Those three words kept my heart beating, I didn't care whether they were true or not; he had said them.

"I love you too," I whispered shivering.

I felt and heard movement, "Stay with me Roza."

I closed my eyes, I was tired. Really tired.

"Don't leave me Roza."

His voice was soft, like velvet, yet demanding.

"I can't," I whispered.

"You can."

"Help me please!" I heard him scream. The room was bright and the sterile odor hit me in the face.

I was taken away from his arms, the little of warmness I had felt, was gone.

It was then that I made the decision to close my eyes.

Forever?

Maybe.

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"What happened afterwards?" I looked at her brown eyes, the same brown eyes of her father.

She was a miracle of artificial insemination, while I was in a coma at the hospital.

I looked away from her brown eyes, she was 13 now, old enough to know the truth.

"We lost contact, I was only in a coma for a month and he was gone when I woke up. It was Lissa who had the doctors do me the artificial insemination. I never heard from him again, no one did," I said a pang of pain in my heart.

The same heart ache I always felt.

She hugged me close never letting go.

"Maybe you should know Rose," I looked at Lissa who had come into the room.

"Know what?" I asked wiping away my tears and my daughter's, Hope, tears away.

"Rose, Dimitri is dead," she whispered. Those fours words crushing my world and my heart all over again. Four words all over again, destroying my world.

"Say what?" I asked.

"You're heart, do to hypothermia wasn't working, Dimitri was a perfect match..." she trailed off.

He had given me his heart literally.

I tugged at my chest, hoping the pain could go away.

My vision blurred with all the tears pouring from my heart, or his.

My chest shook with a new wave of sobs.

All these years... thinking maybe he never meant those words and that he only said them out of pity.

"He told us to never tell you," Christian said pained. I brought my knees to my chest and buried my head there.

"He was buried with your heart inside," Lissa whispered, making my heart break even more.

He loved me, he really loved me.

He loved me so much he gave up his heart for me.

I closed my eyes and thought of everything we went through.

The academy.

Him turning strigoi.

Bringing him back.

Losing him.

Having him back, for a little while, but having him again, loving me; that was enough for me. To know he truly loved me and that I had him, for as long as I did, made me happy.

And I had Hope, named after what I felt for his father, hope.

Hope to have him, hope to have a chance at loving each other again. Hope of seeing him again. And the hope of just having him with me.

At the moment I felt his presence near me. I felt his hand in my cheek, and I heard him whisper the three words that kept me alive.

"I love you."

"I love you too Dimitri," I whispered back.

I ran out of the house, into the Christmas night; where 13 years ago, in a night like this I won Dimitri as he gave up his life for mine.

I sank to my knees in the snow, and screamed my pain. Life was cruel, Dimitri had been taking from me too many times, and this time was final.

That was the worst part. This was final, he was gone... gone forever. I would never see him or feel him.

"But you will never be alone Roza. I will always be here in your mind ,spirit, soul, and in heart," I felt the whisper. "The heart we share together."

I felt him all around me.

I prayed day and night to see him one last time. I prayed to see his shining face, the face of angel and hear his voice.

And now that he was gone I would never get to see him again.

But he would forever hold my heart.

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Yeah kill me! :D lol kidding.

Don't or I won't finish my other stories.

Like I said, I like my stories to be different... Here's proof ;D I might, I just give an alternative ending... If I get enough reviews ;D