I was walking across the court heading back to Dimitri however I was barely half-way there when Dimitri came running towards me. I became worried Dimitri rarely ran unless there was an emergency. He stopped when he reached me and of course being the Russian God that he was had not a hair out of place, however his guardian mask was in place indicating that something was up.
" Dimitri what's wrong?" I said worried.
"I don't know but your father came to the room lookking for you, something about your mother being at the clinic…."
" What!" I yelled, " look I don't know just go see her okay, I don't think it's anything serious but your wanted regardless", I started to fume and as much as I tried to keep my mouth shut I failed " nothing serious, NOTHING FUCKING SERIOUS, my mother is at the clinic, she's never at the clinic and you tell me it's nothing serious?" Dimitri just looked at me with those brown eyes like melted chocolate and I instantly felt bad. Both of us knew that it was an effect of being shadow-kissed but I still felt bad, Dimitri had done nothing wrong and I took it out on him my frustration with Lissa and Adrian was just about enough, my mother being in the hospital just pushed me over the edge. Dimitri took my hand and we started walking towards the clinic. I looked up at him and started to speak " Dimitri, I'm" "Roza don't mention it, I know it's to do with being shadow-kissed, I guess things didn't go to well with Adrian?" By this stage we had reached the clinic. I sighyed "I'll tell you later". He just smiled and held my hand as we located my mother.
She sat up in her bed talking to Abe(my father) and an elderly nurse with a kind face. My mother looked fine. She had a few scratches and looked a bit pale but I saw no reason why she was being held here. "ah Rose nice of you to make it", "shut up old man, good to see you to. Now can somebody tell me why I have been brought here at this ungodly hour when there appears to be absolutely nothing wrong with my mother?"
"well Rose, you know the stirgoi attack that happened around 2 hours ago?". I sighed of course I knew, it had happened just outside the courts wards. I also knew my mother had been part of the group of guardians to counter the attack but I had no worries as I knew there had been no casualties. I wondered why my mother had felt the desire to bring it up. "yes mom, what about it?" , "well, emmm, you see.." "oh for heavens sake Janine, your mother passed out" he turned to her "now that wasn't hard to do was it?". I was in complete shock! Things like that never happened to Janine Hathaway, that's why is is like one of the best badass guardians out there (after Dimitri, of course). I kept my guardian mask in place not portraying any emotion as I asked " mom, why did you pass out?".
She looked at me with a face that looked slightly guilty. Abe I noticed had also tensed up beside me. I turned to Abe as I knew I'd get an answer out of him, " so old man who's going to tell me?". They looked at each other and my mother went crimson and muttered something, but I didn't catch it. Dimitri, however did and his face quickly turned to shock before his guardian mask was firmly back in place. " What was that mom, I didn't quite catch that?". If possible she blushed even more "I'm pregnant". Whoa! This was a complete surprise. I stood motionless, in total shock. Suddenly I became angry. Dimitri noticed my sudden change in temper and tried to calm me by putting his arms around me and murmuring my name, but I paid him no heed. I turned to my father " Yours?", he nodded in agreement. " what the hell were you thinking, you lecture me about safe sex but it's quite clear you don't practice what you preach. Hell I'm with a dhampir and you lecture me!". He seemed taken by surprise at my response, he hardly expected me to be jumping up and down with joy did he?. He was rightly mistaken if that was the case! I stood glaring at him, my mother was meanwhile starting to go red with anger now rather than with embarassment " Rose, you will not speak to your father like that!". I was to pissed off to listen to her "I'll speak to him as I bloody well wish too mother, I think everybody in the room knows that. It was true the nurse didn't personally know me but I had I reputation, which I was most certainly behaving to accordingly.
I stood glaring from one to the other, both of which looked like tomatoes, momentarily at a loss for words. That however was short lived as Adrian wandered in without a care in the world, "well little dhampir, something upset you?". I looked at him " What the fuck, Adrian?". "WELL, you see, as I was walking across court to go find Lissa I thought I heard your voiced and so I decided to follow it and this is where I arrived." He smirked, I was soooo pissed off it was not funny! "so how much did you hear?", " emmm, well, pretty much everything from your father lecturing you on safe sex". As if on cue both my parents went bright red again, if I was not so frustrated I would have found it hilarious, as it was Adrian was delighted with himself and Dimitri I noticed was also hiding a smile, I reasoned only respect for my mother kept it hidden. There was complete silence until Adrian being the ass and royal Morai he is decided tom break it "WOW, Rose Hathaway at a loss for words, I for one am shocked!". I turned and slapped him with pretty much all my strength and heard a satisfying crack, I then turned a stalked out of the room.
It was only a matter of seconds before Dimitri was by my side but I was not in the mood to talk. I pushed him away but he continued to follow me in silence. In the end he got fed up of my behaviour and tried to pick me up. I struggled silently against him. It was a good struggle but in the end I had to surrender as he carried me , over his shoulder, to the gym.
There he got out the boxing gloves and we started to spar. I was too frustrated to think straight until a well placed jab to my ribs shocked me out of my stupor and aware of my surroundings, another well placed kick to my chest forced me to fight back, it was obvious that Dimitri was not going to let me off easily. We stayed there sparring for what felt like hours. I knew Dimitri was starting to tire but he refused to stop as I had to much anger left in me. I heard Lissa calling me through the bond but I ignored her as I was shadow-kissed due to her element, spirit, which was the same as Adrian's. I just could not bare to think of how I had treated Adrian, but I couldn't feel guilty about it, I mean my temperament was all because of spirit, the more I thought about it the more frustrated in became. By this stage I was severely distracted. The next thing I knew I was on the ground, Dimitri was straddling me, giving out to me " Roza. What the hell? I'm starting to tire yet I can still take you down time and time again as if you've just started your training.". he looked at me with those brown eyes and I felt myself sigh, none of this was Dimitri's fault. I went to apologize but we were so rudely interrupted, by none other than my father!
He stopped in his tracks and once again began to blush. What the hell, I had never seen my father blush, now it was all he seemed to do. He looked from Dimitri to me to the way Dimitri had pinned me to the ground and back to Dimitri. He knew about our relationship and at this moment looked less than impressed with it but I reasoned two can play that game and couldn't resist running my hand under Dimitri's shirt along his perfect body back down to his trouser line. I was tempted to undo his belt but as it was Dimitri had began to blush. I decided to spare him any more embarrassment and just looked coldly at my father "what do you want, old man?" .
" Well firstly I'd be grateful if, well, you know, you'd get out of that awkward position". I smiled delighted that it effected him so much " nah I don't think I will, we have unfinished business once you leave, if I can wait that long that is". By this point in time Dimitri had his guardian mask back in place but I could tell he was uncomfortable all the same. Abe realised he was not going to get his way so he decided to keep his requests short and simple.
First I was to go talk to Lissa who was upset that I was ignoring her and that I had broken Adrian's jaw, which she of course had to heal and secondly I was to go talk to my mother. Unfortunately Dimitri sided with Abe but he also insisted I go talk to Adrian. God I hate it when other people are right. . . .. . .