AN: Hello readers. This is my first fanfiction. It's just a one shot so I won't be adding any other chapters. Please read and review :D. (any advice, tips or constructive criticism is welcome)

And thanks to Nicia for being my beta. (Go check out her stories, they're really good!)

This takes place during Blood Promise. Happy Reading!

supermandybear

Lissa sat up sharply and glanced around the room dizzily. It was dark but her eyes were able to adjust quickly and so, after a few seconds she was able to see the room clearly. A headache started to thump behind her temples, and she squeezed her eyes shut in the hopes that the gesture would ease the pressure in her head. She looked around once more and almost screamed.

There were bodies in the room. Dead or alive, she couldn't tell. From her slumped position in the desk chair she could see two of them. One was a woman's body sprawled out on the floor. Her long brown hair covered her face from Lissa's view. The other body was a man's. He was half sprawled across the woman and lying on his stomach in a way that Lissa couldn't see his face.

Hundreds of situations ran through her head, pictures popping in her mind, to explain this situation. We were kidnapped, we were taken by Strigoi, the Strigoi had killed off the other two and were coming for me next.On and on her brain tried to figure something out. And just as she was about to let out a blood-curdling scream, a figure on the bed moved. Lissa froze.

The man sat up, steadying himself as he almost rolled off the bed in the process. He looked over at Lissa; his emerald green eyes seemed to glow in the dark as he ran a hand through his messy brown hair.

"Hey, Cousin, you looked kind of freaked and I have to say, it's not a great look for you."

It was Adrian, which meant the woman on the floor was Avery. Relief had flooded into her as soon as she had heard Adrian say 'cousin', the term royals used to address each other sometimes. Lissa relaxed back into her chair, not even realizing that she had been so tensed.

"I'm fine; I just scared myself by jumping to conclusions."

Adrian stared over at her a minute, probably trying to see if all the alcohol he had drank the night before had left his system enough to see her aura. He regarded her before he sighed, signaling that he was giving up, as he rolled over and went back to sleep.

Lissa let out a little laugh. She then stood up cautiously, trying not to fall, and stumbled over to the bathroom. Once she'd flicked the light on she realized that they were in her suite in guest housing at Court. A small frown pulled at her lips as she checked her phone for any missed calls from Christian. There were none. That's strange. Little flashes of last night's events were starting to prickle her memory. It was coming back to her that they had all been drunk from the party last night and stumbled through the door before collapsing in different places around the room. She rummaged around in the cabinet for some aspirin. The killer headache she had from her hangover was becoming increasingly worse and it now felt like her head was going to explode.

Lissa kept trying to remember what exactly had happened at the party and why Christian hadn't called. Christian would have called her to say good night, wouldn't he? He would have called to see if everything was okay, right?

After finally finding the aspirin, Lissa turned around to look at herself in the mirror. She gasped at the sight before her. She looked like the definition of horrible. Her eyes were bloodshot. Her hair was a tangled mess. Her dress was crooked and hanging off her shoulders.

Then Lissa fully remembered what had happened. Avery had taken Lissa, Adrian, Christian, and Jill to a party at Court. She had drunk a lot. She had been dancing on a table and fallen off. But before she could hit the ground Aaron had caught her. And she kissed him. Crap.

Well that would might explain why Christian hadn't called but how exactly did he find out. If that was the reason that he hadn't called her he must be furious. And Lissa, knowing Christian a lot better than most people, figured he must be feeling really hurt too. He had probably talked to Jill last night and that must have been how he found out. Lissa flinched a little as the thought entered her mind. She could hear the bitterness in her name even as she thought it. She really didn't mean to be unkind to the young moroi girl; it was just that Christian was her boyfriend so it was natural that she was jealous. She thought that over again her head. Christian is my boyfriend… or maybewasmy boyfriend is the better thing to say after the party.

Now she needed to figure out why she had kissed Aaron or even drank that much in the first place. She was never really the type of person who enjoyed going to parties. That was always Rose. Rose. The name brought tears to her eyes. Rose was gone. She had gone to chase after Dimitri, to free his soul, and she might never be come back. She might not be able to come back. More and more tears welled up in Lissa's eyes, but she refused to cry. She had to be able to miss Rose but not cry about it or else she would be bawling her eyes out every minute of the day.

Her mind wandered back to the drinking problem. It had first started when they had begun to hang out with Avery. Avery would begin drinking and always end up offering Lissa a drink. And whenever they would hang out with Avery, Lissa always seem to get this fuzzy feeling in her head. She always felt like she had to go along with whatever Avery was going to do. She always felt like whatever Avery suggested she had to do it.

It almost felt like compulsion but it couldn't be. Avery was an air user and only spirit user would be able to use compulsion on another moroi. And only a really strong spirit user who ishada lot of power would be able to use compulsion on another spirit user. Could Avery be lying? Spirit users were able to maintain a low control over other elements. Buttherewould have been gold inAvery's aura if she was a spirit use,aura and therewasn't any. Unless she was able to hide her aura…but that would take a lot of power. Was it even possible? Was Avery a spirit us-

Just then Avery's eyelids fluttered open.

She sat up and looked over at Lissa, her blue-gray eyes peering through the bathroom door. A sly smile slid over Avery's face as Lissa's eyes glazed over. And just like that all the seeds of suspicion vanished from the Dragomir Princess's pretty little head.