Well, this is my first fanfic story, and if I'm honest, I'm extremely nervous! Its pretty short, but I hope its good. Please, read and review! It would mean the world to me! Any suggestions are welcome, thanks! :) Oh, and i most don't own Vampire Academy, no matter how much i want to.

Ring… Ring… Ring…

Ugh! It was Sunday, my day off, the only day I could possibly sleep in and my stupid phone would not stop ringing!

Ring… Ring… Ring…

My God! Don't these people give it a rest!

I picked up my phone from the nightstand, not even bothering to check who it was in the caller ID. I was to annoyed for that.

"Hello!", I practically screamed into the phone, wishing to give at least some damage to whoever was bothering me.

"Hello, Guardian Hathaway, I'm calling from St. Vladimir Academy. I'm not afraid I have bad news involving your daughter, Rosemarie."

Oh God, I thought, what did Rose do now?

I wasn't surprised. I got these kind of calls all the time. Your daughter did this, your daughter did that. I never expected to hear what I heard next.

"Well, I'm afraid to inform you that Rosemarie escaped from the Academy last night. But that's not all, also the Princess Dragomir is missing and we have many reasons to believe that she left with Rosemarie as well."

I felt as if a bucket of ice, cold water had been dumped on me. Rose was gone, out of the protection of the wards, but to make matters worse, so was the Princess and I had no doubt she had escaped with Rose and that my daughter would be blamed for it.

"I know that considering your job it might be hard, but your presence is needed here."

"Of course. I'll be there as soon as possible." I said in a voice that very much resembled a robot. There was no question that that was how I felt on the inside.


A few hours later I was on a plane to Montana. I couldn't believe this was happening. My daughter and the Princess Dragomir, the last one of the Dragomir's, had escaped from the Academy.

Why? Why did they do it?

Where could they possibly go?

I really doubted they knew anyone outside for the Academy, what could be waiting for them out there?

Five hours later, I was walking through the gates of St. Vladimir Academy. I hadn't been here in five years and for the reason I was here now, I much rather not have come at all. I was directly taken to the Headmistress Kirova.

"Please, Guardian Hathaway, take a seat." she told me once I was in her office.

"Well, Rosemarie and the Princess have been missing since last night. The guardian at the gate remembers seeing them, but remembers nothing at all after that. Many humans have seen them in the following town, but there is no trace of them anywhere. We have nothing."

The moment I heard that there was a team of guardian's out looking for them, I knew I had to be part of it and look for my daughter and the princess.

"Headmistress, I'd like to take part in the search of my daughter and the princess, it's the least I can do."


And that is how I ended with the rest of the guardian's, out in the woods, surrounding a backpack with the belongings of my daughter.

The moment we found her belongings… my world fell to the ground. In that moment I realized, finally, the magnitude of what was going on.

My daughter, my only daughter, the daughter I had abandoned so many years ago to be raised by the Academy, was missing.

What if we never found them? What if I never saw my daughter again? What if she was dead?

Never again would I see her. Never look into her eyes. Those eyes that reminded me so much of Abe. I would never get to tell her how much I truly love her. How it broke my heart to hear her screams and cries the day I left her in the Academy. How much I regret not demonstrating how much she means to me.

In that moment, I thought how cruel life was.

Life was taking away from me now what I had begged to be taken away many years ago. Life was taking away from me my daughter.

Never in my life did I hate myself so much for what I had once wished.

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