***This is my first Fanfiction so please tell me if this is any good.

***I do not own any of Richelle Mead's characters. She has complete rights to all her characters.

Prologue

I ran out into the woods like my mom told me to. I didn't know why she told me to run out of the house in the middle of the night. I looked back after I ran when I heard my mom scream.

"Where is she?!" said a man that had entered our house.

"I will never tell you, you asshole!" my mom yelled back and then she spit in his face. The man wiped off his face and then he broke my mom's neck. I tried not to scream, but it was very hard and I knew that image would stay with me no matter what. Instead I turned around and ran.

A little later, I slowed down and looked around to find out where I was. All I saw though was trees and then I spotted the dirt path. I don't know why, but I followed that path. As I followed the path I soon got tired and I chose to sleep at the roots of a tree.

"Hello, are you awake?" I heard someone say near where I was laying and when I didn't answer, the person picked up my small body. I thought that it might have been the man that broke in to my house and killed my mom, but I was too tired to fight back. I drifted back to sleep.

When I finally woke up, I was in a strange room. I saw a person sitting on the edge of the bed that I was laying on.

"Where am I?" I asked the other person that was in the room with me. I was scared, but at the same time it felt like I could trust him.

"You're safe here." He told me and that was when I could see the kindness in his eyes and I knew I could trust him. "Can you tell me your name and how old you are?" he asked me.

"I'm six years old and my name is Dima."I told him. After I told him that, he looked me over and lingered over my strange pink-purple eyes.

"Would you like to stay here?" He asked.

"Will you stay with me?" I asked him and I had tears in my eyes.

"Yes, I'll stay with you and my name is Dimitri." He told me and when he said that, I smiled and went to hug him. He lifted me in the air when I hugged him and I giggled. I was happy that I found someone who would take care of me even if my mom was gone.