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My life before I was awakened was far from perfect, but it worked for me. I was pregnant with my long-term boyfriend's baby, had a best-friend who was always there for me, and one big dis+functional family that, although they had differences with each other, all loved me.

Then, one night I was walking home from my college and, like in every horror film, a guy was hiding in the shadows of a dark alley. Typical, but hey, I wasn't expecting it. I'd felt his lips at my neck, then pain, then nothing. When I woke up, in a strange room, I noticed my stomach was flat - my baby had gone. To this day I don't know what happened to my unborn child. For a time I did some research but came up with nothing. I couldn't even ask my maker about it, because he had left me in the alley. A group of Strigoi had smelt the blood, seen I'd already been bitten and was changing, and decided to take me in. That group were nomads, and taught me all the basics of being a Strigoi.

"Boss?" I was being shaken awake by Nathan.

"What? What is it?" I asked grogily.

"We're being raded!" Nathan's voice was quick, urgent. My eyes snapped open and I shot up out of bed. "Don't go out there, Rose! It's a masacre! They brought hundreds of Dhampir! We can't beat them!"

I ran the possibilities through my head. The part of me that was run by the instinct to survive was telling me to get the fuck out of here, but the part of me run by my duties told me to go out there and fight with my men or die trying. I decided to go with the survival instinct.

"Ok, we'll leave," I said but instead of heading towards the window I ran to the room where Dimitri was being held. Only when I looked in it wasn't just Dimitri in there - a big group of Dhampirs were standing around Dimitri who was giving out fight instructions.

"Shit!" I quickly backed out of the room and locked the door then turned to Nathan. "That stupid bastard! Come on, we're getting the fuck out of here."

I set off towards the window with Nathan my heels, watching behind us at the two doors hiding the danger.

Just as I jumped out of the window I heard the doors open and heavy footsteps on the floor. With my good hearing, I heard Nathan shout to me, "Rose! Run!"

"No!" I climbed the wall up and looked back into the window - Nathan was on his own with Dimitri. His movements were slow, and he was going to lose. He didn't say any more words to me. The last thing he did before Dimitri staked him was turn around to look at me climbing through the window. His eyes were full of such love I thought I'd explode. Nathan spread his arms wide like an angel and tiilted his head back. With his blond hair and smooth face I could almost believe he was actually an angel. The perfect illusion was shattered when the tip of Dimitri's silver stake poked out from Nathan's chest. The look of love in his eyes vanished and his body went limp.

Dimitri wasted no time in charging at me next. I hadn't even gotten through the window yet, so all I had to do to excape was let myself fall. I ran to the garage as soon as my feet hit the ground outside. Luckily I always kept the keys to my favourite car on my person so I pressed the unlock button and jumped inside the car. It was a black Asto Martin DB9 and I loved it. The sleekness never failed to capture my eye.

I sped out of the garage and through the main gates to the base. Checking my rear-view mirror I saw Dimitri staring after the car. He had a steely glint in his eyes that I didn't like one bit, but a few seconds later I was too far away to see it anymore, and the whole of Dimitri's body was immersed in blackness.

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. As I drove through the woods surrounding the base I had a chance to think of what I could do.

I could report to my hierarchy, but what's the fun and point of that? I would do whatever the hell I liked. I was free. My mind wandered back to my family before I was awakened. I never had gotten over never seeing my boyfriend, Adrian, again, and in thinking about him I unwillingly thought about our baby. And I was one month away from my due date. At eight months a baby can feel pain. My heart clenched every time I thought of how it must have hurt whatever happened to my little angel.

I had to see Adrian. Even if it was from afar, I just had to get closure, and this was the way about it. I would start looking for him at our old house, and if he wasn't there I'd have to utilise my many connections in the Strigoi world. I would drive all night until I got to a motel that I could stop at before sunrise, and then I'd drive all tomorrow night, too. I had a whole state to cross.

Driving all night was fine tonight because I'd fed from Dimitri earlier but I knew I'd have to feed tomorrow night at some point to keep myself going. At 4:30 a.m. I found a motel to stay in. Usually I would risk it and go on for a short while longer but I was in a remote part of the state and I knew for a fact that the next motel after this one was nearly 30 miles away in which time the sun will have risen. I parked up, put my dark pair of sunglasses on and went into the reception area where a girl no more than twenty sat, looking very bored.

"Hi, can I get a room for today?" I asked her.

"Sure. You on a night schedule?" she began typing things into the computer.

"Yeah. I work nights," I said.

"For one night , day in this case, it'll be $35. How do you do that? I mean, wasn't it weird at first? Getting used to the sleep times?" I handed her the cash and she got my room key ready.

"Not really, I never really had a sleep pattern even when I was hu-" I stopped myself just in time from saying 'when I was human'. Luckily the girl didn't notice and I breathed out a sigh of relief.

"That's lucky. I've been at this job for almost a year and I'm still tired as hell most of the time," she gave me my room key and I took it then glanced outside. I could see the beginings of the sun's light show on the horizon.

"It was nice talking to you, but if you'll excuse me," I motioned upstairs, showing her I wanted to go to my room.

"Oh, yeah, sure. You were the nicest person to check in for ages. They're usually all drunks or criminals. We get a lot of shit here."

"Yeah but you look pretty tough. I bet they don't bug you. Anyway, have a nice day," I waved at the girl and she waved back as I took the stairs up to the top floor.

