Chapter 19 Dream Healing???
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Is anyone wondering how Rose survived having almost all of her blood drained or have you already figured it out???
I know I know everyone who is reading are mainly Dimitri fans so try not to crucify me for this. I promise a lot more Dimitri to come, but I happen to love Adrian as well so this one is for all of you who, like me know how great a guy Adrian can be…. I also have a feeling that he's going to get his heart shattered in the real version of Spirit Bound =(
RPOV
I was in a garden this time. It was very pretty. I felt like maybe I'd been there before. Wait this has to be one of Adrian's dreams things are too perfect. My dreams were usually nightmares.
"Adrian?" I called. Again I wasn't wearing anything skimpy. A pretty yellow and blue sundress with white flip flops that had daisies on the top. I wondered how long he spent thinking about what he would dress me in. I mean seriously a different outfit each time. What did he like stalk the J. Crew Catalog or something?
"Adrian where are you?" I called wandering around the garden.
"Why Little Dhampir if I didn't know any better I'd say you missed me." He said coming out from behind a tree.
He looked amazing as usual. His unkempt hair just added to his bad boy look.
There was a wrought iron bench that sat next to a small pond. "Would you like to join me?" he asked walking over to the bench and sitting down.
I sat next to him. "So aren't you worn out from all the healing and dream walking?" I asked curiously.
"Yes it has been draining especially without being able to self medicate." He replied.
"Why aren't you resting?" I asked.
"I think there are a few things we need to talk about and I don't want to do it in front of the others and I don't think Belikov fancies it when we spend time together."
Oh great just because I kissed him when I thought I was dying he's gone and gotten the wrong idea. I thought and he was dead on about Dimitri not liking us spending time together.
I took a deep breath and launched myself into a conversation I'd been dreading.
"Adrian, I'm sorry I just don't feel that way about you. I mean I do love you , but more in a friendly way that in a let's be lovers kind of way." I started to explain.
He had an amused look on his face. "Don't worry Little Dhampir. I know you are with Belikov and as much as it pains me to admit it he's a very good man. " he said with a slight grimace.
"Oh well then what did you want to talk about?" I asked feeling a little sheepish for making the assumption.
"Well there's the fact that there were two Strigoi holding you captive and you didn't mention killing either of them. Where did they go? Why didn't they turn you? And how did you survive being drained of nearly all of your blood?" he asked seriously.
"Rose the last time I saw you you told me they had taken all of your blood and that you were dying. Not that I'm not happy as hell to have you alive and well, but I don't understand what happened."
He looked at me with confusion.
"Just so you know. I didn't tell Belikov or Lissa or anyone about them draining you." He said.
"You didn't?"
"No I didn't want them to worry more and I didn't want them to call off the search so I lied. I told them you were in bad shape, but you would probably be alive when we found you."
"Oh Adrian. You shouldn't have done that. What if I wasn't or worse what if I was Strigoi. Lissa would have been devastated." I cried.
" I know. It was stupid, but all I could think about was getting to you before it was too late. That last time I thought for sure you had only minutes to live. And then when we found where they were holding you and I saw the blood. I'd have bet my life that when we found you it would be to bury you. His face paled even paler than usual as he said it.
"Rose I need to know what happened."
"I know and I wish I could tell you, but honestly I have no idea. The first time you visited was when she started taking my blood. When I woke up I couldn't move or speak and I heard them arguing about me. The female said she'd taken all my blood and bled at least a gallon of her own down my throat." I looked down at the ground as I said it.
" They thought I should have changed by then and that I was as good as dead because it didn't work so they left me there. That is when I saw you the second time and I told you to give up that it was too late. I knew I was going to die."
The look on his face was pure disgust when I'd mentioned them bleeding Strigoi blood down my throat. I didn't blame him. I was so ashamed.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through that Rose. You know that it wasn't your fault right?" he asked.
I knew he could sense my guilt.
"I know. I just feel dirty." I said honestly.
"Well don't. I don't think any less of you and neither will anyone else. It was out of your control." He said trying to convince me.
"I wonder why you didn't change?" he wondered out loud scratching his chin which had become rather stubley.
