I don't own Vampire Academy, just the awesome plot.
Rose POV
This past week has been pretty great. The romantic date Adrian surprised me with was absolutely perfect. I don't know how he does it, but I keep falling more and more in love with him every day. We've had dinner together every night, either at his place or mine. I even made spaghetti for us one night, and it was good. Of course, how can I really mess up opening a can of spaghetti sauce and boiling pasta? Last night, we were talking about the the darkness he deals with from healing me so much lately. He doesn't want to drink and smoke so much since I don't particularly care for it. So we came up with some alternative methods for dealing with this problem.
The first idea was meditation. So after dinner, we both sat cross legged on the floor, facing each other and tried to relax and focus on our breathing like the article on the internet said. It seemed to be taking too long to make any difference, so we thought we should try idea two, fighting. So now, after he got off work, he's meeting me at the gym. "Okay Adrian, this is how I deal with the darkness I get from Lissa best, hitting the old puching bag." I say as I tap the big bag next to me. I show him how to position his hands and body for a more effective hit. He catches on real quick. I can't help the grin that spreads across my face as I watch his muscles flex and the sweat shimmer all over his skin. He looks hot! I don't even notice when he stops punching and stands there with a smirk on his face as he watches me watching him.
"See something you like Little Dhampir?" That snaps me out of my trance and I can feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. It actually takes me a few seconds to compose myself after being caught.
"Uh, yeah, well what's not to like?" I stammer. He lets out a small laugh and continues hitting the bag. How embarrassing. I work on the punching bag next to him, trying to concentrate on what I'm doing and not the sexy man next to me.
"Yo, Hathaway." I hear Conner yell from across the room. Both Adrian and I stop what we're doing and watch him walk his way over to us. "What's going on?" he asks looking back and forth between us.
"We're performing brain surgery. What does it look like?" I roll my eyes. "I'm helping him release the darkness through physical activity. He's really good too. I might be out of a job at the rate he's going." I say giving Adrian a big smile. He puts his arm around my shoulder and squeezes, kissing the top of my head.
"You're irreplaceable Little Dhampir." I give a playful punch to the ribs and straighten up since we're in a room full of guardians that don't know about us yet. Of course, We've always kinda acted this way, so no one thinks any different of our behavior. I just then notice that Conner isn't wearing his cast. I look over to Adrian, pointing to Conner's once broken arm. He shrugs as we look to Conner for an explanation.
"Princess Dragomir heard of my injury and healed it for me this morning. It's still a little stiff from not using it for almost a week, but it won't take long to get it up to speed." he says while flexing and rolling his arm.
"Hey, so how's it going with flirting with Emily? Is she under your spell yet?" I ask since I haven't had a chance to check with him to see how our plan is coming along. The pissed off look on his face isn't giving me hope that we're making progress.
"Yeah, about that. I don't think I'll be able to help you. If I get too close to her, I'll end up in jail for knocking her senseless." I hear ya. Adrian laughs next to me. We all know that feeling all too well.
"What did she do now?" I know something must have happened for laid back Conner to be this bitter toward someone. Of course, Emily seems to have that effect on people.
"I was talking to Mary" he starts, but stops when Adrian gives him a puzzled look. "Guardian Jenkins."
"Right, right. Sorry, please continue." Adrian says.
"Well, we were talking and discovered that we both have the same day off next week, so I asked her if she wanted to go out for dinner." Oh my goodness, this is so great. Conner is a great guy who deserves to find someone special. And from the few times I talked with Mary, she's perfect for him. "Lady Conta," he says with distaste. "overheard us and decided that she needs Mary to guard her that day for some shopping trip. When Mary reminded her that is was her day off, Conta went off on her about how guardians' sole purpose was to protect and serve Moroi, not socialize. She threatened to have Mary desanctioned if she didn't comply with her wishes. I swear, if I didn't turn around and walk out when I did, there would be a big Lady Conta stain on the ground where she was standing." he fumes. Yep, I'm all too familiar with that feeling.
"We need to teach her a lesson. Tomorrow night's her birthday dinner, right?" I ask Adrian, which he nods in reply. "Are you invited?" We avoid talking about her as much as possible, so I'm not sure what the status is on the dinner guests.
"Yes I am, along with Lissa and Christian. She's been trying to suck up to Lissa, since she's in line for the throne and all." Typical.
"Do you know who else is going to be there?"
"Her parents and some of her royal friends, all who have the same attitude she does." Why doesn't that surprise me? I stand there letting all the information swirl in my mind. Then an idea pops in my head.
"I think it's time we had a girl's night out." I say out loud to no one in particular.
"Me man. No girl." Adrian says like a caveman while pounding a fist his chest.
"Not you. I'm thinking I need to get Tasha, Lissa, Mia and me together for some fun at the bar and I'll have Lissa invite Emily too. We need to loosen her up a little, or a lot as the case may be. Then you," I point to Conner "and maybe Eddie can come by and do some heavy flirting. I'll have the camera to document it all and show it to her friends. She'll be so embarrassed. Conner cringes at the idea, but reluctantly comes around. Of course, I have a few other things planned to do to her tonight as well. This is going to be so much fun.
