Sing Me To Sleep
~set after~ "love fades. Mine has." Rose ends up leaving court, because of two reasons. Two horrible reasons.
Please tell me what you think. Review. Rose is still in new Orleans.
I now knew exactly what she saw in him.
4 years later…
Rose Point Of View
Pain lanced through my arm as he started to gnaw with his fangs into arm. I tried to move him just enough to get the stake embedded in his chest. At last a clear shot. I pushed the stake in to his chest; I have to tilt the stake into his chest so it will slide between his ribs to puncture his heart. His eyes widened a touch; the life in his eyes starts to fade. Since he's on top of me I struggle to get the dead strigoi off of me. Its times like this I'm grateful I'm a rouge guardian; I continually work out making sure I'm in shape and the thing that had happened three years ago, one year after I had left everything I had known, changed me. Changed me to the point where I was almost completely different.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was walking home from work, I ended up getting a job at the café where I had first asked for directions. I heard a noise behind me, turning around no one was there. Ok rose, listen. I could hear faint footsteps, and faint breathing. Ok so I'm getting stalked great… I LOVE it when I get stalked. I slipped my hand into my pocket, my fingers wrapped around a familiar coolness of my metal stake. I kept my walking speed the same, giving no hints that I was aware someone was following me. The footsteps got closer, and closer to the point where I could almost but not quite feel their breath on my neck. I whirled around bringing my arm up level to where I would drive the stake into the person's chest. I wasn't fast enough the mystery person caught my arm; I looked into his blood red eyes. "Hello rose." That when something hit the back of my head, and I blacked out.
When I awoke I was in a room. The room looked to be made of concrete. I tried to move my head, wow I was extremely dizzy. I then tried to move other parts of my body only to find that my arms and legs were chained down. Where the hell am I? Oh god, I need to find a way out of here. Just when I was going to start making a plan to escape, the man from earlier walked in to my "cell". He was about 6'5", black hair in that that just hung right in front of his eyes. His eyes were that shocking blood red. He was pale like all strigoi. He was… about 23 years old, at least that's what his body's age was.
"Hello rose" he sounded oddly cheerful. "Who are you? Where am I? Why did you take me?" I asked him questions that I really wanted answers too. "well rose, the past year you have been killing people under my command, when I found out who you were, I realized exactly who you were I just knew that I had to capture you. You see you WILL tell me where Princess Dragomir is, and you will tell me soon otherwise I WILL make you tell me." He wanted to know where lissa was. Really? Are you kidding me? Even after I leave her and haven't seen her nor heard her through the now blocked bond she manages to completely screw up my life. Lovely. Just plain awesome. "I haven't seen the princess in over a year you expect me to know where she is. Do you really believe that if I were her guardian I would be down here?" I knew taunting this man was a very stupid but I couldn't seem to stop. I began to pay dearly for it. He stormed over to me his red eyes a blaze. Fury clearly marked across his face. Written in his eyes I saw pain, my pain, possibly my death. When he got to where I was chained he back handed me so hard I saw spots across my vision.
"That all you got?" I taunted him some more. I couldn't seem to stop myself. Dmi-he was right I have no self-control. "Oh hush rose; you're going to answer me sooner or later. I would prefer sooner but that's… well its ok if I get it later too as long as I get what I want. I WILL use whatever means necessary to get the information from you." Wait does he mean…? He can't mean what I think he means.
He pulled from his pocked a knife, a knife that looked really sharp. He put it in front of my face turning it from side to side. The lights gleaming off the blade. He then lined it up against my arm ready to cut me. "Where is the princess?"He asked whispering in my ear. "I don't know! I haven't had ANY contact with her for about a year now!" I shouted at him. "Wrong answer."
The blade dragged across my skin leaving a deep angry red line. This process got progressively worse. The torturing techniques were worse. He never did progress to rape for that I was thankful; he did end up doing things that left horrific scars across my skin. These atrocities carried on for about a year and a half. After I escaped, I ran into a spirit user whose name was Jake. Jake healed my wounds and made me a charm that would hide my scars. I ended up moving into an apartment with him and two other guys who later became my closest friends.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Of Flash Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I walked over to my back pack and pulled out some gauze, while I wrapped my arm I kept thinking about how its been four years since I left court. After wrapping my arm I grabbed the vial of acidic mixture alchemist's use on strigoi, I tossed its contents on the body, and watched and it slowly disintegrated. I picked up my motor cycle keys from where they had fallen grabbed my back pack and drove towards my house. I wonder if any of my roommates are home.