Hey guys! I'm Taylor and this is the first fanfiction I have written in about two years, so take it easy on me! If you want you can check out my profile and read some of my old stuff. I like to think there is some pretty awesome stuff there! Thank you so much for reading this story and I really hope you will like it. Basically it's Rose's story after Last Sacrifice. It will deal with her rocky friendship with Adrian, her amazing relationship with Dimitri, Lissa's troubles as she became Queen and of course Jill's death. Please read and review!


"Lissa, do you really need to bring all this stuff with you?" I sighed, looking around her large room at all the stuff we still needed to pack. We had been packing the stuff she would take with her to Lehigh for hours and we still weren't half way through. I was packed and ready to go, bringing as little with me as possible. Besides, the only thing I really needed to bring with me was staying behind at Court.

Lissa looked around the room. All of her clothes were thrown out of her closet and scattered around the room. A large part of our time had gone to deciding which clothes she absolutely needed to bring with her and which clothes could afford to be left behind. She decided the more clothes she brought the better. After all, the teenage Moroi queen needed to look hot at all times.

She finally nodded. "You never know what situation will require me to wear what."

I held up a slinky red dress with crystal beading on the front. "What situation would require you to wear this?" I muttered.

She jerked the red dress from my hand, folded it, and tucked it securely in her luggage. "You never know," she said stubbornly, "we might go out sometime."

I had to laugh at this. "Yeah because between going to college and being a queen you will have so much time to party."

A weird look crossed over her face causing me pain. Not for the first time I wished the bond was still between us. It had its disadvantages, like me seeing her sex life with Christian but it also came in handy when I didn't know exactly how she was feeling. Or why she was feeling the way she was.

Lissa had been elected Queen of the Moroi a couple of months ago and in that time she had won a lot of admirers; she had also made some pretty dangerous enemies. Her life was in chaos all the time and she barely had time to do anything other than govern her people. She was adamant about going to college but we both knew that would cause even more stress on her. There was also the problem of her possibly going insane from Spirit one day. She had been working on healing charms to try to balance the effects Spirit could have on her but it wasn't as good as me being able to take the darkness from her. That was also a major advantage of the bond. Not so much for me since when I took the darkness from her it went into me, but it saved Lissa from having it in her and that was all I cared about.

"Lissa," I whispered, putting my hand on her arm, "you are doing so fantastic at all of this. I could not be more proud of you."

"Sometimes I feel like this was all one big mistake. I was never meant to be elected queen, especially not so young. I want to change so much of our world, for the better, but what if I'm not? What if I'm really making everything worse?" Her eyes were shinning with unshed tears as she spoke. She really thought she wasn't strong enough to lead our people.

"You are one of the purest people I know. Your intentions are nothing but good. You have really fantastic ideas, you know this. You are changing our world for the better."

"You really think so?" She seemed cheered by my words.

"I know so." I said, giving her a tight hug. "Your parents would be so proud."

She froze at the mention of her parents and this time I didn't need the bond to tell me what was wrong. I pulled away from our hug and studied her face. She was lost in thought, looking dazed and a little sad. I frowned. After finding out she had a secret sister I had expected her to be happy. Not exactly thrilled, her father did cheat on her mom after all, but it meant she had someone in her family. Someone to love the way she had loved her brother. Instead, she hated Jill. She never said it but I could always tell that she wished Jill had remained a secret.

"You really should be nicer to Jill," I said as I went back to packing up her clothes. "I feel bad for her."

"I am nice to Jill!" She exclaimed, looking a little hurt.

"You ignore her. She doesn't want to be best friends or anything but she wants to get to know you. She's not a bad person and none of this is her fault." It was true. Jill could be a little annoying, especially when she was rambling a lot, but she was nice. She was strong and wanted to learn how to fight in order to fight against the evil Strigoi.

"I don't want to talk about it." Lissa said.

I decided to drop the subject for now and went back to packing more clothes. After a few minutes of silence realization set in. "You know we could have gotten any number of people to pack your room up." I muttered. "You're the Queen. You could even order people to do your homework."

"That would be abusing my powers." Lissa said.

"I don't think asking other people to fold your clothes and pack them is abusing your power. It's what some of them are actually hired to do."

This made Lissa smile, much to my relief. It was good to see her happy instead of stressing over work and being upset over her dad. "You're right. Let's go do something. I only have a couple of weeks left at Court. I want to make the best of it."

"We're coming back like every weekend," I pointed out.

"Yeah but that's for business." She countered. She looked at me hopefully.

I could go out with my best friend to one of the super exclusive clubs the Court had to offer or I could go home to my sexy Russian boyfriend and put in as much one on one time as I possibly could before leaving for College. It wasn't a hard decision to make.

"Not tonight." I said and felt a pang of guilt as her face fell. "Sorry but Dimitri is waiting for me, plus it's late." I motioned at the window where I could see the sun starting to come up. "Plus you have a big day tomorrow."

That instantly perked her up. "The dinner, I almost forgot! I need to pick what I'm going to wear."

I rolled my eyes at her and left her to pick out her clothes which were mostly all packed by now. I had no doubt she would end up pulling everything out that we had just packed away. She had two Guardians that stayed in her house at all times and two that guarded the front door at night. She was completely protected against any threat which meant that I could go to my house and spend time with Dimitri. Christian spent the night with Lissa every night so there was no need for Dimitri to be with him. As much as I loved protecting Lissa going home to Dimitri every night was the best part of my day. I could never get enough of him. I was lost in my thoughts of Dimitri while I was walking to our home when I heard Jill's name being spoke.

I instantly snapped out of my thoughts and tried to listen in on the conversation. I looked around and finally found the speaker of her name. Two Moroi men I had never seen stood gathered under a tree. It was still dark outside but the sun was starting to rise, making it a little lighter. The men were talking in hushed voices and kept glancing around over their shoulders. One of them, a blonde, saw me standing there looking at them and gestured for the other man to turn. They stood there looking at me but didn't say anything else. It was definitely sketchy.

When I got home I went straight to my bedroom and changed into my favorite thing to wear at night, Dimitri's shirt. I walked into the living room, taking my hair down from the messy bun it was in and shaking it out. Dimitri looked up from his western book as I entered the room and I felt my skin turn warm as he took me in. Instantly his eyes turned hungry.

"How is Lissa?" He asked.

"I don't want to talk about her right now."

He arched one eyebrow. Even after all this time I still thought that was pretty bad ass. "What do you want to talk about?"

"I don't want to talk." I murmured seductively. I straddled him on the couch and brought my lips down to his.

Every kiss of his always set me on fire, making me burn from the inside out. He grazed my face with his hand causing chill bumps to rise where he touched me. The kiss started out slow but quickly picked up intensity. His hands traveled all over my body and the sensation of burning from the inside out was driving me wild. Dimitri stood and carried me into our bedroom. He threw me down on the large bed and started kissing me all over.

This one on one time with Dimitri before I left for college was going to be amazing. For once everything in my life was perfect.

But I'm Rose Hathaway, how long would the universe let me be happy before destroying everything and turning my life inside out again?


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