I just wanted to let y’all know that I’m still working on all the items I mentioned in the previous post and point out my blogs new look!
I decided it was time for a change … I need to write more, be more organized, and well … I decided to start with my blog! I really hope y’all like the new theme!
Honestly, I haven’t gotten as much done as I’d have liked, but I did manage to get started on a Vampire Acadamy one-shot, that I’m very excited about.
So far, I’m less than 1000 words into it and I don’t know when it will be finished/posted or what it will be called, but here’s a little bit about it …
It is written in the 1st person, from Dimitri Belicov’s perspective. It takes place directly after the end of Spirit Bound and is basically Dimitri trying to sort out his feelings for Rose and figure out what … if anything … there is he can do to help her and also if he should help her.
Damn! I shouldn’t do this … but I can’t help it … here’s a tiny teaser of it … just keep in mind that it’s rough and could totally get scrapped or changed up before the final product is posted …
The rain hadn’t stopped since they’d taken her, but regardless, it didn’t matter. I had nothing but rainy and dreary days ahead of me now, and I needed to get used to it. Nothing would ever be as it was and all the wrong I’d done would haunt me forever.
I was soaked, but I didn’t care, as I made my way from Rose’s hearing to my quarters on the other side of Royal Court. Rose … my Roza, was all I could think about. I had this nagging urge to help her … even though it went completely against my better judgment.
“Dimitri,” Lissa called out from behind me. “Dimitri, wait.”
I knew she’d been following me since I’d walked out of the courtroom and I’d heard her call out to me, but I couldn’t stop … not now … even though I owed it to her to do so. I owed her everything, but I also owed Rose everything … which was precisely why I needed to clear my head.
I’d been avoiding Lissa all morning, since all of this happened. I just needed to be alone, not that that was even possible with guards following me everywhere I went. I needed to get my head straight and regain control, which was something I hadn’t yet been able to achieve and my lapse in control … well, it was getting harder and harder to hide from those around me.
Saving Rose was wrong … so wrong and could only end in pain … her pain – I continually tried to convince myself. I needed to stay out of it … stay away from her, besides, there was nothing I could do short of breaking her out of prison, which was too risky. And if I managed to succeed … well, then we’d be forced to run and even worse, stuck with each other. She didn’t deserve to be stuck with me … not after all I’d done to her.
“Dimitri,” Lissa called again. “Stop. We need to talk about this. I know that no matter what you do or say, or how you act that you love her.”
She was absolutely right, but my love didn’t matter … not after all I’d done, so I spun around and insisted, “What you need to do … Princess, is get yourself out of the rain. I don’t love her and we don’t need to talk ….”
Lissa, still approaching me, interrupted, “I heard about what happened this morning when they took her, Dimitri. You can’t deny it. You love her. You always have. I know everything … what happened between you two,” she said, now standing in front of me, a sea of green boring right into me.
She just wasn’t going to let this go.
“That was in the past … before … well, you know …,” I insisted before trailing off, my eyes shifting toward the ground.
Lissa reached out, placed her hand on my arm, and said, “Dimitri, that wasn’t you. None of that matters, now. Rose loves you and needs you and I think you need her, too. She didn’t do this and you have to help her.”
“There’s nothing I can do. You should go to Adrian. She’s with him … she needs him,” I spat, knocking her hand away from my arm.
“Dimitri, please,” she begged as I turned and walked away.
“Go to Adrian,” I insisted firmly, continuing on to my quarters.
I’ve also started on the new chapter of New Beginnings … Finally!
I’m really not all that far in, but I think I can safely say the chapter should be posted within a week … if not, I’ll let you know otherwise.
For now … Here’s a teaser …
Earlier, when Eric and I had gotten out of the shower, I was horrified at the thought of having to suffer the embarrassment of them having heard our little fuckfest we’d had in the shower.
Luckily, when I headed to the kitchen to finish cooking they weren’t there, as I’d expected them to be. In fact, the only person awake in the house … besides me and Eric … was Jason. I really wasn’t too keen on the thought of him having heard it either, but Karen and Doug would have been way worse. Jason, could be dealt with.
I’d noticed Jason, on the couch watching TV, as soon as I opened my door and reluctantly stepped out into the hall. I had really hoped he hadn’t heard us, but I didn’t have time to dwell on it because I had to check the pies and finish dinner, as well as finish getting dressed.
My hair was still in towel and I was wearing one of Eric’s wife-beaters and an old pair of sweats which were hardly suitable for Thanksgiving dinner even though ours was a far cry from a formal event. I also hadn’t bothered with underwear … seeing how my plan was to pull the pies from the oven, put in the last couple of dishes and then go straight back to my room to finish getting ready.
As I entered the living room, on my way to the kitchen, Jason barely looked up from the football game he was watching as he asked, “What time can we eat? I’m starving.”
He apparently hadn’t heard us … thank God! At least if he did, he wasn’t mentioning it … which I could certainly deal with.
Like I said before … I’m trying to get organized and write more … I’m hoping I can get Forbidden Pleasures and New Beginnings finished up by the end of the year at the latest. At that point, I do have a few ideas in the works, as well as I’d like to get back to One Year Later … getting it cleaned up and finished, along with the one-shots I removed and get them all reposted to ff.net and to this blog.
I will also try to keep y’all better updated as to where I’m at and what I’m working on when things aren’t going as planned and I’m not on schedule.
😉 Kelly
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