Chapter 26

Helicopters and Sand Dunes

Dimitri's POV

Tasha stalked in, grinning evilly. "Get up, Dimka." She said. It had been two days since we had had our conversation about running away. Now, we were sitting on the floor just talking.

"My ass. You'll have to go thorough me." Rose stood up in front of me.

"Alright then." She smirked and walked towards us. I got up when Rose launched herself at Tasha. Tasha was expecting it though, and flipped Rose around so Tasha had a knife to Rose's throat. I gasped.

"Let her go, Tasha." I said.

"Yah let me go, you bitch." Rose elbowed her in the stomach and wiggled away from Tasha. When Tasha composed herself, she took out the remote and shocked Rose. Rose fell to the ground and grabbed her ankle. I dropped to my knees next to her. She whimpered and Tasha released the button.

"I didn't shock you enough to knock you out, so be happy." She told Rose who was panting on the floor. Rose growled. "Would you like to be shocked again?"

Before Rose could get herself in more trouble, I answered, "What do you want, Tasha?"

"What I want?" She walked toward us. "I want to get married to you and have your children." She pointed towards Rose. "But with that tramp around, that's not going to happen."

"She is not a tramp. She is my wife." She was shocked into silence.

"Yah, that's right bitch. Got nothing to say now, huh?" Rose said standing up.

Tasha snapped. "YOU MARRIED HER?" Tasha ran towards Rose who backed up. Tasha grabbed her neck and ran her into the wall. Rose struggled to get away, but Tasha had her pressed against the wall. Before I could rush over to rip Tasha off of her, Rose pulled her ring off. Tasha wasn't expecting this, and gasped as Rose pushed against her stomach. Rose smiled and shoved Tasha away, into the opposite wall. Tasha hit her head and slipped to the ground.

"Come on, Dimitri." Rose said.

"Rose?" I asked, she was still Strigoi but she wasn't out of control.

"I am about to lose control again. Grab my ring." She blinked a few times and I grabbed her ring off the ground and pinned her to the ground. I put it on her and she calmed down. Her skin turned back to normal and I hugged her, happy to have her back.

"Let's get out of here." She said, pulling me off the ground with her.

"Hold on." I ran over to Tasha's crumpled body. Her head was bloody. I checked her pulse while Rose ran to the door. I grabbed the remote from her and pressed the button that said "release" on the bottom. The anklets beeped and opened. We both reached and pulled them off. "Now, we can go." I grabbed her hand and opened the door.

"Holy mother of god." Rose said.

"Yah. No shit."

Rose gaped at me. "I've never heard you cuss in English, Comrade." She smiled. "What's happened to the world?" We laughed and we looked back to what had made me cuss. We looked at- well, nothing. We were in the middle of nowhere. All that was around was dirt. White sand dunes and dirt. Crap.

Janine's POV

24 hours later

"Do you see anything from up there?" Abe's voice came from the radio.

"Nothing but dirt." I said back to him over the helicopters radio. We had five Suv's about a mile behind the helicopter I was flying. Lissa sat next to me. It had been three days since Abe had given me the promise ring. The second best day of my life. The first being the day I had Rose.

"What about you, Lissa? Any aura's?" I asked her.

"No, sorry." I continued flying. About an hour later, Lissa gasped. "Over there!" She said pointing to the left of us. I turned the helicopter and went toward where she was pointing to. "Right here!" I saw what she was talking about. A black figure stood a few hundred feet in front of us. I gently landed and radioed Abe.

"I think we found something." I told him where we were and then got out of the helicopter. "Stay here." I told Lissa. She nodded and I pulled out my gun and ran over to the person. Viktor Dashkov. "Get down on the ground!"

"Why, Janine Hathaway. Good to see you." He smirked.

"I said get down!" He held his hands up and sunk down to the ground. A few minutes later, five Suv's pulled up behind me. Abe and some guardians got out and came over to me. Abe got to us and ordered his guardians to arrest him and put him in the back of one of the cars. They did and Viktor told us that he had just left the compound where he kept Rose and Dimitri but they weren't there anymore. He walked to the car and has a satisfied smile the entire time. "Wait!" I ordered. They stopped and turned to me. I walked over to Viktor. "Why are you smiling? You were just arrested for the second time and now you seem happy. Why?"

"Rosemarie and Guardian Belikov will never get out of the desert before Strigoi get them or they will die from starvation. They have been out there for an entire day now, so be prepared for corpses." I gritted my teeth too keep from killing him. They took him away and I got back in the helicopter with Lissa.

"Are you okay, Guardian Hathaway?" Lissa asked softly.

Without looking at her I said, "Yes, Lissa I am."

Rose's POV

It's been two days since we escaped now. At night, we took shifts watching for Strigoi. They never came. We are tired from the heat and we have no food or water.

"Oh god, Dimitri. We're going to die." It was the second time I had said it, and I really believed it.

Dimitri whipped towards me and pointed a finger at me. "Don't say that, Rose. We will get out of this. We have gone up against countless other things so we can do this one." He turned back and continued walking two feet ahead of me.

"Taken down countless Strigoi, turned a Strigoi back into a Dhampir, a Strigoi myself, and I get taken down by a desert. How pathetic." I mumbled. I stopped and stared up at the cloudless sky. "Mother nature, if you can hear me," I yelled, "I really would like some fucking rain right now, but if not, just turn up the heat a little so I die sooner, please!" I dropped to my knees and groaned in frustration. Dimitri came back around and stood me up.

"Come on, Rose." He said, "We have to be close to something."

"Right. Close to a psychotic break." I said back to him.

"Rose, this is not the time."

"Sorry, dying makes me tell jokes. It's just how I work." I said sarcastically. "I turn form a Strigoi fight and tell my friend a funny pun." I snorted.

Dimitri groaned. "You are unbearable!" He threw his hands up.

"So are you!"

"You're not responsible!"

"You slept with a student!"

"Then I became Strigoi! Karma's a bitch isn't it?"

"There you go again with the swearing!"

"Ugh! I shouldn't have married you!"

I stopped dead in my tracks. "Wha… What?" I stuttered staring at his back. He stopped like he just realized what he said.

"Oh, Roza I'm-"

"Don't you dare 'Roza' me, Dimitri!" I yelled at him.

"I'm sor-" I cut him off again.

"I'll just go my separate way!" I turned right and stalked off. I heard footsteps quickly approaching.

"Roza-" He stopped. "What's that?"

"What's what, Dimitri? I won't fall for any tricks-" I heard it to. We stayed silent and looked around. "Oh my god, that's the sound of a helicopter."

Dimitri and I looked at each other and smiled, completely forgetting the fight. "Can you see it anywhere?" We went around in circles trying to spot it in the sky.

"There!" I yelled out as I spotted a black dot that got bigger every second. I started jumping and pointing towards it. "We're saved!" I looked at the ground and saw five other black dots, bound to be cars. I ran to Dimitri and hugged him.

"I am sorry for what I said, Roza. I love you. You know that right?" HE looked into my eyes pleading for forgiveness.

"I love you, Dimitri, and no matter what we go through, I will always love you." And I kissed him as the sound of the helicopter got closer and closer.

I know this one went kind of fast but you know how I don't like to waist time. I hope you like that and if you don't, sorry. This chapter is not my best work and it was all done when I was majorly tired so sorry for the major errors. Thanks for all of the reviews and please write more in the review beside UD soon. Tell me what part you liked about the chapter and I will update faster!