Okay, so I'm pretty sure this has been done before, but Dimitri and Lissa ran away from the academy. Rose and Lissa are bonded, but Rose is a twenty – four year old guardian. Please give feedback.

Chapter 1

Being bonded to a 17 year old girl is pure torture when you are 24. Now being bonded to a 17 year old Morio princess that ran away from the academy with a dhampir novice two years ago, that is useful. The only problem is that she knows about the bond and is blocking me out. She is completely blocking me out of her head and I can only get in during her dreams. I'm just never asleep when she is.

I was a Dragomir family guardian for three years. It was my day off. I was with Belikov's; they had wanted to see me again, since they hadn't had a chance to see me for two and a half years when I wasn't on duty. Dimitri and Lissa were with me at the time. She had wanted to go the see Olena with Dimitri. We didn't have any other guards with us. I told my colleagues that I could handle watching over the two 14 year olds.

While we were sitting down eating lunch, eight strigio barged in through the windows and doors. I pressed the family and Lissa up against the wall. I was the only guardian and I had nine people to protect; one of them being one of my charges. Natasha Ozera had been staying with the Belikova's, she's a fire user.

"Lady Ozera! Protect them with fire. I'll handle the Strigio!" I said. She encased the group in a blanket of fire.

Lissa screamed as she was blocked from me in fire. I was like her older sister. I acted like it enough. I was her guardian. I fought eight on one for as long as I had to. I had eight stakes on me staking every each of them as I had the chance. By the time I was growing tired, I had one left. He was the oldest, best trained, and strongest. He was dhampir before he was trained. I roundhouse kicked him to the side, front snap kicked him to the gut, punched him several times, and when I went in for the kill, I staked him. In the process though, he got his arms around me. He killed me.

Tasha took down the wall of fire and Lissa rushed over to me. She was in tears, praying for me to return to her. She put her arms around my body and rested her head on my chest. I remember this so clearly because of my ghost. She healed me while holding me in her arms. My heart started to beat and my lungs started to allow me to breathe again. My eyes fluttered open. Everyone was in tears. Tasha was staring at my body blankly, with silent tears rolling down her cheeks. I began to cough, as I was chocking on air. My mouth was so dry. Lissa sprang up and ran to get me a glass of water. I drank the whole thing in seconds.

"You were dead. How are you alive?" Lissa asked.

"I guess it's time I tell you about something I have been researching for awhile. When you didn't specialize, I started to look up the old magic. There are five elements, not four; Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Spirit. Spirit is less common, but the most powerful of the five. There are only five Spirit users that I know of; Oskana, Adrian Ivashkov, Sonya Karp, Vasilisa Dragomir, and Robert Dour."

"But you said my name. I haven't specialized yet."

"Princess, you have. You just healed me. Brought me back from the dead. Saved my life. Gave me a second chance." She looked at me like I was an alien from outer space. "Look, things die. But they don't always stay dead, child. I died, I am alive. Living proof of the saying right here."

Everyone was staring at me like I was talking dog. "Okay, anyway. I am shadow kissed, so is Mark, Oskana's husband." I paused. They still didn't buy it. "Okay, I am alive. Are you all that far with me?" They nodded. "I died, right before your eyes. Are you there?" they nodded. "Lissa is a Spirit user, you got that?" They again nodded. "I am shadow kissed. Is that clear?" they nodded again. "Good. So you have the important details down."

That was how we got bonded. I now am trying to find the Dragomir Princess and Dimitri Belikov.

After Rhea, Eric, and Andre died, Lissa ad Dimitri ran away from the academy. I didn't even get to try to help them with it. I had lost all of them in the same week. I was transferred to Ivan Zeklos, my best friend in high school. Ivan and I had fun together. I never really worked with him unless there was a threat. He was always taking me out as his date paying more than any of his other guards. He and I had a steady friendship going.

"Roza?" he asked.

"Yes, Ivan?"

"You need a day off. You've worked too hard recently. Let's go to Baia. See if they've seen Dimitri or Lissa. I know you miss them." He said.

"I'll be fine, Ivan. We're full time college students, trying to become Doctors. Let's finish this semester, and then we can go to Baia. Olena will call me if they show up." I reasoned.

"We can go now. They won't care about the month we'll miss."

