Hey you guys! Here's the fourth chapter! Sorry for any confusion about the whole Eric Dragomir thing! I just want to say that this character is not Lissa's father. Please Enjoy!

Oh! And by the way, yesterday I realised that I have forgotton to do any disclaimers! I do not own Vampire Academy! (Sadly) All credit goes to Richelle Mead, except Poppy, she's my creation!

My eyes widened with surprise. "Really? Eric Dragomir? Interesting name…" I stuttered.

"Yeah," he said gloomily. "My mum had a fling with some guy in Vegas. She gave me his last name for some reason, I don't know where the Eric comes from though."

I looked down at my feet, Eric Dragomir Jr! The person Dimitri had dedicated two years of his life to find and I had found him by accident! I was sitting next to the last pure Dragomir!

I looked back to his face, of course! How could I have not seen the resemblance? He had Lissa's hair and eyes and a handsome face that proved his mother was a show girl.

"So, you don't know anything about your last name?" I asked.

"No, nothing. I'm guessing its Russian or Romanian." he replied.

"Didn't you find out about it at your school?" I continued.

"No I was home schooled." he went on. "What's with all the questions?" he raised one eyebrow, lucky devil.

"No reason… so you do know what you are right?" I enquired.

"Moroi? Yeah, I know. Wanting to drink blood kinda gives the game away." he smiled, how the hell was he smiling when we were captured by strigoi?

"You seem at ease here." I stated.

He turned his smile into a fully fledged grin, "Only because we are going to be rescued in, 3, 2, 1"

Poppy appeared in the middle of the room.

"Hello dear children." she said happily.

"I have never been happier to see you Poppy, now one question." I turned to Eric. "How in the name of all things ridiculous did he know when you would rescue us?"

"Oh, we planned that between us earlier, I was waiting for him to give the countdown." she paused, most probably seeing the pure horror and confusion on my face. She laughed, "We just wanted to see that look on your face!"

I glared at her. "Are you going to get us out of here or what?"

"Oh, yeah!" she exclaimed and walked through the door. I heard the sound of someone yelling "what the?" and being flung against the wall. Poppy walked back in and with a wave of her hand, broke the ropes around our wrists and told us to hide behind the door.

I slipped my collapsible stake out of my sleeve. Oh, yeah, Guardians get the most awesome gadgets ever! I gestured to Eric so he stepped back a few paces. The door swung open and an extraordinarily angry strigoi came in, he looked around, spotted Poppy and lunged for her. She grabbed his shoulders and tossed him to the floor. (AN Ghosts are stronger that Strigoi) I pinned him and staked him in one easy motion. I then got up and sprinted out the door, with Eric and Poppy on my heels.

Poppy took the lead and led us down a cavernous hallway, turned right then opened a door that led to a window.

"Directly under this window is a fire escape." Poppy whispered hurriedly. "Break the window and just step out. You'll be fine, no alarm will go off. There is one strigoi guard next to the gate but he's new and you can easily stake him. There is a car waiting outside with Eddie in it to drive you home. I'll meet you back at the academy."

"Ok," I whispered back, giving her a quick hug. "Thank you."

"No problem," she disappeared.

I turned to Eric, who was still breathless after our sprinting session, "Are you ready?" I asked him. He nodded slowly. I smiled, grabbed his arm and jumped out the window. We landed on a metal platform. I let go of him and we ran down the stairs and towards the large metal gate on the edge of the path.

A young strigoi jumped in front of us. He jumped for me, but I was too fast for him. My stake leaped out like a silver cobra, and he was left, dead, on the floor.

"C'mon!" I yelled to Eric.

We ran to the silver jeep that I knew to be Eddie's. I let him get in first and crawled in after him. "Drive" I yelled to Eddie.

He smiled, "I have never been happier to see you Rose. Who's your friend?"

"I'll explain later, for now lets just go. I don't wanna see any more strigoi."

He laughed softly as he put the jeep into gear and drove in the direction of the academy.

I looked back at the Strigoi hideout I was just in. It looked like a mountain with windows. But I could only see the windows because I knew they were there. Damn, Strigoi were good at hideouts!

We got back in the academy in amazing time and I got out to hear my name being called.

"Roza!" I looked up startled, only one person called me that and I knew his voice from anywhere. All my instincts told me this was Dimitri, but my logic told me otherwise. Dimitri was on a mission to find the last Dragomir. He couldn't be back yet. Unless, Poppy brought him…

His arms wrapped around me in a giant hug that lifted me off my feet. I laughed at his enthusiasm. "I missed you." he whispered in my ear.

"I missed you too, my husband." I whispered back to him.

He sighed in contentment, "I love the sound of that, my dearest wife."

A loud throat clearing behind us made us spring apart. "I know you guys haven't seen each other in 2 years and your married and all, but the rest of like explanations and would appreciate one now." Adrian said grumpily, probably embarrassed about his earlier crying fit.

"Sure, we can explain. But the one who needs the most explanations here is Eric." I said.

We all looked at him. "you don't need to explain anything to me, I already told you, I know what I am, what strigoi are, what you guys are, Poppy even explained to me a little bit about her. I understand." he said.

I shook my head, "No, Eric you don't understand everything. Do you know about the royal families?"

"Yeah, I know about them, all eleven of them, Badica, Conta, Dashkov, Drozdov, Ivashkov, Lazar, Ozera, Szelsky, Tarus, Voda and Zeklos." he answered, I shook my head once more.

"There is another royal family, Eric. There is only one surviving member, we thought our friend Lissa was the last of them and they were gone when she died 3 years ago. But then we found out that her father had a fling with a woman in Vegas. She gave birth to a son." I paused for dramatic effect (cruel I know!). "Do you know her father's name, Eric?"

He shook his head.

"Lissa's father's name was Eric Dragomir. You are the last of the Dragomirs." I said quietly letting it sink in.

His eyes seemed to roll into the back of his head. "I gotta go call my mum." he said, before his knees buckled from under him and he fell to the ground.

I'll try to get the next chapter up tomorrow! But it's school, so it might be difficult... oh well! Have a good day! Plz R+R! XXX