Thanks to everyone that read the prologue. I'll try to update as fast as I can. And to answer read4evr question, no Clary's siblings aren't at the academy with her.

Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1-Arriving back home

"See you Charlie." Sydney says to me while still laughing at a joke I just said. She drops me off about a mile or two away from the academy, just off the highway because she can't come to the academy.

"Bye Sydney." Sydney is an old friend of mine. I've known her ever since we were kids. She's an alchemist. That means she's a human who knows about us and the rest of the supernatural world. It also means she knows about the Moroi and Dhampirs. The alchemists don't particularly like the Moroi and Dhampirs. Calling them 'evil creatures of the night' and other things like that and I understand that. I used to do the same. But not anymore. Since I came to the academy, I have gained a lot of respect for the Dhampirs and Moroi. Well... some of the Moroi anyway. The alchemists are different with us. More friendly. More trusting. They always have been.

There are two divisions of the alchemists. First, there's the Moroi and Dhampir division. They are the alchemists who deal with the Dhampir and Moroi and help them cover up the Strigoi and their kills from the rest of the world. That's the lower ranks of the alchemists. No one tells them about us, the Hunters and Elementals, in fear that they would accidentally let something slip to a Moroi or a Dhampir. And if they knew the alchemists were helping us they would turn against the alchemists in a second and most likely hunt them down as well. The second division is the supernatural division. That's the one that deals with us. Only the best alchemists get promoted to the supernatural division. They help us cover our messes. And there's quite a bit of them. Let's just say we're not the most discreet when we're hunting. Also, they help us hide from the humans, Dhampirs and Moroi and in return we hunt cases they have found for us. They usually only go to certain Hunters and Elementals with these cases. The best of the best. And I'm lucky enough to be one of them. The cases are usually extremely tough and more often than not land me in a heap of trouble with the government. Luckily for me though, the alchemists take care of it quickly. We have a good relationship with the alchemists, with it even going as far as having a few as members on our council.

The Dhampirs and Moroi wait until they are old enough and nearly at the end of graduation to tell the Dhampirs about the alchemists and most Moroi never get told. But as children, we are told about the alchemists and everything else in our world straight away. We grow up aware of the dangers in the world whereas the Dhampirs are protected from the truth until they are on the verge of going out into the real world, not fully prepared for the danger. Doing this makes us stronger and them weaker, and as a result we understand the world better. This prepares us for what's out there so we won't hesitate in a real life situation like a hunt.

Sydney drives off in her brand new sleek black 2007 BMW M6 Convertible Neiman Marcus as I wave goodbye to her. God, I love that car! The last thing I see of her is her layered dark-golden hair flowing freely in the wind as she speeds off down the road. Now I have to walk all the way to the academy. It would only take me about 30 seconds to get there with my extra speed, privilege of being a Hunter, but I need the time to think. Mainly about what I'm going to say to everyone about my abrupt disappearance. When I left I didn't have time to tell anyone but Alberta. And even then it was only because she caught me walking to the gate with a bag. It was a last minute thing. She said she'd tell everyone that I'd gone for a while and would be back soon. And seeing that Lissa has blocked me out of her head ever since Alberta told her about my little 'holiday', I'm guessing she's pissed. Most likely, I'll also get a few lectures about leaving from Dimitri, Kirova and a few others. Great...

10 minutes away from the gate, and it's 2 in the morning (Moroi time so it's like 2pm). It's chilly outside so I tug my black leather jacket harder against me. The winds blowing quietly . Then all of a sudden, my senses are on overload. Something's here... Vampire! I can sense it. Keep walking. Don't draw attention to yourself. Act natural Clary.

There's only one of them here. No problem. I walk for a while longer, waiting for the vampire to make the first move when I suddenly hear an increasing sound of leaves rustling and twigs snapping coming in my direction. A presence behind me. I can feel it. That's when my reflexes kick in. As the vampire lunges for me from behind, I quickly turn around and pull my black katana sword, hidden under my jacket, from it's sheath. I quickly check the vampire to see if I know her and I don't. She goes for my neck and... SLASH! Her head falls off her shoulders and onto the road.

