I was walking in a black forest, whispers filled the air, but I couldn't understand them. In the fog, there stood a man. As I came closer, the fog cleared up and reviled Seth there.
"what's going on?" he let his head fall to one side, as if he didn't understand me.
"Seth? If you're still mad at me why am I here?" crossing my arms over my chest, waiting for a response but never getting any.
"it's not his fault" a loud whisper from behind me stood out from all the others. Whipping around, I searched for anybody, but there was just more fog and nothing else.
"it's yours" another from her left, but this wasn't a whisper. It was shouting, angry shouting. But what did it mean? What's my fault and not his? Who is him? Seth?
"you should listen to them." Now Seth spoke. Wind came from behind me, turning around, there was Seth. Directly in front of me.
"what are you talking about? What do they mean?" the whispers got louder, but they still didn't make any sense.
"you are the cause for their death!" an agonizing female voice shouted. More and louder they all got. I clutched my head, trying to ban all the voice, the screams, the cry's. They all got so loud and there were so many, I couldn't take it anymore. And Seth just stood there, laughing manically. I couldn't, this wasn't making any sense. What are they talking about.
"you will pay! Right now!" Seth shouted, and what I saw next, what he did next, killed me. He sliced Dimitri's throat over, I screamed out of agony. I was feeling Dimitri's pain. But that wasn't all, around me where all the people that I love. Dead. Crying hysterically, I was shaken.
"Roza! Wake up" I gasped as I shot up. Breathing heavily, I looked around.
"comrade?" a shaky whisper left my mouth.
"shh, I'm here." Taking me in his strong and warm embrace, he shushed me. But I couldn't help but cry again, even though everything was a dream. But it felt so real.
"what happened? Tell me." He whispered in my hair.
" A nightmare, but so, so real." Was my shaky response.
"Everything is okay now. " that put me to ease, and I relaxed in his embrace. "It's just a dream."
I moved backwards, putting arms distance between us.
"it wasn't just a dream. I swear, it wasn't. Somebody is giving me a message." My mind was going on overdrive right now with all those questions.
"maybe you're right, but you're tired. Why don't you go to sleep now and think about it in the morning?" reluctantly I nodded and sagged back under the covers. Still scared to go to sleep, I stared out into the beautiful night sky. When I felt Dimitri get up, my hand shot out to his.
"please don't go. Don't leave me alone." I hated feeling so vulnerable and weak, but that's exactly how I felt right now.
"okay." He nodded and took of his shirt. Waking over to the other side of my bed, he took of his shoes and socks and climbed under the covers next to me. I was lying on my side facing him, while he was facing me. Flashes of the dream kept playing in my head, realizing this, Dimitri draped his strong arm around me and pulled me in his chest, that's how we both slept that night. And let me tell you, I have never slept so good in my life.
The sun was shining through the glass doors, effectively waking me up. My eyes fluttered open, tight arms where wrapped around me. For a moments I stiffen, that is until I remember the events from last night. The nightmare, how Dimitri comforted me and how we both fell asleep. I relexed and turned around, trying not to wake Dimitri up and faced him. He looked so peaceful while he was asleep. With that small smile playing on his lips, he looked much younger that with the stoic look he has sometimes.
"you know it creepy if you keep staring at me?" he whispered softly. My brows furrowed as he opened his eyes and smirked.
"how long have you been awake?" his arms around me tightened as he sighed. "long enough."
With that he brought me closer to his chest and held me close for god knows how long. He kept whispering soft Russian nonsense to me and sometimes he would kiss me on my head. I kept smiling as I looked up at him, he was already looking down at me. Our gazes locked and a million messages passed between us. How we felt, how we both were uncertain about the other. And how we would make it work if it did indeed work. My eyes moved from his to his lips for a second and back to his eyes. But his were focused on my lips for longer than a second. He leaned closer to me and I swallowed, stopping he looked me in the eye, searching for any sign that I didn't want this. But there where non, as I to leaned closer to him. There were only millimeters separating out lips, by just leaning forward at the same time, they connected. It felt like a electric explosion occurred between us. Both our lips moved in sync as I turned us so that I was straddling him. This kiss was like nothing I had ever experienced before, filled with so much love, passion and longing. We broke apart for air, our forehead touching.
"we can't do this" Dimitri said, and that was exactly what my head said. "I know."
But I acted with my heart as I nodded and captured his lips again with mine. Rolling around under the covers we kept kissing passionately for a while until there was a knock on my door. Both me and Dimitri broke the kiss and looked at each other.
"Rosie? Are you awake? I want to talk to you." It was Seth. I silently groaned and let my head fall on Dimitri's now naked chest.
