A/N: Sorry I didn't leave an author's note on the prologue. This is my first ever story so I'm a bit slow at picking everything up! This has proabably been done before but I wanted to add my own take on everything. Please review whether you like it or not and I will try and update as much as I can whether you like it or not! LOL. So, yeah, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Acadmey, but I wish I did. I also wish that Adrian was real and we'd live happily ever after and have cute little vampire babies and live at Court with a big house and loads of money. But we can't have everything...
After totally crushing Mason on the slopes, although I felt terrible about him hurting his ankle, we decided to get cleaned up and meet up with Lissa, Christian, Eddie and Jill for a movie night, although we'd have to be sneaking what with curfew rules and stuff.
I walked up the steps to the porch on the way to mine and Lissa's room when I was hit by the smell. It was thick with a spicy/sweet hint to it, there was something familiar about it, but before I could figure out what it was, I heard a voice from the shadows.
"Hey, little dhampir"
My head shot up immediately putting my guard up, which I know is stupid, I mean Strigoi are hardly gonna call me "little dhampir" and be hiding out on a porch at a royal ski lodge. The voice belonged to Moroi guy, who was leaning against the wall smoking, clove cigarettes, that's what the smell was.
I stopped and looked at him. He didn't look familiar but had the typical Moroi traits- tall, about 6'1, lanky although he did look quite muscular for a Moroi. With his thick leather coat, obviously designer jeans and leather shoes indicated that he was Royal. A very rich Royal at that, possibly more so than Lissa. He had brown hair that looked like he had styled it to look messy, with bright jade green eyes. I had to admit he was incredibly attractive and must have only been a few years older than me.
"Yeah?" I asked after completing my assessment of him.
He looked like he was assessing me as well, which I was used to, Moroi loved dhampir girls like me for a quick fling.
"Just saying hello, that's all."
With that I began to walk towards my room again not wanting to continue talking to him until he spoke again.
"You smell good, you know."
"Um... what?" I asked puzzled, which made him smile
"You smell good."
"Are you joking? I've been sweating all day. I'm disgusting." I started to walk away again desperate for a shower.
"That's not a bad thing" he said following me. "Some of the best things happen in life when sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it, it is pretty disgusting. But on a beautiful woman? Intoxicating . If you could smell like a vampire does, you'd know what I mean. Most women drown it out with perfume. But if you get the right balance between perfume and your own perspiration... it's dead sexy." He tilted his head looked at me, taking another sniff at the air and sighing in contentment, the way I normally do when I smell food. This worried me slightly.
"Thanks for the hygiene lesson, complete stranger, but I don't own perfume and I'm going to shower. Sorry."
I continued walking and he following taking out another cigarette and offering me one. I could smell alcohol on him as well.
"You know that's bad for you." I said declining the cigarette.
"That's why it's fun," he winked. "You here from the Academy?"
"Yeah."
"So you're a guardian in the making."
"Obviously."
He exhaled smoke and I coughed that the foul smell of it. I tried to fan away from me with his hand with a sheepish look on his face.
"How long until you grow up? I might need a guardian."
" I graduate in the spring but I'm spoken for."
"Who's the lucky guy?" he asked with disappointmentcoating his words.
"The lucky girl is Vasilisa Dragomir."
"I knew you were trouble as soon as I saw you," he said with a huge grin on his face. "You're Janine Hathaway's daughter."
"I'm Rose Hathaway." I said with a grimace not wanting to be reminded of that fact.
"Nice to meet you, Rose Hathaway." He said going to shake my hand. "Adrian Ivashkov."
"And you think I'm trouble," I muttered. The Ivashkov's were one of the wealthiest and most powerful royal families, which explained his arrogance.
He laughed. I liked it; it was warm and melodious, almost as nice as Dimitri's laugh although Adrian struck me as a person to laugh more than Dimitri did.
"Our reputations precede us."
I shook my head. "You only know about my mother, not me. And I only know of your family, not you."
"Do you want to get to know me?" he chuckled
"Don't do older guys." Liar, I thought to myself.
"I'm only twenty-one. Not that much older."
That's true. And I mean I was surely better for me to "get to know" Adrian Ivashkov than hopelessly chase my older mentor, right? And anyway, maybe he could distract me from Dimitri and actually make me forget him potentially going off with that bitch Ozera.
I noticed we'd stopped walking and we were standing quite close to each other. Not as in has in inappropriately close but closer than you'd usually stand with a guy you'd just met. I looked at him, really looked at him. I mean, sure it was totally irresponsible to get involved with and Ivashkov even if it was just for a distraction but I'm Rose Hathaway, irresponsible is my middle name. Maybe this wasn't such a bad thing for me to spend some time with him, and it would really piss of Dimitri which is an added bonus. He's made his bed, he can lie in it with Tasha for all I care right now.
"Do you want to get to know me?" he repeated, an excited glint in his eyes.
"Not tonight, got plans." I said, and I carried on walking, what was the saying "treat them mean to keep them keep keen?
He caught up with me. "How about tomorrow? It's Pricilla Voda's big dinner. I'm sure Vasilisa is going so why don't you come with me?" I stopped dead. Adrian Ivashkov was asking me Rose Hathaway to go to a Royal dinner with him? All though I wanted to go out with him I didn't expect something so public. It would such a scandal...
"Yeah, sure." I said and he smiled.
"Ok then, little dhampir. It's a date. I'll pick you up at 7 tomorrow."
With that he turned on his heel and walked back the way he came and I continued to my room, my head spinning with my new Dimitri distraction...
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