I LOVED the amount of reviews that I got for the last chapter :) but let's keep up on the reviews okay? Because even I need a little ego boast ;) lol so here is Chapter 4, I hope you like it. I am really excited about this chapter. Also there are some BIG surprises with this chapter so be warned :). WARNING part of the reason that this story is rated M is in this chapter... PEACE!

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Haunted

Chapter 4

Rose/Dimitri

"Belikov here"

My breathing had stopped and I wanted to hang up the phone sooo bad, but my body was rejecting all logical decisions. 'Damn it hang up Rose' I thought, but I still couldn't tear the phone from my ear.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" he sounded annoyed

'HANG UP!' I screamed at myself

"I don't know who this is, but I don't have time for this, so either hang up or speak" he demanded

"Dimitri..." his name slipped out of my mouth before I could stop it.

"Rose... is that you?" my eyes went wide when he said my name... my heart cried a little and I was finally able to slam the phone down. With tears flowing down my face, I reached for the full bottle of whiskey under my bed and without a thought about how reckless my decision was I swallowed a huge gulp of it. It burned my throat going down but it didn't matter, I just drank more and more until the bottle was all but gone. I felt kind of floaty and detached... good, being detached is good. I couldn't feel the pain that would surely have been there, and I secretly wished that it could always be that way. No pain, No crying, NO DIMITRI.

More tears cascaded down my face and I was glad I couldn't feel the reason they were there. There was a knock at the door and I attempted to get up from my bed to answer it but when I stoop up my head got dizzy and I fell back down on my bed.

"Rose are you okay?" Dimitri! My head was screaming at me but my heart was beating out of my chest with joy. He came for me! He came back! I tried to get up once again and I succeeded on standing and walking wobbly to the door, but apparently I wasn't fast enough because next thing I knew the door was busted open and I fell to my knees in the middle of my room with my only love running towards me, yelling like crazy

"ROSE! What's wrong?" he leaned down to help me up.

"Hey comrade" I slurred

"Are you drunk?" he asked. His face had worry and anger warring with each other

I giggled "may just a little" I held my arms as wide as they went to show how much I had drunk. He shook his head and walked me back over to my bed then went back to the door. For a moment my heart clenched because I thought he was going to leave, but all he did was shut the door and turn around to look at me with those same two emotions warring with each other. Then he looked on the floor and it was obvious which emotion had won out.

"Did you drink this whole bottle?" he asked anger laced his words.

"Um, maybe..." I said evasively, I didn't like the look on his face; it kind of scared me... just a little.

"Why did you drink this?" he screamed at me then threw the bottle against the wall where it shattered.

I flinched "well I was upset and-"

"Has hanging out with Adrian influenced you this much?" he continued screaming at me like he didn't even hear me.

"NO" I protested "Adrian's been good, he hasn't even drank since I started dating him, this was all me" I tried to stand up to make my point more known but Dimitri just sat me back down.

"Why?" he asked softly

I couldn't take it anymore and the words I had been wanted to say for forever tumbled from my lips " because I couldn't handle the pain anymore, you were on my mind and this retarded song about calling someone when they were drunk came on, of course I hadn't started drinking but my feet still lead me to the phone and I dialed your number and I couldn't stop myself, once you said my name I hung up and then I remembered the whiskey under my bed. I started drinking and drinking and I didn't stop until the whole bottle was gone" by this point I was crying" and all I could think was that I was glad I was drunk because I couldn't feel the pain over you then and I couldn't cry, all I could do is lay there and think nothing, and feel nothing. IT'S ALL I WANT!" I was screaming by the end. I looked up at him in time to see an emotion flicker across his face before his ever famous guardian mask covered it.

"I think I should go get the princess, maybe she could help-"

"NO" I practically screamed "I mean... come on Comrade, stay, just for old time's sake" I joked. It was painful to act like I was fine with him being so close but he wasn't mine to touch, to laugh with.

His face hardened "I think I should go"

At a last resort I did what I swore I would never do "please" I whispered "please stay" my eyes filled with more tears

He looked so conflicted I almost took back my plea but eventually he nodded "we have to get you in bed" I was in mid nod when I threw up all over the floor and his shoes. He looked down disgusted

"That was... Gross, can you stand up enough to go clean yourself up? You know take a shower and that kind of stuff?" he asked while slipping off his soiled shoes. I debated saying no but I changed my mind, I had put him through enough.

