I felt incredibly lonely durning the half hour car ride to the hospital. Even thought Viktoria tried making conversation from the front seat, all my responses left no room for additional comments. I just wanted Dimitri to say something. Tell me I shouldn't have come outside after I promise not to, or how I could have gotten hurt as well, anything.

When we finally arrived Viktoria went inside and quickly brought out a nurse with a stretcher. I felt like a limp was torn off when he unwrapped me from Dimitri. I was still crying but I was much more controlled. I followed to a room until I was stopped by another nurse at the door. She told me I wasn't aloud in since I wasn't family. I begged but she kept blocking my path.

I stormed down the hall back into the waiting room. I sat in a chair an looked around impatiently. After a while, I seen a doctor walking toward Dimitri's room, and I instantly identified him as a moroi. Of course, they would have him come deal with a stigoi attack injury. Alchemists always made sure of it. I jumped up an nearly plowed down the middle aged man. "Dimitri Belikov, is he okay?!"

The startled Doctor looked me up and down before exhaling. He gestured toward my baby bump. "Is he the father?" I nodded. "I see. Do you know what happened?" I knew he was testing me, if he thought I was a dhampir before my pregnancy told him I was human. I leaned in and whispered.

"Strigoi attack." The doctor looked at me startled. "I'm a dhampir, I can explain the pregnancy later." He hesitantly nodded.

"We started a blood transfusion as soon as he got here, and I just finished his permanent stitches. I'm just going to make sure he isn't loosing blood anymore." He looked me over once again still unsure of what to make of me. "You can come in, if you like. He should be waking up soon"

Following the doctor right up his heels, I finally got into Dimitri's room. When I seen him I felt relieved, his face seemed to had a more healthy color to it and all the blood was cleaned off his neck and his arm. A small bandage covered the bite marks on the side of his neck.

The doctor was unwrapping the bandage on his arm and looked at the stitches. "Good news is it doesn't seem infected, so once this blood transfusion is done he should wake up and be out of here tomorrow morning. Bad news, he probably won't have full strength in this arm for two or three weeks." I allowed myself a smile for the progress he was making. "With his added healing abilities, he may be better a little sooner than that." The doctor wrapped his arm up again and left the room.

I sat on the stool next to him bed and help his hand. For a while no one spoke. When Dimitri's mother spoke I was surprised. "Thank you Rose. You saved my boy." I had just then noticed how hollow the women looked. "Everyday I'm proud of him for doing his job so well, but I always worry. Maybe, I'll never get to see him again. When I saw you holding him this morning. I thought he was..." She didn't finish he thought, and she didn't have to, a single tear rolled down her cheek. Viktoria joined in the conversation.

"Thank you for saving all of us, and being so brave. I could have never done that, and I'm the same age as you, and you have the baby. Oh gosh you where so amazing this morning." She was getting flustered and rambling, but I stopped her.

"You don't have anything to thank me for. If that strigoi heard me a second sooner I would have been dead and then he would have gotten to you. I did exactly what Dimitri told me not to do, I followed him. I promised him, I would protect you all, and I would stay inside. I failed him, I failed all of you. To top it all off, I choked, I watched the strigoi bite him and I just stood there. He wouldn't be in this bad of a condition if I had staked him sooner. It was the number one thing he taught me after Natalie" I wiped the tears off my cheeks. "Don't hesitate."

I could tell neither Olena or Viktoria knew what to say to me. "You still saved me Roza." My head snapped toward the familiar voice. Dimitri was waking up and already trying to sit himself up. When he started to put weight on his arm, he winced and lay back down. I wrapped my arms around his neck so tightly, I might have suffocated him. I started to cry happy tears, as Dimitri ran his fingers through my hair. I heard Olena and Viktoria crying as well, while Dimitri whispered to me that everything was going to be fine.

After a while I finally pulled back to look him in the eye. "I'm so sorry. I mean I'm glad I didn't listen to you but, I promised." Dimitri smiled at me and stroked my cheek.

