Chapter 6

As we loaded up into the car to drive to court Karleigh couldn't stop bouncing. She was so excited. I didn't know if we should tell her why we were actually going to stay at Adrian and Rose's. For now, though, why not let her be excited.

The ride over was only about five minutes. It was a five minute walk to court but the streets didn't go straight through to it. We pulled up to the gate and the guard checked our id's and let us drive through. The bad thing about court was that there was one big parking lot and you had to walk everywhere.

We grabbed our bags out of the car and Rose took mine from me, like always. We started walking to Adrian and Rose's apartment in the Ivashkov wing of the quarters and Karleigh starting running in anticipation.

"Karleigh, slow down honey, you are going to get hurt." I yelled after her.

At the very moment the words came out of my mouth she stumbled and landed face first on the ground. A scream unlike anything I have ever heard came from her. Christian was the first one by her side. He picked her up and held her to check out the damage. She was bawling. I rushed up, ready to heal whatever happened.

She had two large scrapes on both of her cheeks, her nose was bleeding, and she had a loose tooth. I reached out and touched her face to heal her and she tried to attack me. Surely she wasn't in a trance again. Rose touched her and she tried hurting her too. This was not going to be easy. I had to heal my baby one way or another.

Christian held on to her and we decided if we were going to test this it might as well be now. We walked to the infirmary to get her patched up since I couldn't heal her. When we got there we noticed it was Laura working. Laura was a fire wielding Moroi. At least if the fire thing was true Karleigh wouldn't attack her.

Christian sat Karleigh down on the doctors table and stood next to her, but didn't touch her, as not to calm her. We watched as Laura walked up to her to access her injuries.

"How did this happen little one? Did you fall down?" Laura asked. Karleigh just stared.

She put her pointer finger to Karleigh's face to move a piece of hair off of one of the scrapes. Karleigh didn't react. I couldn't believe it, maybe our theory was correct. While Laura was cleaning the wounds Adrian and Rose walked in. They had taken our stuff to their rooms. Rose walked up and held my hand, she sensed I was nervous.

"How is she?" Rose asked. I smiled.

"She is good, just getting her scrapes cleaned up and then we can go. She didn't react." I answered quietly.

Rose and Adrian gave me a knowing look. After Karleigh was all bandaged up we walked to the rooms. Adrian and Rose had put our stuff into the guest bedroom. I took Karleigh in there to change her clothes because when she fell she completely shredded her dress. As I was pulling the ripped dress over her head she looked up and giggled. That's when I smelled it.

I smelled hair burning. Then I felt heat on my head. Rose instantly came running in because she felt my panic.

ROSE'S POV

Lissa was scared. Why? I didn't know yet. I ran into the guest bedroom to see what was going on and when I walked in Lissa's hair was smoking. Shit!

"Adrian, Christian, bring water now!" I screamed.

In two seconds they both ran in with jugs of water from the kitchen. They immediately saw what I needed it for. Both of them dumped the water on Lissa's head. Now all we heard were cries. Karleigh and Lissa were both crying.

"Karleigh, what did you do? Why did you set mommy's hair on fire?" Lissa screamed grabbing for Karleigh.

She was furious. Christian grabbed Karleigh and moved across the room before Lissa could do anything she would regret. Now we were all upset. I grabbed Lissa's hand and dragged her to the bathroom to check out her hair. She was drenched but that was about it. Her hair was only singed a little bit at the end, nothing a small trim wouldn't fix. I turned Lissa around and she was still crying, only it wasn't the angry cry anymore.

"Are you okay Liss? Your hair is fine. No damage done." I said.

"I almost hurt by baby girl Rose! What would have happened if Christian hadn't taken her out of the way? What would I have done?" She cried.

"Liss, I don't think you would have hurt her. I think it all just scared you and you didn't know what to do." I said rubbing her back to calm her down.

"I'm not so sure of that, I was really fuming." She said sullenly.

She straightened herself out and walked back out into the living room where we found Adrian, Christian, and Karleigh playing apples to apples. Karleigh acted as if nothing had happened.

LISSA'S POV

I stood there staring at my little girl playing her game and wondered what I must have done to make her end up like this. Did I do something wrong when I was pregnant? Whatever it was I had to know. Karleigh looked up and seen me.

"Mommy, why are you all wet?" She asked.

I just smiled at her. I looked at Christian wondering why she was asking me that when she was there when they poured the water on me. He shook his head. She must have been in a trance the whole time and didn't remember. It seems as though every time something happened she didn't know she was doing anything. Why? After watching them play for a few more minutes I decided to go and change my clothes. Hopefully the next couple of days were fire free.

When I came out of the room I motioned for the adults in the room to come into the kitchen. We all sat at the table while Karleigh watched tv in the other room.

"So what's next? How will we know when to test the Moroi out on Karleigh? Should we stay in a common area like the café or something to make sure we are around others when she flips out again?" I asked.

They all just shook their heads in agreement. So that was it then. We would go to the café and have lunch then sit there and talk all day. We had to be prepared.