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Chapter four Forbidden

As expected the house turned into hell as soon as the door was closed. Them shouting at me as if I knew what the hell they were on about.

"OK, OK all of you just stop. What's wrong with me being around Dimitri? He is really sweet and cares about my well being" I turned looking at every ones' face leaving my aunt for last. All I could see was sadness and for what? I had no idea but it seemed directed at me as if it was all for me. "Aunty please. I really want his company and he makes me feel different. He's not bad, please everyone please understand, I feel happier with him and I can trust him" I was begging my family about a boy I met few hours ago.

"Little girl, stop it's just a crush. You will get over it… because I forbidden you from ever seeing him. If he approaches you, you move away not throw your hands around him. Understood young lady?" I backed away from my fathers' tone, afraid of what he might do if that tone transfers into physical contact. She shivered at that the thought of what her father could do. Rose was having trouble trying to convince her family to think positively thoughts towards Dimitri.

Whereas Dimitri could not stop thinking about what his mother said before she left. I really hope she's as wonderful and worthy as you seem to claim she is because once this goes around, many of our people would want to know who this girl is that is making you stand up for her against your own kind. You better hope she would keep our secret when you tell her. She is going to notice that you are different soon enough and I pray for you in hope of her not breaking your heart. Those words kept him wondering all night about how to handle this new turn of event. Rose. He slowly got up before running full speed to his destination.

"Mother? Mother can I speak with you?" I shouted even though there was no need as she is capable of hearing me just fine.

"Dimka" A female voice came through the darkness before a body was thrown at me, hugging me to her. "Hello Vika. How are you my dear?" It was my youngest sister, age of seventeen well her body is. "Oh you are in B-I-G trouble." She singed it out. That's one thing about her that hasn't changed over the century; she's as happy and full of life as ever.

"You heard?" I pulled away from her slightly to get a good look at her beautiful face, one so much like our mother.

"The whole royal world heard it not to mention the vampires as well." She gave me time to go over her words but not long as she questioned me, "What's she like?" Looking at my confused facial expression she smirked, "The girl? The girl who seemed to have sinked her teeth in you...well you know what I mean." I smiled at the thought of Vika wanting to know Rose, I was brought out of my thoughts by her mumbling,

"That would have worked if she was a vamp, sink her teeth in but damn she's human." I laughed at what she was mumbling to herself before bending down to her eye level, "Yes she's human. Vika, you would love her, she's beautiful, full of joy, smart and just prefect."

She smirked a knowing smile before replying "So mum was right. You have fallen for a human girl. When can I meet her?" She asked excitedly, she had no idea how that just made everything prefect knowing she wanted to meet Rose.

"Soon I hope but first I need to get to know her. When she's alright with me I will let you meet her Vika, I promise."

She puts a hand on my shoulder, "I hope she likes you just as much. Are you going to tell her about us?" Her voice turned serious as she questioned me to which I could only tell her the truth,

"I have no clue, I don't know maybe someday." I turned away from her hoping she does not read the expression I had on,

"What are you not saying Dmitri?"

"Where's mother?" I avoided her question.

"You know I would not stop until you tell me and they are all gone hunting. What is it big brother?" She always has been the one out of everyone that II trusted more.

"Vika, Rose Hathaway is the girl." I waited for her to make the connection but she just looked confused.

"Rose, that's her. Wow even her name suggest beauty, she must be lovely."

I shook my head telling her she didn't get the point. "Viktoria, Hathaway the Hathaway,"

Her smile turned into a frown. "You mean she is a Hathaway, as in our enemy? How did she not know what you are, she get close to you right?"

I felt sadness at the thought of Rose rejecting me. "She doesn't." Viktoria laughed,

"Come on D of course she does, they all know when they see vampires"

With a low voice I answered. "Vika, she does not know anything about vampires. They never told her." He smiled at the fact that knowing if she knew she would not have allowed him to touch her at all.

"How do you know?" With that question came the explanation of how I met her to meeting her family, Vika laughed while dancing around Dimitri. "That would have been classic to watch her family's face as they saw who the rescuer was." She stopped dancing and stood in front of him.

"No one can know that. You must hide that information secret. Our kind would hunt her for what the Hathaways did; personally I don't see why they would want to hurt her when that happened centuries ago. Is it true though Dimitri?"

