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Chapter 7

Rose was just starting to wake up, she was groggy and not sure where she was. She turned to look at the person holding her hand, it took her a moment to recall who he was. Dimitri looked worried at the confusion on her face, he thought that using compulsion on her had been too much on her mind right now. Dimitri felt bad, he did not know that he could use compulsion that good, and he was sorry that he had to use it on his Roza. Then, the confusion left her face, and she flipped out on him.

"How could you use that. . . that thing one me?" Rose hissed out at him, clenching her fist.

"Rose, calm down." he said, reaching his hand up and putting on the side of her face, she smacked it away. "I am sorry. You were not calming down, and we had to have something left of Tasha so you and I can stand up and talk, for me."

He was hiding something from Rose, "What did you do?"

"Roza, I don't know. I seen Tasha bleeding an-and I, well, I don't know." he looked scared. "I-I think I healed her."

"What?" Rose said in a shaking voice, not sure what to think.

"Rose, I-I think I am losing it." he said voice shaking and he rested head in his hands. "My head has been killing me, what ever they did to me, god. I am happy I passed out when I did. But I am scared I feel like someone is following me."

Rose moved closer to him, then looking at him for a moment, pulled him into a hug. After a few minutes Rose got him to get on the bed, she knew he was tired and had not slept since he passed out. He was trying not to cry, it broke Rose's heart.

"Dimitri, it's only me. You can let your feelings show, since the accident, I have. . ." it seemed weird to say it out loud that she had been feeling his feelings. ". . . been feeling what your feeling."

Just like a switch was switched, Dimitri had a few tears running down his face. Rose got a feeling like hurt and loss, he missed his family, and he missed having Rose. He knew he still had Rose, but it felt like he had lost her, everything was gone, and they had to wait and see what she got back. Dimitri pulled Rose closer feeling like she would go away if he did not keep her near.

"Roza, please, please just remember, I miss you." he said, he was starting to sob into Rose's shoulder as Rose more of less held him.

"Shh, Dimitri, just go to sleep." Rose said running her hand through his long dark hair.

"Are you going to stay?"

"Dimitri, I've not been cleared to leave." I said laughing. "I promise, I won't go any where."

After a few minutes they were both snoring. About ten minutes later the doctor walked in and looked at them and shut off the light.

"No, Christian," Rose could hear Lissa talking on the other side of the door. Christian was Lissa's boyfriend for almost six months, Rose did not like him he had a bad history and was not a good influence on Lissa, but then some people could say the same thing about Rose "They are sleeping, let them sleep."

"Don't you want to see your best friend."

"Not right now, they are sleeping, by the sounds of it Dimitri has not slept that good," Lissa replied. "and should I be afraid that you want to see my friends?"

Rose heard the door open, and looked up. She put a finger over her mouth, in a motion of silence. They nodded and walked into the room, and sat down in the chairs on the side that Rose was lying down on. Lissa grabbed a hold of Christian's hand.

"We were told on the way into here that you could leave any time you wanted." Lissa whispered to Rose, Rose nodded.

Rose turned over to look at Dimitri, she shook him lightly. He did not wake up, but pulled Rose closer. Rose let a huff of breath out. "Dimitri, I want to go, wake up."

"Rose, maybe we should just let him stay here." Lissa leaned into the bed.

"Then I'll stay here, I told him I would not leave him."

"Well, then we will wake him up," Lissa replied, getting up and walking to the bathroom, Rose heard the water turn on. "We don't want you to be here, it worries me, and we need to go and tell Headmistress what happened."

"We will do that later." Rose told her. Lissa came walking back out of the bathroom with a cup of water. "No, Lissa, don't even think of it."

"Rose, you would have thought this was the funniest thing." Lissa said with a little hurt showing in her face.

"Well, I would think it was funny if it were anyone, but Dimitri." Rose said, looking back at Dimitri with a loving look, and ran her hand down the side of his face. Then, Rose caught a flash of him sitting in a chair, telling me about his family, and then they were lying in my bed cuddling. Rose then looked around in confusion, when Lissa caught the look and was up in a second.

"What's wrong, Rose?" Lissa was afraid.

"It was nothing."

"You sure?" Christian asked, surprising me. "You just kind of stopped moving, and looked lost in thought for a minute."

"Nothing, I only caught a glimpse of Dimitri and I. That was all." I was losing patience with everyone people were being too caring now Rose was fine. Rose thought, Why was everyone worrying about me? "I am fine, it was only a memory."

"Okay, Rose," Lissa said. "calm down. I think we should leave."

Rose stood up off the bed, and out of Dimitri's arms waking him up finally. Rose felt sorry for being harsh. "Lishen, I am sorry. I have been getting irritated, and feeling almost like. . . I don't know. Just irritated."

"Umm, Rose, I need to talk to you later." Lissa said, turning to look at me pointedly, indication that it was me she needed to talk to, not Dimitri. Rose thought that was strange, especially since Lissa was always talking to Rose as a friend and nothing serious like this, but Lissa looked dead set on talking to her later

Then after that Lissa and Christian walked out of the room, in a rush to be free of the infirmary. Rose thought that was funny they did not come here that often, only if there was something wrong with a friend, thus the reason they were here today. Dimitri was still tired, but got up to leave the room. He was in a better mood then before.

Later that after noon, Rose told Dimitri that she needed to go talk to Lissa. She told him that he could wait in her room, or she would meet him at dinner. On her way out she leaned into the bed and kissed him lightly on the lips, he smiled like he had won the lottery.

After a few minutes Rose was in front of Lissa's room, knocking on the door. Lissa was alone in the room, no Christian for once. Lissa asked Rose into the room.

"Hay, Liss, what's up?" Rose asked sitting down on the bed with a huff.

"Umm, Rose well I was going to talk to you about. . ." she trailed off not knowing how to put it.

"Lissa, you are my best friend. What is on your mind?" Rose said, scooting over on the bed so she was sitting right beside Lissa.

"You seem different since the accident." Lissa said, looking a little bit scared.

"Okay, so I seem different?" Rose said, a small smile playing on her lips. "Well, maybe, does losing my mind have something to do with that. You know I could not even tell myself who you were when I woke up in the hospital, even though Dimitri told me everything he knew about you?"

"No, Rose, that's not it." Lissa seemed frustrated. "Listen, you have been much quicker on the temper, and knocking someone out. Is there anything different?"

"Liss, you are asking the wrong person." Rose said, then looked Lissa in the eyes, then nodded. "Okay, maybe a little."

"Like what?"

"The other day in the hall, walking with you and Mason, I, umm, kind of, was not there." Rose said, not sure at first how to talk about all this. "Then there was in the library, I heard a voice in my head that sounded like Dimitri's."

"Rose, when I heard how you made it through the crash with out anything serious I did some research."

"What kind of research?" Rose was getting uncomfortable, the room seemed too small now, and the walls felt like they were closing in around her.

"St. Vladimir, the namesake of the school, and his "shadow-kissed" gaurdian, Anna." Lissa said.