A month outside the gates (a VA fanfic)ON HOLD

Chapter 63

DPOV
My Roza started her Palace Guard shifts today. But first, she still had to attend the Graduate's Luncheon. I had been lucky enough to be on guard duty for it. So, I got to see my Roza being swarmed by high ranking royals and officials. That was unsurprising since she was under orders to wear her Palace Guard formal uniform.

Among the swarm of would-be potential charges, was Lissa (naturally- any excuse to spend time with my woman), Christian (that came at a little bit of a surprise), Adrian (any excuse to annoy my dearest to no end) and Camille Conta. Jesse Zeklos and Ralf Sarcozy decided to be a pain in my woman's butt. Even Tasha approached my Roza; though god knows why. Of course, her proper charge, Queen Tatiana, also met with her. And, from what I could see and barely hear, it was a civil conversation- the closest they ever got to a friendly chat.

Afterwards, I got about five minutes with my Wonder Woman before she rushed off to her first shift. Man. It was going to be a long six hours. And I wasn't even on ward shift or anything similar. I had six hours of nothing to do. Rose and I had set up the apartment yesterday afternoon after her fitting, and finished it off after last night's dinner.

RPOV
My first shift had me manning Tatiana in her office. By my side, spread around the room, was five of my teammates; Eccleston and Brown, Field, Swan and Carter. All Tatiana was doing was paperwork. It was boring enough, but I still did my job- keeping my guard up, my eyes scanning and my mind at attention.

The paperwork lasted for half my shift- three hours. The next three hours were spent in the meeting room. Carter, Swan and Brown had been switched with James, Day and Karantirov. I was quickly learning the art of hearing-without-hearing and seeing-without-seeing.

Eddie'sPOV
Rose was in her first Palace Guard shift. So, that took her out of the group's dinner and lunch plans. Because Rose was out of those plans, Belikov was too.

That didn't mean we didn't see him. Mase and I decided to spend some time in the gym. Why was I not surprised to find him in there while Rose wasn't by his side?
"Hey Belikov." I greeted when I spotted him working with the punching bags. "Why am I not surprised you're here?"
"Castile, Ashford." he greeted in response.
"Up for a fight?" Mase offered.
"Okay. Sure. Who first?"
"How about two against one?" I suggested.
"Fine. One of you is likely to get the Princess as your charge. Let's see how hard you can really push yourselves." he agreed and challenged.
"Let's see how good you are thanks to always training with Rose." Mase returned the favour of a challenge.

DPOV
"Hi Comrade." Rose greeted while hugging me from behind. I'd heard the door open and close and smelled her before feeling and hearing her. I was in the middle of cooking dinner and my other half was snuggling into my back. "Missed me?"
"Hi, my love. I've missed you terribly. Are you exhausted? I can hear how hungry you are."
My other half pulled the back my shirt up to kiss my back. Oh god, she was clueless what that was doing to me.
"Yeah, I'm hungry and exhausted. Mentally more than physically. I love you, Dimitri. So much."
"I love you too, my dearest Roza. Always have, and always will. You're clueless what you're doing to me right now."
"Mmm. I'm going to take a shower."
"Don't be long." I spun in her embrace and pulled her into a kiss. Man, I loved her.