Hello again

Here is the updated version of the chapter that is beta read.

Also i made it longer. There is more story at the bottom where my other chapter left off.

Hope you like it.

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R&R

~Az

Adrian's POV

Adrian and Rose both decided that there were only a few select people that they needed to tell about this: Lissa who already knew, Christian because of Lissa, Dr. Olenski, Alberta, Rose's mom (that was going to be a tough one), Adrian's parents (going to be an even tougher one), and Tatiana (maybe the hardest). There were so many issues coming with Rose getting pregnant at that time. They were going to get a lot of shit for this, especially since Rose was still in school. He already had a bad reputation; he wasn't stupid, it was Rose he was worried about. Slut and blood whore would be the best that she heard. He knew that Rose could handle it, but as for anyone who said it to her face, they might not come out in one piece.

He sighed. He was at the royal Moroi court to tell his parents and Tatiana. Much to his disliking Rose had to stay at the academy because she has class.

"The queen will see you now," the receptionist told him sweetly. Her name was Gemma. She was only two years older than him. Before he met Rose he had made a pass at her, but that was in the past.

He walked through the big wooded doors into Tatiana's throne room. She was standing in the middle of the room waiting for him. She had a cold, heartless expression plastered on her face. She wasn't in a good mood. This was going to be rough.

"Hello, Aunt," he greeted.

"Hello, Adrian. I can tell this isn't purely social. What do you need now? Money?" she asked, annoyed.

Oh boy. She is going to be pissed. I hope she doesn't murder me. "Rose is pregnant."

She looked amused. "I am surprised that blood whore didn't get pregnant sooner. Is it a Zeklos? That would be surprising."

He was completely outraged. It was hard for him to keep his tone down to a reasonable level. "It is mine! I love Rose, Aunt. You can accept that or not, but I love her."

Shock crossed her face before the mask of indifference quickly covered it once again. "I forbid you to be with her. You can't be in this child's life. It will just ruin the reputation of our family. Do you want that Adrian? Is that how you want to be seen?"

"I really don't care. No one is going to look down on you. I love Rose whether you like it or not and I am not just going to walk out on this baby's life. It needs me. Rose can't take care of it on her own. I am going to be responsible for once and own up to my actions." He was yelling now. He hadn't realized until now how much of a bitch his aunt really was. Before he had been too drunk to notice, but now, when he was actually doing something with his life and was sober, he saw her cold heartlessness.

"Adrian, I have important matters to attend to, but this conversation is not over," she said, suddenly calm. With that she walked out the back door.

Adrian sighed and walked back out the big wooden doors. He could tell from the look on Gemma's face that she had heard the whole thing and probably most of court. He really didn't care; it was Tatiana's reputation on the line, not his. His was already set. He continued to ignore the stares as he made his way across court. He only stopped briefly for a smoke.

"Who does she think she is?" he muttered to himself. "Telling me to abandon my child and its mother. What type of man does she think I am? I am not that heartless."

He took one last drag of his cigarette before dropping it on the ground. He received angry glares from Guardians and other Royal Moroi but he didn't care. They had no idea what was going on in his life. If there was anyone who particularly annoyed him, though, he passed them with a single flip of his middle finger. Eventually he made it to his destination, the runway. The plane was sitting there waiting for him.

He walked on.

"Prince Ivashkov," addressed the pilot.

"Take me back to the academy," he ordered the pilot. He continued to the back of the plane and sat down in one of the big white chairs in the back.

The pilot followed him. "We weren't expecting you yet, Prince Ivashkov. We have not received orders yet from the queen—"

"The queen has no business with me," Adrian interrupted. "Now take me back to the academy."

"Yes Prince Ivashkov," the pilot said in defeat. The sad truth was that the pilot had to do what Adrian told him to. Adrian normally didn't treat people that way, but now he was just in a bad mood and wanted to get back to Rose. That was all that he cared about.

He settled in to his seat for takeoff. Adrian closed his eyes. He, heights, and planes never really got along. Once they reached cruising altitude he ordered the best bottle of wine that the plane had. Again, even though he was underage they had to serve him. He downed the bottle in five minutes. Not even a minute later he passed out for the rest of the flight.

He didn't wake up until the plane touched down on the tarmac at the academy. No one was there waiting for him. His heart fell slightly, and he realized he hadn't told anyone when he was going to be back. He suddenly felt sad and alone. The massive headache he had didn't help either.

He trudged across campus to the guest apartments, through the Ivashkov wing, and into his room. He walked over to one of the cabinets in the kitchenette and pulled out a bottle of expensive vodka. He plopped down onto the couch, taking the cap off and throwing it across the room. Instead of chugging it down like the wine on the plane, he took small gulps, taking his time. He wanted this one to last.

