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I had been locked in my musty dark cell for two weeks without even so much as a visit from any of my so-called friends. To a certain extent, I was glad that they were not involving themselves with me. Lissa and Eddie's reputations would be reduced to nothing if it were to come out that I broke the most wanted criminal…well now I am assuming he's the second most wanted, but even still, I did it with their help. Of course that was all a sad attempt to get MY Dimitri back their last good run was wasted as far as I was concerned. I hadn't gotten my Dimitri back; I had gotten some terrible personality in his body.

On the other hand, I was royally pissed that not one of my friends had come to see me. I was stuck in a cell that was exactly five feet wide on both sides. I had a little, and I do mean little cot with a mattress full of holes that barely covered the thick iron bars. When I had first gotten to this cell, I noticed that it smelled of various body fluids. After some time and a training of my brain I was able to coax myself to at least sit on it, sleeping on it took a little more time, mainly after I had deprived myself of sleep for the entire first week. Don't think for a second though that I didn't demand another mattress saying that this was unhygienic but I soon realized-with the help of my surroundings-that I was and Accused murder/traitor I didn't have the right to demand a new mattress. Other luxuries like socks and clean clothes were not mandatory and it was clear that they had only wanted to give me the bare minimum. This did nothing to give me hope. I had seen them treat Victor better than this and he was actually guilty with more that three eyewitnesses. They might as well have convicted me themselves.

"Hathaway you have a visitor" I heard one of the guards yell down the stairs. "Twenty minutes" I heard him say to whoever my visitor was.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear…or something like that but the point was someone had decided I was worthy of their presence.

"Roza…" I heard the voice and instantly regretted complaining, not only did I not want to see him I didn't want him to see me. Not because I was spending, what mite actually be my last days alive in a cell but because I looked like I had actually given up on life. To a certain extent I had, this might not have been a big deal for someone else but I felt that I had something to prove and giving up after only two weeks was showing weakness. That wasn't the way he was suppose to see me.

"Why…why are you here?" I stuttered trying and failing to avoid his gaze. It was a little harder considering that I was in an island. Bars served as all for of my walls there were no bricks anywhere near me. I had been but here as a safety precaution so they could make sure I didn't hurt myself but I thought that it was just for the sake of being in an open museum. I could actually picture the headlines. "Step Right up and see the amazingly dangerous traitor. Pay an extra 10 dollars and you can see how she goes to the bathroom."

"Rose?" the sultry Russian voice questioned again, the way he drug it out made me think that he was pleading with me to acknowledge him in some other way than I had already.

"What…are you doing here?" backing towards the furthest corner of my cell keeping my eyes locked on his as he walked around the bars to where I thought I had found refuge.

"Our positions seemed to have changed." he said. Had this been a lesser accusation I would have made a smart-ass comment and laughed at his expression. However, he was right things were opposite in a way. I was now in the cell wanting my distance from my Russian angel, my fallen angel. He had been defeated and to my understanding, gods don't fall. He was still above me though especially at this moment and yet I could see the look in his eyes telling me he thought otherwise.

"They have, but see I'm not avoiding you because I don't love you, I'm avoiding you because you don't love me." I said finding the courage to speak while moving away from him.

"That's not why I'm here." he was now holding on to the bars trying to will me to understand where he was coming from.

"Of course not, nothing good comes to a traitor."

"You didn't do it." he was snapping now.

"I know that Dimitri but do you think that they care, did you not hear what I said when they were dragging me from the courtroom? I know that they did and they made no attempts to deny it."

"Roza please listen to me, I know that you didn't do it because I followed you, when you left the chapel" had he really just said that. "I followed you to your room and then I followed you when you were walking around. I wanted to…"

"To what?" I asked forgetting that he had just told me he had been following me for a full four hours or more.

"That doesn't matter now."

"Dimitri, if you have something to say to me then say it now, because you know as well as I do that tomorrow is non existent only the past and present are real. Everyone believes that I killed the queen because of my spineless threats but that was me trying to make room for other problems in my mind. At the time you were the biggest one." I was defeated but I had to tell him the truth. "Since you're clearly the one with the free will, will you listen to my side of what happened in Siberia?"

"That's not important Rose."

