ROSE'S POV
"Rose!" I spun around and found Mason stumbling into the subway. He wore a black My Chemical Romance hoody and bright red hair that never seemed to change since our days at the academy. "Oh, hey Mase. Haven't seen you in weeks. What's up?" Mason became Danielle Szlesky's guardian while I became Lissa's . "I'm good. Danielle's visiting her parents at their mansion. She said they have like, a hell load of Guardians there and insisted I take the week off. So…yay me!" I giggled a Mason's kid-like personality. Apparently it wasn't only his hair that stayed the same. "Where's Liss? You have the week off too?" "More like a few hours off. I just went to Barnes. You know, to pick up a book or something and for mass amounts of consumed caffeine." He laughed at he too. "Oooh, bad guardian, Rose." He was kidding me. I punched him as a friendly gesture on the arm. "Shut up, Mase. She's with Christian so…" I took a deep sip of coffee. "Don't wanna know what happens when I's gone." "You said it." "Hey, you wanna come to the apartment?" His face lit up and I pretended not to notice. "Sure."
We were laughing about high school days when I unlocked the door. We stopped abruptly when we too in the scene. Everything was thrashed. "Looks like someone had a fid or –" I stopped and took a wif of the air. "Strigoi…" I managed to say. I dropped my stuff and immediately scouted the flat. Mase checked the rooms. But I don't get it. There was like, an hour left until the sun goes down.
I heard a crash from my room and ran in that direction. Gasping, I covered my mouth to stifle a scream. Lissa strapped to a chair, gagged and unconscious. Some guy lying face flat on the floor with a pool of blood around his neck. Mason lying on the floor, I didn't really know whether he was still alive. And Christian. Oh God, Christian turned around. Blood around his lips and bright red eyes couldn't have told me more. Christian Ozera has turned strigoi.