The room was average looking, cream walls, red bed-spread, red carpet, the usual. I went straight to the window and shut the curtains to be safe. I wouldn't be sleeping in the bedroom. No, the bathroom was calling to me. Luckily the bath tub was a reasonable size and I could fit in it. Let me explain why I was sleeping in the bathroom - there were no windows in there, so it's safer. The curtains in motels were the cheap and shit kind and I did not trust them along with that duvet.

I grabbed all the bedding but the sheets, and Hauled them into the bath. I made myself comfy in there and let my eyes drop. I fell asleep pretty quickly.

DPOV

Did that Strigoi really think us Dhampirs were stupid enough to just let her drive away like that? No, there was a reason we didn't have people in the garage - we put trackers on all the vehicles and hoped that at least one Strigoi would break off and drive away. That Strigoi would hopefully lead us to another group of them. That's how this group of us work. We get into a Strigoi nest, bug the cars, and wait for one of the monsters to take us to another nest.

"Belikov, it's stopped," one of my team, Ivan, said, while looking at the tracking monitors. I walked over to him and looked over his shoulder at the screen with the blinking black dot on it.

"Where is that?" I tapped the screen where the dot was.

"Um...about twenty miles away. Should we go now?"

"No, that place looks like a motel. I don't think a nest would be at a motel. It wouldn't be logical," so we would have to wait until the Strigoi moved onto an actual nest.

"Should we follow her? Get on high alert when it gives us a lead, you know?"

"Yeah, good idea. Come on, guys, get ready to move out!" I addressed the rest of my team. They all sprung into action. There were nine teams of Dhampirs that did this whole raiding thing. All nine teams came to this raid because it was a fully established Strigoi base. Until we found the next base the teams would each go back to court or, as my team were doing, catch onto a rogue Strigoi and track them until it led us to a nest.

I heard laughter coming down the corridor and decided to investigate. There was a group of men surrounding a chest of drawers in the head Strigoi's room. I stood in the doorway with my arms crossed over my chest and cleared my throat. The men turned round with wide eyes.

"What are you doing?" they all shuffled round slightly to hide the front of the drawers.

"Guys?" I warned.

"Um...we found the...'delicates' drawer," one of the guys said.

"What?"

"It has...lingerie in it," he clarified and held up a very, very skimpy pair of black panties and bra lace set. I raised my eyebrows.

"Well, I'm sure that if that drawer is full of items like that there's no need to fight over who gets what set because that drawer sure looks big enough for all of you to get a pair," I heard Ivan chuckle behind me and all the men standing in the room blushed and started talking about just looking for evidence and stuff. Me and Ivan walked back to the room we were in before and started packing up all our equipment.

We were interrupted by the newest recruitments to our team, two guys called Mason and Eddie. Mason was carrying a closed box.

"Hey, Sir?" Eddie said to me.

"Yeah?" I stood up from where I was kneeling.

"We found this box," Mason held out the shoe box and I took it from him. I lifted and put aside the lid. Inside were numerous pictures of ultra-sound scans, pictures of a guy with green eyes and brown hair hugging the Strigoi who locked me up and fed off me, except she looked as though she was either Dhampir of human in all the photos. "We saw the scan phtos and wondered if there was anyone being held hostage here. Maybe a surrogate for the strigoi?"

"That sounds possible, but the lady in these pictures is Strigoi now, whereas she isn't in these photos. Now maybe she just put the pictures in one box, except there isn't a hostage being held here, nor any baby items, and not any written evidence of a surrogate mother or a hostage. Thanks guys, though," they knew that was their dissmissal and went back to search the base. I turned to Ivan. "I think we should find this man," I pointed to the guy with the green eyes in the pictures. "If the woman had a connection before she was awakened maybe she'll go back to him. Find out who he is," Ivan began typing away on the computer he hadn't yet packed away and I went to look in the rooms nobody had checked yet.

There was nothing in any of the rooms left, so I went back to Ivan and to check on his progress.

"How's it going? Any luck?" I asked him.

"Yeah, the guy is Adrian Ivashkov. He's a Moroi and he lives in the next state with his son, Jason, who is three years old. Adrian is engaged to a human called Sydney Sage. They met one year ago and are expecting their first child together, biolically. She's not the mother of his first child, Rosemarie Hathaway is," Ivan said. A sudden brainwave hit me. I ran to the shoe box I'd put down a short while ago and picked up one of the pictures of the ultra-sound scan. The year was dated three years ago. Pieces clicked in my mind.

"Shit! Get this stuff packed up now! We'll be leaving here in twenty minutes. Move!" I said to Ivan hurriedly. I grabbed my walkie-talkie and spoke into it, "All units in Team 3 prepare to vacate the building. We rendezvous at the front gates in twenty minutes. If you aren't there we leave without you," I said. Ivan looked at me whilst packing the computers away.

"What's going on?" he asked me.

"I think the Strigoi we're following is going to see this guy and her kid. It's hers, Ivan. She's Rosemarie Hathaway, and I think she might kill them - or worse, awaken them. We need to get there quick and warn them. Hathaway will have to have stopped by now and if we travel throughout the day we can get there to warn the family. We don't need all the units but I still want to take them," I picked up a few bags of stuff and carried them out to the black SUV's we have.

Twenty minutes later all my men were by the front gates, I'd informed most of them in on the situation, and everyone was belted up in their assigned SUV. It was me, Ivan, Eddie, Mason, Christian and Mikhail in ours. I was driving.