Dimitri grabbed my hand tightly and pulled me toward the kitchen while listening to whoever was on the other end. He hung up as we walked in. "Christian, Vasalisa come with me quickly. My mother burst into the dinning room with Abe, the alchemist, and a shirtless Adrian in tow. "Where were we sent?" My mother asked Dimitri, completely serious and stone faced.
"We need to bring them upstairs first and board them in." My brain was slowly putting the pieces together. I felt nauseous and I pulled myself closer to Dimitri as I followed him and my mother upstairs to my room. I sat on the edge of the bed next to Christian Lissa and Adrian. Abe stood next to my dresser with Sydney. Dimitri looked at all of us gravely. He spoke calmly and to the point. "The wards have been broken." My mother left the room. "We need to all stay here quietly."
Dimitri walked toward my window and he pulled the blinds closed. Only a small sliver a moonlight was coming through. My mother came back into the room. "All the doors are locked and the windows are blocked. The other townhouse isn't secured but the joining door is blocked." How she did all that so quickly amazes me. I wanted someone to hold me again, I felt the world spinning and I needed something to steady me. I stood up and took one step forward before I fell. Dimitri caught me. I slumped to the floor slowly in his arms, placing me down gently.
The whole world exploded! All around me I seen faces I couldn't recognize rising from the ground screaming at me. They were saying things like, "Avenge me! Kill Them for me! Don't let them do it again! Wrong, Unnatural, Evil!" Then I seen Mason. Just as I had on the plane ride back from Victor Daskov's trial. Just like before I felt a throbbing in my skull that made my vision glaze over. I felt shaking as I seen hundreds of spirits in front of me. Then I heard a ringing, slowly, but then all at one the spirits where gone. The last to vanish was a sad, silent Mason.
As I got a grip on reality, I started to take in my surroundings. Dimitri was holding me on the floor, and he looked completely terrified. One hand was on my cheek another holding my hands. I was clinging tightly, so I loosened my grip. Christian was sitting on my legs and Lissa sat next to me, opposite to Dimitri. They both backed off. I took one of my hands and placed it on my stomach. I was a little small for how far along my pregnancy was, but I still felt huge. I felt like I just fail my child, again.
Dimitri hugged me while I tried to steady myself. I stood in his embrace, he didn't act as confused as he did on the plane. He had questions but he knew the answers weren't urgent. I froze. As I peeked through the blinds I was staring into a pair of red bloodshot eyes. I took a sharp intake of breath and Dimitri followed my gaze. Standing a few feet behind our back patios gate was a strigoi. Dimitri helped me sit on the bed again and he pulled out a silver stake. My mother jumped in front of him.
"He knows we are here. First he's going to try then back door and then probably climb up if he can. I'll go down stairs and you stay here."
"No Hathaway," it was weird hearing Dimtiri address my mother like this. "Guardians are coming they know the princess is here. We would be better off staying together, let him come to us." I seen Lissa and Christian holding each other and Adrian trying to cover himself with a fearful expression. He was probably more worried his family would find him dead and half naked, than of the actually dying part. My father was rocking on his feet and the alchemist was crying silently, and I think praying while standing against the wall. I felt trapped.
I took Dimitri's empty hand and surprisingly he held mine tighter. We sat anxiously waiting for guardians, for the strigoi to move, anything. A few minutes later Dimitri and my mother turned from the window and covered their heads. A garden gnome smashed through the window and glass few across the room. Dimitri ran back to the broken window and staked the strigoi right when it reached the window sill. I heard a loud thud when it hit the ground.
I felt dizzy and the corners of my vision were getting dark. I looked down and seen a huge shard of glass in my arm. I was bleeding all over Adrian. I tried to stand up so I could go get a cloth out of my bathroom, but I fell immediately. Adrian grabbed my arm to try to stop me from hitting the floor hard, but it made the pain in my arm burn more.
I didn't really feel anything till now, I couldn't help it I let out a small yep of pain. Everyone turned to me as I lay on the floor bleeding everywhere. My mother looked pained when she turned back to look out the broken window, she had to watch for more. Lissa and Dimitri dropped to the floor and I felt panic in the bond even worse than it was before.
Then I felt spirt and I grabbed her arm with my good one. "Don't you dare try to heal me!" I was quiet but very firm. She didn't protest. She just started healing me. "STOP" I pulled my arm away from her and accidentally whacked Dimitri in the face. She looked at me with a very desperate look in her eyes but I wasn't letting her us any spirit anymore. Adrian kneeled beside me.
"Rose, I'm so sorry I can't heal you either... I'm still a little buzzed." He looked a little embarrassed but mostly upset. I didn't care though, nobody needed to heal it was just a cut. It wasn't bleeding that much.
Dimitri pulled me up so that I was cradled in his lap. I wanted to just go to sleep, wake up and find out none of this ever happened. I felt my eyelids get heavy, I began to close them. Dimitri held my face so I was looking at him. He began talking to me as if he was giving me training advice.
"No Rose, you can't go to sleep yet. We need you to wait a little while longer." He was quiet and soothing. I felt a sudden pain in my arm but Dimitri made sure I wouldn't look at it. He kept talking and stroking my hair, making sure I wouldn't fall asleep. I seen someone walking around me but my peripheral vision was still blurry. A few moments later I felt my arm going completely numb.
I turned to see Sydney, the alchemist, putting stitches just above my wrist. She looked so pale, she could've been mistaken for a strigoi. I wanted to believe it was because undead vampires were running around trying to kill us and not because she had to touch a half good vampire. I wanted to make her feel better but I found my self unable to talk. She finished wrapping up my arm, Dimitri picked me up and placed me on a towel that was laid on top of the massive blood stain I left on the bed. Looks like tomorrow is going to be laundry day.
Dimitri sat next me on the bed and held my good hand, I don't know how long it was before my mother began speaking again. She didn't turn to face us and spoke quietly. "Belikov, I see the guardian group coming, six of them. There are five strigoi ahead of them, coming toward our house though." Dimitri took out his phone, looked at it for a moment and then quietly spoke to my mother. "The wards are back up and there is less than ten that could still be on court grounds. Let's get them in the bathroom. No windows and only one way in or out." For once I was glad the idiot who designed the home didn't put windows in my bathroom. "Except Rose, can't move her anymore. Those stitches aren't going to last very long." Lissa leaned over me.
"One more time Rose, let me heal you please." She had tears in her eyes. "I'll go back on the pills until your pregnancy is over, just let me heal you." I remembered what Dimitri had said earlier. She was willing to do this for me, for my baby, for Dimitri's baby. I took in a long breath and whispered to her. "Not completely." I seen a small smile and she held my hand. As soon as the cut looked only a little worse than a paper cut I pulled my arm away.
The only people left in my room were my mother and Dimtiri. I could move but I didn't want to. I knew Lissa was safe but Dimitri wasn't. I slowly sat myself up and quietly walked up to a few feet behind Dimitri. Outside the window I seen the five strigoi my mother seen earlier, looking around, behind the the fence the first one waited at as well.
Just as the group glared into our window, the whole fence erupted into flames.
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