Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Academy. If I did, Dimitri and Rose would have had a kid a while ago.
Chapter 20
Aleksi POV
I was having trouble breathing. I was still somewhat breathing though so I didn't completely worry about that. No. All my attention was on why in the fuck she is here. It didn't make sense. Maybe Niki was right and there were ghosts. I didn't think so. She had seemed too solid. But then what was the reason she was there. We'd seen her shoot herself. There was no way to fake that. Was she strigoi? But then she wouldn't have been able to get past the wards. Aunt Lissa had made them herself. The only other way besides her being alive was me being delusional. I didn't like that thought, but really. Why would she fake her death?
I was vaguely aware of being passed into another person's arms. They weren't as warm as Adrian. They were slightly cold. I was laid down on a bed and something was pressed against my face. I started to breathe easier and my heartbeat slowed down a bit. My panic attack was subsiding. I wanted my mother so much right now, like I did after every single one of my panic attacks. Adrian's face loomed over me. The concern placed there was enough to bring tears to my face. I voiced the one wish I'd had but have never said since I was six years old. "I want Momma." Tears came down my face. There was no way I was going to be able to stop them. Adrian looked betrayed for some reason.
"I know you do baby." He smoothed my hair back and kissed my forehead. He wiped my eyes even though fresh tears came to replace the ones he wiped away. He gave me a sad smile. "How bout we go home?" I nodded and sat up. "Thank you guys. She seems to never have her inhaler on her for things like this." The doctors nodded and smiled at me. I wiped my eyes again and gave them a small wavering smile. The van was only a few feet away from the entrance to the emergency room.
I looked over to Adrian. "Worried much?"
He pulled me into a sideways hug as we walked to the van. "Just a little."
Zak POV
I laid on mom for what seemed like forever but was probably only fifteen minutes. I loved it for all it was worth and then more. I seemed to be back to my five year old state of mind. Everything was alright as long as I didn't think too much into things. I knew that the second I started to think things through, everything would go up in flames. I was cuddled up on her lap while she ran her hands through my hair. I heard feet on the stairs but couldn't really care much.
"Adrian, how long does it take to talk to her?" Nikoli's voice cut through my allusion. I sat up and glared towards the stairs.
"What do you mean Niki? Adrian took Aleksi to the hospital." He got to the bottom of the stairs and looked straight at me.
"What do you mean? What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know. I think she had another panic attack and Marcus has her inhaler." He looked confused and I sat up.
"Why does Marcus have her inhaler?"
"She couldn't keep ahold of it so she asked him to keep it with him."
"Hmm."
"Does she have these often?" I turned around and saw the one woman that I had wished for forever would be beside me and anger rose in me as everything that we had been through in the past nine years because of her rushed back. I didn't see how I could have just forgotten about all of that and grab onto her like a little kid. I was so stupid. I gave her a cold glare.
"Yes. Ever since you left." Ice dripped off my words. The years of depression and guilt and hate were flooding back. It was her fault everything bad happened. Not Alek of course. No, definitely not Alek. That couldn't have been avoided despite what Aleksi thinks. But the rest of it, that was all her fault. She seemed to flinch at my words. I grabbed Niki's hand and started to pull him with my up the stairs. "Come on Niki."
"But Zak, Mom's back there."
"She'll be fine. She was fine without us for the past nine years. You couldn't have forgotten about that already."
"No, I guess not." I dragged him up to my room and slammed the door shut.
Rose POV
I was astonished at the mood change of my baby. He went from cuddling me to accusing me and then stormed upstairs. Did I really hurt them that much? And what was up with Aleksi? Did she really have panic attacks all the time? Nikoli seemed alright. It was his brother that pulled him upstairs, but I'm sure after the shock wears off he'd hate me too. I wasn't sure about Aleksi, but if her reaction was anything to go by, she'd at the least be mad at me. If what Adrian said was true and they all still had nightmares, I really had my work cut out for me trying to get their trust back.
Dimitri POV
I walked up the house that I was told the kids lived with Adrian, Lissa, and Christian, and their kids. I had a bad start with them. Demanding them to spend time with me just wasn't going to work. They had their ideals set in stone at this moment. The only way I was going to get close to them was to soften that stone. I needed to apologize first and foremost for ever leaving their mother. I agreed with Aleksi that I was Rose killed herself. I was never there and she snapped.
I never got to know Alek and that will always be my fault. I ignored all of their attempts to get me to see the kids. Matter was, I honestly thought they were Ivashkov's. I never got the original DNA results so I figured that they weren't mine. I need to talk to Tasha. I had left her, but when the quads were born, I was still living with her.
I stepped up the porch getting ready to ring the doorbell. I was so nervous. There was only one reaction I was expecting and it wasn't good. The kids might have been moroi, but they still packed a punch. Even if I could block it, I wasn't going to. I deserved everything they through at me. I rang the doorbell and waited the few minutes for the door to open. I was expecting one of the kids, maybe even Lissa or Ivashkov. I wasn't expecting the dark haired beauty in front of me. She looked almost exactly as I remembered. Just a little bit older. I was completely flabbergasted as to why she was there in the first place.
"Hello Dimitri. It's been a while."
"Indeed it has Rose. Indeed it has."
Finally I've updated. And it's the right story too! lol yay. finally rose and dimitri meet each other again. this makes me giddy. lol ^^ review please and tell me what you think.