A/N: August 8, 2011
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Previously On: Who Said A Lot Couldn't Happen? –
– Eddie's Point Of View –
"He hurt her to the point that she barely trusts us – even if she considers us family before and now. So don't mention it at all when you're around him, and if you have to don't, -in any way – tell him that it's his kid." Christian concluded.
I was about to say something else, when there was a knock on the door. I got up and opened it to reveal a very shocked and unbelieving looking Dimitri. I was confused as to why his face was colored with shock and disbelief… till realization set in.
"How much did you hear, Belikov?" I demanded in a no nonsense voice.
"Most of it. Especially that last bit. What Christian just said." He said, anger lacing in his voice.
– Eddie's Point Of View –
His eyes were filled with shock, hurt, longing, and disbelief. But mostly anger – even his face was clouded with nothing but rage. "Why!" He yelled – so loud I'm sure you could hear him on the other side of campus. "Why would she keep something like this from me! Tell me!"
Quicker than I had ever thought possible, Dimitri grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, and slammed me up against the wall in the hallway, making me hit my head pretty hard. Never in all the time that I have known Dimitri Belikov have I seen him loose his control like this. He looked intimidating even when he was relaxed, but now? While he was doing this - and knowing what he was capable of?
I was afraid.
But I didn't let it show.
I wasn't going to let him scare me like this.
I stared him in the eye with a defiant glare and hate filled look – a look too filled with those emotions to show any of the fear I was feeling. It was a look that I would only normally use to scare the shit out of someone who had pissed me off. And right now? He's pissed me off. He pissed me off for eavesdropping on a private conversation. But what really pissed me off? Was the fact that he thinks he has that right to be angry at Rose for not telling him something like this – when he was the one who left! That's what really pissed me off.
By this point everyone had come out of Lissa's apartment to see what was going on.
While still in Dimitri's grip and pinned to the wall I couldn't help but remember that conversation that Rose and I had a little while ago – just after she told us all what had happened between her and Dimitri, and that she was pregnant with his child.
**VA**
It had been the day after she told the other Guardians and staff and she refused to come out of her room no matter who tried to coax her out – even Lissa couldn't get her out of there. We knew that she needed time to think and time alone, so I told her that I would bring her meals and would be there if she need someone to talk to – that and I didn't want her too alone so she didn't do 'anything' if you catch my drift. So for the next two and a half days I became her Guardian. Staying and watching over her – guarding her from herself. Then when the third day was half over she turned from looking out her window to looking at me.
Her expression broke me.
You could see what he had done to her. How it broke her, no not broke, shattered her. Shattered beyond your wildest dreams. Her expression was that of someone who could barely find a reason to live anymore – to exist anymore. This was not only clear in her face and the way she held her body, but also in the dullness of her eyes. Her once beautiful and lively dark brown eyes were now shattered relics of what they used to be.
I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand seeing her in pain.
I quickly got up from where I was sitting and crossed the room to where she sat on her bed by the window. Sitting on her bed with her, I took her in my arms and crushed her to my chest. I could feel her shaking and felt the tears wet and ruin my shirt as she cried – but I didn't care if she ruined my shirt. I just held her – held her until she got everything out. Telling her over and over that 'it was going to be okay' and 'that I was there for her and that I was never going to leave her'. Soon after she started to quiet down as her sobs slowed and she fell asleep.
Carefully, I laid her down on her bed and covered her with the blanket that was crumpled up and falling off at the foot of her bed. Before I got up to resume my seat from before I pressed a small kiss to her forehead. But when I went to leave her to sleep without being gawked at, she grabbed my arm. When I looked at her face I saw she was awake – awake enough to think I was leaving perhaps.
In that moment I heard Mason's words… and the promise that he asked me to make for him.
"I want you to look after Rose for me. No matter the problem I want you to look after her and be there for her when she needs you the most. Please."
Now thinking back on it, it almost sounded as if he knew this was going to happen to her.
I knelt down beside the bed. "I'm not leaving. I was just going to go sit in the chair I was sitting in before. That's all." I reassured her, taking her hand in mine and pointing to the chair beside the nightstand.
"Stay here with me – here with me on the bed. Please, Eddie?" She asked in a sad heartbroken whisper, pleading me with her eyes not to leave her. She reminded me of a lost, scared young child. Not the young woman I knew who was strong and determined, carefree and loving, smartass and sarcastic, lovable and loved. Who was hot-headed and stubborn, brave and loyal in more in than one way; who was a Badass Novice – no, not a Badass Novice – a Badass Guardian, that's who Rosemarie Hathaway was supposed to be. And that's who we would help her to become again. The Rosemarie Hathaway who I've known since kindergarten, who used to beat up anyone – mostly Jessie Zeklos and Ralf Sarcozy – if they dared to pick on the other kids.
