Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire academy or any of the characters so far. They belong to Richelle Mead.

So sorry.. I was drowning in Uni work... Its short (story) but its the best I could do at the moment..

Deb, thank you again.

Chapter 17: Stay away.

Third POV

"Get up" Dimitri was starting to lose his patience with this lady who refused to move an inch late alone away from the bed beneath her.

With a sigh, he picked her up with a bit more speed than the 'usually' one; the human one. He was not bothered by it as she would think of it as delusional.

"What the hell?" she screamed as she felt herself being lifted into the air. She heard a soft chuckling before her head starting leading the way to the floor, she clinched to the closest source; Dimitri and refused to let go.

"If I go, you go" was her explanation.

With such a dare, Dimitri was not able to let go as he dropped her a bit more towards the ground but soon felt himself being pulled down from her weight and the fact that she meant to take him down with her. Before long her body collided with the hard floor while his on hers.

"That was a rude way to awaken someone, you know?"

"Well you would not get up, its breakfast time"

Rose stopped mid-way towards the bathroom located in his bedroom and turned to him, "You cooked?"

Dimitri could not explain the expression on her fragile face.

"Did I do something wrong?"

"What-? No of course not. It's just. Wow." With that she walked into the bathroom and Dimitri could have sworn he heard her say 'you tick every box" but he turned that down as his imagination; nothing more.

When Rose started turning the on water, Dimitri thought it would be better for her to wear something more comfortable and since her things weren't unpacked, he moved around as he collected a shirt and shorts for her.

Growing up the way he did, he started making his way out of the room with a final, "There's some clothing on the bed for you" loud enough that she was able to hear.

About ten minutes or so, Dimitri heard her footsteps, loud enough for anyone to hear her unpleasant morning. He chuckled at her behavior and that weird sleeping in habit of hers. He had been around his own kind for too long that he normally forgot the importance of sleep to the human kind. If he was honest with himself, he would admit that he had spent some of his past time with the human girls…well women but it was never for anything but pleasure that he could provide for some moments before they were cast away as usually. Whereas with Rose, he wanted more, so much more and the most frighten part was he was not completely sure what that was. All he knew at this stage was that he needed, no carved for her presence. Her warmth.

"Hello cowboy. Where did you disappear to?" Dimitri was shaken out of his thought only to come face to face with the lady in question, only a counter between them as they both leaning on either side.

"Wonderland?" he answered.

Laughing at his answer, Rose playfully pushed him, "Take me with you next time".

"Oh really, you want to be the rabbit?"

"What is that supposed to be?"

Taking the cartoon that was on the counter with the rest of the necessary items needed from the Russian cook book, he nibbled on it as he jumped around the kitchen.

"That would be our role next time I take you with me to wonderland."

"You did not just say that" with a tea towel Rose chased him around.

"That was delicious, thank you" she moved into the kitchen with the used plates after arguing with Dimitri on who gets to wash them…and she won.

"I can do that if you want me to" Dimitri came in ready to help his damsel in distress.

"What are you laughing at?" Rose asked as she heard Dimitri chuckle while watching her.

"No reason." He removed her hand from the water before drying it with the tea towel and carried her into the couch. His favorit place to have her. There is just something about sight of her on his couch, wrapped his self around her.

"I was not done for your information" she complained as he slowly put her on the soft surface of the couch whereas she was poking his chest with a right finger.

"Later" he sat beside her with her legs on top of his whereas her head rested on the pillow on one end.

"Need to talk" he broke the silence.

"About?" Rose replied.

"Yesterday, that was not what it looked like, Rose" he traced her cheek.

"What was it?"

"Nothing, but promise me that you would stay away from her. No matter what she does to contact you." Rose could only stare at him as his demand caught her off guard.

"Rose? Promise me that much" the pled on his facial expression was obviously visible.

"Why should I? You don't want her knowing me?" She drifted her legs off of him and onto the floor as she sat up and looked at him.

"Answer me" she demanded when he froze.

"Where did that question come from?"

"That's not what I had in mind when I said answer" she folded her arms across her chest and just for a moment, Rose could have sworn that she felt Dimitri's eyes on her chest.

With a sigh, he moved quickly as he pinned her underneath him. "She means nothing to me Roza. I only want…need you since the moment I saw you."

She wiggled beneath him, making his desire side surface "Even though she's so much more beautiful than I am?"

He laughed at the thought, "You think she's more beautiful than you?"

"What are you laughing at?" Rose's cheeks redden to which of course she tried to hide it from him as she moved her head into the pillow below whereas the rest of her body was still pressed by the weight of his.

"You are beautiful, so much more. Never try to compare her to you, you would win it every time" he whispered into her ear. He turned her head around so he was able to stare into those eyes that had become one of the most important things in his life.

She smiled at his words and knew that he really meant every word through his eyes.

"Ok, stay away from bitch. Got it" without thinking her hands went into the back of his head. He moaned as she began to massage her way inside with his eyes closed.

"You have got to stop doing things like that and expect nothing, Rose" he smiled as he opened his eyes to a confused look on hers to which he raised his eyebrow to indicate farther.

She laughed as she finally got the meaning and right there he decided she looked more beautiful when she smile or laughs. Without thinking, he moved his head closer but stoped when his brain caught up with his action but could not retreat back. He waited for her to close that small distance between them, thankfully not for long as she raised her head to contact their lips with a small kiss before dropping her head back onto the pillow with a satisfied look on her face.

Not being able to hold back, he kissed her with every want and need he felt for this human girl.