Rose was captured almost three years ago by strigoi when the queen was attacked. Everyone assumed she was dead. When Rose, bloody and bruised with bite marks all over her body appears at the gates of court everybody is overfilled with joy of having her back. But when they see her and realise that she isn't the same girl from three years ago, they don't feel so happy anymore

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Academy or any of its characters. Just having a bit of fun with the characters. I own nothing but the plot and the new characters.

Warning: Spoilers for Vampire Academy and Bloodlines

Chapter one: Rosemarie Hathaway

I'm walking, but it is barely. Every part of my body hurts and it's just my mental power that keeps me going. I don't know for how long I've been going, one hour, two hours maybe? Soon I won't be able to go any further, my energy's up. The gravel path underneath me is killing my feet, it feels like I'm walking on glass. I'm going to have red feet's for days when this escape is over. That is if I manage to survive long enough to get help. My bruised body is losing too much blood and in this pace I will be dead within an hour. But I need to go back to safety, no, I have to go back to safety, there is no other option. I don't want to be captured again, I can't. I can't go back to the dark room. The cold, the hunger, the loneliness. I'm panicking just from the thought of it.

Then I see the most beautiful sight in the world. I would cry if my body had any liquid to spare for the happiest tears I would have cried in my life. Even if there probably is two hundred meters left to the familiar gates of Court, it feels as nothing. For almost three years all my dreams have consisted of this exact moment. In so many scenarios I've reached the gates of court just to be waken up from the dream by the monsters that held me captive. In short words, that was all my days consisted of. Have a dream, wake up, another session with them and go back to the little sleep I could get. And so the cycle starts over. Over and over and over and over it went. But not anymore, never again. I'm free and I'm never coming back there.

I'm free. I'm free. I'm free. That's all my mind can think of as I'm coming closer to my goal.

Of course when I reach the lights from the sentry, I fall over my own feet's and I'm not able to rise again. I just lie there in a growing pool of my own blood from the wound in my side. All I can do is lie there and watch the stars as they shine on the night sky. If I die here and now, at least I would die with a beautiful sight still in my mind. The only more beautiful sight I could think of is the one with all my friends' ensemble in one place to say goodbye to me. To support me as I'm falling into darkness. And he would be there, he would be there to take my hand and tell me that everything would be alright even if he knows that I will leave him in a short time. And that would be okay, cause at least I would see him before I leave and just the sight of him would make the path to wherever I'm going next more endurable.

But it turns out they whoever is up there has other plans for me.

"Who's there?" I don't know who spoke but it doesn't matter, it's not anyone who will hurt me or take me back to that place. Whoever it is has an voice of an angel. An angels sent from the heavens to save me.

"I said, who's there?" The voice repeats again with a little more fire in his angelic voice.

I hear the sound of footstep approaching and it's the most wonderful sound in the world, apart from his voice. My lips manage to mumble my name but not with enough strange. And I know I have to say my name so loud that the guardian can hear my cause I don't think even my closest friend will recognize me in this shape. My hair is all over the place and dried blood covers almost every part of my exposed skin covering the blood marks. With every uns of purer I have left I manage to say my name so loud that the guardians ear, that's now right over my mouth as he no longer considers me a threat, can catch it.

"Rosemarie Hathaway"

The last thing I manage to see before everything turns black I the look of surprise on the guardians face. Then I pass out.

AN: Before I say something else I must get some things out of the way, which will probably makes it easier to understand my writing.

1. English isn't my first language. Therefore I don't speak it fluently and have to think twice before I write anything down. I could probably have a normal conversation with someone who is fluent I English, but as I said in the beginning, it isn't my first language. The consequences will therefore be some grammar misses and the wrong use of expressions.

2. This is my first attempt to write a fanfic so it will probably take a few chapters to get the hang of it.

So please bear with me in the beginning since I love to write and would love to share my story and see if it works. If you think it works please let me know and I'll do my best to continue. Please tell me if I've missed something or wrote something wrong.

Critiques are welcome as well as your opinion! :)

Have a nice day/night, wherever you are!