Chapter eleven: Day four
When I woke the next morning the plane was already up and flying. It was 6.30 which meant that we would be landing in St-Basils in 3 hours. I turned around to see Dimitri watching me.
"Good morning Roza."
"Morning Comrade." And I lifted my head up to kiss him.
"So St-Basil?"I asked.
"What about it?"
"You're nervous?"
"Well not everyone who was on my funeral knows I am back again. So I kind of don't want to prove the entire day that I am dhampir again." I hugged him.
"Anybody wanting to stake you is going to through me first. That and the declaration of a strigoi being turned back is one of the most viewed news hits on the Moroi daily network. You also where visible during Lissa's coronation. But most importantly, your family probably told entire Russia by now." He laughed that. Before the news of Dimitri was uploaded we called the Belikov's and explained everything to them. Victoria and I made up. Apparently she talked to Sonya about the biological father of her child. They didn't knew we were in Russia right now, as the queen schedule was kept a secret, and would surprise them later.
After we got up (it was already 7.30 then) looked at what the film crew was doing. They were working on the footage from the Russian court. They asked if they could send out the fight they apparently had filmed. I told them to give it a go. Lissa asked them to also focus on Christians protection ring and the help of lady and lord Voda. Offensive magic might be a far away subject. But easing people in seeing defensive magic as the most normal causes, well it helped Lissa political points. I was starting to see why Lissa wanted the film crew to come in first place.
I went with Lissa to pick out her outfit of the day, while talking over what Dimitri and I had discussed that morning. She thought it would be best not to give it to much attention. If something happened, there always were things that could be done. If noting happened so much for the better.
I heard someone just outside jelling to someone and went to take a look at what was going on. It was Roxanne, she was rapidly talking on the phone. When she saw me, she stopped.
"I' sorry, I didn't know there was someone here. I didn't mean to disturb you." She said while holding her hand to the bottom of the phone.
"It's oké, anything I can help with?" I said nodding to her phone. Someone was shouting through it from the other side.
"Oh, euh I don't know. It's just my boss. He thinks the pilot was way to informal." She said sheepishly.
"Give me the phone." She looked taken back.
"You don't have to, I'm sure you already have enough on your plate."
"Just give me the damn phone." I said as I took it out of her hand.
"...demand you send everything to me before you air it-" I heard as put the phone to my ear.
"Look buddy, this is Rose Hathaway talking. And you are going to listen to very good right now. I don't care what you think about the pilot episode. Me and the queen looked it over yesterday morning, had a few alteration made just because it was too stiff. The only people ever to have a final say in anything about the entire series or anything else that is released as an official royal statement, is the queen or me. Got it? Now you go back to bulling everyone else in your office and stop jelling trough the phone. It interrupted whit the queens current business and you don't want me to come tell you this in person."
I ended the call without waiting to hear a response. I didn't want to hear his lamely groveling.
"Thank you" She said
"Its quit alright. You do what we tell you to do with the show, not to him. You're higher than him right now. Use it" I smiled at her and went back to Lissa's room.
"You're in a good mood." She stated.
"I just hate people using their status to down other people. it reminds me of Stan"She just laughed at that.
"Could you do me a favor Liss? I know Dimitri wasn't always the good boy he pretends he was, I know he must of have done a few thing when he was at the academy. So... could you listen in on the conversations he has with old friends or teachers. I want some dirt. I mean, he know everything I did back in the academy, I want to be able to retort a few things." Lissa was laughing hard by now.
"Fine, I'll keep my ears open."
She was ready by now and we all went towards the seating aria of the plane.
"So Paul and Victoria are in St-Basils at the moment and they don't know we are coming. How are we going to do that Comrade. You know that neither of them is just going to sit put ones they see you."
"Why don't you meet them in private before Lissa addresses the crowed." Jill stepped in. "Well if that is possible of course" she said after, she still didn't really knew in what matters she allowed to discus and what not.
"Of course, that's the perfect solution, thank you Jill" Lissa said. We talked a bit more, most of guardians asking Dimitri what St-Basil was like.
The pilot announced we would be landing shortly and we got buckled in. When the plane touched down, I looked down there were three moroi and two guardians standing there. I got up pulled my jacket close and put my duster over it. Lissa put her coat on while the first guardians and the film crew exited.
