heey, merry late Christmas and early new year! if you wanna know what took so long, go ahead and read it at the bottom.
i also saw that i never did a disclaimer * facepalm*
so, i don't own anything, except for the plot. but Vampire Academy and all their Characters belong to the wonderfull Richelle Mead!
i hope you enjoy!
I squealed with liss when I saw her. Normally I never squeal, but I had missed liss so much I couldn't resist it. I wriggled free from Dimitri's grasp, ran to her and hugged her as tight as possible. When I pulled back, I got a good look at her. She looked different, she had a new kind of glow to her. Still, she looked absolutely gorgeous tonight. She was wearing a Silvian Heach Dress Kenten Belt Green, with a pair of silver pumps. A silver snowflake necklace and a clutch of the same color.
"it's so good to see you, rose" she said with a big smile, showing her white teeth. A throat clearing made me snap out of my moment with liss and look behind me. Of course, who else but Christian? I let go of Lissa and stepped back to Dimitri's arms, giving pyro the place to hug and kiss and whatever with Liss. I couldn't help but smile at the sight. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Dimitri smiling down at me, I looked up and I was right.
"ok, I don't mind you guys having a happy couple moment, but I'm going to the bar, have fun and get wasted." Mia declared, Mase and Eddie nodded ad followed her lead.
"aren't you going to introduce us?" Lissa said, looking pointly at me and Dimitri. I frowned, they had met before, didn't they?
"liss, you guys already met." She sighed and nodded quick.
"I know, but just do it. for me?" I had an idea why she wanted this, so I decided to do it, for her sake
"Dimitri, this is Lissa my best friend" I said before turning to Liss. "and Lissa, this is Dimitri. My boyfriend" her smile only got bigger and she clapped in her hands.
"finally, I've been waiting for forever to hear you say that." she smiled at us before she ran to me, grabbed my arm and ran with me to get drinks.
" two martini's, please" she yelled over the music, the bartender nodded and got to it.
"so, how long have you guys been together?" she asked turning to me, her voice filled with curiosity. Unintentionally, a smile slit over my face as I put my elbow on the bar and let my head lean on my hand.
"a few weeks" I could tell by her look, that she wasn't happy with the answer, and she wanted more, "fine, it's been amazing. In the beginning we kept it a secret, because let's face it, he's 7 years older than me and I didn't think the old man would've let him live if he found out. but then the three musketeers found out and so the rest did. And Abe's ok with it." she giggled at the old nickname for Mia, Mason and Eddie. Once, when we were still in middle school, they had to do a group project, and they immediately went for each other, that's when I started calling them the three musketeers. When both out laughs died down, I smiled at her.
"how have you been?" I asked her, and I could tell she didn't really like the question, but I was worried about her. With Victor being her only living family relative, she must not have had the best time, seeing as his condition is worsening.
"I'm fine. It's been difficult, but this is probably the calm before the storm. If you know what I mean" I nodded and gave her another hug, trying to comfort her. But who could comfort her when the last of family can die at any moment? She was the one to pull away, and I could see a big change of mood on her face.
"but I didn't invite you guys to come here and have a cry party. Let's have fun." I chuckled and nodded, while going with her to the now overly crowded dance floor.
A song with a strong beat came on, and I got carried away. I missed this, dancing and having fun with my friends. My hips were swinging from side to side on the beat, and my hands high in the air. I could see Lissa, dancing her way to Christian and dragging him with her right back to the dance floor. Then, two warm hands were placed on my swaying hips, lips left a trail of kisses all over my neck. I knew it was Dimitri just from the way he held onto me. He stopped kissing me, but kept his chin on my shoulder, I let my head lean against his, just enjoying the moment. I had no idea why, but I had the feeling that everything would change so fast. That everything we had right now, and not just me and Dimitri, but everything else as well, would burst into flames. I felt Dimitri turning his head towards me, I looked at him. He could feel I wasn't relaxed, and he wanted to know why. A short shake of my head with a tight smile is all I gave him before pulling back out of his embrace and walking to the bar. Once there, I let my head fall in my hands and took a few deep breaths.
"what's wrong?" I looked up and saw Dimitri leaning to me, concern in his eyes.
I shook my head again, "nothing's wrong." I tried to sound happy, and relaxed. He didn't seem to buy it, but he let it go. For now at least.