I stood up and made it all the way to the bathroom door before I lost my footing and about bashed my head into the wall. Dimitri rushed over to me and picked me up bridal style.

"Maybe I SHOULD go get the princess; I can't have you killing yourself in the shower"

"No please don't go get anyone, I don't want anyone to find out about this" if Lissa found out she would be pissed because I got drunk and if Adrian found out he'd get pissed because I got drunk AND didn't call him.

"But you need a shower" he protested

"Please don't" I begged

He huffed "fine" he walked me to the bathroom. When we got into the bathroom he shuffled me to one arm so he could start the shower. He set me down on my feet and looked at me straight in the eye, I looked back but he was fuzzy which was kind of hilarious but I restrained myself from laughing.

"Are you sure you don't want me to get anyone else?" he asked. It seemed like there was a double meaning there but my mind couldn't wrap around it.

"Yes I don't want anyone else" I said quietly. I knew he had to undress me to get me in the shower, but I was still shocked when he started taking my shirt off.

"What are you doing?" I asked accusingly

"I have to undress you for a shower Rose" he said patiently. His voice sounded so far away.

"Oh okay" I said after awhile

"You still sure you don't want anyone else?"

"Yes I'm sure"

"Okay" he said as he started peeling my pants off me. I stood there shivering

"Can you get the rest?" he asked calmly

"Um yeah I think so" I said as I pulled my underwear off and started on my bra, but the damn thing wouldn't come off.

"I think I need help with this"

"Uh okay" he said before his hands quickly removed it. He picked me up gently and placed me in the steamy shower and started washing my hair. As he was rinsing it I got lost in the feel of his hands in my hair and I about toppled over, if it wasn't for Dimitri's swift hands I would've

"Whoa there, no falling allowed" he tried to joke. Probably to keep me awake. I just mumbled thanks. I was falling asleep fast and my body wouldn't hold up anymore and I began to sit down in the tub.

"Okay okay time to get out" he stated as he was turning off the water. He went to pick me up out of the shower but then he stopped and took off his shirt instead.

"What the hell?" even in my whiskey induced haze I was still turned on my Dimitri and his sexy abs, his sexy everything actually. And that did not bode well for Adrian.

"Well I don't want to get my shirt wet" he stated plainly

"Whatever" I mumbled

He chuckled. Actually CHUCKLED. All I could think was WTF?

"Never change Rose, you will never change" he said with a weird smirk on his face

"Nope" I smiled a gigantic smile, or what I hoped was one

He picked me up and stood me up on the floor while he got a towel and wrapped it around me.

"I'll be right back, I have to get you some clothes" I simply nodded then sat down on the tile floor. Dimitri had just given me a shower... I wasn't exactly sure I knew what to think about that. All I knew was that Adrian was SO not finding out about this.

Dimitri walked back in "why are you on the floor?" he voice was so far away I barely heard him

"I got tired" I mumbled

"Ah gotcha. Well here" he stood me back up then started dressing me

"Dimitri" I could barely get his name out my mouth

"Hm?" he was busy trying to get my pants on me

"Thank you" I whispered. He stopped what he was doing and looked at me, naked and trying to stay awake

"It's no problem. You would've killed yourself if I hadn't"

I wanted to ask him if that was the only reason he did it but the moment was so sweet and pure despite me being naked and drunk. So I just nodded and did my best to help him dress me. Afterwards he picked me up yet again and carried me to my bed and laid me down then covered me up tightly. He started to move away but I grabbed his hand and he looked back at me

"Thanks again Comrade, you really are my knight in shining armor" I could tell he wanted to say something but I had drifted to sweet drunken sleep before he could.

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Okay there you go Chapter four, now that you've read you can REVIEW :) by the way, you guys might like this Dimitri but I wouldn't get too comfortable with him this way I have a feeling it isn't going to stay ;) there's your hint for next chapter lol don't worry I'm a total Rose/Dimitri fan.