CHAPTER ONE – TIME DOESN 'T HEAL ALL WOUNDS

Hey, people. Well, this is my first fanfic so don't be expecting too much. I'm just learning how to use the site. So this is my version of BLOOD PROMISE the next Vampire Academy book that will be coming out in August. So this is my version and I'm going to stop talking and get on with the story.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VAMPIRE ACADEMY IT IS RICHELLE MEAD'S NOT MINE NO MATTER HOW MUCH I WISH IT WAS. I ONLY OWN THE NEW CHARADETERS I ADD INTO THE STORY.

I WAS SITTIN ON THE inside seat of the plane and next to me was a reasonably cute boy, but I didn't care. I would never care for any boy again (except in friendship type of way). The boy had sat beside me and started to flirt with me but I kept it curt and just nodded and said I had a boyfriend. Not to mention that that said boyfriend was the undead. A Strigio. But obviously I couldn't tell this human that so I just said I was flying off to meet my boyfriend and he backed off.

I stared aimlessly out the window feeling absolutely terrible. I'd felt terrible since his body was not returned to the Academy, but I'd felt worse ever since I'd left Lissa. Part of me died when he didn't come back, and another died when I left Lissa. Hell, I wasn't sure there was anything left in me. The only thing I thought about now was making it up to him.

I pulled my legs up on my seat and turned my face into my legs. It felt like I was breaking apart. When I closed my eyes, another pair stared right back at me. A pair of eyes I knew too well. I thought about him every eighty percent of the time and the other twenty percent was spent thinking about Lissa. I hardly slept anymore, too worried to let my guard down or crying. I'd cried in the last week more than I ever had in my entire life. I had only cried this hard when I'd made my first Strigio kills and when I'd witnessed one of my closest friends get murdered. But even then, I hadn't cried this long. I just wanted to be numb and not pay any attention to the world outside. I just wanted to be timeless and untouched by the world around me.

Well, you are probably wondering who he was. He is Dimitri Belikov. It ached when I thought his name, but I'm tough. I always have been. Dimitri Belikov is-was his name. Dimitri was my mentor when he'd offered to be the one to "set my back in line" when the Academy's guardians had found Lissa and me in Portland two years after we had broken out of the Academy.

At first it had just been a student-teacher relationship – that is until Victor Dashkov came along. Id had a little crush on Dimitri, yeah, he was incredibly hot, and who didn't? But then, it became more than his looks that I liked about him. It was his dedication and devotion to the cause of being a guardian. I'd never met anyone who was as serious about being a guardian as I was, and Dimitri was. That enforced my feelings for him, but obviously I wasn't open about my feelings.

I'd always thought that Dimitri didn't like me that way, he'd sometimes drop hints like he thought I was pretty or that he liked how I was wearing my hair. I'd never really thought that he actually liked me that way and just thought he was being nice to me. Until Victor had put the lust charm on us the night he'd kidnapped Lissa from the Academy. We'd been all over each other, then Dimitri had figured it out and then he pretended like nothing had ever happened between us and we went back to the strict student-teacher act and our feelings only shown in the meeting of our eyes.

Then in the winter, while it was sort of a vacation, but not, Christian's (Lissa's boyfriend) aunt showed up and was in pursuit of Dimitri's love. It had pissed me off when ii heard so then I became a real bitch around Tasha Ozera. Then, after my friends and I had gotten ourselves captured by Strigio, after I'd killed the two Strigio and after I'd seen Mason die, Dimitri had held me and comforted. It was so sad watching Mason die- it broke my heart, just in a different way than it was broken now. When we got back to the Academy, Dimitri told me that he could never love anyone else but me. I was so happy that I'd finally got a claim on him, that he was mine.

Then the Academy was attacked by Strigio during the middle of our field experience and the Strigio had taken some of our people. Morio and dhampirs alike and one of the dhampirs that was taken was Eddie Castrol. One of my closest friends and Eddie was one of the people who was with me in Spokane when we were captured. One of the Strigio had used Eddie as a feeder and had taken blood from him every time he came into the room. Eddie had nearly died, and I wasn't going to let it happen to him again. I'd talked to Mason's ghost (I'll get back to that little detail later) and got the location of where the Strigio were and I'd gotten the guardians to launch a rescue mission for our people.

