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Chapter 6

RPOV

"Vasilisa Sabina Rhea Dragomir! How dare you use compulsion against me?', I screeched. She winced "I'm sorry. I really am. I know I shouldn't have but you would never have let me talk to him if I didn't do that. You'd know through the bond, that's why I didn't think about it. Please don't be mad!", she pleaded.

I growled. "Promise me that you won't ever do this again!" She rolled her eyes, but said "I, Vasilisa Dragomir promise to never use compulsion against you ever again. Happy now?" I grinned. "Yep."

Lissa wasn't someone who broke promises. I knew she wouldn't do this again, so it was fine.

"So guys. How about we all go out to dinner tomorrow night?', Lissa asked. Dimitri and Christian, who had been talking about something looked at her. 'Err...sure, why not. What's the occasion?', Christian asked. He knew exactly what the occasion was, he was just teasing her. She glared at him. 'We have to announce that we got engaged. And Dimitri and Rose too. Let's invite Eddie, Adrian, Mia, … oh!', she turned to me excitedly 'We need to call your parents!"

Dimitri looked horrified, to say the least. "Why would I want to invite my parents?", I asked her carefully, questioning her sanity. Maybe spirit was getting to her more than I had thought. I pulled away some of the darkness she had.

Rose! I know you just pulled away some of the darkness, and it really wasn't necessary. I'm not crazy, your mum is really sorry. She talked to us, and she seemed to have thought about it. It looked to me like she was really sorry and she seems to approve of Dimitri. she said though the bond.

Aloud, she said, "I think it's time you finally spent some time with them. I know they weren't there for you so long, but they're still your parents.', she told me.

'And they really want to. They talked to Lissa and me.', Fireboy said seriously.

"Whatever. Invite them if you must. But don't expect me to talk to mum. Where do you guys wanna go?', I asked, looking at everyone. "There's a new restaurant at court. I'll make reservations!', Lissa said and jumped up, searching for her phone.

After they left, Dimitri and I unpacked and showered. I put on a pink nightie I got from Lissa, totally exhausted from the long flight and the horrible jet lag. Dimitri didn't seem to be any better, so we just went to bed early, forgetting about showing Lissa and Christian the folder from Mark and Oksana.

The next morning, we had to meet up with the Queen since she wanted to talk to us about our guarding jobs and what she had been up to while we were away. I hoped she was still on that weird nice being trip of hers. I had to admit that it was a little creepy, but that didn't mean I didn't like it.

As we walked into her throne room, some dude announced our names "Guardians Belikov and Hathaway." I seriously had no idea why that was necessary, but I shrugged it off, starting to daydream about being called Guardian Rose Belikova. I loved the sound of it. When she saw us, she smiled, and I wasn't sure if it was a fake smile or not. "Guardian Hathaway. Guardian Belikov. Please have a seat.", she said.

We sat down on a comfortable loveseat, and I couldn't help but feel self-conscious. She sat on her throne and looked at me with a thoughtful expression, not talking at all. She suddenly seemed to notice something, and I hoped it wasn't the beautiful engagement ring on my finger that I'd forgotten to remove. Damn, this had gone so fast, we hadn't even talked about if we'd keep it from her. Next she looked a Dimitri, who was looking – or almost gazing – at me, seeming to be completely caught up in his thoughts.

"I see you two have gotten engaged. Congratulations. Is the date set already?", she asked suddenly, breaking the heavy silence and scaring me half to death. Dimitri was still in his daze. "Thank you, your Majesty. No, the date isn't set", he said, smiling. What the hell was up with him, he wasn't even nervous. I couldn't take I any longer. "Why?", I asked, staring her down. The Queen tore her gaze away from Dimitri and looked at me. The smile disappeared. "What do you mean, Guardian Hathaway?", she asked.

It took all my control not to jump up and slap her. "Why are you being so nice? You've always hated me, and all of a sudden you get Dimitri out of jail, send us on a vacation, and congratulate us to being engaged." I listed off. "And I'm asking you why. Are you up to something?" Dimitri shot me a glance that said Rose. Calm down or this might end badly.

Screw him and his god damned contro...– The angry thoughts dissolved as he put his hand on my arm, just lightly touching it. He was finally out of that daze and had noticed my distress. That light touch, along with his encouraging smile was enough to calm me down, and I looked to Tatiana patiently.

She gave me another one of those weird smiles, and again, I couldn't figure out if it was faked or not. It seemed real to me, but what did I know?