"go away!" my voice came out muffled seeing my head was still on Dimitri's chest.
"rose?" he shouted again. Groaning I moved off of Dimitri, or at least tried to move of. His arms kept me in place, I looked at him questionably, he was glaring at the door. Smiling a little, I leaned down and pecked him on the lips. This distracted him long enough to loosen his grip, and I ran in lightning speed to the door. Looking back once at Dimitri, I saw was glaring at me, a quick smile from me and I turned back to open the door. Careful not to open it enough so he couldn't see Dimitri on my bed. Sticking my head out, I saw Seth there with a suspicious look.
"what do you want?" came out quickly and a little rude. Not my fault he decided to be a cockblock.
"I want to say sorry from yesterday. That was completely unnecessary of me." I narrowed my eyes, looking for any sight me was lying or hiding something, noting.
"fine…" I said slowly, he looked relieved. But if he really knew me, then he shouldn't be relieved at all yet.
"but, you will need to earn my trust back. I'm not just giving back." with that I closed the door, it would be closed if not for Seth's foot between it.
"what?" I groaned, turning back to him.
"why can't I come in? we can catch up, you know" shit! I quickly glanced at Dimitri, who now was already sitting up with a shirt, unfortunately.
"I can't, I have training in like, 15 minutes ago." I lied swiftly turning back to him.
He sighed "yeah ok, some other time maybe?"
I nodded and closed the door, without any trouble. I sighed in relief as I fell back down next to Dimitri on the bed.
"that was close" he nodded and took me on his chest as he lay back down again.
"too close. He shouldn't be here." Shrugging, I kissed him again, but that innocent kiss quickly turned hot and passionately. Dimitri rubbed his tongue over my lower lip asking for an entrance I gladly gave him. His hand roamed under my shirt, the other on my waist. While mine where in his hair. Both moaning we were once again rolling around on my bed. Once he was on top of me, I grasped his shirt and took it off, only breaking our kiss for mere seconds, and threw it somewhere in my room. I had little time to admire his muscled chest before he rolled us over again, with me on top of him, he also took off my shirt and threw it with his shirt. And so more clothes flew around the room, until we both were in our underwear.
"are you sure?" he asked, even though this wasn't my first time, I loved how he was so careful with me.
" yeah, I-" I was cut off by my door bursting open. Immediately Dimitri switched our positions so that he could protect me from whatever was coming.
"what the fuck rose!" Eddie yelled with mason in union.
"everybody has to learn not to bother me in the morning." I mumbled under my breath, but I'm pretty sure they all heard me. I got out from behind Dimitri and grabbed his shirt to put it on. Running a hand through my hair, I turned to Eddie and Mason
"what do you want?" they stood there, glaring at Dimitri, if looks could kill, well you know the rest.
"what is he doing with you?" mason spat like he had eaten the wrong candy.
"he and I were making out." I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Maybe it was, the making out part I mean. But that didn't change a thing about mason's and Ed's facial expressions.
"Has he hurt you? What did he do to you? Is he using you?..." and so on did the questions keep coming. Watching my two brothers from other mothers with a bored expression, I decided to have a little fun.
"what you to just saw is nothing compared to what we did last night." A smirk formed on my lips and the look like they were scarred for life.
"oh god, I think I'm gonna be sick." Eddie said. I rolled my eyes as I sat back down on Dimitri's lap, who was watching me with amusement.
"nothing happened, I just needed somebody and he was there for me. Nothing else." This relaxed them a little, but they were still not happy with the fact that we kept this from them. But, we were not even a couple yet, I think. Though I would love to be with Dimitri, I don't think he feels the same. I don't know, we'll see.
After Mase and Ed left the room, me and Dimitri burst out laughing. "did you see their faces?" I asked while gasping for air. He nodded, his rich laughter filling the room with mine. After our laughter died down, we talked a bit. Because let's face it, we didn't know each other that well.
But, I found out that Dimitri loves western books, he kinda has a fascination with the old west. His family still lives in Russia where he was born in a little town called baia. And that when he was younger, his father was abusive towards his mother and sisters. Dimitri being the only other man inside the house, stood up and beat the crap out of his dad. Which I was glad for, and he made sure his father never came back. He also said he has 3 sisters, who now had children. His mother and grandmother lived all together.
He also said that his grandmother, Yeva, has a sixth sense, that she can predict the future. I personally didn't believe that, and I told him his grandmother was just bat-shit crazy. He laughed at that and asked me about my family, though I had a pretty good idea he already knew most of my story. But I did tell him everything, and when I say everything. I mean every single little detail.
