SOOOOOOO I decided one more time b4 the New Year
to upload a chapter for you guys.
Things for a little while longer are gonna be in and out
but dont worry, you'll be surprised how all of this turns out
I don't know if anyone has ideas of future chapters but I'm taking
suggestions...

Anyway Enjoy the Holidays everyone!

Usual disclaimer: Richelle Mead = VA

Chapter 15
Truths & Answers

APOV

"Rose!"

"Roza!"

She was falling. It felt like it was all in slow motion. Like it wasn't me standing here watching the girl I love lose consciousness after hearing that her mother is dying.

Dimitri and I ran towards her. Her father's bodyguard caught her and he's now supporting all her weight.

"Get my daughter into the car" said Rose's father.

He looked worn out, but the authority that radiated off him was noticed.

He looked like a huge mobster. In a suit, long coat with a scarf around it, clean shaven face, a little earring located on his right ear. He screamed money and authority.

Just like Rose described.

"Who are you?" he asked us after Rose was safely put in the car, laid down.

"We're Rose's friends from school" I said. "I'm Adrian Ivashkov. And this is my brother Dimitri Belikov"

He looked at both of us up and down and I felt kind of weird seeing him do that.

"Nathan Ivashkov's son and step son right?"

I nodded. "Yes, sir"

"Well get in. I don't have all night to wait for you"

He stepped in near Rose and shut the door. Jeez could he be anymore stuck up than he looked.

Dimitri tightened his hand on his duffle bag and walked around to the other side of the limo. I just followed.

When we stepped in we sat further down the limo by the divider window.

I didn't have any words to say to Mr. Mazur, because yes Rose has her mother's name. Apparently she had her last name changed after her mother and father divorced.

She said she didn't want to be tied to someone like him.

But when I looked at him sitting next to his daughter, he looked as if though she was the only thing in his world. The way he soothed her hair, the way I could softly hear him saying words in his native language to her.

He cared about her, yet Rose hated him in every way. Because according to her, who abandons their family if they didn't care?

"Sir" Dimitri spoke up and Abe looked at him.

"What did you mean when you told Rose that he mother's dying?"

He sighed and looked at Dimitri. "It's what you heard. Janine's dying. She has a brain tumor caused by the cancer she beat years ago. Rose knows some of this story. And she looks at her mom as a survivor in a way because her grandmother died of cancer when she was a child. It's a Metastatic Brain Tumor. Apparently the tumor couldn't be detected, so she didn't even know she had it which doesn't make any sense. The doctor says she's had no symptoms of said brain tumor every time she went in for her annual check up she was a clean bill of health. It's far escalated for any kind of surgery to happen now. The risks are too high and she could die on the table. So now all we have to do is wait;" He took a second to collect his words and his breathing, because I swore that the man was about to cry. And I couldn't blame him, that was the mother of his only child. In some ways he cared a lot about her. "Wait until her mother can't take the strain anymore and…dies"

"I'm very sorry sir" said Dimitri.

"My condolences Mr. Mazur" I said.

"Thank you. For everything. You're very good friends to Rose"

We just nodded. And I looked at her unconscious form next to her father and I felt my heart breaking for her. I've never seen her in so much pain, I've never seen so much anger make an appearance before. We (My brother and I)couldn't find any way to help her, the only thing we could do was be here for her. But all her friends back at school, along with her father, and of course me and my brother will have to be here for her when the time comes to say goodbye.

When the car stopped Rose was still unconscious and I was kind of worried. She buried herself in her mind to escape all this but she had to get out of her mind long enough to see her mother, to say goodbye.

When we got out, I noticed we arrived at someone's house. I just didn't know who's.

"This is Janine and Rose's house. I think it'd be more comfortable and better for her if we arrived here so whenever she awoke, she would have a better reaction to her surroundings, than the reaction she would have to an unknown surrounding of a hotel"

When his bodyguard got out of the front seat of the car he came to stand close to Abe.

"Pavel" he addressed his bodyguard. "take her to her room and make sure that the staff have these boys guestroom ready"

Pavel nodded and reached in and slowly took Rose out of the limo, carrying her up into the house.

Her house wasn't as big as I thought it would be, considering I know Rose has just as much money as I do. Maybe her mother didn't want to flaunt it, because according to what Rose has told me about her mother, her law firm, and her father. Rose is seriously loaded. Her words, not mine.

When we entered the house Dimitri and I were asked to follow a man through the house. We were lead to the guestroom and it was set for two people, which is kind of a good thing. The man who looked like a butler was about to leave but first I had a question.

"Excuse me?" he turned to look at me.

"Yes sir?"

"May I ask your name?"

He nodded. "It's Andrew. I'm Ms. Rose's driver"

I nodded. "Can you tell me how to get to Rose's room? I want to be there when she wakes up"

I could feel Dimitri's stare but I didn't care, we both had to be with Rose right now. Any kind of rivalry for her love will have to wait.

"You go down the hall, when you reach the main hall by the large staircase you go right up, and down all the way to the end of the hall and that's her door"

"Thank you Andrew"

He nodded. "Anything else you need sirs just ask me or the staff"

"Thank you"

He nodded and left, closing the door behind him.

"Do you want to go up first or should I?" asked Dimitri.

I shrugged. "I don't really care. Either way we're here for her and if we're there when she wakes up, that's all that matters"

He nodded. "Yeah, you're right. For right now though, I'm just gonna lay here for a little while. I think her father's with her right now"

"Yeah" I said as I laid on the bed, plopping my shoes on the floor. "maybe you're right"

I got comfortable and closed my eyes. I know I was falling asleep, but I didn't care, because as I felt sleep over claiming me, I dreamt about Rose for the first time.