"That's a question I can only answer with a rather long explanation. Rose, I never said I hated you. I was worried to see how infatuated my nephew was with you, and I knew you didn't like him that way. I was scared you might hurt him, but now I see that you have worked it out. When I realized what was going on at the academy after Guardian Belikov brought back the princess and you, I knew. You see, I always ask about information from St. Vladimirs, so I knew everything about how your behavior changed when he started mentoring you. I suspected little, back then, and tried to write it off as nothing – I mean, my only informations came on paper, it's not like I could watch you two and figure it out.", she paused, and I stared at her with wide eyes. I could feel the astonishment radiating from Dimitri.

Looking back and forth between us, she continued "Then I saw the two of you at Viktor Dashkovs hearing. I know that nobody else noticed what was going on, but I'm good at reading people. I have to be. I could feel the tension as you two stood beside each other telling that lie about the necklace.", she sighed. I gaped at her, but she kept talking.

"Yes, I squeezed it out of Adrian a few weeks after the hearing. He was intoxicated, so he probably doesn't even remember telling me, but then I knew everything. I thought about it a lot, and realized that I had no right to interfere with any of this, so I kept quiet. I can see now that you never wanted to have anything to do with Adrian, and I know you are an amazing Guardian. Dimitri had been teaching you the control you needed to learn, and who was I to stop you from doing what you want, if doing what you want is exactly what I need you to do?

"I talked to Vasilisa and she told me about your plans to reassign and how both of you were still hell-bent on staying Guardians, even though things were so complicated. I decided to send you two away. Three weeks was longer than I needed to sort everything out with the other royals, but not enough for you. I know what you've been through. Vasilisa agreed to tell me about it all, after she figured out that it was only a matter of time before I found out the rest of your story. I guess she wanted somebody who knew the truth to tell me, not anyone who'd only heard rumors.", she paused again, giving me time to think. I wasn't angry with Lissa, just confused why she didn't tell me first, but figured Tatiana didn't let her.

I took a deep breath. "So, your Majesty," I began carefully, "You're saying that you know all about this crazy love story?"

Dimitri rolled his eyes at me, but she nodded and said "Kind of. Of course no details, and I'm pretty sure Vasilisa skipped lots of things that she knew you wouldn't want anyone to know, but I know the basics. I guess it's too late now to expel you or suspend Dimitri for being involved with an underage student like that, seeing as you are now eighteen and have graduated. I trust that you're going to guard your charges responsibly and not let your relationship intervene with anything. There's no point in hating you, Miss Hathaway. If you don't have any more questions, you are dismissed. The guardian outside will hand you a folder with the paperwork you need to do and who you will be trading shifts with." Suddenly, she seemed to remember something. "Oh yes, Vasilisa wants you two to move into the Dragomir wing. You should talk to her about that."

Then she let us leave. We were both stunned to silence and I barely remembered to say goodbye and thank her.

Back at our place, we did the paperwork and found out that Dimitri would indeed be Christians Guardian. I was going to be Lissas, alongside Eddie. I was totally happy when I realized I would get to work with one of my best friends ever. The Guardians we would be trading shifts were names Dimitri recognized, but I didn't. He said they were all very respectable and easy to work with.

I couldn't help but think about how many people he knew. It was downright ridiculous. When we were done with everything and had finally handed in the paperwork, it was time to get ready for dinner with the gang and – gulp – my parents.

I put on a really short black dress and styled my hair the way Dimitri liked. (Hey, if I was really pregnant, I was going to savor every minute that I still had my amazing body.)

My stake found its place in a garter and my keys, phone and money had to be squeezed into a tiny silver clutch. When I was all dressed, Dimitri said "Well, at least there's your hot outfit to take my mind off things and give me a reason to be happy tonight."

"What things?", I asked, confused. "The stuff the queen said, that we'll have to tell your parents that you said yes and that I might have gotten you pregnant at eighteen.", he listed off. I grinned "Don't worry, I'll protect you from their wrath. But what do you mean with 'you said yes'?" He smiled and shook his head, refusing to answer.

* *R**~VA~**D* *

The restaurant was really elegant. We gave them Christians name and a blonde waitress with no boobs who wouldn't stop flirting with Dimitri led us to the table. She didn't even look at me, and he didn't seem to notice her batting her eyelashes at him.

I was so annoyed with her that I suddenly threw in "Oh, Dimitri, I can't believe we're going to get married. I'm so happy!", he knew exactly what I was doing, but played along for my sake and said "Me too, Roza."

Aah, he was the best. He even gave me a kiss, to get on her nerves even more.

We reached the table and greeted everyone taking our seats as the waitress disappeared with pink cheeks and a last glare for me. "Jealous much, milaya?", he asked. I rolled my eyes. "In your dreams, comrade." He chuckled and whispered into my ear "Then why could I exactly see how much you wanted to beat her up?" I didn't answer, but I guess that my pink cheeks were answer enough.

