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Epilogue

Light streamed through the windows, and it was annoying me now since I couldn't go back to sleep. My dreams had been very good, but not nearly as good as what had happened last night…

I opened one eye sleepily, and rolled over a little on my side. I felt Dimitri wrap his arms tightly around my waist, and he brushed his lips over my ear. "Good morning, beautiful," he murmured, his voice soft as silk.

"Morning, Dimitri," I murmured, relaxing in the feel of our bodies pressed against each other. I stretched, but winced a little. I felt a bit sore, but not to where it actually hurt. It actually felt sort of pleasant.

Dimitri instantly sensed my wince. "Did I hurt you last night? Do you feel okay? Do I-"

I laughed lightly and pressed my finger to his lips. It was so cute, how he was now concerned if I was alright. It was a secret side to the badass warrior side everyone else saw. "I'm fine, Dimitri! I'm just…you know…a little sore."

When I turned on my stomach so I could see Dimitri's face, he'd arched an eyebrow at me. "A little sore?" he repeated. "Would you care to explain why you're sore?"

"You know…from last night," I said, looking down shyly. I felt extremely shy, talking about it, but I was trying not to show it.

Dimitri laughed, his laughter warm and rich as chocolate, and he kissed my mouth. "So I really did make you sore last night."

"Do I have to make you sore if you do it again?" I threatened, but I doubt I'd be able to carry out my threat.

"Like you'd be able to?" Dimitri said, smirking at me. He then kissed me very passionately, wrapping his arms around me as he put his weight on me, and I forgot everything around us. He moved his lips down to the side of my neck, and started sucking lightly on it, and I tipped my head back so he'd have better access. He then moved his mouth back to my mouth.

There was a knock on the door, but we still couldn't stop kissing. I felt him run his tongue against mine, and then it felt like he was trying to reach his tongue into the back of my mouth.

There was a second knock, and Dimitri pulled away. "W-what are you doing?" I asked, touching a hand to my tingling lips.

"Maybe you should get that…" Dimitri suggested, an extremely reluctant look on his face. His eyes seemed to suggest that we should just keep kissing and shut the entire world out.

"No way! I'm not getting that door," I protested, pulling him back to me and running my hands through his smooth, silky hair.

There was an exasperated sigh from the other end of the door. "Rose, it's me! Open the door before I bang it down!"

Uh oh. I stopped kissing Dimitri, and stared at him in alarm.

"Liss…this is kind of a bad time, so could you come back in like…two minutes?"

"Two minutes?" Dimitri whispered.

There was silence. "Fine! If you're not fully dressed in two minutes, I really will kick down that door."

I leapt off the bed, and then I realized that all our clothes were still scattered in a mess on the floor. I turned around, and I noticed that Dimitri's eyes were lingering on my body. I crossed my arms over my chest, but I knew it wasn't going to help, seeing as he'd seen a lot of my body already…

"See something you like, Comrade?"

"Lots," he murmured, sliding off my bed. I couldn't help but stare at his body too. "Come on, Roza, let's get dressed before Vasilisa destroys the door to see what's going on."

We finally got dressed, but it was hard, since Dimitri kept kissing me. Eventually we did get dressed and I unlocked the door.

Lissa was standing there, looking like she hadn't been drinking just the night before. Her pale green eyes were radiant, and her golden hair and pale skin were practically all glowy. "Guardian Belikov," she said with a nod to Dimitri. "Can I talk to Rose for a moment?"

"Sure," Dimitri said. He planted a kiss on my cheek. "I'll see you later, alright?"

I smiled and waved to him as he walked down the hall.

Lissa now went into our room and sat on her own bed. "So, Rose. What exactly happened here last night?" she asked, a grin on her face that said she had a very good guess of what had happened. I knew that once she'd gotten an interest in a subject, she'd never let go.

I crossed my arms over my chest. "When you start making out with Christian like there's no tomorrow and then I get sucked into your head?"

Lissa groaned, and threw her hands into the air. "That's not what I was talking about, and you know it."

"Oh?" I asked, in an attempt to act innocent, but I doubted it was working. I had never claimed to be innocent in the first place.

"You had sex with him, didn't you?" Lissa demanded, lowering her voice.

