Chapter 46: Compelling Argument
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Academy and if I did I'd have a sexy Russian chasing me around my house =)
Sorry I know I promised you a trip to the Royal Court, but I just had to put in Dimitri finding out about Adrian and Viktoria first. I know some of you had wanted him to find out about them in your reviews. The Royal Court is yet to come.
DPOV
After the meeting Rose and I accompanied my family back to guest housing.
"Do you really think that you'll need all that extra patrolling at Court?" asked my mother. "Aren't they heavily warded?"
"That is what we thought about St. Vladimir's before the attack." I responded.
We were all sitting around the kitchen table drinking coffee when I realized that Viktoria was nowhere to be found.
"Where's Vivie Mama?" I asked.
"She's out with a friend." She replied vaguely avoiding my gaze.
"Friend? Who does she know here besides us? Is she with the Princess?" I asked my curiosity and uneasiness growing.
The entire family refused to look me in the eye including Rose. My sisters made excuses and went off to bed.
"Roza? Do you know something?"
"Dimitri maybe we should go somewhere and talk." She suggested nervously.
"Why would we need to do that?" She was keeping something from me.
"Well there's something I think I should tell you, but you aren't going to like it and if I have to restrain you I don't want anyone to get in the way."
"Restrain me?" Oh this wasn't going to be good. I think I know what's going on and she's right I'm not going to like hearing it.
"Tell me Roza."
She stood up and placed herself between the door and myself. "Promise you won't leave this room." She said.
"I promise." I lied knowing full well she wouldn't be able to hold me back if I truly wanted to leave.
She took a deep breath.
"Viktoria is with Adrian. They've been long distance dating since we returned from Russia." She said quickly.
My blood began to boil at her words. "What?" I cried.
"Mama you allow this?" I nearly shouted at her in Russian.
"Calm down Dimka. She's having fun and he seems like a very nice young man."
"Calm down, nice young man? You've got to be kidding me. He's a Moroi Royal for God's sake. He's the God damned Queen's nephew."
I needed to put a stop to this before it went too far. I lunged for the door. Rose anticipated this and came at me hard from the front. She managed to knock me down, but I recovered quickly.
"Dimitri. You promised." She said using her entire body weight trying hard to hold me down. If I wasn't so angry and my family wasn't here I would have found our position arousing.
"Roza get out of my way. I don't want to hurt you." I was seething.
"Calm down Comrade. He's a good guy and I had a talk with him. He's on his best behavior. I promise." She said still trying to coax me into not breaking his neck.
"Remember all the things he's done for me? He's saved my life twice now." She continued.
"How long have you known about this?" I asked exasperated.
"A few months." She admitted.
"And you didn't feel the need to tell me that my youngest sister was being womanized by a Moroi five years older than her?"
She laughed. She actually laughed at me.
"Comrade you're seven years older than me remember?"
Damn she had a point, but this was my little sister we were talking about.
"That's besides the point and that was different. You're different." I hissed. She had seen and done more than many others her age. My sister did not have those experiences. She was still a child. Roza was a woman.
" Get off of me. I just want to talk to him." I said not wanting to use force on her.
"Let them be. It's not a big deal Calm down." She said looking me straight in the eye.
I blinked and suddenly I couldn't remember why it was that I was so angry. I felt s strange sense of serenity come over me. I looked at Rose she was poised for an attack. My family just stood there watching us.
I shook my head. I felt strange. A minute ago I was hopping mad ready to kill Ivashkov and now it didn't seem to bother me one bit. I'd felt like this before. I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
And then I remembered. I'd felt like the day Rose was taken when the Princess had used compulsion on me.
No it couldn't be. Rose was a Dhampir. She didn't have magic or did she?
RPOV
Oh this was going to be bad. I knew for a fact Viktoria was with Adrian. They were probably off somewhere making out or worse. I could not let Dimitri go after her. If he caught them in a compromising position he'd kill Adrian and I didn't think I was strong enough to stop him.
I tried to stop him. He promised not to leave the room, but I could tell that was a lie. There was rage in his eyes and a grimace crossed his face as he balled his hands into fists and began a tirade of angry Russian words at his mother. I couldn't make out what they were saying, but I'm sure it was somewhere along the lines of womanizing drunken Royal Moroi and such other things Dimitri had often said about Adrian.
He lunged for the door and I managed to catch him off guard and he fell backwards on the ground. I threw my body on top of him quickly although I knew he could easily throw me off him if he wanted to.
I laughed when he cited their age difference as a reason for them not to be together. I gently reminded him that he was 7 years my senior.
"That's besides the point and that was different. You're different." he hissed.
While I had to agree that what he said was true I trusted Adrian and I knew he was sincere in his feelings. He would treat her with respect because he knew that I would only hold Dimitri off him if he was behaving. If not then I'd kick his ass myself. Viktoria was my sister too.