When I finished, I took a few deep breaths to calm down, even after all those years, my mom was still a tough subject. Dimitri kept telling me how strong I am and he held me in his warm embrace that made me feel home. I wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing, having those strong feelings about him.
"hey, how about we go to town tomorrow with the whole gang? I'll call liss and pyro and ask if they want to come aswell." the question slipped past my lips without any thought about what could go wrong.
"why?" Dimitri asked slowly, wanting a good reason to go. He probably thought everybody would think he wouldn't fit, but we needed to tell them anyways.
"because, A: I need some new clothes, and B: we need to at least tell the gang about us." I reasoned, but then a thought came to my mind.
"if there is an us?" I sounded a lot like a kid that was about to see her teddy being ripped away from her.
He immediately replied "of course there is an us, if you're ok with that?" he always wanted to make sure I was ok, which is one of the things I love about him, that he is so caring. And my answer was filled with love and without any doubt, I kissed him while my hands griped his neck, pulling him closer to me, if that's even possible. When we pulled back for air, he was smiling his bazillion dollar smile.
After a while, we both got dressed and made out way to the main hall ,where we set up a meeting with the whole gang. Dimitri laced out fingers together until we were about to go in eyesight. The moment out hands let go, I missed that spark that I always felt with him, but we had to do this. If they knew about us, we could do this more, but let's take one thing at a time, shall we?
Me and Dimitri sat down next to each other as we both faced an already knowing mason and Eddie and a face I hadn't seen in like, forever.
"Mia?" I questioned, she just looked smug that she caught me by surprise.
"bitch!" I breathed out.
"skank!" she answered, Dimitri looked questionably between us, he never saw us before, that's probably why.
" attention-seeking whore." She seemed to think for a few seconds.
"yeah, I probably deserved that one, but you're a secretive sneaky…" she couldn't find the rights words, which caused me to snort and she finally gave in.
"whatever, you're secretive and sneaky. Why am I only finding out about your boy toy from these two dimwits?" she pointed besides her to the guys. I shrugged, ready to move into Dimitri's lap, but a thought came to me.
"so, you're ok with us?" I pointed to me and Dimitri, once her eyes landed on him, she started to undress him with her eyes.
"hey! Stop eye-fucking him! He's mine!" I said through gritted teeth and let myself fall in between Dimitri's legs
"sorry…" Mia looked embarrassed and I saw Eddie glaring even more at Dimitri… hmmm, I'll need to ask about that later.
"so, is that all you wanted?" Mason pushed, I knew he was still pissed at me, and mostly as Dimitri, but he needs to grow up.
"no, I wanted to go to town with all of you plus Lissa and Christian." Mia squealed in delight, sometimes I swear she and Lissa are related.
"I think that's a yes." Dimitri whispered in my ear making me shudder and judging from his eyes, he knew what he did to me.
"when will Lissa get here?" Mia asked, completely oblivious to our moment. With a small smile I turned away from Dimitri.
"I'll call her right now." I fished my phone out of my pocket and dialed Lissa's number. The smile on my face turned into a frown when it went straight over to her answering machine.
"what's wrong milaya?" Dimitri murmured when he saw my frown. I ended to call and turned to him, Mia was in the meantime, convincing the boys about Dimitri and me.
"she's not answering." I shook my head and dialed her number again. And again it went straight over.
"something's wrong." This got everybody's attention. I stood up, out of Dimitri's arms and dialed once again. But, again no answer.
How could I have been so stupid to just go down that night in my apartment and not beg for her when I was here? What if something happened, what if Christian did something to her, what if she's dead? Then it's all my fault!
Out of frustration, I threw my phone to the wall on the other side of the room. This alarmed Dimitri that I was over upset, he rushed over to me and embraced me, trying to calm me down. But I won't be calm, if I don't know where liss is and how she is.
"maybe she's busy?" Eddie reasoned, I shook my head as well as Mia.
"no, she never misses a call, especially from Rose. Like, NEVER!" Mia was right, if she doesn't, then something is wrong. Sensing I was getting more and more worked up, Dimitri took me to the couch and put me down on his lap, never letting me out of his arms. He whispered Russian words to me, and even though I couldn't understand it, I felt a little, tiny, teensy bit better. I looked up at him and smiled. Right then and there, I knew I'd never let him go, ever again.
I softly placed my lips on his and of course, we were interrupted. "oh my gosh, you guys are sooo cute!" Mia gushed,
"see, there is nothing wrong with their relationship." She said to Mase and Ed. Rolling my eyes, I pecked Dimitri one more time on the lips and then rushed out of the room.
