Hey everyone! After re-watching vampire academy (I also read all of the books around 5 years ago so my exact facts may have some holes in it since I don't remember everything) I was inspired to write some MasonXRose because I noticed there's hardly any. (this will start off being more based on the movie because of my sketchy memories of the books). Sorry my writing isn't the best, it's been a while since I last wrote. Hope you Enjoy 3!

Rose's POV

I throw another punch and do a spinning round off hitting my opponent in the face. He goes flying across the mat and he lands with a loud thud. It's obvious I won the dual, but I didn't realize how into it I got. I didn't mean to hit him with so much force, it just sorta happened. I walk over to him and help him get up, it's the least I could do after I sent him flying. I look up while helping him stand and see Mason sending me a small smile. I send one back to him and I feel some heat rising to my cheeks.

"No Rose, don't get distracted. You need to get Mike to the instructor so he can go get checked out. Stop it." I say to myself.

After he's handed off I walk over to one of the boxes to sit for a minute and take a breather. After a big gulp of water I feel the familiar warmth of a hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see Mason looking at me, still with his small smile.

"You got Mike pretty good."

"Yeah…well….I've had some practice with kicking your butt."

"Woah, woah, woah…I think you're thinking of Eddie. You've never kicked my ass."

"Oh Mason, did yo just say a bad word? I'll have to refer you to our instructor." I reply with a smirk and we both chuckle a little.

"I would be wrong if I said I wasn't impressed with the power you had on that kick."

"Well, it looked like I got too into it and sent poor Mike flying. So, do you know what's for dinner tonight?"

"No idea, the fun thing for us is that our meals change." Mason does get a smile out of me from that joke.

"Well, as soon as we get the 'go' we should head over ASAP, I'm starving."

After a full meal and a nice, relaxing, hot shower I was ready to go to sleep. It was nice for a change not to be running away from something. As weird as it was, I kinda liked the peacefulness. I know Christian and Lisa are meeting tonight, hopefully I don't jump into her she she gets all emotion high….ew! I'm happy that she's found someone that makes her happy.

I'm all cuddled up on my coach with popcorn and a movie on my computer when I hear a knock on my door. I just got all comfortable, who can it be? I unlock the door and open it to reveal Mason. He looks a little nervous for some reason.

"Hey Mason, what's up?"

"I wasn't doing anything tonight and I thought I would stop by to see how you're doing."

"I'm doing okay, ya know how it is. You wanna come in?"

"Um yeah, sure. I ummm…..I was wondering if you heard about the virus?"

"Virus, what virus? Like virus virus as in a disease? Is the flu going around? Ew, with all of the mucus and I'm not going to enjoy fighting someone who's blowing snot bubbles while we fight."

"No Rose, apparently there's a rumor going around that there's a virus that's only infecting the Moroi."

"Wait what?! What kind of virus? What does this virus do to them?"

"Good thing is so far it hasn't been proven to be fatal, but it does make them bedridden for days."

"So not fatal." He grabs me by the shoulders and makes me look him in the eye.

"No Rose, this virus isn't fatal. Everything will be okay."

He brings me into a hug, making me melt into him. I feel him kiss my forehead and it makes me smile. We stay in this position for a while, I decide to go with my gut and look up at him. When he looks at me I press my lips on his. He kisses me back immediately and starts chuckling in the middle of it.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing." He says with a childish grin.

"Mason, tell me what's so funny." I say with a smile and my own chuckle.

"Really Rose it's nothing. It's just been a while since you've kissed me. I was starting to think you've grown tired of me."

"How could I ever grow tired of you?" I say sarcastically with a laugh. "I guess you haven't been a boyfriend."

"Why do you say that?"

"Cause I haven't gotten any kisses fro m you in a while. Thank you for this."

"For what?"

"For distracting me and making me laugh a bit. I just hope this virus thing goes away quickly. I guess isn't good that this is the first time I've heard of this."

