Last Sacrifice
Chapter 5
I stared in disbelief. I had to be asleep. They said they couldn't find Dimitri's body. They said he was taken. I didn't say anything I just stared. When I finally thought I had enough strength to move I sat up and just touched Dimitri's face. "They said you were dead."
He looked at me with sympathy and I think I saw a trace of regret in his eyes, but unlike normal times he didn't hide it. He wiped my face and until then I didn't know I was crying.
"We'll talk about it later." He said guardian mask back on. I just sighed. What a reunion.
"Where am I?" starting to look around I saw faces I thought I wouldn't see again in a long time. Olena was there, with Yeva, and Viktoria they were all staring at me like I was a saint or something. "Hey guys you know just as well as I do that I'm not good enough to be a saint." They all smiled and came towards me I hugged each of them. I thought Viktoria would be mad at me. I thought she would hate me and tell me to go home but instead she looked at me and pulled me into a big bear hug.
"Rose, I'm so sorry. I never meant any of that. You are my sister. No matter how stubborn the rest of my family is." She said warming my heart. Than she shot a death start to Dimitri. They knew what he did to me, they all knew because Olena and Yeva were giving him the same look.
"It's okay guys, like I said before everything fades." Dimitri shot me a look of disbelief. After everything that's happened I thought that he was dead and after all the tears I shed I went straight back to the love fades theory. Well that's only because his love has faded he told me so.
Yeva hugged me and actually smiled than she walked away with the look of we'll talk later. I was okay with that because it needed a break. Abe than cleared his throat. "No offense everyone but I'd like to speak with my daughter, Rose, alone if you don't mind." Everyone nodded and headed out. Dimitri being the last one to even budge. But he eventually left to the kitchen with his mom. "Do you know why we're in Baia?" I shook my head. "Lissa's half brother is here. And I think you already know him. His name is Nikolai Metrikov." That name I knew that name but where I knew it from just wouldn't click in my head.
"Wait Nikolai as in Vikki's friend?" I asked. And he nodded. "That is Lissa's half brother? Someone I knew the entire time!" again he just nodded.
"Well that's easy I know where he lives and we can go- " I started to say until Abe cut me off.
"You won't find him. After Viktoria denied him he went along with his brother Denis and the other rogue damphirs to hung strigoi. He felt he had no more business being here." He finished up.
"Do we even know if he's alive?" I asked.
"No, we don't but I have my guys tracking every move of the strigoi and of minor damphirs. You are to stay with the Belikov's until we find out more. No one will suspect you're here. That's why we brought you to this safe house. I'm going to leave now to my house across town. Behave." He started to walk away than stopped and turned around and said words that I thought my father would never ever say to me in a million years. "Be easy on him. What he tells you is the truth." Than he left. The he that he was talking about was Dimitri.
I walked back inside to further say hello to everyone. I started of with Yeva. Her conversations either scare or confuse me so I might as well get it over with. I walked into the living room and sat next to her. "How are you Yeva?" she stopped what she was doing and looked at me, not answering my question.
"That is not the reason you come to me. You came to me because you are afraid of going to him first." She had a point. I was going to talk to him last, if I did at all. "You know he lied about everything. He denies it to us, but I've seen what has happened and I've seen what will happen. If you don't forgive him for what he has said to you. You'll die." She just said it and I couldn't say anything else I honestly now wish I didn't even go say hi to her at all. So I got up and left.
I walked towards the kitchen where I knew Olena would be. When I was walking up to door I heard a conversation between Dimitri and Olena.
"We both know you still love her? why are you breaking her this much. You should of seen both of your faces when she touched your face. She was in awe and you looked like you needed her to breathe. Dimitri I know your stubborn and I know yo-" Olena was going to finish but Dimitri cut her off.
"No Mom, you don't understand. I love you so much but you have no idea what its like to see her. To know what I did to her when I was a strigoi and to know that she forgave me in a second, but I cannot forgive myself. I loved her and I did all those things to her." he sounded pained speaking.
"You had no choice. You the real you, didn't have a say." She replied. Funny I've been telling him that for days and he didn't believe me when I told him.
"I know your right. I know Rose was right when I told her. But I don't think she'd forgive me after everything I've done now. You should have seen her at the Court when she told me to let her go. She was so passionate about me making her leave me she didn't even want me to go."
