Two weeks later…..

Rose cursed under her breath as she realized that her clothes had miraculously disappeared from the rack where she had hung them before going into the shower.

"Dammit!" she realized that her towel was missing as well. Who could have possibly done it?! She was bewildered for a moment. None of the girls in the female dorms would do such a thing, which only meant that it had been done by an outsider, but who?

That's not the problem here right now! A voice screamed in her head. How are you supposed to get back to your room now? Naked!

There were only three girls in the third floor, Meredith and Angela, apart from Rose herself. Unless, one of the girls had stolen her clothes as a prank, no one would be there outside lurking in the corridors this late. Rose looked around once more, nope there was nothing she could cover herself with except….

She ripped the shower curtain, quickly wrapping the material around her body, thanking her not so lucky stars as she exited the bathroom to make a run for her dorm.

She opened the door hastily to let herself in thankful that no one was in the corridors to snap a picture or something.

She jumped ten feet in the air as she saw a figure lying on her bed, lounging as if he belonged there.

"Jesus! What the hell are you doing here?" Rose said almost breathless.

Dimitri turned his head, tearing his eyes away from one of those god awful western books.

"That's an amazing way to greet your boyfriend Roza. Very romantic indeed!" Dimitri said. His words reflected sarcasm, but his voice oozed out with hunger as he took in Rose's state of dress, or rather state of undress.

"Not funny comrade!" Rose huffed, tightening the curtain around her. Suddenly, it struck her. "It was you, wasn't it?" she whisper - yelled.

Dimitri's smirk answered her question. "I don't know what you're talking about Roza."

"The hell you don't!" Rose said through clenched teeth. "You stole my clothes and my towels from the shower!"

Dimitri pretended to be mock hurt. "Why would I ever do such a thing?"

Rose snorted and let the curtain drop off her body, "Because you could see me naked?" All the mirth left Dimitri's face as he took in her form.

"Damn right!" he growled.

Before his mind could regulate his actions, he stalked towards her. All the earlier signs of anger left her and Rose's eyes reflected the same lust she saw in Dimitri's. It had been three weeks of them being together after the first time. Though for four days, Rose had been on complete bed rest (because of that god awful strigoi attack), but now, her body was craving him.

She took a step forward, her already hard nipples almost touching his naked chest. She splayed her hand over one of his Pecs, right above his heart. His skin was pale and smooth, his abs defined and his chest was taut. She trailed a finger across his torso, stopping right above his stomach.

"Well, aren't you naughty today?"

Instead of replying, Dimitri picked her up, making a soft gasp escape her lips and pushed her back on the bed while he hovered above her.

"God, Roza. I can't stop wanting you."

It was getting kind of ridiculous, really. But it was the truth. Even after having slept with a hundred of girls (that is an exaggeration) Dimitri had never felt this way.

He felt her breathing pick up. She lifted herself up and their lips met in a heated kiss. But before they could go any further, Dimitri's curiosity got the better of him and he pulled back. "What did you think of me when we first met?"

Rose was surprised to hear the random question and contemplated on her answer. Her memories take her back to Stan's class, where they both sat together for the first time and she smiled, "Well…that day in Stan's class, I thought what I have been thinking from the first day I saw you." At his raised eyebrow, she chuckled, "You were lethal. You just radiated charm. I was mesmerized from the moment I saw you. But that changed quite soon as you got me detention," she nudged him playfully.

Her fingers trace his lips and brows. "That smile, your eyes, they really should be illegal. And then I got to hear those rumors about you. It made me a bit sad, but after I got to know you for the real person you are….I saw that there was so much more to you. You're brilliant and funny. You're protective and caring. You shine so bright, Dimitri. Everything you do – how you think, the things you say, the way you move….I feel lucky just being close to you."

Wow. He was speechless. If any other had said that to him, he'd agree with her and tell her that she was indeed lucky. But coming from Rose, he just…didn't have words. So he let his actions do the talking.

His mouth pressed against hers and his tongue begs for entrance. He was still hovering above her, but it seemed that Rose had other ideas. She pushed him on the shoulders until he was on his back. She straddled him, moving her lips over his jaw and down his neck, burning a trail down his chest and stomach. He swallowed hard.

She took his cock in her hand and pumped slowly. It was no surprise that he was already hard. He was hard the minute she started talking. "Roza…" he groaned out her name in ecstasy. He tried to keep his eyes open and watch her from above. She wet her lips and opened her mouth and looking him in the eyes, she slid him in. His eyes roll back as a soft groan of pleasure escapes his lips. She took him up as much as she could and then pulled back slowly, repeating it again. Her hand joined the chore as she pumped him with her hand while increasing the suction at the tip with her hot little mouth. She swirls her tongue around the head, making him moan helplessly and grip the pillow beside him.

It was getting harder and harder for him to hold back. Rose's mouth was doing wonders on his body. "Roza…baby…I'm…if you don't move now….God, I'm gonna…" Coherent words were apparently beyond his ability at that moment. Still, he thought that she got the message or the idea.

