Best morning ever, not. Tears were welling up in my eyes as I paced in front of the oak doors. I had dismissed the guards. It help to be head of the royal guard at times like these. I heard foot steps approaching. I turned on my heel to see Christian.

"Rose what's wrong? Where's Lissa? Where's Dimitri?"

I couldn't speak I just started to cry. He pulled me into his arms enveloping me in his hold. He held me there for what felt like hours. I finally shifted out of his hold when my tears ran dry and all my emotions became one. Anger.

"Go see for yourself." I spat and kicked open the doors. They sprung apart like bats out of hell. Everyone froze. Eyes shifted from person to person but no one spoke. Out of the corner of my eye Christian's hands started shaking with an orange glow. Oh Shit.

"Christian don't. They aren't worth it." I felt the shock and pain my words caused Lisa but I didn't care.

"Your right." he said, he sounded as if he had something else at play. "Rose? Would you like to be my personal, one and only guardian? We could go anywhere, travel the world?" I was baffled he wants me as his guardian. But then I remembered our situation. We had nothing holding us back here anymore we were free.

"Roza please we didn't mean for this to happen. Don't leave." I gave a sadistic laugh that looked like it was a slap in the face to Dimitri. "Rose please we are sorry." Cried Lissa.

"Stop!" I snapped, I didn't care anymore I was crushed. "You lost the right to call me that when you got my best friend into bed. Good day your majesty, Guardian Belkiov." I took a deep breath and grabbed Christians forearm. "Lets go Chris, I need to get to HQ 'asap', we have paper work to do, boxes to pack, and calls to make. Come on." I gave him one last tug and he sub sided and let me pull him out into the hallway. We stood in silence with our eyes locked not knowing what to do. I heard my transmitter crackle in my ear and turned it back on with out braking eyes contact with Christian.

"This is Guardian Hathaway I need the on duty guards of the Queen's Chambers back as well as a 20 on Hans."

"This is Guardian Blake, we are heading up and Hans is in his office Hathaway."

"Thank You, Hathaway out."

I looked up at Christian. His eyes where looking over my head at the doors that had ruined our lives. I was trembling, I didn't know what to do I felt so lost.

"What do we do now?" He shifted his eyes to me, I was surprised he even heard me it was barely a whisper.

"We get out of here, go anywhere maybe to your mom and Abe's, there is nothing here for us now. It's time to start over."

I nodded a leaned against against his chest he wrapped me in his arms again and squeezed me tight. He rested his head on top of mine and spoke softly.

"Come on Rosie we need to get moving before the guards see us braking down. We have reputations to up hold." He said it with a smirk but it wasn't genuine. There was pain, sadness, and anger in his ice blue eyes. But he wouldn't let it show neither would I, not yet. I nodded and we cut across court to HQ. Christian busted through the doors with me on his heels. He was showing his anger. He flung open the door to Hans office and stood in front of his desk fuming until Hans looked up.

"Lord Ozera to what do I owe the pleasure of your company?"

"I am changing my guard effective immediately, Guardian Hathaway will be reassigned to me, she has already accepted." I stepped forward next and stood at attention with my head held high. And resorted with protocol when everything else failed. Hans looked to me and nodded.

"Permission to speak sir?" Hans spoke.

"Permission granted."

"I am resigning from my position of High Queen's guard effective immediately and accepting the offer to solo guard Lord Ozera." Hans froze and quickly slipped on his mask and spoke.

"I hate to say it Hathaway, but you are going to be one hell of a loss to us here. You are the deadliest Guardian on the force. Does your mother know of this?" Christian spoke before I could and thank god he did.

"Guardian Hathaway is of legal age to make this decision she is not Five she is 20 and is a legal adult. If that is all we will be off. Good day." He snapped and headed towards the door. Hans shifted and looked at me and nodded.

"Take care Hathaway, Keep him alive." I was surprised, I always respected Hans but never thought it would be hard to leave from his command.

"Always sir, with my life." And I spun on my heel and met with Christian and walked out of the building side by side not speaking. We were comfortable with the silence, we always have. But he broke the silence first as we got onto the side walk by Mia's Cafe.

