A/N- Thank you so much to hiseask17, julia. , , and Dimka's Chick for reviewing. If I ever forgot to thank anyone please let me know and I'll add you to the line-up. Oh and I edited ch.10. I hope its better written now! Sorry I'm late in updating. I finished writing Rose POV yesterday and I wasn't really in the mood to start Dimitri's POV. Plus it was late, I didn't want it to be like ch. 10 where I had to go back and rewrite parts of it. I'm sad to say that this is the last chapter. I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters or the world of VA at all. It all belongs to the wonderful Richelle Mead.
Chapter 11: The Last Few Moments
Rose POV
"You get horny and I get blamed." I said with my normal smart ass voice. " That doesn't seem fair comrade." I teased him as we walked to the car. I wasn't ready to go back to society. I wished that Dimitri and I could stay in our little bubble forever. I was still so happy. "Well you didn't have to do something about it Roza. So it was your fault." Dimitri joked back. I'm glad he was still in a joking mood.
I settled myself comfortably in the car. " I know." I whispered with a smile as I looked out the window. There was snow on the fields that we passed. His country music didn't even bother me. I was too happy. It was still cold in the car, but I knew it would heat up soon. The only good thing about these academy cars is that the heating system was great.
We drove in silence for a long time. I fell in and out of sleep. My dreams were filled of either flying unicorns or Dimitri. One of them of was even of Dimitri riding a unicorn. Surprisingly, Adrian had no dream walked me at all on this trip. I was glad, this vacation needed to be about me and Dimitri and no one else. I didn't want Adrian to ruin it, his presence was unwelcome even though many people thought we were dating. I would never date Adrian, I didn't hate him he just wasn't my type, and I had Dimitri.
Later, when I saw the sun begin to set, Dimitri had woken me from a dream about him when he tried to speak to me. "Huh?" I said, still subconsciously living in the dream. "Roza, do you hear that noise?" he asked. I had to think for a moment before I realized what noise he was talking about. It was my stomach.I leaned back and looked at him. "We've not eat anything Dimitri." I smirked and touched my midsection, rubbing it. I may love Dimitri but food was a close second.
Dimitri looked thoughtful for a moment. I guess he was trying to figure out if we had enough time to get some food. In my opinion, there was always time for food, but I knew Dimitri wanted to get to the moroi before the sun completely set. "I guess we can stop at a diner and get some food." We can't dawdle alright Rose. I don't want to be any later than 6." he said. I smiled. I didn't know that I was starved until Dimitri pointed out the noise.
I looked at him and noticed one of his hands were on his knees. I let my hand go over to it and hook my little finger up with his. My eyes then drifted back to my window. He didn't say anything but wrapped his finger around my own. We didn't let go until after he pulled off the road into a diner. Once we parked I let go of his hand in order to zip my jacket up. "Let's be quick." I muttered and got on out of the car.
The jeans that I had on were my favorite pair. They hugged my shape perfect. I felt great as I walked in front of him in them. I unconsciously swung my hips from side to side. I didn't know that I walked like that until now, when I had to think about not teasing Dimitri. As if he read my mind, Dimitri said, "What happened to I promise I won't tease Roza?" I stopped walking and turned towards him, "I'm walking. If my normal day to day things get you wiggly in your pants were going to have a problem Comrade." I smiled, turning around to continue walking. Slowly this time, I was waiting for Dimitri to catch up so we could be together. It wasn't like anyone knew us here.
When Dimitri caught up to me he held his arm out. "Come here Roza." he said. I stepped into his embrace and he wrapped his arm around my shoulders. Then he seductively whispered, "I get excited about everything you do Roza." I leaned into his arm and smiled up at him. My arms wrapping around his waist as we walked in. It almost felt like we were on a date. I had never been on a real date before. I hoped that it would be something like this.
We walked into the diner, almost glued to the hip. Dimitri led us to a booth, where we sat waiting for the waitress for a bit. When she did appear with menus, the first thing she did was stare at Dimitri. "What would you like darling?" she asked, ignoring me completely. I was getting a little pissed off, now that was just plain rude. Dimitri was my man, not hers. Of course, Dimitri could feel my tension and just rubbed my arm to calm me down. He also knew the perfect thing to say, "Why don't you take my girlfriends order first." he asked the waitress.
