Rose POV
I woke up in the best place ever. I was in my love's arms, and nothing could be better. I love him. And I will never be afraid to say it again.
I turned in his arms to face him, when I noticed he was awake.
"Morning, beautiful." He said.
"I just woke up. I highly doubt I look beautiful."
"You're always beautiful." He smiled.
"I love you." I whispered.
"I love you too." He said rubbing my cheek. "Shower and get dressed, I'll meet you out on the balcony." So I did as he said.
When I walked out on the balcony, he was leaning on the railing watching the sun set, yet again.
"Why did you want to come out here?" I asked.
"I thought you would like to watch the sun set with me." He grinned.
"I know that's not why you wanted to come out here. There's something else. What is it." I asked. He sighed.
"You never let me do things my way do you?" He smiled.
"One of my many great qualities." I grinned.
I was about to say something else, but he started to get down on one knee. I covered my mouth as soon as a gasp escaped.
"My beautiful Roza, will you make me the happiest man alive and marry me?" He smiled as he got out a box with a beautiful diamond ring.
I didn't uncover my mouth because I knew I would burst into tears. And although he has seen me cry many times, I still hated doing it. So, instead I nodded as he took my right hand a placed a ring with a silver band and heart cut diamond on my ring finger. I finally uncovered my mouth as I wrapped my arms around his neck, and he wrapped his arms around my waist. His lips landed hard on mine, and when he licked my bottom lip, I sucked on his and bit it as I broke the kiss.
"Still a tease," He laughed. "But you're my tease." He said kissing me again.
"I love you, Comrade." I gasped.
"I love you too, Roza."
And with that, we wound up with our clothes on the floor, and us gasping for breath in the bed.
Dimitri POV
I had planned on waiting a little longer to ask her, but with everything that's happened, I wanted to do it now because I could loose her at any moment. I will love her until the day I die. Even after.
We had fallen asleep again, so when I woke up it was no surprise that she was still sleeping. I knew that if I got up I would wake her up, and she is very cranky when you wake her up no matter what you do for her. And I don't think our engagement would help her crankiness subside.
She turned in my arms to face me, and I thought she was awake, but all she did was grab onto my waist and pull herself closer.
My Roza, always demanding my full attention. I thought with a smile.
I laid there with her, watching her sleep. I think when she sleeps is the only time she ever gets any peace. She is certainly a lot nicer when she sleeps. But Christian wouldn't know she even had a nice side. He'd probably think that the only reason she smiles in her sleep is when she is satisfied with the death plans that she has created for him.
"Hmm." She mumbled.
"Roza, are you awake?" I asked, though I knew she was.
"No." She moaned. I laughed.
"Come on. We have to go get the kids." I said. Her eyes fluttered open looking at me.
"Fine." She said raising up. Then she looked at me. "You asked Lissa to keep them didn't you?" She asked, smiling because she knew she was right.
Busted...
"I might have asked her if she wanted to." I said.
"You're not very sneaky." She observed. Though I could be very sneaky when I'm not around her. We practically have the same mind.
"Only when I'm around you." I kissed her.
"Ok, if we don't get the kids now we'll never get out of this bed today." She said breaking the kiss.
"I don't mind." I breathed. She laughed.
"I do. I've not seen Chelsea in a month." She wants to play it that way?
"You haven't seen me in a month either." I said kissing her again.
"Get dressed." She said walking into the bathroom.
Damn, I thought I had her convinced. I thought. Oh well. I got my treat watching her walk away.
Rose POV
I bought Johnathon an IPod for when he gets board, and I saw that he left it in the bathroom from his bath yesterday morning. I remember putting my music album on there so before I got in the shower, yet again today, I scrolled through them:
Angel With a Shotgun : The Cab
Before he Cheats : Carrie Underwood
Broken Road : Rascal Flatts
Chalk Outline : 3 Days Grace
Dollhouse : Melanie Martinez
Don't : Ed Sheeran
Here Without You : 3 Doors Down
Hey Soul Sister : Train
In the End : Linkin Park
Jesus Take the Wheel : Carrie Underwood
Landing in London : 3 Doors Down
Lips of an Angel : Hinder
Never too Late : 3 Days Grace
She will be Loved : Maroon 5
I couldn't pick one so I just started at the top. When I finished showering it was on "Chalk Outline".
