Most of this chapter takes place right before the battle of Light's Hope Chapel, a memory of Rose's. Also, I'm using the written word to do things to people that I cannot do otherwise because of laws and stuff. So please enjoy and comment! Comments actually help inspire me!


Rose looked in shock as Darion looked down at her, hold her neck in his hand. Her eyes were locked into his and she noticed that the anger that had been there slowly faded into guilt and lust. She also found that he released her neck and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, pressing her tightly against her body. Rose fought the sigh of contentment as the heat of his hold on her made her melt.

There had been a few times in her life that she carved for this moment, the moment Darion would sweep her off her feet and take her for his own. He would save her from all the evils of the world and ravish her with pleasures only he could give to her. There was a time she even begged him to take her, when she was pregnant and alone. He declined saying that it would ruin her marriage. If only he had given in, Garion would still be alive and he would not be a death knight.

"Darion, what are you waiting for?" The human death knight asked. Darion could only see Rose, the only thing he'd ever wanted in life and undeath. Her smell filled him completely causing his body to react in a way he could not control. He knew he had to have her and he knew that if he helped her, she might be willing to let him.

"She took out four of our best knights. Not to mention she tried to kill me as well." Koltira complained. Darion kept his eyes locked on Rose's. She could see the lust over take the guilt in his eyes and almost forgot why she was there. Why didn't he ever look at her like that when he was alive, when Garion was alive?

"She would make a fine addition to the King's knights, don't you think? She took out four knights and we didn't even notice until she went after you Koltira. Hell, if she hadn't we would have never known she was here." Darion said not taking his eyes off of her. Rose fought off the blush that wanted to color her pale cheeks.

"Are you crazy? She just tried to kill…" The human started to protest. Darion shook his head, pulled Rose close and placed a hand softly on her cheek. Rose fought the urge to lend into his hand.

"She knew Arthas and I believe she might have some other connections within the ranks. For now we will take her back and let Arthas decide what he wants to do with her." Darion said as he lightly grazed his fingers along her jaw line and smiled as he felt her shiver at his touch.

"Fine, but don't expect me to help you bring her back." Koltira said bitterly. Darion shook his head as he brought his hands to her and bound her hands.

"She won't be any trouble for me." Darion said aloud. He brought his mouth to her ear and Rose trembled with anticipation. "Not if she wants revenge." He grabbed her waist and hoisted her up onto his horse. Rose finally tore her eyes away from Darion and looked out ahead of them.

Rose calmed herself as Darion led his horse back to the death knight encampment beneath the Ebon Hold that hovered above. All manner of scourge ran amuck in New Avalon and death knights of all walks of life glared up at her. A glare from Darion made them back off. Apparently he was someone of great importance to just look at them to call them off. He seemed so much more confident and stronger now.

"Had he gone further earily, those two other death knights would have been in for a show. Why now?" Rose said in her head as she stared at Darion's back. They came to a platform and Darion wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her off the horse and held her close to him.

"Inform the king we've brought him a potential death knight and notify Geo too. It will be of great importance to him. I'll take her to the holding cells." Darion commanded. The two other death knights nodded and the four of them suddenly teleported up to the hold. Rose watched as the human and blood elf death knight walked away. Darion pulled on her waist and guided her to the holding cells.

"Why are you doing this? You know I won't willingly become some undead warrior for Arthas." Rose said. Darion stopped and pinned her to the wall. He wanted to strip her naked there and show her how a real man should be but he stopped short of almost capturing her lips in his. He could feel her breath on his face.

"I know you want revenge. And I'm going to help you get it. Geo will come see you before you are brought to Arthas. If he still retains something of his humanity he should just run off with you and abandon all of this." Darion said as he brought his mouth to her ear.

"What about you, Darion?" Rose whispered. Darion straightened up and looked down at her. She had always been an inch or so shorter than him.

"What do you mean?" Darion asked. Rose raised her bound hands to his face, brushed a stray hair from his face and caressed his face. Darion closed his eyes to relish the feel of her warm hand on his face.

"Would you just run off with me and abandon all of this?" Rose asked softly. Darion sighed, took a hold of her hands and dragged her to the holding cells. He placed her inside a cell and locked the door. He turned his back on her, trying to forget her question. Rose was about to press the question again when she heard voices.

"This is interesting news, isn't Geo. Thassarian and Koltira report that Darion thinks Warrose Silverwhite will make a good death knight. Wasn't she your wife?" Arthas said. Rose could recognize his voice anywhere.

