Hey guys, so I am super excited because my brain has been working overtime this weekend and I am very happy with what I have come up with. I hope you guys are going to love it as much as I do. Chapter ten is done and ready to go but I am going to make you guys work for it, so once I get up to 60 reviews then I will post chapter ten. Enjoy.
Richelle Mead is the sole owner of these characters.
"You sent them" I said realizing how much it hurt me to think that even now he would send someone to kill me.
"Of course not, why would I have to send someone when I could easily get to you" he said.
Instead of playing his games I tried to get the information I had come for before Lissa woke me up. "If you did not send them why did they come?" I asked getting frustrated with how much time we had already wasted.
"A few of my followers thought they would bring you to me, hoping they would gain status from it. Clearly they did not take my warning about you seriously. Their mistake" he said chuckling to himself then proceeded to walk towards me. I hadn't realized until now that we were standing in the clearing by the woods at the school. I knew if we walked through the trees we would be at the cabin that we had once called our own.
"If they would have brought you to me in this state they would have meet the same fate for injuring you" he said attempting to touch my bruised cheek.
"Don't" I said stepping further back. "Tell me what you want from me, I have made my decision. I don't want to be with you and I will not let you turn me. If you are thinking about doing it against my will I will meet the sun the first chance I get" I yelled at him. I knew my time was up and at any second this dream would fade out along with my answers.
"I told you I want what is mine and that is you. I will take you anyway I can, if that means not turning you yet then so be it. I will gladly lock you away again until you are ready. I am pretty sure you were coming around to the idea before you left" he said grabbing my arm pushing me up against a tree running his fangs against my neck when the dream faded out completely.
I opened my eyes to see a very angry looking Adrian standing next to my bed. Lissa was at the door walking out giving me a apologetic look before walking out completely.
"What do you think you were doing?" he hissed at me. Of all the emotions I have seen on Adrian's face anger was one that I had seen rarely and it was generally focused on someone else.
"Lissa was here, she was going to wake me up after a few minutes. Adrian I had to figure out what he wants" I said knowing that it wasn't a good excuse but it was the only one I had.
"What he wants, everyone already knows what he wants Rose. You, that is all he has ever wanted" he yelled then attempted to control his voice.
"I am sorry, but I have more to think about than myself now. I couldn't bare the thought of something happening to you or this baby" I said grabbing his hand and putting it on my stomach.
He sighed the rest of his anger disappearing. He bent down to my stomach placing a small kiss just above our hands. "Then you have to realize what it would do to me if something happened to you or this baby. I don't think I would survive it and I am not sure I would want to" he said turning his face from my stomach to look at me. The face that was full of anger a few seconds ago was now full of concern and love.
"I won't do it again I promise" I said realizing that I was probably making a promise that I would have to break.
There was a knock on the door. Adrian walked over and opened the door.
"How is the patient?" Dr. Olenzki asked walking in with my chart.
"Much better, I am just ready to go home and sleep in my own bed" I said hoping that she would have good news.
"Well then I suppose I have good news for you. Your vitals are holding at stable ranges and all of your test have come back normal, so I don't see why you won't be able to go home today" she said smiling down at me.
"Are you sure everything is ok?" Adrian asked.
"Yes, but if you start to experience any new pain then you need to come back. I know the news you two received yesterday probably took you by surprise, so I wanted to see if you had any questions in regards to the pregnancy?" she asked looking from me to Adrian.
"Is there anything that will help with the nausea?" I asked figuring since I now knew what was causing it, it would be nice to find a way to stop it.
"Unfortunately there is nothing I can give you for that it is just your body adjusting to the hormones, but I would suggest saltines and a lot of them. A lot of women have said that it helps settle their stomach, you senses will become sensitive so be careful not to be around smells that overly strong or it can cause the nausea to worsen" she said giving me a reassuring smile.
"What about exercise?" I asked watching Adrian's smile fade.
"Well I am going to tell you to refrain from any and all contact sports, no fighting Rose" She said giving me a stern look. "Once the leg heals you can start to do some cardio exercises like walking but keep the running to a minimum. A healthy exercise regime will help during delivery just don't over do it. Now I will want to see you again next week to make sure everything is looking good and then we will set up your appointment for another ultra sound" she said writing a few things in my chart.
