A/N

Dimitri isn't really much in the fourth chapter so I added the fifth to it.

It's after all a little shorter than the last ones...I hope you like it after all!

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I went to the cafeteria to get my lunch and after that I had a few more shifts.

I was standing in the back of the room again. That was what a normal day of me looked like.

Four hours later I headed to my dorm and putted on my sportswear and went then to the gym, where I waited for Rose, but when she didn't turned up in the next few minutes I searched for her. I already thought that she would come to late or wouldn't even come.

"All right then, we'll see how this goes. If anything goes wrong—anything at all—we leave. No arguments." I was astonished that Rose really thought that she could run away a second time. I'd really like to hear her plan for that.

"Rose?" I said with a threatening voice. The both girls were looking up to me, both shoked looks on their faces. They feared that I heard what they were talking about. And I had heard it.

"You're late for practice," I said evenly, even when I was a little dissapointed.

"Princess." I said with a small nod to her. Then Rose and I were walking to the gym.

Suddenly Rose stopped walking. I turned around to look what happend.

"What's wrong?" She didn't answer. She actually didn't do anything at all. She just stared in the emptiness. Now she really started to scare me. "Rose?" When she didn't react I leaned down to her and grabbed her shoulder. "Rose? Rose?" I slightly shook her and finally she lost that weird expression.

She blinked a few times.

"Are you all right?" I quested her with real worry.

"I…yeah. I was…I was with Lissa…" She putted a hand to her forehead. "I was in her head."

"Her…head?" I asked confused.

"Yeah. It's part of the bond." She didn't say more to that, even when I would've liked to know more about it. But that didn't matter now, I first had to make sure that the princess was okay.

"Is she all right?"

"Yeah, she's…" She hesitated, as if she didn't really know if the princess was really okay.

"She's not in danger," She said, sounding a little nervous.

"Can you keep going?" I quested concerned.

"Yeah.I'm fine."

We went to the gym and she was going to the dressing room to change her cloth.

"Hey comrade, it was a long day and I already had to fight hard, therefore I wanted to ask if you can't let me off for today."

I laughed about that.

"Why is that funny?" She asked.

"Oh, you were serious." My smile dropped.

"Of course I was! Look, I've technically been awake for two days. Why do we have to start this training now? Let me go to bed," She whined. "It's just one hour."

I crossed my arms and looked down at her.

"How do you feel right now? After the training you've done so far?"

"I hurt like hell."

"You'll feel worse tomorrow."

"So?"

"So, better to jump in now while you still feel…not as bad."

"What kind of logic is that?" She retorted.

She didn't argue anymore as I led her into the weight room. I showed her a few weights and reps she sould do and went to a bench in a corner where my old, favourite Western Novel was laying.

Every now and then I looked up to see if she was doing what I said.

When she finished I stood beside her and demonstrated a few cool-down stretches.

"How'd you end up as Lissa's guardian?" She asked suddenly. "You weren't here a few years ago. Were you even trained at this school?"

I first didn't answer. She wasn't here to ask about my live and past but at the end I thought that it wouldn't change anything.

"No. I attended the one in Siberia."

"Whoa. That's got to be the only place worse than Montana."

That amused me but I tried to hide it. I really loved Siberia and she probably didn't even know how it looked like there.

"After I graduated, I was a guardian for a Zeklos lord. He was killed recently."

I wasn't on shift when he got killed but I made me after all allegations. I should have been there. He shouldn't be dead by now. I really liked him, he was a nice guy around my age and I always felt compfortable around him.

"They sent me here because they needed extras on campus. When the princess turned up, they assigned me to her, since I'd already be around. Not that it matters until she leaves campus."

"Did this lord die on your watch?"

"No. He was with his other guardian. I was away."

It had been my free day and I tried after all to admit that it wasn't my fault. I hadn't been in the position to help.

"Hey, did you help come up with the plan to get us back? Because it was pretty good.

Brute force and all that." Rose changed the subject. I was relieved about that.

But now I curiously arched an eyebrow. "You're complimenting me on that?"

"Well, it was a hell of a lot better than the last one they tried."

"Last one?" I asked irritated.

"Yeah. In Chicago. With the pack of psi-hounds."

"This was the first time we found you. In Portland ."

She sat up from my stretches and crossed her legs. "Um, I don't think I imagined psi-hounds.

Who else could have sent them? They only answer to Moroi. Maybe no one told you about it."

"Maybe" I said dismissively, but I didn't belive in that.

The rest of the lesson we remained in silence.

After the training lesson I finally had finished my working day too and went to my dorm.

There I switched the TV on and watched a little bit till I got to tired and went to bed.