I wake up and feel a broad chest against my face. I smile and role over so I can look up and see his face. I scoot up and give him a kiss on the cheek, making him stir a bit.

"Come on, walk up. We have the only day off we get every week ahead of us. Also, if we want to get real food for breakfast since we don't get the around the clock blood feast like our fangy counter parts."

"But it's early and as you pointed out it's our day off I think we should sleep in as much as we can."

"We already have slept in by our usual standards, it's 9am."

"Doesn't matter, we should just stay in bed all day. Maybe we will get up and get breakfast though, we do need to eat real food. But that does mean we have to get dressed…." I hit him in the chest, "ouch! What was that for?"

I laugh a bit, "Just get dressed. I'm hungry and I'm guessing you are too."

I take another bite out of my apple while Mason is going at some eggs. We ate in a comfortable silence. This rare day was really nice and I feel like it's just want I needed. Today's lazy day was accompanied by some physical activities, we have to do something besides just cuddle in bed.

Present Day

I woke up with a jolt, breathing hard and I can feel sweat coming down my face. How could a pleasant memory turn into a nightmare? Well I really shouldn't be surprised, it was my reality 8 months ago. I'm trying to calm myself down enough so I stop shaking. I jump when I feel two lean muscular arms wrap around me then I instantly relax into him. He gives me some quick kisses up my shoulder and neck.

"What's troubling you?"

"Nothing."

"Now Rose, you know I know there's something wrong. You're shaking."

"I had a dream. Well, it was a memory of before the virus spread and we left."

"I'm sorry. I know Lisa will forgive you, she just needs time. You know with her being Spirit she can get moody sometimes, even with all she's learned about helping her with the side effects."

"I don't know Mason…."

"I know for a fact that Christian doesn't share the same feels that Lisa feels. And since Christian is Lisa's fiancé so I think that has importance to Lisa. Try not to worry, I'm here."

"Okay I'll try, with all Lisa and I have been through I can't understand why she was so quick to to blame me for Christian getting the virus. He healed so quickly and I wasn't the one who gave it to him. The humans they fed on transmitted the virus and I was only the one who recommended her favorite feeder when he asked." I started to ramble.

"Shhhhh….shhhhh….Rose it's okay. That's all true, you didn't do anything wrong."

"I…I-I can't believe she said some many hurtful things. I know the Spirit can take her over a bit, but she said so many venomous things, especially about us. She knew how I feel about you, you're my weak spot."

"First, you've always been my weak spot too Rose I'm saying this because you need to be reminded." he places a loving and soft kiss on my should making me lean back into him more, "Second, our relationship is a little taboo…"

"A little?"

"Okay, more taboo than it should be. We love each other and that should be enough for them, I hate to say it but sometimes the Moroi can be selfish thinking only about how they need the Dhampir population to always be growing for their protection. Also, the older Dhampirs don't understand our kind of relationship because they've given up so much to be where they are and they've in the system for such a long time. It wasn't and still isn't right what Lisa said to you, our relationship is just as important as her's is with Christian. I don't want you to forget that."

"I won't I promise, I love you too much to ever forget. It's just….because it's Lisa, we're practically sisters, and our whole Shadow-Kissed connection it hurts so much more than anything usually every hurts me."

"We'll get through it together, I'm always here for you. In due time Lisa will notice what she said was wrong and then you'll have to find it in your heart to forgive her. I don't want you stressing about that right now, how about we lay back down and try to get some more sleep. I think we can get about 2 more hours of sleep before we feel obligated to get up."

"Okay, I'll try just for you though."

"If that's what it takes."

I step into the shower, attempting to wash off the nightmares. Having Mason there really does help, but sometimes that one in particular just hits a nerve with me. I know I have to brush it off. When I walk downstairs I smell Mason cooking breakfast and I know he's treating me to my favorite chocolate chip pancakes. When we moved in here 8 months ago I showed him all of the foods in the outside world and bought some cookbooks. Our deal is if he makes one meal I'll, attempt, to make the next meal. Our little deal makes me feel normal, or at least as normal as I can.