"Alright, does that mean I am free to go?" I asked while trying to process everything she had told me. Realizing that I accepted that I was pregnant but it just hit me that I was going to have a baby to take care of in six month.
"Yes, I will send the nurse in to remove the iv's and then you are free to go. Rose please call me if you have any questions. And congratulations" she said lightly touching my arm smiling before walking out of the room. It was weird I had a closer relationship to my doctor than my mother. I thought after I had come back from Russia it was better but her inability to accept my decision to be with Adrian changed that. It made me sad to lose the relationship we could have, but I wouldn't give up what I have with Adrian for any relationship with my mom.
The nurse came in a few minutes later removed the iv's and gave me my discharge papers with an envelop full of pamphlets about pregnancy. I was happy she was being discrete I knew my mother had relationships with a lot of people at the academy and they wouldn't hesitate to tell her I was pregnant.
Adrian had grabbed me clothes when he went home and helped me pull a pair of soft shorts over my fractured leg and pulled a t-shirt over my head. Lissa had returned to the room to help me get back to our dorm.
"Lissa will you just grab her crutches and the discharge papers, I got Rose" he said helping me stand.
"Baby I am not going to be able to walk without my crutches" I said holding on to his shoulder so I didn't fall over.
"Good thing I didn't plan on letting you walk" he said bending down and gently picking me up.
"You are going to hurt yourself. I may have put on a few extra pounds" I said placing my hand protectively over my stomach. Thankfully Lissa didn't catch any of our exchange. Adrian chuckled and followed Lissa out of the room.
When we got back to our dorm Lissa put my stuff down gave me a quick hug and left giving Adrian and I some much needed time together outside of a hospital room.
"You never got to eat the food I brought. Do you want me to make you something to eat?" he asked placing me down on the couch. I grabbed his hand. "Just sit with me for a minute" I said pulling him toward the couch the best I could.
When he sat down he gently pulled my onto his lap being careful not to hurt me. I laid my head on his shoulder breathing in the smell that I had falling in love with.
"Are you ok with all of this? I know you said that you are happy about the baby, but it is a lot to take in. I won't be mad at you if you need time to think" I said not moving my head from his shoulder. I had to give him the option to walk away, my life was a mess. Dimitri was after me and I was three months pregnant, one of these issues would have been enough to get anyone to run but he had to deal with both of them.
"I don't need time, I know what I want and what I need in my life and by chance it is in my arms right now" he said rubbing his hand down my arm then to my stomach.
"We are going to be parents" I said watching his hand move over ever inch of my stomach.
"I know" was the last thing I heard before I drifted off to sleep.
The scene was familiar since it was the first place we had meet. Again all of the pains I was feeling awake were gone along with the cast on my lower leg. I was looking out toward the falling snow watching the moonlight hit it and bring the flakes to life.
The first time I had been here I could smell the clove cigarettes and alcohol, but I knew that smell would not linger tonight. I turned away from the falling snow to see Adrian sitting in the same chair he had been the first night.
"What are you doing?" I asked when I noticed he was staring at me a grin plastered across his face.
"Wondering how I got so lucky. If I recall correctly the first time we were here you did not like me very well" he said pulling me to his lap.
"And if I remember correctly you were hitting on me while drunk and smoking awful cigarettes. Yet here we are" I said snuggling my body into his.
"When are we going to tell everyone about the baby?" I asked.
"Whenever you are ready. Maybe we can get everyone that we want to tell together and tell them at one time" he said.
"Yeah I think we should tell them sooner than later, they will need to find a replacement for me to guard Lissa with Eddy" I said realizing that I was actually ok with that. Right now I was more of a danger attempting to protect Lissa, and I knew that this baby came first no matter what. I also knew that I would protect Adrian with all that I had if it was necessary it wasn't fair to Lissa to be put at risk because of me.
"Are you ok with that? I know you have been training all of your life thinking you were going to be her guardian" he said pulling me tighter to his body.
"I have to be, don't I?" I asked him sitting up. I was so happy about the baby, but the thought of never being a guardian had hit a cord between sadness and anger. I had worked so hard to be the best, but I would not do what my mother did. Being the best guardian meant nothing if I was the worst mother.