I raised my eyebrow at her as if to say what are you talking about. She punched my arm playfully before answering. "You know, the Hathaways still hunters?" It was interesting to know how they were able to hunt my people while keeping the identity of Rose secret as well as their hunters' identity from Rose. "That's really good question Vika but I don't know,"

Yet again she started to dance around. "Are you going to ask Roza to be your girlfriend?" She giggled while I laughed "Vika really?"

"Well yeah that's how humans do it. Girlfriend, boyfriend…fiancee…husband and wife comes after." Only Vika would want to see a happy every after.

"Vika you know that's not going to happen. Once she knows, that is the last thing on her mind, marrying a vampire." In Dimitri's' life he has never wanted to be normal than he had wish tonight. "Stop that, I know the looks." I looked around indicating not here to which she dragged me into the mansion to her room where she climbed her bed waiting to listen.

"OK, she is very beautiful with breathtaking feature I mean the brown eyes, that luscious dark lips and a wonderful silk looking dark hair that looks like black in color if you don't look close enough but once you do it's clear that the color is brown. She's short though but not too short" I was interrupted by Vika "Not that it matters I mean the children could have our family height," She smirked while arching her eyebrow.

"Vik that's enough, you just keep making me depressed when thinking about what can't happen" Taking slow deep breath to claim me down.

"Sister, don't play a matchmaker I want Rose to come to me at her own will."

Sighing she jumps off the bed before giving me a hug. "It will work out, I can tell maybe not now or tomorrow but one day. You two will have beautiful, joyful lives together with no secrets. Talking about secrets, be careful about grandmother, she might find out with that weird ability of hers." After that she didn't say anything but simply walked out of the room…her room, curiously I followed as she led me to the front door. She turned with such speed that humans would have missed it. "What is it about her that made her special? You allowed them to risk their lives before as long as you got something from them," She smiled devilishly at me as if challenging me into admitting my feelings towards Rose but all I did was just stare at her with no emotion visible on my expression. She sighed before continuing; "You are no fun sometimes" She turned away and mumbled all the time before running away knowingly of what I would do. That's one of the many reasons to why I feel more comfortable around her than any other member of my family, I chased after her, running in the direction of her soft footsteps laughing quietly to myself.

"Viktoria, do I really have to chase you?" There was no reply, "You know that once I catch you I would not let you off easily" I warned her even though I knew that never worked. Shutting the noises and smell of the night and focused on her alone as I moved slowly through the small forest that surrounded the mansion, I stopped quickly as I heard a tree branch break as soon one or something stepped on it but it did't come from up the tree nor from the front. The noise sounded like it came from the path that I had just taken which was the most important detail as it came from behind me to indicate that it was not my sister Vika. I turned quickly at my speed and waited in my fighting state, not long after that I felt the air move as Vika came at my side and I knew that she heard the thread as well. I silenced her by putting my finger on my mouth, shhing her when she tried to speak.

Slowly Dimitri moved in front of his sister to make sure that no harm came to her and listened as the steps became louder as they came near. "Dimka, who are they?" Dimitri could sense his sister fear to which he tried to comfort her my taking her hand while he still stood in front of her with his back at her and said,

"It will be OK Vika. If it gets ugly, run and don't stop until you are safe. Do not come back for me understood?" She nodded in agreement of accepting his request.

They're smell started to reach us and I knew there were humans among the vampires which provide right moments later as they stepped in front of us and away from the shadows. I quickly recognized Rozas' family in the center with our family guards around them as they followed my father.

"There you are son. I have been looking for you" It burnt Dimitri to hear the word son come from his fathers' voice let alone the noise alone.

"Father, what pleasure do I own you that you are looking for me?" Throughout that I could not help but think of what Rose would have thought of me as at that point my voice was not gentle or human.

"Nice to see you too son. Why is that I have heard of you interrupting a dinner? What are you trying to do?" In a flash he was only few inches away from me and the look on his facial expression could kill.

"Well I'm sorry if I wanted to do the right thing and protect her. It was unfair, one human girl against those bastards" I moved forward closing that small space between us.

"Why are you supporting that behavior? You are the king, ruler so start acting like it and demand them to stop what they are doing." I shouted hoping that would allow him to sink those words in that thick, cold mind.

He growled, "You will not speak to me like that boy." Dimitri laughed HHHHHGJK

at the boy word,

"Oh really, we both know that I am not a boy and haven't been one in centuries" And with that Dimitri pushed his father back away from his space as well as his sisters'.