"Well after how you broke her heart, Dimitri you're lucky that she even looks at you. Have you noticed that Sonya and Viktoria won't even talk to you? Maybe that's because they saw Rose when she was looking for you, they saw her when she was fighting for YOU." She paused and took a deep breath. "You know I'm going to bed after I say goodnight to Rose. Goodnight Dimka." I ran away from the door as quickly as possible and just sat on the steps so Olena would have to talk to me.
She walked over to the steps and looked at me, I was crying, everything she had said touched my heart. "You heard?" I nodded. "I meant it all. Goodnight sweetheart." She kissed the top of my head and went to sleep.
I decided to go to sleep too, problem was I didn't know where I was sleeping at so instead I went outside and just sat on the porch. I couldn't stay at this house with Dimitri here; I couldn't sit here and know that he doesn't love me and know that I love him. Life sucks, I'm so happy that he's alive and healthy but I hate the fact that he still hates me. or if he doesn't hate me not loving me.
I found myself dozing off and I fell asleep outside on a wooden chair. Dreaming ah I remembered the first time I starting like Dimitri and he carried me from the wooden bench that I broke to the clinic. And I'd missed the entire thing. I was so mad that I had missed it. Thinking back on that now, about how easy life was, was making me sad. I missed it, I missed him.
I woke up a few hours later inside, on a bed. When I opened my eyes and looked around I recognized the room, partially because when I was staying with the Belikov's before this was the room I'd stayed in, Dimitri's room. I sat up and looked around. Dimitri was asleep on the chair next to the bookshelf in his room. Sitting on the table next to him was an old western novel. I should have known. Seeing him asleep and so much how he used to be before everything that happened tugged at my heart. I was going to try and be as quiet as possible so I didn't wake him, but as soon as I stood up off the bed he opened his eyes and stared at me. His eyes, the deep brown eyes, were full of worry.
"You okay comrade?" I said hoping to lighten the mood.
He smiled a tiny smile, not the ones that I longed for and loves but the ones that he would give me when I said smart comments, it wasn't much but it was a start. "Yeah I'm fine." Wow real convincing.
"You know you can't lie to me. Not everything changes." I said as soft as I could because it hit me and him like a ton of bricks.
"Rosemarie I'm-" I cut him off at that.
"Why in the world are you calling me Rosemarie?" I said with my usually snappy tone.
"Because you asked me too." He said back like I was slow or something.
"Call me whatever you want, I was just mad. I didn't mean anything I said" I looked at him straight in the eye just so he knows I'm telling the truth. He looked into my eyes as I stared into his and he saw guilt in his eyes. I knew what was coming.
"Roza my feelings haven't changed." I flinched.
"Well I guess than I have no business here. Why did you leave Lissa in the first place? She's the one that 'saved' you remember. She's the one that risked everything to hunt you down to the ends of the earth. She's the one that figured out how to turn you back. She's the one that you WANTED when you were a strigoi. She's the one that had to break the news to your family that you weren't YOU anymore. And she's the one that loves you right? Yeah okay"
After all of that I felt so low, oh so low. Because when I finally looked up at him he looked pained very pained. Good he deserved it. I went to walk out of the room and go take a shower until I felt a warm hand on my arm. My skin began to burn where his touch was. I turned around shooting him a death glare, one that he has seen all too many times, but this time he hurt me and I mean he really truly hurt me. I pushed him off my arm and started to turn around until he pinned me against the wall. Hands by my side so I couldn't move. He was holding my wrists and he was close oh oh so close. I could smell his aftershave, it was like the world's own way to suffocate me in the cruelest way.
I tried to fight against him until I realized it was no use. I hadn't been training in almost a month so he would obviously be a lot stronger than me. When I finally stopped fighting him I stared into his eyes. There was pain there, longing, and love. No wait I couldn't have seen that right. Love? No his faded remember.
I guess he started to see how I was fading away and pulling my feelings from him and trying to set them aside. "Roza. Stop fighting me." was all he had to say for me to finally take time to look at him.
"No. that's not fai-" I began but I was interrupted by him crushing his lips down to mine. At first I was shocked and didn't kiss him back but the longer he stayed there, the easier it was for me to give in. After what seemed like an eternity, but was really only a few seconds, I kissed him back. He felt the change and wrapped him hand in my hair and put his other hand on my lower back pulling me closer.
I wrapped my arms around his neck getting lost in every part of him. He was the one that broke the kiss. At first I thought he was going to say to never do that again. And he saw the look of anticipation in my eyes, so he kissed me quickly again.
