RPOV:
"Now if you will excuse me, I need to go deal with Thomas. Thank you for protecting Saffron." I said, turning on my heel and started walking away.
"Guardian Hathaway!" It was Jake. "Before you get Tom in trouble, can I give him a good punch?"
I thought about it, "Only if it's a good one." I turned back around and continued to walk away, Jake running after me.
Eventually Jake caught up to me. He was pretty fast, for a sixth grader. We walked in silence until we caught up to Lissa and Tom. Jack ran up to his friend and punched him in the face.
"Mr. Jefferson!" Lissa was appalled.
"Calm down Lissa, I gave him permission, I thought it would be good training." I said.
"In other words, you wanted to do it, but he wanted to, so you let him." Lissa said skeptically.
"Yep." I said popping the "p". She sighed in exasperation, but she was smiling.
"Whatever, Rose." She said, turning and leading Tom towards the infirmary.
"I have to say that was a pretty good punch. I need to go check up on Lord Ivashkov and his children." I said.
"You mean he isn't drunk and pulling a Michael Jackson?"
"You know must of the time I would yell at you for saying that, but since I know he gets drunk quite often, I wouldn't put it past him to dangle his child off a balcony." I said and took off.
"Auntie Rose!" Clarissa yelled running to hug me around my knees.
"Shhh!!!" Adrian came flying around the corner, "I just got Jade to sleep."
Sorry. I mouthed. "Hey, can I take Clarissa down to the lower campus? The have a jungle gym thing for her to play on," I asked in a whisper.
"Fine, but tell her to wear a coat." Adrian said walking back to where he had came from.
"Clarissa, go put your coat on. Then we'll go back to Aunt Rose's place so I can change."
"Okay!" She said, running into the other room. She came back in boots, gloves and a windbreaker.
"Okay let's go." I said.
We walked out the door and down the hall. Our suites were so big; there were only two on our floor. One was Lissa's family and the other was Christian's and mine. I quickly changed into dark skinny jeans that were loose around the waist and a purple maternity tank top.
W had barely gotten out of the guest building when my mother came running up to me and hugged me. That's right. Janine Hathaway just hugged me.
"Mom?" I was so confused.
"Rose! What the hell I see you at graduation and you hate Christian. Now I come here and see the Ozera ring on your finger. I also see this little girl, who looks like a moroi. Help me out here." She was just as confused as I was.
"Well, first of all, I'm going to be queen in January after I marry Christian. This is one of Lissa's daughters. Her name is Clarissa, her twin sister, Jade is upstairs with her father, Adrian Ivashkov." I said.
"Okay, but why are you fat?" She asked staring at my stomach.
"Well. In about six months you'll be a grandma to twins. One is a dhampir, the other is moroi." I said, waiting for the reaction that didn't come.
"Okay. Who is the father?" She asked cautiously.
"Christian." I said.
"Okay. As long as your not a blood whore. I don't give a care, go ahead, and give me twenty grandkids, as long as they all have the same father I don't care."
"Hi! I'm Clarissa!" Clarissa said, pulling on my mom's pant leg.
My mom bent down to meet her eye level, "Hi Clarissa, I'm Rose's mom."
"You should meet my mommy! She is really nice, but she is at work right now." Clarissa said happily, and then frowned.
"Don't worry honey, I'll be here for a few days, you can introduce me to her later." My mom said. I had never seen her as nice to anyone else.
"Hey mom, want to come to the playground with us." I asked.
"Sure." My mom said. Clarissa smiled and hugged my mom. My mom picked her up and brought her to the playground.
It was dark since it was daytime for vampires, but my mom and me were still able to make out the sight before us, and it was not pretty. There, standing on and around the playground, were around twenty strigoi. They smiled at us. Sure we were both known as two of the best guardians ever but, one was pregnant and the other was holding a child. My mother handed me Clarissa and took out her stake. She jumped into the battle. I set Clarissa down. I was too shocked. I watched as the strigoi fell one by one at my mother's hand.
Then one grabbed her. He was about to bite her but he suddenly lit up in flames.
I looked around, there were no fire users, and then I saw Clarissa. The toddler (well she looked like a toddler) was walking towards the Strigoi. She held one arm out in front of her, like she was making sure she didn't bump into anything. Her eyes were glazed over so they looked white and looked like they were glowing. She shifted her hand as the strigoi dropped, and the strigoi she was staring at lit up in flames.
My mom and I watched as Clarissa lit each strigoi on fire. Soon none remained, or so we thought. As soon as I thought that we were safe. I was grabbed from behind. I felt fang sink into me. As quickly as those fangs sunk into me, they disappeared. I heard a grunt. To my right, there were two strigois trying to kill each other. I didn't take long and soon the winner was evident. The loser was the one who tried to kill me.
I looked at my savior. He had shoulder-length brown hair and eyes that were the same color as his hair. He was so tall, probably seven feet or so.
"Roza." He said.
"Dimitri." I said, astounded.