Rose POV

I woke up in Dimitri's bed by myself. I know he wouldn't leave me here alone so I went out to the balcony attached to his apartment. Just as I expected he was here sitting on the ground, (because he has no chairs out here) reading one of his western novels.

"What is it with you and those damn westerns?" I smiled. He didn't hear me come out, so that was a plus because it's damn near impossible to sneak up on a guardian (especially this guardian). He grabbed my hand and pulled me down on his lap, causing me to straddle him.

"You know you love that about me." He smiled. Pulling my mouth to his.

"Especially that duster you're always wearing." I laughed, when we stopped kissing. "Why are you out here?" I asked. It was freezing so I know it wasn't to warm up.

"I wanted to watch the sun set." He said. "The sooner we get showered and dressed the sooner you get to see Chelsea and Lissa," He smirked. "And then you can kill Christian."

"Haha." I said. "Very funny." I kissed him one last time, longer than last time, and got up to shower and change.

When I walked out of the bathroom Johnathon was still sleeping, and Dimitri was waiting by the bathroom door smirking.

"What's that smirk about?" I asked.

"Nothing." He said as if nothing was wrong, but I knew he was up to something.

"You are such a liar." I smiled.

"Prove it." He kissed my lips quickly, then as I began to walk away, he smacked my butt as he walked into the bathroom causing that smirk of his to turn into a full out grin.

Something was definitely up.

When Dimitri got out of the bathroom I woke Johnathon up and told him to bath, and change clothes. Then we headed out to Lissa's house.

"Rose!" Lissa exclaimed when she saw me.

"Hey Liss." I said as she grabbed me and hugged me tight.

"I missed you so much." She said when she started to let go.

"I missed you too." And then I remembered. "Where the hell is sparky?" I asked irritably.

"Right here Rosie." He said walking into the room smirking.

"Do you remember what I said to you the last time you called me that?" I asked moving toward him slowly.

"You said you would break my nose." He said suddenly scared.

"I was joking then, but now I have a real reason to break your nose. So, with that being said." I did a quick punch to his nose and was satisfied to hear a 'crack'. "You knew I was there why would you kiss her?"

"Don't worry I have no intentions on doing it again when you're there."

"Good."

After Lissa healed him, and then reprimanded me for doing it for 'no reason', she finally went back to wanting to spend sometime with me.

"Can I see Chelsea now?" I asked, becoming anxious.

"Yeah. She has a crib in the other room." She replied, standing up.

She led me to the other room where a small infant was making little noises to suggest she was awake. As soon as I saw her my heart jumped out of my chest. She's as beautiful as I remember.

"Chelsea." I breathed. Hearing her name, she rolled over to look at me. As soon as she saw me a huge grin broke across her face as she squealed in delight.

Her hair was just like mine. She has short locks of brown hair that looked like a dirty blonde in some lighting. She wore a pink onesie that had her name scribed beautifully on it along with some white socks that had pink polka dots on them. My beautiful baby girl.

I walked over to her, and lifted her from the crib. I kissed the top of her head, and cradled her in my arms. I looked over at Johnathon.

"Come here." I said softly, walking over to the chair that Lissa had in the room.

Johnathon complied with the help of Dimitri nudging him.

"Sit down, and hold your arms like I am." I instructed, and he did as he was told like always.

I handed him the baby seeing that he was big enough to hold her for the first time, and he took her happily.

"Be genital." I told him, keeping my hand under Chelsea's head.

"I missed you Chelsea." He told her, and she smiled; as did everyone else in the room.

"Seems as it's getting late, would you like to help me make dinner, Rose?"

"Yeah." I said, as I picked up the baby. Dimitri walked over and took her out of my arms as Christian ushered them into the living room.

As soon as we were in the kitchen Lissa started grabbing things from the fridge and pantry so we could make spaghetti and a salad.

"I was hoping I could keep the kids tonight." She said as she instructed me to boil a pot of water and start cutting lettuce.

"Sure, Liss. I think Johnathon wanted to stay anyway." I said smiling.

"Great thanks." She said as she kissed my cheek.

"I was gone for a month, you couldn't possibly miss me this much." I said jokingly.

"Longest month of my life." She muttered.

"I promise I won't leave again." I said hugging her.

