A/N: Takes place when Rose is still being held captive by Dimitri in Galina's mansion. This is just a short story so I'll only be posting a few more mini chapters and then that's it, but no worries though. A steamy sour lemon is coming.
Enjoy.
-Rose-
I was lying across the silk-sheeted bed with my limps leisurely splayed out waiting for him. For the past few days he’s been biting me a lot more often than usual. My mind was constantly swimming in an intoxicating cloud of divine unadulterated bliss. It was quite simply
heaven. I never loved him as much as I do now. The pure happiness he drowns me in is like nothing I’ve ever felt before and I crave the next fix like a fish without water.
I can’t really remember why I was so hesitant and afraid before, but now... wow. Giving blood to a strigoi was truly the perfect high. And it wasn’t just any strigoi for that matter, it was Dimitri... Mmm,
my Dimitri. The man honestly is a god. The ways in which he touches me, the power I sense when his sharp twin carnies pierce my soft, warm flesh-
I snap out of my dreamy daze as I hear a click sound and a second later the suite’s door opens and in comes a tall, muscled and breathtakingly handsome frame. I smile widely, excited to see him as I contently sigh, “
Hey Comrade...” He strides over to me quickly and within a flash he’s lying beside me with a cold arm loosely wrapped around my waist. I snuggle into his side as he emotionlessly speaks, “Time’s up Rose. You have to decide once and for all whether you choose willingly to be awakened or
not.”
I flinched not wanting to acknowledge the latter, but nonetheless I let out a bothered grumble.
Not this crap again. I slowly lift my head up ignoring the instinctive shutter my mind warns my body with when I take in his piercing red-ringed gaze. My movements feel sluggish as I cup his perfect cheekbones and run a finger across his plump bottom lip. I pause to take him in through my bleary haze.
Today he’s dressed in a nice, tailored black suite. His smooth, medium-length chestnut hair is pulled back into a short ponytail at the nape of his neck and a few layered, unruly strands have escaped the style’s form and have fallen forward, framing his face where a few shadows trace his pale skin against the room’s dim light.
His scent is sweet yet spicy, like his old natural smell mixed in with a unique fragrance that I just can’t seem to place. I gaze into his frozen eyes gingerly, if I look closely and focus past the bright crimson discs branded to his irises, I can see some of the bottomless brown depths that I loved so much yet the feeling of life and calling of my soul is gone from them now. I grimace, the one thing I missed most about the old Dimitri were his eyes. They used to be so warm and captivating but now... they just... seemed...
not right. I brush a lock of chocolate hair away from his face, tugging it behind his ear and whisper, “Tell me one last time then.
Why do you want me?” A flicker of agitation twinges in his guarded, bleak eyes before they soften and he regards me with a gentle tone, eerily like how he used to do when he was still a dhampir.
His arms cage around me, tugging my body onto his lap as he murmurs, caressing the skin of my bared collarbones with his lips, “You are so beautiful Roza and
strong. I’m so sick of holding myself back...” he drags the points of his fangs up my neck tauntingly and I unintentionally press myself closer to him, “I want you. All of you.
For eternity...” He licks across my jaw as I breathlessly moan, “
But why...” He bobs his head back, gazing at me with a crackling intensity that I’ve longed to feel around him since he died, “Because I love you.” he softly spoke, voice laced with his velvety accent and I froze still, not moving a single inch. He’s always given me pointless excuses before as if I was his possession or
trophy, but never as a strigoi has he ever said he loves me. Was I hallucinating now or did I
really hear what I
think I just
heard him say?
I must of wore a look of shock because he lightly chuckled and pecked my lips before teasing, “Don’t act so surprised Roza. I’ve always loved you since the moment I met you.”
Shit. He’s starting to sound convincing. A small voice shouts in my subconscious to ignore him, but I lock it away before it can persuade me. I tear my eyes away from his alluring gaze and looked down at the clean-cut seam of my short, wine-colored cocktail dress. I don’t understand how, but it’s almost as if he’s his old self again. I know he shouldn't be capable of saying such things in this state, yet it’s caught my attention and made my judgement waver. I slid my palms down his chest as I whisper so softly I’m surprised even he could hear it,
“Do you really mean that?” In response, he curls a cool finger around my chin, lifting it up before he kisses me gently. At first I was too stunned by the kiss to respond. We made out plenty of times since I arrived here but this... This wasn’t like our lusty kisses like before, no this one was slow, meaningful...
deep and sensual. It reminded me of when we made love the one time in the cabin. It had been my first time, but the caring intensity of his touches back then mirrored the way he was touching me right now and soon I felt myself returning the kiss, deepening it and running my hand into his hair.
After a moment we pulled away, and I was surprised to see he was a little breathless too. My heart was beating a mile a minute as he stared at me with buttery tenderness as he proclaimed,
“I love you Roza...” he brushed a few fingers down my cheek
“Please...” he pleaded holding my gaze, stroking the the skin along my throat’s main artery,
“...be with me forever, let me do this for us...” I couldn’t look away from his eyes, it was like they were devouring mine...
I don’t think I’ll ever comprehend what was going on in my mind at that moment, but as these ghostly words slipped from my mouth, it was like I’d finally reached an epiphany, “Awaken me Dimitri. You have my permission...”
A satisfied smirk danced across the corners of his mouth just then and without hesitation I gasped as he sunk his teeth into my neck for the last time...