Something clicked in my head as I was thinking about what I told him and what I did during that dream. The last time I'd kissed him I felt a spark of something shoot from him through me. I thought I was crazy at the time, but maybe…
"Adrian did you feel something when I kissed you in the dream?" I asked
"You mean romantically or physically?" he asked.
"No no not like that I mean something strange like a.."
"Like an electric spark." He finished for me.
"Yes exactly like that." I said.
"You felt that too?" he asked.
"Yes. Hey do you think maybe you sent spirit into me and that it partially healed me?"
"It was a dream Rose how could it have? And you know that my healing powers are not very good." He said remorsefully.
"What were you feeling when I kissed you?" I asked I knew I was reaching, but I wanted to know how I lived.
"Love." He replied honestly. "In that moment I loved you so much Rose. I was so sad that it took you dying for me to feel your lips on mine the way I always dreamed about. In that moment I tried to pour all of my pent up emotions for you into that kiss, because I knew that if you died I would never get the chance and if you lived I still wouldn't get the chance to feel that again so I gave it everything I had." He said. Tears had formed in his eyes.
"Adrian. You saved my life. Your powers must be linked to your emotions like Lissa's because there is no way I would have come back from that. I can't even tell you how much it means to me that you felt that way about me even though I've treated you so poorly."
I reached my hands out and cupped his face. "I never believed that what you felt for me was real. Not until that moment." I admitted. "I'm so sorry to have doubted your intentions. I owe you everything. If you hadn't loved me like that and kept trying to find me I would be dead right now. Thank you Adrian."
He was so choked up he was at a loss for words. He just looked at me. His eyes said it all.
Before he knew what I was doing I pulled his face to mine and kissed him slowly. He seemed shocked, but didn't move to pull away. I deepened the kiss for a few seconds and he responded tenderly and then gently pulled away. I leaned my forehead against his. We were both panting.
"Thank you. Little Dhampir. You didn't owe me anything though." He said finally.
"I didn't do it because I thought I owed you. I did it because I wanted to." I said. "I feel connected to you. Not the same way I feel connected to Lissa or Dimitri, but you are very special to me." I continued.
"And you are very special to me Rose. I don't ever want to think of living my life without you in it. If you and I are meant to be just friends then I will be the best friend to you that I know how to be." He said.
I lay my head on his shoulder and relaxed. "Adrian this place is so peaceful where are we?"
"My grandmother's garden. You've been here once before with me. Not that you'd remember cause you hated me at the time." He said with a laugh.
" I never hated you. I just thought you were a spoiled, pompous, womanizing, drunk." I said playfully.
"Oh well you were right, I was, but meeting you and seeing how you all accepted me into your group of friends has made me realize that I want to be a better person. I want to be a good friend and the type of man that someday might be worthy of love from someone as wonderful as you." He said blushing.
"You are worthy Adrian. You always were. And someday you will find the one and I'm going to be there to make sure she doesn't hurt you and if she does I'll kick her ass."
He laughed. "You are a badass my little Dhampir. You'd have to be with who your parents are." He said with a wink.
"Ah so you picked up on that?" I asked not really all that surprised. I think almost everyone had figured it out. I mean I know Lissa had. She hadn't had the courage to ask me about it yet, but I could feel that she knew. Dimitri probably did as well. If he did I wondered how he was taking it. I didn't think he'd be too big of a fan of my father's illegal business practices.
"Well he has some serious love in his aura and not just for you. He's totally lusting after your mom." He said with a smirk.
"Ugh gross. Please I didn't need to hear that." I complained covering my ears in mock horror.
He just laughed.
"Anyways on a more serious matter, can we keep the part about them draining me and pouring the blood down my throat on the DL?" I asked.
"Why?"
"I just don't want to upset Lissa." I said.
"Yea well if Belikov finds out I was lying to him he's going to go all Russian on me so I guess I can keep it to myself." He agreed.
"Thanks.
"Anything for you Little Dhampir." He said softly kissing the top of my hair.
We sat there for a little while more and then I slowly drifted into consciousness.
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