"ma'am," I turned to the unknown male voice, it was the bartender, "someone ordered the drink for you". He placed a glass filled with clear liquid in front of my hands. I nodded and took the drink, but hesitated to drink it.
"who is it from?" I asked the bartender. His grey eyes seemed unsure, while he scratched behind his ear.
"he told me not to tell you." He admitted. I nodded my thanks, before he scurried off to another customer.
"don't drink it, Roza" Dimitri said. I pushed myself off of the bar and took his hand.
"I know." Is all I answered. I found the whole gang at our table, sitting, drinking and having fun. Dimitri sad down next to Liss, and took me on his lap. I carefully placed the mysterious drink on the table. Far from me, but not too far so somebody else would drink it.
"there you are! Let's play a game." The music wasn't so loud in this particular area of the club, so we could speak. When Lissa mentioned a game, a smirk immediately formed on my lips. Liss as well as everybody eyed me warily.
"truth or dare." I challenged. And to my surprise, everybody joined in, but Liss smiled knowingly. She knew I was the queen of this game. Over time, I had come up with some pretty challenging dares. And I always won.
"I start. Pyro, truth or dare?" Christian grinned.
"dare." I hid my smirk, but the mischievous look in my eyes sad everything.
" I dare you to swap clothes with Mia, for 15 minutes." His grin quickly disappeared and his mouth fell open. He slowly turned to Mia, she wore pretty much the same look. Everybody else was pretty much dying with Laughter. After some convincing, they agreed. I walked with them to the bathrooms, and gave them each other's clothes. And when they got out, I regretted I didn't take my camera. Pyro was wearing a short hot pink dress, with black pumps. Mia on the other hand was wearing fire crotch's black jeans & black shirt. It was a sight to behold. Then I saw a white flash, I looked around and saw Mason and Eddie holding their laughter, but what really caught my eye, was the camera they were holding. That's my boys. I turned back to Pyro & Mia, and saw the looks on their faces, saying enough.
"please rose, let me out of this! If you have a good heart, you'll let me change back" Mia begged, while pulling my arm.
" to bad I don't have a good one." I replied back, while everybody else laughed. 15 minutes later, they were allowed to change back, and Mia looked a lot happier when she had her dress back on.
"ok, now it's my turn." Sparky declared when we all sat back down at our table. He looked around the table, having his smirk on. His eyes landed on me for a moment, but they moved again. I guess he'll leave me for last.
"Eddie, truth or dare?" he asked, Ed seems to think for a while, but finally answered.
"truth." Sparky groaned, as he let his head fall.
"you're such a wuss." I yelled at him, But Ed just smiled. He probably thinks he'd play safe, seeing that pyro didn't really like my dare. Smart kid.
"are you in love with Mia?" he smirked and everybody except for Eddie and Mia were cheering for him to answer. Mia blushed and so did Ed, so I guess that's yes from both sides.
"you're in love with me?" Mia squeaked out, he cheeks even redder than before. Eddie nodded, but if you didn't pay close attention you would have never seen it. Mia smiled and flung her arms around his neck. It's good thing they were sitting next to each other. They pulled back, but never letting go of each other, and Eddie kissed her. Softly and sweet on her lips. When he pulled back, he smiled like he had won the lottery.
"ok, truth or dare, Lissa." Christian glared at him, but nothing could ruin this night for him.
"truth." She never chose dare, well, only with me, because she knows I never pick something to bad for her.
"Have you and rose ever kissed?" we both nodded at the same time, everybody looked stunned.
"like, with tongue and everything?" Eddie asked again, and again we both nodded.
"it was a party were we went to at college, we got drunk and we played dare or take off a piece of clothing." Liss explained to the whole table, while I just smiled at the memory of those good old times. God, I sound just like an old lady….
"my turn! Rose!" I rolled my eyes at her excitement, Christian and Eddie just smirked, thinking liss would do something weird.
"dare." While liss came up with a good dare, I let my head fall back against Dimitri's chest, he automatically placed his chin on my head and I started playing with his fingers.
"oh!" Lissa yelled to get my attention. "I dare you to write a short poem in 5 minutes and go say it on stage." By the time she was finished, both my eyebrows were raised.
