Sorry it's taken so long. I had finals to worry about, but I no longer do.
I'm completely finished, Yea!

And sorry if there's mistakes, and sorry if you don't completely like it,
I've still got writers block. But the next chapter after this one is a little better.

R&R

Getting Sick

At about six-thirty we stopped and got a hotel, with Adrian's help, or money, so we could all sleep without the sun messing with some us, the Moroi. I didn't really mind stopping though. I really needed a bed. After sleeping in the car, my back and neck were killing me. But what I really needed was a long, hot bath.

Dimitri and I ended up getting in our own room together, what with all the money Adrian has, and he let me take a shower, or a bath in my case tonight, first. But since Dimitri was waiting for a shower too, I didn't take as long as I would have liked.

When I got out, Dimitri was lying on the end of the bed, with his feet hanging off, sleeping peacefully. I hand dried my hair a bit, and put my towel on the back of the bathroom door before heading to bed. But since Dimitri was right square in the middle of the only bed, I slowly crept on the bed and to his head. I put my cold hands to his cheeks, waking him up instantly as he started to jump up. But right when his eyes met mine, he laid back down and smiled, closing his eyes again. I kissed his forehead, then his noses, and finally his soft lips. He brought his hands up to my wet hair and pushed me harder down to him, mushing our lips together. I pushed away from him with a huge smile on my face.

"It's your turn in the shower sleepy head," I whispered even though we were alone in the room.

"I know," he whispered back. "I'll get in in a second or so. I just don't feel like getting up quite yet."

"Lazy." I kissed him again and then leaned back on a pillow.

"And you're not?"

"I have an excuse," I said, waving a hand at my stomach. "I'm pregnant. I'm not supposed to do a lot. Well other than rest." He got and crawled to me, lifting my shirt a little and kissed my stomach.

"I know," was all he said before he got off the bed and started walking to the restroom, slowly striping as he went along.

By the time he got all the way to the restroom, he was stark naked. "Nice ass, comrade!" I said aloud. He just shock his ass before closing the door, leaving me laughing as I heard the water come on.

We were on they rode a little after eight in the afternoon, which is out morning. I grabbed my big bag of Chex mix and jumped back in the passenger seat. Just as I was closing the door, Dimitri opened it all the way, telling me to get in the back seat. I tried to argue, but he smiled and shook his head, completely confusing me. He pointed behind me, and as I looked, I saw one of the other guardians, which I learned that his name was Joey, in the driver seat. So I got out and hopped in the back seat as another guardian took the passenger seat and Dimitri slid in beside me, making us alone in the back seat and Adrian and Christian in the seats in front of us.

I snacked on my Chex mix for over an hour, listening to some really old, boring country music which made my ears want to bleed. Dimitri kept chuckling at me any time I acted like I was dying. And any time he stole some of my Chex mix, I hit his hand, which me him laugh some more. We kept getting rude looks from Adrian and Christian if we laughed to hard, which made us laugh more as I mimicked them.

At eleven o'clock, we stopped for gas, which made me extremely happy, 'cause I really had to use the restroom, one of the things I hate about pregnancy. As I went to restroom, I felt like I was going to be sick. And as I was washing my hands, I did get sick. The stupid pregnancy. I blamed on getting sick on about how bad the restrooms stunk, gas stations never know how to clean right. And as I started getting back in the car, I felt sick again. I ran back inside, passing Dimitri as I went. He gave me a worried look, but I didn't have time to stop. I pushed the door open and headed straight to the toilet. Dimitri was right behind me, holding my hair.

"Aww, Rose. I'm so sorry," Dimitri kept saying.

"It's not your fault," I said as I washed up again. "It's the stupid pregnancy. You can't help it."

"I know. I just hate seeing you like this." He grabbed my cheeks and pulled me to him, patting my hair back. "Gosh, you're really warm. Do you feel okay?"

"Not really. I did just get sick."

"No, I mean you feel like you have a fever." I put his hand on my forehead, making my move back by how cold his hand was.

"Gosh, your hand is cold."

"No it's not. You're just really burning up. You need to get some rest. Here, go to the car and I'll get you some medicine," he said as he handed me a wet paper towel and put it on my forehead. I listened to what he said without arguing, noticing the worried look on his face, and headed straight for the van. Right when I opened the door, Christian and Adrian looked at me and got wide eyes. They were about to say something when I gave them the evil eye and climbed in the back seat and laid down.

Dimitri came out with a bag full of stuff. He climbed in the back seat, putting my head in his lap as he put his phone away. He told Joey we could leave know and then turned his attention back to me. "I called your doctor to find out what medicine you could take and just grabbed everything I could. I don't really know what symptoms you have, so, yeah."

"You already know that I have a fever, and right now my eyes feel heavy and my head hurts."

"What about a sore throat or runny nose?"

"Nope. None of that."

"Okay. Well try this. This should help. Then he said you should try to sleep for a while." I did as he said, taking the nasty ass medicine, and then falling asleep real easy.

I don't know how long I slept. All I remember is that Dimitri kept petting my hair softly, murmuring sweet things to me in my sleep.

I woke up with a slight head ache, with my limbs aching everywhere, in a dark hotel room. I sat up on my elbows, trying to see everything, when I heard water running coming from the restroom. I knew it had to be Dimitri. We always shared a room. So I got up quietly, wanting to surprise him, and sneaked into the bathroom.

When I was about to yank the shower curtain back, Dimitri started singing. Singing? Wait. . . He doesn't sing.

"What the hell are you doing?" I shrieked.

"Aww!" He yelled.

"Answer me," I demanded.

