Okay, so this takes place after LS, but Dimitri hasn't forgivin himself yet. Rose, Lissa, Eddie, and Christian have made their own kind of family. Eddie is Christians guardian, and Dimitri is living in Baia for the year.

Life after Last Sacrifice

RPOV:

"Liss, Christian, I am so sorry. I mean if I let that dead guy take the blame, we wouldn't be in this situation right now. I feel so guilty."

Christian looked at me with frustration, but I could tell there was sadness farther back in his icy blue eyes. Lissa's face mirrored his.

"Rose! She tried to kill you! She did kill you! You can't feel sorry for her! You, Lissa, and and Eddie are my family now! I can never forgive her for trying to kill my wife, and shooting my sister!"

I smiled, behind all of our snide comments and general rudeness to each other, he thought of me as a sister, and I considered him a brother.

Lissa piped in "and besides! If you didn't rat her out then, she might have tried to kill you herself!"

"I know".

Tasha's trial was today, and I really was having second thoughts, I mean, she was Christian's aunt, and at one point, I really liked her.

"Come on Rose, you know we can't be late". I followed Lissa out the door, and to the courtroom.

I drunk in the scenery as I walked, the garden Eddie and I landscaped, the marble foundations where the ancient statue of Queen Alexandra once stood, the park where Christian had proposed to Lissa. Next thing I knew we were in the courtroom, and I was escorting Lissa up to her throne.

There sat Tasha. Behind a Plexiglas wall, sitting in the same seat I had sat in when I was convicted of the same crime.

Lissa began to speak but I zoned out and focused on Tasha. Her purple scars running down her cheek, her raven black hair, and ice blue eyes. Those evil icy blue eyes. In the background I could hear Lissa naming her charges; murdering the queen, shooting and killing a guardian, that's right, killing. Lissa called it killing because my aura had disappeared, she technically had killed me, but not all dead things stay dead, so that's why I'm here today. She was also charged with attempted murder of a Moroi (the Mia incident), and threatening Moroi.

Many people were called up to testify, I was one of them. Much like my guardian trials, my testification was a blur. Before I knew it Lissa was announcing the verdict.

"The jury finds Mrs. Natasha Ozera guilty of all charges and sentenced to death". I could hear a great amount of pain in Lissa's voice as she spoke those last few words.

Tasha was lead away by ten different guardians, as she passed me, she whispered, "This is all your fault Rose".

With that Lissa, Christian, and I rose and left the courtroom.

Minuets later, we were joined by Eddie, Mia, Adrian, and Sydney. They all offered lots of hugs, and compassion as we went out to lunch. I was really just happy that Adrian and Sydney forgave me fully, I knew that if it were me in that situation, I probably would have taken a little longer to come around.

Lunch was a lot of fun, though I missed Dimitri who was still away in Siberia, though we wern't actually going out because he had told me that he still can't love me, I . I knew he really wanted to be here for Tasha's trial, but St. Basils was attacked and he had to fly in for a couple did miss him being here. Eddie and I cracked a few jokes, Adrian got pretty drunk, and Sydney didn't even look scared hanging out with a bunch of "evil creatures of the night".