Different Turn Of Events
Chapter 11

Dimitri
His head went back into the water for a third time and this time I held it under there for 1 minute although it must have felt like 1 hour for Jesse. I threw him to the floor and I heard him gasping for air and clutching his ribs. He's obviously got a broken rib or two as well which will make it even harder for him to breath. Not that I really cared.

"You go near her again and I swear I will kill you" I told him.

I heard the door to the room open with a click so I emerged from the bathroom to see Damian and Jesse's other guardian. They looked at me for a second and rushed into the bathroom. Damian was only in there for a second before he came back out "What the hell you playing at Belikov? You've damn near killed the kid!" Damian exclaimed at me looking nervous.

"He raped her… twice. No one was going to arrest him or put him in jail. Nothing was going to happen to him, he was going to get away with it. I made sure he won't ever do it again" I told him and Damian looked pissed. He was shaking his head in anger "You got a problem with that?" I asked him.

"You don't need to do all that to him, he's a kid" He told me.

"Rose didn't deserve to he raped… twice" I replied.

"No she didn't but you gotta admit Dimitri that you've gone too far. What do you want me to tell his parents tomorrow when they pick him up at the airport? What am I going to tell Mrs Zeklos happened to her baby boy?" He questioned.

"Why don't you tell her what her son really is" I stated "I gotta go" I added and left the hotel.

I started walking back to Rose's place and it only took a short while to get there. When I got to her front door I stood there for a minute, I wasn't sure if she wanted me here now. Before I went to see Jesse she pleaded with me not to leave and I did. I know I shouldn't have left her when she was so upset and in a state but Jesse needed to be taught a lesson. He can't go around thinking that because his name is Zeklos that he can get away with all of this. He's not invincible, his money and name will only get him so far. I know he won't tell his parents that it was me that did it to him because then he'd have to tell them what he did to deserve it. His family think the sun shines out of his ass.

After what seemed like forever I knocked on the door but I heard nothing inside. Rose might be scared to answer the door in case she thinks it's Jesse coming back "Rose, it's me" I said through the door and knocked again, this time I heard movement on the other side. The front door opened and Rose let me in straight away. I closed the door behind me and went into the living room and sat down on the sofa next door to her "Jesse won't bother you again" I told her.

She shook her head at me and sighed "I don't care about Jesse being brought to justice or anything like that" She stated "I sat here and pleaded with you not to leave me. I didn't want to be sitting her on my own thinking about what he did to me and I can still feel his hands all over me. I needed you here with me and you just left. I had to sit here on my own for over an hour and you just left" She explained to me and she started crying.

"Roza I'm so sorry but I thought you would feel better knowing he wouldn't bother you again" I said.

"You left me" She repeated.

"I know and I am so sorry you feel abandoned. You know I would never abandon you. I am always here for you and I would do anything for you, I was just trying to give you some sort of justice. I thought it might make you feel a bit safer" I told her.

"I would have felt safer with you here" She replied.

Rose
Dimitri was always the one person that I could count on for anything. I know he would do anything and everything for me but I can't believe he left me. I know it sounds silly but I really needed him here with me and he just left after I pleaded with him because he wanted to settle the scores. I'm sure Dimitri beat the crap out of him and I'm sure I'll never hear from Jesse again but I would have preferred to have Dimitri here so he could be with me and make me feel better. I was sitting on my own for over an hour going over everything in my head, I couldn't even go into my bedroom to get changed or a towel so I could have a shower. I'm still sitting here in the same clothes Jesse pried off my body.

For once in my life I don't want to be the tough one. I want to be the one that needs looking after, maybe Dimitri isn't the sort of guy who knows how to deal with that or maybe he just didn't realise how much I really needed him but… I can't believe he left even though I pleaded with him. I never thought Dimitri would walk out on me when he needed me. I can't really be mad at Dimitri though, I can't expect him to know what to do in this situation. It's not something that he deals with every day.

"I er… I called Gabriel and told her to find someone to cover me due to an emergency. I didn't tell her what happened and she's not happy but she'll get someone to cover and I told her to call me if there are any problems. Lissa will be fine" He explained to me.

"I'm glad she'll be ok" I replied.

"Can I get you anything?" He asked.

"Actually… could you get me a towel out of my room please? I want to take a shower but I can't bring myself to go in there to get it" I told him "Can you get me some pjs too?" I asked.

"Of course" He answered. He placed a soft kiss on the top of my head before going into the bedroom, he closed the door over so I couldn't see inside and I could hear him rummaging around for a couple minutes and then he came out with everything I needed "Anything else?" He asked.

"No. I'm just going to take a shower" I told him "You can make yourself some food or something if you want. I shouldn't be too long" I said.

I wasn't in the shower long, ten minutes max, when I got out I dried myself off and put my pjs on. Trust Dimitri to get my ugly comfort pjs out for me. It was a long sleeved top and fluffy bottoms, both had pictures of ducks on them. Lissa gave me them a couple years ago for Christmas, she has a pair too. We got them so we could wear them when we were going through heartbreak or having a bad night. It was a good idea and what better night to wear them then tonight.

I used the hairdryer in my moms room and used her moisturiser so I didn't have to get my own and once I was dried and a little bit more relaxed I went back into the living room to see Dimitri sitting on the sofa. There was a bowl of water in front of him and some cotton wool, he was cleaning wounds on his knuckles. I'm assuming he got them from beating up Jesse.

"Does it hurt?" I questioned.

He looked up at me and smiled softly "I've had worse" He replied and went back to cleaning them. I sat down beside him and took his hand. It was so heavy compared to mine. I took the cotton wool off him and started cleaning his knuckles myself, he did end up like this because of me after all.

"Thank you for what you did. I know you were doing this to help me and I appreciate it" I said and smiled at him.

Dimitri really is my knight in shining armour. I know it must have taken a lot for him to go and do whatever it was he did to Jesse, his whole life is shaped around protecting Moroi and I know whatever he did to Jesse… it definitely wasn't to protect him. Dimitri went against his own principles to help me and make me feel safer. I have him a hard time before and I shouldn't of but when he left I was scared Jesse would come back and hurt me again. I don't think I could go through this a third time, this time is hard enough. It's going to take me a lot for me to get over this.

"I love you" Dimitri commented.

"I love you too" I replied.

Dimitri kissed the top of my head as I cleaned his cracked and bleeding knuckles. I know that with Dimitri's help and support and my moms when she's home, I'll be ok. They will help get back to my normal self and Dimitri was right, I do feel a little better knowing Jesse won't come after me again. He'll be too scared Dimitri will kill him or something, not that the world will be at a total loss without him.