Rose

It was chaos. I couldn't see Dimitri anymore; I couldn't see what had happened to him. Indecision flashed over my mother's features as she tried to decide to flee or flight, and then regret all over her face, she kept running towards the exit. Meanwhile, I was trying to run back inside, but someone was stopping me. It was Stan.

"What are you doing, Rose? More are coming."

Didn't he understand? Dimitri was in there. I had to get to Dimitri.

I elbowed him in the grion and he instantly let me go. I made my way into the darkness of the cave.

Dimitri was laying unconscious on the ground when I finally saw him. I quickly ran and kneel to his side. His skin was pale from the blood lost and his clothing with torn in a lot of places. I check for a pulse, it was faint but it was there.

He's alive, Rose. I told myself.

"Dimitri? Can you hear me?" I said frantically.

I heard him groan slighty. "Roza?"

"We have to hurry." I said, trying to get him up. "Can you-"

I was thrown back into the walls of the caves. My vision was getting disoriented. I grabbed for my stake but it was kicked out of my hands. Cold hands went around my throat and I started to kick and scream. I saw two strigoi standing over Dimitri.

"Get away from him!" I snarled.

The strigoi who was holding me back, smiled and whispers to me: "If you behave yourself, no one else has to die." And then he slams my head against the rocky wall and I fell into the darkness and pain.

Dimitri

When I came into conscious, I was in the clinic of the school. I was expecting to see Roza sitting by my bedside. She wasn't there. Dr. Olendzki came with clip board in her hand. She looked very tried as if she's been up all night.

"Glad to see you're awake Guardian Belikov. You were really lucky. You almost died of blood loss." She informed me.

"How's Roz-excuse me, Rose Hathaway?" I ask.

She gave me a sad sympathic look. "Um...there was a loss of six guardians and a novice."

No. It couldn't be true. It has to be a lie. Someone made a mistake. Roza couldn't be dead. I quickly started to get up from my cot. Dr. Olendzki was trying to stop me.

"Guardian Belikov you have to calm down." She said.

"I have to get Guardian Hathaway. They have to got back into the caves. They have-" I babbled on.

"Rose is dead." She told me. I stop struggling, letting horrible truth sink in. "I'm sorry but Rose Hathaway is not coming back."

Rose

I woke up to a pair of red ringed eyes staring down at me. My head felt like someone ran a freight train over it and dip it in acid all at the same time. I felt my arms and legs were tied together tightly.

"Well Miss Hathaway, glad to see you're finally awake." The blonde strigoi said to me. "Sadly it'll be a while before we get home."

I glared at him deeply, struggling to break free. The blonde strigoi got annoyed with me and grasped my neck tighly. I instantly began gasping for air. He moves his face close to mines, bright red meancing eyes looking deep into my brown ones.

"You just don't know when to quit fighting." He signs deeply. "You're face is turning blue." He lets of my neck and I was gasping and coughing hard.

"Bastard." I gasped out. I realized that we were in a car with very tinted windows. There was two male strigoi in the front, one driver and one passenger.

The strigoi who was driving was yelling something in Russian in which the blonde responded back in Russian. Hearing the language, I instantly thought of Dimitri and how the last time I saw him, fighting for his life against the strigoi in the caves-

Sudden anger rose within me. "Where's Dimitri?" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

"Dimitri?" The blonde strigoi questions. "Oh you must be talking about the russian dhampir. He's still alive. I was thinking of awaking him...but then I saw you, Rose and how beautiful you look when you're absolutely scared."

"Why don't you just kill me already?" I asked, half annoyed half scared.

"Because it's no fun." He replies simply. "I don't believe in wasting beauty."

In the corner of eye, the strigoi in the front passenger seat pulling something from his coat pocket and gave it to the blonde strigoi. It was a needle halfway filled with clear liquid. I started to panic.

"This is to keep you calm-"

No way I'm gonna let them awakened me. I started to kick and scream as hard as I can. I manage to knock the needle from his hands but he had other ideas.

"Seriously Rosemarie." He signs, grabbing me by the thoart again. "Why must you do things the hard way?"

I felt my head going backwards in high speed against the window, hearing and feeling the glass crack before I was swimming in darkness.