She walks down the Dark Street. Trees and tall buildings cast their shadow in the pale moonlight, she doesn't suspect, doesn't realise until the nausea curls in her stomach warning her of what's to come, till it's too late.
The strigoi, tall and imposing, luminous. Towering over her, but before she has time to fight, her mind is wiring like a clock. She knows him!
But how could she not know him?
The love of her life, her dreams
Dimitri....
At last, you think, at last you have her
For months you have been roaming streets in eternal night that is now your day, waiting for this girl standing before you
Roza
You know her
How could you not?
You need her! Your plan is in action, your goal is near, it should be easy to pluck her from this murky sidewalk like a flower.
She is strong, you know this about her, but she knows you, you can see it in her wide dark eyes, recognition glancing out as she hears you say her name, and that is all it takes for her concentration to slip, to hesitate and you have her, she is yours.
She wakes up in an unfamiliar room, cold and alone and scared? Yes because even rose gets scared at time, at the moment she has every reason to be.
Confusion is a cloud that hovers in her mind, fogging up her thoughts and numbing her senses.
Dimitri, Dimitri she thinks over and over again.
She knows this is what she wanted, to meet him, to save him but now, after finally seeing him , can she do it.
How can she do it?
Stuck in this formal looking room, that suggests a hotel with its decadent furnishing , the unlived in air that fills it.
Where the hell has he taken her?
And why is she still alive.
Panic, a hard heavy ball that hits her chest, and tingles through her arms and legs. Restlessness, she has to get out. She needs to escape.
A chair she picks up and smashes against a window as hard as her body will let her.
Please, please, but it will not yield. Tears roll down her cheeks as she realises all actions are hopeless, this room is a prison, she its inmate, and she must face her verdict.
The man she prized above all else, was now a monster she swore to destroy, and she must meet him in all his strigoi power.
You have her now, yes she is yours. Locked away like a prized possession in this grand house full of darkness. She is what you need most
You had power, eternal life, strength and speed and cunningness and blood but not her.
You go, to the chamber where she lies .you go to her, to inform her of her majestic fate, brought by your hands only, to this girl you will give everything.
And she is there, and her beauty and her aura hit you, it faintly pulls at some faded spot deep inside your memory. Her honey skin, her sensual curves. Right in front of you. Her tear stained cheek, and her hair medusa wild. Her eyes flash with some strong emotion.
She is the same rose, always impulsive and you know what her reactions will be and you are ready, as she pounces towards you, with her small fists and flailing arms.
You grip her wrists, slender but strong, and you press your weight against her, trapping her. Her breathing is broken, and her sweat drips from her forehead, and you whisper in the seashell pink curl of her ear
Rose, stop, you're wasting your time
I won't hurt you