Chapter Twenty-one: girls night part one

I left my stake strapped to my leg, I probably wouldn't need it. I just felt safer knowing I had it with me. We got a bunch of food (mostly for me) and drinks and settled in the room. Jill and I quickly went to her room to retrieve (hopefully) compromising stuff. When we came back to see Roxanne and Mia playing with one of the small cameras.

"So to start with girls" I threw Dimitri's file in the middle of the bed. "Anyone can read Cyrillic Russian?"

"Why? What is that?" Mia asked. Oh right, she didn't know yet.

"That, my darling, is Dimitri Alexander Belikov's file from when he was a student."

"No way" She said

"Yes way, we just need to decode it. One way or another." I looked at Lissa

"I'm not that good at Crylic Russian Rose."

"Uhm" Roxanne began. "Maybe I can help?"

"You read this?"

"I can yes."

"In that case get your ass over here and start reading." Lissa nudged me and shot me a look. "Please?" I added. Lissa nodded in her typical 'good girl' way to me. Roxanne got the file from the bed and slowly started reading.

"Well, first two pages are all personnel information. Family members, birthday, medical record. Stuff like that. Then there is the schools registration papers from when he was seven years old. The first two years he must of been a very good kid. It's just copies of his report cards... This might be something..." She started reading through a paper.

"What is it?" I really wanted to know.

"Oh, how sweet."

"What?" Mia, Lissa and I asked at the same time.

"It says here that guardian Belikov punched an older Moroi in the gut, after the older boy was insulting his older sister, Karoline Belikova. It says here that he was discharged of any consequences, because of the testimony of Ivan Zeklos and the Belikova sisters."

"I always knew my man was a badass from the beginning. Even when nine years old."

The others had to laugh at that. "I still think it is weird to think that you and guardian Belikov were involved when you was still his student. I mean, sure a lot of the girls had a wet dream or two about him, but actually being involved seems so different. I still don't know how you break through those walls enough to have a normal conversation." Mia said. Jill just knotted.

"Well Amen to that." I mean what else am I suppose to say to that? Wet dreams? "What else is in there?" I asked Roxanne

"Right, let's see...He kept having good grades...little incidents, noting serious, just everyday child play of ten year olds. Here is something about... oh"

"What?" Everyone asked again. Déjà vu much?

"Well he wasn't always a good boy."

"What!?" Seriously this needed to stop.

"He and a few others fellow kids released the tame mice out of the lab into the air vents. There where noises all day and nobody knew what was going on. Only when the lab teacher reported that the mice weren't in the cage no more, they started figuring out what happened. They got busted by another student who heard them talking about sneaking into the lab when everyone else was sleeping and made the connection. As punishment they had to crawl through the air vents to catch them.

Because they thought catching mice in an air vent was impossible, they made a trap by pumping gas in the system to make the mice fall asleep to get them. The gas made students and staff feel woozy and the attack alarm and procedure was set in action. When they crawled out of the vent (gas maskers on) they walked in on a school under lockdown. The principal decided not to punish them for trying to avoid there punishment because they got inventive and because they had a good record so far. Though they did have to do community service for unintentionally causing the alarm."

"Classic, releasing lab mice."

"Really Rose? That's your answer? He put an academy under lockdown!"

"Well Lissa, I'd say that's a pretty awesome turnout. Noting I ever did put the school under lock down. So yeah, I think that was an awesome prank."

"Of course you do." That got Jill and Mia, who where till now disgusted by the mice part, laughing and shaking their heads. "Though the academy was under lockdown the first two days after you and Lissa escaped it."

"Maybe, but I wasn't there, so that doesn't count."

"I found something else." Roxanne said.

We kept quit as she read trough a few pages

"One of his combat teacher reported that Dimitri Belikov refused to train with other novices, he would only practice knew moves on bags. He claimed that he wouldn't hurt other children. Even when he risked expulsion. In the end, the school had him signed up for therapy and four weeks later he was back on a normal training schedule, training with other novices. The teacher also noticed he was more focused and excelling quickly. The therapy report where not shared, since it was strictly confidential and there is no conclusion of them on file."

I could hear a pin drop.