We'd saved all our guys but one that was already dead when we got there. As we were retreating, a Strigio caught Dimitri, who was running beside me, by surprise and taken him down. It was the same Strigio I'd fought on campus with Christian the same Strigio that said he was going to kill Lissa. But he'd gotten away when another Strigio had bumped into me from behind. But he hadn't gotten away without a present from me: I'd raked my stake down his face, it wound be my mark on him. The way the Strigio's eyes had flicked up to meet mine, like he wanted me to see it.

That image of the blond Strigio over Dimitri, drinking his blood still haunted my dreams and lingered in my thoughts while I was awake. It was painful, leaving him behind, but you can't say that I didn't try to go back to him. My least favourite teacher, Stan Alto, had to restrain me so I didn't run back to the Strigio and my love. I was screaming and crying as I thrashed against Stan's hold. My mother had to slap me across the face to get me moving, I saw her worry and fear of her daughter, me, being killed and I ran with them back to the Academy, tears streaming down my face. I cringed back into myself remembering that night.

When Dimitri's body wasn't brought back to the Academy, I'd asked Mason's ghost if he was dead, alive or…Strigio. And my answer was Strigio and I felt…I can't even begin to explain. I'd decided to do one last thing for Dimitri, to kill him. To do the only thing that he'd want. He'd want to be killed. And that was what I was going to do.

But there was one small flaw with my plan: I needed some money. And I got it from another friend of mine. This friend was Adrian Ivashkov. Adrian likes me and I mean likes me, as in actually having feelings for me. I'd always thought that Adrian just wanted me for a toy like all of the other girls he'd been through, but as it turns out, that wasn't the case. So Adrian told me that he would give me all the money I wanted- if I gave him a chance when I came back. He'd made me promise him, and I did. Honestly? I was still trying to find a way out of this little mess. It was a lie that I'd give him a chance, but it was necessary.

I'm a dhampir, half human half Morio. Morio are the good mortal vampires and the Strigio are the evil immortal vampires that need Morio blood to survive. That is why they hunt us: to drink our blood. Some think that dhampirs are better than Morio, but most prefer Morio. And that is why they need guardians: to protect them from the Strigio. I have been trained at St Vladimir's Academy in Montana to become a guardian and protect the Morio race. So there is no surprise there, which is normal.

Something that isn't normal is that I'm Shadow Kissed. This is something that is very uncommon because to be Shadow Kissed, you would need to be brought back from the world of the dead. And I was. Lissa, who has been my best friend since we were kids and I'd swore at our kindergarten teacher for trying to make us spell out our full names. Like come on, how are kindergarteners going to be able to spell Visalia Dragamir and Rosemarie Hathaway? Yeah right. We were in a car accident, with Lissa's family Mr and Mrs Dragamir and Lissa's older brother Andre. Lissa was the only who was able to stay alive. I died along with her whole family. But that had somehow triggered Lissa's element (all Morio can control an element: fire, earth, water, air and very rarely, spirit) and she healed me. She brought me back from the world of the Dead. Ever since then, I've been able to read Lissa's mind, tell what she's feeling and sometimes, I slip into her and experience things that are happening to her from her point of view. That is one thing I hate about our bond, especially when she spends time with Christian.

Being Shadow Kissed, I can also sense when Strigio are near or approaching. I get nauseous. And I can also see ghosts because I'm Shadow Kissed. I'd never seen ghosts before Spokane, but I guess the more death I weald and witness, brings me closer to the world of the Dead. Now there was always a hum around me, reminding me what I am and what was around me.

By the way, my name is Rose Hathaway, I've just had my eighteenth birthday, dropped out of my academy, have a best friend who is going to change the whole Morio world, love a dead man and I'm off to kill that man. I'm also completely on my own.

Life isn't easy. Not one bit.

Well, what did you think?? Is it good, bad, terrible? Please review and post your comments on my story. I know this isn't really THE story this is the introduction. You know, the first chapter in all the VA books is the intro, so I just thought it would be cool to go with it. So please, please, please review my story and I LOVE constructive criticism.

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~ALICE~