Moments

by hatedinnocence03

This is my take on a series of VA drabbles, mostly centred around Rose and Dimitri, and I've been inspired to pursue this idea by Orlissa92's A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That. Please Read & Review!thank you! Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead does.

33. Chapter 33

Drabble:33
POV:Third Person

The night of the lust charm, Dimitri had 'loaned' Rose a T-shirt of his, a blue-grey one that he had bought long ago in Russia, a T-shirt that he retrieved from her the first chance he got.

He didn't think much about her or the T-shirt, and he especially didn't think of her in his T-shirt, a T-shirt that he had worn hundreds of times before. No, he didn't at all think about Rose in his T-shirt and he didn't try to sniff out her wonderful smell when he wore it again. Not at all.

Then, Spokane happened and Rose started to have nightmares- vivid, dreadful nightmares that made her scream bloody murder in the middle of the night. Nightmares that would make her pace around her room restlessly or ball in on herself till either Dimitri or Alberta showed up during their nightly patrols and coaxed her back to sleep.

One such night, when Dimitri came to check up on her, he found her balled on her floor, trembling. After he persuaded her back to bed, she grabbed his hand, already half-asleep, and pulled him towards her. "Stay, please", she requested him in such an innocent voice that Dimitri had to comply. He sighed, but climbed onto her bed, reclining against the headboard, and watched as Rose's drooping eyes finally closed and her breathing evened out. He sat with her for hours, stroking her hair. Rose slept like a baby that night.
When Rose woke up the following morning, she was hit by the smell of Dimitri's aftershave. She opened her eyes and focused on what awaited her at the end of her bed. A slow smile crept on her face, and she closed her eyes for a short nap again, relaxing for the first time in a long while.
The following night, when Alberta came to check up on Rose, she found the teenage dhampir sleeping peacefully, a smile on her face, clutching a grayish T-shirt to her chest. Since then, Rose hardly woke up due to her Spokane nightmares, and when she did, she'd hug the Dimitri's memento and feel okay again. That sole souvenir of Dimitri helped keep her nightmares at bay and reminded her of everything that she had in her life that was worth living for.

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