Hellooo, I know it's been a couple of days since I last updated, but I have been REALLY busy lately. I have had to choose all my subjects for year 10 next year and that has been time consuming and also, I have had a LOT of homework =.= but, enough excuses.

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Now, on with chapter 4. Sorry it's so short, but chapter 5 will hopefully be up tonight. (Australian time.)

Chapter 4.

Dimitri's POV.

I took Rose to the medical clinic and placed her unconscious body down on one of the beds. Dr Olendzki came hurrying out of her office and immediately bent over Rose, examining her.

"What happened, Guardian Belikov?" She asked me and she took Rose's temperature.

"I'm not sure," I said uncertainly. "She was fine, then she was clutching her head and in pain. She passed out while I was bringing her here." I told Dr Olendzki. She shook her head and sighed.

"I'm not sure what happened with her," She told me, a slightly frazzled look on her face. "There are no physical signs that anything is wrong. I suppose we could do some tests, but otherwise, I don't know if there is anything I can do for her. She turned and headed back to her office.

I stayed and watched Rose. She looked comfortable, almost like she was sleeping. After a while, she stirred and mumbled incoherently. As I watched, her eyes slowly drifted open.

"Roza?" I murmured quietly as she became fully aware of where she was. "Are you okay?" I asked her.

She turned her head to the side to face me. "I feel fine." She said. I was surprised. She had been in so much pain before, and now she was fine? Something wasn't right.

"Rose... what happened in Stan's class?" I asked her gently.

"I... I had a really bad headache. I don't remember much. Just that you brought me here, and I remember the pain, but u guess I must have passed out." Rose said.

Hrmmm... weird. "Were you fine before Stan's class?" I asked Rose.

"Yes, I was fine. I was talking to Eddie, and then I felt a white hot pain in my head." She pointed to the front of her head. "Just here." She informed me.

"Has it ever happened before?" I didn't think that it had, but I had to check.

"Um... well, I have had a few headaches lately. Well, no, more than headaches. More like migraines, but nothing ever this bad." Rose replied.

He sat in silence for a few minutes, then Rose startled me by sitting up in her bed and exclaiming, "Shit!"

"What Rose? What is it?" I asked her, thinking she was in pain again. My hands flew to her, hovering centimetres from her face.

"I was meant to meet Lissa and Eddie at lunch," she groaned. I suppressed a small chuckle.

"Oh, I think you could be forgiven," I said, my voice amused. "You are, after all, in the infirmary." I stated.

"Yes but we were going to plan..." she trailed off.

"Yes Roza?" I asked her, encouraging her to continue.

She took a deep shuddering breath. "We were going to plan a sort of birthday party for Mason... It's his birthday today. He would have been eighteen. And, we wanted to do something special for him, as a final goodbye." The way she said it made me start to choke up. I had never been particularly fond of Mason, because I had thought that he was my competition for Rose. I realise now, that that had been stupid, he would have been perfect for Rose. But his death was horrible and too early. His life should never have been taken from him when he was only seventeen.

"Oh." Seriously! That was all I could say? Words had evaded me and I couldn't think of anything to say. Just then, saving me from having to say something else, Dr Olendzki came out of her office and hurried over to Rose.

"How are you feeling Miss Hathaway?" she asked in a gentle but formal voice.

"I feel fine now, thank you." Rose replied.

"Well, if you feel up to it I guess you can go, but," she turned to me before continuing "No training for a couple of days and plenty of rest." She ordered.

I nodded and helped Rose to her feet. "I'll take you back to your room." I told her as I led her to the door of the med clinic.

"But, I have to see Lissa!" Rose said, trying to pull out of my grip. She stumbled in the effort and I automatically reached out to steady her before she fell.

"No, Roza. You need rest. I will get the Princess and bring her to your room." We had reached Rose's room and I opened the door, helping her over to her bed. "You get changed and I'll go find Lissa." I left her then and went to the Moroi dorm. I knocked lightly on the Princess' door. She opened it with a look of surprise on her face.

"Guardian Belikov," she addressed me. "Is everything okay?"

"Good evening Princess," I said bowing slightly. "I think Rose would like to see you, she is out of the med clinic and wants to see you and Eddie... something about Mason's party? It sounded like a question.

