Heyy everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a few days, but I have back problems from doing gymnastics so I haven't been able to sit long enough to type a whole chapter and I'm actually in crazy bad pain right now, but I wanted to give you some new stuff. So this might be a short chapter, but bear with me, please. You know what to do…REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!;-]

RPOV

Imber and I had just gotten on our plane and were waiting for it to take off. We were only on it for about 15 minutes before it took off, but it was the longest 15 minutes of my life. Hopefully I would be able to find Dimitri at the end of this trip.

"So, do you think he'll be there?" Imber asked me.

"I hope so. If not I have no clue where he might be. If he isn't there I might never get to see him again." I told her. Admitting that I could possibly never see Dimitri again was like stabbing a stake through my heart instead of a Strigoi's.

"Well I don't think that will happen. You life definitely needs some happiness back in it. And Dimitri will be that happiness." She told me.

"Sometimes I think my life would be so much easier if it had been Adrian who I had fallen in love with like this." I had mentioned Adrian to her a few times so she knew what I was talking about.

"Yeah, but if love is real then it's hard to keep sometimes and you need to fight for it." She told me, her saying that sort of reminded me of the 'Zen life lessons' I used to tease Dimitri about when he gave them to me. If he is in Baia I think he will like Imber. You know unless she decides to help me kick his ass for not even sending me a letter about him being okay. I still wasn't over that.

"Yeah, I know. That's why I'm here. I can't not try to get him back with me now that I know he got away from the Strigoi okay. I'm still mad that he didn't do anything to get word to me though. He's not like that, or at least I didn't think he was, so that is the only thing I'm worried about—other than him not being there—why he didn't do anything to reach me."

"Well I'm sure there was a legitimate reason. If you say he's not like that—even if you are doubting it now—I trust that he is not like that because I can tell that you know him better than anyone else, probably better than he knows himself." She said A/N ha get it? Cause he lost his memory? I am such a dork lol.

"I do know him, but still I don't understand what would be going on that would keep him from me, unless he was lying about how he felt and I made a huge mistake."

"I don't think you made a mistake. Something had to have happened to him, trust me. I know I don't know him or anything, but with what you have told me about everything that went on between you him and Adrian, he wouldn't go through all of that if he wasn't…isn't truly in love with you."

"You know I really like talking to you."

"Why?" She asked, laughing a little bit.

"Because you make everything, no matter how bad it seems, seem at least a little bit better. It's really helping me right now." I told her.

"Good, I'm happy I'm making you feel a little better."

"You are. Now I'm going to sleep for a while."

DPOV

I didn't return to my house until it was time for dinner. Jeez that makes me sound like such a little kid. Whatever. The walk did help me though, I was able to clear my head and stop being bothered by family pestering me about that academy and Rose. I mean it's not like I don't want to remember—I do—it's just that them nagging me isn't going to suddenly make me remember all of these things, only time will allow that to happen, if it does happen.

She was leaning over me on my bed, her brown hair cascading over her shoulders and down around my face. She was so gorgeous. She bent her head down and kissed me then and boy was it a kiss. I had needed that kiss from her, had been wanting it for so long, but who the hell was this woman? I felt a connection to her, but I didn't even know her name. It was right there in the back of my mind, but I couldn't quite remember until…

"I love you Dimitri." Rose said. Rose!! Oh my God it was Rose, my beautiful, amazing, gorgeous, wonderful Rose. How could I have forgotten her. And then I woke up.

"Rose." I whispered. "Oh my God, I finally remember"…her…the Academy…Lissa, everything I had forgotten, it was all back. What was also back was when Nathan took me down in the cave and the last look I saw on Rose's face, one of complete horror. I had to call the Academy and talk to her. I had no clue what time it was here so that also meant I had no clue what time it was in Montana either, but I called Alberta anyways.

"Hello?" She whispered groggily.

"Alberta? It's Dimitri." I told her, bracing myself for her reaction.

"Dimitri?" She whispered in complete and utter shock, "No, you should be dead, or turned by now."

