The Last Grand Duchess

by Eva West

Jess has to do a report on the Russian Czar's, and it figures that she locates the places of the missing bodies of Anastasia and Alexei. But some people want this secret to be kept quiet... R&R. Old pen name Pray For The Soul of Betty

1. Anastasia

Disclaimer- Don't own 1-800, ya da ya da, you get the picture.

Anyway

The Last Grand Duchess

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"Hey, Jess, Rob's waiting for you in your room!" My friend Kelsey yelled at me from across the hall.

"Thanks Kels!" I called back, and went to my dorm room.

Sure enough, Rob was sitting on my bed, with my laptop in his lap.

"Hey!" I said. "That has to be charged for my next class!"

"Jess, you next class is in an hour." Rob said. "Can't we go to lunch?"

"I gotta report." I said.

"About what?"

"The Romanov family."

"The ones that were shot?" Rob asked.

"Unfortunately." I said.

"Yeah, it is pretty sad."

"No, I meant about having to do the report." I told him. I flipped open the big textbook, and looked at the pictures of the family. I looked at Czar Nicolas the II and pointed him out to Rob. " Wasn't he like a bad guy?"

"Maybe." He told me. "But what about his family? The four girls and the one boy?" Rob turned the page to a picture of the Grand Duchesses. He pointed to the youngest. "That's Anastasia. She was only a year younger than you are when she died." I looked blankly at him. "You remember that Disney movie about her?"

I looked at the picture. "It was Fox Animation." She whispered. "Anyway, how about lunch?"

"McDonalds or Pizza Hut?" Rob said.

I laughed, and took his arm.

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Later that night, I really couldn't resist looking at the pictures of that family again. Somehow, I felt a connection with them. In the early pictures, they were just one adorable family. Then they aged, and I could see the wrinkles of worry in the older people's faces.

I turned her computer off, looked at the pictures in her book one more time, and finally went to bed.

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"Jess?" Kelsey was pounding on the door. "Jessie?"

"Don't call me Jessie." I moaned.

"Whatever." Kelsey said. "Class starts in ten minutes!"

"Ok! I'm up!" I yelled. I snuck a look at the clock. "Liar!" I yelled, and unlocked the door.

"Gotcha to open it." Kelsey said.

"I hate you." I told her and jumped back in bed.

"Oh, you have to write this stupid report too?" Kelsey asked, and held up the book.

I looked at the picture of a ten year old Anastasia.

And then everything I had dreamed had just come back to me.

The stupid 'Lightning Girl' powers just helped me find where the Last Grand Duchess lay dead.

That place, coincidently, was nowhere near the rest of her family's remains.

Crap.

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