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Beams of Light - Chapter 1

"What are we going to do, this is getting out of hand, you can't keep skipping classes," Alberta said obviously frustrated. "Alberta please calm down, I'll think of something," I said while trying to think up a logical plan. Alberta has practically raised me ever since I was left here at St. Vladimir's by my mother, Janine Hathaway, when I was 3 years old and when Alberta panics you know thing aren't going to plan.

"Yeah... you're right rose, just umm... Go back to the dorms and I'll see you in the morning and please watch that ankle of yours," Alberta said, running a hand through her hair in frustration. I nodded and said my goodbyes. Outside it was just starting to snow and my choice of clothing, a workout bra and bike pants were probably not the best in this weather. To say the least, I was freezing and I had a long walk from guardian headquarters to the female dorms, not to mention it was after curfew and I had a wicked limp from yet another bad landing in training this afternoon but hey how am I supposed to find the floor when all I can see is Christian and Lissa going at it in the chapel's attic. I walked as quickly as I could, trying not to fall in the ice but my mind kept wondering.

"Miss Hathaway!" a loud voice said from behind me, making me jump and slip on the icy footpath. My already sore ankle rolled sideward, causing me to swear in pain. In all that, I didn't hear the man come up behind me and when I finally did, I turned and went into a defensive stance, until I saw he was a guardian. Slowly, I stood up straight and watched the amused look on the guardian face disappear to one of complete seriousness. "What are you doing out here?" he said with a hint of a Russian accent. "Walking, well I was until I was rudely interrupted," I said, voice full of sarcasm, earning me a disappointed look and for some reason that look from him bothered me. Sighing I added to my ordinary respond. "I had a meeting with guardian Petrov." He gave me a sceptical look, obviously not buying my story. "Really so you're not sneaking off to some party somewhere, maybe I should let you go, follow you and bust the whole place". He said. I looked at him, "Seriously!" I exclaimed "Yeah tots, I'm going to a party dressed like this" I added, pointing to what I was wearing. He seemed to finally look at me and when he did, his face softened. I have never met this man before, he obviously knew but he knew my name, I don't know whether to be flattered or offended, then again most teachers know me. "So you were going to your room?" he asked questionably. "Yes, I was!" again I exclaimed "and if you don't believe me, go ask Alberta". "It's ok I believe you, let's go" he said gesturing towards the dorms but as soon as I when to take a step, my ankle gave away, causing me to fall but before I hit the ground, an arm snaked around my back, stopping me. "Are you ok" he asked once I was back on my feet, a concerned look on his face. "Yeah I'm fine" I said running a hand over my forehead, not looking at the guardian. He opened his mouth to say something but I just started to walk, taking little carful steps. We walked the rest of the way in silent but I could feel his eyes burning holes in my back, making me more embarrassed.

Once at my door he bid me goodnight and finally introduce himself as Guardian Belikov. Before he walked away I got a good look at him. He was very tall almost six-seven with amazing shoulder length brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail and dark brown coast that I think was called a duster. Entering my room, I practically jumped straight into bed, not bothering to shower. I must have slept through the night because the next thing I heard was the beeping of my alarm clock. I rolled over to shut that stupid thing off when I saw the time in the corner of my eye. "SHIT!" I said, throwing the sheets off me and running to the shower, ignoring the pain in my ankle. I washed in under a minute and grabbed the first clothes I could lay my hands on which turned out to be a pair of black skinny jean and a tank top. I had slept through training, breakfast and most of first period; Alberta is going to kill me. I grabbed my bag and books and ended up finding an apple from yesterday in the bottom of my bag. By the time I was ready, it was 10 minutes to period two. Weight training and conditioning. Great.

On a normal day, I could have taken on all of these people and not broken a sweat, well maybe except Eddie and Mason, they are good and put up a good fight too but Alberta had pulled some strings and had me sit out of most classes like this until my ankle is healed. The doctors are still puzzled as to what is wrong with my foot, it's like it doesn't heal properly and at the moment it's not looking good and my out of school hours training and activity choices are not the best. While I was sitting on the floor doing theory work to catch up on the stuff I missed, I saw guardian Belikov walking around correcting people on what they were doing wrong. After a few minutes I caught his eye but quickly looked away. Half an hour into the lesson I had finished my work and was starting to bored. Then the gym door opened and Alberta walked in. Asking for me. God damnit I'm screwed.

Outside Alberta started the shouting match, saying that I was lazy and not putting in the effort required. After a few minutes, she calmed down and finally stopped talking just enough for me to talk. "Alberta, I'm sorry, I just slept in, and the alarm didn't go off at the right time" I said trying to defend myself and defuse the situation at the same time. "It's ok Rose, and I'm sorry but you know the drill its double time tonight" I just nodded and looked at the ground. "Also, I have some bad new, I've been asked to go to court for a couple of months in a week or 2" Alberta said in a sad voice. "What!" I exclaimed. "Alberta school ends in 3 weeks and after that I have states". "I know rose but there is nothing I can do about it, so you'll just have to keep on training". Cue the shouting match. About 5 minutes later guardian Belikov walked out of the gym, to see what was going on. "Is everything alright out here" he asked hoping to defuse the fight. "Arh, Dimitri, Rose this is guardian Belikov" Alberta said changing the subject and introducing. "Yeah, I know, he escorted me back to my room last night after our meeting" I replied, adding sarcasm into the word "escorted". "That's good" Alberta said, ignoring my tone, "because he'll be covering all my lessons while I'm away". I just nodded my head while what she said was being processed, well until it clicked. "Hang on, ALL" I said, the worry obvious in my voice but Alberta just nodded her head.

After a moment I looked over to where Dimitri stood, his face wore a look of confusion as he tried to piece together the conversation going on in front of him. By that point the bell had gone and Alberta was dismissing me. "All right Rose, you'd best be off to lunch, I'll see you at training" I nodded, grabbed my bag and walked away, glancing once behind me at the two guardian until Lissa called my name.