JAR OF HEARTS

~~*~~*~~*~~*~~CHAPTER 3~~*~~*~~*~~*~~

Previously

I slam through the door and find her in a pool of blood, her aura is white. She is dying.

Lissa

I let out an air piercing scream before realising I need to help by best friend. Guardian Petrov picks her up and we rush Rose the infirmary. She looks limp and pale; I hear the gasps from other students as they come out to the hallway in search of the reason behind my scream. I look at the other students without actually seeing them. Their expressions a selection of horror, shock and fear. I try to shield Rose from the stares, but I am only one small person, so they still saw her. As we raced across the courtyard, I watched as Rose's aura got a brighter white, the amount of blood was turning it all pink.

We finally after what seemed miles reached the infirmary. Dr O was standing talking to a nurse when barged through the doors in to the waiting room. It took her a moment and a puddle of Roses blood to puddle on the floor for her to react. She led us to a formal stark white hospital room. Guardian Petrov placed her on the universal plain hospital bed. Dr O gets to work straight away, she begins by kicking us out, and despite our protests we leave to wait in the waiting room. Moments later as I am staring at the pale blue walls of the room the doors burst open as Janine Hathaway barges through them.

"Where is my daughter?" she screeches. Guardian Petrov reacts first, standing to greet the world renowned guardian.

"She is down there, Janine, it wasn't good. She was covered in blood." Guardian Petrov said on the verge of tears, she didn't dare look in the eyes of the guardian.

"Why, why would she do this to herself?" Rose's mother stuttered, in utter confusion. I watched as the women known for her expressionless facade slipped as the tears rolled down her face. I closed my eyes sending a silent apology to Rose and stood up.

"I think I know why." I say quietly. Both the guardians look at me in expectation. "Can we go to a room and talk somewhere more privately?" I ask silently, the nod and I follow them to a room.

"Princess, what's wrong with my daughter? Why would she do this to herself?" Janine asked, in a complete mess.

I take a deep breath before I start. "Rose is in love with her mentor." Both guardians display different reactions, Janine gasps at the news, while Alberta, looks almost saddened.

"After Guardian Belikov hunted us down in Portland and he started mentoring her, something in her changed. She was no longer all about the parties. Earlier today I discovered it was because she fell in love with him, and he returned those feelings. He told her, that he loved her. Then there was the attack on the school, and we all know that she went in there and rescued him. She went into save his life and she suffered because of it. Then what did he do? He left, he left her. I didn't realise until lately how much his departure affected her." I took a deep breath before I continued.

"She told me, she felt like a whore, he used her. That night the school was attacked was more than her fighting a bunch of strigoi. That night she gave her heart to a man, who days later used it against her, leaving her heart broken." I looked at the two normally composed guardians as realisation struck them.

"I think her broken heart has led her to being depressed. But what surprises me the most is that she resorted to cutting herself. The reason I say this, is because when I used to cut myself, she was almost disgusted by it. Therefore I believe the pain runs deeper, then him leaving. I think he said something to her, which caused it." I say as the blush creeps up my face, when I mention my passed discrepancies.

"I'm going to castrate that bastard!" Janine yelled. Guardian Petrov looked as if she was about to insinuate the same thing, but was interrupted by the door being opened.

"I'm so sorry, but I was told to come and inform you that, we got Miss Hathaway's respiration and pulse under control. She is still asleep; however the Doctor would like to speak to you all." She said and we followed her out to Rose's room. The Doctor looked up as we approached and walked over to us.

"Princess, Hathaway, Petrov. I have a few questions about how you found Rose." She grimaced.

"Earlier today, I came across Rose, she had a bloodied towel wrapped around her arm, so I went to Guardian Petrov-" I said before being cut off.

"The princess came to me and informed me of how she discovered Rose, with worries that she could do worse. She then said that she knew Rose was in trouble, she didn't know how, but she did. We ran across the school and discovered Rose covered in blood and the Princess stated that she was fading fast and that her aura was going white." Guardian Petrov finished for me.

"Is she okay?" I asked as I felt the tears run down my cheeks. The Doctor looked solemn

"Miss Hathaway was very close to death. She was bleeding out, however after I got that under control; she began to cough up blood. I was able to get her pulse and respiration back to normal, her blood pressure has also increased, but it is still dangerously low, about sixty over forty-eight. I am also doing some blood tests." The doctor said, before turning around to look back at Rose. I felt the tears fall faster and I was overcome with sobs. Why hadn't I been able to help my friend? I felt someone wrap their arms around my and hold me the way my mother used to. I blinked through the water and saw that Janine Hathaway was holding me.