I groaned. "Oh, come on, Liss! It's too early for a Spanish Inquisition questioning."

"You did!" Lissa squealed. She winked at me. "I won't spill your…er, dirty little secret."

"It's not like it's the first time," I muttered darkly.

"True…but how was it?" Lissa asked, waggling her eyebrows at me in a very suggestive way. If she hadn't been my best friend, I would've yelled at her, but as it is, I shoved her arm to try to get her to shut up. "Did he start tearing all your clothes off?"

"Lissa!" I didn't exactly want to tell anyone how when we'd been alone, he might have wanted to tear my clothes off, but he'd restrained himself.

"Okay, okay, fine! I won't ask for details," Lissa grumbled.

"But it was the most amazing, sweetest experience in the world," I said, recalling how wonderful it had been, feeling his hands on me, and how his lips had felt on my sensitive areas…

Lissa stood up gracefully and ran a hand through her pale locks. "C'mon, let's get some breakfast. I'm starving."

I frantically rushed around the room, peeking under the bed to make sure that I'd packed everything in my suitcase.

It was now the night of January 4th, and we were leaving tomorrow to head back to Court. Lissa was glad, and ready to go back to Lehigh, where she attended school.

"Honestly, if you'd been neater about unpacking, you wouldn't be in this situation," Lissa called from where she was lounging on her own bed.

I glared at her, and scooped up a pair of beat-up flats and threw them into the suitcase. "I prefer the lived in look instead of being neat as a pin, Liss."

This continued for two more minutes, and I straightened up. "Done! I got my packing done before midnight," I added with a smirk, pointing to the clock. It was eleven forty-five.

After coming back from the Butterfly Hour for a last dinner together, we'd just hung out in the living room, watching movies and playing video games. Everyone seemed very happy now, but we weren't all too happy that we had to leave.

"How do you think you'll be able to handle not being able to see Dimitri every day now?" Lissa asked me, softening her voice. "You guys will be over two thousand miles away from each other."

I sighed. "I really don't know. It's going to be hard, now that we're together again. I guess we'll handle. I mean…we sort of handled it back at the Academy."

Not very well, I added mentally in my head.

"Well…you guys will make it through. I have faith in you. Besides, after you got back with Dimitri, he looks at you like you put the moon and stars into the sky," Lissa said lightly. "And your auras are so bright around each other. I've never actually seen the auras of two people who love each other deeply, and who are soulmates."

"Yeah…but we'll be so far away," I sighed, feeling depressed. I really wished Tasha would just move back to Court – even temporarily – so I could be with Dimitri a little longer.

A slight smile played on Lissa's lips. Suddenly, I felt like I couldn't see into her head anymore. "What are you doing?" I demanded.

"Hey, I just wanted to try if I can block you out again," she said with a grin on her face as she stood up. "I'm…going to Christian's."

"Eww, good thing you blocked me from your mind," I complained. That's disgusting, I added in my head, and judging from the grin on Lissa's face, it was on my face too.

"Okay, night!" she said cheerily, shutting the door behind her. "Don't wait up!"

I groaned and flopped over onto the bed. I knew since it was my last night with Dimitri, I should probably take this chance to have him make love to me…but I feared it'd be too painful for me to bear, knowing tonight would be our last together for awhile.

There was a slight knock on the door, and I opened the door to see Dimitri. He looked as gorgeous as ever, even though he was just wearing a simple shirt and sweats.

"Hey, Comrade," I said nonchalantly.

"Hello Roza. I think I'd like to spend the night with you," he said, just as casually.

"But no sex," I warned as I shut the door.

He tilted his head at me, the question clear in his eyes.

"It's…it's too painful to bear…knowing that we won't be together for awhile," I explained as I sat down on the bed, looking at the floor.

Dimitri came over to me and wrapped his arms around me. "Don't worry," he soothed, stroking my hair. "Vasilisa will be out of school in June – or maybe even earlier – and then we will be able to meet again."

"Tasha won't be coming to Court anytime soon?" I asked glumly.

"Probably not. You know how the other royals don't like or trust her that much…especially given her stance on how the Moroi should learn to fight," he said.

