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Dimitri's P.O.V
"DR. Olendzki! I need your help!" I cried out as I ran through the infirmary doors.
"Guardian Belikov? What is it, what's wrong?" I had clearly startled her but as she looked at what I was holding in my arms she was soon back to normal and leading me to a hospital bed. I laid the girl that I had been carrying down on the bed and her arm just kind of flopped over the side.
"I was driving up to the gates and I only just saw her in the bushes by the side of the road. She isn't a student that much I know. Is she going to be OK?" she had bruises and cuts all over her legs and arms and from the way her face looked, she looked as if she had gotten beaten pretty badly. Just then the doors swung open with a loud bang.
"Dimitri! What happened? I was waiting for you at the gates and then you just raced straight passed me!" She seemed angry with me until she saw the girl on the bed then her eyes softened and she looked upset. DR. Olendzki was trying to listen to the girls heartbeat using a stethoscope all of a sudden she sighed and placed it on the counter next to her.
"I'm afraid she isn't going to make it, you did a brave thing Guardian Belikov, it's just a shame that nobody got to her sooner." She walked away, probably to go get the relevant paperwork that she needed. That's when it happened.
"Lissa, no what are you doing?" I looked at her and caught her wrist as she had started to walk over to the girl on the bed but as I saw the expression on her face she seemed like she was in a trance. She carried on walking and came to a halt in front of the bed and placed just one finger on the girls arm. Then the strangest thing happened, the cuts and bruises disappeared and her face returned to what it would normally look like and she sat bolt upright gasping for air.
"Who are you! What do you want with me?" the girl had sprang up and was on the opposite side of the bed to me and Lissa and she looked terrified. I put both my hands up to emphasize that I meant her no harm.
"My name is Dimitri, I intend you no harm. I found you in the bushes on the side of the road." as soon as I said that she relaxed, but only very slightly.
"You mean you won't hurt me? Where am I?" She said that with such terror in her voice that I just had to find out what had happened to her to make her feel so scared.
"Of course we won't hurt you. You are at St. Vladimirs Academy, I am a guardian here and you have my word that you are safe. What happened to you?" She looked shocked when I had told her where she was. She was looking at her legs and arms now and feeling her face, just noticing that they were free from any marks or scratches.
"How is this possible?" I looked from her to Lissa, I didn't bother trying to answer as my mind just came up blank. Lissa stepped forward a little a smiled.
"That was me, I healed you, you were on the very edge of death and I brought you back. How did you end up in those bushes?" Lissa had been upset recently as all her classmates had been specialising in their elements and she hadn't, at least now we knew why. She had specialised in an element so rare among her kind that it had almost been forgotten, she was a spirit user. I had only ever heard rumors about this element but now I got to see first hand what it could do. The girl looked scared but at the same time relieved.
"I escaped."
"Escaped from what?" I had a feeling that this girl had been through hell and I suddenly felt very protective of her.
"The strigoi, they took me along time ago with a few others, I'm the only one left." she had tears in her eyes as she said this, now I was shocked as well as angry.
"When did they take you? How long ago?" I had to know, this was sounding all too similar to a story I had heard once.
"Thirteen years ago. They took me when I was 4 years old, I was with my mother in the mall and then the next thing I knew I was in a strange place, I cried and cried for my mother but she didn't come and then I saw what they were, I knew I wasn't going to get away from them, I don't even know why they didn't kill me they always said I was next though, I suppose they wanted to scare me, so I planned an escape but I had to wait so long until I could use it. I'm just so scared that this is a dream and I'm really still there in that dark cellar waiting for one of them to come and beat me and feed off of me again!" She had sat on the floor in the corner hugging her knees to her body and was sobbing. I looked over at Lissa and she had tears in her eyes. This was definitely the story I remember being told when I was 11 years old. Lots of dhampir children had been taken by strigoi, the guardians had rallied together and went in search but they never found them, after a few weeks all of the children were presumed dead and the search was brought to a halt. I was shocked that here in front of me was one of those children, I actually knew a guardian who was one of the parents to one of the missing children, I had to ask.
"What's your name?" She looked up at me, her dark brown eyes brimming with tears as her dark hair spilled around her face.
"Rose Hathaway."
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Lisa
