Chapter 7: Jealousy

Caleb smiled as he was kissing Rose. 'Gods, she tastes so good, damnit I want a piece of her.' Caleb was too busy kissing Rose that he didn't realize someone had pulled him off her until he was face to face with Nick. He smirked as Nick was flushed with anger and staring at him like he wanted to kill him. "You jealous Nick, damn boy I would be to. She is beautiful, and she is such a great kisser." Caleb smirked as Nick punched him hard in the jaw.

"If you ever degrade her like that again, I will kill you and there is nothing, not even she can do to stop me." Nick growled in his ear and kneed him in the stomach as he stared at Rose snarling he walked back into Kyrian's house as Rosalinda ran over to Caleb leaning down over him.

"Caleb, are you ok?" She asked with concern in her voice as she helped him stand up and he smiled pushing her hair behind her left ear smiling cupping her cheek. He nodded as he bent himself up to kiss her gently as she moaned into his mouth he pulled her closer to her crushing her to him as he closed his eyes. Rose broke the kiss and laid her head on his chest. "You can't be to hurt if you're doing stuff like that, however if you are going to act like that every time you get punched, I might have to get you punched more often."

He laughed and nodded getting up and shook his head. "I love you Rose."

She smiled and nodded as she put her hand in his as they walked to his car and got in. She smiled and leaned back in the car as he smiled looking at her. "So what is the plan tonight?"

"You'll have to see." He revved up his engine and drove off.

Time flew by for Nick. He had started the night pacing his room, thinking about Rose and what she and Caleb were going to do tonight, which only made him angrier. After he had been pacing he went over to the training room and punched at the dummy cursing Caleb's head. He had just gotten enough anger out of his system that he could actually make conversation with Kyrian. He had started to look for him as he looked out at the courtyard and smiled as Nick walked over to Kyrian next to the statue of his wife. "Hey dude, I thought you would be out hunting."

"Hey, I thought you would be punching a dummy till she returned." Kyrian laughed and turned to face Nick as he had a glove in hand. "You wanna play while we wait for them?"

Nick nodded and smiled as he grabbed one of the gloves from Kyrian. He smiled as he ran from the edge of the courtyard smiling. Nick knew that Kyrian knew about how he loved Rose and about how much the idea of her going out with another guy pissed him off to no end. However, Nick had no right to complain; he had been sleeping around and dating other girls for almost his entire life after Rose. He caught the ball as Kyrian threw it and he tossed it back to Kyrian. His mind went back to Rose and how gorgeous she made herself look for Caleb. He sighed and continued to throw the ball back and forth between himself and Kyrian. Of course, she would never make herself look that cute for him because he wasn't her boyfriend. His heart shattered again at the thought as he tossed the ball again. He kept going over everything that happened in high school between him and Rose. The more he thought about it the more angry he got. It wasn't fair that he couldn't be with her. He loved her and she dare go out with Caleb. He kept throwing the ball and he threw it harder this time as he closed his eyes. It was him who helped Rose regain her memories. It was him who helped her through all the hard times. It was him who held her when she cried. It was always him. And Caleb thinks he can walk in and destroy everything Rose and Nick had. Not if he had his way. Nick looked at Kyrian and walked up to him. I am going after him.

Kyrian sighed as he stared at Nick. He had so much potential. He had begun to love Nick like he was his own son. He knew that Rose and Nick loved each other but Acheron had told him not to say anything and so he didn't say anything. The more he thought about them, the harder it was to stay out of it. He grabbed Nick by the shoulder and made him walk with Kyrian down to his room. "Listen Nick, if you care for her in any way. You will let her make her own decisions. I mean I don't even know this Caleb guy and I let her go on this date. Granted, she is 21, but still, I let her go, WITHOUT any guff. It is hard I know, trust me, do you think I wanted her to go out on this date. No, I didn't. But I did because I care for her. Even though I know she is not my daughter, I let her go because she is like my daughter and I love her like a daughter. That's why I'm telling you this now Nick, if you go after her right now, you will ruin any friendship you hold dear with her. So please do me a favor, and let her be happy and make her own decisions. And if her decisions fall through the roof and she feels like a dumbass for making the wrong decision, you support her anyway. It will be hard and trust me I wish I had followed my advice at your age, but please I wish for you to follow it now. Because, I know you both are friends. Plus, it would make it extremely awkward, you working for me, if you two hated each other." Kyrian laughed out that last part.

