped at him as I walked over to the punching bags and began taking my anger out on it.

"Why did you receive three?"

I ignored him, not wanting to answer his question mainly because I didn't know how to answer him. I honestly didn't know why the hell I received three, I honestly thought my tests and papers were good and defiantly didn't deserve the three please see me.

"Dri stop, your hands are bleeding" Nikolaus went to grab my hands to stop me but he didn't even noticed that I was going to kick the bag, so instead of kicking the bag I kicked him instead. I couldn't even be sorry since he got in the way.

I looked down at my hands once he unwrapped them from his and noticed the blood, I had spilt my knuckles. I couldn't even feel the pain, normally when I was punching the bags I tapped my knuckles for this reason and dad was sick of always healing them because of it.

"Sit on the mats and stay there, I'll be back" I stood there staring at the blood staining my hands wondering why I still couldn't feel the pain. "Dri, please sit down. I have to get the first aid kit and patch up your hands" he spoke softly but I didn't move, I heard him let out a sigh as he walked off.

When he came back out and walked over to where I was still standing now trying to wipe the blood off my hands hoping they had stopped bleeding but they hadn't. He grabbed my arm to drag me over to the mats.

"What are you doing?" I ripped my arm out of his hand and he looked at me confused

"Dri you spilt your knuckles open, I need to clean them up so you don't get an infection"

"Why? Why do you always do this, I can just go to dad and get him to heal them"

"You can't run to him every time you hurt yourself"

"Just stop pretending to care, I'm sick of it! I'm sick of everyone pretending to care, why bother. Seriously tell me the fuck why you are still doing this? Why are you still doing these sessions what the fuck do you get out it? Seriously what is your benefit in spending three hours a day with an 18 year old that apparently gets distracted by boys, who is more fucked up than the average 18 year old and you've had to be there through all of it!"

"Are you fucking kidding me? I'm still here because you fucking asked me too, I get absolutely no benefit out of doing these sessions but if you don't want them anymore than fine we won't"

"Good see if I fucking care, I'm sick of you pretending to care about me!"

"You seriously believe I don't care about you?"

"YES!" I snapped at him it was then I took a good look at his face, he looked angry but I could see the hurt in his eyes.

I was shocked by hurting him this bad he was angry at me for it that I didn't know what to do or say. He didn't even say anything, he just turned around and stormed out. I was still shocked that I couldn't even chase after him.

I ended up getting dad to heal my hands only after he made me tell him what happened during my classes to give me the bad mood and also what happened with Nikolaus because even though I had asked dad to heal my hands a number of times in the past Nikolaus always and I mean always cleaned them up beforehand.

Walking into the gym I honestly didn't know if Nikolaus would be here or not, I wouldn't have even been surprised if he wasn't but what did surprise me was the fact that Dimitri was in there as well as Nikolaus and they weren't just standing there talking they were sparring. I had always wanted to see how those would go in a fight against each other, I had sparred against both and wanted to know but this, this wasn't right. Something was off about the fight, it didn't look right.

I walked closer to them hoping to find out why the spar looked wrong when I noticed Dimitri throw a punch aiming for Nikolaus' face. It was then that I realised this wasn't a spar, this was a fight and when Nikolaus spoke he confirmed it.

"I'm sorry alright, it was a mistake"

"A mistake, how could that be a mistake? You were an idiot!" Dimitri threw another punch aiming for Nikolaus' face and this one connected and I couldn't take it anymore, I needed know what they were fighting about.

"What the hell are you two fighting about?" I yelled, neither of them must have realised I entered the room since I surprised both them. They just stared at me neither of them spoke

"Seriously someone tell me now or I will ring Rose and ask why Dimitri is here because I sure as hell know it isn't just for a visit"

"Speaking of Rose..." Dimitri was the one to speak first and it was then I finally got a look at both of them.

Nikolaus actually looked scared and Dimitri couldn't decide if he was angry or disappointed, it wasn't until I realised he said speaking of Rose to give me the hint and I put it all together.

"She told you!"

"She did, why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I was worried about what the hell you would do to him. Did you even stay long enough to get the story from Rose or did you take off to Lissa and Christian's as soon as she said so Dri and Nikolaus had sex when they in Melbourne?"

"Dri..." Nikolaus spoke, he could tell I was angry and he hoped to calm me down to not make this worse for him.

"No because I know I'm right, I know he would have taken off going straight to their house and demand for time off so he could come here. I wouldn't even be surprised if he told them as well. I know you didn't stay long enough to hear Rose tell you that I was the one that kissed him, I was the one that pulled him into my bedroom. Dimitri I made the first move not him!" that got him, the anger slipped from his face and he turned and looked at Nikolaus

"If this all true why did you let me think that you took advantage of her?"

"Would you have seriously believed me if I said all of that, I figured it was easier to let you get your anger out and hope she turned up at some point because I knew you would believe her over me"

Dimitri let out a sigh and rubbed the back of his neck before looking between the both of us. He didn't say anything, I was worried this was going to completely backfire and bite me in the ass. It was in this silence that I actually began to worry about what Dimitri had told Lissa and Christian to come out here and if he had told dad. I knew dad would completely lose his shit if he found out what happened.

"You two actually had sex over the summer, Adrianna made the move and now your fine, acting like nothing ever happened?" Dimitri finally spoke

"Well...we're not exactly fine but we're as fine as we can be"

"What does that mean?"

"What it means was I was coming in here with the full intent on apologizing for what happened the other day"

"Very well, I will speak to you about this later Adrianna" I knew right then and there I was going to get one of the many zen life lessons Rose spoke about.

"Wait, Dimitri what did you tell Lissa and Christian so you could come out here?"