But those words were the first things she said in two days – almost three.
"Alright. I'll stay." I said before taking off my shoes and lying down next to her on the bed.
There was nothing romantic about it. Don't get me wrong, I do love her – but as a sister, nothing more. She is my best friend, someone I'd lay my life down on the line to protect and keep safe. Not just because of the promise I made to Mason but because of how I feel towards her. The same would also go for Christian and Lissa, Mia – who after the Spokane incident I became close to before she went to the Royal Court – and Adrian and all the other people I care for.
I was brought out of my thoughts when Rose looked up at me and spoke to me again.
"Eddie?" She said, still in that sad heart breaking whisper.
"Yeah, Rose?"
"Why did D-d-d…he (Italic) have to leave…?" She managed to choke out the question before the tears came again.
I grabbed her and hugged to my side again, comforting her until she was able to go on. When she was ready to go on she still had unshed tears in her eyes. Slowly, I wiped the unshed tears away.
"I don't know. But when he did he lost out. He lost out on the most beautiful girl ever and let's not forget your child." I said, while laying the hand I used to wipe her tears away on her stomach. "He lost out on getting to see him or her grow in you, and to see him or her grow up after they are born." I turned my head so that our eyes met. "But if he does come back – either before or after the baby is born – I swear I will keep it a secret from him as long as I think it should be kept from him and or until you tell him yourself. The others feel the same as me – and by that I mean every one of the Guardians and staff members along with Lissa and Christian, and Adrian and your parents, and Alberta and Kirova. Okay?" I asked her.
As she buried her head in my side, Rose nodded in agreement. I felt fresh tears stain my shirt before she mumbled. "Thank you so much, Eddie." It was the last thing she said before she fell asleep.
**VA**
Coming back to the present, only a few seconds had passed.
"Answer Me, Castile!" Dimitri yelled, before he pulled, my body away from the wall – only to slam me against it once more to emphasize his anger.
"I don't have to say anything. For one, it isn't my place to – that belongs to Rose and Rose alone. And for another, I don't care what you do to me but you will have to get through me to get to her–" I started to answer but was interrupted by Christian.
"And me. Not to mention I'm sure Lissa, Adrian, and Mia feel the same." Christian said, and out of the corner of my right eye I could see everyone nodding in agreement.
"I want you to look after Rose for me. No matter the problem I want you to look after her and be there for her when she needs you the most. Please."
I heard Mason's promise run through my mind once again.
As we'd spoken, Dimitri had lowered me slightly. It was probably unintentional – a side effect of the shock our words had had, but it was enough for me to put my plan into action. "You also have no right to-" I continued as I brought my arms up slowly and shifted my weight to my left a little, getting ready to bring my right leg out to kick his legs out from under him – all the while hoping that he didn't feel the difference in my posture. A movement out of the corner of my eye caught my attention - I saw Lissa had moved from standing beside Christian by their apartment door to standing behind and to the right of Dimitri. She nodded her head towards Dimitri, as if telling me that she will take care of him somehow. "-demand answers from us, when you have yet to give any to us."
With that I made my move.
– Rose's Point Of View –
Once I arrived in my room, I set the tray of food on the table in my little kitchenette. The Guardian Dorms are like little apartments made for a single Guardian to live in. They have everything that basically comes in an apartment – even a little living room area with a nice TV.
Ever since I became a Guardian and moved into the dorms, I have not once watched the TV. I know what you're thinking. Rose Hathaway not watch TV? Ha! Yeah, right, that's laughable…?
Yeah, well, I've been too busy to watch it or to even turn it on. Doing what? You might ask.
Moping, that's what.
Moping about being abandoned by the person who said and made me think that they loved me more than life itself. Not to mention said person left me with words I'll never forget.
Words that haunt me to this day.
Once I finished eating I glanced at my alarm clock that was by my calendar. That's when I noticed that there was something written on today's date. Oh! Shit! My Appointment at the clinic with Dr. Olendzki that is in 20 minutes! After grabbing my tray, my radio I forgot to grab this morning, keys and phone I ran out of my room – barely stopping to lock up – and took off to go get the gang while putting in my ear piece and switching my end of the radio onto silent. I tried to check the bond quickly to find Liss and the others, but I found that she was blocking me.
Something was going on that she didn't want me to find out about.