"where are you going?" Mason asked. I turned back to them.
"to Abe, I need to find Lissa. And I need a new phone" I admitted, which made everybody laugh. I walked down the hall and then realized I left Dimitri alone with Mase and Eddie.
"and don't kill each other while I'm gone! Or else!" I let them fantasize about the last part as I made my way into Abe's office.
"what can I do for you Kiz?" his smirk in place, as always.
"I need you to track down Lissa." He rose an eyebrow.
"and why do I need to do that for you?" he questioned
I rolled my eyes and sat down, "because she hasn't answered my calls and she never misses them, I'm just worried." He nodded, but I knew what I was asking was illegal, even if he's the boss and I'm his daughter.
"Rose…"he sighed, having my exact same thoughts. I stood back up and walked to the door, halfway through I turned back and was met with a pitiful look.
"I know, I shouldn't have asked." He nodded and I went back to my room, ignoring the shouts for me to come back from Dimitri and the others. Once there, I slammed the door shut and grabbed a duffel bag. I stomped it full with random clothing, and once it was zipped up I almost ran to the front door.
Almost there, I noticed Dimitri next to me and Mia, mase and Eddie on the other side. "where are you going rose?" Mia asked worried as she eyed my bag. I shrugged, I really had no idea where lissa was, all I knew is that she isn't here and that she is in trouble. I reached the door and placed my hand on the doorknob, but Dimitri's hand was placed over mine.
I looked up at him and saw his eyes begging me to stay, but really, I couldn't chose. he knew that so he kissed me, he kissed me goodbye. This suddenly got a lot harder than I thought it would. But my best friend needs me, so I jerked open the door, but in front of me stood a man and a woman. Better yet, Christian and a woman , to my disappointment not Lissa.
"where is Lissa?" my voice dangerously low. He is her boyfriend for god's sake, where he is, she should be. What if he did something to her and that woman helped him? All sorts of scenarios entered my head and I was almost positive he did it. why else was he here without liss? All I saw now was red. My bag fell to the ground and everything seemed to move in slow-motion.
I lunged for him ,nobody saw it coming, so nobody could've stopped me. Christian and me fell to the ground and I started to beat the shit out of him. But after only a couple of seconds, I was pulled away by hands that I recognized as Dimitri's.
"god, Rose you don't just beat up the first person you see if you're pissed. Start acting like a girl, you are one, you know." Christian said while he cupped his nose.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize my vagina came with a terms and conditions manual" I snapped, which made Mia burst out in little girly giggles.
"whatever, I don't think we have properly met?" I turned to the woman pyro brought with him. She was really pretty, with her long jet black hair and the piercing blue eyes. The same as Christian, probably family. But what made her more beautiful in my opinion, is the scar on her cheek.
"Tasha Ozera, I'm Christians aunt." I knew they were related. I stuck out my hand and shook it with hers
"Rose, Rose Hathaway." She smiled and I had the feeling we'd be great friends.
"Good to see you to Dimka." Aaaannnddd that feeling is gone.
My eyes turned into dangerous slits, to which she was oblivious. I stepped backwards and let Tasha hug Dimitri.
Yep, that earlier feeling is definably gone.
"Tasha, it's been so long." He said with a smile, he didn't often use. Standing next to Tasha made me feel self-conscious.
I mean, look at her, I'm nothing compared to her, I'm just a regular girl, with regular brown hair and eyes, nothing special. But she, the black hair and blue eyes, that's pretty. Hold on, what am I saying? This woman will not ruin my confidence, and she will definably not ruin me and Dimitri.
"sooo, if everybody said hello, can we go back to the fact that Lissa isn't answering her phone and that she's not here?" this got everybody's attention back, but Tasha was apparently glued to Dimitri's side, and I couldn't let that be, now could I?
"Tasha sweety?" my voice and face innocent, but deep down – ok, not so deep down- I was up to no good, and Mason Eddie and Mia knew that.
"go upstairs and check your room will you? I mean, you're staying here right?" she nodded and left without Dimitri.
"Roza what's wrong?" he asked when he turned to me. Seriously, doesn't he have eyes? And he has 3 sisters for god's sake, he should understand, right?
Rolling my eyes, I went inside again and grabbed a phone, I had no idea who's phone, but it's a phone. I walked back to my duffle bag on the floor and swung it over my shoulder.
"rose?" Mia asked.
"I'm going to find her, with or without your help." I faced all of them and then Christian made an effort to do something useful.
"you go and search her, we'll search from here. You know her better than anybody else, right?" nodding, I turned back to the door and walked to my car. Before I could open the car door, Dimitri's hand took mine.
