Hmm . . . I wrote the longest A/N in chapter 33 of Another Romance so I'm not going to write another huge one. Enjoy :)

Don't own Vampire Academy . . .

"I understand. But time is running out." Yaritza said as she closed the door.

I had told her that I would have to talk to Adrian first before I could make a final decision. I dropped Vera off at her house. She leaned over and gave me a huge hug. "Rose, don't feel pressured into doing something you don't want to." I smiled and waited until she was inside (that's what friends do) to leave her house.

I dialed Adrian's number so that he would stay awake until I got there.

"Hey my sexy love. I can't till you get home so that I could rip your clothes off."

I laughed and then became serious. "We seriously need to talk."

"Can it be after sex?" Perv…my perverted husband. Still the sex lover as always.

I rolled my eyes. "Sure." I was about to say something else when I dropped the phone because of what I saw

He was standing in the middle of the road with a dead body in his hands, his teeth—fangs—deep in her throat.

I put my Tahoe in park and shot of the car, the stake I always carried with me in my hand. "Dimitri! What are you doing?"

He growled, showing all of his fangs. "Stay away, Rose. I don't want to kill you, too."

"Dimitri! This isn't you!" It hurt seeing Dimitri like this with half of his humanity there and the other half out of control.

"Rose . . . get away!" He said it with a fierce growl. I flinched away from him. He saw the I was moving away from him. "Do you see what I have become? Do you see? I am not good anymore, Rose. I was never good. I was never dhampir again."

"Then what were you?" I asked fiercely. "Do you actually think that a Strigoi can father four kids?"

"Maybe I just got real lucky." He dropped the dead girl. He started to walk away, faster than any normal being would walk.

"I believe in you, Dimitri."

He stopped and looked back at me. "What?"

"I believe you Dimitri. I believe in you like I did when you told me there was actually a chance we could be together, despite us being Lissa's guardians. I believed in that." I started stepping closer to him. "I believe there is a good in you."

He turned and started departing again. "Well don't believe. I don't believe it. You shouldn't."

"But I do . . . and so does your wife."

But he was already gone.

I walked back to my SUV, searching for the woman that Dimitri had killed. Where the hell was she? She wasn't where Dimitri had left her. Oh crap. I searched for her for a whole hour before just giving up and going home to talk to Adrian about this serious situation of Dimitri.

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When I walked into the house, Adrian was sitting on the small couch next to our bed. He became concerned as he looked over my worried face. He patted the spot next to him and I sat adjacent to him.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

"Babe, mostly everything is wrong. No joke."

He wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "Talk to me, sweetheart."

"Well, it's Dimitri."

He understood. He only nodded.

"Yaritza . . . she wants me to have Dimitri shadow child."

He stood up and I could see he was mad. Real mad. "No! You will not do that! Fuck no! I don't care how much Yaritza cares about Dimitri."

"Adrian, baby, settle down." He calmed down and came to sit back down on the settee with me. "It's not like Dimitri and I are going to lay down in bed together. I'm just going to get his sp—"

I was stopped by a raging Adrian. "It's not the simple, Rose!" He shook me. "I am a spirit user, Rose! A real spirit user. Yaritza only read about this. I know about all this crap. Having a shadow child means you dying in the process. I can't let that happen. I can't lose you. I almost lost you once. I can't lose you again."

"But—"

"Do you know what would happen to you? It's like you're carrying a monster inside you. Don't you realize that? The monster will rip itself out of your body and a spirit user has to insert it inside his body while you fade away in a matter of seconds. Then you will join the rest of the Unrested Souls."

Tears started to leak out my eyes. "So there is no hope for Yaritza?"

His tears matched mine. "No. I am afraid Dimitri is going to become full Strigoi again."

"God . . . it kills me."

"Me too . . . but it's your life or his. We can't have you both. It's the way of life. It's one thing or nothing."

I went to go sit down on the bed, defeated. Adrian came to join me and wrapped both arms around me and pulled me close.

"Baby, I know you try . . . but you just can't save the whole world."

I laughed softly and started working my fingers up the first button of shirt. "I thought you were in the mood for clothes ripping." I moved closer and started kissing his neck, unbuttoning his shirt. "Are all the kids asleep?"

"Yes they are." That was all it took for the Dimitri issue to be forgotten.

In the morning I woke up to my phone vibrating. Vera. I felt around and thankfully Adrian was still in bed, the covers covering half his body. Damn, even at thirty, he was still as sexy as when he was twenty one.

"Yeah?"

"Yaritza has lost it. We're here at the coffee shop. Come join us."

"I'll be there." I starched a couple times and then went to go take a shower. I took a quick shower because it's rude to keep people waiting and because I desperately wanted to talk to Yaritza. I needed to tell her that I couldn't do it. When I walked out of the shower, a towel wrapped around me, my hair blow dried, Adrian was awake sitting on the bed.

"Going to see Pizza?"

"Don't call her that. Her name is Yaritza."

"She likes to be called Pizza."

"Whatever . . . I'm going to meet Vera and Yaritza at the Coffee Shop."

"Alright, have fun. Don't do anything I wouldn't."

Laughing, I said, "There aren't much things you wouldn't do."

"The top thing on my list to do is . . . you."

"No surprise there. It's kind of obvious seeing as we have six kids."

"That's real love . . . what other couple would have six kids?"

"I guess . . ."

I walked out of the closet all ready to go. I walked over to Adrian and kissed him. "Well, I'm out. Love ya, babe. Take care of our kids."

"You know I do. Love you more." I gave him one last kiss and left.

I saw Yaritza's and Vera's cars parked. They were still here. As soon as I sat down, Yaritza got straight to the point. No "hey." No "Good morning." Nothing. Straight. To. The. Point.

"So . . . are you going to do it or not?"

"About that . . ."

She looked expectantly at me.

"I can't do it."

Her expression changed and it turned into hatred. "I hate you . . ."

Aww…poor Yaritza and Rose and everyone who is suffering. . . Hope you liked it.