"Good." She smiled and kissed my cheek again before turning back to making the meatballs.

Dimitri POV

"Johnathon, I've been watching you hang around Chelsea for an hour and you still haven't given me a hug." Christian said acting like he has hurt.

"Sissy says you carry diseases." He replies, and I couldn't help but laugh. Christian gave me the death stare so I played it of as a cough, but I don't think he bought it. Oh well.

"She's right. That's why your job is to give them to her." Christian said, but before Johnathon could ask what he meant, Christian grabbed him and started tickling him until neither of them could breath. Johnathon may be a small 8 year old, but he can put up a fight. Just like his sister.

"Want to play dodge ball?" Christian asked, regaining his breaths. Johnathon looked at me.

"Don't look at me I'm not getting in trouble with your sister." I said smiling. Johnathon looked at the kitchen entrance, then at Christian and nodded.

"You're not playing with Christian's fire tonight." Rose called from the kitchen, and Johnathon looked worried that she could hear us in here.

Christian looked at Johnathon, and put a single finger vertically over his lips to signal for Johnathon to be quiet. Christian started to get up when Lissa added to Rose's statement.

"If he comes to the table with scorched clothes you're sleeping outside tonight, Christian Ozera."

We all laughed as Christian sat back down looking embarrassed. Even Chelsea, in my arms giggled with her own soft laughter.

I know Rose wants to raise her as her own, and honestly I have always thought of her as a daughter. But Rose has said that if for some reason Chelsea asks, she will tell her the truth.

"Is Sparky finally get the punishment a dog deserves?" Rose chastised behind me.

Christian sent a fireball hurling towards her, which she dodged easily, but Lissa's lilies weren't so lucky.

"Oh, you're really gonna be in the dog house when she see's this." Rose said.

"Hide them." Christian whispered harshly.

"I'm not getting my ass kicked for your outburst." Rose replied.

"Johnathon, can you do me a favor?" Christian asked.

Uh-oh...

Johnathon nodded.

"I swear to God Christian, if he does it you're a dead dog. You are not making him your accomplice." And she was very serious. I looked at him and shook my head. Even Johnathon was scared to find out what his sister would do.

"Ne-never mind, Johnathon." Christian said nervously.

"Good. Dinner's ready." She said as she walked over to Christian. She gave him a kiss on the cheek and skipped away. I'd be jealous if I didn't know that she was trying to scare him. She didn't have to try hard he was petrified.

We got up and walked into the kitchen. Christian purposfully stayed as far away from Rose as he could. She noticed and I could tell she took pride in it. We were all at the table when Rose finally spoke up.

"Calm down Christian. I'm not going to do anything. But Lissa might when she finds out what happened to her lilies." She said.

"What happened to my lilies?" Christian automatically looked at Rose like she was crazy. She just simply shrugged 'apologetically'.

"Oops." Was all she said.

"Dimitri, you won't lie to me. What happened to my lilies?" She asked me.

"I don't really want to get involved." I said.

"Too late." She replied coldly. "I'm not going to ask again. What happened to my lilies?" I sighed.

"Christian threw a fireball at Rose, and when she dodged it it burned your lilies." I said truthfully.

"Ok." Now I'm terrified. Then she looked at Johnathon. "Do you want to sleep in our bed tonight?" She asked him. He nodded.

"Liss, three people can't fit in that bed." Christian said.

"I know."

"So why are you trying to fit three people in it?"

"I'm not. I'm fitting two. Specifically the one that didn't destroy my flowers."

"So where am I sleeping?"

"The couch. For a week." He nodded, knowing better than to argue because that would mean more time on the couch.

Once we finished Rose helped with the dishes, while Christian cleaned the ashes that used to be beautiful lilies. Before we went home Rose said 'goodnight' to the kids and Lissa. When it came time to say goodnight to Christian all she did was make a tsk sound and say: "Bad dog." And everybody but Christian laughed. We left listening to Johnathon repeat Rose's words over and over to Christian.

When we got home I shut and locked the door behind us, and pushed Rose against the wall kissing her. She automatically wrapped her legs around my waist to support herself as she pulled my shirt off, and I did the same to her. Soon we were both naked with our clothes on the floor, and us in the bed breathing very heavy. God, I missed having her in my arms.

Now I know what I want. For her to be mine forever.