Adrian gave me a look like he wasn't sure what to say. "Of course you have a choice Rose, I know what you have trained for, what was planted in your head since you were a child. I hope that you will want to be a mother and find something else besides risking your life to put your talents to use. But I would never try and make that decision for you" he said the words and I knew they were true, as much as he wanted a wife and a family I knew that he would respect any decision I made.
"Well we have some time to figure out what we are going to do after the baby comes" I said standing up pulling him up behind me. "Enough serious talk we have all the time in the world to talk about this stuff when we are awake" I said leading him toward the door to go inside the ski lodge. There was a fire already going, next to the fire place was a cover and pillows.
"What do we have here?" I asked walking toward the covers.
"I missed you, every part of you" he said wrapping his arms around my waist. He pushed my hair to the side and started kissing my neck. I don't know what it is about this boy but the feelings he sent through my body were amazing.
His hands loosened from around my waist, slowly he moved them up my stomach under my shirt lifting it. His lips didn't leave my skin until he pulled back to lift the shirt over my head. Then his lips started to explore my shoulders and back while one hand moved to cup, pinch, and tease my breast while the other one started to work on getting my pant's unbuttoned. My body arched from the sensations I was feeling with every movement he made.
His hand left my breast to release the clasp on the back of my bra, he pulled it forward dropping it to the ground. Then his hand returned to my breast. Once he had the button and zipper down he slid his other hand down invading my panties. I was already wet from the pleasure he was causing but, the sensation from him touching me I couldn't help but moan shoving my butt further into his groan to feel his excitement.
I moved forward to allow my hands access to his pants, I was having a hard time concentrating but was able to get the button undone. I gave them a yank, pulling them down enough that I could get to his boxers and gave them a tug.
His hand movement increased, causing me to pause as another jolt of pleasure rippled through my body. Once I recovered I was able to tug Adrian free of the boxers enough to gripe him. Slowly I moved my hand up and down, Adrian's body tensed, he pulled me back tightly so I had to let go as his movement increased and before I knew it I was overwhelmed with my first orgasm of the night. With Adrian I knew that there would be many more, he moved his hand and held my body until it was over but his lips continued to kiss along my neck.
I turned around and quickly removed his shirt and pulled his pants and boxers off. Sliding my pants off I pulled him to the covers by the fires. I pushed him down slowly letting him know I was in control now. He sunk to the ground and attempted to pull me down with him.
"Not yet" I said pulling my arm away pushing him further until he was laying on his back.
"Don't torture me Little Dhampir" he said smiling and trying to rub up my leg.
"Oh there will be not torture, I promise" I said lowering myself to the ground so I was straddling his lower half. I moved my hands up to rest next to his shoulder. I could see the lust in his eyes and smiled. Starting with his neck I started placing kisses his body allowing my tongue to graze over his nipples and made a line done to his bellybutton. Allowing my breast to graze his stomach as I moved down. He attempted to reach up and touch me when I grabbed his hands.
"Not yet" I said pushing his hands down holding them to his side. I continued down until my mouth reached it's final destination. I could feel Adrian's body tense with anticipation. Slowly my mouth took over the job that my hand had started earlier. I released his hands so I could balance with one hand while the other one moved up his chest.
"This is torture Rose" he said the words barely coherent. I stopped and looked up at him. We had done this plenty of times and he always seemed to enjoy it. He reached down grabbing the arm that was still halfway up his chest and pulled me up toward his face.
"I love when you do that, but I need more" he said flipping our bodies so he was now on top of me. Wrapping my legs around his waist I felt him at my entrance and pulled his body closer to mine. He pushed further in then kissed me. It was hard and fast, I could feel his need. Not for the actual sex but to feel me to know that I was there and was alive. He had spent the last six days in a hospital bed five of them with me in a coma and him unable to heal me. He needed to work his emotions out and I was there to match him kiss for kiss, thrust for thrust.
"I can't lose you" he whispered into my ear pushing himself further into me.
"You won't" I said arching my back pulling him into me as far as he could go.
I felt myself sliding over the edge and brought him with me. Our bodies quivered from the pleasure and then slowly returned to normal. His movement slowed then stopped, but he didn't move off of me. I kissed his chest and pulled him toward me, still connected he rolled us to our side.
The beating on the door pulled us both from the dream. I groaned opening my eyes. Adrian smiled, gave me a quick kiss and shifted my body onto the couch.
