This chapter isn't very long, and if there are mistakes, I'm sorry, I haven't proof read.

Talking – 40

That night, we all headed back to Dimitri's. Yeva had told Dimitri that his mom was worried about us all; she wanted to know if Oksana could do what we wanted and if Lissa was okay. And like always, right when we came to the door, Viktoria came rushing up, giving everyone a hug, even Lissa, who she didn't even know. Everyone else had already went back to the hotel, they were all exhausted from having a little party, or get together as Lissa and Oksana called it, for having Lissa back. I didn't really party that much, I know, shocking. I mainly stayed cuddled up next to Adrian, I just really liked the feeling he gave me of being all warm, it didn't even come close the feeling of what Dimitri gave me, but I wanted to make Adrian happy. I told that to Dimitri later, after they went to the hotel, and he completely approved of it. He knew how much I had hurt Adrian.

So after we told everyone about how Oksana was finally able to equip the stake and stake Lissa, Lissa and I went up to the room I shared with Dimitri. Dimitri had said he would sleep on the couch and let us have some girl time since it had been two and a half months since we had actually spent any time together.

"So what's up with you and Dimitri?" Lissa had asked right when we were both in our pajamas and relaxing on the bed.

"What do you mean?"

"Did you guys brake up or something?"

"What? No! Why would you ask that? You know how I feel about him."

"But you were, like, all over Adrian. How could you do that? I saw how Dimitri looked at you a few times, he didn't really like it that much."

"I explained it to him. You of all people know how I hurt Adrian. I was just trying to make him happy instead of push him away."

"But you could give him the wrong idea. He could think that you wanted to be more than friends again."

"He knows I'm still with Dimitri. And him and Jill has actually been getting pretty close lately."

"Really?" I nodded. "Wow. I never knew he'd actually go for her. I knew she liked him and all, but, wow."

"Yeah, you've really missed a lot. Well, not a whole lot, since we mainly tried to turn you back to normal, but some things have changed."

"Like what?"

"Well there's the Jill and Adrian thing, whatever they want to call it, 'cause I don't think they're dating, at least not yet. My mom keeps saying she has something important to tell me, but she wouldn't say until you were back, which you are now, so I need to ask her later. I'm now on medicine for my pregnancy, which you found out earlier. And Jill has kind of put a pause on everything at court, and she's been busy still working out things for your wedding, which she wants to do as soon as possible."

"I would like that too. I feel so sorry for my poor Christian. He thought he'd be married now and on our honeymoon, working on kids." She blushed for a moment then continued. "How did he handle me being Strigoi anyways?"

"Not good at first, then he realized it's better than being dead, since we could change you back, and then I thought he was going to go mad, because poor Adrian couldn't get the stake equipped, again. Anyways, how are you feeling? I know when Dimitri changed back, he was devastated because he killed people and held me prisoner."

"I mainly just feel weak, like I could sleep for an entire month. I never killed anybody, even though Robert tried to make me, I never did. Then he thought what better person to make my first kill, than you and your baby. I'm just glad I didn't, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did."

"No offense, but you wouldn't have even gotten close to me, not to mention that Dimitri didn't even want me near any Strigoi, not with the baby. But that doesn't matter anymore, you're here and back to normal, and I'm so happy to have you back." I grabbed her and pulled her to me, making us both laugh together like old times. "Anyways, what all did Robert do to you, other than try and force you to kill people, mainly me?"

Lissa looked down and I noticed a few tears fall down her cheeks. "It was so horrible Rose. I kept wanting him to just kill me, to just get it over with, anything but what he did." She fell into her pillow and started sobbing.

"Liss, you can tell me. I know it had to have been bad, but you'll feel much better if you tell me." Her shoulders kept heaving up and down as she sobbed into her pillow. And it felt like forever until she sat back up and looked into my eyes, wanting to tell me, but not knowing where to start.

"Well you already know how he kept biting me, since I showed you and all. But after you faded away when he bite me and grabbed my ass and all, he grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder." Lissa told me everything that happened up until we finally found her and saved her from having to actually kill someone. She kept stopping when she told me how Robert had raped her, which made me want to kill him even more. She cried real hard, not caring who heard her. But nobody came in. Everyone knew that she had been Strigoi so she would be sad about the things she did, or what they wanted her to do. I hugged her to me, letting her cry on my shoulder for hours until she finally just cried herself to sleep. Then I tucked her in and fell asleep beside her, happy to have my best friend back, but sad for what she had gone through.

When I woke up, I jumped up right away, almost shouting until I remembered where I was. My heart was beating so hard that I thought I was going to have a heart attack, which would suck since I'm only eighteen. I had had another bad dream about someone ripping my baby from my stomach. But instead of it being Lissa, I had no idea who it was. It was so dark to see who it was. And right when the figure was coming into the light, I woke up, sweating to death. I hadn't had a bad dream since the last one, and I was hoping that I would never have another one. But now I just wish I knew who the person was in this nightmare.

After I cooled down from my nightmare, I realized that Lissa wasn't in bed. Which then made me realize that I smelled Olena's good cooking downstairs. I rushed to get dressed and then practically ran downstairs to just run right into Lissa going up the stairs.

"Oh my gosh Rose," she breathed, holding her chest. "Give me a heart attack why don't you. I was just coming up to get you. Breakfast is ready." She smiled as she turned back around and went to the table where Olena had sat plates at and had brought biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, eggs, toast with butter and jam, and milk, orange juice, and coffee. Everyone else from the hotel was already here sitting around the table and digging in, not wasting any time. I, of course, sat next to Dimitri and Lissa.

Olena told us all to eat as much as we could handle because her fridge couldn't hold much more. Lissa took her up on that, since she hadn't eaten much when she was a Strigoi. She probably ate enough for all of us, even me, who is eating for two.

We hung out in the living room after we ate, feeling completely stuffed. I thought I wouldn't be able to move ever again, and to the look of it, neither could anyone else, even Lissa who was slumped next to Christian who kept groaning when he moved.

"Man, that was good," Adrian said, patting his stomach. "We should come over more often."

"I would love that," Olena grinned. "I'd love seeing my son and all his friends more often."

"I'd love that too," Dimitri smiled. "We'll try to come more often."

"You better," Olena threatened him, making everyone laugh.

"We will. Especially when the baby is born, or you guys could come visit us some time."

"That sounds great. Everyone knows that I need to get out of this town sooner rather than later." Yeva laughed as she agreed.

"Yeah. And talking about leaving, we have to leave soon. The council has been trying to call all morning, so I think we're going to have to leave in a few hours."

"What, but we haven't even had time to show off your baby pictures Dimka," Viktoria chuckles by Yeva.

"You can show me next time," I promised her. "But we really do got to go. I'm going to have to go get another checkup before I start feeling sick again. I don't want another episode like at Oksana's."

"What happened over there," Olena asked, making me remember that we never told them.

"I got a major migraine that I almost fainted."

"Yeah, but it went away when she took a little nap," Dimitri told her.

"That's good," she smiled. "I'd hate for that to happen again. But before you guys go, let me wrap some left overs up for you." And at that, Adrian smiled and we all tried to get up and get our stuff to go.