Rose assured Mia that no one else was going to come back down here to the basement, and for once Mia actually believed her. The events of the last two days had changed a lot and seeing how Rose and Christian had dealt with the guards just then gave Mia a huge respect for them. Not that she would outright say that right now. Maybe one day. They had to get the fuck out of here first.

Mia and Christian stayed put and tried hard to keep Eddie upright. God the guy still had a huge smile on his face and he was barely conscious. She was sure that he wouldn't have any memory of what happened down here and part of her envied that. But the suffering he was going to go through to get past the high he was going to crave from the Strigoi bite was not something she envied. The high of a bite was not something she had ever experienced, since moroi bites didn't have the same effect on their own kind and she hoped to never be bitted by a stroigoi.

"You think we are going to make it out of here?" She asked meekly to the other Moroi.

Christian glanced over at her from the other side of Eddie's slumped bodies that hung between them and his expression was hard to read. "We might. If not, I am taking down as many as I can on my way out."

Mia wasn't too sure how much more magic the other could do though in his current condition. They were both deprived of blood and food, and the magic he had already done was pretty damn big. The guy looked drained and that was a nice way of putting it.

"If we get out of this, I'm sure as fuck finding a way to not be so damn defenceless being a water user"

She hadn't really meant to say that out loud, but hoestnly in the situation they were in she didn't care what the other thought of her. Surprisingly he nodded and spoke up. "I'm sure we can find a way."

She didn't have a chance to respond to him before the others returned, Mason quickly taking over being the support person for Eddie. Looking over at Christian she grabbed a hold of him and even though he was reluctant, Mia wasn't taking no for an answer and her expression told that clearly. Her arm wrapped around his waist and she threw his arm around her shoulder and followed Rose out of the room with Mason and Eddie following up behind them.

The two Dhampirs were arguing at this point, Mason's male ego and feelings for Rose getting the better of the situation. Part of her wanted to tell the two of them to shut the fuck up so they can get out of here but she figured that would just add more conflict to the situation. She just really wanted to get as far away from this house as possible.

Moving forward they made their way out of the basement and up the stairs, Mason went ahead to scout with Rose, leaving Eddie to lean on Mia. She struggled with his weight, but pushed through. Christian was steady enough to hold his own for a moment, but he wasn't strong enough to be able to hold up the other male.

As quick as he had left, Mason was back and had taken his position back up at the rear with Eddie. They were on their way out again. Mia looked around as she walked with Christian and then they came to a sudden halt and when her eyes locked on to what Rose had spotted she froze, her mouth becoming dryer than it already was and the panic starting to hit her. They were so close to freedom. It was daylight outside. They just needed to get to a door and there was two Strigoi standing in their way.

Rose spoke firm and low, commanding Mason to what they had argued about earlier. She was now insisting that he take the three of them with him and run as far and fast as possible… leaving her behind to die.

Fuck, she was really going to do this and when the brunette lunged for the two Strigoi, Mia wanted to scream out and drag her back to the illusion of safety. Instead, Eddie was being leaned against her and Mason was running for the door to open up their path.

The door opened and the moment that Mason returned to take the Dhampir off her, Mia grabbed Christian's hand and ran for the safety of the daylight outside. The sun hurt her eyes as she got out there but that pain was only temporary. They were safe now.

Her eyes finally focused in time to see Mason dragging Eddie out of the front door into the daylight where he was also safe, and eventually making his way to there she and Christian were at. Mia quickly looked to see if Rose was following behind. The others looked too.

There was no one else coming through that door behind him.

The noises coming from inside the house though meant that she was still alive and before she could stop him, Mason was running back inside. "Mason, stop!"

He completely ignored her and was already back in the house by the time she called out. God, he was going to get himself killed too. What was she supposed to do? There was no way she could fight off the Strigoi and none of them had a phone to be able to call anyone.

The gunshots that she heard from inside the house made her jump and Christian grabbed onto her arm to hold her back from running in there like an idiot. Mason was in there too now and it was likely she wouldn't see him again after this unless someone did something.

The minutes seemed to tick by so slowly after Mason had left, and the two guys out here with her weren't looking so crash hot. Eddie was passed back out again on the ground. The high and blood loss taking its toll on him and Christian was pale and out of it and looked as though he was struggling to keep himself upright. The amount of magic he had used had truly drained him and was the only reason they were free right now.

Magic.

There had to be something she could do with her own skills to even just distract the goddamn creatures inside long enough for Mason and Rose to get the fuck out of that house and into the sun. Once they were out, then they could come up with a plan on what to do next.

Back up into her feet, Mia ignored the swearing from Christian and ran over to the front door that was the gateway to freedom. Sticking to the entrance, Mia looked around and quickly looked around at what the hell she could use. There had to be water somewhere in the house.

She spotted it. An aquarium behind the male Strigoi. Lots of water there. Her focus going solely on the tank, Mia managed to make the tank explode and before all the water could fall down on the ground, she took control of it and formed a sphere of water. A shitty sphere but it would do the job she wanted.

Slowly it floated across the room and as expected the male Strigoi was distracted enough that he didn't know what was happening until the water wrapped around his face and stayed there, suffocating him.

God she hoped it was enough to get them out. She wanted to scream out for Rose and Mason to run, but Mia feared that if she dropped her concentration that the sphere would fall too soon.

Rose managed to do something to take down that Strigoi because he fell and Mia let go of her control over the water that surrounded him. Splashed hitting the floor around his body that collapsed with a shard of glass in his chest. He wasn't dead but was taken out of the game for now.

Where was Mason though? Her eyes searched the room. He should have been fighting with Rose or grabbing her to get the hell out of here. Where was –

Eyes stopped on another body that lay on the floor close to the female Strigoi. Her heart near stopped in that moment and everything around her just stopped. Mason was laying on the ground, his body limp and not moving at all. She stood there in the doorway, watching and waiting and mentally begging for his chest to start rising.

Goddamit. No!

She was about to run into the room when she took focus on what Rose was doing and she paled even more, her stomach churning and had there been anything in her stomach it would have them come up. Her face already streaked with tears she had not known where there and now a scream that escaped her lips without her control.

The female Strigoi lay dead in front of Rose, her head detached and blood everywhere. The other Strigoi started to rise, no longer incapacitated and as soon as he was spotted by the Dhampir, she was on him and the sound of the sword in her hands trying to get through his neck through each swing would haunt her for a long time after this.

"Rose!" Mia cried out. "Rose, he's dead!"

The look on Rose's face terrified her in that moment. Something had snapped inside of her and Mia wasn't all that sure if she was going to turn on her next. She was terrified that someone else might come and attack them. They had to get out and she wasn't leaving Rose behind.

"Rose." Her voice was much softer this time, pleading. "Rose, we have to go. Come on."