Hey Everyone! Was going to post this yesterday but we had a power cut for most of Sunday evening so it wasn't ready and I was to busy to perfect it yesterday so excuses aside here it is. For those of you who read my other Dimitri POV story Dimitri's Punishment this is what happened before that - what happened to Dimitri when they were lookign for Rose and her companions. Those who haven't read that don't worry, it makes no difference. So here it is: the beginning of the Spokane tragedy from our favorite Russian God's point of view. Hope you enjoy!

"Rose and Christian are missing." Alberta said down the phone with a matter of fact voice. I snapped awake at the same time as my heart skipped a beat. Rose? Gone? Was she injured? Was she… what? A massive part of me was telling me this couldn't be true but I knew it was. Alberta wouldn't pull a prank like this.

My heart clenching I asked, "Since when?"

I shook Stan awake and he sat up with groggy eyes, snapping into high alert when he saw my face and began getting dressed as quick as a steam train hurtles down the line. That was kind of what my heart was doing – running so fat and erratically there was no way to stop it until it crashed.

"Sunrise. She knocked out a guardian with a flashlight. Get over here now."

Without needing a second telling I began pulling a t-shirt on and changed my joggers for jeans. Just as I hurried out the door I grabbed a thick jumper and my coat. Then my phone rang again. Alberta.

"Bring the princess with you." She hung up.

There was no mistaking which princess she meant. Who knew both of them best? Vasilisa. Even a monkey could figure out who she meant. I slammed my door shut only for it to open again and Stan demanded to know what was going on. I took a breath and then told him, then went to Rose and Vasilisa's room telling Stan to head straight towards the guardians' lounge.

I hadn't actually been to Rose's room. We'd kind of been avoiding each other. Now I regretted that more than before. Something was telling me this wasn't going to turn out very well. I mean I knew Rose would get a lecturing on par with what she got when I brought her and Vasilisa back but this… she could get expelled for this. Right now I wanted to grab her shoulders and shake her until her teeth rattled and demand to know what she'd been thinking because there was no way this was Christian's idea. It had Rose written all over it. All of us knew that.

But why take Christian? She was with Mason. He was with Vasilisa. Why? Why take him? It would make more sense for her to take Mason – romantic get away. And then the blame could be put on him because Rose didn't think of him that way. He was something to distance herself from me just like… just like Tasha was… for me.

When I knocked on the bedroom door no one answered. For a moment I hoped that this was all just some big mistake and Rose was tucked up in her bed sleeping off a long night. I opened the door quickly observing the room. Vasilisa was asleep in her bed. The TV was off but the radio was on at a low volume. Then I dared a look at Rose's bed. Empty. So this wasn't just some mistake. Her outdoor clothes were gone. Her bed was made. I knew she never made her bed from all the times she complained to me in practice that she could never just flop into it because there was either a homework book or clean clothes piled onto it. I'd laughed at the time asking her why she never bothered to make the bed.

"Takes too long." She once said. "You know how I'm always running late in the morning anyway."

Did I ever? "Then maybe you should get up earlier?" I questioned raising my eyebrow and smiled a little.

"Are you kidding?" she asked. "I like my sleep unlike you who never seems to get tired."

Back then it had seemed like such a trivial thing to notice about her. Now though it was of the most importance. I touched the covers noticing they were slightly rumpled where she'd set something down on it. I deduced that she had left after the cleaner had come around.

I slowly stepped towards the other bed and shook Vasilisa awake. She only half opened her eyes at first probably thinking it was Rose but when she saw it was me she sat up a little.

"Guardian Belikov?" she asked.

"I need you to come with me." I said gently.

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