"I was going to propose to her tonight. Make a big scene in front of the palace and everything just for her. And I lost her to the damn Russian." He growled "Sorry I mean you lost him too I guess."

"Yea I guess." I left it drift off until we came up on the liquor store. Adrian. I spun around and looked at Christian.

"What about Adrian, Sydney, Mia, Eddie, Jill even. When we leave, what will happen? Do we tell them?"

"We pack and have everything sorted then tell them, ok? It would be too hard for me to face them right now." I nodded I didn't want to seem weak but it was the truth we are leaving our life here and soon at that. Lucky me, Dimitri and I's apartment, his now, I hadn't completely put my stuff away and still had the boxes.

"Christian."

"Yea"

"Can you help me get my stuff from the apartment, most of it is packed still from my move in." I sighed. "If you don't want to I completely understand." He nodded and we walked towards the apartment complex for the last time. When we got to the door I got out my key and opened the door to no one, thank god no one was home. Not here, I can't call this home anymore. We walked in with silence perfectly happy with it too. We worked in sync grabbed the movies and fuzzy blankets all the clear things that were mine from the living room, Christian put the box by the door and grabbed another and we moved to the office, I ordered my field reports and filled them accordingly. Christian picked up my computer and charger and wrapped it up and put it in the protective case with out me asking, he really did understand me, it was funny.

"Rose"

"Yea Sparky?" He was holding a photo of me and Dimitri from while we were still at the academy. It had been our favorite because we weren't focused on the photo but each other.

"Damn..Burn it. Wait no, burn me out of it since I won't be here anymore."

"You are evil you know that Rosie." He said with a chuckle, it was genuine because he was all for destroying something in some way, shape or form. Within seconds my photo was burning you could tell it was me but barely, he did a perfect burn.

"Perfect Pyro!"

"Thanks." He said with a wink clearly proud of his controlled burn.

We put the box by the door and moved to the bedroom and closet. I grabbed my 2 suitcases and duffel bags and started filling them not bothering to fold them I wanted to get out of here. Christian took notice and grabbed every thing from my closet and laid it on the bed and I put it in the bags. I saw my Chatick that Lissa had given me years ago I tossed it onto the bed not caring for it anymore, I didn't guard her anymore I guarded the Lions. Once we cleared the closet we mover to my burro. I totally forgot about my bathing suit and intimates in the drawer. oh well. Then something hit the back of my head. I spun around and glared at Christian. He had the one drawer I didn't want him in open. I looked down at my feet. Oh lord it was a thong. He had shot a thong at my head. Great.

"Aww Chris get out of there." He just started laughing uncontrollably he leaned against the wall for support. In between chuckles he spoke.

"Damn Rose who knew you were such a tease."

He flung a another at me I caught it and put it in my bag and shoved him away and grabbed the rest and put them in the bags and moved on to the others. I put all my shoes and bathroom stuff in one bag and training gear extra stakes and sorts in another. When we finished the room was practically empty. It looked like everything that made it look like there was life died except one thing. Christian noticed it too, it was my photo album of all the years at the academy. I went over and took it from his hands and laid it on the bed. I took out any photos that had Eddie, Mason, Christian, Adrian, Sydney, Mia or anyone else that I was on good terms with at this time. But I couldn't bring myself to get rid of the photo that had the whole gang, and Lissa and I's graduation photo. They meant to much. I still loved her but I was numb my walls were up and I was blocking her out. I pushed them into my purse and grabbed my the rest of my bags and moved towards the door. I noticed Christian didn't follow. I turned back to him, he was holding the album closed in between his hands and pressed tightly. Then smelled what he was doing. He burned the album closed. That sneaky basterd he was out doing me in pay back. But I didn't mind too much it was a perfect representation of how we feel. Closed, burned, with missing parts in our hearts that need to be filled. He turned and I saw a single tear role down his cheek I dropped my bags and moved to his side. I wrapped my arms around his shoulder and rested my head on his shoulder, we needed each other, now more than ever we were in this together, whether we like it or not. He leaned into me and did the same we were there for what felt like forever just holding each other scared to let the other go thinking they would leave too. He let go first and spun me to the door and picked up the bags and I got the boxes. I stopped and put the boxes down and moved to the fridge.