"let me come with you?" even though I was pissed at him and Tasha, I'll need him if something happened to liss. "yeah, fine. But I'm driving." Reluctantly he nodded and went to the passenger side.
Some minutes passed and it was silent in the car, except for my music playing. "Please tell me what's wrong? Is it because of Christina?"
I think I'd be willing to risk a cracked screen just to thrown my phone to Dimitri's head.
"Nope." I said and turned to music louder when I heard 'low' from sleeping with sirens. My fingers started drumming to the beat on the steering wheel and I started singing along very quietly. This song fitted perfectly with my mood right now.
In the distance I saw a McDonalds and I remembered I hadn't eaten in a day. I pulled over and stepped out.
"why are we stopping?" Dimitri asked when he cached up with me.
"I'm hungry, so I need food to stay alive." I explained before I ordered what I wanted. I got my food and Dimitri didn't get anything, we both sat down at a little table in the corner and I started eating.
When I was almost finished, I saw a light bulb go off in Dimitri's head. "Are you Jealous of Tasha?"
I really wanted to applaud right then and there. "yes, I'm jealous."
Why, he asked. "why? Because she's gorgeous and I'm, well, me." I shrugged while my fries looked like to most interesting thing ever.
"Roza…" he sighed as he changed seats and took me on his lap. I was so ashamed of my confession and letting Dimitri see the insecure side of me that I tried to hide in his chest, burring my head under his chin.
"me and Tasha are just old friends, nothing more. And I had no idea she was coming, otherwise I would've told you." I nodded, but still didn't look at him, I was being so stupid earlier. I should've just asked about her, maybe she's a really nice person.
"we should get going." I said after a while, still avoiding eye contact. We both walked to the car, and just as I was about to step inside, Dimitri caught my arm and swung me to his chest. He tilted my head up with his fingers and I looked him dead in the eye. In that second, he could've read books of what was going on in my mind, he took my head softly between his hands and kissed me with all the reassurance I needed. When we broke loose, I had a small smile on my face.
"let's go, I maybe know where Lissa is." Dimitri nodded and stepped in the drivers seat. I crossed my arms and sighed as he started laughing in my face.
"some boyfriend I have…" I grumbled, but I couldn't fight the smile on my face as I, too, entered the car. Riding shotgun, of course.
"where to?" Dimitri asked, because he obviously didn't know where Lissa could be.
"court." He looked questionably at me. "it's a store where Lissa worked, a spa. She spends a lot of time there." He nodded and took off, I gave him directions and in a matter of minutes, we arrived, but it was locked up.
"shit, I forgot. They have a break for a week at the end of every year" I kicked a nearby garbage can, making it fall over.
"do you have any idea where she could be?" Dimitri asked while his warm arms took me in an embrace. I shook my head, while I tried to think of something anything. Then I got an idea.
"I have an idea." I murmured a I pulled away and ran to the back to the building, where I knew there weren't any security camera's.
Dimitri follow and asked. "what kind if idea?" I had a mischievous tone in my voice while I spoke.
"A slightly illegal idea, but don't worry, the local police department owns me a favor so, we're safe. " shrugging, I climbed over a wall and landed softly on the bench from the spa. Dimitri landed not a minute later next to me.
"what are we looking for exactly?" I rolled my eyes, because I stayed quit, Dimitri spoke again. "you have no idea, do you?"
I shook my head "not really." I admitted sheepishly.
We both camped the whole spa out, but came up with nothing. I mean, how is that possible? A whole spa, where Lissa works and nothing that belongs to her. And I mean, it's Lissa we're talking about, In a giant Spa, for God's sake!
It was starting to get dark, while Dimitri and I were driving back, when Dimitri's phone rung. It was lying on the dashboard, so I was quicker to snatch it away and answer it.
"Belikov's phone, Rose speaking." I imitated a sweet receptionist and I heard a snort on the other end of the line as well as from Dimitri. I elbowed him, not too hard, and wated for the caller to answer.
"uh, yeah rose. I hacked into the security system of your apartment building and Lissa left two days ago, with an older man, in his 70's maybe 80's. he has grey hair with some black mixed in that. The doesn't look really healthy though." I nodded, then realizing he couldn't see me.
"yeah, that's probably uncle Victor. He's sick, but he's pulling through." This still didn't mean anything.
"we should just wait rose, maybe she's taking care about him and needs full concentration?" Christian is probably right, but what if she's really in trouble?
"fine, but if I haven't heard from her by next week, I'm setting in a whole SWAT team to find her. And I'm serious." He just hung up on me, that bastard! Huffing, I –almost– threw the phone back on the dashboard.