"I will. Ivan, we need to finish up this semester. We're graduating at the end with the extra work we're doing to graduate early. Three more weeks will not kill us." I told him.

"It might just kill you. You refuse to take a break. Always work, work, and work. You haven't been this calm and reasonable in months. Three months of the semester you've been overworking yourself on the Dragomir/Belikov search, being my guardian, a sister, a daughter, and a full time college student. Rose, I love you like a sister. And you being this stressed over Lissa and Dimitri missing is scaring me. I know that you'll be a little stressed, but you can't find them and do nothing. You are at the top medical school in the world. You are the top medical student. You are bonded to the missing Dragomir, but can't find her. You are going to find them. You are going to be happy. And sister, if it's the last thing I do as your charge, I will help you get your sister back. Not for me, but for you. I want you to be the Dragomir guardian again. You loved that job. They need guardians like you. Strong, independent, self-determined. We don't have many like you." Ivan came and gave me hug. "I love you, Rosie."

"I love you too, Ivan. But call me Rosie again, and I will not train you anymore." I threatened.

"That's the Rose I know." Ivan laughed.

The last few weeks of class went fast; graduation was just around the corner. I was top of my class and Ivan's family was there. His mom and dad were so proud of us and they gave me a big check. It had a lot of money, more than I needed at the time, but now I kind of need it. They are so nice.

Anyway, I found the kids and now I'm on my way to get them. I am not going to be easy on either of them as they are now my legal responsibility. I am to take twelve guardians and go live in Australia with Lissa and Dimitri as their legal guardian and parent. Olena isn't too happy that I won't allow her son to go home, but she knows very much so why. He'd be killed if I let that happen. They can all come and visit us in a few months.

As I stepped out of the trees and approached the house that I was going to climb in the window and hand cuff them both in their sleep I saw Lissa awake, but with her back to me and listening to music. She was doing laundry in the dorm. Dimitri was still asleep. I climbed up the window quickly and quietly. I flex-cuffed Lissa and gagged her so she couldn't scream. I then dragged Dimitri out of bed and against the wall. He was awake now. I flex-cuffed him and threw him to the floor. I took off Lissa's gag.

"Do either of you two realize how scared I was? How much I thought that I lost everything that mattered to me? Did either of you think of me? Do you want to know what I thought?" I asked them. They nodded. "I thought that I lost the both of you. I thought that you would both be dead and that I was at fault because I couldn't find either of you. I had nightmares every night throughout the last two years. I couldn't find you anywhere. I had to call in favors from Abe Mazur to find you two. That man is my father. I saved your ass, Dimitri. Your mama wants you home so she can kill you. She's so pissed off at you. Oh if you think what I'm gonna do to the both of you for this is bad, you just wait until the others get a hold of you. For now, neither of you are allowed out of those cuffs, my sight, or my reach. You will both be my little children. And by the way, welcome back to school. I'm your new teacher, headmistress, head guardian, mother, and boss. When we get to our destination, I'm gonna beat both your asses, with my new belt. And yes, you should be scared."

Lissa began to cry and Dimitri stared at me with tears in his eyes. I instantly pulled on my guardian mask and chilled my voice. "Sit, I'm going to pack your stuff up. Though, you won't need any of it. You'll have uniforms." I packed all their stuff and called up the rest of the regiment of guardians. When they got up they were shocked.

"Guardian Hathaway, what took you so long?" James asked.

"Well, Guardian Howard, I had to pack their shit up." I cleared my throat, "Get this shit out of my face and in the blazer. I'll take care of these two. They'll be riding with me; I'll meet you at the airport." I grabbed them both by an arm and took them out the door. They were both silent until we got into my hummer.

"Why do we have to be cuffed?" Lissa asked.

"Well, I can't trust either of you. Until I am with other guards, you will both be cuffed. Queen's orders, Princess." I said pulling on to the highway and heading toward the airport, the others behind me. It was night time for the humans, which meant that Strigio were searching for us, and I for one, did not want to encounter Nathan tonight.

"Why," Dimitri asked. "Can't you trust us?"

"You ran away from the academy, swiped half of the Princess's trust fund, worried your families to death, worried the Queen, and personally that's enough for me."

"What do you mean families? Mine is dead." Lissa said.

"Princess, you have a sister at Saint Vladimir's Academy and you would know this already had you stayed. I was informed of this a week before you left."

