Chapter 3
The next day Dimitri and I were up early and we went for a walk out in the woods. Hand in hand we walked in a wide circle around our campsite talking and laughing. When we reached the campsite, Dimitri was giving me a piggyback then he set me down as soon as he got the death stare from my mum. Dimitri grabbed some coffee off the stove and handed me a mug and we all sipped in silence.
We were heading home when I had that nausea feeling. There were strigoi out here. I didn't know why I still got that feeling because when Lissa's bond and mine broke, so did the ghost that appeared every now and then and the insightful looks into Lissa's mind when she got strong emotions. That last part I liked the most. I t meant that I could no longer be pulled into her mind while she and fire boy were having sex. Anyway I grabbed my stake and noticing my sudden movements, my mum and Dimitri had grabbed theirs too. That was the moment that I saw them.
There were three that struck all at once which meant one for each of us. We went at them head on and all I had to do was snake out my stake and it would be over with, but then I saw whom I was up against. It was the blond strigoi that had changed Dimitri. I charged and he ducked out of the way just out of my striking range but instead I reached forward and swiped my stake across his left cheek. The dance to win the fight went on for what felt like hours and I had finally gotten a chance to stake him, and I took it. My stake ploughed through his heart before he even knew what was going on. I had finally had revenge on the bastard that changed Dimitri, and my god did it feel good.
I turned around just as Dimitri staked his strigoi. We all gathered around Abe who had his mouth gaping open like a baby bird waiting for its mother to feed it. We helped him up seeing he was a plump old man and gave him some water to drink. Although he obviously felt safe in the hands of the top 3 guardians in the whole world, I didn't blame him for still being terrified. After Abe was good to go again we set off to where we had parked our car in the campsite's car park 2 kilometres from where we had camped last night. Abe had trouble with the hike back so we were continuously stopping to let him rest. At this rate we would be lucky to get to the court by nightfall, but eventually got to the car, Abe looking like he had just had a steam shower in a ski suit. The drive home felt like it was the longest drive I had ever been on, it even felt longer than when I had travelled around the place with Dimitri while we were on the run.
Eventually we made it back to court and Lissa was practically waiting at the gate to greet us. When we got out of the car Lissa squeezed me as hard as she could but it was barely a squeeze to me. Dimitri followed in her line of hugs and then my mum and dad. Tonight Lisa was trowing us a welcome home party although I saw no point in it because we were only gone for one day, but being Lissa's best friend, I knew she would pester me until I caved in and I didn't feel like arguing with my best friend.
The night and I set off to a little room in the palace for our dinner party with Lissa, Christian and my parents but apparently Lissa had other ideas. All of our friends were there too, Mia, Eddie, Mikhail, Sonya and to my surprise, Adrian. A we sat down to eat, the buzz of conversation was exhilarating. After dinner and a delicious dessert, we slow danced. We all slowly waltzed around the room whilst Adrian just sat in the corner and drank from a rather big bottle of vodka. As the others dispersed to go for a midnight swim or to bed, Dimitri and I stayed as we were, slow dancing in the middle of the floor as close as we could get to each other.