~After reading some VA - Twilight crossover's I couldn't resist. Enjoy!~

Rose Hathaway's POV

"Rose, take her away. Hide her someplace and don't come back until you hear from Sydney." Those parting words hadn't left my mind since Abe Mazur had sent me and my best friend Lissa off on some trip.

That was his way of putting it, I suppose, but the only thing that came to my mind as we were shipped off was, danger. I mean, we must have been in danger right? Why else would Abe – my own father for all intents and purposes – send the newly elected queen of the Moroi Court off with one guardian; an 18 year old one none the less. I was pretty badass, but it was just sloppy from the very beginning. Confused yet? Don't worry, I'll explain.

It had only been a couple of weeks since my best friend and charge Vasilisa Dragomir, last of her royal line, aside from her half sister Jill, had been elected as queen of all Moroi. Moroi were vampires, but not the terrible, hunt you down and eat you sort of vampires. That title was saved for Strigoi who were immortal, undead vampires whose sole purpose in existence was to hunt, kill and make more.

Moroi's were different. They weren't immortal, though they lived longer than humans would, and they could have kids and die just about as easy as anyone you know may know. But their race is being hunted by those Strigoi I mentioned earlier.

That's where I come in. I'm a half Moroi, have human hybrid called a Dhampir. My father, who I mentioned earlier, is the Moroi side of my family and my mother is who brought me, a dhampir, into the mixture. I'm a guardian, born and raised.

I, along with most other dhampir's are the only thing standing between Moroi and the Strigoi that hunt them; although, some Moroi are beginning to use their elemental magic to fend for themselves.

Now that you're all caught up, I'd like to bring you back to the problem at hand. It was a normal day at court. Lissa was still getting the run through of what she'd have to do day to day in able to keep the public from rioting.

Paul, Lissa's knew adviser was giving her a packet of papers that she'd have to read through before the week was over. Lissa would be able to choose her new adviser – preferably not a complete stranger – when she knew the ropes. Until then, she would have to deal with Paul; the man with a drowning voice a thin frame – even by Moroi standards – and a receding hairline

I, and the rest of the guardian's, lined the wall of the meeting hall. It wasn't a grand place, but resembled more of an actual business hall. A long table ran down the center and Lissa sat on the far end with Christian sitting on her left. His hand was on the table overlapping hers and obviously making her feel less intimidated by the piles and piles of paperwork that were coming at her. I didn't need the now broken bond – long story – to know how stressed she was feeling. It was written all over her face.

The guardians in the room consisted of me, Dimitri Bilokov my boyfriend, Eddie Castile a long time friend of mine, a few other unfamiliar faces, and Audra the head of our little royal squad. Audra had black hair that was chopped into a pixie cut. She was about my height, maybe a little taller, and was dressed in the same pinstriped outfit every other guardian in the room was wearing, me included. We all stood perfectly still as if we were part of the rooms décor as well. Dimitri stood on the other side of a shorter guy that I didn't really know, giving me full view of him. I knew that I shouldn't even think about taking my eyes of the doors or Liss, but I couldn't help sneak a peek over at him. He stood over six feet tall with deep brown, shoulder length hair which was tied into a ponytail behind his head.

As if feeling my gaze, Dimitri glanced over to me as well. Unsurprisingly, our eye contact didn't last long and he quickly looked back over at Christian, his charge. Nonetheless, a smile danced on the edge of his lips. We were finally together.

Christian had short black hair and was currently giving Paul a threatening glare; a glare that Paul didn't even acknowledge as he bent down to point something out to Lissa on her current paperwork. He mumbled something about Jill's safety and that quickly caught my attention. I focused my hearing over towards them.

"But I still don't understand how moving Jill out of the court would keep her safe? Isn't it safer here?" asked Lissa. She had a fair point, though I'd only just started listening. The court was guarded by wards that kept all Strigoi out. If Jill was to be moved, then she would be an easy target for everyone trying to eradicate Lissa's position as queen.

Paul's voice gained a smidgen of sympathy, but I could see the wheels turning in his head. He was just trying to win her over. "Vasilisa," he said coolie, "if she stays here then she is in danger to anyone, a freak Strigoi attack or, if memory serves, perhaps a rebelling Mor-″

Someone screamed.

Its ear piercing volume echoed into the room and made everyone go ridged. Dimitri glanced over at me to see if I was okay and I saw him quickly look away, probably yelling at himself for thinking of me first. Jumping forward, Dimitri grabbed Christian and pulled the Moroi behind him. I did the same with Lissa, and within moments, the door exploded and three Strigoi came rushing inside.

I held Lissa by the wrist, but I felt her squirm in protest.

"Rose," she hissed so only I could here. "I can help them. You know I can." I refused to turn back to her and tell her to be quiet about newly found cure for Strigoi. I couldn't let her get anywhere near the three of them if there was a chance of her getting hurt.

Next to me, Dimitri nodded to Audra and the two of them jumped forward into action. The first Strigoi reached out for Dimitri, but he sidestepped fast enough to get out of the way. In the meantime, Audra came between them and swiped her silver stake across the Strigoi's cheek. He screamed as the charmed metal broke skin, but instantly shifted his attention back to Audra, seeing her as a bigger threat with her stake.

He lunged at her, but as soon as he began, he was stopped the second he felt the white hot pain of Christian's fire engulfing him. I was almost surprised that he hadn't noticed his two companions already turned to charred lumps on the ground behind him. The Strigoi's screams filled the air and the last thing I saw before turning back to Lissa was him giving me the most hated glare I could think possible.

As soon as he'd joined his Strigoi buddies as charred lumps, a second group of guardians came running into the room. They were closely followed by some fire and air using Moroi. Those Moroi were the first squad to be trained in the art of violent element magic.

At the head of the group, Abe had stood with a bloody gash running down his arm. Lissa gasped and pushed – or attempted to push – me out of the way to get to him. Dimitri stepped in front of her and she groaned, realizing that she wasn't going anywhere to help. She just needed to calm down and understand the fact that that she was queen, no one was going to let her get hear an injured patient.

That was when Abe ran over to me, grabbed my shoulders and shouted those instructions to me.

I'd tried to get answers out of him, but he'd just said that it was all set up and he had already had the information planned out ahead of time in case something like this happened. He'd explained that the guardians had researched a secure location, much like the one he'd sent me to, where we could hide out until they could give us the all clear.

Now, Lissa and I stood aimlessly in the Seattle airport waiting for our ride to come and pick us up and drive us to our "secure" location. There we were instructed to wait until the court could get its wards back up. But it wasn't just them.

This had been a planned attack that hadn't just taken place in Philadelphia. It had taken place at the court, along with all of the other safe havens that Lissa could have gone to in case of emergency. When we'd been briskly escorted out of the main building, we'd been greeted by a sight of hundreds of Strigoi fighting both guardians and Moroi's alike.

Fork's Washington was our last resort.

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