Decapitation is the only way to kill a vampire. Dropping to the floor, I check her for anything useful. A habit I developed over the years on the road. Nothing. She must be a newbie. She looks young. No older than 16. What a waste. I hate it when people are turned into vampires, but I hate it even more when they are young. Why do I hate this? Because they miss out on so much more than a vampire turned at the age of 30. She probably wasn't turned that long ago either. A couple of months I reckon. How do I know this? Because her actions were clumsy. An older vampire would of waited and made sure I didn't hear them coming even though I would of known because I would of sensed it. But the vampire wouldn't know that. From my senses, I can tell there's another five on the way. They can't be further than a week away.

Every time I kill a member of a species, my senses are increased for a few hours for that particular species. They'll be here soon. But why here? Last time I checked vampires weren't bothered about Moroi and Dhampirs. Strange. Unless there here for us. But no one knows that we are here. Hopefully.

I can sense all species. I just know they are there. It's a part of my spirit abilities and only the most powerful spirit users have the ability to use it. And yes, I am a spirit user just like Lissa and Adrian, but I'm also a fire user like Christian.

There are 32 types of hunters, but only 19 are still alive. I'm a Psi-Drakon, which means I have an Elemental parent who has Spirit and Fire. In my case, it's my mum. Because I'm a Psi-Drakon I can control and ride dragons, have a natural immunity to fire and can withstand high temperatures just like a Drakon can. I can also use the ability to communicate telepathically, telekinesis, have a natural immunity to compulsion, can read auras, dream-walk, can look into the past, present and future, visions, heal and I can also overtake and control a person's mind. I can do all these because I am an extremely and incredibly powerful spirit user. And because I'm a Psi-Drakon, I can mentally control fire.

I look at the vampires body and severed head. It's a shame she was turned. She was pretty with her blonde hair that reaches up to her shoulders, green eyes and pale skin. She reminds me of Lissa. I hope she'll forgive me.

Someone will find her if I leave her here. I need to hide her. Carrying her surprisingly light body, I search for a safe place to hide her until I can sort out a more permanent solution. For about 5 minutes I search for a place until I stumble upon a cave, perfectly hidden from sight and far enough away that no one will stumble upon it accidentally. A cave! Perfect!

I look at her limp body in my arms once again before hiding her in the cave. Her mouth is still open so I can see a full set of fangs. Unlike Moroi and Strigoi, a vampires fangs are hidden above their set of normal teeth. They are retractable and deadly. While the Moroi and Strigoi just have two fangs, vampires have a whole set of them along with a set of normal teeth. I hide her body and head in the cave behind some rocks for extra cover. Now I should get back to the academy. Jogging to the gate, which is a full blown sprint for a Dhampir, I reach it and are allowed inside once they see it's me. The guardian on duty, Yuri I believe is his name, then quickly assesses me and for some reason his eyes go wide when he sees me.

"Why have you got blood on you Rose?" Blood? I look down and can see that every single one of my clothes that I'm wearing is covered in dark blood. And vampire blood at that!

Shit. What do I do? Come on Charlie, think. We both stand there staring at each other while deep in thought, frozen to the spot. I wonder what he's thinking about. I'm sure a little mind reading will help. I concentrate on Yuri's mind until I can hear his thoughts.

What the hell happened to her? Why is she covered in blood? Who's blood is it? I know it's not hers because she hasn't got any injuries, so who's is it? I better call Kirova. She needs to know about this. She's probably gonna flip.

What? No, he can't call Kirova. I don't want to have to explain this all to her because I'll never be able to get out of it. What am I going to do? Think Charlie. Wait... I know. I'll use compulsion on him. Yeah. I'll just compell him. Slowly I walk up to Yuri and I can also still hear his thoughts.

