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I woke up to someone pounding on my door. I thought if I ignored them, they would go away. Boy was I wrong. They just started pounding harder. Ugh. Whoever that is better be wearing some kind of body armor. I roll out of bed and shuffle to the door. All the while the pounding never stops. "yeah yeah I'm coming, quit the pounding would ya?" I mumble to myself. I fling the door open "What?" I snarl without looking who's there.

"well someone is just chipper this morning" Lissa says, giggling at my facial expression, and general lack of enthusiasm.

"If you were looking for 'chipper', you should have come by at a decent hour!" I snarl at her. Normally I wouldn't be so mean to Lissa, but I had hardly slept at all last night. Not that what I was doing wasn't a lot more enjoyable...

"Rose it's not that early. You should have been up already..." Lissa gives me a skeptical look. "Late night?" She giggles.

"Maybe" I say begrudgingly. I look at the clock, and see that if I don't hurry up, I'm going to be late for practice. "Come in Liss, I have to get ready for practice."

"I'm sure Dimitri would just love to punish you." Liss giggles again, man she is spending too much time with Christian. "But, he sent me to tell you that he had to cancel for today, something about your mom, and keeping all his" cough " parts intact." Lissa couldn't help a smile. I groaned. What did my mother do now? Crap I would have to go see her! " And he said to tell you not to worry, it's just today, and sense we don't have classes you should enjoy yourself." With me she says through the bond. I smile, I really do miss Lissa. We haven't been spending a lot of time together lately. There has been a lot going on.

"Okay. So what are we doing?" I ask her. All I really want to do is climb back into my warm bed, and sleep the day away. I figure that's not going to happen, so I look at Liss expectantly. She just smiles at me.

"I thought we could spend some just you and me time, talking before meeting up with Christian and Adrian for some movies later" she tells me. Ugh. Talking. Talking means telling her all the things that I have been leaving out lately. Great.

"Sounds good" I tell her. I leave her sitting on my bed and walk to the closet to look for cloths for the day, but when I get there I change my mind. Getting dressed just looks like way to much work. So I walk back to the bed and curl up under the blankets. Lissa smiles and lays next to me. I figured it would only be a matter of time until she brought up the subject of me and Dimitri. Sure enough a few minutes later....

"So, uhh, when did you and Dimitri start... seeing each other?" she starts out hesitantly.

"I know your upset that I didn't tell you, and I am sorry. I couldn't risk it like that. Plus it wasn't really going anywhere serious.... until the night Jesse and Ralph attacked you...." I trailed off in thought. I still got so angry when I thought of it. I can hardly think straight. The anger came back and I felt the need to wrap my hands around that pretty little neck of Jesse's. He deserved to suffer, and I so wanted to be the one who inflicted it.

I felt calming waves coming through the bond. It's okay Rose, calm down. Lissa always knew when I needed her help. She really was my best friend. I figured I should get back to the story before I lost it again. "when I took that darkness from you, I couldn't control it. I couldn't think about anything but murdering Jesse and Ralph. Alberta told Dimitri to take care of me, and get me first aid, but he couldn't take me to the clinic. I would have killed Jesse. So he took me to that cabin, out by the pond. You know the one you went skating on with Tasha and Christian." She nodded so I take it she wanted me to continue. "Well I couldn't control myself. I tried everything I could to get away from Dimitri. I cried, I fought, I tried to trick him, eventually he had to physically restrain me. I could see what I was going through was hurting me. That was when I could tell that he truly loved me. He was so worried, and He was the only reason I could fight the darkness. If he hadn't been there, I would have been lost to it, I don't know if I would have ever gotten myself back...." I looked at Lissa worried. I know she felt bad about how the darkness was effecting me. Sure enough her face was drawn, and she looked sad, and guilty. "Liss, don't look like that. I'm fine. He saved me, and he said he will always be there when I need him...." I smiled at the thought. "And what you do is so important. You save people Liss. I can handle a little darkness for all that awesomeness." I smiled at her reassuringly. She still didn't look happy, but her face now looked more interested than anything.