"Are you ok Rose?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

It wasn't the truth, I was crumbling inside but I stayed strong. I erased to little white board and wrote a new message for Dimitri: 'Protect her with your life.' I grabbed a piece of tape from the office and taped the key to the board and picked up the boxes again.

"OK, ready to go?"

He nodded and led the way out. Lucky us his apartment was just up a floor talk about convince. When we got there we did the same for his place when were all done his looked more dead than Dimitri's. I felt and heard a buzz come from my back pocket and walked into the kitchen to inspect Christian soon followed his went off as well. We took out our phones at the same time. I checked the screen, it was Dmitri calling I switched off the ringer and put it back, Christian did the same, it was probably Lissa. It was noon now Lissa had meetings starting soon and Dimitri would be guarding her, hopefully.

"You want me to make lunch I really don't want to leave the suite until we have a game plan."

I nodded and Christian started maneuvering through the kitchen I sat up on the counter out of the way for the most part, and started thinking. Where could we go? Abe's in turkey wasn't a bad idea, it was safe, reliable and I knew we would be welcome with out a doubt.

I must have zoned out because the next thing I knew I was being tickled like a little kid by none other than Christian Ozera. I broke out laughing and squealing. I tried to get out from Christian's grasp but I couldn't he was too quick with his tickle attacks.

"Wake up Hathaway no zoning out on the job. Come on its your first day. Your acting like you did for the field experience." I laughed and it was genuine.

"Yeah expect now I willingly am protecting your ass." I noted as I hopped down from the counter and sat at the island/ bar. "So what did you make Sparky?" He smiled and shook his head and set a place for me and himself. He put an plate in front of me as well as a wine glass.

"I give you a grilled chicken salad with a lemon zest and white wine mad'em." He said as he flipped a towel over his shoulder and leaned against the counter crossing his arms and looked at me. Damn that was a cool move. How come all the men in my life can cook though every girl but Sydney and Mia can't cook for shit. Its so ironic.

"Ooo sounds nice, but wine, I can't I'm on the clock like you said."

"To hell with what I said and besides we are inside double wards nothing is getting in, so drink and eat Hathaway." I nodded and he sat next to me and we ate in comfortable silence for a bit until we were interrupted by a knock at the door. I checked the bond, it wasn't Lissa or Dimitri they were in meetings. Christian looked at me as if asking if it was them I shook my head and hid so he could open the door. He stood and another knock sounded. I hid behind the counter. I heard him open the door and sigh.

"Hey guys come on in Rose and I were just eating lunch." I stood up and made my self look normal. I wonder who it is. Then I saw them it was the rest of the gang, well except for Sydney she was stationed somewhere in the Middle East as far as I'm concerned.

"Hey guys what are y'all doing…what's with all the boxes." It was Eddie. As I came around the corner everyone eyed us with concern. I made eye contact with Christian and nodded then looked back at our friends, we had to tell them.

"You guys might want to come in, it's story time. Come into the kitchen we can get drinks. Eddie are you off duty today?" He nodded and the rest followed Christian and I to the kitchen. Christian got down 3 more wine glasses and passed them around. And leaned against the kitchen counter as did everyone else. I sat down and steadied myself before I started, eyes were flickering between the group.

"So… Long story short we are leaving, Lissa and Dimitri betrayed us in the most unforgivable way. I can't speak for Christian but I need to get out of here." I took a sip of my wine and placed my glass down and looked to Christian, pain was written across his faced. He nodded and downed his glass before speaking.

"Rose is right, we caught them in the act. Its worse for Rose because of the bond," he was cut off by Adrian.

"What? No! Lissa wouldn't do that neither would Dimitri they are crazy about you guys. How?" Eddie was next to speak. He slammed his glass down and straightened pushing off the the counter making a b-line for the door.