He lost track of time. Before he knew it the door was being opened and in walked Rose. She sat down on the couch next to him, gently prying the bottle out of his hands.

"Hey," she murmured softly. "Lissa told me you were back. I just wanted to check on you."

"Ho-ho-how did she know I was back?" he slurred.

"She is a spirit user, Adrian, remember? She could sense you."

"Ah, yeah. Spirit goddamn. This drives me crazy spirit. Oops." He laughed drunkenly, realizing his mistake in the order of his words.

Rose sighed. "Adrian, you need to stop drinking. You know it isn't good for you. I need you sober."

Rose's words seemed to start to get through Adrian's thick head. "Oh yeah. Shit. You're having my baby. I told Tatiana and she threatened me? Can you believe it?" He paused.

"Hell yeah, I can," she muttered under her breath. Adrian didn't seem to notice.

He continued. "She told me that I wasn't allowed to have a part in my baby's life. She 'forbid' me," he made quotation symbols in the air with his fingers, "I am not that much of an ass hole. I love this baby and I am happy. I love Rose and her baby. Shhhhhh. It is a secret; make sure you don't tell Rose. If she knew I was happy and loved her she would be made at me." He giggled.

"Come on," Rose lifted him off of the couch, "let's get you into bed."

He stumbled and fell into her arms. She caught him before he hit the floor. She dragged him across the room and into the bedroom. She all but threw him onto the bed, and he passed out before his head hit the pillow.

Tatiana's POV

"Shit," she muttered to herself. She walked back into the throne room and Adrian was gone. She walked out the big wooden doors that were meant for common royal moroi, not the queen. It almost disgusted her to have to walk through the doors but she had to talk to her secretary. Gretchen was her name? She really didn't know, but she was the queen. She wasn't bothered by remembering simple people's names. When she came through the doors Gretchen's head snapped up in surprise. She obviously wasn't used to being so close to royalty. She laughed to herself at Gretchen's speechlessness.

"Gretchen. Tell me where Adrian went," she ordered.

"Uh-uh-uh," Gretchen stuttered, pausing monetarily to check her computer, "he left about an hour ago on the jet and went back to the academy. And my name is Gemma, not Gretchen, your highness."

How dare this Gemma girl think of correcting me? I will call her what I want to call her. Anyways, I don't have time to be bothered with her; I need to deal with this Hathaway girl. I will not let her or her bastard child be allowed anywhere near Adrian. They will only ruin Adrian and any chance that he has in succeeding in our society. He needs to marry a proper royal lady and have legitimate kids to care on his name. Not a child with a girl still in high school, let alone a damphir.

Tatiana sighed to herself and stalked back through the big wooden doors, through the throne room, and out the royal monarch door. Her heels clicked on the marble floor as she walked down the long hallway with the past monarchs' portraits lining the walls, and into her chambers. She immediately took the portable phone off of the jack and called the council room.

One of the council members, Peter Badica, answered her call. "Hello?"

"Peter."

"Oh, your highness," he rushed. "How can I help you this fine afternoon?"

Always the suck up.

"I want to call an emergency counsel meeting for tomorrow morning," she ordered.

"Of course."

She hung up the phone. Rose cannot be allowed to be a guardian!

Dimitri's POV

He could feel it, something trying to reach him. Was he finally being woken up? No, what he found was much worse than that. What he got was Adrian.

"What are YOU doing here?" Dimitri spat. Out of all of the people it had to be Adrian. His mind was obviously working over time if this was the hallucination that it came up with.

"Hmmm. So you aren't dead," Adrian muttered.

"No shit. I don't need my subconscious to tell me that."

"Wait. You think I am a projection of your subconscious?" Adrian laughed. Dimitri ground his teeth. "It is called dream walking. Surely Rose told you that I could do that?"

At the mention of Rose Dimitri's heart momentarily stopped. "So you are telling me that I am merely sleeping and you are in my dream? If you can control the dream why can't you put us in a place that is a little less dark and depressing."

"Because I am with you but you aren't exactly dreaming. You are in a suspended unconscious state, unable to wake up. For that reason I have no control over anything other than me being here."

Dimitri only took what felt like a minute to take this all in before his thoughts snapped back to Rose, his Roza. "What about Rose? How is she? Is she okay?"

"She is okay, so to speak." Adrian seemed to be choosing his words carefully. "Still mourning you though she doesn't believe that you are dead."

"What do you mean by 'so to speak'?" he asked, his voice rose slightly.

"Well let's just say you may find her with a little addition when you see her again. If you see her again." A smile tugged at Adrian's lips.