The guardians and Moroi bowed as Lissa got off the plane. They greeted each other fluent Russian and went inside to overlook the schedule. After a while of people talking in fluent Russian I was getting pissed and bored. I didn't understand a thing. Christian looked about the same, guess his Russian wasn't as good as Lissa's. Well I did a few words but not enough to actually understand what they were talking about. I decided then and there that I wanted to learn how to speak Russian.
It was almost midday when I heard Lissa mentioning Paul and Victoria. The headmistress looked something up wrote a series of numbers and letters down and handed them over to Dimitri. He was hesitating.
"What is it?" I asked while I took the note out of Dimitri's hand.
"It is the classroom of where Paul is at the moment, Victoria will be at the lunch hall in twenty minutes. " Lissa said.
"How about I go first, they know who I am and they are going know you are here."
"Thank you Roza. Go ahead we will be right behind you."
After he explain where to start looking for the classroom, I went on my way to give a ten, or maybe eleven year old boy the surprise of his live.
I walked in the classroom where little Paul supposedly was in. The teacher in front who reminded me of Stan by the way he was looking at the class, stopped his Russian rambling to look at me. He asked me something in Russian. Probably Who I was and what I was doing here. The thing is if I answered he would not only think I spoke Russian, but also cared enough to let him know. That and he should now the Queen was arriving today. He should know I was her personnel guardian. Or at least that I was with them. Then again, maybe that what he just said. I'll never know.
Anyway, I walked over to the front as I let my eyes scan the row of kids looking for a tall dhampir boy with the typical Belikov treat marks. In the meantime, the guardian in front of class started talking to me. As I reached the front of the class, he was shouting at me. Suddenly a boy sprung up in from the others.
"Hey, stop shouting at my aunt, she doesn't speak Russian" It was Paul
"There you are. Always looking after your family, a true Belikov"
"Great, know the Belikov's have adopted an American blood whore." The guardian said.
WHAT! "What did you just say?" Was he blind I was wearing a freaking royal guardian uniform.
"My aunts are not blood whore's! And she can kick your ass!"
"I believe that when I see it"
"As you which" he was on his back within two seconds. I pulled him up and put him against the wall, facing it. My stake was at the bottom of him neck.
"Ass my nephew just said. I can kick your ass."
"Really, then why are you holding a stake at my neck. You do know that killing a strigoi requires a stake through the hart right?" Smartass. I was better than him though. I always was when it came to sarcasm, witty remarks or anything comparable. .
"So are you stupid, or did you just told me you're strigoi and asked me to stake you?"
"What no! I was just-"I didn't let him finish.
"As you probably don't know, if I push my stake now you will be paralyzed for the rest of your miserable life. If you were a strigoi, you would be for thirty seconds. I can tell you, I don't need thirty seconds to sake a strigoi... Do you want me to demonstrate that on you too?"
A very familiar and exceptional laugh broke the silence.
"I can vouch for that. Only you, Roza, could find the only fed up teacher and get in a fight whit them in under five minutes." Dimitri, Lissa and Christian where standing in the doorway, the rest of the royal guard behind them.
"It didn't even take that long, Comrade." Paul screamed in excitement and ran up to his uncle. He began rapidly talking to him in Russian. I pulled the teacher away from the wall and threw him on the ground."
Suddenly Dimitri became very stoic again.
"You said what about my family?" Oh well I guess Paul just explained the events leading to some pathetic guardian lying on the ground. Said guardian looked scared now.
"You shouldn't look scared at me, but at her" Dimitri pointed at me. "Not only did you insulted her family, you insulted her as well. I can tell you that nobody gets away with doing so."
"Who are you anyway?"
I smiled dangerously at him. Though Lissa answered in my place. "Rose Hathaway, one the most lethal dhampirs alive and mine, your queen, her personnel guardian."
"You better sleep with one eye open tonight if you don't want to lose any body parts. Then again from what I just saw, she could easily take you when she sleeps." Christian added. The guardian was white.
The bell rang signaling the lunch break.
"Nice meeting you" and I left. "Let's go Paul and find your aunt Vika and something to eat."
I really should be studying right now.
Oh well,
Lots of love
Born to love, protect and die