"I'm going to kill him!" He roared. I pushed him back he wasn't thinking, Christian spoke again.

"Eddie no, I already tried, well sort of." He snorted and refilled his glass. Mia spoke up for the first time. "Rose what are you going to do aren't you her guardian you can't just up and leave they'll charge you with treason." I gave a small laugh and smirked and took another sip. Adrian sighed, he must have guessed.

"You changed guards didn't you, Christian is yours now, safe choice Little Dhampir." I smiled half heartedly and downed the glass. And held it out to Christian for him to refill it. He got the idea and did so with out question. Adrain spoke again, "Where are you guys going to go? It's not like you have unlimited choices." I snorted, and everyone looked weirdly at me.

"What? It's not like I can just take him anywhere I have to think of his safety above all else. We are going to my parents in Turkey. They would gladly house us until Christian decides where he wants to be." Everyone nearly choked on their wine and stared wide eyed at me. Christian looked shocked and spoke directly to me.

"They agreed, they are ok with us coming over?" I shook my head, "I haven't asked yet but I'm 99.9% sure that Abe will say yes. But you guys can't tell Dimitri and Lissa where we are going. Lie if you must but I want us hidden the best we can." They all nodded in sync. Mia bowed her head and spoke with a soft voice that sounded as if she was on the verge of tears. "So you guys are really moving to Turkey, and leaving us with the cheaters." I stood and wrapped her into a hug she put down her glass and did the same and cried into my shoulder. Mia and I have become close since our move to court almost 2 years ago. I rubbed her back trying to calm her down, I wasn't having such luck. I looked over at Eddie as if saying, 'come get your lady'. He got the message and wrapped her up and held her close, her tears slowed. Adrain was next. "So I guess since we are dropping bombs, Mia and I might as well drop ours. We are half siblings we share the same biological father. So her new title is Lady Miaria Ann Ivaskov. And Eddie is her Guardian. So yeah that was our morning." He said that in one breath, wow. Christian and I were frozen we clearly weren't expecting that. Damn our life is filled with drama.

"Wow Mia that's great you are a Royal, congrats you'll do great, I'm so happy for you. Plus you get the second best guardian after me, life couldn't get better." I joked. Everyone gave a small laugh and nodded in agreement. We all knew this was going to be hard on all of us but shit happens and you just have to roll with the shots that we get on the daily. We made small talk and played pool and drank and made small talk till there as a knock at the door. It was a little after 3 so Lissa was done with her meetings by now. Eyes went to me I checked the bond it was Lissa she was staring at the door wishing for it to open but I couldn't tell who was with her. But I had a pretty solid guess.

"Shit! God damn it!" I said just above a whisper. Everyone immediately knew who it was. We all tensed and Christian went to the door but didn't open it. He looked to me and I shook my head I really didn't want him to open it.

"Open up. Please, Christian I know you are in there, we just want to talk and explain ourselves." I froze yet again. Dimitri must be with her. "Fine be that way. Your turn." There was a loud kick to the door I made eye contact with Eddie and we inched towards the door I pushed Christian back behind me he didn't stay he got in the middle of Eddie and I and Mia and Adrain flanked us. There was another kick. I tensed and brought my hand to my pistol and unclipped the lock and put my hand on the grip of my pistol. I saw Eddie grip his from under his shirt. There came another kick, wow kick number 3 he needs more practice. Christian's hands started to glow, we wanted a fight. The finial kick came crashing down and Eddie and I had our pistols drawn and aimed center mass right at Dimitri. He froze then tensed and shoved Lissa away before she could see us. We made eye contact, I smirked and adjusted my grip. We never broke eye contact. Eddie holstered his pistol and told Mia and Adrain to go back to the kitchen for a bit. They did but not willingly they still watched from behind the counter.

"Dimitri what's going on." Just then Lissa poked her head in the door and froze. Her eyes went wide and her mouth fell open. Christian spoke first.