Nick looked at Kyrian and then down at his own hands and sighed looking up at the ceiling. "Damnit Kyrian, your turning us into old ladies. I liked it better when we didn't talk about our feelings. I am going to talk to Ash where he can at least be a man about things." He laughed and clapped Kyrian on the back. "But seriously I appreciate it Kyrian." Nick smiled and walked off. He hadn't realized where he was going until he wound up Rose's door. He smiled and thought about it. "I'll just wait for her to get back so I can apologize to her." He walked into her room and smiled as he lay on her bed waiting for her to get back. Before he knew it he was asleep sighing as he had the scent of rose around him.

Rosalinda was walking to the door with Caleb holding her hand as he smiled and turned her around as he kissed her yet again. She smiled in pleasure as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He smiled and lowered his hands to the middle of her back and smiled as he kissed her deeper. He slowly and reluctantly pulled back away from her and smiled as he stared into her eyes. "I will see you tomorrow Rose."

Rose shook her head and stared at him. "You can't sweetheart, unless you can do a flash like I can, you can't go to Dante's Inferno where I work. I am dancing tomorrow night for him. I asked him if we could host a dance party for him instead. Surprisingly, he though having a one night a week burlesque lounge for one night a week would make him money. Ironically, it did."

Caleb laughed and hugged her. "I may have to go just to see you have naked on stage baby." Rose shoved him laughing hard as she walked into her house and Caleb walked to his car. "That's right Rose, I keep forgetting you belong to him." He turned back to look at the door and got in his car sighing.

Rose leaned against the door sighing closing her eyes. She needed to fall in love with Caleb; her heart couldn't take being hurt by Nick any longer. She pushed herself away from the door and walked up the stairs trying not to make any noise as she was way past what Kyrian would call curfew. She quickly dashed to her room and opened the door shutting it as she quickly went to her bathroom in her room and changed into her pajamas which was a pink silk night dress that went down and barely covered her ass her breasts were showing a ton of cleavage as she walked back to her room and just stared at the sight on her bed. She bit her bottom lip to keep from shrieking as she walked over to her bed and looked at him as she nodded. "Yep he's asleep alright." She whispered to herself as she lay down in her bed, being extremely careful not to wake him and cuddled into him closing her eyes. He wrapped his arms around her. 'Probably just instinct to do that, he has slept with so many girls.' She thought to herself as she tried to push that thought away as she went to sleep.

A few hours later Nick woke up and yawned as he had felt a sudden weight against him cuddling with him. He shook his head nervous for a second as he stared down and tried not to gasp in surprise as Rose was cuddling with him. He shook his head in denial thinking that he must be asleep, but the longer he lay there the longer he realized that she was not faking this sleep and that he wasn't dreaming. 'She really wants to sleep with me.' Unable to control himself he bent his head down and kissed her neck. She moaned softly in her sleep as she blushed deeply. He continued to kiss up and down her neck, moving to her jaw, and then to her ear, he finally ended up kissing her shoulder and shoulder blade.

Rosalinda woke up to a great sensation. She started to smile as the night before came crashing back into her memory. She jolted quickly out of bed and stared at Nick who was looking at her with lust and desire, but also underneath with love and compassion. "What do you think you are doing?!"

He looked frantically at her and sighed, "I had stayed her last night intending to apologize to you for my jealousy, and I must have fallen asleep waiting for you."

She smiled and nodded. "Ok, I can accept that, but why are you kissing my neck and body this morning?"

"I'm sorry." He looked away. "Rose I can't control myself when it comes to you. I don't know what it is about you but when it comes to me having to control myself, I just can't do it. I mean don't get me wrong if Caleb ever hurts you I will kill him so fast he will regret the day he was born, but still. Rose I love you and I hope you know that. I love you so much that I am going to override my jealousy and sit on the sidelines and hope and pray that Kyrian can get free from Artemis's curse. You know and the sad part is I want him to be free for an entirely selfish reason. So I can be with you. I mean of course if he gets free he'll be happy and after everything he has done for me, I want him happy, but I want him to get free so we can be together. You know it's not easy being around you all the time and never being able to touch you, feel you. Rose I love you more than I love anything, I would die if anything happened to you and the idea of you dating Caleb pisses me off to no end. I want you to know that. So I guess that's what I needed to say. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I want you to be happy and if you being with Caleb makes you happy, than I guess I will live with it. But all I want for you Rosalinda Maria Alexander is to be happy."

