I DONT OWN VAMPIRE ACADEMY.

SO THIS CHAPTER IS AROUND HANS AND DIMITRI.

CHAPTER 10: HANS

"Again, Dimitri."

Dimitri pivoted left while striking with his right leg. Hans blocked the blow and jabbed hard with his right hand. He step forward and grabbed Dimitri's raised leg before knocking the other leg out from under him. Dimitri crashed down to the ground and took a moment to catch his breath.

"You committed too soon. You already turned left when you started to kick. It gave away your intention. Again."

The two squared off again and recommenced sparring. Dimitri got past his block and landed a hard kick against his jaw. Seeing his grimace, Dimitri hesitated briefly and stepped slightly back. Seeing the opportunity, Hans advanced forward and knocked him down and pinned his arm against Dimitri's neck.

"I'm sorry. What, did you think we were taking a break? Never hesitate to finish the kill. That hesitation will get you killed and most likely your team."

Hans eased the pressure from Dimitri's neck and helped him up. They sparred again, each landing a couple of blows with neither claiming dominance. He signaled the end of session, both stepped back and gave a respectful bow.

"Good. Your technique is improving. You got to keep working on it so that the moves come from within. Go on and work with Master Chou for a while."

Hans moved to the side and watched Dimitri go through the forms with Master Chou. He surreptitiously worked his jaw, which was already sore from the kick. The beginning of a headache was already developing and his ears were ringing.

He continued watching Dimitri with grudging respect. In two short months, Dimitri had already graduated to red belt level in Tae Kwon Do. At the rate he's improving, he will be a 9th degree black belt, the highest level, within a few more months.

Hans had trained many recruits in the years he had served as a team leader in Section 8. Never before had he seen anyone with as much potential as Dimitri. He thought wryly back to his initial objection to this assignment. It was after the initial meeting between Sydney, Tasha, Adrian, and himself.

Sydney: "That's all for now. You're dismissed."

Hans stayed seated as the other two operatives left the room. Sydney raised her eye brow imperiously toward him and asked: "Something I can help you with?"

"I wasn't satisfied with your answer. Again, why are so many resources being spent on one recruit?"

"You've reviewed Dimitri's compatibility assessment yourself. How would you have approached his training?"

"We are spending a lot of effort to train a Valentine ops recruit. There's no guarantee that he would even complete his training."

"Yes, that's true. However, Lissa at One and I both feel Dimitri is capable of more."

"You discussed Dimitri with Section One?"

"Lissa is the one who came up with this training course."

"Why would she take an interest in this?"

"I suspect that she hopes to one day use Dimitri's services."

"Then why not just send Dimitri over to One now?"

"Because he's our resource. We are the one who recruited him. Also, there are a lot of eyes watching One right now and they can't afford to look like they're poaching from other Sections to boost their numbers."

"Plus he's of no use to them as a recruit?"

"Exactly."

"What's the story with Adrian?"

"I'm not sure. He's record is solid and there's no noted deficiencies in his file. Keep an eye on him will you, Hans?"

"Of course."

Hans was initially annoyed that he had to spend time to train a Valentine ops recruit. His annoyance had slowly changed to respect as Dimitri's innate skills shown through. He, along with the weapons master Abe, have been putting him through the typical training associated with a Field operative: hand to hand combat, weapons, and munitions. Dimitri was excelling in all areas, so much so he was on his way to promotion to provisionary status way ahead of the curve.

As much as he was impressed with Dimitri's natural physical abilities, what really impressed him was his mental acuity. Hans was already teaching him how to profile missions, something not typically taught to a recruit until after the first year of training. How Dimitri thought up unconventional approaches and seemingly can foresee all possible scenarios without ever partaking in a live mission was beyond his comprehension.

He had even given Dimitri a relatively simple mission to profile. Hans had sent Dimitri's mission profile up to Sydney for review and it was approved without any changes. He had Dimitri observe as he provided tactical oversight for the mission. It was carried out flawlessly without any deviation or complications.

Dimitri had quickly become the best recruit he had ever trained. Of course he would never tell him that fact. The man was getting enough compliments already from Abe and Janie, the head of Comm. Not that Dimitri was letting the compliments get to his head. He seemed completely unfazed by the superlatives heaped on him. Dimitri doesn't seem to have any vanity and simply committed to doing the best he could regardless of subject matter. It was that trait that Hans respected the most.

He called an end to the session and Dimitri walked toward him.

"That's all for today. Go get cleaned up and get some rest."

Dimitri bowed respectfully and left the exercise room.

Hans walked back to his office and made a notation on Dimitri's personnel file. Turning his thoughts away from his prized pupil, Hans absorbed himself with preparing for a new mission.

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