"Rose, are you sure this is going to work?" Mia asks a little worried. She doesn't know Emily like the rest of us do, but being a good friend, she wants to help.
"Of course it'll work. Did you bring the stuff?" I consider Mia my equal in getting revenge, so I ask her to dig into her bag of tricks to get back at Emily.
"Yeah. Let's see," she says looking through her bag. "One black marker, blue hair dye, one special tshirt, crazy glue, scissors, laxative and grapefruit juice. What's the juice for?"
"Oh, that's for Tasha since she can't drink, being pregnant and all. I don't want her to feel left out though, hence the grapefruit juice. Just as hard to swallow as tequilla." At least it is for me. We walk into the bar and see Tasha and Dimitri sitting at a big table, waiting for us.
"What are you doing here?" I ask Dimitri. "This is a girl's night out, and unless you have something to confess..?" He glares at my insinuation and turns to Tasha and kisses her cheek as he stands to leave.
"I'm going, I'm going. Try not to get into too much trouble." he says looking right at me. I put my hand over my heart and fake offense.
"Moi? Trouble? The very idea is perposterous." he rolls his eyes at me and crosses his arms over his chest. "Don't worry comrade, she'll be fine, see?" I hold up the juice for his inspection. He looks at me confused. "It's for Tasha. Her own virgin tequilla."
"It's not Tasha I'm worried about. If any of you need any help, call me." he says as he walks away. What a fuddy-duddy. I go see Sam at the bar and order a bottle of tequilla and five shot glasses. I put them in the middle of the table when I see Lissa come through the door with Emily and Spartacus behind her. She brought the dog? As they get to the table, Emily looks a little surprised to see me.
"Rose, it's so nice to see you. I didn't realize you would be here." She sits down next to Lissa and puts the dog on the seat next to me. It's starts growling at me immediately. Don't worry mutt, I've got a plan for you too. I fill the shot glasses and pass them around. Emily gives a puzzled look at Tasha's grapefruit shooter.
"She's pregnant, remember?" I tell her. Realization hits her.
"Oh right, the Dham..Ruff. Ruff." she barks. She puts her hand over her mouth, surprised that came out of her. Tasha, Lissa and Mia look at her like she just lost her mind, but start laughing after I loose it. I practically fall off my stool, I'm laughing so hard. When I finally calm down and wipe the tears from my eyes, I hold up my glass and the ladies follow.
"Over the lips and past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes." I toast as we all pound our drinks back, except Emily who sips hers. "Emily, that's not how you drink tequilla, now shoot it!" It's going to take all night to get her drunk at the pace she's going. She gives me a little glare and downs the content of her glass in one gulp. It causes her to cough, but she puts the shot glass down satisfied she did it. I fill up the glasses and we repeat this over and over again, getting more and more wasted. I make sure Emily's glass has more alcohol than the rest of us, to get her drunk faster. It works.
Emily is giggling at the stupid joke Lissa told her and swaying back and forth in her seat. I look over to Mia, letting her know it's time to unleash the pranks. I then look over to Lissa and give her the signal. "I've got to use the little girls room. Anyone wanna go with me? Emily?" Emily looks over to her and nods her head, still laughing at nothing. Tasha goes with them since her bladder can't hold what it used to. Mia tosses me the crazy glue and the blue dye. I grab the dog bag and open it up. Spartacus pops his little head out, but doesn't make a run for it. I open the dye bottle and squirt it on the dog making random patterns on his back. I also make a line on his head so it looks like he has a blue mohawk. I take the glue and put that all over the bag's zipper and then close it up. Don't worry, the ends of the bag is mesh so it can get some air. I take the two thousand dollar bag I just ruined and imprisoned her dog in and put it on the floor.
When the other girls get back from the bathroom, I see that Lissa has touched up Emily's make up, making her look like a drag queen. I use all my control to not laugh my head off when I see her. Oh man, this is so much fun. I pour out another round and we drink up. I finally see Conner and Eddie walk in and I wave them over. They each stand on either side of her and say hello. Eddie has to turn his head away quickly to swallow down the laughter that is rising in his throat when he sees her face. Conner is much better with his control, thank goodness. "Hello ladies, are you having a good time tonight?" Conner asks. I see Emily eyeing him up and down as he smiles that wonderful smile of his. Only Adrian's is better. And no, I'm not biased. It's a well known fact. Oh, sorry I'm rambling, I'm a little buzzed. Okay, back to Emily.
