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"Don't touch her," Dimitri growled furiously.

Nathan ignored him, pulling on Rose's hair in order to tilt her head back and expose her neck to his hungry mouth, causing a muffled, frightened yelp to spill over her lips.

"I said – don't. Fucking. Touch. Her."

Nathan couldn't help the sinister laugh that escaped his lips.

"When are you going to learn that she's mine to do as I please with?" he questioned, throwing an exasperated look across the room to the livid man. "Now, let's have some fun shall we?"


Casting one final wink to Dimitri, Nathan returned his attention to Rose. With an eager lick of his lips, he exposed his fangs to her, leaning down to pierce her skin. What he hadn't been expecting, however, was Rose to thrash her head forward, knocking into him with a harsh thud as she head-butted him.

Dimitri felt a wave of pride rush over him as he watched his love's attempt to defend herself, but this was quickly replaced with a mixture of terror and anger as Nathan's fist collided violently with her jaw and a yelp fell from beneath her gag.

His hand tangled its way into her hair again forcefully, ensuring she looked up at him as he snarled down at her.

"Come on now, Gorgeous - we want to give our guest a good show, don't we?" he taunted, his grip in her hair tightening. "Although I'm not sure you deserve the bite after all, not after your behaviour today. Only good girls get bitten. It's too bad really, remember just how good it felt before – the combination of our bodies moving as one, the thrill of the bite…"

Nathan's free hand began trailing her body, his fingers stroking the exposed skin of her neck and along her defined collarbone.

"You loved it," he added with a smirk, before continuing his ministrations on her body.

Rose began to shake in distress, knowing exactly what Nathan had planned for her – after all, she had seen that same look in his eye day in day out when he had her captured before. It was a look she wouldn't be forgetting any time soon. Permanently etched into her memory, it had haunted her dreams for nights on end.

His hand eagerly travelled southward, along the curvature of her chest, snaking down her waist, before disappearing beneath the waistband of her jeans. When he settled at her most intimate area, a pleasured groan escaped his lips, while Rose's fear increased tenfold. With a whimper, she tried to wriggle out of his hold on her, but the restrictions on her arms held her tightly in place. Unable to defend herself from what she knew was to come, choked sobs emitted from her throat as tears fell across her cheeks, causing Dimitri's heart to break in two as he was subjected to her torment.

At that moment, all he saw was red.

With an unprecedented rage and a mighty roar, Dimitri's hands clutched angrily at the arm rests attached beneath his arms. Watching his Roza helpless, distraught, being subjected to this vile behaviour, Dimitri showed a level of fury never seen before. With a satisfying crack, the wood beneath his right arm snapped, effectively freeing his restricted hold.

Before Nathan could react, Dimitri tore his other arm free from its bounds, surprising even himself at his strength. Wasting no precious time, he hurled himself across the room, crashing into Nathan with all his might and tackling him to the ground. In the fray, Rose's chair toppled over and she fell to the ground, her head hitting the concrete floor with a loud crack. Still conscious, she cried out – she could instantly feel blood trickling down her neck from the impact.

With a growl, Nathan leapt up, taking a swing at the perpetrator of his attack. Despite his taller, bigger build, Dimitri dodged his advances effortlessly before dealing a harsh punch to his jaw. He followed with a quick blow to the stomach, causing the Strigoi to hunch over, allowing Dimitri the opportunity to kick his legs out from underneath him.

He followed him instantly to the ground, throwing his entire body weight on top of him to trap him below. He landed two successive hits to the face before Nathan retaliated, striking out. His sharp nails caught Dimitri's cheek, causing him to hiss in pain as Nathan tore the skin.

Utilising the distraction, Nathan powerfully pushed Dimitri off of him, throwing him across the room with all his strength. Dimitri's body flew through the air, crashing violently into the far wall. He groaned on impact as he fell to the floor, pain coursing through his bones.

Righting himself, Dimitri looked up to find Nathan heading towards where Rose lay on the floor, still restrained and helplessly watching the scene unfold before her. When he reached her, he crouched down, baring his teeth in rage.

Before he could hurt her, however, Dimitri lunged at him again, knocking him away and into the air before he could lay a finger on her. A loud crack echoed through the room as Nathan's body flew onto the floor, and Dimitri used the few second's leeway to rush to Rose and attempt to loosen her restraints. A feeling of worry encased his heart as he saw the blood spilling from her head, but there was no time to dwell on it now.

Her head was killing her, but she felt the adrenaline coursing through her veins, despite her body screaming at her to just give in and sleep. There was no point, after all – they never won. Nathan always overpowered them, and she knew this time would be no different.