Dimitri ignored the 'if you see her again' comment for now. "What type of addition?"

Rose POV

Dear Adrian,

Gone out to the gym to let off some steam. Ill tell you later how you got here. Here is some advil. You are gonna have a killer head ache.

Love, Rose.

She left the note on the pillow on the other side of the bed. Adrian wouldn't but lucid for another few hours. She quietly locked the door behind her and walked out. She needed to left off some steam. Adrian not allowed to be around his child! What a bitch! Tatiana is just lucky that she is no where close to here. Rose was fuming. She walked across campus at record speed towards the gym.

When she got there she went strait into the locker room and got changed. When she got out the gym was empty. She immediately put on her gloves and went over to a punching bag. She felt bad. Out of everyone at St. Vlads she cost the most money just from destroying gym equipment. Not that she really felt that bad. It was her mother Janine's fault. She dumped Rose here and never looked back. Rose beat the punching bag to a pulp and moved on to the next one. She was in the middle of giving the second the same treatment as the first when someone violently pulled her away form the bag and threw her onto the floor.

Rose immediately got up and prepared to fight anything that came her way.

"Oh give it a rest Rose." the attacker said, "Enough with the theatrics. I am surprised you are here and not in bed with that moroi kid. What's his name again? Andrew?"

"What the hell are you doing mom? His name is Adrian and what the hell was that all about? You thought i would be in bed with him? What the fuck is going on?" Rose yelled. This was not how she had expected her trip to the gym to go. Well, fighting her mom is just as good if not better then the bags or dummies.

"Well i would only assume. It is his child you are pregnant with right?" Janine sneered.

All color drained from Rose's face. There was no way that this was happening. How could she have found out? The only people that knew were Adrian and Tatiana. Then it dawned on her. Of course, Tatiana told her. She wouldn't have expected any less.

"The a few hours ago i got an email congratulating me on becoming a grandmother from the queen. Why is it that the queen knew about this before i did?"

Then Rose saw it. It wasn't that Janine was angry that Rose was pregnant (well she was but not completely) it was that she was mad that the queen found out before she did. Not that she would admit it but Janine was upset that she wasn't the first to know.

Rose let out a hysterical laugh. "That is really what this is about, the fact that Queen Bitch found out before you did?"

Her mother just gave her an angry scowl.

Rose softened her tone a bit. "Mom, Tatiana only found out today and it was because Adrian told her. I Didn't want him to. Tatiana told Adrian that he wasn't allowed to be a part of our child's life. Adrian told her wouldn't do that and left and came back here. I was going to tell you but Queen Bitch beat me to it."

"How can you be pregnant Rose? How did you let this happen?" The anger was gone from her voice and the anger on her face was replaced with sorrow.

Her mom's attempt to shame Rose did not effect her, "I was depressed mom! I had nothing. It was stupid and rash and i regret it. It was one time. We were both grieving. If i could undo my actions i would but i can't. There is no going back now. You can accept that and be a part of your grandchild's life our you can leave and expect never to hear from me again. Your choice."

"Rose i would never walk away. I just can't believe you let this happen. I didn't want you to end up like me. I wanted you grow up and become Lissa's guardian and now that is jeopardized. I just wante-"

Janine was interrupted by Albert running into the gym. "Guardian Hathaway, Rose. We have to hurry! There has been another attack on the school!"

Rose and Janine both went into guardian mode forgetting the conversation that they were in the middle of completely.

"What? Where?" Her mom yelled over the warning bells.

"The wards were breached over by the guest housing."

That was all it took. Rose grabbed a stake and ran out of the back door of the gym towards the guest housing. Adrenaline was pumping through her vanes so she made it there in two minutes flat. When she got there there were already strigoi inside. She ran up into the Ivashkov wing and kicked down the door.

"Adrian!"

"If you want lover-boy here to live i suggest that you come with us quietly. We are only here for you. No one else will be harmed." A strigoi growled. Rose's heart dropped. He was holding Adrian by the throat about to jump out the window. This could not be happening. This wasn't going to turn out well for either of them. One f them is going to die tonight. He didn't leave her any choice.

"I will go with you as long as you promise not to hurt him or anybody else."

"Rose no!" Adrian screamed, "you are more important. Keep our baby safe!"

"Ah. Little Rosie here is pregnant. I will have to keep that in mind. Now back to the point. No one will be hurt if you just come with me. I promise."

"Ok i will go with you."

What did of the addition? I just needed to add a little more. I wonder where they are going to take her? Guess what? I don't know. If you have any ideas of where they should take her and what should happen next please tell me. R&R!