Chapter two
Moroi and dhamphir's alike had started arriving to drop off their children or coming with their charges. I was standing in the courtyard in front of the school with Alberta watching and talking with parents and with kids. I was talking to a senior novice who was asking me to help train him when I seen the oh so tall Russian walking towards the school with a tiny Lissa in front of him. I told the novice I would talk to him about it later and as he walked off I looked back at them to see Lissa had stopped in her tracts. I gave her a reassuring smile and she just looked at me. I was about to walk away when Adrian walked up to her when he seen me he started talking to her and I am sure he was trying to talk her into coming and talking to me. I looked at Alberta who put a hand on my shoulder to let me know she was here for me. Then I heard that voice I was scared to hear again.
"Well hello Rose it has been awhile. How have you been over the years?" She was giving me a smile but it didn't reach her eyes. I couldn't feel what she was feeling because I had my block up so I wouldn't have to deal with her.
"Hi Lissa, I have been good. How have you been?" I looked down at her son he was so cute. He had her platinum blonde hair and emerald green eyes. He had a facial structure like Adrian and he seemed very confident. I then looked up at her and oh my gosh she had a baby bump you could just start to see and she was gleaming with the light of pregnancy. Then I looked to Adrian who looked like he had aged a decade in only four years. Next was the guardian Eddie was standing to the side and when he seen me looking at him he smiled at me, yay I having one person who still likes me. Now I looked over at the Russian god who was standing with a very pretty Moroi women attached to his side and he had a little girl in his arms. He was staring at me with his guardian mask on and I had to look back over at Alberta so she could keep me from breaking down.
"I have been good we are here to register our children. This is my son Alexander Jake Dragomir-Ivashkov." I smiled down at the little boy. Then she turned to Dimitri and the woman "That is Dimitri and Isabelle's daughter Annika Belikov. So what are you doing here, do you have a kid here?" I grimaced at her asking if I had a kid here. Then I thought about it I do have tons of them here that I love like my own, that thought made me smile.
"Well it's nice to meet you Alexander and Annika. No I don't have any children I work here I have been working here since the Queen opened it. She called me from my former charge and talked me into while I was at court. It's a nice school here I will tell you that you kids will have some of the best teachers. We even have defensive magic classes going here now." I turned to Dimitri and his woman and smiled." We also have a great teaching staff for the dhampirs and when she gets older she will be taught by the best to fight." I smiled over at Alberta and she was smiling at my praising of the school. "I work with the older novices with their combat training here I have also come to train most of our guardians here how to fight better so we have some of the best protection." I was smiling at them all, I really do love my job and the people here it's like a giant family.
"Well that is all nice to know I will feel much better leaving Alex here knowing you and Guardian Petrov work here. Rose do you think we could talk before I leave about some things please?" ok now I am worried what could she possibly want to talk to me about. Oh our past, just wait till she sees Sparky. If on cue he walked around the building and smiled over at me. Then he just had to open his big mouth.
"Hey Rosie I am going need to file a complaint on you little minion he is at it again." He paused and looked at who was next to me then he looked at me in horror. "How bout we talk about Luka later you I will see ya at dinner." Then he walked off. Lissa and Dimitri both looked at me with anger in their eyes but Eddie spoke up right then. Oh my savior Eddison Castile I could almost kiss him.
"So Rose I might be joining your band of misfits around her Lissa and Adrian wants one of us to be here." He was gesturing between him and Dimitri. "So I think since Dimitri has promised to stay with Lissa and he has family ties back at court I will be the one to join. So do you think you could use an old pal around here?" He was smiling and I couldn't help but laugh at him. I walked towards him noticing his difference. He had bulked up a lot over the years and he seemed to look older than his age. When I got over to him he opened his arms and I jumped into his embrace. I had missed him so much he was like a brother to me and when I had dropped trying to be Lissa's guardian I had told him that I was moving to Turkey and would probably never see him again. I am glad he will be coming to work here.
