Mystical Changes ~ Vampire Academy Fanfiction

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Dimitri POV

I couldn't believe what grandma just said. Rose was freaking out, looking at me for a translation. "Roza." I tried to muster the words. "You're pregnant." Was all the words I could get out in my shock. Rose stood there looking at me, not knowing what to say or do... Then she fainted. "Roza!" I lunged forward and managed to grab her before she hit the ground. I picked her up and laid her down on the couch. "How, how can she be pregnant." I demanded, looking at my grandma. But she had said all she had to say. I looked at my mum, she was as white as a ghost. "She was a strigoi, and now she is pregnant. What the hell is going on." She cried. "How can you be with her, Dimitri? Is that the thing you were struggling with, you're with someone that was a monster." She kept rambling. "Mum!" I snapped. "Just stop, let me explain." I sighed as I sat down beside her. "The baby, it can't be yours. Who's is it! She has been unfaithful to you!" She just wouldn't stop.

"Mum!" I snapped again, this time she shut up and looked at me. "There was an attack at the academy I was working at. This is where Rose went to school. A whole bunch of strigoi had banded together and attacked. They killed heaps of people, and took some students and teachers when they left. Roza, she was amazing. We were the first people to discover them, she ran and alerted everyone while I started fighting them. She saved so many lives by that act alone. She killed so many that night, as did I. That's how she got her first Zvezda mark. After the attack was over, we found that there was students and teachers missing. So, we planned a rescue mission. We knew where they had taken them. Rose and I were both part of the group that tried to go save them. Things went terribly wrong during the rescue, everyone barely made it out, some didn't make it out at all. I was one of those people. Rose made it out, she was free... She came back for me. She came back to save me, because she loved me and couldn't leave me. We both got killed. Turned."

I gave her a minute to process what I'd said so far. "It was my fault she was turned. I never should've let a relationship develop between us. I was her teacher. I knew better, but I slipped. From the first time we met, there was a connection between us. And eventually neither of us could deny it. Once we were turned, we took off together. We killed so many innocent people. We also killed and strigoi we'd come across. We cared for nothing but each other. Even as strigoi, our love for each other was still there. Even though our souls were gone, we were monsters. Rose's best friend, she's a spirit user. She found a way to bring us back. We hated ourselves when we were turned back. We remembered everything we did while we were Strigoi's. The school kept us locked up for a while, till we were no longer deemed a threat, and that we were actually dhampirs again. They tried to recondition us, back to who we were before. They had Rose go back to school, and myself. We refused to be apart from each other, only we understood each other now. Everyone was scared of us, no one wanted to be near us. We moved in together in guest housing, shortly after we found the pups." She was sitting there wide eyed the whole time I was talking.

I glanced over at Rose, Serafima was curled up in a ball at her feet on the couch. Protecting her. "We got to the point that we really couldn't handle being around others, we were so guilt ridden, and depressed and out of touch with the rest of the world. We ended up fast tracking graduation, so that we could leave the academy. We could leave on the condition that we would return when it came time for the yearly charge ceremony, we were both to take on a graduating Moroi. When we left, we started hunting strigoi. We didn't value our lives, so we put ourselves on the cutting block, with the hope of ridding the world of as many strigoi as we could before we end up dead. This was how we met Sydney, she was tracking us and cleaning up all the messes we were leaving behind. She set us up with a tattooist to keep our molnija marks up to date. When the first attempt was made by Abe, Rose's father, to take her back to the academy for her mother... we fled the states. We came here. I knew I needed to make contact, to let you know that I was okay. I just couldn't do it straight away... But then Rose came here and took the first step." I was thinking back to our trip here.