I ran as fast as I could through the night around to the lake where Lissa was being tortured, I could feel it, her skin burning, her breathing being smothered and it affected me to as I tried to run while being sucked into her mind because of her terror. How I didn't feel it before I don't know.

Adrenalin was running through my system as I ran up to Jesse Zeklos a punched him in the face. All the other gang members hadn't realised I was there until I ran up to the guy drowning Lissa with his water powers and kick him in the stomach, the others backed off immediately. I ran after them one by one they went down as I aimed kicks at them. I turned around to face Lissa as Jesse fell to the floor withering in pain, then I looked back at Lissa, her eyes dark.

'Lissa,' I yelled ' stop it stop it now! Come on don't let the darkness take you, c'mon Lissa!'
'I have to Rose, he tortured me, just like the rest of them, but he told them to, so now he is going to pay for it' she said in a murderous voice. I could feel the darkness taking over, I could feel the swirling turmoil inside of her.

I tried to suck the darkness away and I could feel it slipping from her through the bond into me. I saw her blink and fall to the ground in confusion then I rushed over to Jesse and punched him in the nose and the stomach over and over again. I could hear his grunts and yells of pain and Lissa's feeble attempts to pry me of him.

Strong arms grabbed me around the top of my arms and pulled me off Jesse. I turned my head to see Dimitri and over his shoulder more guardians run up to the lake looking at the guys splayed all over the ground and helping them up.

'ROSE! Stop it, now Rose, your stronger than this, fight it, it isn't you!' Dimitri yelled at me still holding my arms as I struggled to free myself from his iron grip.

'It is me, let me go! He'll pay, they all will!' I screamed back at him.

'No Rose, its not you, come on, we need to get you cleaned up and calmed down.'Dimitri pulled me away through the trees, all the while me struggling to get away and go punch Jesse into pulp. He pulled me around a big tree and into the old cabin. He put his hands on my shoulders and told me to calm down, to push the darkness away. His eyes bored into mine and the darkness slowly faded and I stopped struggling and instead started crying.

'Shhh, Rose its okay, its fine. Your safe now' He repeated thins over and over as I cried into his shoulder, my tears staining his shirt.

'Im so sorry Dimitri it was the darkness, I couldn't get away. It took it away from Lissa but I couldn't get away' I shuddered remembering what Lissa did. How she forced Jesse to think he was in terrible pain.

I looked up into Dimitri's brown eyes that were so full of concern and love. He looked so vunerable in the dim lighting of the cabin. He led me over to the bed and sat me down and went to look for the first aid kit. As soon as he found it he walked back to me and started to clean up the scratches on my face and arms. When he was done we just sat there looking at each other, I reached my hand up to put on his cheek and he laid his hand over mine. His eyes were burning with love, he looked to vulnerable right there. I slowly raised my head and kissed him on the lips slowly, but after a few seconds it turned from soft and careful to fierce and longing.

Dimitri slowly laid me down on the bed without breaking the kiss and kept kissing. Then abruptly he stopped.

'Roza,' my heart jumped in my chest as he said it, just like I was the most important thing to him ever. 'we can't…' he whispered.

'I know…' I whispered back. But the desire got the better of us and he pulled my lips back to his.