An Unexpected Romance | By : princessjolie92 Category: S through Z > Vampire Academy Views: 7135 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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RPOV
Waking up next to Adrian was one of the best things in the world. Feeling his body wrapped around me made me feel safe like nothing could touch me, it made me safe. Hearing and feeling his strong heart beat just beneath my ear was a soundtrack I would never take for granted. These moments made life worth living, made getting up in the morning a little easier just so I could look forward to another day starting just like this. I loved this man.
I could feel his breathing change and hear his heart rate change as he begun to wake. The changes weren't anything major but just enough to let me know that he was joining me in the land of the living.
“Morning little dhampir.” he whispered to me as he stretched his long body with me still laying on top of him.
How I ended on top of him I don’t know because I remember falling asleep with him laying across me. So how during the night our positions got reversed not that I am complaining, either way was good for me, as long as he was sharing the bed with me I didn’t give a shit how we were positioned.
“Morning.” I said feeling his morning wood rub against my thigh. While I would love nothing more that to have sex with him this morning, I was just to sore from last night. But I also knew that his hard on had to painful because as he rubbed against me it was becoming increasingly harder.
Since I couldn't give him what he really wanted I could at least give him something. With that mischievous thought I slid myself under the sheets to give my boyfriend some morning head.
~*~
After leaving Adrian’s rooms I headed towards Christian’s dorms. My duty as he pseudo-Guardian start up again this morning. I wish that I could have stayed with Adrian all day but duty called unfortunately.
"How was your penance?" Christian asked as we walked across campus from his dorm.
This was the location where Stan had attacked us twice before, and besides, the
Guardians were sick and twisted enough to come after me on a day when I was so exhausted.
Between community service and finally having sex with my boyfriend-not that they would know of the last part- I think I reserved the right to be exhausted.
"It was okay. The priest let us go early."
"Us?"
"Dimitri came and helped me. I think he felt bad about me being stuck with that work."
"Either that or he has nothing else to do now that he's not doing your extra sessions."
"Maybe, but I doubt it. All in all, I guess it wasn't that bad a day."
"I had a great day," said Christian, the smallest amount of smugness in his voice.
I repressed the urge to roll my eyes. "Yeah, I know."
He and Lissa had taken advantage of their guardianless day to take advantage of each other. I supposed I should be glad they'd held off until Eddie and I weren't around, but in a lot of ways, it didn't matter. True, when I was awake, I could block out all of the details, but I still knew what was going on.
I was dying to go eat breakfast. Adrian and I's activities worked up a very hearty appetite. Damn last night was good, I thought with a smile.
I could smell French toast and hot maple syrup. Carbs wrapped in more carbs. Yum. But Christian wanted blood before we ate solid food, and his needs trumped mine. They come first. He'd apparently skipped his daily blood dose yesterday-probably to maximize his romantic time.
The feeder room wasn't crowded, but we still had to wait.
Christian's name was called, and he peered ahead. "Look at that," he said happily. "Alice again."
"I don't get your fascination with her," I observed as we approached the old feeder. "Lissa's always kind of excited to see her too. But Alice is nuts."
"I know," he said. "That's what's so great."
Alice greeted us as Christian sat down beside her. I leaned against the wall, arms crossed over my chest. Feeling uppity, I said, "Alice, the scenery hasn't changed. It's exactly the same as last time."
She turned her dazed eyes on me. "Patience, Rose. You must be patient. And prepared. Are you prepared?"
The switch in subject threw me a little. It was like talking to Jill, except less sane. "Um, prepared how? For the scenery?"
In what had to be a prime moment of irony, she looked at me as though I were the one who was crazy. "Armed. Are you armed You're going to protect us, aren't you?"
I reached inside my coat and pulled out the practice stake I'd been given for the field experience. "Got you covered," I said.
She looked immensely relieved and apparently couldn't tell the difference between a real stake and a fake one. "Good," she said. "Now we'll be safe."
"That's right," said Christian. "With Rose armed, we have nothing to worry about. The Moroi world can rest easy."
Alice was oblivious to his sarcasm. "Yes. Well, nowhere is ever safe."
I concealed the stake again. "We're safe. We've got the best guardians in the world protecting us, not to mention the wards. Strigoi aren't getting in here."
I didn't add what I'd recently learned: that Strigoi could get humans to break the wards. Wards were invisible lines of power that were composed of all four elements. They were created when four Moroi, each one strong in a different element, walked around an area and laid the magic in a circle upon the ground, creating a protective border. Moroi magic was imbued with life, and a strong field of it kept out Strigoi, since they were devoid of life. So wards were frequently laid around Moroi dwellings.
Tons of them were laid around this school. Since stakes were also imbued with all four elements, driving a stake through a ward line in the ground pierced the ward and canceled out the protective effect. This had never been much of a concern because Strigoi couldn't touch stakes. However, in some recent attacks, humans-who could touch stakes-had served Strigoi and broken some wards. We believed the Strigoi I'd killed had been the ringleaders in that group, but we still didn't know for sure.
