Ok so hi everybody sorry it took so long for me to write the next chapter. I've been insanely busy with school and stuff but anyway I'm not sure when I'll get the next chapter out but I hope u like this one!

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Chapter 8

DPOV

I hold her still hand in mine, feeling her slow pulse against my hammering. She's closed her eyes unable to keep them open anymore so she can't see the tears that travel the length of my face.

Her words ring in my head, "I know I'm going to die, Dimitri. We're all going to die, my death will just be sooner than the others. I don't want this to faze you, you need to be strong and move on forget all about me. I came and did what I was supposed to, I freed Lissa, I killed the bad guys, and I found love. The best love I could have asked for, with the most wonderful guy. I even might think you know him." So wise and so true is my Roza, which is why I can't let her die. I may be selfish, but I won't be able to live knowing that she can't either. It was a snap decision without much rationality behind it but I know it's what I have to do, even if she hates me.

"Ma," I call," send Eli up."

LPOV

I can feel Rose within me and I know that she's giving up. She's my sister, my other half, and right now she needs me.

"Jane!" I call.

"Yes Lissa?" she answers appearing in the doorway.

"I know that we're not supposed to leave here and that we're supposed to stay here, but you don't understand I'm bonded to Rose, which allows me and only me to be able to heal her. I can feel her and I know that she's giving up. If I don't get to her right now then she's going to die."

She stares at me long and hard, deciding whether or not to risk it, when finally she agrees.

It's takes us about 15 minutes until we're on the road and based on Jane's driving, 30 minutes until we arrive at the Belikov's, when I would usually take u an hour.

I appreciate Mariah's light chatter, it keeps my mind off the possibilities of not making it in time.

Thirty minutes seems like 30 hours but we eventually make it. The car hasn't even stopped when I'm out and rushing up the steps of the house. I bang on the door and am answered by a pretty girl, a little younger than me, who looks at me with alarmed eyes.

Reassuring her so she doesn't mistake me as the enemy, I say. "Vasilisa Dragomir, where's Rose?"

Understanding crosses her features, and she leads me to the second floor, into a tiny room. When I see the scene before me a gasp escapes my throat, alarming those around me.

"Lissa?" Dimitri asks.

"What the hell is she doing here?" The guy, Eli asks.

I look over at Rose to see her pale form, lying limp on the bed. There are fang marks in her neck. My hand goes to cover my mouth as an agonized cry escapes. I stumble clumsily backwards into the cold grasp of Jane, and am leaded to a chair in the corner of the room.

"Dimitri," I whisper, sure that he hears it when I see his broken expression, "what have you done?"