"It is though, you keep punishing yourself for something and you have no real idea how it effected me only how you think I should have reacted."

"What do you mean…?"

"Ten minutes Belikov, it's almost meal time." the guard yelled down the stairs.

"it's to long of a story to tell you right now…but I will tell you, if you want but there had to have been a reason you came to see me."

"I wanted to make sure you were okay."

"I'm fine."

"Physically or emotionally?" I think the question took us both by surprise I hadn't been expecting him to ask me such a soul-revealing question and he now looked as if he wished he hadn't. However, something behind that was curiosity he really wanted to know now that he had asked.

"Physically, emotionally and mentally, I think that I might be…completely…gone" halfway through the sentence I had an idea, it was a long shot but it was all I had at the moment…I had to attack this from every angle possible.

"What's wrong?" he asked letting his curiosity completely take over his reluctance to be too personal with me.

I hadn't known weather he meant why I wasn't all there or why I sounded like I had an awakening-no pun intended-in the middle of the sentence. I answered to the later. "You have to get my mother and father down here…I know that no one wants to see me but…"

"what are you talking about rose, your were the one that said you didn't want to see us, you actually had them hand deliver us letters telling us that you didn't want to be seen. There were some pretty harsh things in the letters but they had been trying to see you since you left the courtroom two weeks ago." he said looking confused.

"But…they won't even let me had toilet paper Dimitri let alone a pen, how was I supposed to write a letter to all of you guys." I was furious but my mind made a mental not that I had just told Dimitri that I didn't wipe on a regular basis. He's been here rose, he knows that already. I had to tell myself.

"Well who else would write-"

"Well I'm guessing that whoever did this is connected to Tatiana's murder and wants to keep me isolated. Almost helpless, at least they know who the hell their messing with, of course breaking into a prison was easier than breaking out but I won't have to…" I had begun to talk to myself trying to add up any more clues that I had.

"Rose?"

"Get Janine and Abe down here, did you tell the others that you were coming?"

"No rose like I said you said some very hurtful things in those letters we want to help you but we aren't exactly talking at the moment. None of us Christian and lissa aren't together anymore and Eddie has distanced himself from everyone."

"oh, well don't tell them, let them stay the way they are, there's a reason whoever did this wanted everyone isolated but we have to ride with it until that reason is clear, thank you so much for coming to see me Dimitri."

"What are you up to rose?" he asked wary.

"Just trust me when I say I have a plan, which isn't much but you have to think one plan can branch into 6 so just tell me you trust me."

"I…"

"That's all I need to hear from you right now, I don't care if you love me or not right now I can handle tat later, I want you to tell me you trust me."

"I…trust you rose" he said reluctantly.

"You don't mean it yet but you will, I have kept everyone of my promises to you except one but I corrected my mistake and so I'm going to make one more promise…this case will not end me, and I have proven I am not above breaking both moroi and human laws to get what I need. I promise you that Dimitri, I will never stop fighting they can do what they want to me but they will be reminded of whose life their screwing up. Don't worry, you can help but don't worry there's no time."

"You can't keep that promise Rose."

"I have to; promises to you seem to be the only thing that I can keep." I said finally admitting why it hurt so much to be around him, not because he didn't love me but because I know that even if he despised me I would choose him over every other person in my life and that scared me. "Please get my parents to see me…I'll explain everything soon."

"I'll do my best Rose, be well." with that he turned to walk back up the stairs my eyes following his rust colored duster as it flowed behind him…The fallen avenger…I like that more than I like Russian god. Although as a god, he was closer to me than he is now. Ironic.

Okay I decided that I have to say what was actually on my mind after reading Spirit Bound. While I loved the book…who wouldn't…it seemed like it was missing something, because I had spent a good portion of the year reading fan fictions with elaborate plans on how to bring Dimitri back but when it got down to the real thing it was bland, the scene was awesome but was that really all it took? I had even read a ff with the same concept but even that was elaborate. So my question is how did you truly view that part of the story? I loved the book though it just threw me for a loop, this one wasn't as good as the rest after all the hype that was put on it. Or maybe I'm outgrowing my fangs…that'll be a sad day, Nevertheless, being a die-hard VA fan I loved it anyway.