"No, no thank you." He twisted his face into a look of worry. "Rose, are you okay?" I squeezed his hand and nodded. "No, no Rose, when was the last time you ate something? Or slept?" I looked at the clock on the wall it was just past nine in the morning.

"Uh, I don't know yesterday..." Dimitri sat himself to up as if nothing was wrong with him.

"Rose, did anyone even look at you when we got here? You can't do this to yourself." I felt sheepish, Dimitri has scolded me like this a long time ago. He wasn't angry but clearly worried.

The moroi doctor came in and greeted everyone. "Oh good Guardian Belikov, you're awake. You seem to be recovering quickly just as I suspected." A nurse came in behind the man and took my place at Dimitri's bedside, Viktoria came and grabbed my arm.

"Come on Rose, let's go get you checked out, just in case." I pulled my arm away.

"I'm fine." Viktoria gave me a look, before continuing.

"Do it to make my my brother feel better, do it for your little baby. Please." I suddenly felt very guilty for being so selfish. I relaxed and followed her into the maternity ward of the hospital. When I went to the front desk the lady behind the computer asked if I had an appointment. When I said no she asked why I had come. Viktoria stepped in and lied easily.

"We were out last night, along with my brother, the baby's father, and on the way home he got jumped by a homeless man. She's from America, and she just wants to make sure everything is still okay for the plane ride home. We thought while my brother was treated for the injuries he got, I would take her here." The receptionist instantly shifted to a more sympathetic, friendly tone.

"Oh, I'm so sorry dear, I'll have a nurse take you back in a moment. You ladies can have a seat until I call you, oh um, sweetie what's your name?"

"Rose, uh Rose Belikov." I remembered I wasn't supposed to give my real name at hospitals and pay for everything up front. Even though it wasn't the best cover up it was the first thing To pop into my head. The lady gestured toward the chairs in the lobby and told me to take a seat. As soon as the thought crossed my mind, I was terrified.

"Viktoria, we have to go get Dimitri out of her as fast as possible. The alchemists know he is here. If they tell court, they'll come take him!" Viktoria looked at me as if I was a crazy person. "Look, we never told you this, but I kinda was thrown in jail a few weeks ago for murdering the queen. Dimitri helped with my fathers prison break and then brought me here. We have to go now." Viktoria laughed.

"I know that, but they couldn't possibly figure out his real identity, and then turn him into a team of guardians this quickly." Now I was the confused one.

"You knew this whole time? Real identity?" Before Viktoria could answer any of my questions a nurse came and called my name.

I followed her back to the little examination room and sat on the bed. She took my temperature and my blood pressure. Then followed up with all the questions I got at all of my check ups.

"Well Rose, you seem fine so far, I think the only ting you could have been worried about was higher blood pressure, but that's normal. I'm going to do a quick ultra sound before you head out." The nurse wordlessly prepped the machine and just like always put the cold gel on my stomach. First I heard the heartbeat, and just like every other appointment my eyes began to water up. With a flick of the switch the monitor turned on, and I could see my little baby.

This time I could see little features that where making it look more and more like a tiny human. I seen its thumb in its mouth and took in every detail. "Everything looks fine. Are you keeping it a surprise?" I was going to find out at my last appointment whether it was a boy or a girl, but ended up not getting the chance. Now that I had the opportunity, I remembered what Dimitri had said on the way to Russia.

"Oh yah, it's going to be a surprise. The pregnancy caught me by surprise so why not one more." I forced a small laugh to make myself feel less awkward.

"Well let me just print you some pictures and you'll be on your way." She pressed a few buttons on the side of the monitor, before a black and white image came out the side of it. She gave me some paper towels to wipe my stomach and then lead me back into the waiting room. I smiled ear to ear and nearly fell over when I seen Dimitri sitting in the chair next to Viktoria and Olena. He had a sling on his arm but other wise looked fine. He came over to me and I hugged him.

