I know you guys are not concerned with my excuses, but instead of an AN here, I'll have it at the end of the chapter. Enjoy.

RPOV

Victor has Adrian. That was all I could process right now. Sure, I didn't love him, but he's still my friend….. And I'm the reason that Victor has him. I could hear Dimitri faintly in the background, but I couldn't understand him. My breathing became ragged. I suddenly felt like I was being pulled into one of Adrian's dreams. I tried to blink away the black spots. This has never happened before when I was awake. The black spots grew bigger, and I decided to give in to see what the hell Victor wanted me for….. Other than turning me. I winced and found myself in a dream.

It wasn't a beach this time, though. I found myself in a small dark hallway. I slowly started going down the hallway where a large door was. I reached the door and shoved it open. Inside, I found Victor waiting for me, with Adrian tied to a chair looking terrible. I ran strait up to Victor.

"What the hell do you want from me? And do NOT say for me to be turned, because I know that's not all of it!" I screamed at him. Adrian slowly lifted his head and looked at me. He gave me a faint smile, and I turned back to Victor. He had his signature evil smile on his face.

"Figure it out yourself. And until you do, you friend here is going to pay the price." He spat out the word friend. I took a deep breath.

"Where are you? In the real world, I mean. You can have me if you let Adrian go." I said. Victor's smile was gone and he was glaring at me. He slowly shook his head, never taking his glare off of me.

"Find me yourself." And with that, he, and the dream, was gone.

"Damn it!" I screamed. I found myself back in the clinic with Dimitri.

"What happened?" he asked franticly. I sat up again and ran a hand through my hair.

"Victor pulled me into a dream. He said he is keeping Adrian in the dream state until I find him in the real world, and I have no clue where he could be. Damn it, this is all my fault." Dimitri opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted when Rosie shuffled came in with an upset Carsten.

"Sorry to interrupt, but Carsten keeps crying for you Rose." She then looked up and saw my face and she stopped. I can only imagine how horrible I look right now. "What's wrong?" Carsten reached for me and Rosie set him down on my bed on the right side of me so he wouldn't hit my broken left ribs. He jumped on me and giggled.

"HI Rose!" He smiled up at me. I smiled back at him, but it was hard to with the thoughts of Victor and Adrian in my mind.

"Hello Carsten, how are you?" He sat up next to me.

"I good. I with Aunt wosie and Tom." I looked up at Rosie.

"Tom?" Rosie looked at the ground, embarrassed.

"Yeah. Umm, there was an accident with Carsten. I kind of got side tracked and he kind of ran of." My mouth dropped open. Great, I thought, just another thing to worry about, Rosie not being able to watch over Carsten.

"For how long? Where did he go?" She looked back at me.

"Just over-"She paused and thought about it, "An hour. I found him by the dorms with a senior novice named Tom. He's a cool guy. You should get to know him." She winked at me and my eyes darted to Dimitri and then to my legs. Dimitri must not have told her about us yet.

"Awkward." I whispered.

"What?" Rosie asked.

"Oh, nothing." I looked at Dimitri again and he was fighting back a smile. I lost it and broke out in a smile and then started flat out laughing. Dimitri lost it too and let out a small laugh and then he covered his mouth.

"What? What did I say?" Rosie was looking between the two of us. I raised my eyebrows at Dimitri, asking him if we should tell her.

"We'll tell you later. There are other more important things to worry about right now."

"Wait, but first, how you do that to Carsten! He was ALONE for an hour! What if something happened to him?" I groaned. "Uggh, I sound like a mom." Rosie laughed.

"Don't worry, apparently Tom was with him for a while." Carsten then looked around the room.

"Mama?" I hugged him close to me.

"We'll find her for you, I promise." He then pulled away from me and was then content with playing with the covers on the bed. I looked at Dimitri.

"I need to get back to St. Vladimir's. I need to start looking for Victor."

"The doctor said you can leave by tomorrow. I can get a plane for us then." He said. I then looked at Rosie.

"Will come with us? I think Janine is at the academy now if you want to see her. And personally, I don't want this to be goodbye." She smiled.

"Of course I'll come. I can use some time away from this dump." I laughed. Carsten then looked at me.

"I hungry." I looked at Rosie.

"I'll take him to get some food." I looked her in the eye.

"I swear if you let him out of your sight again I'm going to kick your ass."

"Oh come on, you wouldn't really." She said sarcastically. Dimitri chuckled.

"Yes she would." He said. She rolled her eyes and picked up Carsten and they left, leaving me alone with Dimitri again.

"I guess I should call about a plane." He hesitated and then stood up. I nodded.

"Will you then come back? Otherwise this place would suck." He smiled.

"Of course, Roza." He then left the room and I sighed. I hated clinics so much. I debated about sneaking out, but then decided against it. I then looked over at the table next to my bed and saw a tray of food and I realized that I was starving. I started to reach for it when someone walked in. I pulled my hand back and looked at the guy. He looked about my age with brown hair and gray eyes. He was definitely a dhampir. He looked at me awkwardly.

"Hey, my name's Tom."

So I'm really sorry about how I disappeared. I have been on vacation all summer. Seriously, I have. But now I'm back for good, haha. I'm going to try and update a few chapters soon, but it's band camp time again. This week is the last week, though, so I should be able to UD sooner. I'm so sorry guys and thank you so much for being so loyal.

Oh, and one more thing, Has any of you heard of NYLC (National Youth Leadership Conference)? I attended that this summer and it was completely amazing. It was literally life changing. Let me know.