"So did you and Dimitri..." She trailed off suggestively and grinned at me. I suppressed a groan.

"Uhh, yeah. That was the first time" I admitted to Lissa. Who squealed upon hearing it. I blushed.

"Oh My God Rose!!! How was it? I can't believe you didn't tell me right away. I can't believe you stayed a virgin for so long!!" She kept on at a rapid pace.

"Liss, shut up if you want me to answer you!" She stopped talking immediately. "It was... painful, but in a good way. I didn't tell you because one, no one was supposed to know, and two on our way back to the school, we were attacked by the Strigoi..." She winced at the memory of the attack on our school. "And as for me staying a virgin for so lone, you are just a jerk Vasilisa Dragomir, Contrary to popular belief I am not a total whore." She looked away, she must have felt bad. Good.

"I know you're not Rose. I just meant that I always thought you'd lose yours first, you know?" I nodded. I couldn't believe when Lissa told me she has lost her virginity to Aaron. Ugh. We always thought I was the irresponsible one. Her look of guilt turned to a look of amusement "So... You had a good time then?" She asked. I sighed.

"Yes I had a wonderful time" I told her. She smiled. I could feel through the bond that she was terribly excited and happy for me. She knew I got lonely when she wasn't around, and she spent a lot of time with Christian. "But there is one thing I kinda needed to talk to you about Liss" I had been dreading this conversation ever sense me and Dimitri had decided to be together. She looked at me and nodded. "Uhm, well you see, if me and Dimitri are to be together, and we totally want to be together, that means one of us are going to have to be assigned to someone other than you" I tell her. She looks confused so I continue, "we wouldn't want to put you in danger, and if we are both guarding you, I'm not sure if all my attention would be on what I was supposed to be doing. He feels the same way." Realization covers her face. Along with a wave of guilt I feel through the bond. "We've talked about it Liss, it's already decided. You come first." I smile at her. She still feels guilty.

"So you guys can't be together because of me?" She asks.

"No we can't guard you because we chose to be together. At first Dimitri kept telling me that even though he loved me, we could not put you at risk like that. Now he has finally agreed that we are meant to be together, and we have stopped trying to fight it, and just embrace it for the blessing that it is. But this means we can't take the chance of losing you to be together."

"But you won't see him! What will you do?" She asks me.

"He is going to be asked to be assigned somewhere at court" I say quietly. I know that the chances of that are not so great. The queen already hates me, and when she finds out Dimitri is with me, she will hate him too.

"What if....." She trails off, not even able to speak the words allowed. 'What if he can't be?'

"We will have to deal with that as it comes. I can't worry about it now. I have to worry about graduating, and making sure my mother doesn't kill the love of my life." I sigh, my life is so complicated. Lissa giggles.

"She wouldn't really kill him I don't think"

"well she did catch us making out this morning..." I admit, mortified all over again. Lissa can't help but laugh.

"Is that where you disappeared too last night. I would have loved to see your mom's face when she saw that. What did she say?" As I relayed the whole scene to Lissa I am surprised all over again that she didn't kill one, or both of us. When I finished telling my story, her thoughts were close to the same as mine. "and she didn't even throw one punch?" Lissa asked shocked.

"No" I said. "i was really surprised too!!" We both laugh. Me and Lissa stay in my bed talking for another couple of hours. We talk about everything. It seems like it has been forever sense we just layed around talking, and I was really enjoying it.

"Well I suppose we should go meet the boys, they'll be waiting." she finally says, reluctantly getting out of the bed. I sigh. Great, a day full of snide remarks from Christian, and blatant sexual advances from Adrian. Lots to look forward too.

But hey, if they piss me off too bad, I'll just sick my mom on them!!

i would definately not want a Badass Janine Hathaway after me...

unless of course i had a sexy Russian Guardian to protect me....

yum. I just added Dimitri to my Christmas list, Right under Stark and above Edward Cullen3

Oh and BTW Janine and Abe are still winning the One-Shot poll!!