Chapter 13: Reunited
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So here it is! The long awaited Reunion .. Tell me if it lives up to your expectations???
RPOV
The last thing I remembered was falling to the ground on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. I opened my eyes and I was no longer outside and it was daylight. I glanced around the room quickly making sure that I had not been captured by Strigoi again. I was pretty sure I hadn't been. I was lying on a nice comfy couch in a very pretty living room. There were family photos all over the mantle of the fireplace. I had been cleaned up, bandaged and changed into what looks like a white nightgown of some sort. It definitely wasn't mine, but it was clean and it was warm. I was covered with light blanket as well. I shifted my eyes to the other end of the room and came across a man staring at me. He had dark hair and dark eyes and he wore flashy clothing and jewelry. He looked exhausted. I could tell right away that he was Moroi and I relaxed a little.
The man looked at me curiously and said something in what I think was Russian. I didn't understand him. It sounded a lot like when Dimitri spoke in Russian though.
A middle aged woman came into the room and said something to me also in Russian.
She was a very pretty dhampir. I looked at her, but didn't know what to say.
She spoke again very rapidly and I again said nothing.
I looked around the room. Three other younger Dhampir girls and a small boy had joined us in the living room.
The older woman said something to the Moroi man. I was getting frustrated with not being able to understand them. I think they were friendly from what I could make of their gestures, but the Moroi man looked like a mobster so I couldn't be sure.
He said something and shook his head in negation.
"Are you American?" blurted out the youngest girl in English.
Oh thank God someone here speaks English I thought. That calmed my already frayed nerves a little.
"Yes I am from Montana." I replied "I don't speak er whatever language you're speaking."
I apologized.
"Do you know where you are?" the man asked me. His voice was actually quite pleasant for someone who looked like he did.
"Russia?" I guessed
"That's right." He replied.
"Who are you all?" I asked looking from one to the next. I didn't want to be rude, but I really needed some answers.
"You don't know them?" the man asked pointing to the women. He seemed surprised. Why would he ask me that? I clearly didn't even know where I was how could I know them?
I shook my head. "Should I?" I asked. I still felt very tired and I knew I had some really severe injuries. I was getting more than a little frustrated with the questions.
"You were calling their name out when I found you." he said moving over to sit in the chair closest to me.
Wait he was the one who found me? Wow a Moroi had risked himself in the dark to save a lowly Dhampir off the side of the road. This guy must either be nuts or he has an ulterior motive.
"I'm sorry forgive me. My name is Abe Mazur." He said realizing I didn't know who he was yet either.
"I'm Olena Belikova and these are my daughters Karolina, Sonya and Viktoria." the woman introduced herself. The boy is Paul. He is Karolina's son.
My eyes went wide at the introduction. Oh my God I'm in Baia This is Dimitri's family. I nearly cried at my good luck. I looked at the photos on the mantle a little closer and recognized the boy in the pictures as Dimitri as a child.
"You're his family." I said shakily. I never thought I would meet them and to meet them looking like this was just my luck.
"Who?" asked Olena.
"Dimitri's." I hoped I was right and this was his family and I wasn't making an ass out of myself. "I was probably calling for him in my sleep." I admitted awkwardly.
"You know Dimka?" asked Viktoria her eyes lit up at the sound of his name.
I shook my head. "He's my mentor at St. Vladimir's." I responded. I didn't want to tell them about our romantic relations. He might not want them to know. He's probably ashamed to tell them he had fallen in love with some lowly underage Dhampir girl.
"Dimka is at St. Vladimir's?" asked Olena.
"Yes for about a year now." I said. They didn't even know where he was. I thought he said he was close with his family.
"He's so busy. We haven't seen or spoken to him in a long time." She said sadly.
"We're very excited to hear that he is alive and well." She said.
"Wasn't St. Vladimir's attacked by Strigoi?" Abe asked. Tears started to well up in my eyes as I thought back to the day of the attack and everything after it. God how I missed Dimitri and my friends.
"Yes." I choked out.
"That's when I was taken."
"Taken?" he asked
"Taken by Strigoi. They tried to kill me, but I got away." I said remembering how the woman had said she'd forced a gallon of her blood down my throat. I shuddered. I didn't want them to know about that.
"Well you are safe now." Said Olena.
"What's your name little girl?" He asked me.
"My name is Rose." I said quietly.