"how long have you waited for the opportunity to make me do that?" she smiled slightly. Of course she would have had this in her mind.
"here is your paper and pen, Rosie." I glared at Christian and snatched the paper and pen from his hand. Without any hesitation, I started to scribble down some words and hid my smile. This was going to be good. 5 minutes past and everybody ushered me to stage. I got up and walked to the microphone with my head held high and my smile hidden.
"hey, sorry to bother, but I was challenged to write a short little poem and read to out loud to you guys. So here it goes." I took a breath and started reading.
" this one's for all the people who are here with me, but first I'll start with Sparky;" I smirked evilly at him, and his eyes widened.
"we started off with a mutual hate,
That is, until you made Liss feel safe.
Mason and Eddie, you are like brothers from Different mothers,
I know you'll want to say something else, but don't even bother." I smiled and looked at them, smiling as well with an amused look in their eyes. I turned my attention to Liss.
"Lissa, up until this day, I have no idea what a fascist bastard means;
But it was the best thing I've ever said.
I know that doesn't rhyme,
But for me, that's just fine." Everybody laughed, and I looked at Mia.
"Next up in this amazing poem is Mia,
When I met you, I thought you were a doll,
And I still think you are, but I like how you roll." She looked relieved I didn't say something bad, does she really think that bad of me?
"last, but always first for me in my heart,
My Comrade.
I only had 5 minutes to improvise,
So I'll say it symbol wise." I walked off of the stage, almost ran to him and when I was close enough, I kissed him with everything I wanted to say, but never will have the words for. I could hear everybody clapping and laughing at the same time. When we both pulled back, I looked around me to my friends and smiled. I laced my fingers through Dimitri's and I sat down on his lap again.
"Mase, what do you pick, truth or dare?" he was careful, because of what I made pyro do before.
"dare." But he didn't want to be a wuss, I came up with an awesome idea and laughed. Everybody looked at me with curiosity.
"I dare you to have a drinking challenge with everybody, including me." He raised his eyebrow, was I really the only one who couldn't do that.
"seriously?" he asked, I smirked
"what? Are you scared?" he narrowed his eyes and went to the bar to order some shots.
"Rose, why did you have to include everybody? Mason can hold his alcohol really good." Eddie warned and I could feel Dimitri nod in agreement.
"everybody needs to loosen up a little, right Rose" Mia asked, I nodded with a smile on my face, this girl really understands me.
"if Mason can really hold his alcohol so well as you say he can, then this will be one good game." Lissa said, which made me smile.
"I'm back!" Mason set down 2 trays filled with vodka Shots.
"Roza, are you sure you want to do this?" I turned to face Dimitri.
"of course, don't worry, we'll all be fine." He didn't look convinced but nodded anyway. Everybody took one shot and held it ready.
"1, 2, … 3!" we all emptied the shot, but I almost spit it back out. when I finally drowned it down, I coughed.
"what is that?" everybody laughed at my face.
"Russian vodka." Dimitri whispered in my ear. I looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"seriously? More like rocket fuel." But I wasn't about to lose this challenge, so when Eddie counted to 3 again, I emptied another shot. And another, and another. After a few shots, I got used to the burning sensation in my throat. After about 7 shots, Mia and Lissa where already drunk. Lightweights, I thought. The rest of us where getting a little tipsy, but we kept going. And Dimitri looked like he was drinking water, stupid Russian vodka drinker. Making jokes here and there, we had fun. When we all drowned 4 more shots, we were all out, and wasted – except for Dimitri, he was just a little drunk.
"were is all the rest?" I slurred, Mason was looking around as well and laughing hysterically when he stomped against Mia's arm, making her spill her glass of, now, wine. I saw the glass from before, but I had forgotten what was inside. It did look like the vodka, so I reached over for it and drowned without that anybody, but mason see it. when it was empty, I jumped up and pumped my fist in the air.
"I win!" ok, I shouldn't have jumped up when I'm this wasted. I stumbled back and fell, when I was about to hit the ground, a pair of hands caught me. I looked up and saw Dimitri looking worried at me. I blinked and then there were 3 Dimitri's, which was funny, because they all looked exactly the same.
" hey comrade, I didn't know you had brothers." I giggled, which turned into full blown laughter. Dimitri picked me up and put me back on my feet, but he never let go of me. He placed his arms around my waist to steady me. I blinked a couple of times and my vision turned back to normal.