Everyone was there, Eddie, Mia, Adrian, Tasha and even my parents. My mom smiled at me tentatively but didn't say anything, but Abe gave me an outright smile and said "Hey there kizim. What's up? How was your vacation?" I smiled back at both of them and told him "Nothing out of the ordinary, old man. My vacation was awesome."

I let Lissa order my food, too confused by the weird french names everything had. She got me a fancy steak with the fanciest-looking salad I'd ever seen and a delicious chocolate cake for dessert. She knew what I liked, so the portions weren't as small as I'd expected, and I was happy about that.

Christian ordered wine for everyone, but I poured some of mine on Dimitris whenever nobody was looking. Hey, I know I wasn't on duty but if I really was pregnant then I wasn't taking any chances.

Somewhere around dessert, I started talking to Mia. She was dating Eddie now and seemed really happy. I was so glad that they had finally gotten together. All of a sudden, she stopped talking and stared at my hand. "Rose? Is that...an engagement ring?", she inquired, speaking way too loudly.

Well, someone was bound to notice it, right? Everybody's eyes were on me and Dimitri now. What was really freaking me out was that my parents didn't look angry, but rather happy. "Erm...Mia, was that really necessary?" I asked her uncomfortably. "Oh my GOD! So it's true! You're marrying Dimitri, right?", she squealed. I nodded and blushed.

"Oooh!", she jumped up and walked over. I got up to hug her. That made everyone unfreeze and after everyone congratulated, even my parents and mum didn't even seem mad at Dimitri or anything...as if she'd know.

A little later Adrian asked "So, cousin and little dhampir, who's gonna tie the knot first?" "Huh, we don't really know. What do you say, Rose?", Lissa asked me. "I honestly have no idea."

I looked at Dimitri for help. I could see it in his eyes, he had an idea, and it was probably an awesome one. "You know what, Roza?", he asked. "What?"

"We could have a double wedding. You know, so you two don't need to fight over whose wedding is first." I loved his idea, and from the bond I could see how much Lissa loved it, too. So there was only one person left to agree.

"Christian? What do you say?", Lissa asked him. He shrugged. "Sure, that would be cool. This way, you and Rose are on honeymoon at the same time, so you don't have too much time to miss each other." he grinned at me. "As if I'd let you have time to miss anybody.", Dimitri whispered into my ear, making me blush. Damn, since when did I blush? The things he does to me.

We talked about it a lot and even planned a little, and soon everyone was ready to go. We went to a dance club and celebrated until everybody was so worn out or drunk (or both) that we had to let the guardians drive us back. Even Dimitri was a little groggy. On the way home, Liss and fire pants were all over each other and laughing at just about everything. She was so wasted. It was a really nice night, and I realized I wasn't going to miss the alcohol if I was actually pregnant.

As we got home, I suddenly remembered something. "We didn't ask Adrian to look at my aura! And we didn't tell them off for babbling to the queen", I shouted, startling Dimitri, who looked way more tired than I was. He'd had to drink my wine whenever someone put more into my glass, which had been often. "Why would we ask Adrian to look at your aura? And you can tell them off some other day, today was for celebrations." I rolled my eyes. "Since when are you the slow one, comrade? He could look at my aura and tell us if I'm pregnant!"

He smiled "We'll call him and Lissa first thing in the morning. They'll want to read that diary, too. And then he can tell you if you're pregnant. Calm down a little, Roza. You're way more excited about this than me." he wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed me softly. When we broke apart to breathe, I said "Let's go to bed. The sooner we sleep, the sooner we can get up."

* *R**~VA~**D* *

"Dimitri wake up!", I shook him. He groaned, sounding much like me when we were at the academy and he'd wake me up at ungodly times for training. "Come on, let's take a shower together.", I tried. His eyes flew open and I giggled. Not even ten seconds later he was at the bathroom door, looking at me expectantly. "Come on, what are you waiting for?", he asked.

Around an hour later, we were dressed and somewhat decent. Dimitris hangover wasn't bad, or so he claimed, so we had breakfast and then I called Ivashkov. He promised to be in our room as soon as he could, not even needing an explanation. He was awesome. I checked the bond, and Lissa and Christian were awake and had eaten already. I called them, and they arrived a few minutes later. They had Eddie and Mia in tow, thank god. I didn't want to do the explanation so often.

We all sat down in the living room, and everybody gave me curious looks. I sighed, but started telling them about the trip to Russia and the diary and everything. Dimitri helped me, but I did most of the talking. Adrian and Lissa demanded the folder with the diary, and I gave it to them. Lissa read out the few entries I'd read on the plane, and when she was done, she looked at me with a huge smile on her face.

