My Plate of Meatloaf

Rose's POV

Three weeks later.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

I flew up out of my bed in the master bedroom. Hair tangling around me face, blankets tangled around my body. Dimitri was sitting up next to me. I look over to the clock. 8:26 a.m. Too early!I jumped out of bed to answer the door.

"Roza," Dimitri said from his sitting position on the bed. I turned around. He waved to my body. I looked down. Crap. No clothes. I walked back over to the bed and grabbed the blood red sheet, and wrapped it around my body. Dimitri chuckled and covered his own body with another blanket. I opened my door and started down the stairs. I got to the large front door, and opened it to peek out at whoever it was.

The door was shoved open, and I was pushed back. I almost lost the hold on my sheet. Dimitri caught me, I looked back at the door to saw Christian standing there. "I'm guessing you don't have anything under that beautiful sheet?"

"She doesn't need anything else to look good." Adrian appeared next to him.

"I would hope you two would be alert being here in this house alone." My mom pushed past Adrian.

"Oh, Kiz, I am glad you chose this house. But I will be wanting the master bedroom back. And my sheets." Abe walked in.

"Stop teasing them, you guys." Lissa said, her small frame squeezing past everyone else.

"Yah, can't you see they just woke up from a night of festivities?" Sarah added on.

Dimitri and I just stood there staring at all of our newcomers. "Why are you here?" I asked. Abe laughed.

"I told you we would be catching up with you sooner or later." He said to me.

"Yah, Little Dhampir, the way you said it, people might think you don't want us here." Adrian commented.

I groaned. "Fine."

Dimitri spoke up. "Where is my family?" You could hear the worry in his voice.

"They wanted to go back to Siberia so I put them on a plane." Abe replied.

Dimitri relaxed. "Thank you."

"You're not getting your sheet back." I told Abe.

Dimitri and I went up stairs to get dressed while the rest did their stuff. "Well, they all seemed pretty happy so everything must be going well at court." We started back down the stairs and went into the living room. Everyone was seated around the room. Dimitri and I sat in the love seat, and smiled at everyone.

"So, how's everything at court?" I asked. Lissa's face paled and Christian squeezed her hand. Adrian and Sarah shifted in their seats and my mother and father both sighed. "Not good apparently." I said.

"Tell us what happened." Dimitri said.

"It's not all bad." Lissa said, "The guardian council has dropped the charges against you and Dimitri. But not about Tasha. Only about your marriage." I smiled and looked at my left hand. I smiled and grabbed Dimitri's hands. I squeezed and looked in to his eyes. We were finally going to be accepted, but I was going to go to prison for murder. Good and bad.

"I see that your rings wore off." My mother said. I looked down at my pale skin and raised my hands up to touch the fangs that I had grown accustomed to in the past two weeks. I nodded. "Well, Adrian or Lissa can charm your rings again, correct?" I nodded again.

I didn't want to be this way. I want to be a dhampir again. I want to be a guardian. I don't want to be charged for murder. A lump formed in my throat and I tried to hide that fact that I was about to cry. But wait, Strigoi don't cry. I figured that out a week ago. A sob broke from my throat. No tears fell from my face, but Dimitri knew what was happening. He wrapped his arms around me and let me dry-sob into him. After a second of this, he lifted me up and took me upstairs into the bedroom. He sat down on the bed and spoke softly to me in Russian.

I stopped crying and just sat there with him.

"Roza," Dimitri said softly, "Roza, please look at me." I slowly looked up to meet those loving brown eyes. "I know. I know this is hard, but we will get through it."

"But at what price, Dimitri?" I asked him.

He sighed. "It doesn't matter. We will get through this and we will be together." He said. I smiled up at him and pressed my lips to his. The kiss didn't last long because someone came to our door.

"Rose? Dimitri?" Lissa's voice floated into us, "Christian is going to make dinner. It will be ready in about 45 minutes." I listened to her retreating footsteps go down the stairs.

Dimitri looked towards me. "Well, since we have time…" He flipped us onto the bed and climbed onto of me.

**VA**

An hour later, I ran down the stairs trying to smooth my hair out, Dimitri right behind me. We slowed down just in time to walk into the dining room.

"You two are late." Christian said from next to Lissa.

"Yah, and next time, turn the T.V. on." Sarah pitched in.

Abe just about choked on his food. "I decided I will sleep in the guest room." I looked to my mom and she was glaring at Dimitri.

I looked toward Adrian waiting for his sexist response. "I got nothin'." He said, holding his hands up.

"That's a first." Lissa mumbled as Dimitri and I sat down at the table. "Glad to see you two finally down here." She said to us, eating her food politely.

"So what did our gay friend- oh sorry- Christian make for us today?" I said which earned a lot of glares and two smiles (Adrian and Sarah).

"Meatloaf." Christian said, proud. "Potato's, carrot, green beans, and salad."

"Meatloaf. Hand it over." I said.

"I'm holding it for ransom." Adrian said, gripping the plate of meatloaf.

"I am willing to do anything for that plate. What do you want?" I told him.

He put his finger on his chin, pondering. "A kiss from thy fair lady." He said with a smile on his face. Sarah's smile dropped along with her skin color. I got up, with everyone's eyes on me and walked toward Adrian. I looked at Sarah, and she gave me a death glare. I winked at her and looked back to Adrian. His eyes were wide and unbelieving. "I didn't think you'd do it little dhampir."

I bent down. "I'm not." I ripped the plate from his hands. And smacked him upside the head. Form behind me, Sarah started to laugh.

"I like you more and more each day." She said between laughs. I smiled at her and then went to sit back down with my plate of meatloaf.

Sorry about the wait, but writers block is kicking my ass right now and I have been enrolling in college, which is a real ordeal. Sorry, and please review!