" Get off of me. I just want to talk to him." He growled.
"Let them be. It's not a big deal calm down." I said looking him straight in the eye.
As I was speaking to him trying to calm him down his eyes seemed to glaze over and his body instantly relaxed underneath mine. I felt the tension leave him and he looked confused. He shook his head as if trying to remember where he was. He looked around and a very strange look came across his face as he looked at me.
I had seen similar things happen to people before, but how? Usually it took a while for someone to calm down, but as soon as I told him to relax it was instantaneous. That didn't happen unless. Oh my God, Did I just use compulsion on him? Wait no what am I saying. I can't do that. Could I?
Liss? Are you with me?
Yep. Sorry you pulled me in and I couldn't get out.
Did you use compulsion?
I think so. I just focused on what you were saying and tried to reach out to him through you. I can't believe it worked.
This is awesome and kinda scary. For a minute there I actually thought It was me who did it.
Oh Rose, don't worry. This is going to be really good. If I can learn to control this it will be to our advantage. Think about it. No one would ever catch us because Dhampirs can't use compulsion. No one would even suspect it.
Hey maybe we could use it on the Queen.
Rose, you're so bad, but I love the way you think.
Hey Liss gotta go Dimitri is staring at me funny.
Are you going to tell him?
Only if he figures it out.
Sounds good. I won't tell anyone yet either.
I snapped back to reality. Dimitri was staring at me. I realize he'd moved us both so we were sitting on the living room couch instead of me straddling him on the floor.
"Rose where were you? With the Princess?"
"Yeah sorry I didn't mean to freak everyone out." I knew how it must have looked to his family me blanking out like that and all.
"We figured that's where you were." Said Olena. "Plus Yeva said not to worry."
I glanced over at the old woman. She was eying me suspiciously. I knew she knew what I just did. The question is did Dimitri?
APOV
After our meeting Viktoria and I managed to sneak off without Belikov noticing. It had been months since we'd seen each other in person and we had lost time to make up for. She and I had stayed up all night in Russia talking and laughing. She was so carefree and very funny. She had a great sense of humor and she was so beautiful. I had taken an instant liking to her and before we left we'd exchanged e-mails and cell numbers.
I had texted her the minute we landed at the Academy. I didn't really put much stock into her texting me back, but sure enough after our meeting with Kirova I had three new messages in my inbox. After a few weeks of texting and e-mails it wasn't enough for me and I asked if I could call her. I had an international cell phone plan because of my parents that were often in Romania and it turns out she did as well because she had recently been keeping in touch with Belikov.
I had to keep remembering that she was his sister. I couldn't afford to make mistakes with her. He'd definitely kill me or at least put me in the hospital. Rose had promised to help keep him off my tail if I behaved myself. I had no intention of doing anything too physical with her until we'd at least been dating a while and even so she was sixteen and I thought we should wait to have sex until she is closer to eighteen even though that is going to be hard. I would try my best. She was like family to Rose and I loved Rose and I didn' t want to do anything to mess up the friendship we had.
"Where are we going Adrian?" She asked in her really cute Russian accent.
"You'll see. Just follow me." I told her.
I led her out to the pond behind the Guardian dorms. I often came here to think and to be alone. It was very serene and I enjoyed spending time here.
"Wow this place is beautiful." She commented.
"I like it." I told her. "It's probably one of the things I will miss the most about this place when we leave for Court tomorrow."
We sat down in the grass and she gazed out at the water. I put my arm around her shoulders.
"Is that okay?" I asked her.
"Of course it is." She replied leaning her head to rest on my shoulder.
I wanted to kiss her so badly and this was the perfect setting, very romantic. I wanted it to be special seeing is that it would be our first kiss.
She turned to look at me. This was the perfect opening. I lifted my hand to her cheek and caressed it gently.
"You are so beautiful." I told her.
She smiled at me and blushed a little. I leaned closer and she met me halfway. As our lips touched softy for the first time I felt my heart skip a beat as our mouths moved slowly in sync with each other.
It was sweet and chaste just the way a first kiss was meant to be. I pulled away and looked into her eyes. I could tell that she could be the one to steal my heart. I'd always thought I'd never love anyone that is until I met Rose. My feelings for her were strong and very real, I never thought I'd feel that way about someone again, but now I realized I could.
I sighed in contentment as the soft breeze carried the scent of lilacs and cherry blossoms.
"I wish we could stay like this forever."she said.
"Me too." I agreed.
"We better get back before my brother sends a search party or worse comes looking for me himself." She joked.
"Yea I do want to stay alive." I replied.
As we were walking back towards guest housing my phone beeped with a text from Lissa.
He knows so watch out! It said.
I inhaled sharply and showed the text to Viktoria.
"Uh oh!"
So do you think it is awesome that Rose can use compulsion? I think it is… I also think I'm a genius hehe don't' I have a big head? Please review pretty please with Dimka on top?
