I sat down in the cell, the same one that my Dimitri stayed in, wondering about the letter that the queen had sent me. I know that I didn't do it, but who ever did was going to face the full forced wrath of Guardian Rose Hathaway, notice the GUARDIAN part. I mean, I may have hated the Queen, but not enough to kill her! Wait, rephrase that, since she was the queen it was not enough to kill her, anyone else would be killed. Alone with my own thoughts, my mind wandered to why the queen would put me with the task at hand, and why Ambrose had the note in the first place.

I was jolted out of my thoughts when I heard steps, and saw Dimitri coming towards the jail. "Get out!" I growled as he came to the bars, shaking off any of the guards who tried to grab his arm. I didn't want to see Dimitri, he had crushed my heart one too many times for my taste and even I wasn't a glutton for that much punishment.

"Roza, listen to me ple-," He began in a tone that just seemed condescending, not caring like I am sure it was meant to be.

"How dare you! You have no purpose down here, I don't want you here! And don't you ever, and I repeat ever, call me that again!" At that I turned on my heel and sat down at the edge of the bed. I still in my heart loved him, but I was not his play toy and I would be damned if that was what he would treat me like.

"Roza, please I love you. You've got to believe that," He said, hurt written all over his face. He looked like the weakened man I had seen with Lissa, hurt and defenseless. I hated to see him like that, and I would have almost rather him be Stringoi.

His voice, it made the anger and hurt rise to the surface, all of the pain of the last weeks, flooded back to me. I stood up and walked back to the bars. I put on the best guardian face that I could, though I was pretty sure that he could see through it. "That is all well and good, but I don't love you," I spat out calmly, "Because you know Mr. Belikov, love fades, mine has."

Dimitri let out a groan of pure exasperation, just like the ones that he had let out in training back at the academy, but this wasn't a disdain to Rose-logic but to his words coming back to haunt him. His lip pierced into a strait line, "Don't lie to me Rose."

Lying, I'm lying! This was the final straw, 'You say I am lying? Me! I can't believe you! How did you even get down here? And however that was, you should go back the way you came and never return!" I stood there, starring at him, the death glare that I could have only inherited from Abe.

"Not without you, my Roza," Dimitri declared with determination in his eyes. He pulled me to the bars and plastered himself against the bars on the other side, holding himself there.

I took in his scent, I couldn't help it. I needed this touch for so long that my anger melted away. "Well that might be hard considering these things are in the way," I said slightly sarcastic and slightly with the truth. I wasn't going to be allowed anywhere until they found the real murderer.

Dimitri let go of me, turning to the guards, all 15, and handing them a note. When the head guard read it, he immediately unlocked the gate and let me out. "Wait what?" I said looking from the guard's apologetic face back to the triumphant face of Dimitri.

"Her highness the great Queen Dragomir asks for your pardon for the misunderstanding," The guard said while looking at me, "You may leave now Head Guardian Hathaway." He did a sort of salute and then him, along with the rest of the guards, left the room.

"Queen Dragomir! As in LISSA? When did. . . ?" I began trying to process the fact that Lissa was queen. How did I not realize this? Wait could that have been why she was blocking me from her thoughts? I had to go see her now.

I started to run out of the jail, but before I got to the steps to leave the cell section, Dimitri had me by the arm and spun me around. "Roza," He whispered as he leaned down and kissed me softly on the lips.

"No," I mumbled soft pulling away but his grip was too tight. "Dimi-" I said again, a bit louder but it was muffled by his lips over mine. The electricity the coursed through my body was astounding, and my fighting was immediately stopped. Then, through a sick twist of fate, as I kissed back I found that I was not thinking about Dimitri, but rather Adrian.

"Dimitri, STOP!" He pulled back which was all I needed to make a break for it. I ran, him close at my heels. I ran to the one place where I could get answers, I ran for Lissa. During my fast run, my mind raced faster than my feet, and I thought about what the guardian had said, Head Guardian Hathaway. . . I was head guardian!

I burst through the doors of what was the thrown room. Waiting to be tackled by guardians, I braced myself. And that's when I saw it, Lissa was sitting on the thrown. She screeched when she saw me, "ROSE!"

-To all who read this!-

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