Chapter Seven:

Eddie sighs beside me, looking down at his phone to see if his oh so lovely Mia has texted back yet, she hasn't- I can tell by his blue aurora and the pathetic little pout on his face.

Oh to be young and in love, though I haven't known what that feels like in about three years…

"Are you sure this is going to work?"

I have a sick grin on my face, the type I usually get when spirit is overtaking me.

"Lets hope so Eddie, let us hope so…"

He sighs and leans back against the wall. We're both in the main dining hall of court, the place were all moroi and dhampir come to eat. Moroi like well, Lisa (the new queen) and Christian, her husband as of two years ago. I also heard that the two had twins a while back, a girl and a boy. About time those two began making new Dragomir's.

But that wasn't the point, Moroi meant guardians. Guardians meant Rose and the Russian.

When I saw her I stopped breathing till Eddie shook me, but it was like seeing the past. Rose walking in dressed in her chotki, dark jeans, boots and a red top that made me think of a dream we'd once shared.

Then I noticed her face.

It was still gorgeous, of course. But it had lost its brightness and life, I could tell that my her aura too, she was still shadow-kissed, so it was black as the night sky, but usually you could make out other colors of her emotions in it. This time you couldn't, it was just black. Like it was doomsday.

Her eyes were ridden with bangs and even from across the room I could see bangs beneath them, they too had lost their brightness.

Like the last bit of life had truly been sucked out of her.

I exchanged a glance with Eddie; I could tell he was thinking the same thing. I remember when Rose saved Eddie and Mia from the basement, Mason being the only one who didn't make it out, ever since then I knew that Eddie looked at Rose as a little sister. Someone he needed to guard and protect.

She wasn't letting him protect her now.

No matter how much he wanted too.

She was sitting beside him. A few feet away from Lissa and Christian, why weren't they sitting together?

Why was Lissa letting them be alone?

Oh cousin no.

I growled beneath my breath and Eddie mumbled for me to calm down quietly.

I didn't want too.

Makayla was waiting a few feet away, she'd agreed to help me out with this and I couldn't wait. I knew it might not make much of a difference, but maybe if Lissa could find an easy way to let Dimitri go (Eddie told me that she too, knew about Rose's and Dimitri's relationship and that if she had a good reason would ship him back to Russia in a heartbeat) then he would be gone for a while and Rose could… well, get better and realize how stupid she was staying with the man.

He wasn't the same Russian she knew and … loved. Who knew? Maybe he still had a bit of strigoi left in him from when Lissa changed him back.

Could I get Eddie to stake him for that?

Right in his heart?

And break it?

Like how Rose had broke mine when she chose him over me.

I nodded at Makayla.

She winked back and smiled.

Eddie tensed beside me, like he was waiting on something.

I watched Makayla walk slowly towards the two, two slurpies filled her right hand and she was in high heels that added five inches onto her height, Eddie couldn't stop looking at her legs which I found hilarious.

They were nowhere as good looking as Rose's, though that might be an impossible task. Finding someone with killer legs.

Rose was a killer.

Of the undead,

And of my heart.

Did I mention her leaving me, well, it ruined me inside?

I think I have before.

And then Makayla 'accidentally' spilt the slurpie's on the Russians head and screeched fakely.

I grinned.

Big boy looked pissed.

Like, 'Im about to eat this humans head off 'pissed. Like in King Kong.

Makayla began trying to brush the slurpie from big boys head but he wasn't having it, he pushed his chair up and began cussing in a string of Russian nobody cared enough to wonder what they were.

Rose looked like she didn't want to laugh, a lovely look on her face if I might add.

And then he slipped on the ice, falling back onto the weak table and making the food, hotdogs, cheeseburgers, soda's, chips, the whole shebang fly into the air and landed on the heads of some young Moroi and Dhampir's who were eating near by.

Then I saw some of it land on Christians head.

That crazy ass bitch, Christian is.

Then all hell broke loose.

Apparently, Christian and the queen had been having lovey dovey couple time and the 'king' (King Christian Ozera's official title now that he was married to my cousin) wasn't having that. He shoved his hand into a cup of chili and tossed it at the nearest guy, who retaliated at Christian but had horrible aim, hitting a third guy in the face.

And the next thing you knew, the people dining at the prestigious, royal, respected Moroi court were having a food fight and it was all because of my brilliant plan.

Eddie elbowed me with a mischievous look in his eyes as if to say, "You know you want too."

I took a look at Rose who was currently throwing ice at Lissa and grinned back. It was the first time I was happy in a long time.

I grabbed the closest thing to me (a hotdog) and threw it at a Dhampir who was close to me.

Maybe there was a god, after all.