Tonight I am walking around to see if I can spot any Strigoi. I hear foot steps behind me but I don't feel any nausea. I turn around but no one is there. I keep walking and then emotons hit me like a tidal wave. I feel excited, nervous, happy, relieved, angry, and then scared. I knew they were coming from Lissa so I was about to jump into her head to see why she was scared when the nausea hit me and I was knocked backwards about ten feet. Damn, I'll have to check on Liss in a minute. There were about three Strigoi.

"Hello Rosemarie." The one I assumed to be the leader said.

"Just shut up and let's get this over with."

I pull out my stake and begin to crouch down into a fighting stance. He comes at me full speed and leaves no opening to his heart so I slash into his face with the stake. Another one comes at me but I turn around and kick him back, I jump on to him and put my stake straight into his heart. One down, two to go. I start fighting the other two, both giving and receiving blows. Then I get hit in the side of the head really hard and fall to the ground.

"Oh my god! Rose!" I hear Lissa say through the bond. What the...

The leader comes at me and tries to bite into my neck but before he has a chance to he is thrown off of me. It takes me a minute register what is happening. The person that saved me just staked the leader and is now fighting the other Strigoi. Once he stakes him I go into Lissa's head for a second. She is on the phone "Guardian Belkov? Dimtri? Oh my god, is Rose okay!" I slip out of her head while someone is shaking me.

"Rose? Roza? Thank God your okay." He say whle he hugs me tight. He helps me up and I stare into his warm brown eyes. I've missed him so much.

"Come on Roza, I'm going to take you back to the royal court." God, that name. I haven't heard it in so long. Wait, I'm not going back, I have my own life now. I like living here, sure I miss my friends but I don't want to go back. I give him a hug and say..

"Guardian Belikov," I feel him flinch, "thank you for helping me back there but I'm not going back there." I push him and take off running.

I can hear him yellng my name behind me but I don't turn around. He yells me name again, shit, he's coming up behind me fast. If I wouldn't have kept training then he would have had me by now. I run into a big 24 hour store, hoping I'll lose him and pretty sure that he wouldn't try to get me n public.

Boy, was I wrong. I was hiding next to some clothes when I saw him coming in. I ducked down and when I looked back up he was gone. I smiled to myself and got ready to run out of the store but before I could even take my first step I felt someone grab my arm. I tried to get him off but it was no use.

"Roza, just stop. I'm taking you home."

"My name is Rose, not Roza, and I'm 21 so what the hell makes you think that I have to go anywhere with you. I'm free to do whatever I want."

"You're coming back with me so get over it." He started to drag me out of the store, I saw a worker and smiled an evil smile at him. He looked over at the women who had her back turned to us. His eyes widened and he started to put his hand over my mouth but before he could, I yelled.

"Let go of me!" The lady spun around and I noticed that it was Noelle, she sees me n here all the time. She looked at his hand that was gripped around me arm. Noelle walked over to us and his grip tightened. She smiled at me then turned to glare at Dimitri.

"Excuse me but what are you doing with her."

"Rose is a family friend and she ran away awhile back, her parents sent me to find her but it took me a long time."

I looked down at the floor, glaring. I had told her I had taken off but that I'm overage so his story would make sense to her.

"Rose, do you know him?" I started to say no but thought twice about it, I just stood there looking at the floor. I had told her about how the one I loved left me and that his name is Dimitri.

Me and her got pretty close over the years.

"What's your name sir?" She asked Dimitri.

"Dimitri Belikov." Her mouth dropped open and she looked at me. A tear slid down my face. She gave me a look of sympathy.

"Rose I know you left home and I know that you know him so I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do." I looked up at her in shock and Dimitri had a smug look on his face.

"I'm sorry miss but we have to be going now." He smiled at her and dragged me out of the store. I kept tryng to pull out of his grasp but it didn't work.

He pulled out his phone and waited, I heard someone say something then he said, "yes Lissa, I have her. She's putting up a fight though. Yes. Really? Damn. Okay. Bye Lissa." What the hell was that about? Did Lissa send him? How did he find me?