Beyond Tomorrow

"There's this place in me where your finger prints still rest... your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo... It's the place where a part of you will forever & always be a part of me"

Chapter One: Living without you.

Rose's POV

Strigoi don't sleep. That was one thing I think I'll always miss that about being dhampir. Because sleep meant dreams, and no matter how crazy the dream, at least it was an escape from reality for a while, the reality I lived in.

During the day light hours I don't have much to do except plot our next mission or sit and stare out into the blacked out window and wish I could feel the sun. The sun I had once enjoyed so much. And sometimes if I sit there for long enough my mind shifts back to the past, to Dimitri & Lissa. The way he smelled, the way his hair felt when I ran my fingers through it, his eyes. Maybe it was because before the attack that was the last thing I thought about. Them. But I wouldn't allow much self to think about it for long, because once I did and convinced myself that this, what I am, this, wasn't the right Rose. But it was, the clarity I felt. The power, the way blood tasted on my tongue, to suck the life out of one's body, this had to be what I was supposed to be. This had to be my destiny all along…

"Rozalia!" I heard Kyle call from the other room. I got off my bed, which I wasn't sure why I even had a bed if I didn't sleep, and walked into the next room.

Kyle was my first awakening. He had sandy blonde hair, and bright green eyes, now rimmed in red of course. He was a 18 year old dhampir from , funny right? How you're past comes back at you. He was my right hand man. He came up with the nickname the first morning, telling me he use to have a girlfriend named Rozalia. It reminded me vaguely of what Dimitri use to call me.

"Yessss Kyle?" I asked hanging on the doorway.

He smiled sweetly. "We have a problem."

"Kyle!" I snapped "Just tell me already, learn, don't drag these things out child!" his smile disappeared.

"Sorry, babe." He replied

"That's not funny." I said seductively, kind of , I had no interest in him. Just liked to fool with his innocent crush emotions. "Now get to it."

"You have…visitors."

"Do you mean snacks?" I replied

"That's for you to decide your majesty." He said before leading three people in. I knew one instantly.

"Jesse." I whispered, memories flowing in. Of him, of the past…I snapped out of it seeing his face again. He said nothing. The other two looked to be mori, probably royal by the looks of their clothing.

"Jesse, how have you been?" I asked cruelly, smiling and dragging my finger across his chest.

"Don't touch me." He said in a low tone.

"Oh, dear, that will be a problem." I whispered "I was hoping you'd just go willingly."

"Hardly." He said back.

"Once you've been awakened maybe you'll learn not to whine so much."

"They're looking for you." He said strongly this time. Looking up at me for the first time. He winced as he looked me in the eyes.

"Who?" I asked suddenly curious.

"Dimitri, Lissa, Olena or something, even Adrian ." He replied. I could Kyle was getting impatient.

Kyle take the other two, this one is mine, now go."

"But-" he began.

"GO!" I yelled back, and he did, doing a quick bow and grabbing the two other girls.

Once we were alone I pulled Jesse across the room trying to be gentle. I looked him in the eyes.

"How do you know that they're looking for me?" I said angry bubbling inside of me.

"I went to the court, it's crazy, and they're trying to find you 24/7. Rose, I know the real you I s in there, the Rose Hathaway I knew wouldn't be like this."

"You don't know me." I spat

"No, your right, I knew the real Rose Hathaway. One that was strong minded and a total kick ass. Your nothing like her." He screamed back. I grabbed him by the neck and shoved him into the wall. He tried to pry my hands off to get air, but I wouldn't let him. Then he did something that resonated with the old Rose still in me, bringing me back, the real me back.

"He can't live without you. He loves you." He said softly.

"Dimitri?" I loosened my grip. He nodded as much as he could.

I let him go but he didn't run. I felt myself slide back into my old self, just for a moment.

"I'm going to let you go." I started hesitantly " You have to run, don't look back just run, got it? But you have to remember how you got here okay? Find Dimitri, Lissa, I don't care, and tell him how to get here. Can you do that." I asked desperately.

"Rose, I knew you were in there." He said smiling

"Now go, before I change my mind and get hungry." He nodded, and I let him out the back. I hoped he would make it. But I almost doubted it. I watched him for a while before I felt myself slip again back into strigoi.