"So, Mrs. Belikov, let me pay and we'll get out of here." He laughed, and I laughed with him about my earlier cover up, it was a little embarrassing though. I took his hand and followed him to the receptionist. "How much for her appointment?" The woman looked up at us.

"No charge,the nurse just did the usual. There hasn't been many people today, she said she would be happy to help. I'm assuming you were the one your sister told me about, sorry that happened to you. Crazy people in the city at night." Dimitri agreed but gave me a look.

"Well, here thank her for her time." Dimitri pulled took his wallet out and handed her something from the Russian currency I didn't recognize. The receptionist smiled and accepted the bill.

"Chloe!" She called and the nurse who had helped me came back. The woman at the desk handed her the money, she looked at Dimitri and I with a confused expression.

"Just to thank you for you help." The nurse thanked him and with that we left the hospital.

On the way back to Baia, I fell asleep in the car. When I woke up again, I was in my bed in the cabin. I smelled Dimitri and curled into him more. I let myself fall asleep again until morning.

When I woke up again I was alone in the bed. I looked around the cabin and seen it was empty again, like we had never been there. Dimitri walked in the front door with a box in his hand. He set it down and sat on the edge of the bed. "Rose, we have to leave. The Alchemists are going to report me being admitted to the hospital eventually. I'm sorry." I sat up and rubbed my sore belly

"Why are you sorry, you almost died. You had to, no questions about it. I'm sorry, you have to leave your family because I choked." Dimitri put him arm around me.

"You saved my life, stop that." You. Saved. Me." I suddenly felt very dizzy and nauseous, and just when I stood up to go throw up, I was sucked into Lissa's head. She was throwing up in her bathroom. Her throat burned, and her eyes where blurry with tears. She felt horrible. When she stopped gagging she sat on the bathroom floor, and thought of me. It was strange thinking about myself the way she was. Lissa felt like she should have tried to help me more when I was with her, because she felt empty and sore from the constant heaving. I was dragged back into my cabin. Where Dimitri was holding me up. No doubt I fell over when Lissa pulled me into her head.

Suddenly I felt the gag reflex, that I hadn't felt in months. I dropped to the floor on my knees and my body began dry heaving on its own. Dimitri moved to my side and gave he his hands. Slowly I stood up, while the last second hand nausea faded away. I needed a way to block Lissa out if this was going to happen regularly. "Rose you need to eat something." He rubbed my back and ushered me to the fridge. I took out a water bottle, because I was too afraid to eat anything else.

I sat back on the edge of the bed and nearly inhaled the water a drank it so quickly. "You need to eat real food." When's the last time you ate something.

"I ate a protein bar on the way home from the hospital."

"That was over a day ago. And before that, you said you didn't eat a meal since before the attack." Dimitri was in using the scolding voice he has for when he was worried about me again. "Come on." Clearly it didn't matter to him that I was in sweats from two days ago and my hair was a mess. He took my hand, and walked me to the main road in Baia. When we got there we went into the dinner I tried to get a job at we where greeted by the chef.

"Hello, our waitress is getting her sisters funeral ready so I'm here alone today. I may be a little slow but I'll be happy to help." I couldn't help myself.

"Barbra? What happened to her sister?" Dimitri looked at me funny.

"Oh the poor thing was killed outside the church a couple nights ago." He was human. "Someone passing through town." My heart sank when I realized she was the one who rang the church bell, and the one we heard screaming. Dimitri cleared his throat.

"Well we won't be much trouble, can we have two chicken soups and some bread." The man smiled and hurried into the kitchen." Dimitri led me to a booth where I immediately sat and leaned against him. I wasn't sure if I just started or I hadn't realized it but I felt extremely hungry and light headed. "Whose Barbra?"

"Oh she's just the waitress who works here, I met here when I was out." That wasn't the whole truth and he knew it.

"Out where?" I bit my lip nervously knowing I was going to get some lecture.

"Well I was looking for something to do the day of the strigoi attack, and I seen the help wanted sign, so I asked for the job." He shook his head buts surprising didn't say anything.

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