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So, I'm actually proud of myself here. I'm really inspired to write more of this story.
That's saying something. Hope you all enjoy.
Recap: In the last chapter Abe Mazur visited Rose to discuss Rose's trial.
I leaned in closer to him. "How are you getting me out of this one?"
Abe leaned in too. "We are going to bust you out." He whispered so quietly that I just barely heard, and it didn't click till I saw his face was serious.
"Your kidding me!" I raised my voice a few octaves high, then looked to Mikhail who was watching me. So I lowered it again. "Abe this is insane even for you. How are you going to pull that off?"
He kept his voice low when he answered, "How did you break out Victor Dashkov?"
Chapter 2: Imprisonment
My jaw dropped and I struggled to recompose myself.
"How do you know about that?" If I weren't behind bars I would probably be yelling and denying anything that comes out of his mouth. But what's the point now? I'm already locked up. Arguing wont help.
"Rose, you of all people should know my connections spread farther than those of most. And you really think you could hide such a stupid act from your own father?"
Connections. Its true. Abe was feared by even the most dangerous people in the world.. Zmey, the sly gang lord of the moroi world.
I sighed mentally. "Who are you going to use to do your dirty work this time?"
"Does it matter? I'm going to get you out Rose, that's all you have to worry about."
I could feel my bottled up anger beginning to spill. He is evading my question for a reason.
"Who Abe? Just answer the fucking question will you? Now isn't the time to hide things from me."
I saw Darius tense out of my peripherals and he grabbed Abe's arm and began to lead him from the room.
"Darius, hands off. Rose is stressed, she's not going to attack me through bars."
Darius let him go but wouldn't let him closer to me. "Rose is a murderer Ibrahim. Now she is yelling, swearing at you. I'm sorry Sir. But your no longer safe in this room."
I looked at Abe. I was immediately sorry for yelling. It was the darkness. Its all been left over from all the spirit Liss has been using. Except now I don't have any of her charmed jewelry to take off some of its
effects. I pushed hard on the darkness, forcing it away. "I'm calm now. I'm sorry. Let him talk to me, please."
Abe pushed passed Darius and stepped close enough to whisper into my ear. "What was that?"
I whispered back, "You cant use Liss."
I could tell he wanted to be stubborn and argue but instead he asked, "Why not?"
"Lissa has been using her spirit so much lately Zmey. Saving Dimitri, breaking out Victor, making her charms, using her compulsion, healing people after that rescue mission." I stopped there. I just confessed to
two things that could get Lissa into trouble, I don't want to confess to more.
Zmey didn't understand what all this spirit usage does to me. I don't think he could.
"So? What's one more time?"
"One more time? Abe, her and I have a bond. Every time she uses spirit, I'm the one who takes away the darkness that engulfs her! I'll go insane old man. I'll go mad. I'll become angry, and furious. I'll want to
hurt everyone. Its happened once before. I couldn't control anything…"
I broke off remembering the night Dimitri had pulled me away from Jesse I remember the blackness, that electric surge in me that forced me to want to kill Jesse. I was savage, I would have given anything to kill
everyone who had tortured Liss. I remember Dimitri took me to the cabin and he cleaned me up. One horrible night that turned into the greatest one ever. Then back to the worst after the academy was attacked.
Everything fell apart that night.
Abe pulled my attention from the passed. "Rose I'll do what I can, but I'm not making any promises. Breaking you out will be the last thing I'll do. Ill try everything else first. But Valissa is the greatest asset in a job
like this, and you know it. Plus, she's already agreed to helping at last cause."
"She did what?" I was so confused, I had been in Lissa's head more now than ever, but I don't know how I missed this. I don't remember seeing her agree to this. And if I had seen it I would have called her in for
a visit. I would have told Mikhail that I needed this, and he would have done it.
Abe chuckled to himself and left the room. Like that I was left alone in my cell.
I sat on my cot and slipped into Lissa's head. Her and Christian were in Lissa's room, sitting on the bed and they were leaning into a kiss.
As soon as I entered Lissa's mind I was gone. I'm happy her and Christian are back together, but why is it that the only thing that was able to do that is me being locked up in the slammer? Why does her life
have to be so much easier than mine? She can have a boyfriend, go to college and live like a normal person without being framed for murder, without having to constantly be alert or on guard. All she has to do is
act higher classed then she is, attend parties, and make everyone like her. And that isn't hard when you have spirit to make everyone like you more. But me? I have to take care of her. I have to keep her sane.
She wont need a guardian much longer now that Dimitri has sworn to be her loyal slave.
I was up, pacing in my cell. I felt like the walls were getting smaller. I walked to the back wall, thinking about how Christian looks at Lissa. He adores her. When he looks at her its like she is the only thing in the
room at times. How Adrian looks at me. How Dimitri used to look at me.
I stood there, facing the wall for what felt like hours. My mind was racing on everything that is happening.
Who killed the queen? Who could have hated her and killed her? I hated the Tatiana, but I wouldn't have killed her. I couldn't betray the guardians in that way. Killing her was the ultimate betrayal. A thousand
times worse than breaking out Victor. And I had a reason for breaking out Victor, I gathered information that could save the moroi from the strigoi. Victor.
Victor isn't in prison anymore. Could he have killed the queen? Victor was weak and brittle the last time I saw him. But that doesn't mean he couldn't have hired someone to do it for him. Getting me out of the way
could bring him closer to Liss. If he was closer to Liss he would use her to heal him. He would do anything he could to stay young, and healthy. But I don't think he would be so quick to act.
Files were taken from the alchemists while Victor, Liss, Adrian, Eddie, and I were in Vegas. But we kept Victor on high alert. He didn't call anyone to tell them to take those files. Files the queen knew about. If she
didn't know about them she wouldn't have sent me that letter from Ambrose to help get out of this situation. To help Lissa get the positions se deserves on the court jury.
I have got to stop thinking so much. "Mikhail!" Got to distract myself some how. Jail is getting to me already.
"Yes Rose?" he turned toward me, and I was at the bars in a flash. I waved my hand to get him to come closer. And when he did I whispered into his ear, noting that Darius had got into a stance that was more
alert and ready.
"Mikhail, do you think I did it?"
Mikhail shot me a curious glance. But answered anyway. "Rose, honestly I don't think there is enough evidence to be taking you to trial. I mean, its like Mazur says. Someone could have worn gloves, and because
it was your stake, you would have been the only lead."
I was impatient. "But do you think I did it Mikhail? Do you think it was me who killed Ta- the queen?"
He let out a long drawn out sigh, "No Rose. You always wanted to save lives, you left the academy to go and kill strigoi. By doing so, you saved many lives. Your crazy, and out there. I'm sure you have done
things that would have made strigoi look nice. But this, I don't see you capable of this. Your not a murderer."
It warmed my heart to know that someone believed me. In this moment I was happy that Mikhail caught in the file room. He's done so much for me, and I know I owe him a lot. For now, I turned around back to
my depressing cell. I laid in my bed trying to clear my mind of my new dramas in life. The anger was still there, I could feel it lingering just as I could Lissa's happy emotions. I felt her happiness. Letting that
comfort me. At least my best friend was happy. They come first. Those words were drilled into me so many times as I grew up to become a guardian. And now they were the only thing here to calm me into sleep.
This one is a little long. Oops! . I started writing and just couldn't stop.
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