"Cut the Princess thing, Rose." Lissa said. That pissed me off; she thinks that after everything she put me through that she can still call me Rose.

"Young lady, I assure you that I don't know what you are talking about, but for the disrespect in when addressing me, you will receive twice the punishment." I said, pulling into the airport.

The group got out and swarmed my hummer. I climbed out and pulled them out. I un-cuffed them and we headed inside with their luggage. I went over to the guards and requested my party to be let through without having to be through the system. I told him that I was a guardian and he did so immediately. He was an alchemist.

We quickly boarded the plane and took our seats. I sat with Dimitri, as he and I needed to talk. "Okay, I want you to listen to me, and I want you to know that I am serious. I don't approve of you taking the Princess out of the academy without permission. Had either of you been lost, I would have felt terrible. I want you to know that your mother and I still talk and she wants you to know how worried you had her. She was terrified and I always spent my time off with her because she was scared. I wasn't the only one to worry, just to let you know, but I am the most understanding out of everyone." I looked him in the eyes, "Even though I don't approve of what you did, I still love you, and nothing can change that."

"You say nothing can change that, but you are the most violent one out of them all." Dimitri said.

"I may be the most violent, but I am also the most trained, the one who found you and the one who you need. Without me right now, you'd be dead. The Queen wanted to kill you for taking Vasilisa out of the academy." I was treating him differently already. "I'm only doing what it takes to protect you, Dimitri." I said.

"You say that you worried about us and that if anything happened to either of us you'd feel terrible, but you spent your last four years in college and trying to be a guardian at the same time. We weren't that hard to find. We just wanted you to put the effort forth to find us." He said quietly.

"You don't have a clue how much effort I put in to this case. You don't know how hard I tried to find you. I was booked with classes, Ivan and I tried so hard to finish school together. So that his parents could be proud of us and I tried so hard to find you guys. When I wasn't in class or out with Ivan at a royal event, I searched for you, for just a hint of where I could find you. I went weeks without any sleep. I had nightmares of you both being dead when I did sleep. I still had to keep my reputation and grade point average up so that I could graduate. I barely ate or drank anything that wasn't full of carbs and sugar so that I could stay up. I have a major caffeine addiction now. I get stress headaches and I wake up screaming for you guys to come home. But no, I didn't try Dimitri. Think again, young man. I tried. I screamed. I trained. And I lost sleep because of you two." I stood up and walked up to the front of the plane where I had them sit Lissa.

"Rose, I'm sorry…" She said when she saw my face; I knew that she heard my tangent.

"Save it Vasilisa. I'm disappointed in the both of you. Also, don't forget that you are to address me as Guardian Hathaway. That goes for you too, Mr. Belikov. You two had me worried sick and you are both in deep shit. Hand over all electronics. You may get them back when I can trust you again."

Lissa looked like she could cry as she handed me her cell phone and iPod. I took them both and turned them off. Dimitri brought iPod and cell phone up to me already turned off. I took all four devices and put them in my lock box. I pulled out my phone and called Queen Tatiana.

"Hello Rose." She answered.

"Hello, Your highness. I am calling to inform you that I have Dimitri Belikov and Princess Dragomir in custody and we are headed to the school. Please send Princess Jillian to the school immediately as she is one of my charges."

"Of course, would you like Prince Ivan to join her?" Tatiana asked.

"Yes, please. And please send Lady Natasha and Lord Christian with them. We need some people who won't make me mad there."

"Okay, Rose. That's no issue. They will be on their way from court soon."

"We are flying over court; shall we stop and pick them up?"

"That would be great."

"Okay, I will inform the pilot and we will be there in two hours to pick them up Your Highness" I said.

"Rose, we have known each other for years and I helped your parents raise you. Your father is my brother, for Christ's sake. Call me Aunt Tatiana."

"That would be unprofessional, ma'am"

"And when have you cared about that child?" She laughed.

"You have a good point, Aunt Tatiana. I'll see you soon."

"You better come and visit me, you're my favorite niece."

"I'm your only niece."

"No, Adrian has a little sister now."

"But he's your great nephew."

"You're still my favorite."

"Okay, Aunt Tatiana."

"Bye Rosie-Posie."

"Don't call me that Aunt Tatiana! Bye, I'll see you soon." We hung up.