So your long wait has come to an end…here's the next drabble, loves and per your requests – It's a continuation. I made it extra long to make up for my long absence, so do you forgive me? :)

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Here's where I left off…Enjoy!

As I pulled up his shirt to expose his skin, I was not prepared for what I saw, and to be honest I wish I didn't see it.

Continued…

"Dimitri Fucking Belikov! What is that?" I all but screeched at him, pointing a finger at his sexy abdomen, which was partly obscured by what looked like haphazardly put-together pieces of gauze, stained with blood.

Dimitri flinched and tried to pull his shirt down, while trying to calm me down; He cautiously reached for my hand – "Roza, I..it's nothing. Just forget -"

"Forget about it? Are you insane? Dimitri, it's bleeding! What the Hell happened!" I yelled at him. I can't believe he had the nerve to brush this off as nothing. He even went as far as to tell me to fucking forget about it.

Dimitri closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, while exhaling through it. He opened his mouth to speak, but I cut him off, already expecting his answer,

"And, don't you dare 'Roza' me or tell me that it's nothing!" I was positively glowering by this time, but can you blame me?

However, one look at Dimitri's face and the lines of exhaustion and worry that marred his handsome face and I felt my anger diffuse and my eyes soften.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath. As I released it, I felt Dimitri's knuckles against my cheek and felt myself calm down further. I placed my hand on top of his and slowly opened my eyes to see his concerned expression – Oh, the irony; he's the one with a bleeding abdomen yet he's concerned about me.

Seeing his concern made me smile softly at him, though.

"I'm sorry, Comrade." I sighed and said softly; His answering smile was all I needed to know that I was forgiven.

I moved from his legs and moved towards his face. As soon as I was close enough, Dimitri shifted carefully and his head was now cradled in my lap as I slowly ran my hands through his hair.

We stayed like that for a while and then Dimitri broke the silence;

"Christian and I were only a few miles away from Court when we ran into a bunch of Strigoi. We instructed the recruits to remain in the vans and Hans, Meredith, Charles, Christian and I got off with a couple other guardians to fend them off – I tried to get Christian to remain with them, but well, you know him." Both of us chuckled lightly at this. Dimitri and Christian had been teaching Moroi hand to hand in addition to offensive magic, so this was probably when they were returning.

"We were outnumbered and Christian was weakening by the moment, so I took him to the van and turned to get back to the Strigoi, but one had snuck up on me, and he – for some odd reason – had a dagger and stabbed me." I stiffened at this and my hand stilled in his hair, mid-stroke. Dimitri sensing this turned his head and maneuvered himself to place a kiss on my lips.

After a few seconds of kissing, he pulled away and hissed in pain and I realized that he was leaning upwards and therefore straining his muscles, the Idiot! I tsked and glared at him and he only smiled sheepishly at me; Dimitri being sheepish was so adorable that I melted instantly and leaned down to place a chaste kiss on his lips.

"Anyways…I turned around and staked him. By this time, two of them had gotten to one of the vans and we had to protect the Moroi, so I just reached for the emergency first aid kit and quickly put some staples in the wound and packed it….and well, I'm sure you can assume the rest." He chuckled lightly at the end.

I, on the other hand, was too busy staring incredulously at him.

"You mean to tell me you didn't disinfect it or stitch it up properly? You didn't even get it checked out by someone when you got back, did you?" His silence was answer enough for me and I rocketed to my feet,

"Dimitri!"

I ran towards the supply cabinet and returned with a suture kit, some pain killer, a numbing agent, a disinfectant and fresh gauze, along with surgical tape. Dimitri began to protest at this, but I told him to shut up and got to work.

After making sure he swallowed the two pills, I applied the numbing agent to his wound – Oh God, it looked horrible; I was almost tempted to call up Lissa and ask her to heal it – and removed his staples carefully with the tweezers in the suture kit, and moved up place a gentle kiss to his lips, before I poured the disinfectant on his wound and began stitching him up.

I had learnt such emergency medical skills over the past year, but I was still extra careful since this was Dimitri. After I was done, I leaned back a little and inspected my handy work; Dimitri had an amused and fond smile on his lips as he watched me.

Satisfied, I carefully put the gauze on top of the wound and continued placing surgical tape over it to make sure that it was nice and tight.

Finally, I bent to place a kiss over his now bandaged abdomen and then proceeded with taking all of the stuff back to their respected places – Now, normally, I would just push it off the bed and lay down since I knew that Dimitri would take care of it, but in this case, I wanted him to rest and so I had to be the responsible one.

I went to bed and snuggled up into Dimitri's open arms, resting my head on his warm chest (I had gotten rid of his shirt earlier) careful of his injury. We both lay there like that for some time, not speaking, but both thinking the same thing – The Cabin and the promise.

I was unconsciously smoothing my hand over Dimitri's bandages and I could feel his hand on my chest, tracing light patterns on the circular scar that rested there.

"I love you, Roza." I heard Dimitri whisper ever so softly – his voice strained and pained – as his grip tightened on me slightly.

"I love you too, Comrade." I choked out and cuddled closer to him.

Neither one of us wanted the other to get hurt, but we were Guardians….and that much was inevitable.

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