"Morning."

"Morning my sexy chef." He gives me a quick peck.

"Why thank you for the compliment. We're scheduled to go to Murray family to do some more training of their Dhampirs. They finished their training room, so we can spare and try out their new weapons. I know you've missed it."

"Yeah, it's good they finally got us some weapons to play with. I haven't used a bow in so long."

"Might be getting rusty?"

"Oh that's where you're wrong, my skills can never get rusty."

"Oh really? Should I remind you of how much I beat you when you first returned to the Academy?"

"All right, all right, my skills have the potential to not improve when you had a year's worth of training." I reply to him with a smile.

I dodge another one of Jon's kicks and take the opportunity when he's unbalanced. I jump to his side and sweep him off of his feet and get him into a choke hold. When he taps out we're both breathing hard, as the teacher figure I help him up and Mason throws him his water bottle.

"Thanks."

"No problem Jon. You might want to watch our kicks, as in tracking them with your eyes. It's obvious that you're not following it long enough."

"Yeah, I could tell very well half way through the kick you stop concentrating on kicking me, that's why I could easily get out of your line of sight and take you down. You're done for the day, go shower."

"I finished everything with Kendra. You done for the day? Or I have a feeling you're going to want to use the new knife throwing range."

"Knife throwing range? They barely allowed us to practice that at the Academy compared to hand-to-hand combat."

"I think you'll really enjoy this. I know how much you enjoyed it back at school so I might have recommended it to the Murrays and stressed how this can help regarding their protection."

"You didn't," he nods a bit while making a sarcastic 'no big deal' face, "this is amazing! Convincing our employers to pay for things we can use, for training yes, mainly because I mentioned wanting to use a professional knife range a couple months back. Come here."

I jump up to wrap my legs around his waist and give him a hard kiss. He instantly responds back and grabs my butt to help hold me so I don't fall. I can feel his tongue against my lips and I give it to him. Ou tongues dance with each other for a couple of minutes before we pull apart a little out of breath.

"Maybe we shouldn't be doing this in our employer's training room."

"Do you have to be the voice of reason?" I whine over dramatically.

He chuckles in response, "I have to be, you're definitely not going to be the voice of reason and one of us has to be." he gave me a quick peck and then put me down. "Now, you wanna throw some knives?"

"For a bit, I'm a little distracted as the moment. And since you had to ruin our fun…."

"Stop pouting," he grabs my chin softly and I'm looking into his playful eyes, "it's not a good look on you. I'm not ruining it, more like delaying it. I know when you want something you'll get it, you just have to be patient this time."

I let out a dramatic groan and see him laughing quietly to himself. In response to this I grab some knives and start throwing them trying to take out my frustration on the human board in front of me. It doesn't take long for me to hear Mason following me and throwing some knives of his own. After a few rounds, I put the knives back watching Mason throw his last rounds. If you were to ask my 2 years ago that we'd be together and I'd be captivated, though I'd never admit it to just anyone, by him throwing knives and watching his body go through the movements almost flawlessly I would have laughed in your face. I smile to myself and continue to watch him throw the last two knives perfectly on target.

"Wow hot shot, you almost had as many red zones as I did congrats."

"Nice try Rose, but we all know I'm better at throwing."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Of course, but you do beat me at the hand-to-hand combat."

"A man who knows when his lady is better than him, how'd I get so lucky?"

"I ask myself the same thing."

"I didn't know I was a man."

"Haha Rose you're so funny."

"That shouldn't be a surprise to you. Let's clean up, I'm hungry and you owe me some fun time."

"Wouldn't miss it for anything."

Hope you liked it! I had some trouble writing this for some reason, so sorry if it bounces. Next chapter will be coming soon!

-Mo