"Rose?" he nearly choked on his own tongue at the sound of my name. Why was he so interested in me? I know he saved me and all, but he looked like he was mental.
"Rose what?" he asked.
"Rosemarie Hathaway." I said.
He looked as if he was going to cry.
"Rosemarie?" he said coming closer to me. I looked at him curiously.
He reached over and pushed a stray strand of my hair behind my ear. "We thought you were dead." He breathed embracing me. I was definitely perturbed at his gesture. How did he know me and who told him I was dead and why is this guy who looks like a mobster hugging me.
"You know me?" I asked uncomfortably.
"Well I feel like I do." he said reaching into his wallet and pulling out some photos.
I gasped they were all photos of me. Some were as old as when I was an infant and the newest was when I was probably around fourteen. Some were school pictures and the others were taken by an unknown source. This is getting creepy.
I looked over at Dimitri's family they looked as confused as I was.
"Where did you get those?" I asked backing away from him slightly. I wasn't afraid of him exactly, but I wanted to know who he was.
"Janine sent them to me." He said.
"My mother? Why would she do that? I'm surprised she even had a picture of me let alone sent them to anyone else." I said sarcastically. Why would she send picture of me to a stranger and where did she even get these pictures she never seemed like the type to carry a photo of me in her wallet let alone send a dozen of them to some strange Moroi mobster man.
"Rosemarie your mother and I were involved when we were younger and well…"
He was with my mother what the hell did he do with my mother. He looked like a criminal certainly Janine Hathaway wouldn't have been involved with someone like him, but then why did he say he got the photos from her. I am so confused and my lungs feel like they are about to collapse.
" Wait you and my mother were involved and she sends you pictures of me why would she do that unless you were my…" Oh my God! I'm a baby mobster.
"You're my father?" I squeaked.
" I am." He said quietly.
I had been dying to find out who he was forever and it was so strange that he'd stayed away so long and that now of all the times he could have shown up the one time I really needed someone he had come through for me.
The stress of all of this was too much for me. The pain of everything was crushing me. I broke down and threw myself into his arms.
"Thank you for finding me." I sobbed. I knew I must seem like a lunatic for hugging a man I didn't know, but I needed someone, anyone right now.
He held me tight and whispered some things in a foreign language in my ear.
I was tired so he let me lay down and Dimitri's sisters brought me some food and water. I wasn't able to each much I was in so much pain. I still think I am going to die.
I needed to get to Lissa so she could heal me. I needed a phone.
"Do you have a phone?" I asked Abe.
"Yes of course." He said handing me his cell phone.
I dialed Dimitris' familiar number and waited as it rang.
"Belikov." His familiar and comforting voice came across the phone.
"Comrade?" I managed to get out before I was sobbing so hard I couldn't breathe. I starting to cough so hard that blood came out. I could hear Dimitri's worried voice on the other end of the line but I couldn't stop coughing long enough to say anything else.
"Who are you trying to talk to?" asked Viktoria.
"Dimitri." I managed. She took the phone from me and then I blacked out. I vaguely felt Abe catch me before I hit the floor.
ABEPOV
Rosemarie had used my phone to call not her mother but Belikov. I knew there must be something between them. The look on her face when he answered the phone was one of relief, comfort and dare I say love. She was only able to get out one word "Comrade" she had said.
I didn't really understand what that word meant or why she called him that. I'd have to remember to look it up later. At the sound of his voice she began to sob uncontrollably which caused her to begin coughing violently. If I had thought before that her broken rib had punctured a lung I was now sure it had because she was coughing up blood. Her eyes were terrified as she allowed Viktoria to take the phone out of her hand and then she fainted. I barely made it to her before she crumpled to the ground.
"Rosemarie. Please wake up. I tried softly shaking her, but she didn't open her eyes."
Olena came over and helped me lift her back onto the couch.
"It's as I suspected." She said.
"Punctured lung?"
"Yes. She needs a doctor."
"I'll make some calls." I said. I then called Janine who was on her way. Then I called a few of my contacts to see if they could locate a oroi doctor nearby. The nearest one was three hours away. I didn't know if we should wait for her mother to get there or chance moving her now. I decided to wait.
When it had been nearly two hours and she was still out cold I began to get frantic with worry. I should have rushed her to that doctor as soon as she fainted.
