Chains – 32

When she finally stopped, she dug her hand out of me, pulling out what was supposed to be my one month old baby.

I finally was able to move as I jumped up from my seat, kicking my legs and screaming as I reached for my stomach. A startled Adrian grabs me and shushes me as I try to hit him away from me. What the-? How? I'm so confused right now. What just happened?

I look back at Lissa, seeing her still asleep. Christian rushes back from the front seat, a worried look on his face. "What the heck happened?"

"I don't know," Adrian said as he tried to grab me again. "She was sound asleep, and then the next thing I know is that she wakes up kicking and screaming." He finally gets ahold of me, moving my hair from my face and rocking me back and forth.

The van suddenly stops as Dimitri looks back at us, worried about me. He looks back and forth at everyone before he turns off the engine and comes to sit by me, pulling me away from Adrian. I put my face on his neck as I cried silently, trying not to look at Lissa. "What happened Roza?" Dimitri asked as I quieted down.

"She can't have it," I whispered, barely loud enough for me to hear myself.

"What?" Dimitri whispered as he pulled me back and whipped tears from my cheeks.

"I won't let her," I mumbled louder than before. "I won't let her."

"Who?" But all I did was stare angrily at Lissa. I guess Christian and Adrian figured it out, because they both went and looked at Lissa's chains.

"She's secure, she's not going anywhere any time soon," Christian said while staring at Lissa with loving eyes, even with what she is. But I just shook my head and glared at her, daring her to try me. There is no way she is going to have my baby, even if it was just a dream.

"What wrong Roza? Lissa's tied down, she can't hurt you. You have nothing to be worried about." But no matter how much it said it, I couldn't stop picturing Lissa reaching into my stomach and stealing my baby. Dimitri's baby. Our baby.

I looked up into Dimitri's eyes and repeated again, "I won't let her have our baby."

"Who said she wanted our baby?" he asked me, getting more worried.

"I saw her. She took it from me. Just reached into me and took it. I won't let that happen. No. Matter. What." I shook my head and closed my eyes, resting my head against Dimitri's chest and he smoothed out my hair.

"What do you mean you saw her?" Christian asked confused, looking back and forth from me and Lissa. "Because if you hadn't noticed, she's still definitely tied up. How could she even hurt you?"

"I don't know, okay," I yelled. "It seemed so real, just like the last 'dream' I had with her." I closed my eyes again, feeling tears stream down my face again. "It just seemed so real."

"Well what happened Roza?"

"Everything looked exactly how it did before I feel asleep. And then right when I closed my eyes, Lissa opened hers and glared at me." I looked back at Lissa, seeing her the same, with her eyes closed and her chest moving steadily, being asleep. "Her eyes were bright red as she somehow got free and hovered over me, reaching out to me." I let another tear fall as I thought about what happened next. "Then Adrian was beside me with the stake, but he had fallen asleep. Then he stirred in his sleep and it startled Lissa." I stifled as I continued. "I guess she thought he was a threat because she went to him and- and drain him, of blood." I looked up at Adrian then, seeing him before, fully alive. "After she was finished, she came back to me and ran her nails over my stomach, cutting into me. And no matter how much I screamed and tried to get free, I couldn't move. I finally woke up after she dug through my stomach and grabbed what was my baby," I finished telling them my dream with my eyes closed, remembering the look on Lissa's face as she held my one month old baby, not even alive yet.

"It was just a dream," Dimitri whispered in my ear as he held me close to him. "That will never happen."

"I. . . I know. It ju. . just felt so rea. . real," I sobbed. We stayed like that for a while until I finally fell back to sleep and Christian got to drive.

A Week Later…

We made it back to court a day ago, already calling ahead to get a cell ready for Lissa until Adrian got the stake ready. But Adrian was starting to doubt himself. He'd being trying every day, concentrating only on the stake, not even putting up with me. But so far, he's got nothing.

"How about you just try a ring, like Lissa did when she first started out equipping things?" I suggested. "Then maybe you could also give it to Lissa in the time being." I know he thought it sounded like a good idea, but he didn't say anything. No one ever acknowledges me when I actually come up with a good idea. But they always use my ideas, always just saying they had nothing better. "Okay, whatever. Just go ahead and ignore me. You and I both know it's a good idea and you'll use it." I walk away as Adrian peeks at me and shakes his head, throwing the stake aside and getting up.

