Times Change (complete)

Chapter 10

"Wow. Is there more?"

"Yes, there is quite a bit more actually, but I can't tell you any more just yet. But please trust that as soon as I can I will."

"I do trust you." She assured me as she again lay her little hand over my heart.

At least in comparison to my hands hers were little. But they were also just as deadly as mine even more so because of her magic or they will be by the time I've finished training her again.

"Now, more nicknames."

"There is another one that I think that you might like, it's Mitya."

She smiled extatically, "oh, I like that one!!"

This time I smiled with her, I smiled at her exuberance and excitement. I knew that was the name that she would pick. Because that is what she called me most of the time in my timeline. At least when she wasn't calling me Comrade, or Mitri, or baby and babe, and on the rare occasion that she actually called me Dimitri.

But she never called me Dimka because she said that was a special name used only by my birth family and Ivan. Tasha didn't count because I'd always asked her not  to call me that.

But no one else was allowed to call me Mitya but her, just as no one but my family was allowed to call me Dimka. She said that Mitya was her special name for me just as Dimka was my family's special name for me.

"Oh you do, do you?"

"Yes, it sounds so very strong and extremely sexy. And my sexy Russian battle God needs a strong and super sexy nickname."

I growled, "my God what are you doing to me?"

She looked me dead in the eyes and said, "I am doing my dead level best to seduce you, Mitya. Even though I really don't know how to do that."

"Baby, trust me when I say that you don't have to try to seduce me. Just being near you, thinking about you, hearing your name or your voice. Smelling your shampoo, your body wash, your perfume or your unique scent, the feel of your skin against mine or kissing you. Pretty much everything about you is an instant seduction to me. Everything about you calls to every single part of me like you could never believe or understand. Every cell in my body longs for you desperately. Even a hundred years from now it will be the same."

"How do you know?"

She looked apprehensive I think that she was worried that I would tire of her sometime in the future. Which was just an absurdly ludicrous notion.

"Because I am sure of what we feel for each other."

"Will we still be together years from now? What if one of us gets reassigned?!" I could see that she was on the verge of a panic attack, so I tried to calm her.

Her panic attacks happened rarely but they always happened when she was worried or concerned about those that she loved. And as far as I knew she'd never had them until after Spokane. At least in my previous timeline.

I don't know if she started having them because of what happened in Spokane. What happened in the caves after the attack on the academy, or if they were an extremely delayed reaction to that bitch Janine throwing her away like a piece of month old garbage.

Of course they could also be another side effect of being shadow kissed. We had talked to Sonya Karp Tanner about them after she was restored. She said that in her professional opinion the cause was a mixture of everything that had happened to Roza in her life. Mixed with all of 'the darkness' and the black magic that she had taken from Lissa for all of those years.