"Me? What are you doing in here? Don't you ever give a guy privacy?"

"Not when it's my room."

"How do you it's not my room."

"'Cause I woke up in this room, so I'm considering this my room. So answer my damn question." He reached a hand out from the shower at the same time he turned the water off, grabbing a towel. He stepped out while he wrapped the towel around his waist, leaving his wet, glistening chest for me to see.

"I came to watch over you while you get better. Dimitri was talking with Janine about our next plan."

"Fine. Just hurry and put some damn clothes on Adrian."

"Okay, okay. But are you sure you don't just want me to lose the towel?"

"NO!" I yelled as I slammed the bathroom door and plopped back on the bed. I laid there, waiting for him to get dressed while seeing him in nothing but a towel kept running through my mind. I know we had a thing when I thought Dimitri never wanted me again. And we almost had sex, but we didn't. But seeing him in pretty much nothing brought back some memories of what we had. And I had loved that. But I loved Dimitri way more. I was going to have his baby for crying out loud. Then way do I keep picturing Adrian?

"Hey there. What are you doing little dhampir?"

"Nothing," I said a little to fast."

"Sure. Just admit it and stop thinking about me," he said as he turned to the mirror with a huge grin on his face. All of a sudden I got an image of Adrian in front of with wet hair. With him stripping? Yeap. Stripping. I shut my eyes and shook my head hard, trying to get the image away. "What's wrong little dhampir?" he asked with a slight smile. Are you getting another head ache?"

"No, it's worse."

"Ouch. That really hurts."

"What? What are you talking about?" I asked confused.

"Fine, I'll tell you. I guess my little game is over, isn't it?"

"What are you talking about Adrian?"

"I've been teaching myself new tricks with spirit. . ."

"And? What's that have to do with anything?"

"Well you know how I can walk into dreams, right?" I nodded as he looked at me. "Well I thought since I can do that, why not try day-dreaming." As he talked, it slowly came to me what he was talking about. "And since I don't really know when people are going to be day-dreaming, I tried to learn how to make people day-dream and what to day-dreaming. And I guess it worked by the way you're looking at me."

"I totally hate you right now."

"Not according to you day-dreams!" he laughed as he reached for the door. I ran after him just as he opened the door and Dimitri stepped inside, blocking Adrian inside.

"Perfect timing," I said as I jumped on Adrian and wrapped my arms around his neck in a choke hold.

"What's going on in here?" Dimitri asked as he tried to pull me off of Adrian.

"He's an asshole that's what. He's learned a new trick and thought to try it on me."

"What?"

"Don't worry. Your little Rose is fine," Adrian said as Dimitri finally pulled me off of him. "Nothing permanent," he said as he straightened out his hair and rubbed at his neck. "Just a little joke, that's all."

"Well I didn't like it."

"Didn't you?" And at that he walked out the door as I tried to tackle him again.

"What are you talking about?" Dimitri asked worriedly as he shut the door and grabbed me.

"I'm going to kill him, that's what. He can be such an asshole."

"What did he do?"

"He made me dream, or well, day-dream, about him," I said quietly, getting pink about saying it aloud, and to Dimitri to all people.

"What?" he asked confused.

"He's learned to make people day-dream about whatever he wants them to."

"What? How?"

"I don't know. He said he taught himself. He said since he could dream walk, why not day-dream walk, or whatever. I don't know. But if he does it again, he's dead."

"Yeah, and I'm going to have to have a little talk with him," Dimitri said, walking back to the door.

"No," I yelled as I raced after him. "If anyone's going to teach him a lesson, it's me. It's me that he tried his 'new trick' on."

"No, really. I really do need to talk to him any ways. I'll leave 'teaching him a lesson' to you," he smiled as he kissed me and we both walked out the door to hunt done Adrian again.

We finally found Adrian hiding behind the van smoking after a few minutes. We saw him before he saw us, so I got to sneak up on him and punched him right in the shoulder. He spin around, dropping his cigarette, and raised his fist, about to punch me as Dimitri grabbed his arm. Adrian relaxed after he realized it was me, but then gave me a rude look.

"What the hell," Adrian yelled. "I could have killed you."

"Yeah right," I laughed out loud. "You and what fucking army. You could hardly hurt a frickin' fly. I could kill you before you could even say 'wait'."

"Whatever. Just don't do that again, 'cause I thought you were a fucking Strigoi."

"Look around Adrian, it's sunny out. FYI, Strigoi can't come out in the sun."

"Like I said before, whatever. That's just the first thing that came into my mind."

"Okay. But a Strigoi would of just snapped your neck, not punch you in your damn shoulder."

"So what. And what do you want any ways?" he asked as he rubbed his shoulder.

"I wanted to talk to you," Dimitri said.

"About what? If it's about Rose, I said sorry. I was just trying it out."

"Whatever you as-"

"No," Dimitri cut me off. "She told me what you did, and I don't like that you did it on her, but I wanted to ask you something."

"Umm, okay, shut."

"I don't know why I didn't think of it before, Rose just made me remember. Why don't you try to dream walk into Lissa's mind?"

"I tried, and I didn't get anything. Plus I don't even know her sleeping schedule. And I don't know if I can actually get into the mind of a Strigoi," he trailed off.

"Well can you at least keep trying until you get something? Maybe if they won't let you, you'll run into a brick wall or something. Anything is better than nothing."

"I'll try. But they could have her staying awake. Nobody really knows the minds of a Strigoi. Well most of us don't," he said, looking at Dimitri like he had turned Strigoi again.

"They're not all the same," Dimitri replied. "Just try, like soon." And then he grabbed me hand and pulled me back to our hotel room.

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