"Fine Rose," he muttered. "I'll do it your way, but just this once. I don't want you to start thinking you're smart or anything."

"Whatever. You know I'm smart so stop saying otherwise." I smile at him as he holds out his hand. "What?"

"It was your idea, wasn't it? So you have to supply the ring, so come on, give it here."

"And what makes you think I have a ring. I'm not the jewelry type." Okay, so sometimes I am, but it's not like I'm telling him that. I only wear jewelry to special occasions, and when Dimitri gives it to me.

"Well I sure don't have a ring."

"I'll find you one," I mutter as I walk away. "Always leaving me with the work." It's not like it's actually hard to find a ring of some sort. Mia should have one; she always wears jewelry of some sort.

So I make my way to Mia's room, which is actually not that far from Adrian's. And when I get there, she's outside talking, flirting, with Eddie. Whoa, okay, so I knew she liked him and all, but it's still weird to see it. Well to actually see Eddie flirting back.

"Ach hmm," I clear my throat, making myself known. "Sorry to interrupt, but Adrian was wondering if you had a ring he could borrow?" I smile at Eddie, letting him know that I know what he was doing. He looks back at me, telling me to shut up, but come on, it's me, I never shut up. "So Eddie? How's it going?"

"Leave me alone Rose," he reply, not so loud for Mia to hear as she went inside to look for a ring.

"Oh, come on. I see the way you two look at each other." I sit beside him, lowering my voice. "You two clearly like each other, so what's stopping you to ask her out?"

"You."

"What? How am I stopping you?" He better not turn this on me, I didn't do anything.

"well actually, I was about to ask her. That is until you came up."

"Oh, oops." I smile at him as Mia comes back with a jewelry box, letting him know I'm sorry.

"Here's all the jewelry I don't wear anymore," she said as she opened the lid. "There are a lot of rings in it, but there's also some other jewelry if that's okay?"

"Yeah, that seems perfect. It's just that Adrian is having some trouble equipping the stake, so I thought he should try something smaller first."

"But didn't he already equip a stake before?" Mia asked. "So what's so hard about it this time?"

"I don't know. I guess he just got lucky last time. But it did take him a while last time, so maybe he can still do it, it's just he's getting agitated. And anyways, I thought if he could equip some rings with spirit we could give them to Lissa for the time being."

"Oh, well that's a great idea," Eddie said, looking at Mia with a smile then back at me. Gosh, he must really like her.

"Yeah, but of course Adrian had to ignore it at first. He hates it when I actually have good ideas." I smile and wave them good bye as I walk back to Adrian's room, seeing Mia sit back by Eddie and laugh at something he said.

After I gave the jewelry to Adrian, I left him alone to concentrate better as I went to see how Dimitri was doing with Lissa. Her ring had no effect on her anymore, and as him and some other guardians carried her to the cell, she wiggled around and tried to bit them. But eventually they finally got her locked up.

"How's she doing?" I asked Dimitri as I went down into the cellar.

"Good for now," he said as he hugged me to him. "But she keeps saying she's hunger but she won't eat anything but blood, but we don't really want to send one of the feeders down here because she'd just drain them."

"But you could watch her for that. You know she still hasn't made a kill yet. Maybe she won't kill them."

"I hidey doubt that. The only thing stopping her was her ring, and now that's gone."

"Yeah, but Adrian's in his room working on some more as we speak. He got tired of not having any success in the stake, so I suggested something smaller until he gets better at it."

"I thought you wanted him to hurry because you wanted Lissa back?"

"But I think we have Lissa taken care of till then, right?"

"We should." I look at Lissa, seeing her with her red eyes fixed on me, or rather my stomach. I slowly back up and hide behind Dimitri, not liking the look in her eyes. I guess Dimitri sees what I see, because he puts a hand to my stomach and looks me in the eye, trying to let me know that he'd do anything to protect me, us.

I grab his hand in mine, pulling him after me as I leave, telling the guard by the door to put more chains on Lissa.

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