Time to have some fun!
I looked up at Dimitri and started placing kisses on his neck. From there it escalated quickly. I have no idea how, but we somehow ended up in the shadows of the club. Me pressed between Dimitri's gorgeous body and the wall. My legs were wrapped around his waist, his hands were on each side next to me head, while mine were playing with his hair. We were kissing each other passionately, out tongues battling for dominance. After a few minutes, we pulled back, but our foreheads kept touching. Both breathing heavily, we just looked into the others eyes.
"I love you so much." He breathed and started kissing me, and nibbling on my neck, to my collarbone and back to my neck
"I love you too, comrade" I replied, while I let my head fall back against the wall. When I had had enough of his teasing, I took his head in my hands and brought it back up to my lips.
We were so wrapped up in each other, that we didn't saw it coming, until it was too late. The sound of a gun clocking and then going off ripped through the room.
And then another and another.
Not a second later, excruciating pain ripped through my whole body. My eyes widened as they locked with Dimitri's. I collapsed into his arms, my vision blurred slightly. I looked around and saw people screaming, Lissa crying in Christians arms and Eddie holding onto Mia. Mason was franticly calling somebody, probably an ambulance. I looked back up and saw Dimitri frozen in place, looked at me with terrified eyes. I slowly blinked as my eyes got heavier. I felt myself being lifted up, and then moved. Dimitri carried me to a table and placed my on top of it, but never letting me go.
"don't go Roza. Hold on, they're coming. Just stay with me." He pleaded. But my eyes got so heavy.
"just… for a-a wh- while" breathing got more difficult. It came in short gasps now and I could see Dimitri getting more and more worried.
"no! Rose! Let me go!" I heard liss shout. Pyro was probably holding her.
Then the doors where thrown open, Dimitri looked up and 2 paramedics rushed over. I was put on one of those beds and they rolled me into the ambulance. Dimitri got permission to get on as well. They attached me to all sorts of machines and I could hear the beeping of my heart monitor. I could feel the ambulance speeding, but it wasn't fast enough. The beeping of my heart increased, and then, a long beep came.
"Roza." I heard Dimitri whisper broken. The doctor on the other side of me, started working on me. I tried to fight, tried to stay alive, but the darkness won in the end. And Dimitri never let go of my hand.
I felt like I was floating. I felt at peace, but deep down, I knew I wasn't. I knew I wasn't floating.
"wake up rose! Please, we need you." I heard a familiar voice, a female. Lissa. Yeah, that's her name. I looked around me, everything was black. Except for the people floating around. There were people I knew and people I didn't.
"rose." I turned around and saw my mom. I ran to her and hugged her. Even though we didn't have the best relationship when she was alive, I missed her. Suddenly she pulled back and she looked angry.
"you listen here, young lady. This is not your time yet. There are things out there that only you can stop. Fight! You need to fight for your life. Not only now, but always! You need to want to live!"
I looked at her as if she's gone insane, but I did as she said. And with every cell in my body, I wanted to live. I wanted it so badly! I wanted to see Abe again and liss and pyro, mason, Eddie and Mia. Dimitri. I wanted to hold him and kiss him and so much more.
That's when everything around me started to light up. I gasped and shot up. Breathing heavy, I looked around and saw a white room. More specifically, a hospital room. I smile formed on my face.
"who would've ever thought that Rose Hathaway would wake up in a hospital with a smile?" i heard Christian say and after that, I heard screaming. My head shot to where to sound came from and I was crushed in a hug. All I saw was blond hair on me.
"god rose! I thought you were dead!" Lissa pulled back and looked angry now. I carefully moved back slightly.
"Don't ever do that again! You hear me?" she yelled and I rolled my eyes.
"yeah, when I get shot multiple times, I'll do my best not to die. Yep, no problem" note the sarcasm.
"our Rosie is back." I looked to the chair next to the door and saw Christian and the gang smiling. But there was one thing missing, or rather a person. Lissa apparently saw my face, because she pointed to the other side of my bed. I looked over and saw Dimitri lying down, sleeping in a very uncomfortable position. He had dark circles under his eyes, which made me wonder how long I was out.
"how long has he been here?" I turned back to the others, who's faces all grew grim.