I look over to the dj and nod my head, giving him the signal to start the music. He puts on Baby got Back and Conner pulls Emily from her seat and to the dance floor. She starts to protest, but Lissa comes to the rescue by grabbing Eddie's hand and going out to dance too. Being the suck up Emily is, she follows Lissa. Show time. I grab the camera and start filming Emily bumping and grinding on the dance floor with Conner. Then it's an Emily sandwhich with Eddie and Conner on either side of her. She looks like she's having a ball, arms in the air, huge smile and her face. I even catch her reaching her arms around Eddie and grabbing his ass. After the song ends, they come staggering back to the table where I set up another round of drinks. Emily is getting better and better and downing the shots. Instead of drinking mine, I 'accidently' spill mine all over Emily's blouse. Silly me. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry. Don't worry, we have a spare we always bring. This sort of thing happens a lot." I tell her. Mia throws the shirt we brought especially for her and Lissa takes her to the bathroom to change. "What does the shirt say, Mia?" I haven't seen it yet, but knowing Mia, I'm sure it's good.
Lissa and Emily walk back out to hoots and hollars from the guys. They all have pretty much figured out what we're doing and are playing along. The shirt is white with 'Bloodwhore Wanna be' written on the front. I got some great footage of Emily dancing with a big group of burly guardians and a performance on Karaoke singing 'Like a Virgin'. Man, the girl can not sing. It's time for Conner to make his move, but I notice that she's been favoring Eddie all night. So I grab him and pull him aside. "Eddie, you have to take one for the team. She likes you. Take her into the hallway and play tonsil hockey with her." I'll admit, I'm getting really drunk, but I think he understands what I'm saying.
"Rose, you owe me big. Like, 'give me your first born' big." he says as he walks away from me and towards his target. A slow song comes on and he pulls her into him to dance, all the while shooting me dirty looks when he sees me. I can't help but laugh, and not just because I'm drunk now. I didn't even notice when Christian and Dimitri walked in until I see them dancing with Lissa and Tasha. Even Mia is dancing with Conner. I feel so lonely filming all by myself. I wish Adrian was here.
Finally, Eddie pulls Mia to a dark, quiet corner and I follow. What I see when I get there surprises me. She has him pinned up against the wall and is all over him. She's kissing him and telling him how she wants him to be her guardian and that she loves him. Jackpot! I turn off the camera, getting everything I need and hand it over to Christian. Back when we thought up this plan, Lissa called up Emily's family and friends to get some footage of her throughout her life to do a montage of her for her birthday. This footage will be a very eye opening addition to the video. I just wish I could be there to see her face. Now that the mission has been accomplished, and I'm not on duty tomorrow, I'm going to have a few more drinks.
Dimitri POV
Rose is so plastered. I knew she'd get in trouble. She's in the middle of the dance floor surrounded by drooling men trying to get close to her. I very much want to pull her out of here and take her home, but she's an adult now and not my responsibility anymore. But I want her to be safe, so I'll call the next best thing to me, Adrian. I pull out my cell and dial his number.
"Ivashkov speaking."
"This is Dimitri. I thought you might like to know that your girlfriend is trashed and is being eyed by every lonely guardian in the place. You might want to come get her and take her home."
"Thanks. I'll be right there." he hangs up. I wouldn't be surprised if he sprints the whole way here. I look over to Tasha who looks exhausted.
"Did you have a good time tonight?" I ask her. She works really hard and being pregnant, she deserves some fun time.
"Yes, I did. But all I really want to do right now is go home and go to bed." she says rubbing her belly. Just a couple more months to go and I'll get to meet my little girl. I can't wait. I take her hand and lead her out the door. As I open it, I see Adrian running up, panting.
"She's right over there." I tell him as I point to the middle of the dance floor. Rose is dancing and singing loudly with a group of guys. "Good luck with that." I yell as he makes his way over to her.
Adrian POV
I walk up to Rose and take her hand and pull her out of the sea of men. As soon as we are on the outskirts of the crowd, she sqeals and jumps on me. "Adrian, I'm so glad you're here." She has her arms around my neck and legs around my waist as I hold her up. I walk her over to the nearest barstool and set her down.
"Have a couple drinks, did we?" I ask amused with her behavior. She very rarely drinks, especially not to the point of getting drunk since she's so dedicated to her job.
"I don't know about you, but I'm drunk. Don't tell Adrian, though. Shhh." she says, one finger to her mouth. She can't keep still as she lightly sways in her seat. A slow song comes on and her face lights up as she jumps down from the stool. But as soon as her feet hit the floor, she looses her balance and falls into me. Luckily I'm quick and I catch her before she hits the ground. "Whoa, there's all sorts of gravity in here." she says as I help her up. We walk to the dance floor and hold each other tight as we sway to the music. "Did you know that this isn't the first time we've fallen in love?" she says lazily while her head rests on my chest.
"Oh really? When did we fall in love before?" I know this is nonesense, but I'll humor her.
"Many lifetimes. I'm always your guardian and we always die together because fucking Stephan can't seem to let go of the past. Stupid bastard." she rambles. What the hell is she talking about?
"Rose, who's Stephan?"
"Oh, he's the Strigoi that wants to kill you because you stole my heart from him over two hundred years ago." she says, barely awake now. What the hell?
Uh oh, Rose spilled the beans. How will Adrian react to this news? Will Spartacus ever get out of his Prada prison? Tune in next time. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review.