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1 She's back-Adrian's POV

I nocked on the door of the big apartment that Lissa, Christian, Eddie (now one of Lissa's guardians),and now the beautiful Rose live in at the court. When they graduated and moved here I did too, so Lissa and I could keep doing our spirit training. Also now I will still live by Rose.

Rose and Eddie don't start being Lissa's guardians until the end of the summer, so Eddie when to spend time with his mom, and Rose spent the summer in Turkey, with her newly found father Abe Mazur. That means I didn't see her all summer. It was horrible, but I'd almost prefer that over him coming here. Let's just say I didn't have a very good first impression on him:

OK so Rose, Lissa, Christian, Eddie, and I were sitting at our usual table at lunch on a Saturday, a month or so after Rose had come back from Russia. At this point me and Rose were dating. The group was talking about graduation when this huge guy with black hair, exactly like Rose's, brown eyes, also exactly like Rose's, came up and put his hands on Rose's shoulders. She obviously was not expecting this, because she jumped like ten feet in the air.

"Hello, Rose." The big guy chuckled.

"Oh my god Abe you scared the shit out of me. Wait what are you doing here?" Rose asked with a very puzzled look.

"Is a father not allowed to come and see his daughter?" Abe asked with a raise of his eye brow.

With that Christian spit out his water all over us laughing.

"The Famous Abe Mazur...is Rose's Dad." Christian said between laughs.

"Yeah, I am. Got a problem with it." Abe snarled. Rose was the one laughing now.

"How ya going to get out of this one Fire-Boy." I said joining Rose laughing.

Christian glared at me then a smirk spread on his face. I stopped laughing immediately. I gave him a glare that I new said,"don't say it". His smirk got even bigger. Oh god he's going to say it.

"Oh, Abe don't be mad at me, if anyone be mad at Ivashkov. He's the one that sucks face with her every night." Christian said pointing at me.

"Oh really..." Abe turned his death glare on me.

"Yep." Christian said smugly. Lissa elbowed him.

Abe was starting to scare me now."Um... I'm Going to the feeders...I'll see you guys later." I mumbled. Then I got up and half sprinted away.

Abe later had one of his guardians come and find me and so he could have a talk with me. And of corse when he found me I was in the middle of making out with Rose.

Back to the present, Rose was finally here. I was so exited to see her again. After what seemed like forever Lissa answered the door.

"You could have just nocked once. You didn't have to keep nocking till I answered." Lissa snapped. What got her in such a bad mood?

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.... Is she back?" I asked.

"That was a little rude, Adrian." She crossed her arms and blocked my way in.

"Lissa, come on cut me some slack I haven't seen her all summer. Please can you just let me in..." I whined and gave her my best puppy dog face.

"Oh god, stop with the face. Fine come in. She's in her room unpacking." I ran up to her and gave her a hug then ran past her. "Oh, hey I've got some good news you... Abe is moving to the court."

I stopped mid stride and almost fell on my face but I caught myself. "What!"

"Oh, you heard me. Now go see your girl... Oh I'd be careful she's unpacking the stuff from her dorm."

I new that the stuff included Dimitri's creepy letter the stake he sent and some of the stuff from his room. "Shit," I mumbled.

I nocked lightly on her door and walked in. She was on the floor leaning against the wall, with her arms wrapped around her legs, sobbing. She had the stake in her hand and two letters on the floor in front of her. One I assumed was the creepy letter, but what was the other one? As I got closer I noticed it was my dating proposal she had me right back at St. Vlad's.

"Rose whats wrong?" I asked

"I screwed up... I failed twice... He taught me better.... I didn't keep my promise...." Rose sobbed. What was she talking about?

Rose's POV

"Rose what are you talking about?" Adrian ask

"I failed to kill him. The first was out on the street before him kidnapped me. He gave me a chance to do it, he wasn't fighting back or any thing. I had my stake in the right place and all, but I just couldn't kill him." At that point I had to stop, because my sobs were making me hard to understand. Adrian was now sitting next to me. He reached over and pulled me on his lap. I hugged him tightly and cried into his chest. He rested his cheek on my head.

He kissed my head. "I love you," He mumbled into my hair.

I Looked up, trying to see his face, but couldn't because of all the tears in my eyes. "Thank you for that. Thank you for being there for me whenever I needed you, and helping me get recover from the hurt losing Dimitri caused... I love you too."

He hugged me tighter. We'd been dating for a while now, and I had never said 'I love you' yet, even though he said it all the time, I just wasn't ready to love again. So this was a big deal for him "Rose I thought you'd never say that." He kissed my forehead.

I giggled, "Thats another reason why I love you, you always make me happy. Thats why I had your dating proposal out, I thought it might cheer me up, but you did a much better job."

He chuckled. The sound of it just made me happier. I smiled. "I'm so glad your finally here." He said squeezing me tighter.

I gave him a peck on the cheek and said, "I missed you too. But I had a ton of fun getting to know my dad more. We're really a lot alike. Did you hear he's moving here, so he can spend more time with his only daughter." I was about to burst from excitement.

"Yeah, Lissa told me on the way in, once she let me in... Are you sure your dad isn't moving here so he can keep an eye on you, being his little girl and all?"

"Hmm... Yeah your probably right. Whatever, it feels good to have a parent that literally cares about me enough to move to where I live to be all protective dad. But its not like he's going to be he much since he still has to go all over and do his dirty work stuff." I gave a half smile. "Well, at lest he's better than my mom."

"Ok, so he won't be here that often?" He asked.

"Sadly, nope... Wait do you still think he hates you."

"Um... Well..."

I laughed. Adrian gave me a puzzled look. "Well he did sort of...disliked you before the trip, that was because he knows your reputation and didn't want me to get hurt. Also he didn't like the way Christian announced that you 'suck face with me every night.' But I told him what an awesome, sweet, caring guy you are and showed him the dating proposal that you wrote me, that really won him over, and now he's cool with you and think its great that I have a guy that cares about me as much as you do." I said with a smug smile.

"Oh, ok. Thank you for defending my awesomeness."

I caught a glimpse of the clock on the wall. "Shit," I said getting up,"well speaking of Zmey-"

"Who" Adrian cut me off.

"Abe, my dad, AKA Zmey. Its a nick name the Russians call him. It means serpent. Oh crap don't tell him I called him that, nobody says it to his face." Adrian laughed at that. "But anyway I'm having dinner with him in..." I looked at the clock,"shit, an hour. Hey he said I can bring some friends so would you like to come. I was thinking I'd ask Lis and Flames too."

"I'd love to go to dinner with you." He got up too now. "I'll go get ready and come back. Do you want me to tell Lissa on the way out? Wait whats up with her mood."

"Yes, please, and well got in really late last night and me and her went to a bar and got a little drunk and now she has a bit of a hangover."

"Wait so you been hear all day. I didn't think you came in till tonight." He had a pouty face on.

I walked over to him and put my arms around his neck and kissed him passionately. It was felt amazing to kiss him again. I had missed him so much. When we pulled apart we were both gasping for air. "I missed you so much, Rose." Adrian said

"I missed you too, and you know I was asleep all day so you could have seen me then." I said in a

"Crap why didn't I think of that."

"Ok I have to get ready and you do to so hurry up so you can come back to me." I gave him a peck on the lips. I hope My Dad doesn't interrogate him tonight. He better not.