She didn't bother with finishing the folder, but I knew she'd read it sooner or later.

She jumped up and hugged me, squealing "Rose! You can have kids! Oh my god I can't concentrate enough to see your aura! Damn Adrian tell us what you see!" I grinned at her and hugged her back "Calm down Liss! We don't know anything yet", I told her and released her. Adrian was squinting at me, as if he was trying to look through muddy water. "I'm supposed to see some pearly white stuff around you and the cradle-robber?", he asked. Before I could answer, Lissa said "Yeah, but I guess it would be very faint, since it's only been around a month since Dimitri is - ...back."

"Come on Ivashkov, can you see anything?", Eddie asked impatiently. Adrian continued squinting at me and Dimitri for another few seconds, and then smiled brightly. "Congrats, Belikov. You knocked her up at eighteen. Janine and Abe are gonna kill you. It was nice knowing you, dude.", he said lightly.

It took me a few seconds to process what he was saying, but when I got it, I jumped into Dimitris arms and kissed him fiercely. Then I jumped up and ran to Lissa, screaming "I'm gonna be a mum!" I hugged her, picked her up and spun her around in a circle. "Thanks for making me shadow kissed Liss!", I told her. Everyone laughed, but I didn't care. I was so, so happy. Next I hugged Adrian, then Eddie, Mia and even our little spitfire.

Then I ran back to Dimitri, not even a minute had passed since Adrian had spoken, and everybody was too busy staring at me or laughing at my reaction to say anything. He was up from the couch now, and caught me as I ran straight at him. His smile was huge, and his eyes were sparkling with excitement. He took me into his arms, bridal-style, and I threw my arms around his neck. "We're gonna be parents, Roza. Congrats, mummy.", he said and kissed me.

That seemed to snap my friends out of the daze they seemed to be in. Mia recovered first. "Jeez! Guys, get a room!" I giggled against Dimitris lips, and we broke apart, gasping for air. "Congrats, daddy.", I said quietly. He beamed at me calling him that, but set my back on my feet carefully. The next second, we were showered with congratulations, for the second time in two days. I couldn't wait to call the Belikovas and tell them the news.

If Yeva didn't tell them already.

Dimitri POV

I was ecstatic. Rose was going to have my baby, we were getting married, we had the perfect guarding jobs...and I suddenly felt a wave of sadness wash over me. I wished Ivan was here, he would not only make funny comments about me being "totally whipped" and "putty in my woman's hands", he'd also be extremely happy for me and probably insist on paying for a huge wedding. I knew he would love Rose like a little sister. I'd often glared at him for the comments he made, but now I missed them a lot.

Ivan had had something in common with Rose: He had always been able to make me smile. I pushed away the sad thought, knowing he wouldn't want me to b sad on a day like this.

After we got showered with congratulations, Mia had to leave, along with Adrian and Eddie (who would start guarding Lissa tomorrow along with Rose). They said they had stuff to do, which left us time to plan a certain wedding, or two. Lissa, Christian, Roza and I sat in the living room, discussing dates.

We soon settled for a date five weeks from now. Rose wanted to get married before the baby came, but didn't want so show, so five weeks was perfect. It gave her and Lissa enough time, but not too much. None of us wanted to wait.

We went to lunch together, and decided on the location of the wedding: The church on St. Vladimirs academy. It was a very important place for Christian and Lissa, but also for me and Rose, because St. Vladimirs is where we fell in love. Lissa gave Kirova a quick call, who agreed to let us use the church and the academy's grounds for the wedding. It would be a weekend anyway, so we wouldn't disrupt any lessons.

During lunch, Rose asked Lissa when we were going to Lehigh. "Well, Rose...", Lissa answered "We decided we want to go back to St. Vladimirs academy to teach. Christian's gonna teach offensive fire magic and I'm going to help where I can and look for spirit users around campus. If I find any, I'll teach them how to work it and how to deal with it. I'll also be learning politics as much as I can, so I can have my place in the quorum someday. What do you guys think about that?", she asked.

She was obviously very much hoping that we'd like to go, and, if I was being honest with myself, I loved the idea. They would be easy to guard at the academy and that way I could take better care of Rose and our baby. I was kind of surprised at how happy Rose was about everything. She seemed to radiate happiness, and I loved seeing her like that.

A/N: I AM SO SORRY FOR THE HORRIBLY LONG WAIT! I had a really annoying writer's block, and I was able to get over it by the end of Easter break, but I didn't have time to write. *hangs head in shame *

*pouts * I hope you don't hate me :S

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