Summary: takes place after Spirit Bound. I couldn't wait for The Last Sacrifice to come out, so I decided to write my own. My first fan fic, so pls be honest, and don't be afraid of upsetting me, I could use the criticism.
The Last Sacrifice
CHAPTER 1: confrontation
ROSE POV
It's been a week since the hearing. I am in a prison cell, sitting in solitude. I am not allowed to talk to my friends or anyone. The only ones that I can talk to are Tomas and Abe. Tomas I can talk to because he guards me whenever he can, and Abe, because he is my so-called 'lawyer'. Seeing as I have no one to talk to, and I don't have anything to do, not even a book to read, (yes, I was that bored that I would even read a book) I am sitting here, thinking about who would want to frame me.
I am pulled out of my reverie by someone saying my name.
"Rose! For the last time, look at me!"
I look up and see my mother, Guardian Janine Hathaway, standing outside the bars of my cell.
"Mum! What are you doing here?" I exclaimed.
"Volunteering to guard you! What is all this about you killing the Queen?" she was pissed. I could see it.
"Mum, I could stand here and deny it all I wanted until I'm blue in the face, whatever I say, they won't believe me. The 'evidence' is too solid. All of it points to me. The only person who could tell us who killed the Queen is the Queen herself. But I can't find out, because they won't let me out of the wards so that I can call to her and talk to her."
"The Queen is dead Rose, you wouldn't be able to talk to her," she said in a strained voice.
"No mum. Yes, the Queen is dead, but I can still talk to her! You know I can, I can see ghosts because I am shadow kissed! Only shadow kissed people can see ghosts! There is only one other I know about!" I was going out on a limb here, telling my mum about Mark, but it was my only hope. My theory was that if we could get Mark here, then he could try to speak to Tatiana and find out who killed her.
At this point, my mother was looking at me as if I had gone crazy. Maybe I have, Lissa has been depressed ever since the hearing was over and the Council had voted that I go to trial. Her darkness had been leaking into me, I had no way to get it out.
"Mum, we hav-"
I cut off because suddenly Tatiana appeared in front of me and I got a wave of nausea. It could only mean one thing. The wards had been broken and there were strigoi here.
"Mum! The wards have been broken! Strigoi are he-" I was cut off again by the back wall of my cell being blown up. I turned around and saw a strigoi standing there.