"He was thirteen then, wasn't he?" I said. Knowing exactly what happened.

"Euhm, Yes." Roxanne said.

"You know what happened?" Mia asked.

"Of course I do. And I'm not going to share it."

"Of course Rose." Lissa said."We understand." And she wrapped an arm around me.

"Should I continue?" Roxanne asked not sure what to do."

"Yes, there's something I still want to hear in there."

She kept reading trough it. There was not much left in the file. There was a weird atmosphere. and there something in there that change it.

"I have something from when he was sixteen."

"Let me guess: He was offered an official congratulation, because he protected a bunch of moroi during a human attack on the school?"

"Euhm, there is nothing about a human attack, but yeah. You're right."

"Saint Basils was attacked by humans? How don't I know about that." Lissa shouted.

"Because it was fake."

"Tell!" Lissa ordered.

"Dimitri and Ivan stuffed bubble wrap everywhere. Like in all the closets and every hole in the classrooms and under the tables and stuff. Then as the lessons started Ivan used his air-powers to let the air in the bubbles grow. Suddenly there where popping noises everywhere. The school guardians toughed there was a human attack on the school. They all came out with guns, Everyone got evacuated. Teachers still don't know who's responsible for it, since they suspected the air was blew up by an fire user. Also Ivan looked scared like hell and Dimitri helped evacuating Royal Moroi and stuff like that."

"Now that is what I call genius." Mia said.

"He was almost as good as you, Rose. I see you two fit together." Jill said.

"I have to say I'm proud of my man yes."

"The last thing in the file was that he had the second highest graduation score. After Arthur Schoenburg? I don't know how to pronouns it. And that he was assigned to Lord Ivan Zeklos." Roxanne closed the file and gave it to me.

"Well that's that." I said.

"So, now that Arthur is dead, Guardian Belikov has the highest score?" Jill asked

"Euh, no Rose has the highest score ever recorded and that on an alternated course. Which makes it even higher" Mia said.

Roxanne and Jill looked at me wide eyed.

"II had more experience, they had to alternate it." I explained

"What do we do now?" Jill asked.

"How about truth or truth? SInce we can't really do any dare's or a airplane." Mia said.

"Oh I can think of a few dares, in particular on a airplane." I said.

"No way. We are not daring anyone to fly the airplane. I'd like to live." Lissa directly intervened.

"Damn, okay Truth or truth it is."

"Roxanne" Mia said. "Let's get to know you. Euhm...Do you have a boyfriend?"

"No, I don't"

"Any interest?"

"Isn't there a rule that says one question at the time?"

"Who cares? Answer!"

"Euhm... I wouldn't refuse Captain Dean Lorey."

"Who?" I asked.

"Our Pilot Rose." Lissa enlightened all of us.

"Oh... Now I really know some dare's."

Roxanne's eyes grew wide but she recovered herself by saying. "I guess it's my turn to ask a question know. Guardian Hathaway? What was the most epic thing you ever pulled of when you where at the academy?"

"It's Rose tonight sweet cheeks and the answer to your question would be escaping with the last Dragomir. But since you already know that one. Let's see.

I ones pressured a moroi into freezing all the not visible water in the teachers toilets. Because things became so nasty, teachers had to use student toilets. Two days later all students toilets where being replaced and renewed. Student of St-Vladimir where forever grateful for finally getting new toilets. I guess that one can count."

"I think you're most epic one was the one where you made the plan for the seniors to hack their graduation ceremony." Lissa said

"That was you? You did that?" Mia shouted

"What happened?" Roxanne asked

"A few weeks after the toilet incidents a few seniors came to me. They heart that I was responsible for the toilets and they wanted to hire me make their normal boring graduation epic. So I did. How do you think I knew Jackson Reza?"

"I knew he was familiar." Mia said

"Oh I heart of that one." Jill shimmed in.

"So what did you do?"

"I think I have it on tape actually." Lissa said

Ha! And you all thought I was dead

I could say that for a part in my absents I was doing r&d, but actually, I was laying with my lazy but in the Turkish sun sipping Cocktails! And working on a few story lines of story's I haven't started posting yet.

Anyway,

Enjoy!

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