RPOV

I was in total blackness. Darkness. I know why I was here though. I lost consciousness when my father told me my mother was dying.

When I would lose someone else I loved.

I thought that this wave of unhappiness would end, that it would be this one time bad news, that it was just exhaustion from working so hard.

But it isn't.

My mom is dying and everything in the world doesn't make any kinds of sense.

I have to get back and see her. I have to wake up from the inside of my mind.

I know it all sounds clinical, I know it all sounds stupid. But I don't care.

I know my angels are here and they're going to protect me. I know they are.

So I decided to just get the hell out of here, I'm Rose Hathaway. I'm bad ass and no one gets in my way of anything.

When I opened my eyes I was faced with my ceiling from my bedroom back at home in New York, that's when I felt someone next to me, soothing my hair.

"Baba?"

"I'm here Kazim"

I started crying. "Is it true?" I asked him.

"It is"

"Why?"

"I don't know Rose. I don't know. I don't know how to make any of this better"

"What's wrong with her?"

"She has a brain tumor. It seems that it came after her cancer survival"

I sat up on my bed and wiped my tears. I looked at him.

"She's had that thing all these years? How could they have not detected it?"

He shook his head. "I don't know"

"What exactly do you know Abe?"

"I'm sorry Rose" Is that all he can say?

I stood up from my bed and looked at him, my hands on my hips. "Is that all you can do? Apologize? I don't need your apologies. I've had enough of those when you decided to leave us for some woman!"

I started pacing my room. I was so angry. Because of him! It's because of him that my mother was always sad.

Always working.

Always distant from me.

All because he left her for another woman, a woman he was with longer than even I suspected.

He was the cause of all the sadness I've gone through.

"You're worst than anything I've ever known. It's all because of you that she's how she is. Because of you!"

I felt tears in my eyes and I rubbed them off really hard. I wasn't ever going to cry because of him.

"Because of you and how heartless you are! didn't you think of how she would feel, how she'd react. You didn't see her after you left! She looked like a ghost. It's like she didn't know who I even was"

It was all true. I wasn't saying any of this to make him feel bad, or guilty. I was telling him because he needed to know what he did to his family.

"I don't know what you want me to tell you Rose. I can't say that I regret what I did because I couldn't be with your mother. I didn't love her"

"But she loved you and you didn't see that. You were more interested in you and the other woman because I can't even think straight. I have so many things I want to call her, so many things I wanna do to her. You don't know anything!"

He sighed and looked even more sad than I've ever seen him.

"All I can do is apologize. I can't turn back time"

"Of course you can't turn back time. It's not possible but know that I hate you. I hate you because of all the bad things you've caused to happen. And I know there is no way in hell that you can do anything to fix them. So if you don't mind. Please leave my room"

He didn't say anything. He didn't have the right to…after everything he's done to me and my mother he deserved the truth spat right in his face. If I was going to be miserable, then he deserved to be miserable 10x more.

He left and closed the door behind him and I just sat on my bed for a while before I decided I needed a change of clothes. I needed something to distract me. Even if it was minor.

I went inside my closet and grabbed my black skinny jeans, my knee high converse, and my black long sleeved t-shirt. I noticed it was already getting cold back here in the city so this was as good as dressing as any.

I left my room to go and find Adrian and Dimitri, but I didn't know if they were here or not so I decided to ask Amanda. My loyal nanny/housekeeper. I entered the kitchen and found her.

"How are you sweetie?"

"You know the answer to that Amanda" I said as I sat down on the small stool by the counter.

She nodded. "I know sweetie, but I feel like I have to ask anyway"

"I know I'm sorry"

"It's okay. Do you want anything to drink?"

"Pink lemonade please"

She went to get it from the fridge and I remember why I was here in the first place.

"Amanda?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you know if there were two guys here about my age that came in with my father?"

She put the lemonade in front of me and I took a long sip.

"Yes, Andrew put them in the guestroom"

I put my half glass of lemonade on the counter and hopped off the stool, running out the kitchen. "Thanks Amanda"

I went out the kitchen making a left turn and ended up in the hallway in front of the guestroom door.

I knocked the door and when I didn't hear anything I knocked again.

So I was just decided to let myself in.

And when I opened the door I figured out why.

They were both quietly sleeping in their beds. They looked peaceful and well yeah, kind of beautiful at the same time.

I first went to Adrian's bed and softly ran my hand through his hair. He had no shirt on, so I'm guessing he removed his clothes before hitting the sack. I'm guessing that they thought I wouldn't wake up until the next day or something. He didn't stir, but he softly smiled and hummed softly.

"Rose" he said in a sleepy voice, with a small smile on his face.

He was dreaming about me and through all the sadness in my heart, I felt some kind of peace.

I moved around to Dimitri's and I kind of blushed when I saw his hair was sort of wet on the tips and he also wasn't wearing a shirt. His muscles were all toned and they showed perfectly with the way he was lying on the bed -one arm behind his head, while his other was on his stomach- he looked like a god in human form.

I didn't want to touch him, I didn't want to ruin the beautiful form lying in front of me.

So I just let them sleep and decided to take shelter in the small couch and wait out my angels.

Because yeah, they're my angels, they make me always feel better, they'll try and protect me and deep down in my heart I know they love me just as much as I love them.

I stretched myself out on the couch, grabbed the extra comforter that's kept here and snuggled up.

I still felt tired and I knew it wouldn't take long before I felt sleep claim me.

And when I knew I was asleep, I found myself dreaming about angels.

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