I didn't know what happened. I felt like I had just had cold water thrown in my face. I was amazingly alert and I quickly looked around myself.I was in a small room with wooden walls I was on a small bed with white sheets. The last thing I remembered was...NO! Roza was dead. The Stirgoi in me had taken over completely and killed her but wait no I was supposed to be dead to. I remember the stake going through me it shattered the Stirgoi then I died. But then why was I alive. I got out of the bed and stood up. I was wearing a pair of sweatpants but I didn't have a shirt on so I could see the obviously huge bandage on my chest. There was I long mirror in the corner of the room so I walked over to it to look at any other damage I had. When I looked in the mirror I almost jumped I was so surprised. My original skin color was back my eyes were brown again. I cautiously opened my mouth expecting the fangs but...they were gone. I wasn't a stirgoi at all. I touched my canines checking them just encase in complete amazement.

"Your dhampir again." A voice said. I hadn't even heard the door open I was so surprised especially when I turned to see who it was. Vasilisa Dragomir. My past charge. "Princess, how are you?" She looked the same she had in high school except that she looked older and a bit tired. That's what my Stirgoi reign had did to everyone it aged them. As a Stirgoi I had been merciless we destroyed everyone and everything that got in our way. Now looking at the princess I could see up close what true destruction I had created.

"Well I guess I'm okay for a girl who just lost one of her best friend." She sounded bitter and I could tell some of it was directed toward me but only some of it the rest of it was directed to an entirely different place. Where that was I didn't know.

"I'm sorry princess but where is Roza."

"Dimitri you don't remember. You'r were the one that killed her."

"What? No if I'm alive she should be to because she killed me I remember. I remember the stake going straight through me I remember everything."

"Yeah well we got there to late to save both of you. I tried to save her but it was to late. Even Adrian tried to help me we just- just couldn't do anything." She was trying her hardest to be strong but tears were starting to leak down her porcelain face. Her eyes had already been red and puffy but soon her eyes would be bloodshot.

"What exactly do you mean Princess. I mean she can't be dead. She can't."

"I'm sorry Dimitri its hurting me just as much. I understand."

"No. You don't. You can't because you weren't the one that killed her. I was."

"Dimitri please calm down okay. We are leaving tomorrow morning and you have to come back to Pennsylvania."

"Why?"

"I don't know how to tell you actually it's not my place to tell you at all so you have to wait till we get back. Now if you'll excuse me my guardians got pretty beat up by your men so I need to treat them."

"Princess."

"Yes?" She looked determined to go help her men.

"Never "

"Goodnight."

What was bothering me was if its true that my Roza was...then wouldn't spirit affect her worse but at the moment it seemed best to leave her to heal and I wanted to be alone anyway.

When she left the room she closed the door leaving me in the room by myself. I thought that's what I wanted but as soon as she left reality set in and I felt empty and hallow. My Roza. It was my fault.

I didn't even remember going back to sleep but the next morning I woke up on the same bed I had the past night. I could see the sunlight pouring in throw the thin yellow curtains that covered the window. I got out of the bed and saw a pair of clothes on the chair in the corner of the room, on them were a note;

After you get dressed come to the kitchen for breakfast.
Lissa

I followed her directions getting dressed then finding my way to the kitchen which wasn't to hard. In the kitchen sat the princess, Adrian, Lord Ozera and a little blond with Ozera's blue eyes she looked two.

"Good morning." I said politely.

"Good morning." Christian said.

"What's so good about this morning. My fiance just died trying to kill you her 'lost love'" Adrian said. By the gleam in his eyes I could tell he'd been drinking but that didn't make what he said hurt any less.

I looked toward Lissa she had a glazed look in her eyes as though she were in another world but she seemed to seriously be thinking about something.

"Mommy is remembering." said the little girl she was perched on her mother's lap.

"Lissa and Rose had been able to find out that she could connect to minds and see throw them mind or see their memories; the connection was easiest for her to make with Rose. Right now she's probing to see if she can still connect to Rose even though she's in the other world since she can touch the dead." Christian explained.

The princess took a deep breath and the look disappeared.

"What happened this time?" Adrian asked anxiously.

"The same as last time. I can feel her but we can't communicate and I know she knows I'm there. I can feel it she wants to communicate but something is holding her back."

"Something like what?" I asked out of curiosity.

The princess looked at me startled then said,"I'm not sure. Whatever it is it's really strong."

"Could it be another ghost?"

"Possibly but they would have too be really powerful or it's more than one."

"Well who would have a reason to want to keep her away?"

"The dead hate the living. They have an amazing loathe toward us because we're living and they can't and anytime they can prevent us from getting to something we really want they'll interfere."

"Hmm well Lissa it's ten we need to get going the plane leaves in an hour and a half and the hi-way is going to be packed." Christian interjected.

"I doubt they'd actually leave us. Tatiana would blow up but alright let's get going everyone. Adrian put the bottle down. You haven't drunk like this in five years."

"I also haven't been Rose-less in five years." he said picking the vodka back up giving me the evil eye. If it wasn't already bad enough that I blamed myself but the self-righteous drunk Moroi was condemning me too.

While the princess's guardians and probably Adrian's put their luggage in the van we would be traveling in I had a muffin that had been in the basket on the corner. Really I was picking at it and by the time we were leaving the poor muffin was a mess of crumbs covering the napkin it had been on.

We ended up riding in three vans one for us and two guardians then one van behind us and the other in front both filled with Guardians. The ride to the airport took most of the time only giving us ten minutes to get to the plane. The private jet we were riding in was in one of the first terminals so we weren't late. Once we were settled on the plane everyone remained as quiet as they had been on the car ride and it passed just as slowly.

Finally we arrived at court after about four and a half hours. When we landed there was a group waiting consiting of Queen Tatiana, Tasha Ozera, Janine Hathaway and a little boy that looked about maybe four years old gripping Janine's hand. He had Roza's same tan completion and dark hair but the eyes...they came from somewhere else that I knew I just couldn't remember at the moment. Then it hit me...no its impossible.

"Dimitri you know everyone here but little Andrian Zander Hathaway. He's four and Dimitri he's yours..."


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