Alice studied me closely with her cloudy eyes, almost as though she knew what I was thinking. "Nowhere is safe. Wards fade. Guardians die."
I glanced over at Christian, who shrugged in a sort of what did you expect from her? kind of way.
"If you guys are done with your girl talk, can I eat now?" he asked.
Alice was more than happy to comply; he was her first hit of the day. She soon forgot about wards or anything else and simply lost herself to the ecstasy of his bite. I forgot about wards too. I had a one-track mind, really: I still wanted to know if Mason had been real or not. The priest's frightening explanation aside, I had to admit Mason's visits hadn't been threatening, just scary. If he was out to get me, he was kind of doing a half-assed job of it. Once again, I started putting more stock in the stress and- fatigue theory.
"Now it's time for me to eat," I said when Christian finished. I was pretty sure I could smell bacon now. That'd probably make Christian happy. He could wrap it around his French toast.
We'd barely stepped out of the room when Lissa came running up to us, Eddie trailing behind. Excitement lit her face, though the feelings in the bond weren't exactly happy.
"Did you hear?" she asked, a little breathless.
"Hear what?" I asked.
"You have to hurry-go pack your things. We're going to Victor's trial. Right now."
Adrian had pulled through for us as I knew he would. I just wish he had given me some warning about it though. Thank you babe!! I thought as Christian and I exchanged brief, startled looks and then hurried off to his room to gather our things.
Packing was a breeze. My bag was ready to go already, and Christian only took a minute to throw his together. In less than a half hour, we were out on the Academy's landing strip. Two private jets sat in attendance, one of which was fired up and waiting to go. A couple of Moroi hurried about, doing last minute things with the plane and the runway.
I know we all wanted to see that evil bastard to go to prison but now that the moment was upon me I was a little scared. Maybe I should have discussed this with Christian and Lissa before I had Adrian get us to this point. Lissa and Christian of course didn’t know what was going on. In the chaos of the last few days I had forgot to mention it to them. Guess I should have in hindsight this could have been something they didn’t want to attend. Too late now I guess.
A few guardians lingered near the steps going up to the plane. I recognized them as the ones who had helped capture Victor. They were probably going to do double duty and serve as witnesses and as our protection. Dimitri hovered near the outskirts I knew for a fact that he too was going to testify. I just hoped he would ride in the other plane that was on the strip.
The next time I see Adrian I am going to kiss him silly, and I don’t care who is watching. I looked around the strip for Adrian hoping that he would becoming with us. This was big and I needed him here with me.
While I was busy looking around Alberta signaled that we could board. My friends were already on board, so I hurried to catch up. As soon as I stepped into the cabin, a voice called to me. "Little dhampir! About time you got here."
I looked and saw Adrian waving thank God, my man didn’t disappoint. Running to him I threw myself around him arms around his neck legs wrapped around his waist. He didn’t even buckle from me slamming into him. Did I mention that was one of the things I loved about my strong Moroi boyfriend.
And as promised I kissed the hell out of him as I tugged on his hair. Clearly the kiss took him by surprise, but it didn’t take him long to join in.
"Thank you so much Adrian." I panted at him as I came up for air. "This means so much to me."
"I know it does Little dhampir. And while I don’t think this is a great idea, I also know that this is something you have to do." He told me as he held on to me. And he would have done so for longer if Dimitri didn’t make his presence known.
"I think it is time we all take our seats so we can go." He said his voice stern and the look on his face harder. But did I care...HELL NO! So I tightening my legs around Adrain when he attempted to put me down.
"Great idea," I said to him before turning my attention back to Adrian. "Where are we sitting love?" I asked him sweetly.
"Over here." Adrian told me his voice laced with humor as he carried me over to our seats. "Very daring my little dhampir." He whispered into my ear.
"I don’t know what you are talking about." I said innocently. I just caused him to chuckle lightly.
Lissa and Christian were sitting together with Eddie, who was given permission to come for further field experience, he was sitting across from them. Adrian set me down off to the left of Lissa before he took his seat next to me.
"So this trip I assume was made possible by you Adrian, given Rose's reaction when she saw you." Lissa asked him.
"She asked me a while ago to get you guys into the trail. It is against my better judgement but I recognized this is a chapter in all your lives that needs to be closed."
"Well thank you" Lissa told him sincerely before she turned to me. "Why didn’t you say anything about the trail? I thought it was a done deal that the man would rot in prison."
"I know so did I, but apparently even he deserves his day in court. No good rotten fucking bastard." I muttered
"Still doesn’t answer the question Rose why didn’t you tell us?" Christian asked me.
