I decided I didn't like my original chapter one so I went back and used Shadow Kiss's Jesse incident but I added a twist. I do not own any of Richelle Meads amazing books, No copyright infringement intended
Lissa sank with visible relief. She was still scared and hurt over whatever had happened, but she was no longer consumed with that terrible, destructive rage that had driven her to punish Jesse. That urge within her had disappeared.
The only problem was, it was in me now.
I turned on Jesse, and it was like nothing else existed in the universe except him. He had tried to ruin me in the past. He'd tortured Lissa and hurt so many others. It was unacceptable. I lunged for him. His eyes had only a moment to widen with terror before my fist connected with his face. His head jerked back, and blood spurted from his nose. I heard Lissa scream for me to stop, but I couldn't. He had to pay for what he'd done to her. I grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him hard against the ground. He was yelling now too- begging- for me to stop. He shut up when I hit him again.
I felt Lissa's hands clawing at me, trying to pull me off, but she wasn't strong enough. I kept hitting him. There was no sign of the strategic precise fighting I'd used earlier against him and his friends or even against Dimitri. This was unfocused and primal. This was me being controlled by the madness I'd taken from Lissa.
Then a pair of hands was pulling me away. They were moroi hands ,I could easily fight them off, but for some reason I surrendered into their touch. When I was finally up off of Jesse's unconscious body I noticed Guardians surrounding the area and Jesse being carried away in a stretcher. I leaned into the mystery moroi, only to find the oddly comforting odor of clove cigarettes assault my nose. I was drained emotionally and physically and couldn't hold myself up.
" Little dhampir, lets get you some place where you can relax." I simply nodded and then Adrian wrapped his arm around me and walked me away.
I could feel the warmth penetrating through Adrian's jacket into my body. Just being in his presence right now had a calming affect on me. I recognized the building he was leading me to, it was the very same building that I was taken to when I was being accused of throwing Christian into the clutches of evil Alto. Adrian brought me inside and made me hot chocolate , just like Dimitri had done, and then led me to the back porch. There was a small cushioned seat that he led me over to and sat down on. As I sat there next to him the silence was eerie. I sipped my hot chocolate but there was a feeling stirring in my gut that something worse than what had happened to Lissa was about to happen.
Without realizing it I leaned up to Adrian and put my head on his shoulder. He was tense, like he had the same feeling as me, but he seemed eased by the gesture. I decided to finally look up at him, I was instantly mesmerized by those emerald green orbs framed by thick black eye lashes. He offered me a gentle reasuring smile with those soft, pouty looking lips of him.
I found myself wishing he had kissed me in the hallway when I had asked him to. As if he could read my mind he began to lean down, my eyes closed and felt lips, silky smooth press against my own. I couldn't explain the feeling but I knew it was something amazing.
" wow." Was all Adrian could manage when he pulled away. It felt like we were kissing for twenty minutes but when I glanced over at the clock it hadn't even been two minutes. I think I was wrong, Diedre might have been right about me only wanting Dimitri because I couldn't have him.
I opened myself up to the bond cautiously and found that Lissa, Eddie, Mason and Christian were all in Lissa's room trying to figure out where I was.
" Adrian," I said with great reluctance "I think we should go see everybody."
"Okay little dhampir, lets go." I noticed that he grabbed ahold of my hand and held it tightly. The chill in the air made me shiver as we walked across campus to the girls moroi dorm. He must have heard me shiver because he slowed our pace and wrapped his arms around we finally made it there we gained many wide eyed looks from the people gathered in the hallways.
They probably all heard about what happened to Jesse. Thats when I looked down and noticed there was blood on my shirt. Jesse's blood. A royal moroi's blood. I was going to be in a bit of trouble tomorrow. Even though what he did was wrong he was still a moroi and I was a dhampir.
We made it to Lissa's room and we received the same shocked looks that we had gotten before. It was funny because there were already rumors going around about Adrian and I, I guess they just never thought they'd see the day when we'd be walking through campus holding hands.
" Rose, whats going on here? " Christian said eyeing my fingers which were laced with Adrian's. Eddie and Lissa looked on edge
" I have no idea what you are talking about Ozera." I said with a smug smile on my face.
I guess they all decided to ignore mine and Adrian's new found "friendship". Lissa told me about what had happened when Adrian took me away. Jesse was taken to the hospital and all the other people who had been participating in the Mana group had been found and they were going to be punished to the most severe extent. Alberta said that some people were going to be expelled, and with them being royal it was going to be humiliating for their families.
We were all just talking and trying to figure out what had happened tonight when we heard it. Screaming and running. Frantic pounding on Lissa's bedroom door. She opened it to show a concerned Dimitri, who when he looked in the room and saw me he seemed relieved to an extent.
"Princess there has been an breach of the wards. I need you to stay here and Rose, Mason and Eddie need to come with me. We'll need all the help we can get." Even in the face of danger Dimitri seemed so put together.
He handed us three each a stake and we all headed off down the hallway. There was no time to talk, there was only time to fight. I dared a look over my shoulder as I walked away and I saw Adrian, he was on his knees in the hallway, having a breakdown. It torn my heart apart to see him like that but this was my job. I would need to put my life on the line to save his kind. When we reached the lobby Mason spoke finally.
" So this is it."
"Yeah," Eddie replied " and we haven't even graduated yet."
All three of us looked at each other and then we looked over at Dimitri. This was our moment in a way. Even with my two marks I still wanted to prove myself, and I know Mason and Eddie did too. The door opened and I saw what I can only describe as carnage going on in front of me. There were buildings on fire which was thanks to Christian, who was leaning out of a window lighting some strigoi's on fire, there were even bodies all over the place. Some were strigoi and some were guardians.
We immediately jumped into action and began fighting these soulless demons. I had been fighting one of them when I was attacked by another. He came up behind me and then before I could stop him I felt a sharp stab in my neck and then a warm wet sensation happened. I watched as Eddie ran over and staked the two strigoi but I couldn't focus. Everything was blurry and I didn't know if it was because of the endorphins or if it was from blood loss. I had the strangest falling feeling and just before everything turned black I heard someone shout my name and then I felt something ,maybe a hand, being pressed against my neck and this wonderfully light, happy feeling filled my body. Then everything turned black.
Hope you guys liked this edited chapter, if I get at least 3 reviews I will post Chapter 3 :)