"Oh yes, um just a sec." She went to her desk and picked up a piece of paper the followed me out the door.

"How is Rose?" She asked me as we walked back to Rose's room.

"Better," I said. "She says she feels fine now, and doesn't know what happened in class." Even I could hear the worry in my voice, and I was usually very good at hiding my emotions. Not when it came to Rose though. She could always tell how I was feeling and she brought out the emotions in me, making me feel raw emotion whenever I was near her. Love, lust, care. All those feelings that I could never act on. Well, I could always care about her, that was allowed, but I couldn't let myself love her. I had once told her that if I were to love her while we were both protecting Lissa, then when or if we faced danger, I would throw myself in front of her and not Lissa, like I should. I could never let that happen. Lissa's life was more important than anything. She came first.

Lissa looked at me with a worried expression. "Eddie said she was in so much pain... and she passed out?"

"Yes, she passed out while I was taking her to the clinic," I told Lissa.

We had arrived at Rose's room and I pushed the door open. Rose was sitting on her bed in her pyjamas. They were cute too. She was wearing a red and white candy striped singlet with Elmo on the front and blue mini shorts that also had Elmo on them. I smiled. Never picked Rose for an Elmo fan. (A/N: I love Elmo! He is soooo cute)

Rose's POV.

"Rose." Lissa sighed in relief when she saw and Dimitri came through the door.

"Hey Liss," I said, hugging her as she sat down beside me. Dimitri stood up against the wall, and watched us with a slight smile on his lips.

"You know you kind of remind me of my sister, Viktoria when she is with her friend, Marina." Dimitri said. His face glowed as he thought of his family. He had told me that Viktoria was his little sister and she was about a year younger than me. I smiled at him. I liked it when he was happy and he was always happy when he thought about his family back in Baia.

I turned back to Lissa. "So, have you decided what we are going to do to honour Mason?" I asked Lissa. She handed me a piece of paper with her neat handwriting on it.

"Yes, I think I have," she said. "I hope you think it's a good idea. Eddie helped me decide and Christian did too.

I looked down at the paper and read what Lissa had written.

Party plans.

Food.

Guests. (Rose, Eddie, Christian, Adrian, myself. Dimitri?)

Have party down by the cabin near the stream. (one of Mason's favourite places.) White lilies to put on the water. (Just something special to remember him, something we can all do together.)

I looked up at Lissa. "Good, I like the lily idea." She glowed at my praise.

She turned to Dimitri. "Guardian Belikov, we were planning a special birthday for Mason's eighteenth, would you like to join us?" she looked a bit nervous as she asked, casting a side long glance in my direction.

Dimitri looked at Lissa, then at me, like he was looking for an answer. "I... yes, I would love to join you, Princess." He said eventually, addressing Lissa.

After that, Dimitri left and Lissa and I watched a movie before she had to go back to her room for curfew.

When Lissa left, I went back to my bed and lay down, thinking. We were all going to meet up tomorrow after my training session with Dimitri. It would be Saturday, so we didn't have school. I let Lissa organise everything because she was good at planning events. She was also in charge of informing Christian, Adrian and Eddie of the plans for meeting at the cabin in the morning.

I got off my bed and walked over to the window, sitting down on my window seat. I looked out and saw something move very quickly. I looked back to where it vanished, but there was nothing there. A weird feeling crossed me. What was that? The only thing I had ever seen move that fast was a strigoi, but there was no way strigoi could get onto the school grounds. We were protected by wards, and a strigoi couldn't cross wards. I shook it off, probably just my imagination, I thought. I went back to bed, the odd feeling lurking in the back of my mind. Sleep quickly claimed me.

Dimitri's POV.

After I left Rose and the Princess, I wondered back to my room. I didn't have any guard duty tonight so I had time before I would go to bed. I walked aimlessly around, eventually finding myself at the gym. Walking into the weights room, I picked up barbells and began to lift them, one in each hand, alternating lifts. Weights were always a good way to tire yourself out, it required a lot of energy.

I lost track of time, and when I did finally look at the clock, I realised I had been in the gym for three hours. I put everything away and wiped my face with a towel. Sighing I left the gym and walked back to my room, collapsing on the bed and falling asleep before my head had even hit the pillow.

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