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Chapter 8a - Fighting the Urge

Author Notes:

The last half of this chapter might be a little bit PG-13. Special credit on this one goes to my husband, who may not be a badass fighter, but is a solid wall of muscle. He once spent some time as my personal trainer (it didn't go well for our relationship, but that's another story – there may have been some tears) and taught me a thing or two that I've used in this chapter. 

Thanks to another poster's fic (objectiveheartmuscle on fanfiction dot net's "Call My Name"), I have discovered that Russian names use a form of the father's name as the part of the name (patronymic) they use for a middle initial.

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I said goodbye to Dimitri and headed to my dorm room. I had completely forgotten to ask Alberta or Dimitri about training the Moroi, but I figured I could always throw in a quick response to his schedule if I didn't see anything there. I knew I probably should be going to bed right away, but I still felt like it was morning and couldn't stop thinking about Dimitri and what our new training time together might hold. I knew I had almost three hours until lights-out, so I started up my laptop, opened my email, and went back to the organizing I had started last night before Dimitri showed up, hoping it would chime loud enough when he sent me the schedule that I would hear it.

After about half an hour of trying to sort through the mess, my computer chimed the new email message's arrival. I walked over and opened Dimitri's message.

From: Belikov, Dimitri
To: Hathaway, Rosemarie
CC: Petrov, Alberta
Date: March 10, 2010 10:08 AM
Subject: Training Schedule

Rose,

Here is a training schedule for before classes start. I will give you a different schedule for Monday by Sunday afternoon.

6:00 PM - Running - Meet at Track
6:30 PM - Weight-lifting (upper body) and Sparring - Gym
11:30 PM - Weapons training - Meet at Gym
3:30 AM - Running - Meet at Track
4:00 AM - Technique and Strategy - To be determined
7:30 PM - Weight-lifting (legs) and Martial Arts - Meet at Gym

Topics for techniques and strategy will include single and pair guarding techniques, stealth, how to take a fall, and predicting your opponent's next move.

The molnija and zvezda mark ceremony for the attack will be on Friday at 3:00, so we might move the schedule out a half hour that day.

Guardian Dimitri R. Belikov
Blood Master Level 7
St. Vladimir's Academy

That would mean a big day tomorrow, including probably at least five hours with Dimitri. It seemed like a lot, but it was about the same amount of training as we had before the field experience had started. I sent a quick reply.

From: Hathaway, Rosemarie
To: Belikov, Dimitri
CC: Petrov, Alberta
Date: March 10, 2010 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Training Schedule

christian said there might be someone training moroi next week
am i helping with that?

As I was getting dressed for bed, my computer chimed about 30 seconds later.

From: Petrov, Alberta
To: Belikov, Dimitri; Hathaway, Rosemarie
Date: March 10, 2010 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: RE: Training Schedule

We'll see.

Captain Alberta Petrov
St. Vladimir's Academy