Authors note; Ok this is chapter one and it's also a Summary, giving the insight on what's going on in the story. Of course all rights of Vampire Academy belong to Richelle Mead. Please review at the end, and I will update very shortly.

Pieces Of Time

Chapter 1/Summary

It's been 3 years since I left my old school, my old home, 3 long years. I used to be a student at St. Vladimir's where I trained to be a guardian for my best friend, the Royal Moroi –Princess Vasilissa Dragomir. All chances of that had been broken when I got kidnapped in Spokane by Strigoi along with Mason, Eddie –two Dhampir's who I went to school with along with two Moroi, Mia and Christian.

These two Strigoi that had held us hostage for days, where my first kills. Although I was lucky enough to even have enough strength to kill the two on my own, not long after with no time to escape, more showed up. It was either I die, or I try to escape . . . again. I chose the escape.

They said they were going to use me to get to Lissa –ok, maybe use wasn't the word, it was more like torture. I couldn't let that happen, there was no way in hell I was giving them information. The others were gone, they had made it out with me being the distraction, they were free and they were safe and would head back to the Academy. But for me, it was impossible to be safe. I knew there was no way I could take down any more of the Strigoi that had shown up. So I used a lesson that I thought would never come in handy, a lesson that my mentor had taught me. I ran.

I had gotten out and escaped. . .just. But, even after 3 years I'm not out of danger from them, word spreads and now that they know about the bond I have with Princess Vasilissa they have been searching for me.

I couldn't go back to the academy once I escaped. I would be putting all my friends at risk. Strigoi were looking for me and sometimes I wondered if it was even about finding Lissa anymore or if it was just a game to them, a sick habit to make my life hell. It's hard to think that I just a banded my friends but I did it to protect them. Some days I even regret my decision when I think about them all, the pain that comes with missing them, the pain I put them through.

At the moment I live in Minnesota in a small hotel. For 3 years I've been living in hotels, travelling from town to town, running from Strigoi. But I haven't just been on the run and sitting around, no that would have got too boring. Instead I spend my life hunting Strigoi.

Yep that's right hunt as in go around looking for them instead of waiting for them to come and kill the Moroi I'm guarding. But you see I'm not the only one who does this, I guess you could kind of say we're a group but a bunch of other Dhampir's like myself who haven't graduated (therefore have no promise mark) do exactly what I do, I know about ten of them and I know there are a lot more out there.

Sometimes I work by myself going out on my own hunting down Strigoi who are lurking around or sometimes I go with my group, mainly Jackie. Jackie is a girl Dhampir who never ended up graduating she's a lot like me in many ways, except she dropped out of school when she decided she no longer wanted to spend her life protecting Moroi by sitting around and waiting for them to get attacked, she's a year older than me 21 –though she doesn't act like it –but has been doing this ever since she was 16.

So currently I have been tracking this random Strigoi for the past couple of days now; he would go around the clubs looking for his next victim. I would always follow him in but somehow he would disappear. He worked fast, real fast.

I had seen him get into conflict with some other Strigoi yesterday and man did it get ugly he beat the crap out of all three of them without getting a scratch he was good –but I am better.

You see over these 3 years I've done a lot of training. I taught myself and it really paid off, I mean I never got killed, obviously. Instead of using dummies to practice my fighting; I practise on the real thing.

I've changed a lot since I was seventeen and I don't mean my appearance since I look pretty much the same as I did just a bit older in the face I guess, and I'm taller. But what's really changed is my attitude towards everything really. Doing what I do is my life now, I've grown tougher and I'm emotionally stable even though I'm no guardian I have that mask that hardly ever gets broken if something bad happens I move on I don't just sit around sobbing cause I've learnt in life that just gets you know where.

I never in a million years thought that my life would turn out the way it has. My dream had always been to grow up protecting Lissa, being her guardian, her best friend, her sister and her bond mate. Speaking of bond that's another thing that's changed, the bond I once had with Lissa is hardly there anymore I can't do what I used to do like getting into her head anymore, I think it's because I stopped trying. We both had to move on, carry on with our lives and forget about each other. Which is easier said than done.

I think about Lissa a lot but she's not the only one I think about there's a person I think about just as much maybe even more. Dimitri Belikov.

When Lissa and I had run off for those two years Dimitri with the help of other guardians had caught us and dragged us back to the academy its then that everything in my life started to get a little hectic. He was my mentor and he was also the man I fell in love with. Our relationship was forbidden for one I was his student and two we were both going to be Lissa's guardians. Going.

I doubt even he is her guardian I'm sure he's guarding Tasha Ozera. Let's not get into that but before the Spokane incident I finally stopped acting like a brat and told Dimitri what a good offer it was. Dimitri would be 27 now he probably is married with a family. He's probably forgotten all about me. Yeah that's another thing I'm pretty sure everyone from my old life thinks I'm dead.

And I plan to keep it that way.

If I can.