Sorry, sorry, sorry. That's all I can say. I've had no time, but I'm trying to make up for it with my longest chapter yet! I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Academy, which means that I will never be able to have Olena as my mother-in-law, darn! Lol

"Now it's time to tell your family."

One Week Later

"Of course," she said, as if it was a silly question. I guess it might have been to her.

"Thanks, Liss. You're the best," I told her, giving her a hug.

I was excited. We were going to go to Russia and visit Dimitri's family. Not only that, but we were going to introduce Anabelle.

There was a knock on the door and I resumed my position. I was still technically working. The door opened, and in walked Christian and Dimitri. Christian kissed Lissa while Dimitri took a spot against the wall next to me. We shared a quick glance before watching our charges.

"You know you guys don't have to be all professional," Lissa insisted, again, trying to make us loosen up.

"It's our job, Lissa," Dimitri told her.

"I know, I just wish it wasn't."

"We know, Liss, we know," I said.

"Hey," she started, "why don't you guys leave tonight?"

"I don't know, Liss."

"It's fine, I insist. Anyways, there are a few guardians who want overtime." I looked at her and she smiled at me. "You can go and live your own life, you know," she told me.

"Yeah, I know. But it's hard leaving you unprotected."

"I'm not unprotected."

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah, I do. I understand you want to protect me at all times, but you need to have a life outside of me."

I tried hard not to, but I couldn't help it. I immediately thought of Ivan, and how he convinced Dimitri to take time off. It had led to Ivan dying. I know I shouldn't fear, but I couldn't help it. Dimitri grabbed my hand and squeezed it, knowing what I was thinking.

"Ok, Liss," I gave in.

"Yay!" she squealed as she clapped her hands. She went and opened the door, beckoning a couple people inside. They were guardians.

"This was going to happen no matter what, wasn't it?" I asked.

"Yep!" she said. I just sighed. "I have a plane ready for whenever you are done packing."

No matter how hard it was to leave, I loved it. I loved to visit our family. I gave Lissa a hug.

"Thank you so much," I told her.

"Have fun."

"I will be calling to check up on you," I warned her.

"I know," she laughed.

"What about me?" Christian interrupted.

"What about you?" I asked, being stubborn, as usual.

"Have you got any final words for me?"

"Yeah," I said. "Watch and protect Lissa."

"Of course," he scoffed, "Why wouldn't I?"

"I'm not saying you wouldn't, I'm just making sure that you know that you need to."

"Thanks for the heads up. It's not like I didn't already know this."

"I know, I just have to make sure."

"I know," he said, slightly sincere.

I gave Lissa one last hug, and then we went to pack our bags. We got back to our place and got clothes packed in a hurry. We finished and set the bags on the floor. We both laid on out bed, facing each other.

"Anabelle is still being babysat," Dimitri stated, as he started to make trails up an down my side with his fingers.

"Hmm.. She is," I agreed, giving him my man eater smile. In a quick second, he pulled me close and started kissing me.

I can tell you that with the time we had, we did something we can't do with Anabelle home. It was nice. We ended up taking a shower together afterwards and then got dressed.

We finally went to pick up an overexcited Anabelle, grabbed our bags, and got on the plane.

Russia, here we come.

0000

Anabelle and I both slept on the flight. I'm not sure about Dimitri, though.

I laid against Dimitri with Anabelle on my lap leaning against the both of us. I'm assuming he read a western, and hopefully got at least a little bit of sleep. He nudged me, and I in turn woke up Anabelle. We were about to land.

The plane landed and there was a car waiting for us. We had landed in St. Petersburg and we wanted to do some sight-seeing before we headed to our family.

The first place we went to was the Winter Palace. It was absolutely beautiful. Lissa had given me a camera before we left, practically ordering me to take a ton of pictures. I can tell you that we put it to good use.

The Winter Palace was beautiful. There were so many amazing paintings. We stopped many times and asked the people around us to take our picture.

There was a lot of walking, and not wanting to spend too much time there, we only actually went into a hundred of the fifteen hundred rooms. Also there was the Hermitage Museum. There was a ton of art in this place, too. It showed a lot of the Russian culture that Anabelle and I loved to see, and that Dimitri enjoyed showing us.