"Majesty I suggest you leave and take your guardian with you and don't ever return." His hands sparked and fire danced in between his fingers. And just like that Dimitri started to charge but I was quicker. I was in front of Christian and clicked the safety off, my weapon was hot. Dimitri froze mid step and straightened, he was roughly 5 feet from my barrel, an easy shot.

"I believe Lord Ozera has asked you to leave his residence. I suggest you do before this gets messy and I remove you myself. " I snarled never wavering from my position.

"Roza what are you doing? Put the gun down you are a lousy shot anyway." I laughed and shot out the light just above his head. Everyone froze. I just smirked.

"You were saying what exactly?" I growled and holstered the pistol and walked right up to him and had him against the wall in seconds, he wasn't expecting this by any means. He tried to struggle but found it to be no use I was stronger even though I was smaller.

"I said don't ever call me that again, if you must address me use my proper title or don't speak at all." I snarled and tightened my hold on him.

"Rose stand down, we don't need you to go to jail for killing him before we leave." I gave Dimitri one last shove into the wall and released him.I was proud I had left a Dimitri sized imprint in the wall. I moved to stand in front of Christian. And waited for someone to make the next move. It was Mia and Adrain. They advanced and stood in front of me and Eddie. We were both in protective stances ready to jump at any possible threat. "You two go to the kitchen let the Royals handle this." Said Adrain not bothering to turn towards us. Eddie and I made eye contact, it was an order we had no choice anymore. We went to the kitchen. I sat down and finished eating I didn't bother listening in clearly neither did Eddie he downed 2 more glasses of wine and the bottle was empty. We both groaned and looked around for more, we needed it. I got off the stool and kicked off my heels and put my hair into a high bun and walked across to the living room. Eddie followed along we were feeling useless we wanted to be in the action. We slumped onto the couch. We sat on a funny angle in our seats and groaned in unison. I shook my head and unclipped my pistol and slammed it onto the coffee table, followed bye my two stakes. Eddie did the same and kicked his feet up and put them onto the coffee table next to his weapons. I closed my eyes and let my mind wander. I remembered I still had to message Abe about coming over and using the plane he kept at court. I shot up and went back to the hallway and went to my box with my computer. They were still talking but stopped when I walked by. I snapped.

"Oh please don't stop on my account." I said with a false happy tone all well to known by them. Lissa sighed and spoke to me.

"Rose please let me explain I.." I cut her off as I grabbed my computer. "No Lissa, you listen to me, you slept with my boyfriend, you are supposed to be my sister, my best friend. I can't even begin to imagine what sick thoughts crossed your mind when it all started. There is only so much I can take from you, I love you endlessly but I can't be near you anymore you have done the unforgivable." She started to tear up and ran out of the door way crying. Well that was easy. Dimitri shot me a look and I snapped again.

"Oh fuck off, I went to the ends of the earth to bring you back and you go off sleeping with my sister." He froze pain evident on his face and followed after the Queen. We all sighed with relief.

I stalked back to the living room, Adrain, Mia and Christian followed. I opened my computer and check the weather, its safe to fly thank god I want to get out of here as soon as possible. As everyone took a seat I pulled out my phone and called Abe.

:Ring Ring Ring:

A-Hello? Kemiz is everything ok?

R- Hey old man. Yea everything is fine I was wondering if you could authorize a flight to Turkey with the jet asap. I really don't want to talk about it now I'll speak when I get home.

A- Of coarse, consider it done. Can't wait to see you. I'll have the flight leave at 16:00 is that ok?

R- That's perfect abba thank you again see you soon. Bye.

A- Goodbye my daughter.

:Click:

"Our flight is at four, we need to get going." I stood and re-holsterd every weapon not listening to anything being said. I moved to put back on my heels and shoved my computer back into the box and put my purse into another duffel. I turned to find everyone standing and saying their goodbyes. I came back to the group and we silently fell into a group hug not wanting to let go, to lose each other. Christian broke the silence.

"You guys do relise we need your help taking everything to the tarmac right?" Everyone laughed and broke apart. Eddie and I got stuck with the the duffels being strapped to us and carrying 3 boxes each. Great everyone else grabbed the bags. And we were off.