Changing- a Vampire Academy fanfic

Chapter 3

RPOV

“So Lissa, take a guess… what do you think I am exactly? It’s much more fun if you guess before I actually tell you,” I said sounding somewhat smug and fairly self-satisfied. I could tell that my facial expressions echoed my voice.  Dimitri looked stoic, his face completely professional. Lissa looked like she was frowning but I think it was more that she was deep in thought.

            Minutes went by, seeming like hours. No one moved, no one said anything. I was dying of boredom. If no one guessed anything soon, I was going to be seriously annoyed. Even though these people were intriguing, there was a limit to my patience and in two seconds that line was going to be crossed.

“Half Strigoi, half dhampir, well that is what your aura is telling me anyway. On the other hand, how is that even possible?” I looked at her emerald green eyes and smiled. She was very close to the truth. Although I wasn’t just half Strigoi, half dhampir. There was more to me than just that. Slowly I turned to Dimitri. I was still afraid of what looking into his eyes would do to me, so I kept me gaze on his eyebrows.

“What about you Dimitri, any ideas?” I sounded playful, almost teasing. He didn’t seem particularly impressed and his expression kind of shouted ‘how old are you? Because you’re acting like you’re six right now’ at me. No matter how warm and welcoming my smile was, it didn’t seem to be enough to get anything more than a blank expression from him. I can feel the love coming from that one! (Ha! Yeah right!).

His gaze seemed to pierce me and yet it was cold enough to freeze a lake. Wasn’t he even going to let me tell him what I was, before he completely shunned me? “I’m waiting…” I said irritatingly to him, impatience getting the better of me.

“I think… I think you should leave now. It doesn’t really matter what you are. If you’re not going to hurt the princess and you don’t plan on fighting anyone then nothing is giving you a reason to stay here,” he said it in an extremely blasé manner. It sounded nonchalant and yet still polite, although the order in the sentence could be heard clearly. It was obvious he wanted me to leave and I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of hurt at the comment. I knew that my face did not hide my pain at the comment and traitor tears started forming. Well if he was going to act like that then I’d answer back in true Rose style.

“I think… that it really is none of your business as to why I am staying here. You were the one to ask me what I was and let’s face it; you don’t really want me to go. I hold answers that would help you in so many ways. Curiosity will get the better of you, as it has of me. I’m staying because I’m curious about the princess.  If you get in my way or if I feel threatened by you in anyway, I will break your nose-and that’s a promise!” The last part wasn’t really true. I felt an uncanny reasoning to earn their trust and I was quite sure that breaking his nose would not accomplish any trust bonds.

           I thought that he would be scared stiff at my rather violent threat. It might have been an idle threat but that doesn’t mean I didn’t make it sound scary. However, when I looked at his face, it was just as blank as I had been and showed no trace of fear in it at all.

“What’s your name?” It was Lissa “That’s a start on telling us who you are, isn’t it?” She sounded like she meant it; she actually was prepared to listen to my life story. Dimitri on the other hand…

“Rose. My name’s Rose,” now this was the bit where I considered telling them my last name or not. If I did, I was probably granting myself a death wish. Yeah I’m just going to stick with Rose I think. “You’re right. I am half dhampir, half Strigoi, but both my parents were Strigoi when I was born,” There was an audible gasp after I mentioned that part and that was less than I expected. After all, everyone knows that Strigoi’s cannot have kids together- they’re dead! I would have been shocked too. “My mother was shadow kissed and therefore she was able to have a child, not that they knew that at the time. When my mother was found pregnant they found out that if one of the parents is shadow kissed then they can have children and that that child will be half Strigoi and half- whatever the shadow kissed parent was before they were ‘awakened’”.

            After that comment, I wasn’t sure what more to say. What else could I tell them about myself? To be frank, why did I care so much about what they thought of me? Sure I wanted to change, become good, save the day and run around in a red cape with a big S on my chest, but at the end of the day I was still more evil than anything else. It was in my blood, and as they say: blood is thicker than water. For the sheer safety of these two people, I would be better off leaving. I didn’t belong in their world… and I never would.

DPOV

“You’re right. I am half dhampir- half Strigoi. My parents were both Strigoi when I was born” I heard the princess take a sharp intake of breath at that comment and although I did not react, I was also somewhat shocked, if not curious, at that comment. “My mother was shadow kissed and therefore she was able to have a child, not that they knew that at the time. When my mother was found pregnant they found out that if one of the parents is shadow kissed then they can have children and that that child will be half Strigoi and half- whatever the shadow kissed parent was before they were ‘awakened’”. Well that explained some of it. Considering Lissa is a spirit user, this is closer to home then I would have expected.

           After that, she just stared, almost longingly at us. Her beautiful eyes were filled with trouble and you could tell that at that moment, something was not completely right about her. After what seemed like hours of thoughts and hesitation, realisation seemed to flow through her and slowly, she turned to leave. Each step she took away from me seemed to be jammed with burden; every step she took away from me seemed to send an arrow through my heart. Guilt… it’s just guilt you’re feeling right now, Dimitri. I didn’t know exactly what she was or understand what she was. However, I was pretty sure that I felt myself sympathising with her- I felt like I wanted to help her.

        “WAIT!” I heard myself shout before realisation could stop me. Just like that, my voice paralysed her and she gracefully halted. It seemed that my voice had a hypnotising effect on her. She hesitated, looking like she was deciding whether she should or shouldn’t  turn around to face me however, as quickly as the spell had come, it was broken and she was again free to her own will. She briefly glanced behind her, her gaze catching mine and staying locked there, before she twisted her body around again and sprinted off, too fast for my eyes to follow.  “WAIT!” I heard myself shout again. But the words were caught in the breeze and remained lingering in the air, not even an echo to follow them. She was gone and somehow the realisation of that hurt me agonisingly. I hadn’t even said hello! And why did this bother me so much?

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