The Heritage Museum is one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. By the time we got out of there, it was nearly nightfall. We had arrived in the early afternoon.

Since it was so late, we decided to stay in the Katyusha Hotel that was nearby. Anabelle was asleep, so I waited in the car with her until Dimitri came back with a room key. I took her out and walked up to the hotel while he grabbed our luggage. Somehow, he managed to be able to carry it all. Or, at least, what we needed.

"Room 216," he told me, "on the third floor." I pressed the button for the elevator, and then the third floor button when we got inside. It didn't take long, and then we were walking to our room.

It looked nice and it had two queen sized beds. Laying Anabelle on one of them, I tucked her in and kissed her head.

Dimitri set the luggage down, set my bag on the bed, and opened it so that I could grab my pajamas. I changed while he did the same, but with his bag on one of the chairs. I set my bag on the ground, and then laid down on the bed under the covers. Dimitri joined me when he was finished.

With his arms around me, he whispered Russian nothings, and we fell asleep.

0000

The next morning, Anabelle woke us up. We got dressed and headed down for breakfast. When we finished eating, we went back to our room and packed up, we were only staying the one night. Our plan now was to go and have some fun.

The was an amusement park not too far away from where we were. It was on the Krestovsky Island and had the Divo Ostrov amusement park and the Dolphinarium. There was an awesome roller coaster that Anabelle, as well as myself, was dying to go on.

Our daughter was pretty amazing. She seemed to act older that seven a lot of the time. She could have been twelve for all I know. All three of us went on, with Anabelle in between us. It was amazing.

There was also the Random Chaos.

I couldn't remember the last time I had went to an amusement park, or carnival. I think maybe once with Lissa when we were on the run, but that was it. There was a train, a sombrero spinning ride, and dragons. Also, the food was amazing. We also took a ton more of pictures.

We weren't planning it, but we were there all day long. We finally decided to leave, and make our last stop before heading to our family.

It was St. Basil's, so it was quite a drive. Anabelle and I slept, once again. We didn't get out of our car or go inside the property, we stopped right outside the gates. Dimitri just wanted to show me where it was. Where he learned all of his mad skills from.

It had to be at least a little hard for him. It seemed like a lifetime ago. At that time he was young, he was probably with a bunch of girls, learning to fight like I had.

Not only that, but he had Ivan. It must remind him of his best friend.

We both had days of the year that were hard on us. When a loved one had left us. Ivan's death hurts him now, and will hurt him forever. A

nabelle was still asleep, we hadn't bothered to wake her up. Not to just see a school. She was worn out.

I was glad Dimitri showed me, that he wanted to show me. It meant a lot to me. This whole time we just sat in silence holding hands, not needing to say anything. I squeezed his hand after a while and he looked at me. His eyes were a little watery. I gave him a small smile.

"I got some sleep, why don't you let me drive so that you can get some sleep too."

He nodded his head, us both understanding that we didn't want to stop and rest at night on that road.

We switched spots, and I grabbed his hand giving it another squeeze. With another small smile, I started driving, and he was out in no time.

0000

We got to Baia quite a few hours later, and they were both awake. We didn't stop anywhere, going straight to the Belikov's house. We arrived and knocked on the door.

Right afterwards, I just remembered that we still needed to introduce Anabelle.

I gave a quick glance to Dimitri, and the door opened. It was about 8am in the morning.

"Hey, Roza and Dimka are here!" Viktoria yelled. All of a sudden, we heard the rushing of many footsteps.

We were soon bombarded with many death hugs and greetings, until someone finally noticed.

"Who is she?" Paul asked.

So, I know it wasn't very descriptive, but I hope it was good and worth the wait.

Now, the Belikov family will find out, yay! But, what else is going to happen at the Belikov's home... Hmmm... I wonder, lol.

Hopefully you still enjoy my story enough to still follow along. Have a good day.. or night. Whatever schedule you're on, whether moroi or human.

"It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter how any of us feel." - Dimitri Belikov