Why is she walking up to me? What's with that look on her face? Did she kill someone? That must be where the blood came from. Is she gonna kill me? Oh God. No. I won't let her kill anyone else.

Kill him? He thinks I'm going to kill him? Why would I kill him? Well I don't think the fact that I am covered in blood helps. And I did just kill someone, even though it was an immortal vampire. I'd think exactly the same thing if I were in his position. Who could blame him?

I struggle to stop a giant grin spreading across my face while hearing his thoughts. I look into his eyes and he is forced to meet my gaze. He can't move now. I have him right where I want him. I focus on my words and say,

"You are going to forget this ever happened, you didn't see me here. Nothing happened. But before that you will delete all the camera footage from the past 10 minutes. You will go back to work now."

, and with that he walks away and does as I told him. I love compulsion. It helps so much. First I check that he is deleting the footage and the minute I see him doing what I told him I quickly run outside the schools grounds and into the beautiful green forest so Yuri and no one else can see me. I then quickly strip down to my black lace underwear under the cover of the green trees and put on some clean blood free clothes. I toss my blood drenched clothes into a pile and set them on fire, quickly burning them and turning them into black ash. I must be careful not to create too much smoke as it could alert someone that I'm hear and then questions will be asked. Questions I don't want to answer. Thankfully there isn't much and it's light grey so no one will notice. Then, I run back to the academy gate, slowing down the closer I get. Don't want to explain why I can run so much faster than the average dhampir now do I. Yuri notices me coming down and opens the gate to allow me in for the second time today. But he doesn't know that. Or remembers.

"Rose, you're back. Where have you been?" He says with a friendly smile. Good, he doesn't remember anything. I always liked Yuri. He wasn't like other guardians. He's easier to talk to and is fun to hang out with. And he also would get me out of trouble by covering for me whenever he needed to. And that happened quite often.

"I was in New York. An old friend had some problems that she needed help with." Technically it's the truth. Sydney is a friend and she did need my help. I just didn't tell him what help she needed.

"Well, it's good to see you again. I'm surprised Alberta let you go for a whole week." Yeah, so am I. I'll have to find out why later.

"Yeah, me too."

"Right, well I've got to get back to work."

"Ok. See you later Yuri."

"Bye Rose." Walking off into the direction of Alberta's office, I fumble in my bag for the paperwork which will, hopefully, allow me to get away with being gone a whole week. Rose. I never have got used to people calling me that. Everyone who knows who I really am call me by my real name Clary or by my nickname Charlie. Only when there's no Dhampirs or Moroi around that is. People only ever call me Clary when it's serious anyway. I prefer Rose to my real middle name, Rosemarie. Well actually I prefer Roza, Dimitri's nickname for me. Every time I hear him say it, his voice is filled with so much affection and love. Just hearing him say that name makes me weak in the knees.

Arriving outside Alberta's office, I knock on the large wooden door. No answer. I try to open it only to find that it's locked. Great. Just fucking great. Where is she? Where should I go? Maybe I should try her dorm.

Quickly, I arrive at the guardian's dorms. I can sense which one is Alberta's. Walking down the hallway quietly, I walk up to her door and knock three times. Knock, knock, knock.

"Wait a minute!" I hear her shouting on the other side. She opens the door, all ready for work as a guardian, dressed in black and white, the guardians uniform. When she notices it's me, she pulls me inside and hugs me.

"Rose, you're back. Finally." She says while laughing.

"Hey Alberta." I love Alberta. She's been like a mother to me ever since I got here.

"Where have you been?" She steps aside and ushers me into one of her comfortable chairs. And when I say comfortable, I mean comfortable. Sitting in this chair feels like heaven. It's so soft, I could just sink into it.

"New York."

"Well it's good you're back. The others aren't happy you left by the way." Yeah. I thought they wouldn't be.