Unfortunately, Dimitri was only able to free one of her wrists before Nathan not-unexpectedly retaliated. He swung at Dimitri and the two engaged their attacks once more. Quite evenly matched, it wasn't obvious who would come out on top. Dimitri's fury had tripled his strength, while Nathan's Strigoi power meant he could take much more damage than the Dhampir. Each landed numerous blows on the other, inflicting damage left, right and centre.


One particular strike to the ribs had Dimitri doubled over in pain, and Nathan found his opportunity. Grabbing Dimitri by the shoulders and throwing him up against the wall, Nathan had him trapped. With a smirk, his hands clasped tightly around Dimitri's neck, closing his airway and stripping him of breath.

Dimitri clutched at his arms, trying to loosen his grip, but it proved no use. He quickly felt himself struggling, his chest tightening from the lack of air and vision blurring strongly. He couldn't help but dwell on how he had let Rose down, let Abe down, let everybody down – he promised to protect her, but death was lurking round the corner, and he knew that Rose's would follow not long after his own.

He took a small amount of selfish comfort in that fact, hoping that they would find each other again in whatever world awaited them in the afterlife. He would have preferred Rose to live on – to live a long and happy life, but he knew that Heaven would never truly be complete without Roza by his side.

With his thoughts focussed on the love of his life, Dimitri stopped struggling, seemingly accepting what would happen next. He had fought to protect Rose - he had done all he could but it had proved no use. He wanted to put up a fight and he willed his body to carry on, but it simply screamed at him, urging him to give in.

Nathan recognised his look of acceptance and grinned, relishing in his apparent victory, his grip tightening further around Dimitri's neck. When something sharp unexpectedly pierced through his back, however, his own eyes widened in shock before his face contorted in pain as the offending item impaled his heart.

In the distraction of Dimitri's attack, Rose had managed to remove her gag and free her other arm, ignoring the dull ache taking control of her mind and body. Blood continued to pour from the impact on her head, but she knew Dimitri needed her.

After frantically untying her restraints, she had pushed herself off the ground, instantly scanning the room for some sort of weapon. Her eyes had landed on Dimitri's broken chair, and memories of Russia came flooding back instantaneously. Memories of herself throwing a wooden chair over and over again until it broke, memories of threatening Inna with the shards for the code to the door, and one particular memory of Dimitri's face, eyes widening in shock as she plunged it into his cold heart.

Knowing what she needed to do, Rose had reached for the broken arm rest discarded on the floor, and with as much strength as she could muster, snuck up behind the Strigoi and impaled his heart.

His body fell to the floor when Rose removed the makeshift stake, releasing Dimitri from his hold as he did so. Spluttering for lost breath, Dimitri hunched over, coughing and wheezing until he felt his lungs fill with air once more.

"Roza…" he croaked, reaching out and taking her hand tightly in his. She felt cold, and the dull look in her eyes told him that she was struggling to maintain control over her body, the pain from her injuries taking over.

"He won't be out for long," Rose managed to say, her vision blurring by the second.

Dimitri looked down at the unconscious body on the floor, and his rage slammed back into him. His eyes darkened and a deep growl escaped his lips.

"Give me that," he snarled, taking the wooden item from Rose's weak hand.

Without hesitation, Dimitri brought the makeshift stake swiftly down into the Strigoi's neck, before pulling it back out and impaling him again. He stabbed him over and over again, slicing and chopping with everything he had, not caring about the blood splattering all over his body, until finally, Nathan's head was no longer intact.

Yet, it wasn't enough.

It would never be enough.

With a ferocious roar, Dimitri stabbed him repeatedly – his face, his chest, his stomach… no part was left untouched. He had to pay, he needed to pay for what he did. How dare he touch her? How dare he inflict such pain on someone he loved? How dare he even think about –

"Dimitri!"

How dare he –

"Dimitri!"

A fragile hand caught his arm, effectively halting his rampage on Nathan's lifeless body. Rubbing soothing circles on the bottom of his back, Rose brought his attention back to Earth.

"He's dead," she whispered.

With a sigh, Dimitri stepped forward and wiped a relieved tear falling from Rose's tired eyes.

"He's dead," she repeated, as if to herself, before her vision blurred once more and she felt herself losing control over her limbs.

As her body unexpectedly fell to the floor, Dimitri reached out and caught her, taking her in his arms and following her to the ground, protecting her from the impact. His heart was in his throat as Rose's eyes slowly closed, her breathing becoming faint.

The last thing Rose remembered before passing out, was Dimitri's frantic look as he called her name, pleading her to stay with him.


Look at me coming at you with two updates in two days! Isolation sure does have its perks..

I hope this chapter was satisfying! Nathan finally got what was coming to him. As I've said before, I'm not fantastic at writing scenes like this, but hopefully it was acceptable enough!

Thanks for all your kind reviews, as always.

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