I just smiled. I was at a loss for words. Dimitri had just called me his girlfriend. Did this mean we were a real couple now? A secret one albeit, but a real, dedicated couple to each other. I felt like this wasn't real. I felt like Alice sleeping under a tree , and at any moment someone was going to jerk me out of wonderland. "What do you want?" the waitress finally mumbled at me. She did not seem happy that Dimitri brushed her off.
I quirked my lips and looked away from Dimitri and to the waitress. " Just a burger. " I told her. Truthfully I was hungrier than that but I didn't want to order too much food. Dimitri was paying for all of this and I felt bad spending his money. He would never let me pay if I offered. It was part of his gentlemen complex. I also didn't want to look like a pig. I knew Dimitri already knows I eat a lot of food, more than most girls, but I felt like this was a date. I didn't want to ruin it by stuffing my face.
The waitress turned back to Dimitri. "I'll take a burger, salad, and a coke thanks, and can I also get an order of fries and a coke for my girlfriend." he said. Awe, he was so great. He ordered the extra food for me knowing that I'd eat it anyways. I also forgot to order a drink, it was a good thing that Dimitri wasn't forgetful. Dimitri had a confused look on his face. I just sat there looking at him. It was a pretty amazing view. "Do you like calling me that?" I asked, leaning into him, looking around the diner. The place was nice. It made me think of a 50s diner. The waitresses even wore dresses. I guess this was a good first date place.
"Of course. Then everyone knows that you're mine." Dimitri said. He was always so over protective. It made me smile. I leaned up and kissed his jaw. "You're cute." I muttered against his skin. He was so warm, and I liked him holding me in front of people for a change.
Dimitri pulled away a bit. "Who are you calling cute." he said pouting. "You're the one who's supposed to be adorable." he said kissing me on the nose. I nuzzled into him some more. I loved this new playful Dimitri. "Men can be cute." I told him. "Right now you're being cute." I poked him in the side. "Which is new to your normal dickish ways." I said jokingly. I loved Dimitri no matter what he did.
Dimitri just shook his head. "Roza..." he started "Don't make me..." I had no idea what he was going to say but I cut him off with a kiss. We kept kissing until someone started obnoxiously coughing around us. We pulled away, and looked up to see our waitress standing with our drinks. Uh this was awkward. I grinned and sat up right away with Dimitri.
We sat there drinking our drinks, even this was helping with my hunger a bit. I don't think I've eaten anything since the sandwiches yesterday. That was over 24 hours! Dimitri reached his hand out and took my hand, "You know I love you right Roza?" he asked. I was mid drink when he said this. I looked over at him and smiled and stopped sipping from my drink. "Yeah. I do." I smiled and leaned over and laid my head on his shoulder. "I love you too." I said. "Good." Dimitri said quietly, I didn't know if he meant for me to hear that or not.
What seemed like years later to me, a different, older waitress came to our table and dropped off the food. She was silent, not even responding when Dimitri gave her a thank you. "Our normal waitress hates us. She thinks were gross." I laughed as I pulled my plate over to me. "Well she thinks I'm gross. She looked at you like cake." I commented. "So she doesn't like cake?" Dimitri asked confused. "No. She likes cake." I said pointedly. " She probably likes cake a lot." I chuckled.
I had inhaled almost a quarter of my fries now. "Oh Roza...Rose I don't even know what you're talking about." Dimitri said. He was always so oblivious to these other women. Sometimes I wonder if he has eyes because so many people always threw themselves at him. I smirked and started on my burger. " You don't see it because you're too nice about things." I told him. "But I bet if a man looked at me like that waitress looked at you, you would notice."
"We're not going to talk about that." Dimitri grumbled. We continued eating in silence. Soon enough I had finished the majority of my food. After I was done, I looked up at the clock, it was almost 5:30. "We need to get a move on it. Alberta may wonder what were doing." I told Dimitri.
"Come on Roza." Dimitri stood up and handed me the car keys. "You go wait in the car I'll finish up here." he said more seriously. I guess his playful mood was gone. I took the keys and started out the door. I noticed the waitress from earlier giving me the death stare. I didn't understand how one person could hate someone else's happiness so much. It didn't make sense.
I walked through the shoveled snow and got in the car. When Dimitri joined me, I handed him the keys to start the car. "Ready to go Rose?" he asked. I was ready as I would ever be. I didn't want to go back, but I didn't have a choice. We had to return eventually. I leaned up and gave Dimitri a soft kiss. I knew that this would be it of our intimate time together. " Yes." I whispered after pulling away, I hoped that we would be able to make things work at the academy. I didn't know if I could go without Dimitri for very long, but I had to try.
