I woke up when I heard the door open. Dimitri smiled at me, but he was clearly uncomfortable. My father walked in right after him and I understood why. He sat next to me and pushed my hair behind my ears. My fathers booming voice took away any time I had to say hello. "So Rosemarie, I'm sure you've been checking in with Lissa," I gave him a look and he proceeded with caution. "Yes, well, so you know on Friday it will be decided, and if everything goes according to my plan, like it always does, you'll be back at court for the coronation on Saturday." I looked at him wide eyed.
"That's on two days from now! You mean I get to see Lissa then, and I won't be a wanted criminal?" He simply nodded, before excusing himself. Just before he shut the door I heard him say. 'Hands off Belikov.' And I laughed. "Dimitri please tell me you have something for me to eat." I had gone through the box of granola bars before I fell asleep, so now I was starving. He smiled again.
"I have something better." He didn't explain he just told me to put shoes on. I quietly followed him through the dorm back door into the quad. The sun was coming up and the only people out were a few guardian's who seemed to be ignoring us. When I seen the building ahead of us I knew where we were going.
Looking around, hundreds of little memories came flooding back to me. Sitting on on of the benches against the wall, I looked around my old training gym. It made me miss the relatively simple life I had a year ago.
Dimitri came and sat next to me and gave me a brown paper bag. Inside was two boxes. I took out the one on the top and happily ate the salad and pasta that was inside. Dimitri didn't say anything and after a while he got up and went into the locker room. When he came back out he was shirtless and in a pair of sweatpants. He was holding a Saint Vladimir sweater and a matching pair of sweats. After a stuffed all the food in my face a looked in the other box. Two donuts sat in the box begging for me to eat them, but I forced myself to close it.
I took to clothes off of Dimitri, and went to put them on. I was kind of disappointed when I seen that the large men's uniform fit me when I pulled the drawstring on the pants. I went back into the gym a little self conscious. Dimitri didn't say anything, he just started to stretch. I did about half the stretches he did. By the time he finished I was getting quite frustrated.
It was a little surprising when Dimitri said he was going to do something he'd never taught me while I was I was in school. He came closer to me. "Put your arms up." I did as he said and put them in the air, he stood behind me so our back were to each other. Then he took my arms and pulled me up while he bend forward. My back stretched until it cracked for the first time in almost half a year. I felt so relieving I made a grunting noise.
For a while Dimitri did other things like that, until I was completely limp. He brought a punching bag in front on me. "Are you serious?" He nodded, and then once again stood behind me holding my waist tightly. I swung at the sack a few times and every times felt to recoil of it Dimitri seemed to absorbed it for me. I was quite tired after only a few minutes of this. "Wait, let me get a drink." When I turned to get water Dimitri looked me in the eye and his expression turned dark.
"You're done." I shoved him out of my way but he was back in front of me as if I did nothing. "No Rose, you're done." I knew I should have stopped because pushing myself was only going to lead to bad things. But I'm Rose Hathaway, you can't expect me to do something rational. I turned back to the punching bag, pulled my leg back, and landed a kick that made the punching bag fall over. To bad I once again proved Dimitri's judgement superior, because I fell over as well right onto him. He grabbed just in time, so I wouldn't hit the mat. "Rose!" Once I was standing he pulled me so I was facing him. "Why would you do that?!" I didn't really know what to say to him I just avoided his gaze. "Rose, you can't, please just..." I could tell he wanted to scold me, but he also knew getting worked up was a bad ideas.
"I, I'm sorry." One tear leaked out and slid down my cheek. Dimitri exhaled loudly. "I just feel so useless. That is the first time I've done anything in the gym for months. We used to do stuff like that for hours, and now I can barely go ten minutes before I feel exhausted." Dimitri gave me a tight hug.