"How DARE you" His father screamed as he ran at Dimitri clearly to cause hurt to which Dimitri was able to see but only had a few moments to which he was able to push his sister away gentle to avoid the impact of the attack on her. Whereas he was unable to defend himself as he found himself flying through the air for few seconds before landing with a loud thud. That took all of Dimitri's' patience away as he ran full speed at his father to throw him against the tree few yards away. "Vika go home" She hesitated "NOW" And with that she ran for home never looking back as her brother asked her for.

The guards started surrounding me as they went into attack mode, the same as I did earlier "As your future King, I demand you to leave and you know what I will do if you don't"." Slowly they retreated as they made their way towards their king.

"Go, go start moving" I said while walking towards the Hathaways, hoping for Roses' happiness that they would make it out alive. But not long after I heard a new comer

"Dimitri, what are you doing?" Dimitri was able to relax and sigh in relief as he heard Ivan's' voice.

"Ivan help me get them out of here safe," He looked at me strangely

"Help them? Are you out of your mind?"

"Please help me get them out safe" I begged him to which he replied

"Fine." As Ivan made his way closer to his friend Dimitri ready to aid his service.

"Two each?" Ivan smiled before taking Alberta into his arms and Mikhail on his back,

"Race you" And off he went

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"Janine, please let me keep you safe from my father…for Rose" I pleaded.

"Fine" She let a growl with that answer as I picked her up into my arms.

"Abe?" Sighing he went onto my back. "Hold on tight" I said as I chased after Ivan through the woods. I was able to study Janine's' discomfort at the speed that we were traveling to some extend pleased me to know one of her weakness…well two if you count the main weakness she has as well as the rest of the family, keeping Rose safe. Without breaking my full speed I asked, "What were you doing?"

"None of your business" Rose definitely got the anger from the Hathaways' side, first the expression from her aunt and now this from her mother. Even though I only met Rose for couple of hours at most, I knew she needed time to cool off therefore I let silent evolve around us and just focused on the run to save their lives.

"Getting old Dimitri?" Ivan said with a light tone when I came closer.

"You wish" I chuckled at how he can make such comments in times like this,

"Don't worry, I'll say I took them all by myself if they ask" I said reassuring him.

"What? No come on Dimka you know I would help you no matter what. But I do have to ask, why help them?" He slowed his peed as their house came to view. Not caring about their presences I said,

"You know the girl I saved earlier?" He nodded his head encouraging me to go on.

"They are her family."

He laughed, "Only you will find yourself in situations like this.

"Most likely" I mutter.

He started leaning on a tree nearby as he could not hold the amount of laughter within him, "Please Dimka there is no 'most likely' in that issue since you like getting on the bad side of your fathers' wishes. You should have heard him scream that hideous sound when he first heard," But I knew something was wrong as his face took the expression of seriousness.

"What?" I asked worriedly as he was trying to hide something "What is it Ivan?"

"You need to keep her safe" He replied looking at me before he looked around at them "All of you. I heard he is determined on finding out who she is and seeing as she is a Hathaway would be a problem," He paused before continuing "He will kill her. Our kind will kill her.

With full concern I turned to the Hathaway to see the same emotion clearly visible on their expression. What have I done to Rose? And here I was hoping to save her from those bastards to end her up as my fathers' new favorite hunt game. Would she ever forgive me for involving her in such trouble without her aware of the consequences? I beautiful sight caught my eyes as I looked at Rose through her window, walking around her room in what looks like as if she was lost in her thought and she would smile once in a while. And the thought of her thinking about our small moment made my heart clench at the thought of it.

Unwillingly I turned away from such sight to look at her family hoping they would agree to what I wanted to occur, "Let me protect her? I will be there with her knowledge or not. Let me be near Rose?" I pleaded yet again to her family.

"As if you weren't the cause of it already. No you cannot, absolutely no" Her mother shouts crashing my hope of it working.

"What a minute? If it wasn't for him she would be dead" Ivan defended me from her words, "You should be grateful for his voluntary service to protect your daughter. They would have found her anyway when they realize there is a teenage Hathaway around, breath."

Slowly I turned to Alberta for a reason I do not know, all I knew was I needed her to see that Roses' safety is important to me. "Alberta please let me protect her? Abe? Mikhail? Janine I need all of your support. My father would not stop at nothing to bring misery to you all and me… It's clear that by harming Rose would bring such things." With that speech I waited for their answer.

What do you think they should do? Let the creature they were taught to hate as they grow up or would they let their differences aside and protect her together? But the question that is most important is, is there protection enough to prevent such fate to occur to their Rose