"Since when do you listen to music?" Dimitri asked, kissing me as I walked out of the bathroom.
"Oh, so you're stalking me now?" I asked, smiling.
"Can you blame me?" He said kissing me again. I laughed.
"Why do you ask?" I asked, as he was still pulling me in for kisses.
"I'm curious." He replied, kissing me deeply.
"I had to do something to block out the sounds of my grandmother's screams." I said gasping when the kiss broke.
"Not anymore. Now you can listen to it when you want to. Not to block out a noise you don't want to hear." Then he smiled. "And you can't use the headphones and music as an excuse as to why you're making me get up at night to tend to the baby." I laughed.
"I would never do that to you." I said grinning.
"I'll bet." He said in that thick Russian accent that I love so much. "You look very pretty." But before I can contradict him, he dragged my mouth to his.
The kiss was deeper than one that we've ever had. Even our first one never felt like this. It was very passionate and full of love and adoration. I knew he was afraid of loosing me, but he knows that he never will. At least I hope not.
When he licked my bottom lip I didn't tease him. I gave him what he wanted.
He pushed me back against the wall and my legs wrapped around his waist.
God why can't I ever say no to this man? I thought.
"Dimitri." I sighed.
"Yes, Roza?" He said turning his mouth from my lips to my neck.
"If we don't leave now, I'll never be able to convince Kirova to let Johnathon back into the school." I said. He smiled before playfully nipping my neck with his teeth. He knows better than to give me a hickey where everybody can see it.
"I'll convince her." He said starting to suck on the part of my neck he just nipped.
"Don't you dare." I warned smacking his arm playfully.
"Fine. One more kiss, and we leave." He said, but the way he kissed me told me that he wanted more.
"Let's go." I said pulling away from the kiss, and dragging him behind me.
We locked our fingers together and started towards Lissa's house.
Dimitri POV
When we reach Lissa's house Johnathon was playing outside with Christian, and Lissa was in a chair with Chelsea in her arms sleeping. When Johnathon saw Rose, he stopped what he was doing and ran to her. She caught him easily, throwing him on her shoulders. We walked over to Lissa, and she smiled.
"Don't forget to talk to Kirova." She said to Rose.
"I won't." Rose told her. "Time to get off you're killing my neck." She said.
"I don't want to flip off. I have a headache." He replied. Rose sighed, so I grabbed Johnathon and pulled him off her neck carefully.
"Thank you." She looked away, then at Lissa. "Give me the baby." She said.
"Rose, she's fine you'll wake her up." Lissa said. Rose contemplated that.
"I don't care. She'll go back to sleep. Trust me, just give her to me."
"Why?" Lissa questioned.
"Christian is coming over here with a bucket, and I don't want to find out what's in it." She said frantically.
"Ok." Lissa gave Rose the baby, and we all looked over at Christian. He put the bucket down and put his left hand in his pocket.
When he got back to us, he squirted something in Rose's mouth, and Lissa quickly grabbed the baby. Then, Christian shoved something down the back of Rose's shirt, just as she elbowed him in the stomach as she fell to the ground spitting something out of her mouth.
"Shit." She gasped trying to get air. Then I saw the wrapper of what he squirted in her mouth, and I gasped. "What the hell got shoved into my mouth?" She breathed. Then, she read the label. "He squirted lube in my mouth." She said obviously not happy. She then proceeded to take out what was shoved down her shirt, and she practically exploded with rage. It was a condom. "Damn it, Christian! I'm gonna fucking kill you!" She screamed, getting up to chase him.
"Now, you should't use this language in front of children." Christian replied trying to run from her.
"Screw that! Besides, you won't be around anymore to hear it!" She retorted. Then, she started running towards him, so I got up and grabbed her.