"No more Rose logic, please. I promise as soon as we are back at court and the baby is here, I'll go to the gym with you everyday just like we used to, but right now please don't try to do the things you used to." I didn't say anything but I think we both knew I learned my lesson. "Come on." I took my clothes and put them in the brown bag with the donuts. I didn't feel like changing so I followed Dimitri back to my room making sure I stood right behind him so people wouldn't see me. When we got back to the room I ate the donuts and showered, before crawling back into bed with Dimitri.
"Thank you." He simply smiled and pulled me closer. "No, thank you for everything you've done. I used to think when you found out I was pregnant you'd just leave again, but you stayed and you've done everything for me, and I just, I just, you've..." I huffed. "thank you." His response was simple but powerful.
"I would do it a hundred times over and more because I love you." He yawned and soon we were out cold. I woke up when Dimitri woke me, it was completely dark outside and he was dress. He had a bag and handed it to me. I could smell it before I opened it. I gladly sat up and started eating the big container of oatmeal and the juice he brought, as he put his shoes on. "Just one more day, I'll be back as soon as I can." And with that he gave me a kiss and rushed out the door.
I don't even think my jail cell was as boring as sitting in that dorm for nine hours. At least then they was constantly guards to taunt and trivial things left for me to entertain myself with. Here I had nothing.
I was hoping Dimitri would have come during any sort of lunch break he got, but after a while I gave up hope. He came as the sun started to rise with a bag, I nearly knocked him over I was so excited to see him. He greeted me, while laughing a little. "Nice to see you too Roza." I stopped hugging him and took the back off of him, nearly skipping back to the bed.
I ate greedily while Dimitri started to get ready for the night. When I was done, he just finished his quick shower and was now sitting at the end of the bed watching me with no shirt on. I put the emptied dish aside. "Well, that's not fair." He seemed confused, and I instantly knew he was completely oblivious to how his physique made my hormones do a completely one eighty. I crawled toward his and face him a deep kiss. Just as I felt him reciprocate, I pulled away and smirked. "See, it's not fair." His face twisted into a sly grin, before he pinned me to the bed.
Dimitri leaned down slowly, before placing a soft kiss on my neck. My body felt like it was on fire. I squeezed my legs shut to try and ease the throbbing. I had had enough, I grabbed Dimitri by the back of the head and forced his lips on mine...
That was up there on the list of most fun I've had in a night, but I payed for it. As soon as we were lying in bed the baby started kicking, hard. Dimitri was asleep already so I didn't want to wake him but all night I felt constant jabs in my abdomen. The sun was up and so was I, I tried just sitting up but that did nothing. I went to the bathroom, nope. I walked around the room, but eventually I got to tired and returned to sitting up against the backboard of the the bed. I was completely exhausted so I managed to doze of for short periods of time but I was always woken up.
The third time I went to use the bathroom Dimitri was lying in bed, awake, and waiting for me. "Sorry for waking you." He shook his head and I realized the sun was setting. I groaned. "Seriously, all night." I put my hand on my bump. "You little rugrat." I lay back in bed feeling tired and stiff. Dimitri wrapped his arms around me.
"I'm sorry Roza." He said it as if it was him kicking me in the gut and stepping on my bladder. "A few more months." I felt myself moving and once again Dimitri was picking me up and sitting me on his lap. I yawned.
"it's..." I yawned again "fine" Dimitri laughed a little. "Don't you have work." I didn't even hear his answer because I was out almost instantly.
When I woke up I was alone in our bed and the moon was out. I sat up and looked at the clock. One o'clock, I decided while I waited I would start packing. It was December eleventh, so I was going to be back to see Lissa in time for Christmas. It was an exciting thought, so I happily packed almost everything. Good thing too because, I only had one clean outfit left. I hadn't had the opportunity to wash anything since we left Russia.
Afterwards I took a long shower. When I was combing the wet mop on my head I heard the door open and shut. I was expecting Dimitri, but I froze when I heard the intruders voice. "Little Dhampir?"
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