DISCLAIMER: If I owned Vampire Academy Dimitri and Rose would be together forever!

I strummed the strings on my guitar, slightly frustrated by the fact I'd been working on a new song for over an hour but still had nothing. I decided to sleep it off so I climbed under the blankets slowly laying myself down.

As sleep overtook me, I could tell it had been an hour or two when I saw blood, metal...death. I heard Lissa rapidly screaming, begging, begging for her parents, her brother and me to wake up...I was the only one who did. Slowly I realized this wasn't my dream...it was hers. Jolting from my slumber and out of my bed I shook Lissa violently.

"Liss! Wake up!" I said loudly though not loudly enough to wake anyone that might be sleeping nearby. She jerked up tears fresh in her eyes.

"Oh, Rose! It was terrible!"

"I know." I soothed. wiping extra tears I noticed she looked weak. More so than usual. "When did we last do a feeding?"

"A couple days." she muttered clearly not wanting me to hear.

"Well then come on." i shifted into a position that felt comfortable to me. "Go for it"

"Rose..."

"Come on your weak." I pointed out offering her my neck. Her protests stopped when she saw my neck and what it had to offer. Lurching forward she sunk her teeth into me causing brief pain to flair through me. pleasure of the endorphing soon took over.

It was our way too soon. as she pulled back, wiping her mouth. I had a goofy smile plastered to my face as lissa helped me lay down.

"I'm going to get you something to eat." Lissa inforced me. Oscar, our roomate Jeremy's cat, leaped up to the window sill not wanting to be near me. For some reason unknown animals didn't like dhampirs.

After about five minutes of Oscar staring out the window i became worried, especially when he started hissing. Despite the dizziness I shut out of bed only to immediately regret it as my legs threated to give out under me. I waited for everything to right itself, slowly making my way to the window and stuck my head out.

It was 3:00 am right after the last party had ended and drunken college students were either throwing up or attempting sleep in their rooms. I saw all the lights go out. I saw stars and the freshly cut grass. And i saw... a man watching me. In the dim lighting I couldn't be sure of his features, only that he was tall, really tall perhaps 6ft 5 to 6ft 7.

Seeing my head stuck out the window he stepped back, into the shadows. Gut wrenching terror is what I felt next, not because i was scared but i was worried abbout Lissa. she can't go back! She just can't, not after what happened before I took her away from the academy. I pulled my coat over my body quickly slipping my feet into some black flats as I shot like lightning out our bedroom door. Jeremy sat looking at a calculus book sadly, counting on his fingers.

"Liss," I whispered to her as she tried to find something in the fridge that barely had enough food for two people let alone three.

"You not supposed to be up." She protested.

"We have got to go." My voice continued to whisper so Jeremy wouldn't hear.

"Why?" Her feature twisted into a confused expression.

"They...They're here." My voice had all the meaning she needed as her emerald green eyes widened and she gulped.

"Are you sure?" I nodded.

"What's going on with you guys?" Jeremy asked picking up on the tension shooting through the room. The tension was so thick I think you could physically feel it.

"Liss, get his keys," I said as a brilliant idea came to my mind. She looked at me for confirmation to which I nodded. She took a deep breath and walked over to Jeremy touching his shoulder with one hand.

Looking into his eyes she said ina luring voice, "Let me have your keys."

His eyes glazed over as he handed her the keys. "Now where is it parked?" She asked.

"Down the block on the right corner." I sighed seeing as we'd have to walk. or rather run, so far.

"Thank you, now forget you ever saw us tonight and go up to bed right now." He did as he was told, looking like he'd jump off a cliff for her right now. I felt the compulsion seeping into him as he headed upstairs. I am highly resistant to compulsion, but Lissa would never in a million years use it on me. She picked up the keys off the table and I tugged on her arm pulling her out the door, though she was still barfoot. We ran not knowing where the man had went, but at the moment we didn't care. One goal was on our mind: Get to Jeremy's car and drive until we are sure we're not being followed.

After running a while I could see Jeremy's green Honda, under any other circumstances I would've been able to run ahead of Lissa to get to the car, but these weren't normal circumstances I was dizzy from her endorphins and she was the only thing that kept me from falling at the moment. The car was just within our reach whenever the guy from earlier stepped in our path. Lissa and I stopped short and I pushed her behind me in a protective stance. Earlier I hadn't seen him fully because of the darkness but now seeing him full on I realized he was actually really, what's the word? Oh, yeah hot. He was as tall as he looked earlier and had shoulder length hair tied in a short ponytail, his eyes were a dark choclate brown that made me want to melt in them.

Stop it, Rose!, I thought to myself, He is the enemy!

He pulled me from my thoughts when he said, "We can do this the easy way or," he looked between us, "We can do this the hard way." I sure as hell wasn't going to let him take me and Lissa without a fight. He looked at me and his eyes lingered on my neck. What was he staring at...I felt my neck. Pulling my hand away I felt the stickiness of blood and tossed my hair over my shoulders, that was the reason behind growing it out.

"Don't touch her!" I snarled. He took a step closer with his hands out in a peacelike gesture. Too close. Lunging out in attack I used a manuver that I hadn't used in at least two years. As soon as I went to attack him I was about to hit the ground, the guy had used an attack manuver, but I didn't, the guy reached out caught and steadied me.

"Once again," He said, "We can do this the easy way or hard way." I readied my next attack when I heard Lissa's voice in my head.

Rose, don't we'll just go with them I don't want us to get in even more trouble, please, she said in my head. I thought it over then relaxed.

"We'll go with you," I whispered.

He looked satisfyed as he said, "I'm Dimitri Belikov and I'm here to take you back to the academy princess."