"Rose, calm down." I whispered.
"Screw that! He went to far!" She shouted.
"Lissa!" I yelled behind me.
"Christian, hold the baby. She won't do anything if you have her. Johnathon, stand in front of him." And Johnathon complied. But it just made Rose's anger worse. I hate it, but there is only one way to get her to calm down.
"Lissa, compulsion." And she did it, but Rose wouldn't look at her, so she grabbed Rose's face and forced her to look at her.
"Rose, calm down." Rose soon became disoriented, and started to comply, slowly making her breathing even. "Sleep." And then Rose was out.
"Lissa, that wasn't her usual outburst." I said, picking her up as Lissa led the way into the house.
"I know. She's been taking more darkness from me than usual because of my constant healing in the clinic."
"Liss, when we learned what element you had, I read that the bond between you takes the darkness from you and gives it to her. Charmed silver is the only thing to keep it from consuming her." Christian said.
"Charming her stake won't solve anything, and I don't have any silver jewelry." Lissa said.
"Use her ring." I suggested. Lissa picked up her right hand, and took off her engagement ring. She took it to the kitchen, and began to charm it.
"Christian, go get a feeder. She's gonna need it when she's done." I told him, and he left quickly.
When Lissa finished she gave me the ring to place back on Rose. Then, went back into the kitchen with Lissa.
"I take it she said 'yes'?" She asked when I walked in.
"Yeah." I smiled.
"Has Rose been acting different?" She asked.
"She's been eating a little more than usual, but that's just because she never got much food when she was gone. She gave most of it to Johnathon to keep him healthy. Why are you asking this?" I replied.
"Sh-she's pregnant." Lissa said looking at me warily.
"No. That's not possible. I've only had her back for a few days." I said. I wasn't worried about the dhampir-dhampir thing because she's shadow-kissed, which means anything is possible with her.
"I can feel it in her. She's not been taking all of the darkness. There's too much for her to take, and have the ability to stay in control. The baby is taking some of it from her so she can take more from me." She whispered.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"I wouldn't tell you if I wasn't." She said confidently.
"Do you know how far she is?" I asked. The last thing I want is for her to be reminded of what happened in the last month every time she looks at this baby.
"She is a month along." I guess I had a guilty look on my face because she quickly added, "It dosen't belong to that bastard, if that's what you're worried about. It know's you are it's biological father." She smiled.
"I don't know if Rose will be to happy though." I reply.
"She will be. She has always told me that she wanted kids." She said as she hugged me.
"Oh my god she's hugging someone other than Sparky. What happened?" Rose joked as she came into the kitchen.
"It's about time you woke up. I was thinking about throwing water on you." I said kissing her briefly.
"Have I mentioned how much I hate compulsion?" She asked as Lissa brought her some Advil and water.
"Quite a few times actually." Lissa laughed.
"Where are the kids?" Rose asked, but she got her answer when Chelsea started to scream as loud as she could.
Rose had never heard her scream like that so she ran in there worried that something was wrong. When we got in there Johnathon had her on the floor trying to play, but I guess she didn't want to be bothered because anytime he tried to touch her she screamed louder.
Rose ran to Chelsea and picked her up off the floor, then looked at Johnathon.
"Sit in that chair now." She instructed. Once she had Chelsea settled down, she placed her into the crib, then turned to Johnathon.
"Why was she in the floor?" Rose demanded kneeling to be at his level.
"She woke up, and you were still sleeping. I didn't want her to wake you up." He said softly.
"I don't care if she wakes me up. You know better than to hold her when there is no adult watching you, and you damn sure know better than to grab her out of that crib. What would you have done if you dropped her?" She continued.
"I'm sorry." He replied.
"Well, what's done, is done. You can't change it,but now I can't trust you to be alone with her now." She said standing up.
"Rose we need to go talk to Kirova." I reminded her.
"Ok. Let's go then." She said. Chelsea woke up again, so Rose just picked her up than took her with us.