Dimitri POV
"That doesn't seem fair Comrade" she said. I chuckled to myself. Carefree Rose was back, and that made me happy. "Well you didn't have to do something about it Roza. So it was your fault." I told her as I started the car. I switched the radio to a country station. I was in a good mood. Rose was happy, we were both satisfied, and it was peaceful between us. It was a nice change.
Roza fell in and out of sleep in the warm heat. We sat in a comfortable silence. I don't know how long we were driving but soon I could see the sun start to set. I increased my speed. I didn't want us to get caught by strigoi. Soon I heard a grumble. I looked at Rose if she made the sound. She was still staring out the window, maybe she was talking in her sleep. I heard the grumble again. "Roza, do you hear that noise?" I asked her. Rose just looked at me with a tired face.
"We've not eat anything Dimitri." she said, rubbing her abs. I was confused for a moment. Then I realized it was her stomach growling. We both haven't eaten anything since those sandwiches yesterday and we've been doing energy consuming activities all day. "I guess we can stop at a diner and get some food. We can't dawdle alright Rose. I don't want to be any later than 6." It was 4 now, the sun set early here in the winter.
Rose didn't say anything to me after I said that. I figured that she agreed with me. Instead she grabbed onto my hand, hooking our fingers. I smiled a bit. It was nice just to be able to be touching each other without being too suspicious. I looked at her again, pondering her action but paid no mind the reasons as I'll pulled off the road into a diner.
When I parked the car, Rose pulled her hand out of mine and got out of the car before I did. I watched her as she stretched her petite body out and then started skipping in front of me. Rose shook her hips in front of me teasingly. Her tight jeans made her arse look great. "What happened to I promise I won't tease Roza?" I jokingly asked her. I actually didn't mind, I appreciated being able to have the view, as long as it was only for my eyes to see. I couldn't watch her like this at the academy, it would be too suspicious.
"I'm walking. If my normal day to day things get you wiggly in your pants were going to have a problem Comrade." she replied back snarkily, slowing down her pace. With my long strides I caught up to her quickly. "Come here Roza." I said holding my arm out for her. She stepped into my arm and I squeezed her shoulder. I decided to tease her some more so I whispered in her ear, "I get excited about everything you do Roza." I pulled my head away and kept us walking. Rose followed my lead, leaning into me the whole way.
We walked in and sat at a booth. After a while, a waitress sauntered towards us. "What would you like darling?" the waitress asked directly to me. Even though I barely ate my sandwich the day before, I myself wasn't that hungry. It was weird, I wanted to let Roza order first. I knew she was starved. "Why don't you take my girlfriends order first." I said to the waitress, rubbing Rose's arm, she seemed to be tensing up. I didn't want to risk another famous Hathaway temper tantrum. The waitress frowned and turned to Roza.
"What do you want?" I heard her mumble to Rose. She had certainly changed her mood quickly. Rose only ordered a burger. I looked at Rose curiously. Usually she ate a lot more than that. Was she being self conscious? When the waitress turned back to me, I decided to order for her. "I'll take a burger, salad, and a coke thanks, and may I also get an order of fries and a coke for my girlfriend." I told the waitress this and she stalked off. I didn't know what happened to make her change her attitude so abruptly.
Rose scooted away from me a bit and just looked at me. We stared at each other for some time before she asked, "Do you like calling me that?" I was confused for a second. Calling her what? Roza? my girlfriend? It was then that I realized that she was talking about calling her my girlfriend since I always called her Roza, I explained to her before that it was her russian name. I gently squeezed her shoulder. "Of course. Then everyone knows that you're mine." I told her smiling. I hope I wasn't being too overbearing.
"You're cute." she muttered, before scooting closer to me and kissing me again. I smiled against her lips before pulling away. "Who are you calling cute." I challenged. You didn't call a man cute, it took away his masculinity. "You're the one who's supposed to be adorable." I kissed her on the nose. This just made us cuddle closer together. "Men can be cute." she said to me, before kissing me lightly again. "Right now you're being cute...Which is new to your normal dickish ways." she joked while poking me in the side to emphasize her point.
