Hey guys! I really just wrote the first chapter of my first fanfiction and now I'm excited!:) I'm not a native speaker (but who wants to read German fanfiction), so don't be too strict with me ;) but constructive criticism is always welcomed of course. I hope I'll be able to upload this (my computer skills suck) and that you like it!

Uh almost forgot: In my dreams I do own VA, in reality Richelle mead does.

"NO!" I really had to restrain myself to not scream hysterically at my best friend Lissa, who happened to be the Moroi-Queen. And as the Queen of all living vamires and half-vampires she really wasn't allowed to ask me what she just did.

"Are you nuts, Liss? Did you just ask me to help you break Tasha out of prison? That's just crazy and dangerous and wrong...and did I mention CRAZY?" Lissa asking for such a favour was just wrong in so many ways. She is the Queen, for goods sake, and Tasha Ozera is the murderess of the former Queen. Lissa's throne is not very stable as it is, she really shouldn't help a criminal. Especially not Tasha! Why would she even want to?

"Pssst!", Lissa hissed at me. Then she whispered: "Please Rose! I can't do this without y...".

"No!" I interrupted, "Why would I help Tasha? How can you even ask me that? She put me in the line for murder and then she almost killed me!"

Well, she didn't aim at me, I got shot at the heat of the moment but still...when she staked the Queens heart with my stake she had to know that I'd probably face a death penalty for this.

And now she was facing one. If you ask me, that's karma.

"Tasha was our friend. Do you really want her dead?" Lissa asked quietly. My best friend knew that I'd always been dead set against death-penalty. Facing your death like that was just too cruel, even for Tasha. But I most definitely didn't want her running free.

"No, I don't, but Liss..." "Just remember her good points!" Lissa cut me off. "I hate what she has done, but she did it to save Dhampirs like you!"

She kind of had a point here. The old Queen wanted half-vampires like me to leave school at the age of sixteen to fight our enemies, dead vampires who are called Strigoi. It would've been a blood-bath. Many adult Dhampirs died while protecting Moroi and to send children into the battlefield was a move I really hated the Queen for. Thank god Lissa changed the law as soon as she became Queen. And she kind of became Queen thanks to Tasha. Ugh. Dammit.

Anyway I couldn't. " I don't see how killing me helps Dhampirs." I bitched at Lissa. She just sighed. "I know." she answered,"Just listen to the reasons I want to help her, okay?" I was not sure if she didn't use a tiny bit of compulsion but I just nodded.

"Okay." She seemed relieved as she continued: "Well, for one because of Christian. Tasha is his only family. It kills me to see him suffer like that."

Yes, I felt pretty bad for her boyfriend, who was also a good friend of mine. His aunt Tasha raised him after his parents became Strigoi and were killed. And now even she had betrayed him. Poor Christian.

"And I know she only meant well. She did save a lot of Dhampirs, we have to give her that. But most importantly she is a pioneer with Moroi fighting. She has so much knowledge about spells and training methods! I can't let it go to waist. It might be the key for our surviving! She might be the key. But for that we have to learn from her and thats not possible if she's dead."

Great, just great! So now I was destroying our hope to defeat Strigoi? Lissa really knew how to make one feel good.

"And how is she supposed to help you when she is on the run?" I asked. Lissa winced at that. "I don't know...yet. But her knowledge won't die and we'll find a way to get in touch." I studied Lissa during her little speech and had the feeling she wasn't telling me everything.

"Spit ist out Lissa, there's something else bothering you, right?"

She sighed again. "Yes, there is. I just feel like her death is on my hands, because I'm going to be the one singing the paper. It's like playing god, you know. I decide if she lives or dies and everyone expects me to kill my former friend, but I can't!" She suddenly looked very small. "I know you hate her and you have every right to, but I can't kill her. That's just not me. Please Rose, I don't want Tashas blood on my hands."

She was almost crying now. I could see her dilemma. She wasn't allowed to show mercy because it would send the wrong signals to Queen-killers. But she really didn't want to sentence anyone for death. But I didn't want to agree to her crazy plan just yet. If there even was a plan.

And? And? What do you think? I know it's more introducing than anything else ;) Do you think Rose is going to help Lissa? Is my English okay? To me it sounds very school-like, but I can't speak or write any other way:/ Next chapter Dimitri makes his appearance:D