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All italicized words are thoughts, if it doesn't say someone's POV at the beginning of a chapter then it is probably Rose's POV.

Beginning of the End

My New Charge

Blah…Blah….Blah "Eddison Castile…. Mia Rinaldi (sp?) Oh… that should be good. I know those two have been crushing on each other.

Blah….Blah…. "Rosemarie Hathaway….." Her eyes pop wide. She picks up an envelope and lets out a sigh. This isn't good. I glance at Lissa and see she is worried too. "….Christian Ozera." I gasp. No way, I'm not with Lissa after all. I stand and go to get Christian's file and my stake. Though I like mine better and will use this as a back-up. Alberta also hands me a sealed envelope with handwriting I've never seen before.

It turns out no one was assigned to Lissa; she'll probably get guardians that haven't just graduated. I sit down and open the envelope. OMG, it's from the queen.

I look up to see Lissa standing in front of me, "Rose, we will get this straightened out. Good thing Christian is going with us on our….. quest." She didn't want to bring up Dimitri again. I ignored her and looked down at the letter. "What are you reading?"

I sighed, "Give me a minute to actually read it Liss; it's from the queen bitch herself."

~*~*~*~Letter~*~*~*~

Rose,

I already know that you are not happy with my decision with your new charge. If it were up to me, you would be sent off to a dhampir community and far away from your boyfriend. I warned you Rose that if you continued your relationship that you would NOT guard the Princess. Unfortunately, I would be looked down upon for sending out one of the best newly graduated guardian to a community. So, I put you with him because the Princess will be here at court with your boyfriend since they are both enrolled for school and the Princess has signed an agreement to live at court while going to college until she is done. In that time, I believe that your boyfriend will be the Princess's new boyfriend since your charge isn't going to college around court. I believe he is enrolled in at a University in Minnesota. Enjoy. I will never change your charge and if he dies (for some reason, probably you), I will never assign you to the Princess or your soon to be ex-boyfriend. Good luck with the rest of your life and I hope to never hear of you again.

You know who.

~*~*~*~End of Letter~*~*~*~

Wow. I suppose she didn't put in too much detail of who the boyfriend, charge, and princess are to make it anonymous. I assume not just the queen is in charge of assigning charges.

Lissa looks at me like will you explain what is in the letter. "Lissa, I will never be your guardian while the queen is alive. She's mad at me for dating Adrian publicly now when she warned me to end it."

"Wow. I'm sorry Rose. At least we'll all be together at court and on the…. Quest."

I didn't want to bring up that Christian is enrolled at a college in Minnesota. I'll talk to him about it more later. All this stuff won't happen until after we find Dimitri anyways. Once I have him back, my life will be happier. I don't know what will happen with me and Adrian or even if Dimitri will be coming back to live or going to death forever. Too much to think about, but I'm happy with leaving to get this 'quest' on the road. We leave in four days.

'I really hope that Christian will stay at court and we get back together. I can't lose you too.' Lissa sent through the bond to me. Her eyes looked like she was going to ball her eyes out.

"Don't worry Liss. We have plenty of time. You won't lose me."

I look up to see Christian looking ashamed at the ground. He probably feels guilty and now it must be true about him going to college in a different state.