I shook my head. Some boundaries just shouldn't be crossed. Like challenging my masculinity. "Roza..." I said warningly. "Don't make me..." She cut me off by kissing me. He lips molded perfectly to mine. I lost focus of the world around us that I didn't even care any more that we were kissing in public. I was usually a pretty private person. I didn't show many public displays of affection, even when I was a teenager. Rose always had me doing something new. We were kissing for quite sometime when I heard a cough around us.
I pulled out of the kiss and saw the waitress. She had an ugly look on her face. Rose didn't look at her, she just looked at me and grinned at me. I smiled back, glad that we could have one normal day at the very least. "Here are your cokes, your food will be out in a few." the waitress muttered angrily before marching away.
I brushed the waitress' attitude off. She must just be having a really bad day. Rose had grabbed a coke and started sipping. Anything to relieve that hunger I guess. I was thinking to myself that at this point I didn't even know how I would hide my feelings in the moroi world. We were already having trouble keeping our hands to ourselves in a public human diner. Normally I would be against this, but I wanted everyone to know that I loved Rose, and she me. "You know I love you right Roza?" I asked her, I felt like I needed to reassure myself. I don't know what good I did in the universe to deserve this wonderful woman.
"Yeah. I do." she said smiling. "I love you too." I grinned as she leaned closer to me, tucked in the crook of my arm. "Good." I said more to myself than to Rose. Reassurance, that's all I needed. We sat in silence until the food arrived, just enjoying each other's company. This time a different, older waitress wordlessly dropped off our food. "Thank you!" I called after her, but she already walked away. The wait staff around here seemed very grouchy.
"Our waitress hates us. She thinks were gross." Rose said grabbing her food. "Well she thinks I'm gross. She looked at you like cake." I was so confused. What was that supposed to mean? The english/american slang was something I never understood. "So she doesn't like cake?" I asked as I started on my salad. Rose was already a quarter way through her fries. It was like she didn't eat the food, but inhaled it.
"No. She likes cake." Rose explained. " She probably likes cake a lot." I still didn't really understand what she was talking about. "Oh Roza..." I sighed. She was always making assumptions about people. I never saw anything different. Then again, I always had all my attention on Rose, bad guardian form on my part. "Rose I don't even know what you're talking about." I said, moving onto my burger now. Even though I wanted to enjoy our time together I didn't want us to get into any more trouble so I tried to eat my food as quickly as possible.
"You don't see it because you're too nice about things." she told me. Was this about the stares? It seemed to happen a lot in America but it never happened in Russia. I never seemed to notice the women's stares. In truth it didn't bother me much until now. I have seemed to have become more self-conscious about my body. It must have been Rose's influence. "But I bet if a man looked at me like that waitress looked at you, you would notice." That was right. I scowled at even the thought of someone else hitting on Roza. She was mine and mine alone. "We're not going to talk about that." I told her, focusing back on my food. I didn't like to think about things like that and if I had my way it would never happen again.
When Rose finished eating, she said to me, "We need to get a move on it. Alberta may wonder what were doing." The reminder snapped me out of my playful mood. I scarfed down the rest of my food. "Come on Roza." I handed her the car keys while standing up. "You go wait in the car I'll finish up here." I walked up to the counter to check out. I paid the bill and got out of the diner quickly. The first waitress kept glaring at me as I walked out. Hmm weird, I guess Rose was right, the women here do stare at me.
Roza handed me the keys as I stepped into the car. "Ready to go Rose?" I asked. Personally I wasn't ready to leave our little bubble. The closer we got to the moroi, the more distant we would have to be. Rose just reached over and gave me another kiss. Probably one of the last until we could get some alone time again. "Yes." she whispered. I gave her a gentle smile, and started the car. Once we got to the moroi we would have to keep our distance. We would get through it. Our love is strong. I reached over and grabbed her hand, squeezing it. She did the same. And we stayed like that until we got to the moroi where everything had to go back to the way it was. Our love hidden all over again.
A/N- It's over guys! I hope you liked the story. Review if you did, review if you didn't, or if you have questions, or just want to talk. Don't worry, this isn't the end of this story background/line sort of thing. I'm currently working on writing another part to this. It's Rose and Dimitri back at the academy and it might mess with the plot of Shadow Kiss a bit. I haven't decided yet. I'll post a link to it here when I start it, it'll probably be next wednesday when Thanksgiving break has begun. So goodbye for now guys! I'll see you in a week!
Ciao!
~Tiffany