The way that it should have been

Chapter 1

(HEY YOU GUYS, LONG TIME NO SEE!!!! LOL. I KNOW THAT I TOLD SOME OF YOU THAT I WAS GOING TO START POSTING AGAIN NEXT SATURDAY. BUT THERE ARE TWO PROBLEMS WITH THAT. ONE, SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE ARE MY NEXT WAVE OF STORIES. AND TWO, I JUST COULDN'T WAIT ANY LONGER. I HOPE YOU GUYS DON'T MIND.)

(RPOV)

I was in my dorm room, after my afternoon training with Dimitri, packing for the trip to the ski lodge tomorrow. When someone suddenly knocked on my door.

I wasn't expecting anyone, and I knew first hand that Lissa was busy with Christian, so before I told whoever it was to just come in. I walked over and opened the door, and when I did I found the very last person in the whole entire world that I ever expected to find at my door at this time of the day... Dimitri. But he was there, and he looked... well he looked worried to be honest.

"Rose, can I come in and talk to you?"

"I didn't do anything."

He chuckled but his smile didn't reach his eyes.

"I know. But I need to talk to you about something very important."

I stepped back and motioned for him to come inside. After he was inside I closed the door and then he, shockingly enough, reached around behind me and locked it.

"Rose, we need to have a very serious adult conversation and we need to do it as quietly as possible. That way no one will overhear any of it, ok?"

I was getting nervous but trying not to show it I said, "yeah ok, sure have a seat."

I sat down on my bed and indicated for him to do the same.

"I don't know if us sitting on the same bed is a good idea for this particular conversation or not. But since there is nowhere else..." He sat down next to me on my bed.

"Comrade, is there something wrong?"

"I'm not sure yet. The answer to that question all depends on the conversation that we are about to have."

I lay my hand on his leg trying to reassure him. "Ok, just tell me what is going on and I will try my best to help you in any way that I can."

Even if he didn't and never would love me, as I do and always will love him. I was still going to be his friend and be there for him if he ever needed me. Even if being around him with another woman, also known as that whore Natasha Ozera, would kill me on the inside. I would do my absolute best not to ever let him, or anyone else, know or see it.

I did not want or need anyone's pity simply because Dimitri doesn't love me like I love him. I also did not want them hating him because he wanted a family of his own and he thought that I couldn't give him that. There was no need for them to hate him for that, it simply isn't necessary.

Because as long as he was happy my feelings about it or for him didn't matter. All that mattered to me was that he was happy. And I would do whatever I had to in order to make sure that he was always as happy as he possibly could be. Because I loved him that much. Even if that meant that someday I would have to leave the moroi world so that he could be happy and find peace with his family.

He took a deep breath. "I need to ask you something Rose."

"Ok, go ahead."

"I need you to honestly and fully answer some questions for me. Will you do that?"

"Is this about the bond?" I asked cautiously. It wasn't often that Dimitri asked me about my bond with Lissa, instead he gave me the space and time that I needed to come to him about it if and when I needed to.