"I just found you please don't leave me." I whispered to her softly in Turkish as I held her hand in mine. Then I waited. I didn't know what I would do if she didn't make it through this. I'd just met her. I wanted time to get to know her and be a part of her life.
DPOV
The drive seemed to take forever when in reality it had been only a little over two hours. As we pulled up in front of my childhood home I sprang from the van faster that I would have ever thought possible and ran up the front steps.
As much as Janine wanted to see if her daughter was okay we had decided that it would be better for her to wait in the car with the Moroi to protect them while I assessed her condition.
I didn't bother to knock as this was still and would always be my home. I was somewhat aware that I'd passed two of Abe Mazur's guardians patrolling the house as I went in.
I burst through the door quite ungracefully. My mother was standing in the kitchen as was my eldest sister Karolina. They both looked at me with awe. It had been five years since I'd been home. Last time they saw me I had been a teenager. Mama I breathed embracing her tightly.
We greeted each other warmly in Russian.
"Oh Dimka. You've grown into such a handsome man." She said as she embraced me tightly..
"Thank you Mama." I hugged her back tightly and then Karolina.
"Where is Rose?" I asked not meaning to be rude, but I needed to see her for myself.
"Dimka, it's not good." Said my mother softly. Her eyes were lined with worry.
"She has many injuries her ribs are broken and she has a punctured lung and the blood loss." She continued nearly in tears.
"It's going to be alright mama." I said wiping the tears from her eyes. She didn't know that I had two spirit healers waiting outside in the car. I just hoped that we were in time for the princess to work her magics.
"She's in the living room with Abe." Said Karolina.
I walked swiftly into the living room and my heart stopped at the sight that was before me.
My sweet Roza was badly injured, she was so pale, her neck had heavy bandages covering the bite, her leg was elevated and I could see the un natural angle her ankle was twisted into. She had scrapes and cuts everywhere. He breathing was shallow and labored and she looked feverish.
Abe Mazur was sitting next to her with her hand clutched in his. He looked up at me as I entered the room. The look on his face was pure anguish. I wondered why he cared so much. I'd met him once before when I was a novice and he had seemed very unwelcoming. Many feared the sound of his name, but I wasn't one of them.
"Guardian Belikov." He greeted me without rising from his seat. He seemed to be searching my face for something.
"Mr. Mazur." I nodded in acknoledgement. I was slightly irritated at the way he was clutching my Roza's hand. That was my job. Who was he to touch her like that?
I moved to where she was and sat down on the couch careful not to injure her further. He reluctantly let go of her hand and moved over so we had more space.
"Roza? Can you hear me?" I asked taking her free hand in mine leaned down and whispered in her ear.
"We're here for you Rose. Your mother and Lissa and Adrian are in the car. Even Christian is here." I said quietly enticing her to awaken. I breathed in her scent greedily nuzzling her neck with my nose. "Please come back to me my Roza."
She stirred a little and opened her eyes weakly.
"Comrade?" she whispered.
I sighed in relief as her sweet voice reached my ears.I don't think I've ever been happier in my life than in this moment. She squeezed my hand weakly to show me that she was fighting her injuries.
"Я тебя люблю." I said kissing her softly on her forehead. "You have no idea how worried we've been about you."
"I love you too Comrade." She said with a small smile.
"Hold on okay. I'm going to go get the princess so she can heal you." I caressed her cheek with my hand wiping away a stray tear that had escaped her eyes.
I didn't want to leave her and I had to tear my hand away from her. "Roza you have to let go." I said when she wouldn't release my hand. "I promise I'll be right back." She sighed and released my hand.
I turned around and my whole family was standing around me with shocked looks on their faces.
I guess she hadn't told them about us. I'd have to fill them in later. Boy was I going to get it. The only bad thing about growing up in a house full or woman was that they were so damn nosy.
I just gave my family a knowing look and went ouside to get the others.
"Is she okay? How bad is it?" asked Lissa the second I reached the van.
"It's pretty bad Princess, but I think she will be okay if you go in and heal her." I said.
"Ivashkov she might need help."
He nodded at me and the three Moroi got out of the car Lissa ran the whole way and almost broke the door down on her way in she was so eager to see Rose.
Janine and I followed close behind. I could see that she wasn't quite relaxed yet. She was still very worried about Rose, but I think something else was bothering her as well.
He He He!!! I am so evil!!!
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