"you've been in a coma for a week rose." Mia answered.
"and Dimitri stayed with you all the time. He would never leave. Abe forced him out with two other people. He's only asleep for 2 hours." Eddie added. A whole week? For 3 gun shots? I looked back at Dimitri, who looked like waking up.
"we'll give you guys a minute." Mason said and the gang left us.
"Roza?" Dimitri whispered, his voice hoarse from the lack of sleep. I smiled slightly
"hi comrade" the moment that left my mouth, his eyes widened and he became fully aware that I was awake.
"how are you feeling? Are you hurt? Do I need to call the nurse? Or the doctor?" I laughed at him, which made him stop and realize what my answers would be. He sighed and stood up from his chair and sat down next to me on my bed. He took hold of my hand, his thumb rubbing circles over my knuckles.
"how are you?" he looked funny at me.
"you're the one that got shot and you're asking if I'm fine?" I nodded and he chuckled.
"I'm good, now that you're awake. God, the moment I saw your eyes and the blood, I thought I'd lose you. And then when you…" died, I thought " I didn't know what to do. Even the thought of loosing you."
I didn't let him finish. I pulled him closer by the hand he was holding and kissed him. Through that single kiss, everything was said. How he felt, how I felt. The sadness, but the happiness as well. When Dimitri pulled back, I saw he was slightly relieved that I was fine.
"I love you Roza." He whispered.
"I love you too, comrade."
After that, another 2 weeks went by. Yep, I was stuck in a hospital for 2 whole freaking weeks. You can only imagine what horrible things I did while I was alone, and I wasn't sleeping. I had my fun, that's for sure. It was Sunday now, and normally, I was allowed to leave today. Dimitri was laying besides me, playing with my hair, while we waited for the doctor and the nurse.
"miss Hathaway?" me and Dimitri looked up at the nurse.
"yes?" Dimitri answered for me. She looked over some papers she was holding and smiled when she finally looked up.
"everything seems to be in order. You are free to go. But you'll have to go to the front desk and sign some papers before you go." I nodded and we said our goodbyes. I sighed happily and leaned back against Dimitri.
"time to go home?" I smiled and nodded. We both got up, though Dimitri insisted on helping me. I still had some stiches in my chest, which would rip if I wasn't careful. Plus I still had pain around the shot wounds.
Dimitri handed me my underwear, my sweats and a simple shirt with a hoodie. I put my clothes as he gathered my stuff. When we both were ready, we headed out. Liss and Christian were waiting for us in the waiting room. She smiled when she caught sight of us and ran over.
"why don't you go wait with them while I fill out the paper work." Dimitri whispered, I nodded and was dragged away by Liss. While we were in a deep discussion about who was more fucked up, well. Me and Christian were discussing, liss was just watching amused.
"So, Rose. I heard you got shot?" I tensed, I knew that irritating voice. I turned around and I was right, I indeed knew who was there.
"yeah, three times. You wouldn't know, by any chance, who would've done it. would you Tasha?" my voice was so cold, I didn't even recognize it, but it didn't seem to bother her. Tasha seemed to think for a while, but them shook her head.
"no, I'm so sorry. How are you doing?"
"just peachy."
"really? 'cause you don't look to good." I abruptly stood up, causing sharp pain to rip through me, but I ignored it.
"what. Did. You. Say?" I asked through gritted teeth. I felt a pair of petit hands on my shoulder. Probably Lissa, since I bet Pyro was just sitting back, enjoying this. Even though this is his aunt I'm up against.
"I just said you don't look good." Tasha has her best innocent face on, but it didn't fool me. Because in those ice blue eyes, you could see the hate.
Lissa, apparently, saw my I'm-going-to-kill-somebody-look and tightened her hold on my shoulder. Tasha smirked and walked out of the place. looked up at Lissa and pouted.
"no Rose, I think it's time to head home." Dimitri came over and looked questionably between Tasha's retreating figure and my pissed of face. But he didn't push it and we all headed back to the mansion.
After a long and tire full drive, we all entered the mansion. Liss and Christian headed to their guest room and me and Dimitri headed to my room. He put down my bags and smiled when he saw me lay down on my bed.
"I missed my bed" I groaned as I found the perfect position.