After dropping the tray off at the dining hall, I decided that I was going to go and find out what she was hiding from me. First stop? Her apartment.
Once I arrived at the Dragomir building, I entered the code on the key pad to enter the building and made a beeline for Lissa and Christian's apartment. When I got there the sight in front of me made me stop dead in my tracks.
Christian and Adrian were holding up and dragging an unconscious looking Dimitri towards the wall. Eddie and Lissa were looking smug. Mia was just standing there wide-eyed with her mouth hanging open – as if she didn't know what to do. And no one had noticed me standing there frozen, yet.
After composing myself, I made my presence known.
"What the fuck is going on here!" I screeched, causing everyone's heads to snap up in my direction. Their expressions appeared shocked to see me standing there. Shaking my head I backed slowly away from the others. Back in the direction I came from.
"Rose! Please! Let me explain!" Eddie started, begging me to stay and listen with his hand reaching out towards me. As if to stop me from leaving – which is exactly what I did. I turned around and tore out of there.
I couldn't believe what they did.
"Rose! Please! Listen t–" I cut Lissa off by blocking the bond.
When I arrived at the clinic I was out of breath. I stopped by the doors to the clinic and leaned against the wall to compose myself before going in. When I finally got inside I noticed I was just in time for my appointment.
"Rose!" I heard a voice call. Looking to my left I saw Dr. Marie Olendzki watching at me with concern. "Are you alright? You look like you've seen a ghost."
"Yeah. I thought I was going to be late for my appointment, that's all." I lied. And by the look on her face she didn't believe me but she didn't press me for details either.
"Oh, okay." She answered in a disbelieving tone, before changing the subject. "Well if you just come this way, we can get started. Are the Princess and Guardian Castile coming?"
"No. Not this time." I answered her. This time it was the truth.
"Okay. Well come on." She turned and started walking towards the room. While following her, I took my phone out to see I have five texts. Two from Eddie and three from Lissa. I deleted them without even reading them and switched my phone off.
Once she took care of the normal stuff like weight and mandatory questions, I laid down on the bed while she started up the ultrasound machine. After typing in the necessary things, she turned back to me. "Okay, Rose. Please pull your shirt up to just above your stomach. This is going to be cold." She warned me before rubbing on the gel that was needed for the ultrasound to work, once my shirt was out of the way.
I couldn't help but gasp as the ice-cold gel hit my skin. "That's freezing!"
"Yes, I know. I'm sorry. But at least I warned you." She chuckled as she smeared it around so that it covered my abdomen, before placing the wand thing on my stomach and looking at the screen. "Well… isn't this interesting."
I couldn't help but think something was wrong and started to panic. "Is something wrong?" I asked. I had to know.
"No." She answered. "Quite the opposite. Look." She turned the screen towards me and pointed. "There is your baby," she paused, "and there is your other baby." Turning towards me, she had a big smile. "You're having twins, Rose. No wonder you're showing a little more than you should at this stage."
I was barely paying attention to what she was saying because I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Where I could see the grainy image of two little sea monkey like things that are my babies. I didn't know I was crying till she handed me a tissue. I, Rose Hathaway, was rendered speechless for what seemed like an eternity.
"Do you have any questions?" She asked as she printed of some copies of the ultrasound.
"Can you tell what they are yet, Dr. Olendzki? If they are boys or girls or one of each?" I asked.
"Not yet. But in a few weeks we will be able to. Here. And quit calling me Dr. Olendzki – it's Marie now that you are a Guardian. I told you that last time you were in here; and the time before that, too." She said while handing me the pictures and some paper towels to wipe my stomach off with. I took the pictures and stared at them. I couldn't believe that I was not only having one baby, but two. My little ones. I smiled at that thought and couldn't stop smiling at it as I walked up to the desk to make my next appointment.
"I take it by that smile, that there was good news?" Bella, the nurse of was at the desk. She was a Moroi with light blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair. She's was in her mid-twenties and married to one of the Guardians on campus. Unlike most Moroi, she doesn't care what people think. She has great respect for us Guardians and Dhampirs alike.
"Yeah, you can say that." As I showed her the pictures. "There's one," pointing to the picture, "and there's two. Twins." That made me smile even more.
"Wow." She said looking back up at me and handing the picture back. "Congratulations!" With that we made the next appointment and I left.
As soon as I stepped outside, I heard my name being called. Looking up and to the left towards where the area where the gym was, I saw Eddie and Lissa running towards me and they looked relieved that found me.
As they reached me, I glared at them. "What?" I snapped.
"He knows!" They shouted at me.
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