I sighed. The Moroi firmly believed that magic was used for defense, and not offense. They wouldn't use their magic for any fighting, although the fire users during the Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's had made a huge difference. Many of the Moroi didn't agree with those who wanted to learn to fight with their magic. Tasha and Christian strongly advocated it, but not everyone was listening.

"I guess we'll just have to wait," I glumly conceded.

"Yes, but for now, get some sleep," Dimitri said, kissing my forehead. "Your flight leaves at 11 tomorrow, so sleep."

He gently kissed my lips, and our kiss grew in passion. Despite me earlier saying we wouldn't have sex tonight, I found myself pulling him down on top of me. His warm, solid weight on me felt very comforting. Dimitri ran his hands down along my shoulders and down to my hips before he pulled away.

"If you're trying not to have sex, you're not doing a very good job," he teased me lightly, his jaw nipping at my neck. My neck felt warm as he kissed it and lightly sucked on it.

"You're not doing a very good job of listening to me, are you?" I returned, relaxing my shoulders. "I thought you were the one who's good with self-control."

"I don't really feel an urge to control myself, if you know what I mean," Dimitri replied, linking his fingers through mine as he kissed my eyelids. "Maybe you should go sleep."

"Like I want to sleep with you so close to me and kissing me?" I pouted.

"Sleep," Dimitri said as he settled himself close to me and turned off the light. "Sweet dreams, Roza."

My eyelids fluttered shut, and I found myself drifting off to sleep.

When I woke up, Dimitri wasn't there. I turned over, and I didn't feel him hugging me closer like he normally did when we slept together and I woke up.

I sighed. We'd be headed off to the airport in about an hour, judging from the time. I got dressed, and headed down to the kitchen.

Adrian looked distinctly unhappy about something, and the circles under his normally bright green eyes indicated he hadn't slept well. Everyone else looked like they were happy, and Dimitri had his guardian face on. Lissa looked ready to burst about something.

"Rose, I have some good news for you," she said, her green eyes dazzling with happiness. It was radiating to me through the bond, and although I was depressed, I felt myself perk up a little.

Dimitri and Tasha are coming back to Court! she yelled in my mind.

I stared at her. "What?" No way…

Dimitri's eyes were shining with happiness, telling me that it was true, but I still couldn't quite bring myself to believe it.

Tasha looked over as she put a plate of eggs in front of us. "If she told you we're coming back to Court, it's true," she confirmed. "We're not planning to stay there forever, but we'll stay for awhile. Besides, I can advocate more easily for magic as a defense weapon."

"But…why?" I couldn't help but ask after my first bite of eggs.

Dimitri and Tasha exchanged a look. "Mainly so I can remain with you," Dimitri said quietly. "We were also thinking of shuffling guardians so I can be with you."

"What?" I gasped. Back at the Academy, one of our biggest problems had been that once I became a guardian, it wouldn't be easy for us to be in a relationship. We had both been Lissa's guardians, and it would be hard for us to get any off time.

"Not as Lissa's guardian," Dimitri clarified. "Maybe we'll switch Liam with Eddie, and then switch Liam with me. Something like that."

Spending time with Dimitri….the thought was intoxicating. Would I finally be getting a fairytale ending after all?

"Wait. How did you guys manage to get seats on the plane?" I asked as something occurred to me. "I thought the plane was all booked!"

"Well…there were some empty seats," Tasha said lightly. "And I booked those last 2 seats. We'll all be flying back to Court in a few hours, so better eat up! Airplane food isn't always that great."

As the banter continued, I looked over at Dimitri, feeling like I could burst from happiness. The love of my life was returning to Court, and we had a chance of being together on our off time. It wasn't necessarily a perfect solution, since Dimitri might not end up with anyone in our circle of friends.

But at least now, we had a chance to be closer than we had previously. It gave me hope for our future together.

Author's note: So this concludes Fighting Against Love. I want to give a big thank-you to all the people who read and reviewed this story. Without you, this story wouldn't have possible :] I hope you enjoyed this fanfic, and I will continue to write more fanfics in the future!

~ eveningstar1996~

I'm beginning a new fanfic about Sydney and Adrian (A Golden Love), but not sure about what I'll do for the storyline...if you could read/review and put up some ideas, that would help a lot with writing that story. Thank you all again for reading/reviewing my fanfics! :)