Just to catch you all up,
Rose had an idea to help Lissa,
but she hasn't told anyone.
But it shouldn't really be that hard to tell what it is.
It's actually not that hard to figure out.

But I hope you all enjoy.

R&R

Plane Ride – 34

"So are you going to tell us yet or what?" Christian asked right after we got Lissa settled and we were about to takeoff. Adrian decided to just throw a huge, heavy blanket over Lissa to get her to the plane since it was still sunny out. Which worked, but took a while since she didn't want to stay still. Now we had her locked up in the back of the plane with chains and everything, just like she was in the van.

"Once we get in the air, sure," I said, throwing my bad down and plopping in the seat beside it with Dimitri. "Everyone needs to get settled down first."

"What? Is it that bad?"

"No. Unless you hate long distance trips."

"Dang it, I'm out," Adrian yelled. "I can't stand to be in one spot for too long." He chuckled as I glared at him. "I really don't. I know I sounded sarcastic, but it's true." I kept glaring at him until he sat down. "Okay, fine, but I'm only doing it for Lissa. Are you even sure that where ever we're going is going to help Lissa anyways?"

"Yes. It has to," I whispered the last part. "It's our last hope."

"Russia?" Adrian gasped.

"Yes, Russia," I smiled as I looked at Dimitri.

"What's in Russia?" Christian asked. "Other than what we all already know, Dimitri."

"Someone that we need to talk to," I said. "I should have thought of it sooner, but I guess I forgot with everything that's been going on."

"Who's there that you know Rose?" Adrian said as he relaxed on the seat across from me

"Don't you remember that I told you that I found another spirit user? Well that's where she's at," I stated. When Dimitri looked at me confusingly, I continued. "Her name is Oksana. She's a friend of your grandmother's."

"Oh, that explains it," Dimitri chuckled. "My grandmother is a weird one."

"Oksana wasn't weird at all. She's real sweet. Same as her husband, Mark."

"I'm sorry Rose, I haven't been back home for quite a while, I don't really remember. But I bet as soon as I see them, I'll remember."

"Maybe. But I know you'll all love them. Oksana is the one that gave me a spirit equipped ring. That's how I found out about it and told Lissa. I just hope she can equip a stake since it's different than jewelry." I smiled at Adrian since I was talking about how he's having trouble with it.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you Rose?" Adrian replied, looking out the window and away from me.

"No, I'm actually not," I replied back, which is actually true. "I'm just trying to save Lissa like the rest of us. It's nothing against you." I looked at Adrian, seeing that he had closed his eyes and wasn't even listening to me anymore. "Well anyways, I tried to call you mom Dimitri, but nobody answered. So I guess it's going to be a surprise visit, hope you're family's okay with that."

"They should be."

"And they're probably going to freak out when they see you alive, or not a Strigoi."

"Oh, I called them after I became myself again, so they already know."

"Yeah, but they'll still freak when they see you. You know they all really love you so much?" He smiled at me and hugged me to him.

"They love you too, they kept asking about you when I last talked to them."

"Really? Bad or good?"

"Good. Viktoria also wanted me to tell you she's sorry for what happened. She said you'd know what she was talking about. Do you?"

"Yeah."

"Care to tell me?"

"She just went out with a guy and I followed her. The guy told me how he'd enjoy being with her and all since he had been with her sisters. That's when Abe showed up and took care of it, and she hated me for that."

"Well you did the right thing Rose."

"I know. But the look she gave me said that she would have never forgive me. I'm glad she did."

"You know what else they're going to freak out about?"

"Seeing Lissa like this?"

"Maybe, but that's not what I meant. I meant about finding out that you're pregnant." Oh yeah. I smiled at him as I laid me head on his shoulder and he rubbed my belly. I'm so lucky to have a man like Dimitri..

Throughout the whole plane ride, we only stopped once so the plane could fuel up. I wanted to takeoff immediately after, but everyone, even Christian, wanted to stay so they could stretch. So we ended eating at Chile's, while a few of the guardians stayed on the plane to watch Lissa. And to keep her not being grouchy, they found her some more blood bags.

About two hours later, after we all had eaten and then walked around a bit, we headed back to the plane for takeoff. Right when we got settled back in, I felt exhausted right away. And it didn't take very long at all for me to past back out while leaning on Dimitri.

A few hours later, everyone was chatting away loudly. I wanted to yell at them all to shut the hell up, but when I sat up and looked around, they were all laughing and it wanted me to know what they were talking about. They always like to do things without me, I really hate that.

"What's so funny?" I asked loudly. But nobody seemed to hear me. So I got up and walked behind Christian, nobody even seeing me, until I yell in his ear.

"What the fuck Rose," Christian yelled at me, grabbing his ear. "What was that for?"

"Well . . . I asked y'all a question, and being rude like always, y'all never answer me." I stood with my hands on my hips, staring all of them in the eyes. "So? Are you guys going to answer me or what?"

"Well we were playing cards, as you can see," Adrian replied as he pointed down at the table where all around. I looked down and suddenly got all red as I looked at all the cards lying around.

"Oh," I whispered, filling embarrassed. "Sorry." I started walking away but Adrian grabbed my wrist, turning me back around.

"You want to play?" he asked, looking in my eyes. "We actually just started a new game." I looked around at everyone, seeing what they thought, and they all just smiled at me, waiting for my reply.

"I don't know what you're playing." I said as I finally looked back at Adrian.

"Oh. Well it's quite simply actually. It's called Apples to Apples."

"Really? That's a weird name for a card name. What do you do in it? Where are the apples?" I looked around everywhere, but there were definitely no apples in sight. When I looked back up with a puzzled look, everyone started laughing.

"You don't play with apples. It's just a name. I don't really know why it's called that. But anyways, you can be on Dimitri's team until you get the hang of it, he's always lost anyways." Adrian grinned at Dimitri as he glared right back.

"Okay," I said as I walked around the table to Dimitri.

"First off," Mia started explaining. "Everyone has to start off with seven red cards, and you always have to have seven cards in your hand at all times. Then one person will lay down a green card which has a topic on it. Then everyone but the person who laid the green card down will lie a red card down that they think best fits the green card. And if you don't have anything, just lay whatever you want down; you just have to put something down. But you have to try to think like the person that laid the green card down 'cause they get to pick which card they like the best. And who's ever red card is chosen, they get the green card. Whoever reaches, let's say seven, green cards, they win. Do you understand?" I nodded as she started passing out the cards.

She ended up laying a green card down first, and then it went clockwise. At first I was pretty confused. But then I finally got what people were into, and I helped Dimitri lay the cards down. By the end of the game, Dimitri and I had won. We played two other rounds, with Dimitri and me winning again, before they realized that we should be on our own. But that didn't work, because I won every game after that and till we landed in Russia.

I re-did this chapter becasue sometimes my computer is stupid and messes up and doesn't copy all of the text on, but here it is, again. Sorry about not putting all of it on last time and repeating some other stuff, so I bet it was probaly quite confusing.