"I'm so sorry. I never meant to lie to you or to hurt you more than was already done. I should of realized you were my only love no matter what. And Roza I hope you know that I DO love you. More than I ever wanted to all those years ago at the academy. Only your true love would risk everything to go to the ends of the earth to save you. No matter what you are."
He was staring so intently at me that I didn't know what to think. My feelings were all over the place, than I realized I wasn't wearing the ring. Shit.
Rose, I can tell by his aura he means everything he says. Trust him. Love him. Lissa's voice rang in my head. I walked away from him to the table where his novel was and slipped the ring back on. He put his head down and started to turn towards the door.
"Dimitri, where are you going?" he looked back and there were tears in his eyes. I walked towards him and wiped them away as they fell. He thought by the way I walked away that I was telling him no that I don't forgive him. He started to back up, obviously thinking that I felt guilty. But I didn't I wanted him I had to let him know.
I ran forward, went on my tippy toes looked at him straight in the eye and than kissed him. He had no hesitation. He kissed me back so sweetly and I realized I didn't want sweet Dimitri, I wanted the hot passionate kiss that we had just a few seconds ago. So I pulled him closer, and he got the hint. Dimitri picked me up off my feet and brought me to his bed. We were kissing and touching all over like we're relearning each other all over again, every scar, every bruise every piece of skin in general. It was the perfect moment. I looked into his eyes and I saw pure love, like nothing that he had ever thought about me would change his opinion on me right now. He loved me, no he loves* me. And that was all I needed to keep going. I began to lift his shirt up and off of him when Viktoria came in the room without knocking.
She stared at us for a very quick second. "Wow I'm so sorry. But next time, lock the door." and walked out. I started laughing as I looked up at Dimitri his face was beat red but he was laughing as well.
"Come on comrade, lets go see your family for breakfast." I said reluctantly moving away from him.
"You mean our family. They love you just like a daughter Roza. Actually when I first got here they were so excited to see me, alive. Than once they got over the shock of that, which only lasted like 10 minutes. They were all like 'Where's Roza?' It was cute they all love you." I was so happy to see him almost as happy as his old self. It amazed me how much he means to me and how much I mean to him. I won't let anything separate us again. No matter what happens. He looked into my eyes and silently agreed with that statement because it was written all over his face.
"Come on Roza, lets go get some breakfast." We left the room going downstairs holding hands and entwining our fingers.
When we came downstairs Olena and Yeva just looked at us and smiled. Like they already knew. Which I realized they did. Viktoria was sitting next to them smiling hugely. I stuck my tongue out at her and she knew why. This was how I would have loved to spend the rest of my life with the Belikov's happy. But I knew back in reality I had to find Lissa's half brother Nikolai and I had to prove myself innocent to the court. So this fantasy would have to end, well not everything because I will take Dimitri with me no matter where I go, no matter what has to be done. I couldn't bare to be away from him again. He squeezed my hand in reassurance like he had already known what I was thinking about. I smiled, things couldn't have of been more perfect.
After breakfast, everyone sat in the living room discussing life, but everyone seemed to be interested in Dimitri and mine's relationship. I couldn't blame them; I'd want to know too. Right as we started to tell our story Abe barged in the house.
"Rose, you have to leave now, they know where you are. You have less than an hour to be out of Baia. Hurry up and go get all of your things. We are leaving in 10 minutes."
"I'm not going anywhere without Dimitri." I said and there was such determination and power in my voice when I said it that my father, Abe, mobster with so much of a reputation, wouldn't even argue with me. "That is, if Dimitri wants to go." I looked up at him.
"I wouldn't go anywhere that you wouldn't go Roza. Я пойду куда-нибудь, Вы идете Roza, моя любовь." He just smiled at my confused face. My father looked at him very suspiciously. And than he agreed to let Dimitri go.
"Hurry, remember they execute traitors." Uh that saying was going to haunt me for a while. I ran upstairs to gather my things. I said my goodbyes than ran out the door. only to be caught in the middle of a guardian mission. And It was Dimitri, myself, Abe, and his guardians, which there were like 6 of them, against about 30 guardians. It was going to be difficult. But it had to be done. This is my survival. I had to fight. Even if I knew half of the guardians. My mother, and Eddie were among them, I saw pity in their eyes.
Than we attacked.