"All that bitch is good for is a good fuck." A new familiar voice said. Rose could hear Darion grinding his teeth together. Whomever it was making him angry.

"I never got the pleasure of finding that out, Geoff. She wasn't in Lordaeron when I returned. Odd she would end up here and with Darion." Arthas said. Rose managed to untie her hands and glared at the ground. That bastard of a husband of hers was a death knight and just feet from her.

"That I'm not surprised about, her being with Darion. Those two have been fucking each other for years. That boy she had, said it was mine but had the nerve to name it Garion. I know who was his father. There was no way I was going to stand raising that bastard's son as my own. Snapped that kid's neck like a twig." Geoff laughed. Rose tried to fight off the tears that dared to fall. Darion turned around and looked into her eyes. He wanted to rush over to her and hold her, but he knew it would be better.

"Well she appears to be the last connection to your humanity. Though I wouldn't mind testing your theory of her other abilities first, you will need to kill her." Arthas said.

"I don't see why not. The bitch cheated on me once, why not have a go at her before she joins her little bastard?" Geoff said. Darion rammed his fist into the wall. He had never slept with Rose, though he had dreamed of it every night since he noticed she was a woman. He had opportunities to have her but chose to be the gallant knight. He had been there through her pregnancy and turned her down when she begged for him to take her. He had been there when her son was born, holding her hand during her labor. He should have stolen her away then and perhaps neither of them would be there.

"I'm sorry." Darion finally said. Rose looked over at him as he bent down to place a dagger behind a chair leg. "I'm so very sorry." Darion looked at her again. "To the left is to the king and to the right is an unguarded way out of the Hold."

"Why are you doing this?" Rose asked. Darion gave her a sad look and shook his head and went down to the right. Rose held her breath, trying not to cry. Suddenly Geoff came running into the holding cell room.

"Rose? Is that you?" Geoff asked. He looked the same as he did the last time she saw him. Short blonde hair and green eyes, slightly taller than her and smelled awful. Rose fought the rage that wanted to jump out of her body.

"Geoff, what happened to you?" Rose asked. He shook his head.

"There's no time for that, we have to get out of here before Arthas finds out." Geoff said as he franticly opened the cell and pulled her out of it into his arms. He felt odd and unsafe, unlike how she had felt in Darion's arms. He pulled her towards the door on the left but she pulled back.

"I heard some of the knights saying there was no guard this way." Rose said as she pulled him to the right. Geoff shook his head.

"There's an easy exit this way. Then we can talk." Geoff said. Rose frowned and nodded. As they passed the chair, she snatched up the dagger without Geoff noticing. She hid it behind her back and waited for her moment.

"So we're going to be alright?" Rose asked, feigning innocence. Geoff laughed to himself, thinking she was so gullible.

"Of course." Geoff said. He turned to look at her, to reassure her when a dagger slashed across his neck. Rose beheaded him and let his head roll down the hall. She gave into her rage and rammed the dagger into chest and pulled it down to his belly, watching his cold inners spill out of him. His blood covered her whole body as she trembled with rage. Suddenly she felt as if she was death gripped again and felt her blood soaked body pressed again another body, a cold but safe one.

"So you think you can just walk in here and gut my luientant, Rose?" Arthas asked behind the person holding her. She knew it was Darion holding her for his cold breath on the back of her neck calmed her rage.

"Calm yourself and I will see you free from here." Darion whispered. Rose didn't move but she let herself calm down.

"My lord, we're ready for assault on the chapel." A death knight said behind them.

"Good. Darion, put her back in her cell and I'll deal with her later." Arthas snapped and Rose heard him storm away. Darion carried her back to the cell and locked her in.

"I will try to save you from this fate, Rose. You deserve much more than this." Darion said. He went to leave but Rose grabbed his arm.

"Will you come with me this time?" Rose asked. Darion looked into her eyes and said nothing. He pulled himself away from her and ran to catch up with the rest of the army.

Rose sat down and it seemed like hours where slowly moving by as she listened to the silence in the halls of the hold. There was no training going on, no conversing in the halls, nothing. It was all eerrily silent. Rose took the time to think about what she would do now, after beheading and gutting her husband open. Her life from when her son had been put in the ground was to find Geoff and make him pay, what was she to do now that she had her revenge? She knew she didn't want to do it alone. She wrapped her arms around herself remembering how Darion had held her. Perhaps when he returned to free her, he would come with her and love her as she should be loved. She could see in his eyes that he wanted her and she would give herself to him, fully.