"Yeah, I know. With the bond and all." I saw that they weren't happy when I got pulled into Lissa's head when Alberta told them I had left for a while.

"Yeah well, because of your little 'holiday' I have had everybody barking down my ear all week trying to find out where you went."

"When you mean everyone, who exactly do you mean?" I say anxiously. Please don't say Kirova, I don't want to deal with her just yet.

"Well, there was Headmistress Kirova," I sigh loudly at that and Alberta smiles at me affectionately. "And Princess Vasilisa, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Mason Ashford, you know the ones." I'm not surprised. I knew they'd be pissed.

"But the one I didn't expect was Belikov. He has been the worst by far." Wait, Dimitri...

"Why what did he do?"

"What didn't he do?" What the hell has happened. This doesn't sound like Dimitri to me. Dimitri is controlled and careful.

"The second he found out you had left, he came right up to me and demanded me to tell him where you were. And when I wouldn't tell him he went to Kirova and did the same thing. He even went as far as to threaten some novices." What? That doesn't sound like something Dimitri would do at all.

"He did what? Who did he threaten?"

"Four novices. I think they were Eddie Castille, Shane Hathaway, Jacob Black and Tyler Black. He said that they knew something because they weren't worried at all when they found out you left. They knew didn't they?"

"Yes." They must of figured it out when I left seeing as my demonology books were missing from my room. Only the other Hunters and Elementals in the school know where they are.

"Yeah, well, Belikov threatened them so they would tell him where you were once they said they knew where you were but they didn't back down. So he lunged for Eddie but he simply blocked him like it was nothing." I can tell Alberta is impressed. Showing off your Hunter skills are we Eddie? He's going to get caught if he's not careful. But I do hope someone recorded it. I'm sure all the novices found it hilarious.

"We all had to restrain him but he just fought us off. But the four novices he threatened just took him down easily. Then we sent him away for a bit. After that, he then broke in to my office and stole your file to find out where you'd been. But then when he read your file and found out that I didn't know where you were, all hell broke loose. He came up to me trying to attack me at the fact I had let you go without knowing where you were going." Why would he do that? He's making it obvious. I thought we couldn't be together. Why would he show to everyone that our relationship is obviously more than a student-teacher relationship?

"Then what?" I can't help but ask. I need to know.

"Well he's been in his dorm for the past two days. We have sort of locked him up there but I know he's gotten out a few times and went to your dorm room for some reason." She knows, everyone knows. Crap. He'll lose his job over this. I can't let that happen to him. What does Alberta think? I'll just read her mind. I love being able to do this.

It's obvious that he loves her. And that she loves him. But I'll keep it a secret for Rose. That's why no one knows about his little escapes.

She hasn't told anyone. Maybe he won't lose his job. Or get thrown into prison for having a relationship with a minor and his student.

"Everybody has been trying to phone you for days. Why haven't you answered?" Her tone becomes serious now.

"I broke my phone." I say with a hint of annoyance in my tone. And I did break it. A fucking cab ran over it when I dropped it.

"Of course you did." She says whilst sighing with a smile on her face.

"Kirova wants to see you by the way."

"When?" I say with an annoyed tone at the bitch, Kirova. Can't she let me have some time first. She probably wants to see me straight away doesn't she.

"Now." Of course she does. Just as I thought.

"But I'll say that you can see her in the morning. Right now you should get some rest." Yes. Some sleep at last.

"Thank you." I say with a smile. She pushes me out and I go straight to my dorm. Wanting to fall asleep in the familiarity of my hard and uncomfortable but soothing bed. I walk up to my dorm room slowly. Tiredness catching up with me. As a hunter the most I need is 4 hours of sleep but I have barely had that. All we have been doing is hunting. I'm fighting the urge to fall asleep right now on the floor but I'd prefer my bed. Slowly, I walk up to the door and the tiredness goes. Adrenalin going through me as I sense a dhampir behind my door. Who is in my dorm? But the second I think that, I know the answer... Dimitri... Alberta had told me he'd been escaping to my dorm. I excitedly open up the door and the scene in front of me melts my heart. Dimitri lying in my bed sleeping, only in his boxers. His other clothes on top of my chair. Holding a picture of me to his muscular chest. He looks so innocent like that and also incredibly sexy.

