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This is my first fan fiction. I really love Rose and Dimitri and VA so I thought I would do a story about what happens after Last Sacrifice. I love Eddie as a character and I wanted to bring him in. I thought I would incorporate some of the things that happen in Bloodlines too, only in my way. This is before Bloodlines starts however. I would love your reviews and PM's for help with my story. Anything you think that could help or add to it would be great! If anyone wants me to keep writing the next chapter just review and I will post the next one!
"Roza. Wake up. Stay awake." Someone urged. I couldn't tell who it was. How could they ruin my sleep. How could they? "Roza!"
"What!" I yelled.
"Roza. Don't go to sleep." Dimitri? What was he doing here? He was supposed to be guarding Christian.
"I'm sleepy." My thoughts were muddled and I couldn't speak them.
"I know. Just don't go to sleep. Lissa is on her way." Lissa? Why wasn't she here already? I was her guardian, why wasn't she here?
"Don't go to sleep." Someone else was there. I couldn't open my eyes to see. My eyelids were so heavy. And I had a killer headache.
"I'm sleepy." I repeated. I couldn't say anything else. What's going on.
"I know Roza. I know. Only a little while now until you can sleep. Just stay with us." Us?
"Us?" I mumbled. I didn't know if he could understand me.
"Rose!" Lissa? Why was everyone yelling at me? I heard the shuffling of feet and someone was breathing near me now. Her voice was frantic. I need to know she was right.
"Safe?" I don't know if they understood but I couldn't speak anymore.
"Yes. I'm safe. I'm safe." I vaguely sensed someone's hand grasping mine.
"Heal." I rasped. "Don't." She couldn't heal me. I couldn't let her. I don't remember why I can't sleep but I know enough that Darkness was definitely a threat.
"But—"
"No." I tried to put as much force behind the command as possible, but it probably came out as a whisper.
I don't remember what happened next because I passed out. When I awoke, I could open my eyes. But that was it. I found I was in the Court's version of the clinic. It was elaborate and sterile. Everything in the room was shiny and new. I had my own room but the door was open and it seemed to be the same way out there. Guardians were posted at every door and there was bustling in what I could see of the lobby.
"Rose?" Someone spoke on my left. It took all my effort I had to turn my head slightly to look.
"Eddie?" I whispered. Eddie? Why was he here?
"Hey." He sighed with relief. What was going on here? "Can you move?"
"Not much. Everything hurts." I stated.
"It should. You told Lissa not to heal you." He frowned. "Can you feel anything?" I tried moving my body. Stiffness and pain radiated throughout my body. But I could move my toes a bit.
Lissa. "Where's Lissa? Is she alright? I heard her. I heard—" I stammered.
"She's fine. Everyone's fine. We kicked ass." I frowned. Kicking ass? What? "Don't you remember?"
I shook my head. "No. I—I just remember Dimitri not letting me sleep." I replied confused. Why can't I remember?
"We were afraid if you went to sleep you wouldn't wake." Eddie stated. "We couldn't take the chance."
"It was you. You were with Dimitri." Eddie nodded at my comment.
"Lissa, Christian, and Jill were off at Lehigh. We escorted them with the rest of Lissa's guardians. Dimitri was there as well for Christian."
"Why Lehigh?"
"Lissa wanted to take a tour of the school once more before planning her schedule there. She asked Jill to go with in order to bond a little. I'm assuming Christian only went to get away from Court." I smiled. Christian and politics were never friends. Having an escape, even if it was going to visit his girlfriend's future school, was worth jumping at.
"What happened then?" I asked, still confused.
"Strigoi attacked. They didn't seem interested in the Moroi however. They seemed more interested in hurting you."
"Why would they do that?" I asked. My headache was starting to return.
"Who knows." Eddie shrugged. "It's not like we can understand them. Just seemed like they knew to get you out of the way to go after the Moroi." They were right.
"So why didn't they kill me? Seemed like that was their goal."
"Too many of us. The remainder of Lissa's guardians took the Moroi back to Court."
"Remainder?" I asked. I had to lean my head back on the pillow, because the headache was too much for me to bear.
"Yeah. The Strigoi caught us by surprise. We didn't sense anything and we even hoped a little that your Strigoi warning would notify us. That maybe it would still be around without the bond. You thought so too. We lost three guardians and the rest took the Moroi away. There were ten Strigoi originally but we staked four before the Moroi actually left. You, me, and Dimitri were the only that stayed. We figured we could handle it."
"Where did this happen?" Obviously not it the daytime.
"In the back of the school. It was closer to the SUVs and we figured it was safer than walking across the walkways. Lissa wanted to stay until some play that was happening later into the night. You know Lissa, she couldn't be forced to leave. She wanted to stay so we did."
"So why didn't they kill me?" I repeated. I mean there were six Strigoi and three of us. Didn't sound like we had the numbers.
"Three had gone after Dimitri. Two had gone after you. I staked mine and went to help Dimitri. You had told me that you were fine. We had just staked the last of the three and saw you still circling the two. Something they said distracted you and they saw an opening. We came to help but you were already injured. After we staked both Strigoi, we noticed you. You were on the ground and bleeding. Later we discovered you had a fractured skull. A broken arm. Broken ribs. Internal bleeding. You shouldn't have survived." Lissa had healed me. Even though I warned her not too.
"Lissa. She had to have healed me."
"Nope. She swears she didn't. And it wasn't like your injuries disappeared. It was just like you healed yourself slowly. I swear it's like the World of the Dead got a piece of you and now they know they don't want you back. You seem to be able to survive anything on your own now." I remember the shooting like it was yesterday. Only it's been months since. Lissa is starting school soon. Tasha's trial would be coming up soon too. Hopefully not too soon.
"How long have I been asleep?" Everything in me felt horrible but nothing felt broken anymore. Nothing felt injured now.
"Almost a month." A month? No! No way. "Lissa has been keeping an eye on you. She said if you didn't awaken by next week she was going to heal you."
"Where is she? What have I missed?" I wanted to get up and move but it hurt a lot.
"She is off doing some conference thing with the other council members. She has been working a lot lately since school starts in a few weeks for her." Eddie shrugged again. "If it makes you feel any better, Christian announced last week he is no longer seeing Tasha."
"What?" I couldn't comprehend that. Christian always said he didn't want Tasha out of jail but he wanted to keep talking to her. Since they were still family.
"Yeah. Something upset him the last time he met with her. He hasn't spoken about it to anyone. Now he seems to spend a lot of time with Jill, Mia and Adrian. They have been working on using their magic offensively. Jill is still pretty new at it, so they have been helping her with it. After what Adrian found out about Robert Doru he has been anxious to learn about this stuff. Lissa has been working on it when she can as well."
"Seems like I have missed a lot."
"You have." Eddie glanced at the clock and smiled. "Look I have to go. Dimitri should be here later. I'll tell Mikhail to let Lissa know about you."
"Where are you going?" I was curious.
"Just some guardian training. Nothing big." Eddie tried to keep the grin off of his face, but his eyes spoke legions.
"I see." He was seeing someone. I knew it. He seemed to want to keep it a secret, so I'll let him. For now. "Have fun."
"Thanks." He mumbled as he hurried out the door. Leaving me to sulk in my worries and my questions.