"We'll talk about this later Adrianna" I nodded my head knowing there was nothing I could say to change his mind.

When Dimitri was gone I walked over and took a seat on the bench not even looking at Nikolaus, I was worried that he was going to snap at me and take off as well but I heard him walk over to me before taking a seat beside me, I looked up at him but he was staring off at the other wall obliviously thinking about something.

"I really am sorry for everything I said on Friday, I was in a bad mood and I didn't mean to take it out on you"

"Do you honestly believe I don't care about you?"

"No, as I said I was in a bad mood. I think you do care otherwise why would you be here, I was thinking about it over the weekend. Both you and James said that the patrolling guardians that get sent here only do three years, your three years are up. Why are you still here?"

"I do care about you Dri, I know you want to be able to graduate with your friends and I want to help you to do it. I'm still here because the Guardians in charge of assigning dhampirs to Moroi decided I wasn't ready to go back to guarding Moroi but they also decided I could have a change of scenery if I wanted too. I had the choice to stay here, go to another academy or stay at Court"

"Why wouldn't you stay at Court, surely you have more freedom there then you would here, you could have friends and somewhat of a life at Court"

"Because as I said, I care about you and I want to help you Dri"

"Thank you" I gave him a smile and he gave me one back

"Come on we should at least do something practical this session or should we talk about your three see me on Friday that caused your bad mood?"

I agreed and we talked about the tests and papers that were handed back. I was just glad he assumed that was all that accounted towards my bad mood and he didn't know anything about Jeremy.

It wasn't until after dinner that night when I entered the dorm with my friends that I finally saw Dimitri again, he was sitting there obliviously waiting for me to return. Carter literally stopped in his tracks at the sight of Dimitri, both him and Rose were considered gods among the novices. Everyone had heard about them and had heard how Rose is still the only novice to receive marks before graduating in the last who knows how many years.

Stefan and Emily laughed at Carter for his reaction, they were used to seeing Dimitri around at Court so this wasn't a shock to them at all. They pushed him along and left me to deal with Dimitri alone, once my friends were gone he stood from the seat and headed towards the back staircase to lead me upstairs. I knew without him saying a word that I was expected to follow him so I did.

When we were in one of the unused lounges it didn't take long until he finally spoke.

"Why would you do something so stupid? Surely you have heard enough of the stories about what Rose and I had to go through once people began realising we fell in love when she was my student"

"This has got nothing to do with Nikolaus and I being in love because we aren't. All we did was have sex, what is the big deal?"

"The big deal is that you had sex with him and you made the first move, I thought you were better than that"

"Are you kidding me right now? You can't seriously lecture me on something like this, you and Rose had sex when she was your student!"

"We were in love"

"Stop treating sex like it should be only done with someone you are in love with! Surely it can't be true"

"Adrianna..."

"What, it can't be true considering I was conceived by two people who didn't love each other, I was raped and I know my dad was well known for him partying and sleeping around when he was my age!"

"Fine I won't but seriously what you did was stupid and reckless, why did you kiss him?"

"I was drunk"

"Oh god, seriously Adrian let you go off with him and get drunk?"

"In Australia the legal drinking age is 18, he couldn't stop me" I shrugged at him and the look on his face made me realise that was a mistake

"Adrianna, stop being smart about this and actually have a conversation with me"

"Why, what's the point. You just want to yell at me for what happened, we were both drunk and it happened. We talked about it and we're past it"

"You were both drunk! He was meant to be protecting you!"

"Great, what the hell have I started now" he didn't even hear me, he had stood up and began pacing the room.

"He actually got drunk when he was meant to protecting you, what good Guardian does that?"

"Dimitri please sit down, you were the one that wanted this to be a conversation"

"I can't believe this, you were both drunk and did something so incredibly stupid"

"YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THIS!" I yelled at him and he finally stopped and looked at me

"Did you honestly think Rose wouldn't tell me?"

"I honestly didn't think you would come all the way out here to beat him up, have you told dad?"

"You know how both Rose and I feel about you and no I haven't, I don't know if I should of not"

"I know, you both fill the void of not being able to have children with me and I love you both honestly I do but please don't tell dad'

"You should go find your friends, I have a plane to catch back to Court"

"Dimitri"

"Adrianna seriously, I have to catch a plane back tonight"

"Alright, please don't tell anyone especially dad and give my love to everyone back home?" I begged him, I honestly hoped news wouldn't get back to dad about what happened.

"I will"

I gave him a small smile as I left the lounge honestly hoping he wouldn't tell anyone or if he did it didn't lead back to dad. I didn't know how dad would react but I did know it wouldn't be good when he eventually found out what happened.

A/N: Thank you to everyone who keeps reading and setting alerts for my story! So here is when Dimitri found out what happened, I know people were anxiously waiting to see what happens. Also I'm so close to 100 reviews, it would mean a lot of I could reach it with this chapter upload.

Moulinness thank you for always reviewing, it means a lot to me. Ah well I'm sorry for that, either read it, google Ruby Circle spoilers or message you and I can tell you what I would have said. I was tempted to make it so Dri was mad at him but then I didn't know how to do the sessions with her mad at him and since she wants to graduate with her friends she can't skip sessions, I figured I'll make her suck up her pride and deal with her anger towards him. As for them not regretting the night well, I couldn't do it. Nikolaus is in love with her and he certainly wouldn't and Dri trusts him enough to do it, her views on sex were mentioned above so her influence wasn't love.

LilianGrace thank you for always reviewing, it means a lot to me. Yes they did finally talk and I'm glad you liked how Dri finally brought Nikolaus to the ground, I had to do something to surprise Nikolaus and learning from Dimitri and Rose would be the best option since they are 'such gods' among the novices.

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