"I'm not, I got away and I need to speak with Rose." I told her.

"Dimitri, Rose isn't here anymore."

"What to you mean she isn't there?"

"She dropped out of school soon after you were taken." She told me.

"Why would she do that?"

"I don't know, she didn't give a reason, but Lissa might know. You could call back sometime when we aren't all sleeping and talk to her."

"Okay I'll do that."

"Okay. I'm so happy you're okay. Where are you?" She asked me.

"I'm in Baia, with my family."

"Oh, well will you come back to the Academy anytime soon?"

"I would like that." I told her truthfully, but first I needed to find Rose.

"Good. Now I would love to talk more, but I really need some more sleep." Alberta said.

"Oh of course. Bye Alberta."

"Bye Dimitri."

Why would Rose have dropped out? All she wanted to do was become a guardian why would she blow that chance, especially when she would have been Lissa's guardian? What could she be doing?

RPOV

After a few stops in cities along the way we finally arrived in Novosibirsk, which was the closest city to Baia. It was still a few hours away, but we would be able to make there by sunrise.

And I was right, by the time the sun rose we were in Baia—we had rented a car to get there—all we had left to do was figure out which house was Dimitri's families, hopefully it won't be hard. Hopefully someone in this town speaks English, actually they could even speak Polish and just talk to Imber if it came down to it. But guess what, the third or fourth person we found that spoke one of our languages, spoke English and knew Dimitri's mother. So he took us to their house and then left to do whatever he needed to.

"Are we gonna go in?" Imber asked.

"Um, yeah, you go knock I'll wait here if you don't mind."

"Seriously? You're scared? Nervous?"

"Nervous, now please just do it. I don't know his family so I don't want to be standing there if he isn't the one to answer if he is here."

"Okay fine, I'll go knock."

"Thank you." I said, she nodded in reply.

And when she knocked and the door opened…I saw Dimitri. I couldn't believe he really was there, in full badass Dhampir form.

"Can I help you?" He asked Imber, not noticing me back on the street.

"I have someone who needs to see you." She told him.

DPOV

A knock at the door broke me out of my thinking. I had been trying to think of what Rose would be doing since she wasn't at St. Vladimir's anymore.

"Can I help you?" I asked as I opened the door to a small girl—well woman—with strawberry blonde curls. She was pretty, but nothing compared to my Roza.

"I have someone who needs to see you." She told me in a thick polish accent. Who would want to see me? Then I looked behind her and saw…Rose!

I couldn't believe it! Rose was here! That was why she dropped out wow.

"Rose." I said, walking towards her, looking at her in awe.

"Oh wow, so you do know who I am. Then why didn't you let me know you were alive? You have no idea how scared I was. How could you do that to me?" She asked on the verge of tears.

"Rose, I would have called or written, or hell I would have come back to the Academy, but I couldn't remember anything from my time at the Academy. That's why I came here instead of going back there to the school." I told her.

"Then why do you remember me now?"

"Because things about you came back to me this morning and then that triggered everything else."

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry."

"It's okay." I said, pulling her into a hug.

"I missed you so much. I was so scared."

"I missed you too, Roza. You have no idea. I love you so much." I told her, never wanting to let go of her.

"I love you too. You can't ever leave me again, I don't care if something like this happens again, that Strigoi will have to take me too." She said.

"Don't say that. And I will never ever leave you again. I swear it."

"Okay." She said, pulling out of the hug. "This is Imber, by the way."

"Hi." Imber said.

"Hello."

"I really think you two will get along."

"Well then let's go inside and sit down to talk and we will see."

"That sounds good." Rose said, and we all went inside.

Okay so there's that chapter. I will do the reunion convo in Rose's POV in the next chapter to let you all know what she is thinking. Oh and I had a few questions about how Dimitri lost his memory so I will explain that. The time he spent with the Strigoi was really traumatic and sometimes when you go through something like that you will lose your memory of it or what caused it and what led up to it so that is what happened to him. Well you know what you BETTER do…REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!;-]