But to his surprise, she didn't move away. She didn't stop. He looked down at the very moment Rose opened her eyes and looked up at him. And that was all it took. It was like the first moment he had fantasized about since he first saw her. Those big brown doe eyes staring up at him as his cock slid between her perfect lips. With a whimper of her name, he filled her mouth with a pulsing stream. Rose moaned and took it all in, swallowing greedily.

After what seemed like an eternity, he started to come down. His body felt numb and his mind still on overdrive. He was breathing hard and grinning like a Cheshire cat as he pulled her up by the shoulders and kissed her deep. Normally, he would be grossed out about kissing a woman whose mouth he just came in, but with Rose, everything was different. Not sure how many times he had to repeat that.

"How the fuck did you learn to blow like that?"

Rose laughed at the wonder in his voice as she spreads out on top of him. "Well….there wasn't much to do when I was on bed rest, so I borrowed Lissa's laptop. And you wouldn't believe the stuff I found in them!"

Dimitri was short of words; instead he pulled her down to plant a sweet kiss on her lips. "Next time I see Lissa, remind me to drop on my knees and thank her!"

Rose laughed at his words. "Do you that stuff on your laptop too?"

Dimitri smirked and lifted his eyebrows, "What do you think?"

It felt like Christmas had arrived for Rose, "Will you show them to me? We can watch them together…."

Dimitri chuckled. "Slow down Roza." He pulled her back, wrapping his arms tightly around her as he fell back in a deep and peaceful slumber.

"God, Dimitri…"

After he woke up from their three hour of deep sleep, Rose decided that she needed a long hot shower. With two hours to spare before the school started, Dimitri couldn't turn up the offer to join his beautiful and every bit of sexy girlfriend in the showers. That being said, Rose had even asked him if he wanted to shower together.

Silly girl! As if showering single was even a consideration for either of them.

So here they both stood, under the hot spray of shower, slithering the other's body with soap. Dimitri stood up, teasing her from behind. He massaged her voluptuous breasts, pushing her hair aside to lick on the slender column of her neck.

"Open your legs for me, Roza." he said, his voice as husky as ever.

She did as he asked. This was all new to Rose and not to mention, so damn exciting! They were showering in the female commons, with the main door unlocked, where anyone could walk upon them. But that didn't deter them one little bit, instead it added to the thrill of what they were doing. Both Rose and Dimitri were rule breakers and doing something so forbidden so openly….Rose couldn't describe it in words how she felt. It was all adventure.

"More." he demands softly.

Rose spreads her legs further, her breathing heavy in the anticipation. Dimitri bent his knees and slid his cock up inside her. They moan together. Her breasts were slick from the soap as he slid his fingers to her nipples and play with them in the way he knew would make her purr. She dropped her head back against his shoulder and scratched her nails up his thighs. He hisses at the sensation and picks up the pace just a little.

Rose then, leaned forward, bending at her waist and bracing her hands against the tiles. He covered them with his own, threading their fingers together. He pumped in and out of her unhurriedly, never wanting to separate himself from her again. He kissed her back, her shoulder, her ear. "You feel so fucking good, Roza."

Her head rolled back on his chest as she moaned, "God, Dimitri! You feel so…so hard….so big."

Those words shoot straight at his male ego, boosting it thrice. Rose let out a whimper softly, biting her lips to contain her moans of pleasure.

"Don't stop Roza…I want to hear your voice." He swore that his Roza made the sexiest noises whenever they were intimate!

And then she started whimpering. "Harder, Dimitri…Please."

He does as she asks with a groan. He left on of his hands on the wall and brought the other to her clit, so that each time he pushed forward, she would buck up against his fingers. Rose moaned loudly at the contact.

Something seemed to snap inside her presumably because of his actions, as her moans turned into demands. "Fuck! Harder Dimitri…Fuck me harder."

It was like her command stirred something inside him, something carnal that let him drop all the boundaries and increased his speed. He pushed into her until she was pinned against the wall, her cheeks resting on the cold tile. He thrusted rough and fast. Rose's gratified screams echo off the walls and they come in perfect synch.

It was long and intense and fucking glorious!

As the pleasure wanes, she turned around, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him slowly. She then rests her head on his chest and they stand together under the spray. Dimitri couldn't keep the awe out of his voice as he said, "God, It gets better every time."

Rose laughed, "You too? I thought I was the only one who felt it." She looked up, biting her lips. Dimitri never wanted to look away from her. And he never ever wanted to let go.

"No…I feel it too."

"You need to go Comrade!" Rose said, but her arms wrapped around him tightly as she guided his lips back to hers.

"I really need to go Roza," Dimitri said too, still dizzy from her kisses.

"But I don't want you to go!" she pouted.

"I don't want to go too!"

"But you need to leave Lord Belikov, lest you want to get caught by the matron." Lissa's sweet voice interrupted them and they sprung apart, mortified to death at the intrusion.

"Shit Lissa!" Rose hissed at the pale blonde girl leaning casually against the doorframe. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Well blame me if I wanted to see my best friend," she then turned to Dimitri. "But someone keeps beating me into it."

