Rosemarie Hathaway
My mother's party was tearing down the hall. They were only meters away when I felt something cold grasp me around the neck and an arm around my stomach. Dimitri looked around for me until he heard something and turned around quickly. Suddenly 2 Strigoi grabbed him but he whipped his stake into the heart of the one closest to him and he ducked under a punch going for his head. I had forgotten that I was being held by a Strigoi when I tried to defend Dimitri. Instead the Strigoi holding me sunk its teeth into me and for a brief second I felt pain before the endorphins kicked in and it was happiness. I was just feeling happy, the one other time was when I had ran away with Lissa and she was forced to drink from me. This was different, stronger, better.
The room was dark, I could just barely see the light under the cracks in the door. A few groggy minutes later, my eyes adjusted and I realized that I was in some sort of prison. How did I get here? I must've said it aloud because 2 seconds later a female Strigoi said, "Wes dragged you here from the battle." Oh Wes was the Strigoi that grabbed me. Then she smiled at me, "now we're going to awaken you and hopefully you're going to be a good asset." I could tell from the word hopefully that I had better be useful to her or I'd pay for all the Strigoi lives I had taken. Then she nodded to Wes and remarked, "we'll talk once you've gained some clarity about us, Rose." The fangs broke my skin and I was stupidly happy again, after a few more moments he took out a small vial from his pocket and tipped it all down my throat. I was too high to care or to think how disgusting the thing hitting my taste buds was. I was weak but I didn't want to dwell on what I was doing, I didn't want to feel the disappointment and horror my friends would feel at me. I closed my eyes and let a sort of sleep take me.
I still had my eyes closed but I could feel that I was in a bed. After a few long seconds of holding a sleeping position I opened my eyes. The room was what you would expect of a hotel with moonlight hitting the balcony to my left. The door to the bathroom, on my right, was slightly ajar so I ran straight into it. Honestly the speed should've tipped me off about what I was now but I had to see for myself. As soon as I looked in the mirror I saw 2 red, predatory eyes staring back at me. Still watching myself a cruel smile touched my lips. Something else was missing and I couldn't place it. What would I had done if I were still a Dhampir. Dimitri, I liked Dimitri, didn't I? Oh, the bond, it was there but Lissa's feelings weren't constantly trying to break down my wall. Instead they sort of rolled over me, I could feel them, she was distressed and nervous and scared but I didn't feeling anything. Wonderingly I tried to slip into her like I used to.
Lissa was with Adrian, Christian, Dimitri, and Eddie was standing slightly off to the side guarding them in Lissa's room. Christian asked, "so what happened to Rose?" Dimitri looked up, he had been sitting on the bed, his voice was hard and cold, "a Strigoi grabbed her but I was instantly attacked by 2 others and all I could see was that she was being dragged away." Lissa was a swirl of thoughts and emotions but I could tell that she was angry because the bond was one-way so she couldn't tell if I was okay. All she said was, "I know she's alive, the bond tells you if the other dies." Then Christian said the one thing no one wanted to hear but it was on everyone's minds. "Would you know if she were a Strigoi?" Lissa was scared, because she didn't know and also she hated the bond, she couldn't even tell if her best friend was a monster or not. Which I was but it would be more fun to watch them suffer and doubt against reason. Christian seemed to understand what her silence meant and he asked Adrian, "have you..." but Adrian shook his head, "she hasn't fallen asleep and I've been trying for over 24 hours." He did look very tired as he leaned against the wall.
A human walked into the room, snapping me out of Lissa's mind, I was hungry... very hungry. In his arms were 5 packages of blood which I tore apart in seconds and then I stared hungrily at him. He was scared, probably because he had never been so closed to a Strigoi so young before, but he was used to us and said, "Veronica wants you now." My questioning look must've prompted him to say, "she's the one who said that she was going to talk to you once you've been turned." As soon as he had finished speaking he turned away and exited the room. He turned through a series of painted corridors, I was right to think we had been in a hotel, before stopping in front of huge double doors. Pushing my way through I felt my fangs slide out as I smiled at Veronica. "Rose, I see you've changed your mind about us."
