Who's Mind Is In My Mind? (complete)

Chapter 23

Most nights, Celeste and I would lay in our beds, next to her room, and listen to her cry uncontrollably. She hadn't even cried like that, when Janine had abandoned her at the academy all those years ago.

About two months after we started traveling the world. One night, after a particularly bad nightmare. She'd finally broken down and told me about what had happened. I don't think she told anyone else, not even Dimitri's sister, about what had happened.

When she finished telling me what had happened. I wanted to get on a plane, fly to court, and beat the holy hell out of Belikov. But, I knew that I couldn't leave my vulnerable little Rose.

So, instead, after she had cried herself to sleep I got Celeste to sit with her. While I went to the gym, at the hotel we were staying in, and beat the shit out of a few punching bags.

Some nights, Rose would still have terrible nightmares. But oddly enough none of them were about the time that she spent captive to the strigoi Dimitri.

They were almost all, about what happened, in the church. Once, she dreamed about the caves, where Dimitri was turned, and not being able to save him. She actually blames herself for his having been turned. In another, she dreamed about Dimitri and Tasha sleeping together. God, that one had been bad.

She said, that Dimitri had chosen Tasha Ozera over her. Which I could never understand. Because any idiot could look at Rose and Dimitri together and tell that they loved each other immeasurably.

At the ski lodge, when I'd seen Dimitri and Tasha together. I could tell that it was forced, at least on his part. I could easily see, that the feelings he felt for Tasha, in no way compared to what he felt for Rose. I just didn't understand why he was trying so hard to run from her, and from what he felt for her. From what they felt for each other.

I understood that they couldn't publicly be together at the academy. But in a little less than six months, she would graduate, and they could be together. All they had to do, was hold on until then. After graduation, Dimitri could get transferred to court, or even to Christian.

Oh well, that was all in the past. Now, at long last, they were finally together again. This time, the right way.

But, if he hurts her again, I am going to kick his ever-loving ass right up between his shoulder blades. And I have a feeling, that I won't be doing it alone.

No, I definitely wouldn't be doing it alone. Most of the guardians from St. Vlad's, had wanted to beat his ass, on the ski trip. But, I thankfully was able to talk them out of it. Telling them, "give him just a little more time. He's fighting that whole, 'they come first' thing. Just give him a few more weeks. And we'll see where we are then."

Alto had come to me one day and asked, "can't we just put on ski masks, and beat the holy hell out of that boy? Hopefully, knocking some sense into his dumb ass in the process."

Alto and Rose hardly ever got along, but Stan did care about her. He just always pushed her so hard, because we'd all known, that she would be one of if not the best guardians of this generation if not our entire history. Her becoming queen was something that none of us could have ever seen coming.

I know that she doesn't remember this. But on many occasions, after she was first abandoned at St. Vlad's, by Janine. Half of the time, it had been Stan that had calmed and consoled Rose.

Stan and I hadn't been the only ones, that had wanted to hand Dimitri his ass, for the way he was hurting Rose though. Most of the older guardians, from St. Vlad's, had wanted to do the same thing that Stan had suggested. Most of which, are now her guardians. Spiridon and Ben, were the only one's out of her present guardians, that hadn't been there to watch her grow up. But by now, they adored her, just as much as the rest of us did. So, Dimitri would be in deep shit if he ever hurt her again.