A broken heart

Chapter 38

"I can't wait to watch them fight or train full out together." I heard Mason mumble.

"They are amazing to watch then too. I have never seen any other two guardians who are more evenly matched. In every way." Mommy Al replied.

"But Rose is still a novice." Mason said and I couldn't help but smile. Because my sestra has not been a novice in years. And even less so since she started training with Dimitri.

"No, she's not, not really?"

"What do you mean?" This question was Eddies.

"You'll find out soon, I have no doubt about that. But I will just say this, although Rose is still hyper technically still a novice at St. Vladimir's Academy. That is in fact not the case everywhere else in our world."

"Have you seen them train full on Alberta?" Mason asked.

She smiled. "Oh yes. And it is... like being a voyeur, like nothing that you have ever been give the pleasure to witness. Even their fighting together is intimate. It is as full on as you can possibly get. It is... well I don't really know how to describe it other than to say that it is like a dance. A fierce, deadly and dangerous dance."

"I have seen them train too, but I couldn't describe it any better than that. It is passionate, it is... I don't really know, glorious maybe? When I watched them, it felt as though I was intruding on something private and intimate between the two of them. Something that I should not have been eavesdropping on." Aunt Celeste described Rose and Dimitri's fighting technique as best as she could.

Just hearing them describe it I couldn't wait to see it myself someday in the future. Just not against a strigoi or someone who was actually trying to hurt any of us.

"I would love to see the two of them fight a group of about half a dozen, or even a dozen, guardians. You know, just sit back, and watch it. Take it all in." Uncle Yuri said and the others all nodded.

"I imagine that I could set up an expedition fight. The two of them verses the best half a dozen or so guardians at the academy, other than the six of us. That way we can all just sit back and watch it, we could even record it. For the academy to use as a teaching tool in the years to come on how to pair fight. Because that is something that far too many of the guardians and novices are just not that great at. I have never seen them fight together as a team, but the way that they fight each other. It has to be something amazing to watch." Alberta said.

"Yeah, you should really do that Alberta. Have them do it when no one is in the gym, like a training exercise, so that they won't feel like they have to put on a show." Uncle Emil replied.

"But we wouldn't get to see it then." Mason almost whined.

"That's why it would be recorded by all the cameras that are already in the gym. Lots of different angles that would show every move of the entire fight." Aunt Tamera supplied.

Mason and Eddie both nodded.

"Could Christian and I watch it too?" I asked.

"We could set up an assembly and let everyone on campus watch it. Let the novices see what they should be aiming for and the moroi could see what the novices and guardians go through on a daily basis to keep them all safe. Add in some shots of them running, lifting weights, sparring with each other, rope climbing, stake training just all the physical aspects of what we are taught. Even add some notes at the bottom of some of the pictures giving specifics about how long, far, and fast we have to learn to run. How much weight we have to learn to lift, videos of the obstacle course, also of the gymnastics, just everything. As well as shots of her during class and notes about all the academic that novices have to go through and achieve. As well as other notes that tell them how the not only academic and moon phase grading is accomplished et cetera et cetera et cetera. Maybe after seeing all that we have to go through all day every day from the time that we are seven years old until the day that we die, except for Rose. They will understand what it takes to create the guardians that they are taking for granted every day of their lives. And we will make a note at the end telling them that Rose started this year before the others in her class did. And that combined with Dimitri's training is why she is sooo much better than everyone else but him."

Now we were all nodding.

"Yes, I do believe that we are going to do that. The six of us could even be some of the ones who will fight with them since we are going to be recording it so that it can be shown to everyone."

"Yea, that sounds good." All of my sister's guardians agreed.

"But we will need to do it before everyone at that academy finds out who she is if at all possible."

"Yes, we will." All the guardians, Christian, and I all agreed.

"What do you mean 'who she is' Alberta?" Mason asked.

"Rose will explain all of that to you later Mason." She answered.

(DPOV)

After skating with Roza moya for a few hours I could tell that she was starting to get cold and tired. (my)

"Detka, why don't we go inside, have some hot chocolate, cuddle up by the fire, and warm each other up?" (baby)

"Hmmm that sound wonderful and romantic Comrade."

I chuckled. "I certainly hope that it will be."

I cupped her left cheek and turned her head so that I could look over her shoulder and into her eyes. Because I wanted her to know just how serious I was when I said my next words.

"I love you Roza moya. More than anything or anyone else in this entire world, detka. And I always, always, always will lyubov' moya. ALWAYS detka." (my, baby, my love, baby)

"I love you too Mitya moy. More than you will ever be able to know or understand, I promise you that lyubov' moy." (my, my love)

Twenty minutes later, after a truly mind blowingly amazing and possibly ice melting kiss. We were all snuggled around a fireplace in one of the private out of the way lounges here at the ski lodge. But we had closed the doors just in case we were to talk about something that anyone else, outside of our circle, didn't need to overhear.

"Detka, would you like some more hot chocolate?" I asked angel moya. (baby, my)

"No, not right now. But thank you so much for asking."

(RPOV)

"You're welcome detka." He said as he laid deep, tingly, tender, and suckling kisses up and down the side of my neck and the top of my shoulder. (baby)

My fingers clenched around the back of his thigh as I moaned and whispered to him. "You're being a tease again, Comrade."

I felt him smile against my neck, "do you want me to stop?" He asked me quietly as his finger ran over my abs underneath my shirt. Already knowing what the answer to his question would be before he even bothered to ask it.

Before he came to my dorm room and told me the truth about how he feels about me. I had never before seen or heard of him acting so free, so light, so carefree, so happy, so fulfilled.

Ever since that day he has acted, even in front of other people including royals, as if he had no more worries in his heart and mind at all. It is as if telling me the truth had set everything about him free. As if it had released every concern that he had ever had. I don't really know how to describe exactly how much lighter and freer that he not only acted but looked. He looked at least five years younger and so yeblya happy there just weren't words to describe it. (fucking)

"Nooo, you know that I don't." I moaned very quietly in delicious agony just as his canines scrapped along my jugular and I lifted my hand and delved my fingers deeply into his hair.

Mitya and I were laying on one of the sofa's wrapped in a quilt. Him behind me with one of his arms around me the other folded up under my head and his. While Lissa and Christian copied our positions on the other sofa in the room and everyone else sat around the room in chairs or on the floor. When all of the sudden the doors burst open.

"So, this is where you have all been hiding!"

"Mishka!!!" Lissa and I squealed, as we flung the quilts back out of our way jumped up and ran to his side. He wrapped an arm around both of our waists and lifted us up off the ground and spun us around as he hugged us. Just like he always has, ever since we were little girls, and then he sat us back down on our feet on the floor. It was so good to know that at least one thing in our lives have not changed. We may not have Andre anymore but at least we still have Mishka.

"Where have you been Mishka?" Lissa and I asked at the same time. Which made him laugh.