Tori Vega (andscene) wrote in ohanascenes, @ 2015-08-28 17:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | lissa dragomir (dragomir) |
WHO: Rose and Lissa
WHERE: Out and about and then Lissa's apartment
WHEN: After Rose first arrived
WHAT: Reunited and it feels so good
Rose was pissed off. This was hardly her first time being kidnapped but usually the bad guys liked to make a big scene. They liked to taunt and tease and let you know exactly who was in control of the situation and it sure as hell wasn't you. Oh yeah, Rose knew kidnapping. She probably couldn't even count on one hand the number of times she had been abducted but all of those times had one thing in common. Rose always got away. It didn't matter how many they sent or even if it were her boyfriend in the role of the villain, Rose always got away. That was great if she didn't count the losses, the sacrifices along the way. Like Mason being ruthlessly murdered by Strigoi right in front of her or the pieces of herself she had lost while she had spent all that time locked away in Russia with Dimitri.
Nope. Fuck that. She had survived betrayal from friends and relatives, legal imprisonment, inappropriate relationships, Strigoi invasions, nearly being turned into a monster, car crashes, spirits and Lissa's impenetrable darkness. She was not going to let anyone take anything else away from her. She had come to far, fought too hard for what she had. But what she had was back in Pennsylvania. She was going to have a really good life there, living among her friends, the queen's royal guardian, hanging out with her best friend every day for a living, finally being able to openly love the one guy she had ever cared enough to. The gunshot wound she had suffered from Tasha Ozera was a bitch but she would heal. Knowing she was responsible for Adrian's heartbreak wasn't exactly giving her the warm fuzzies either but he was Adrian, he would get over it. He was probably already chatting up some sorority girl right then and there. The point was, life was good back at court and as pretty as Hawaii was, she didn't want to stay. She had to think about Lissa. Rose loved the sunshine but the Moroi just couldn't do it. It would weaken her best friend and be a general burden on her. They would have to get back on a Moroi schedule just so Lissa wouldn't get sick.
Rose was already worried about Lissa's mental health. She had always suffered from depression and some mania and other things that Rose doubted had ever been properly diagnosed. Lissa wasn't what you would call stable, despite being voted in as the queen of their people. The spirit that she used made her a tad crazy from time to time and the only thing that had helped was the spirit bond between the two of them. Being shadowkissed, Rose could absorb Lissa's darkness. Now she wasn't absorbing anything which was wonderful for her mental health but likely detrimental to Lissa's.
So as much as she'd love to party in Hawaii and show off her rocking bikini bod and find her other friend, Sydney as well, she couldn't. She had to find Lissa and she had to make sure that she was alright. Then she would have to figure out a way for them to escape because Lissa really did not belong here at all. Rose could settle in and get real comfortable but she knew her best friend couldn't. And without Dimitri, it was likely that Rose would never truly settle either. Because Rose knew that yes, it was possible to love two people so much that choosing between them felt like tearing her own heart in half. She needed both of them and Dimitri wasn't here.
She did a perimeter sweep of the apartment building first. She had no idea if Strigoi were hanging around. It would seem a stupid place for them considering their own sun allergies. Strigoi wouldn't just weaken in the sun like Lissa did, they would perish. But the sun had fallen beyond the horizon by now and Rose stalked the darkness like the predator that she was.
Once she was satisfied that there were no rogue vampires lurking in the shadows, she made her way up to Lissa's apartment and knocked on the door.
"It's me," she called, hoping that Lissa would know better than to open for strangers.