"Oh hello missy!" Dimitri said in a mocking tone, "You should know that I got in here first and it is you who is always interrupting my time with Roza!" They both may not say it, but Lissa and Dimitri had somehow, over the time crossed the line of being strangers to being friends with bad blood between them. All puns intended.

"No." Rose raised her hand to halt the comeback Lissa had on the tip of her tongue. "You both are not going to argue right now. God! I now know how you must feel having me and Christian banter all day long," she grumbled the last part.

"And Comrade, Lissa is right. You should go now. It's barely ten minutes before the classes start.

Dimitri sighed. "Alright." he kissed the top of her head before jumping his way out of her room. Once he left, Rose turned to Lissa. "I've the second period free, would you like to come to the library and….talk?"

Lissa's expression turned sombre as she nodded in consent. She knew what this was about. She was transported back to that eventful night.

"Lissa!" Dimitri hollered down the hallway, banging the ajar door to her room open. She heard a gasp escape from his lips and he scrunched up his nose in disgust.

There on the pristine floor was lying a white fluffy rabbit, its eyes closed and its throat slit. Blood had pooled and clotted around his body, specks of some coating the carpet and the foot of the cherry wood table placed nearby.

"Lissa. Get up." Dimitri nudged her shoulders but she couldn't bring herself to move a muscle on her body. She could feel the familiar rush, the same white hot feeling pass down her veins as she took in the sight of the deranged animal. Her right hand rises and hovers over the dead rabbit as she tries to roll out of the feeling.

Dimitri's eyes widen as she takes in the scene in front of him. What was she doing? It was like…she was trying to muster some inner strength, some spiritual power to…to… He shakes his head at the thought that tickles his brain. This was so not happening right now!

Lissa tried and tried and tried, but there wasn't even a twitch in the dead animal's muscle. Completely fazed and utterly exhausted, Lissa slides down on her knees, her knees too weak to hold her body.

"Lissa!" Dimitri said, helping her straighten her up at the same time trying to call Christian and the authorities concerned. By the time he finished, Lissa was passed out on the chair nearby.

Dimitri's eyes flick towards the rabbit once again. Who could be this cruel? It couldn't be some kind of prank. Whoever did that is certainly trying to pass a message, a clear message. But the problem wasn't that. The problem was that – Dimitri knew what this message was. He just didn't know that WHO this person was trying to threaten his friend.

He looks around the room once more, trying to gather as much information as possible, when his eyes suddenly land to a crinkled piece of paper tossed around the corner. What egged him was that piece was covered in dried blood.

He walked over and picked it up, grimacing at all the mess. The moment he unfolded it, everything fell into place. His suspicions were confirmed for it was the message he clearly understood.

We know what you can do princess. There's nowhere to hide.

"A flash?" Rose asked leaning against the bookshelf from where she was sitting on the library floor with Lissa opposite to her.

Lissa shook her head vigorously in admission. "I swear Rose! I saw it. It was like shining gold. And it disappeared the moment it came, but I saw it! It was like that something was calling onto me. I…"

"You what?" Rose asked, not unkindly as she listened to Lissa unravel the events on the mall that day she fainted.

"I suspect it was an aura."

"An aura," Rose thought about it. "But whose?"

Lissa racked her fingers through the blonde her in frustration. "That's what I wanted to figure out! I have seen almost everyone's color and shining gold…ugh! I don't know what to do!"

Rose stays quiet, trying to give a moment to both of them to gather their thoughts. Honestly, she thought it was completely exhausting, but something didn't feel right to her either and she wanted to figure it out why!

"And then…"Lissa chokes on her own words. "And then I come back to find a dead rabbit in my dorm room!"

"Did they figure out something?"

"Not a thing!"

Rose sighed. "I don't know what's happening Liss. The strange events – a dead fox in your room, entry of mysterious Shade and you feeling out of sorts and again a dead animal." She continued. "The secret that you could heal, feeling this…darkness or whatever you call it. I feel like something's up and we are the centre of it." She finished with a sigh.

"I don't know about it." Lissa said. "But I feel something's wrong too. What are we going to do Rose?"

"I don't know Liss." Rose said softly. "I just know that whatever it is out there, I'll protect you with my life from it."

"Rose…." Lissa began her soft chiding only to be cut off by her best friend.

"No Lissa. I'm your guardian and it's my job. But more over, you're my sister. I love you."

"I love you too!"

"Looks like we have a bit of competition here." Rose said cheekily, trying to dissolve some of the tension. It worked because the next thing Lissa said was,

"A competition that I'll definitely win!"

"You bet girl!"

….so there you go. This was it for this chapter. I hope you liked it.

So…a lot of tension building in there, what do you think is gonna happen next?

I added the lemon because I wanted to ease a bit of the tension that is coming off in the next chapters. If you don't already know, this story is coming to an end now, so buckle up! I have a few more ideas for my next works, nothing solid, just vague ideas floating around my head and I'll let know about it when I decide.

To Guest – No I haven't abandoned this story and I'm not sure if there is going to be a sequel. Guess we'll find out about it. Thank you for reading :-)

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Lara.