"At least they didn't come a few minutes ago" he said walking toward the door. I laughed and then shifted my body onto one of the couch cushions to get more comfortable.
Apparently there was a meeting in our dorm that nobody told us about. My mom, dad, Lissa, Christian, Eddy, Alberta, Stan, and Kirova walked in.
"I don't think this is the best time for this" Adrian said holding his hands up trying to stop the flow of people.
"Adrian it is fine we need to figure out what is going on" I said knowing that I was not in the mood for this but realized that it needed to be done.
"How are you feeling?" my dad asked sitting down on the couch next to me.
"Better, I am happy to be home. Were you guys able to find anything else out?" I asked.
"That is why we came" my mother said standing against the wall glancing around our dorm. She had never been here and I wasn't about to give her a tour, although seeing her face when I showed her our room would have been a little funny.
"What did you find out?" Adrian asked retaking the seat next to me while intertwining our fingers.
"Well that is the problem, there was not a lot to find" she responded.
"I spoke to Dimitri in another dream, he said he didn't send them. They were his followers and thought they could get something out of getting me" I said.
"Rose it is a dream, we will not decide what to do because you are having dreams about your old mentor that you had a crush on" my mom said. I tightened my hold on Adrian's hand I was furious after everything that she would pretend that my relationship was just a crush. She seen how broken I was when I came back, she watched me cry for him yet she stood here talking to me like I was talking about a boy I liked in forth grade
"Guardian Hathaway I would ask that you respect Rose in our home, as for her dreams if it is possible for me to dream walk why would it be impossible for someone else to?" Adrian said his voice rising enough to get his point across. He thumb quickly started making small circles on my hand until I loosened the grip I had on his hand.
Watching my mom's expression change was quite entertaining. "I am sorry Lord Ivashkov I meant no disrespect, but you are a spirit user Dimitri is just a Strigoi, how would he be capable of dream walking?" she asked crossing her arms across her chest.
"I do not know, but I trust Rose and if she says that she is actually talking to Dimitri in the dreams then I believe her. And anyone that does not can go ahead and leave" he said looking around the room. Nobody budged.
"Ok now that we are on the same page, we need to figure out what he has planned. He is not going to stop until he has me or he is killed" I said swallowing the lump in my throat they both sounded like bad ideas. The thought that Dimitri wouldn't walk the earth would be difficult. I still knew there was a possibility to save him, but would he ever be able to live with himself after what he has done, after the lives he has taken. I shook the thought from my head quickly realizing that there was little to no time to figure out if we could actually save Dimitri.
"Me staying here is putting the academy at risk of being attacked. I am going to have to leave" I said finally realizing the school's wards were not strong enough and if I wasn't here then there would be no reason for someone to attack the school.
"Rose we can protect you here" Alberta said taking a step away from the wall.
"I know, but I won't put the other students in harms way" I said, smiling at her. She had been an awesome teacher and the last few months a wonderful friend.
"We can go to Court" Christian said surprising me. He hated the Royal Court as much as I did. But he had a good point the Royal Court had more guardians, and the wards have never been broken.
"That is a good idea Christian, but there is no reason to uproot everyone. I will go until we can figure out a way to stop him" I said leaning my head back against the couch closing my eyes. I was sure this was the stress the doctor had warned me about.
"We will go, Lissa you should put in a request for a new guardian to take over for Rose while she is gone" Adrian said making sure to let me know that where ever I was he would be.
Lissa had been quiet until now.
"I don't need a new guardian we will figure this out and Rose will continue to be my guardian. She promised me she would bring me next time she left" Lissa shouted.
"Lissa I don't think that will be possible on either account" I said scooting closer to Adrian. He gave me a questionable look and then realized that I was going to tell them.
"What. why?" she continued to shout. Her emotions were out of control and were hitting me taking my breathe away.
"Lissa you need to calm down" Adrian said to her. She was about to protest until she seen my state.
"I am sorry Rose I just don't understand" she said looking at me with sadness in her eyes.
By now everyone was staring at me. Since I was a child I had planned my future around being a guardian for Lissa and now I was giving that up.
"Lissa please calm down and I will explain" I said taking a deep breath. I thought about backing out but I realized that Lissa wouldn't understand why I couldn't be her guardian unless I told her the truth, plus we needed everyone to know that I wouldn't be much of a help when it came to fighting.
"I am pregnant."
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