Chapter One: New Assignment
(Rose's POV)
"I can't believe that we are graduation today, Rose tomorrow we will be on our way to the royal court. You have been awfully quiet, are you okay or what?" Lissa said.
Lissa moved from her bed to the spare one where I was sitting looking down at the floor and said, "Rose, as long as you still want to be my guardian, that's all that matters to
it's for the time being, maybe only for a short while, I just don't know why. Seriously, I want to hurt the wench. She really can't do this to me, doesn't she know who I AM!" Lissa getting
tears in her eyes but angry on ones. I began to feeling her anger through our bond and said, "Lissa, you need to calm down, I can't control my feelings and yours at the same time. Everything will work out. If the queen needs me to do this, then it's my duty as a guardian to follow orders without questions. Dhamphires need to protect Moroi but yes it's unfair." I said unsure of what I meant nor believing it.
We hugged and I left to get ready in my room, plus Dimitri was coming by to talk about how things were going to happen tomorrow. On the way back to my room, I ran into Adrian, literally, because I wasn't paying attention. "Gee little dhampir, I knew you liked me, you didn't have to try and prove it with this stunt." He smiled at me. "ADRIAN, I DON'T HAVE TIMER FOR YOU!!" I yelled at him. He got that sad look in his eyes. He has been yelled at by me before but nothing like this. "I am sorry to have bothered you, I was only kidding. I won't do it again." He stated to walk away sulking. "Gee Adrian, I am sorry… it's just that….Lissa is so angry about your aunt…. for taking me away from her as her guardian… I have to take a position as a guardian for somebody else, and I don't know why. Plus I am meeting Dimitri at my room to find out what is going on and who we are suppose to guard." I spoke gently to Adrian but not to give him the wrong idea. "Listen little dhampir, I don't always agree with my aunt, she might be a bitch, but there are times she does know what she is doing. I know this time she does, it's very important that you help. She wouldn't of drafted you if you weren't good enough to do the job." Adrian said with a small smile on his face. "Okay, fine. I don't trust nor do like her but fine! I gots to go, I have that meeting in my room with Dimitri and then I must get ready for my graduation." I said but Adrian pulled me into a tight hug. I tried to pulled out of the hug with a discuss look at him. "You know you liked it, so don't give that look." And he walked away laughing.
When I finally got to my room, Dimitri was waiting by leaning against the wall with a smirk on his face. I opened the door and motioned for him to go in. "After you, my Roza." He said with a smile on his face. I just smiled shaking my head and walked in. I sat on my bed while Dimitri just stood by the closed door. "God, do you always have to be invited to sit on my bed, comrade?" I said while rubbing my hand right next to me. He moved to sit by me but instead he picked me up and gave me a passion kiss on the lips. "Now that is a proper way to say hello." He said smiling. "But we need to get down to business before you get ready for your graduation. Rosa, I know who we are going to protect but it won't be easy. Katica will be hard to handle, she is like you STUBBORN. Also, she doesn't want to be at the royal court. Anton just goes with the flow, plus he is her confidant. You will be protecting him, while I will be protecting Katica plus we will be staying with them almost all the time. They are too important to lose, because Katica will bolt at the first chance she gets." He stated. I had a few questioned of my own, "If she doesn't want to be at the royal court, then why is she being forced to stay? And why are they more important to than Lissa?"
"Anton isn't that important to the queen, but Katica is extremely important. There is a treaty that is up and only the descendent of Vladimir can handle this treaty. I don't know what kind of treaty it is that needs this wild child but she has to be there. The queen is also hoping to break her, just like a wild horse. She wants to take Vladimir's castle for her own. Katica was found there about two months ago, fully staffed and having about 1000 dhampires who lived on her land but seemed to be farmers. When the queen showed up, she was shocked to see how they were living. Katica treats the dhampires as equals, while the queen looked down her noise upon us. Katica was shocked, so she wouldn't deal with the queen anymore while she was on Katica's property. About three weeks after the queen left, Katica got a letter summoning her to come to court here in the States. So now here we are. Once this treaty is said and done, I will ask the queen to put you back as Lissa main guardian. Deal?" Dimitri said. "You sound like you aren't going to be Lissa's guardian too. I don't know if I can handle not having you with me and not protecting Lissa." I said while trying to hold back the tears forming in my eyes. "Dearest Roza, please don't cry. I don't know what is going to happen. I don't know how to explain it, but I believe that Katica is going to need me. She has never been in our world, she has always been at the castle and dealt with only those people. She is going to need help, even though Anton is going to be there, he hasn't been in our world either. Enough about this right now, you need to get ready for your graduation. Now kiss me goodbye and I will see you soon. I love you from now until the end of eternity." He kissed me goodbye and left my room before I got to say I love you back. All I could do was sit on my bed but not realizing that I only had about an hour to get ready for graduation. All of a sudden my phone started to vibrate in my pocket. I realized it was a text message, so I opened it to read the text.
'Rose, I am so proud of you. You are going to be a great help to Guardian Belikov with this very difficult mission. These two Moroi are wild children. They don't know our laws. Be well my daughter. And congratulations on your graduation, I will see you at the royal court. We will try to have a training session or something. Your mother."
"Nice mom, no love, only thoughts are about work." I said closing my phone shut. She doesn't care one bit, it's only if I messed up a mission or succeed on it she would.