I do not own Vampire Academy or any of its characters. Hope you enjoy please write reviews of this work, I don't care if they criticize it or praise it but please be nice about it either way. ^.^ ((btw: Tatiana's not dead and all of that mess never happened, even Dimitri turning strigoi but that's because he would've been gone with Tasha already.)) Rose is Lissa's guardian and it is two years after they graduated from the academy and they are living at court with Adrian and Christian there as well.

Rose Point of View:

I sat there across from Lissa at the café and took a bite of my sandwich. My guardian-charge relationship with Lissa tended to be more relaxed than others except when we were at any formal events which called for me to follow strict guardian protocol.

I looked at her and found that she was staring at me a bit irritated. "Mmm….sorry what?" I asked realizing that she had been speaking to me as we had sat there.

"Rose… I thought you were supposed to be paying attention to everything around us not spacing off." She teased me smiling, "No, I thought you might like to know that Tasha's coming to visit Christian tomorrow and…well you know what that means." She told me gently, probably expecting me to explode.

"Yes I know what it means." I took a drink of my soda and then finished, "It means I have to put up with that bitch for the duration of her visit." I finished leaning back in my chair trying to avoid Lissa's view. Luckily our bond only went one way so that she could not tell all of the hurt and fury that was raging through my veins right now.

Lissa sighed and looked at me, she reached over the table to set her hand over mine on the table, trying to get me to look at her. "Rose… you're going to have to face him at some point you can't avoid him forever." She told me.

I stood up suddenly and turned to leave. Without another word I walked briskly out of the room wanting to get away before I cried in front of her and everyone else in the shop. She was in court so things were definitely more relaxed and plus she had another guardian who was sitting at another table in the café, she would be fine, I reassured myself and went off to get away.

Running now, I speedily made my way across the grounds and towards the building with my room in it, as tears began to stream down my cheeks. As I made it closer I ignored my surroundings and only came to reality as I ran into someone.

I stepped back and looked up at the person I had run into, Ambrose, a masseuse here at Court and apparently, Queen Tatiana's secret lover. Unlike most male dhampirs, Ambrose had chosen a different path than being a guardian, I admired him a bit for that. I smiled shakily at him and wiped furiously at my eyes. "Hey Ambrose didn't see you there."

"Rose?" he asked me seemingly worried a bit, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine why wouldn't I be?" I asked him and then looked directly at him trying to prove it to him although my eyes were probably red-rimmed from crying as I had run.

He looked at me a bit doubtfully and then finally spoke again, "Why don't you come see my aunt? I was just about to go see her anyways." He told me.

I sighed softly, "Fine, but only because I know that if I don't go then you'll bother me about it until I do." I crossed my arms tightly over my chest and looked at him, "Well go on walk." I told him.

He chuckled at me and began to head towards one of the buildings again. I walked beside him silently, lost in my thoughts. His aunt was a fortuneteller here at Court. I was still a bit doubtful about her ability to foretell the future but I went anyways.

When we finally made it we just walked back into her room reserved for fortune telling and Ambrose plopped himself down onto the couch that was there. I glared over at him briefly and then looked at his aunt and settled down in a chair and looked at her doubtfully.

"I think Rose here needs a tarot reading." Ambrose said casually leaning back hanging his head upside down over the side of the couch. I frowned briefly and looked at his aunt, "No, I really don't." I told her standing up and turning to leave.

His aunt spoke up as I was about to open the door and leave, "Beware, you're going to run into a startling surprise in the near future."

I shrugged her warning off as the normal fortuneteller garbage you heard in cheap movies and the likes and walked out of the door heading directly for my room a building over, not stopping for anything this time.

Once I made it there I went inside and fell back onto my bed pulling my phone out of my pocket and checking it for any missed messages.

3 unread messages

I pressed open and read the first of the messages

From: Lissa

Rose please come talk to me I didn't mean to upset you.

I ignored her message and flipped to the next one, from Adrian.

Little dhampir, come meet me at my rooms later.

I shook my head slightly but was smiling slightly. Adrian was wonderful to me, he did everything and anything for me. I loved him I really did but sometimes I thought back to what I had had with Dimitri and was regretful. With Dimitri I had had an all encompassing burning passion that could face down the world but with Adrian there wasn't that spark like that, there was a connection and love but just not a spark like that. But I was trying my best to be as good of a girlfriend I could be for him.

He had done his share as well, Adrian had quit smoking for a little while now and I only ever smelled smoke on him or saw him smoke in extreme moments of stress, which luckily wasn't too often. And he didn't drink as much either. Sometimes I felt bad for how much he had changed for me but felt like I had done nothing for him.

I laid my head down and tossed my phone over onto the ground knowing that Adrian wouldn't expect me to be there for a while yet. Soon my eyes began to droop as I thought over everything that was going on and soon I felt myself deep within a dream, or more like a memory. It was my memory of the day Dimitri had left me behind.

I stood there looking up at him. I had been led to thought that today was a normal day of training but Dimitri had a duffel bag strapped over his shoulder and had his duster on. I could see several western novels sticking out the corner of his bag.

He just looked down at me as I stared up at him, "What?" I cried out angrily at him and struck him in the chest, "What do you mean you're leaving to be with Tasha?" I waved my arms about wildly and then turned around and stalked furiously across the room before walking back over to him.

"Now Rose just calm down. It's what's best for both of us, what's best for you." He tried to reason with me.

I turned on him with hurt and fury in my eyes, "You have no idea what's best for me!" I shouted, "Only I know what's best for me." I took a deep breath and looked up into his eyes meaningfully, "And that's you!" I shouted at him striking him in the chest again with my fist. I was shaking from my pain and anger.

He looked down at me, "Rose….Roza…" he reached out and grabbed my hand in his own.

I pulled my hand back roughly and looked at him. The use of my Russian nickname made me want to melt in his arms and just cry and beg him to stay but I kept my backbone and didn't give in.

I glared up at him, "Fine then leave! Just leave!" I screamed, sure that people in the dorms could hear me even though we were in the gym. "What are you still doing here? LEAVE! JUST GO!" I brushed past him, roughly ramming my shoulder into his and stormed out of the front doors to the gym. I rushed away not letting him get to me and try to calm me down. The few people that I ran into had hastily rushed out of my way knowing not to mess with me when I was in a mood.

Later that day I had watched from a window in my dorm as he left campus with Tasha in a van. I had watched as their bags had been packed and they had driven away, leaving my life forever, or so I thought. It felt like my heart was being torn out of my body by someone's bare hands and then that their hand was mixing around all of my insides. I had stayed in a mood for the next two whole weeks and after that I was still sad and depressed.

Suddenly I woke up with a start and heard it as my phone beeped from the floor. I ran my hand through my hair and picked up my phone looking at the message.

From: Adrian

Hey babe where are you?

"Crap…" I muttered as I looked at the time and realized that I had overslept and needed to head over to Adrian's. I hastily got up out of my bed and rushed to get dressed nicely and go.