"Well Castile I could always use another Guardian around here and out of all of the ones already here other then Alberta I would rather have you any day. I sure have missed you man. I am so thankful for all those letters and calls I use to get from you when I was back in Turkey I think your letters and Mr. Mazur's constant fussing is what kept me going. I really have missed you man oh and I even have a surprise for you." I reached and grabbed my shirt and lifted it up on the side. I had a tattoo I had got for Mason in his memory. It said 'Badass Mason Ashford' on a silver stake with his dates on it and it had a rose with thorns on the hilt of it. Eddie looked at it then he pulled me into a huge hug and I was almost in tears from this one hug it held so much emotion. Lissa cleared her throat.
"We have to get going now Rose but we are staying for two days to get Alex settled in and get everything arranged with Eddie coming here. So if you are not busy for lunch tomorrow could we meet and talk then?"
"Yes Princess we can meet for lunch. You could come to my office around 12 and we can go from them there." I smiled at everyone "It was good seeing you Lissa, Adrian, Castile and you too comrade." I saw him flinch at my use of his nickname. Then I turned to his whatever she is and smiled "It was nice to meet you sorry there was no introduction I am Guardian Rose Hathaway." Then I turn to the two little ones, "It was nice to meet you Alexander and you too Annika." Annika smiled at me and walked over to me and bent down to her level.
"Hi Guardian it is nice to meet you too." She stuck out her little hand and I shook it. "You seem nice I hope we can be friends maybe you could train me one day. Daddy takes me to the gym and lets me beat on Uncle Eddie but that all I get to do now. You know you're the prettiest Guardian I have ever met." I couldn't help but smile at the girl she had Dimitri's eyes and his hair she really didn't look anything like her mom.
"Well thank you for the complement. You are the prettiest little girl I have seen today. Maybe when you get big enough I will train you. You know your daddy showed me how to fight when I was in school so you defiantly want you daddy to teach you he is the best that I know." She had a toothy grin and she ran back to Dimitri and pulled on his pants leg.
"Daddy did you teach that pretty Guardian how to fight?" He smiled at her and nodded. "Well daddy if she says you are the best then does that mean you are the best because I thought you said that Roza was the best Guardian in the world and that she could fight better than any strigoi." I looked at him and he looked over at me and I blushed at his praising me to his daughter. He smiled down at his daughter. Then I heard that velvety voice I use to long for.
"Well darling Roza is the best and you just meet her. That Guardian is Roza sweetheart." She looked at me with wide eyes and the shimmered.
"Roza?" I nodded "Are you really the best did you really kill 50 monsters in one day?" I smiled at her I guess my free lance work in Russia and Turkey wasn't so secretive.
"Yes little one I did. I did it in Russia in a little town called Baia." Dimitri looked at me funny and I laughed. "Oh Comrade I finally meet Yeva too. You were so right about her dreams she is scary too. The only reason I knew she was your grandmother is because when she found me she said 'Roza are you stupid I know dimka trained you better then to let the strigoi get the best of you'. I have to admit I was scared to death of her and boy is she strong for an old lady." I had a smile on my face thinking of her. "Belikov don't worry none of the rest of your family meet me just Yeva." HE laughed at me I mean a real laugh.
"Oh Rose, my family would have liked you are a brave spirit they respect that. Oh and Babushka can be scary sometimes. She has dreams of you often. I have heard of how you are going to do great things she thinks you are the key to saving our world." He sounded so proud but his wife maybe looked between us and she had pure jealousy all over her face.
"Well yall get going I have to go check on some of my guys and then got to go hear my complains. I will see you tomorrow Princess." They all seemed satisfied and walked off. Alberta had gone while I was talking and so I decided to check on Luka since Christian was complaining on him again. I walked over to the upper class dorms and walked up to Luka's room. I knocked an opened the door to find him and Christian talking about none other than me.