Janine

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My daughter had become an emotional wreck and I like usual wasn't here to help her. For the past seventeen years, my daughter has believed that I haven't had anything to do with her or know what's happened. I've known everything from the day she through a book at her teacher and called her a fascist bastard to the day she and the princess ran away. To the day she came back. But what I didn't know was that she was in love with her mentor.

Rose

I don't know what came across me. After I took the pills I felt incredibly nauseous, I tried to get up to the bathroom; but I felt weak. I fell down and whacked my head on something hard ; and warm wetness trickle down my face, just as I was blacking out. Before I was fully gone I felt a thick cooper taste fill my mouth and nose. Then I was gone. My mind filled with blackness.

Alberta

It was so hard seeing Rose so vulnerable and broken. For the last seventeen years she has been the daughter that I never got to have. I felt she was able to come to me about anything. I like the Princess had noticed a change in Rose, but also a change in Guardian Belikov. After he left he was no longer a social recluse, he had a light in his eyes that I have seen in very few guardians.i knew something was going on with him and Rose, but now I know why, he was in love. But what I don't understand is why he left. What would drive a man in love to leave? But most of all what did he say to turn to Rose to make her become this way.

Looking around, the princess is miserable and Janine's composure has slipped. I then look at Rose, she looks so peaceful. I make a decision in an instant.

"I'll be right back." I say to no one in particular and walk out of the infirmary to a bench outside. I pull out my cell phone and dial a number, thinking about what he said the day he left.

(Flashback)

"Alberta, I need to talk to you." Dimitri had said. I looked up from what I was reading at Guardian Belikov.

"Yes, Dimitri, please take a seat." I offered, but he continued to stand.

"I need to leave the academy. I cannot mentor Miss Hathaway anymore. I feel she has reached all that I can teach her. But in saying that, I also cannot stay here. Miss Ozera has offered me a place to be her guardian and I am going to take it." He said, His eyes were filled of misery and regret. it was like he wasn't endorsing what he was saying.

"What has changed?" I asked. "Did something happen between you to? She went back into that cave for you Dimitri." I said quietly, I was feeling anger boil through me as I stared at him. But taking a closer look I realised the normally well kept guardian was scruffy; his normal neat pony tail had hair sticking up and out everywhere. And his clothes were covered in wrinkles.

"Exactly!" he had almost shouted, startling me. "She came back for me; she risked her life for me. I can't have her do that. I can't have her save me, ever." He said, I saw his eyes water.

"Well if that is how you feel Guardian Belikov, then leave. But you must tell Rose yourself." I took a breath. "Be warned however, if I find that you have hurt her in anyway, I will come after you." I promised. I didn't notice his reaction, I told him goodbye and he left without uttering another word.

(End Flashback)

So that is what I am doing, he hurt my 'daughter' and now I am coming after him. The phone rings three times before there is an answer.

"Belikov" the voice rang through the phone.

"What did you say to her?" I ask icily, I look around me, as dawn breaks the sky into a mixture of pinks and purples.

"What- who are you talking about?" he hesitates.

"What did you say to Rosemarie Hathaway, that has her attempting suicide?" I ask a coldly as possible. I hear him gasp as realisation sinks in.

"What do you mean suicide?" he asks.

"well not that I should be telling you, but the Princess and I found Rosemarie lying in a pool of her own blood, hours after the princess found her with a cut on her arm." I say angrily. "Belikov i promised you that, if you ever hurt her, I would come after you. So I want you to tell me exactly what you said to her to make her contemplate killing herself." I say almost shouting. I have moved from sitting to standing as the anger boils over the edge.

"I told her-" he hesitates again before taking a deep breath. "I told her love fades, mine has." He cries.

"Were you telling the truth?" I ask quietly, realising that people were staring and yelling wasn't going to get me anywhere.

"No." He breathes. "I told her those things so she would let me go. I told you I couldn't have her risking her life for me, I couldn't stay and have her look out for me, instead of the Princess. I thought I was doing it for her own good." He says desperately.

"Well you were wrong. Do you not realise that you being here did things to her; she was like a Christmas light around you. When you left, that light went out. She is a shadow of her former self. You killed any hope she had and obviously the only way she could escape the pain was through death. In the past month I have had to replace thirty-three punching bags and three staking dummies. All destroyed by Rose. I'm sorry Guardian Belikov but I can't comprehend how you think leaving her, was a good idea. Especially after saying those words."

"I'm sorry Alberta." He states quietly.

"It's Guardian Petrov and I'm not the one you should be apologising-" I say before being cut off by the doctor running out shouting my name. I spin around and see her. Her face is filled with panic.

"Guardian Petrov! Rose- she's-" I drop the phone, ending the call, not hearing what the doctor is saying.

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