"Roza." That name again. Oh how I love that name. Shame it's not mine. I decide to wake him up seeing as he's been so worried about me being gone.

"Dimitri." I slowly shake his shoulder. He turns slowly opening his chocolate brown eyes. When he realises who it is that woke him up he pulls me down to him and kisses me passionately. I respond immediately. His lips are so soft against mine. The kiss sends electricity and warmth all the way through my body. He quickly changes the kiss into one of urgency. Pouring all our unspoken emotions into that one action. Love for one another, need, lust, everything. His hands quickly move up and down my body possessively.

"Oh Roza." He moans against me as I bite down on his bottom lip lightly.

That name brings me out of my haze. He called me Roza. I love that name so much. But every time he says it, I'm just reminded that he doesn't know who I really am. That Rose Hathaway, the girl he loves, doesn't really exist. If he knew the truth about me he wouldn't love me. I'm sure of it. How can he? He's a dhampir and I'm a Hunter. His kind hunts mine down and kill us. We could never be together. I know that, but he doesn't. Which means I'm the one that has to stop this.

"We can't do this." I say to him while pulling back. The look on his face when I say those words nearly kills me.

"What, why not?" His voice filled with pain and sadness.

"You know why not Dimitri." I need him to understand. I can't tell him the truth.

"I don't care about that anymore. You being gone has made me realise that I never want to give you up and I'll do anything to get you to stay with me. And I know I don't deserve it after how I've treated you, but Roza I love you." He loves me. And I love him. But it's because I love him that I have to do this.

"Dimitri, we can't be together."

"Why?"

"WHY! Because we can't be together. You're my teacher. If people found out about us they'd arrest you. And we are both going to be Lissa's guardian. We have to be able to focus on her and not each other. If she dies because we were to busy saving each other, I'd never forgive myself." I say with tears in my eyes. It breaks my heart knowing I can't be with him. And if Lissa is hurt because of our love for each other I don't know what I'd do. Even though I won't be here after graduation to be her guardian.

"That won't happen." He pleads with me to change my mind.

"Yes it will. You know it will."

"So what if it does? It doesn't matter if we're not together. I will always protect you."

"Dimitri, no. You should go."

"Wait, Roza, listen to me."

"No.."

"Roza, I love you."

"Well, I don't love you!" I had to say it. It was the only way I could think of to get him to stop.

The second those words come out of my mouth, his whole expression changed. All of his emotions poured out then and there. Tears were falling down his cheeks uncontrollably but he stayed silent. He didn't say anything but he didn't need to. His eyes told me everything. I can't see him like this. My strong Dimitri. Turned into this because of me. I've broken his heart.

"You should go." Still looking into my eyes looking for a sign of hope. I hide my feelings from him. What is he thinking? Maybe I should check. NO! If I do that I'll end up taking it back. But my curiosity gets the better of me.

She doesn't love me. This is all my fault. I pushed her away once too many and this is the result. Now, she doesn't love me. What am I going to do? She is everything to me, she's my life. The one thing I care about more than anything. I'd die for her.

That's it. I can't listen to his thoughts any longer. Building up the only control I have left, I tell him to leave. And he does. Slowly. Putting on his clothes because he fell asleep in his underwear, he leaves my room without even looking at me. Or maybe he did. I just didn't have the nerve to look his way because I knew I would see his aura and I would see all the heartbreak and pain he was feeling. And I knew that if I saw that I would take it all back.

This is how it has to be. We can't be together. We are supposed to be enemies but he doesn't know that. But I'll have to see him all the time. Especially in our training sessions. What am I going to do?