I walked and went back to my bedroom, to think. About what I'd just done, and how I was going to get my next meal.

Dimitri's POV

One Day Later

As I lay there in my bed, sleep wouldn't come. It never came, I only slept when I couldn't keep my eyes open, when my body literally couldn't live without it. Because without her body on the other side I felt alone. I always felt alone now. When no one was around all I did was cry. I'd never cried, never been one to cry. But without Rose, I had no reason to be strong, no reason to keep going on. The only thing that did keep me going was the fact she COULD still be out there. She MIGHT not be dead. But then I was reminded she may be dead. Staked and gone already, to late for me to find her. A ghostly image of her lying there, her eyes open, her face strigoi white, a stake running through her heart, blood. It all made me want to gag, not because I wasn't use to blood and guts. Because even after the attacks seeing Rose, even imagining Rose like that was horrible.

I heard a knock on the door and hastily wiped the tears from my cheek and opened the door on the other side that lead to Lissa's house. I found Christian and Adrian standing there. It must be nearly morning for them, and me. I still felt groggy

"Wow, you look like shit." Christian remarked. Adrian gave him a hard shove.

"Thanks…" I replied sleepily.

"Hey Dimitri." Adrian added in softly. He'd been pretty torn up about Rose's absence too.

"Hey." I said back.

"We have something to tell you. I think…it's a good thing." Adrian started

I perked up a little hearing that. A spark of hope rising in my heart.

"What, what is it?" I nearly sounded like a little boy getting excited the morning of Christmas.

"You remember Jesse from right?"

I scowled "Yeah, I remember the jerk." The night I'd found him about to go to 2nd base with my Roza, well she wasn't mine back then but still.

"Well, you'll never believe this. He was captured by Rose's cl-" Christian stopped as if he suddenly realized he was talking about Rose. "I mean army took him and gave him to Rose to decide his final fate. But she let him go." My heart sped up; the real Rose was in there.

"She, she let him go?" I asked quietly, almost afraid it wasn't true. Normal strigoi didn't let people go, which meant Rose wasn't completely strigoi right?

Adrian nodded "He came back to the court, he says he can remember where it was. Where their…um…headquarters is."

I swore in Russian, but it wasn't because I was mad, or sad, I was ecstatic.

"Well where is here? We have to go." I asked

"Come on, here's waiting downstairs." Christian replied I followed them out towards the only hope Rose had right now.

Rose's POV

The engagement ring, the one Dimitri had given to me just one month earlier was on my dresser. Next to the pictures and letter he'd given me. No one else knew I still had these things. I was strigoi, I wasn't supposed to care, to miss, to even think about people from my past life before I was awakened. But I did, and I knew that wasn't normal. But when was I ever normal, even as strigoi, I was the oddity.

I picked it up. The diamond on the front glittered brightly. But the silver band still had dried blood on it. It instantly snapped me back to that night.

Their nails digging in tightly…Sharp, razor sharp fangs. Digging hard into my neck…

Then I felt myself slip away. Not into blackness like passing out. I felt literally Rose Hathaway slip away. Everything that made me, me. All the things I'd done, the people I'd hated, loved…killed. It all evaporated, the love. I closed my eyes and the last thing I thought about as my old self, the real Rose Hathaway, was Dimitri & Lissa and how much I'd miss them… And just like that, I was gone.

It all seemed like ages ago to me. I didn't age, but I felt older, I felt different. A a small pocket mirror that had been in my pocket the night of my attack was next to my ring. I opened it but no reflection appeared. Just the rest of the room behind me. I shuttered, that's what I'd become. Nothing but a reflection less killer…

Authors Note:

Hey everyone, I hope you like the changes to the format of how I lay out my chapters. And…more importantly I hope you enjoyed the very first chapter of Beyond Tomorrow! So please review away, and Chapter 2 will be coming soon! AND if you add in any questions you have to your review I will answer them in the next authors note! AND (nurmero 2) you can still send me your three favorite things about the last story (Forever & Always) to become part of the V.I.P readers!

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-ThatEmmyGal