Chapter 1

Okay, so I love this series and cannot wait for the last book, I was thinking about what could possibly happen. This is just my version (fan) of what COULD happen.

This is the end, the end of Rose Hathaway. I am going to die soon, and for once, I didn't do it, I didn't kill the queen. And yet here I am sitting in this cell alone, being charged for the crime. I guess it's karma coming back to get me for all the wrong things I have done it the past. But as I sit here I am not worried about me and what is to come. I am worried about the only person I worry about all the time, my best friend, Lissa. What is going to happened to her, we are shadowed kissed, I keep her sane. What will happen to her after I'm gone? And at this point there is nothing I can do just sitting here, I need help.

I sit up from the cot abruptly when I here walking down the hall. I jump up to see who it is and my heart stops when I see who it was, Dimitri. I thought I was going crazy, why is he coming to see me? I had no time to think about that before he was standing in front of my cell. The cell that he was in only a short time before. It seemed like a lifetime as he just stood there, staring at me. I could not handle it anymore.

"Are you just going to stand there, or do you have something to say?"

His face was emotionless, hiding anything that would give away his reason for being here. Then he spoke, but not to me, to my two guardians that were always at my cell, to make sure I didn't try to escape. I don't blame them for being over protective with my history and all. "Can you give us a few minutes?" They look at each other and nodded. "We will be down the hall, make it quick." Said the shorter of the two. Dimitri nodded and watched them walk down the hall. When they were out of site he turned back to me.

"Rose-" His gorgeous brown eye staring me down and the warm Russian accent filling me with warmth making me almost forget where I was.

"How the hell did you get in here, Lissa has been trying to get in here all day and they won't let her in, Adrian too, and he is the queens nephew, why you?"

"I have my ways" Saying with almost a little smirk on his face, but then he caught himself.

"Okay, well what do you want?" I snapped.

"I needed to see you and make sure you're okay." When he said that, it gave me hope that he still might love me. But then it brought me back to the time we talked recently in the church and he told me that love fades and I snapped right back out of it.

"Well, I am still alive, for now, not that you care."

"Rose, stop-" He plead.

"No you stop. Stop pretending that you don't have feelings for me still, stop pretending that you don't still love me. I know you do because why would you try and protect me from the queen's guardians."

"Roza-" My nickname he gave me, that's when I knew, he stilled love me. "I will do anything for you"

"You will do anything to help me, but you don't have feeling for me? That makes perfect sense; you know how much I have done for you?"

"Rose, you know I can never repay what you did for me, but what about all the horrible things I did to you in Russia? I could have killed you. It makes me sick just think about it, you should hate me. "

"Will you just get it through you thick skull, I don't hate you, I love you Dimitri, I always have and I always will and there is nothing you can do to change that."

Even though I would do anything to fix this right now I knew there is something more important that needed to happen. The note in my back packet from the queen about Lissa's possible half-sibling, felt like a fifty pound weight. I needed to show it to Dimitri, maybe he would know what to do.

"Just forget it, you said you would do anything for me, is that true?"

"Of course." That is when I handed him the note.

He read the note, he expression changed from anger to wonder.

"What do you need me to do?" He said without hesitance.

"No matter how senseless or dangerous it may be?

He didn't say anything at first and I knew that could not be good. So I pull the card I knew he could not refuse. I had to help Lissa, if it was the last thing I could do before I died, I had to do it.

"You owe me, you owe Lissa." I kind of felt guilty for using that but it had to be done.

"Okay I'm in, what needs to be done." Eying me weary.

"I need to get out of here and take care of this on my own, if it's the last thing I do. Lissa has every right to be a part of that council; I have to this for her. So I need you to get me the hell out of here."

"No-" He said with resentful tone to his voice

"What the hell do you mean by no, you just told me that you do anything?" I was livid, how can he just tell me no.

"Let me finish Rose, first no, I 'm not going to let you go alone, I'm coming with you, and second, no you're not going to die, I won't let them."