Rose just stared at him in shock as she tried to control her breathing. It was hard for her to do, but she managed to control her breathing long enough to say, "I love you to." She looked at him as tears welled up in her eyes and she ran to her bathroom in order to save herself from the embarrassment of crying in front of him AGAIN. She slammed the door and locked it as she stared at herself in the mirror. She turned on her sink and splashed her face with water staring up at the mirror she shook her head. "Get it together Rose." She stood up and managed to gain enough composure to walk out of Nick's room and smile as she leaned against her wall to the bathroom. "So, where does that leave us?"

He shook his head shrugging as she stared at her. "I don't know, but I love you and I hope we can still be friends."

Rose bit back a sarcastic retort. "Of course we can still be friends, as long as you don't slug my boyfriend anymore." He laughed and nodded as he shook his head, saying he'll see her downstairs. She smiled and nodded as she went to her closet and put on a pair of black trip pants with purple threading on it crisscrossing its way up her leg. She grabbed her silver chains and hooked them onto her body and walked out to the kitchen pulling on her tank top. She grabbed her combat boots on the chair of the island in the kitchen and walked over to the dining room table. She stared at Nick and smiled, "So any big errands you have to run for the big guy today?"

He laughed at her phrasing of the words and shook his head. "Nah, Kyrian says I'm too good at my job and need a night off however if he needs me, I am still on call. Which really isn't a day off but you know he's a little crazy sometimes."

Rose laughed and smiled. "You'd be crazy to if you lived for almost 3,000 years."

He looked at her and smiled, "You lived for almost just as long and you're not crazy."

She smiled and looked at him. "True, but I have no recollection of it."

He shook his head and smiled as he hugged her and left her smiling. He felt as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. He started towards his car as he got on and smiled.

Rosalinda was staring around at the house, she peeked into Kyrian's room to make sure he was sleeping and she stared down the hall at Rosa and smiled as she closed her eyes and flashed herself to Alaska. She looked around at the darkness outside and looked down flashing herself on a warm coat and a pair of jeans and mittens with a knit hat as she looked at the sky and cocked her hip to the side. "Thank you grandma for the powers…" She laughed and looked out the window as Zarek was driving back on his snowmobile and Rose thought that she should surprise him she hid behind a desk of his and smiled. He slowly entered the house as Rose jumped up from behind the desk and smiled staring at him. He turned around quickly throwing a dagger at her and she caught it smiling. "Come on now Zarek, be nice."

He shook his head at her as he grabbed his knife from her and sat down. Rose sat next to her and smiled as she looked at him. "It's been a long time Zarek, I miss you, you know."

He shrugged. "Talk to that bitch, she wants me here, and I didn't see Acheron fighting for my safety." She reached out and hugged him as tears started to flow down her cheeks. He held her and smiled as he wiped her tears. "Rose, I told you, you can't cry here, your tears will freeze." She looked away and nodded. He sighed and held her like he did back in Rome after she got bought when Kyrian died to be a slave for his father. "Rose, what's wrong. I know you don't come here very often and you very rarely come here and cry tell me what is going on."

She sighed as she debated on what to tell him. He knew that she was with Kyrian. He knew that she was in love with his squire. He knew just about everything that was going on in her life. He was easy to talk to. He was there for her when she needed. She started to spill her guts to Zarek about everything that was going on and how her life had turned out to be a total mess. He smiled and ruffled her hair and kissed her cheek. "Rose, it seems to me that you love Nick, so why are you with Caleb. I know you want to get over Nick, but toying with someone's heart is not the way to go about it." He gave her a hug and smiled. "You go make this right for me ok?" She nodded and smiled as she stared at him.

"I will Zarek I will make this right with everyone. And next time you see me I won't be crying." He laughed at that and smiled as he picked her up into a tight hug. She smiled and looked at her watch. "Well Z, I love you but I got to get going, work doesn't wait for anyone." She smiled to herself and flashed out of Zarek's little cottage, and into Dante's Inferno. Dante walked over to her angry and she rubbed her head laughing slightly. "I know I know I am late."

"Yes you are late now get your ass to the backstage and get ready you're on in thirty."

"Yes sir." Rosalinda laughed and walked backstage and began getting ready.

3,126 words, OH MY GOD. YAY, anyway. So nanowrimo is coming up soon and I want to know what you guys think of me writing a fanfiction for it. I want your opinions. Honestly I love you guys and would love for your opinions. I haven't gotten any comments lately. Which is fine to me that means that nothing is wrong. So I just want you guy to know that I love what you guys do for me and thank you so much. Oh and one more thing. I have a wix for all my characters up on my website if you guys want to take a look at that so you know a little more about them go ahead.

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