Do I even need to say that I took creative liberties with this?
Rose was dead for a total of sixty seconds. Her skull smashed, her collarbone broke, the air pushed from her lungs, the seatbelt nearly severing her head from her body. But then Lissa – so panicked, so scared, so terrified of losing everyone she was close to – brought her back.
She also inadvertently created me in the process.
Rose's poor mind, so traumatized from seeing the angel of death reaching out for her, created another personality. One who could deal with the trauma, one who could soak up Lissa's darkness without losing its mind. I am the complete opposite of Rose – nearly emotionless, a detached killing machine.
Pity I go under when she's inside the wards. Pity I was still out of it on the plane.
Pity that Mark's ring doesn't let me take control, even when Rose isn't wearing it.
Not that I would have taken Dimitri up on his offer to become a Strigoi, even though that life – killing for sustenance, seeing my angel each time I take another's life – is rather appealing. I don't have many morals, but I know that it's wrong for me to make those kinds of life-changing decisions. I know that this isn't really my body. I know that I'm just a visitor, unfortunately permanent for the time being. In fact, I've only taken control once, and that was only because Rose couldn't bring herself to kill the first pack of psy-hounds Victor sent out, back when she and Lissa were in the human world.
But I would have gotten out of there a hell of a lot quicker, mostly because I wouldn't hesitate to kill Dimitri.
I never really liked him in the first place.
But Rose really was in love with him, so I stayed quiet when I was able to get out. I didn't tell him about me, I didn't try to scare him away from her. I just sat back and watched, which is the complete opposite of what Rose would have done. If she were in my place – not that I would be falling in love with Dimitri anytime soon, what with him looking eerily like my angel of death – she'd totally do anything in her power to try to break us up like she tried with Lissa and Christian, just because she didn't like Christian and couldn't see how he was useful.
Christian is probably the only thing we feel the same about, seeing as I don't have any personal memories of Janine neglecting me as a small child. I only have Rose's memories, which are pretty much useless. I don't have much of an opinion of Adrian either, other than "he's probably a useless drunk" and "Onion-Boy is much more interesting than Dimitri, what will all of his layers."
My one regret is not meeting Reed or Simon in person. It would have been interesting to see if either of the other shadow-kissed had other personalities, hidden deep in their minds. Mark didn't, from what I could tell. What with Oskana's brain-touching, he probably would have known and warned Rose. I'm actually surprised that she didn't find me, but that was probably because she just did a quick brush. I know Avery knows all about me, but now that she's bat-shit insane, it doesn't matter anymore.
And before you ask, nobody else knows I exist. So be quiet.