"I meant to but it never seemed the right time and when I was going to tell you things interrupted me from doing so. And for that I am sorry." I told them sincerely.
"Well next time something like this comes up just blurt it out. And thanks to the both of you." Christian said to me and Adrian.
"No thanks needed." Adrian said to him.
A wicked headache set in almost immediately after liftoff, and I entertained a fantasy of vodka numbing the pain.
"We're going to Court," Adrian said. "Aren't you excited about it?"
"A little since I’ve never been but I’m all kinds of nervous since I know your family will be there."
"Don’t worry about them. No matter what it is just you and me." he told me gently as he took my hand into his and kissed my opened palm.
"I know." I said smiling up at hims trying to ignore my headache.
"Did you bring a dress?"
"Um no. I didn’t think to bring one."
"We'll get you one," he said loftily.
"You're going to take me shopping?" I asked excitedly.
"Shopping? I hadn't thought of that I was thinking we could get one tailored for you. Something custom made, but if you want to go shopping I guess we could."
"I rather like your idea. That way it will be just mine. What do I need a dress for anyway?"
"Dinner parties often pop up while you are attending court. When people hear I am in town they often invite me. Many so they can push their daughters at me hoping I would marry them and some because the older ladies think they could tempt me into their beds. But those we don’t have to attend. The ones that my aunt will be hosting is another story." he told me.
I sighed and leaned my head against his shoulder. The pain in my skull was still throbbing. It was like the air was pressing in on me. Something flashed in my peripheral vision, and I turned in surprise, but there was nothing but stars outside the window.
"What's bothering you little dhampir? Your aura is doing weird shifts." he asked me concern filling his voice.
"I don’t know this headache is killing me Adrian." It was like a hammer, a hammer inside and outside my head.
"How long have you had this headache?"
"Since we took off." Even my eye sockets seemed to hurt.
"Have you eaten anything today?"
"No I meant to but time slipped away from me. But this isn’t because I haven't eaten, I've had those headaches before, this is different." I told him softly the pain in my head was intense and I didn’t want to aggravate by being loud.
"Let me get you something to eat and some meds." he said as he gentle moved my head on to chair before getting up. "I'll be right back."
"Rose what's the matter?" Lissa asked me.
I gritted my teeth and rubbed my forehead. "I have the worst fucking headache in the world, " I didn't even realize I'd sworn in front of an instructor until several seconds later. From the other side of my field of vision, I thought I saw something else-another shadow darting through the plane, reminding me of black wings. Like a bat or a raven. I covered my eyes. There was nothing flying through the plane.
"God, why won't it go away?"
"She hasn't eaten today. She was really hungry earlier." Christian told her
I uncovered my eyes just as Adrian returned to me with some food and medicine.
"Thanks babe." I said to him as I took the medicine than started to working one the sandwich he brought back for me.
I slowly worked on my sandwich as more shadowy shapes flitted across my vision. Most were indistinct, but I could have sworn I saw something that looked like a skull mixed in with the darkness. I blinked rapidly, and it all disappeared.
I turned to Adrian and noticed his face was filled with concern as he watched me eat."What is it?"
"Your Aura it mostly black. The black ring that usually surrounds it is thin and hardly noticeable, now it's a thick band."
"Black?"
"Yes disturbingly so." he told me as his eyes fell to mine. "What has been bothering you little dhampir?" he asked me softly.
"Too many things to discuss right now. But don’t worry Adrian, I'll be fine." I told him smiling softly up at him through my pain.
When I had finished eating I laid down on Adrian's lap so my head could rest. He gently ran his hand through my hair. It was enough for me relax into an almost dream state but now quite not with the pain of my headache.
I had drifted off a little when I felt a slight touch on my arm. "Rose?"
Opening my eyes, I peered up at Adrian, his emerald green eyes still filled with worry.
Those bat-winged shapes flitted behind him, and my head still hurt. In those swirling shadows, I again saw what looked like a face, this time with a wide gaping mouth and eyes like fire. I flinched.
"You're still in pain?" He asked, peering at me. I blinked, and the face was gone.
"Yeah, but it's better" I lied trying to easy his worry.
"Sure it is." he said sarcastically seeing through my flimsy lie. But not pushing me. "Go back to sleep little dhampir."
A few more phantom clouds danced across my vision, and then I closed my eyes to sleep.
I woke up later when the plane touched down, the sounds of its engines kicking into reverse startling me out of a deep sleep. To my relief, the headache was gone. So were the weird shapes floating around me.
"Better?" Lissa asked when I stood up and yawned.
I nodded. "Much. Better still if I can get some morel food."
"Well," she laughed, "somehow I doubt there's any shortage of food around here."
She was right. Glancing out the windows, I tried to get my first look at our surroundings. We'd made it. We were at the Moroi Royal Court.
"Welcome to Court little dhampir." Adrian whispered into my ear as he wrapped his arms around me.
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