Drabble:64
POV:Third Person
The time following Dimitri's rebirth as dhampir, Dimitri started to look at Lissa as his guardian angel. He almost totally disowned everyone else, avoiding Rose at all cost, and the only way Rose could learn about him was through Lissa.
Lissa could see how much it hurt Rose…..Dimitri's abandonment. Rose hated having to ask Lissa about him, but she did it anyway…because she was madly in love with him. As for Dimitri, sometimes Lissa saw him meeting her eyes whenever he confessed something extremely gut-wrenching in a particular way, and it took her a few days to figure out that he was (maybe even unconsciously) thinking of Rose and that maybe Rose was looking through Lissa on their encounters. When Lissa informed him that she was blocking out Rose because Dimitri wanted privacy…..he had nodded, relieved, and muttered good. But, the momentary flash of disappointment in his eyes had betrayed him.
All in all, Lissa knew that Rose loved Dimitri deeply, and that Dimitri, even if he didn't return those feelings, cared for her deeply. Sometimes, he'd casually question Lissa about her life outside, trying to learn snippets of information about Rose. Rose, on the other hand, refused to take no for an answer for him, and kept up her efforts to get to him. Lissa felt guilty that she could see their angst and they couldn't see each other's, or even comfort one another. She wanted to do something, to help them somehow….
Except for…..Lissa loved it. She loved seeing Dimitri, her could-have-been guardian confide in her, she loved it when he promised to protect her….Lissa told herself she liked it because he was behaving like the guardian he used to be….that he was returning to himself, and she was glad because of that, but that sounded false even to her own self. As for Rose, Lissa hated that her best friend was suffering so much….but she couldn't help but like the fact that Rose was confiding in her about her insomnia and her doubts about Dimitri's recovery, that her Rose was treating her like her best friend again….that Rose was dependant on Lissa. Lissa loved it, absolutely loved her hold over the two star-crossed lovers, who really (it seemed) were fated to be apart. Besides, if she couldn't get her happy ending, why should they?
Lissa knew that a lot of her savage satisfaction was due to spirit, and she took care to hide this side of her from everyone, even blocking her thoughts from Rose, so not to hurt her. But Lissa knew that not all of it was the spirit's influence, some of it was her own feelings…she just didn't know the extent of it. And really, did it matter? It was clear that between the two of them, Rose and Dimitri would destroy their relationship forever, and the least Lissa could do was comfort them afterwards….and she'd love doing that, every bit of it…
A very vicious stance on Lissa, I know. But once the idea got in my head, I just couldn't help pen it out.
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