"believe it or not, but I'm tired." I felt the bed dip down next to me and warm arms wrap around me.
"I believe you. You should sleep, so that you can recover quick" he murmured. I nodded and heard him murmur Russian to me. I didn't understand him, but it calmed me.
I must've fallen asleep, because when I woke up the next morning, Dimitri's strong arms were around me. As I laid down, facing him, I couldn't help but smile at the sight in front of me. Dimitri always looked so peaceful when he slept. Right now he even had a small smile on his lips. I brought my hand up and brushed a strand of hair out of his face. Dimitri's eyes fluttered open, he looked confused for a while, but when he saw my guilty face, he smiled and pulled me closer to him.
"sorry I woke you" I whispered,
"it's ok." He shook his head and kissed me lightly on my lips. I winced a little when he took hold of my waist and turned us so that I was straddling him.
"did I hurt you?" he asked, worry on his face as examined mine.
"no, I'm ok" I smiled slightly. Just when our lips where about to touch again, we got interrupted by a knock. Dimitri groaned which made me laugh. I carefully climbed off of him and headed to the door.
"Roza?" I turned around to him, just in time to catch the kiss he blew. I smiled when I opened the door, I found Abe standing in front of me, with his arms crossed and a rather curious look on his face. I looked at him suspiciously, why was he here this early?
"I heard what happened, I didn't come earlier because I thought you could use the privet time." I groaned, I knew this would happen. I walked back over to Dimitri, who sat straight up and took me in his arms when I sat down between his legs.
"there's nothing you can do now. But if the person who shot me is smart, they won't come back." I leaned back into Dimitri's chest as Abe walked closer to us. He nodded once at Dimitri, who nodded back, and sat down on the end of the bed. He seemed to be deep in thought and sighed after a few moments of silence. He then looked me dead in the eye. I knew that look.
"I want you to have at least 3 guards with you at all time." My mouth hung open when he finished.
"you have got to be kidding me!" I looked up to Dimitri who had his head on mine.
"tell me he's joking." When he didn't answer, I sat up and looked back to Abe.
"no, I'm not going to have 3 stalkers walking behind me all the time! I have Dimitri, have you seen him fight? He can take care of me, I don't need extra protection. Besides, It's just some lunatic who shot me. I was drunk yesterday, you know that when I'm sober and pissed off they'd be dead by the time those extra guards reach me" and in that moment, I knew I had made a valid point.
"Kiz, I learned you to never-"
"underestimate people." We said at the same time. "yeah, I know. You only told me like, a million times." I smirked. "but yesterday I was in a vulnerable state, being drunk, and that person knew that. So, they took advantage. But nothing happened. Except for the injuries I got." Abe looked down at my ribs and grimaced.
"Kiz," he sighed "you died. That's not nothing. The person responsible better be out of here before I find them." I repressed an eye roll, he's so overprotective!
"don't worry about me old man." He stood up and smirked once again in my direction.
"You're my little girl-" I narrowed my eyes at his empathize on 'little girl', but he continued "- I will always be worried about you." I smiled as he walked to the door. When I knew he couldn't see us anymore, I turned back to Dimitri and kissed.
"and please don't die again!" Abe yelled as he swung my door closed. Me and Dimitri couldn't' t help but laugh at him. I knew he meant well, but sometimes it's just so fun to see big bad Abe turn all protective. I turned around to Dimitri
"I'm going to take a shower, be right back."
I kissed him softly before walking to the bathroom. Once inside, I stripped down completely and walked over to the body length mirror. I grimaced at my reflection.
I had 3 stitched holes in my chest. Around them was slightly swollen, red skin. I'm lucky none of my ribs were broken. Having seen enough of my body, I stepped into my shower and turned the water on. The warmth of it made my body relax, which is exactly what I needed after everything that had happened.
Soon, the whole bathroom was filled with steam and the smell of my vanilla shampoo. I smiled slightly and closed my eyes. But I quickly opened them again. I got this weird vibe when I closed them. When I looked around the steam filled room, I saw a figure. I squinted my eyes, trying to get a better view. I blinked again and she appeared.
My mom.
I screamed.
Hey guys! thanks for the reviews! the holydays have been verry busy, but i've found some time to finish this chapter. normally it would've been up earlier, but i rewrote the whole thing, because i wasn't happy with the first one.
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