Suddenly fighting erupted throughout the hold and Rose shrank back against the wall of her cell. She stealthed in hopes that whatever was going on, she wouldn't be made a part of it. She covered her ears as the screams and cries of battle and death filled the halls. She hadn't been in Lordaeron for Arthas' return and had counted her blessings that she wasn't. Death cries were the worst cries she had ever heard. She didn't notice the sudden quiet or someone openning the door to her cell.

"Rose?" Someone whispered. Rose openned her eyes and saw Darion at door of her cell. He looked slightly different, like a weight had been taken off his shoulders. She jumped to her feet and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Darion! You came back!" Rose cried. Darion blushed and closed his eyes as he wrapped his arms around Rose. Her warmth meant so much more now to him that he was free of the Lich King. He wanted to hold her forever and love her much longer. But he had new responisbilities now and he would not be able to balance leading the Ebon Blade and loving her fully. He sighed and kissed the top of her head.

"I wouldn't let you rot in here. I almost thought the worst when I couldn't see you in here. There was alot of fighting going on here when Tirion helped us free ourselves from Arthas' control. I'm relieved to see you're unhurt." Darion said. Rose sighed and took in a deep breath, her nose filling up with his aroma.

"I'm better now that you're here and now we..." Rose was stopped by Darion placing a finger on her mouth.

"Please, I can't hear you ask. If I don't know then I can't mourn my decision." Darion said sadly as he let his hands fall down her sides and away from her.

"Your decision? And what would that be?" Rose snapped as she dropped her arms and crossed them on her chest. Darion looked down at his feet.

"I'm the leader of the Knights of the Ebon Blade. I will see Arthas dead for what he's done." Darion answered.

"What about me, Darion? I saw that look in your eyes. You can't blame Arthas for that." Rose snapped. In the back of her mind she could almost hear what he was about to say but hope it wasn't true.

"I'm sorry, Rose. I care for you a great deal, but you deserve to be with someone that can love you fully not have his attention split with something else." Darion said. Rose jumped over to him and held his hands. Darion slowly looked up into her crying eyes.

"I can help you. I'll fight by your side and we'll defeat Arthas together. Just please tell me that you won't just let me go." Rose said as the tears flowed down her face. Darion wanted nothing more than to wrap his arms around her, pull her close and kiss her. He knew he couldn't though. If he did, he would leave her to a life where she would feel abandon and alone like Geoff had done. She needed a man that could hold her when she needed and be there for her. Darion could not do those things.

"Highlord?" A voice called from a doorway. Rose turned to see Thassarian. Darion pulled his hands away from Rose's and sighed.

"Thank you, Thassarian. I know you wish to return to Stormwind to find your sister. Please take Rose with you." Darion said. Rose cried harder as she moved towards Darion but he chains of iced her to the spot.

"Darion, please! Why are you doing this to me? You've been there for me through everything. Here I am, begging for you to give in to what you feel for me and you say no?" Rose cried. Thassarian wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her away. She franticly tried to break free. Darion turned around and walked away, letting the tears fall down his face. Rose watched him walk away from her and she stopped struggling against Thassarian.

"It's for the best. It would have never worked out." Thassarian whispered as he carried her threw a portal to Stormwind. Rose clasped as they arrived in Stormwind.

"It never does work out, not for me anyway." Rose whispered as she hit the ground. Thassarian hesitated to help her, but thought it wise just to leave her. Rose's heart broke that day, what little that had survived when Garion died. She had been beaten, raped and abused by the man she beheaded and gutted. She never found out who the man was that she had given her virginity to, but he was most likely dead after Arthas' attack on Lordaeron. Varian was happy with his wife and son. The one man everyone said adore her all of his life, she had seen it with her own eyes the lust he held for her and he rejected her.

There was nothing left for her, no love and barely a life. She didn't know what she was going to do. She didn't react as an arm pulled her arm over a shoulder and wrapped another arm around her waist. She couldn't feel or see what was going on, for she was worst than a death knight or the forsaken. She was just a shell of a person with no real purpose in life, only a death wish.


Alistair watched as Rose cried in front of him. He didn't know why she was crying. He had just told her why he had a slight obession with rogues. That surely wasn't something she would cry about. These weren't tears of happiness. He started to have a sinking feeling that maybe his story may have brought up something she didn't want to remember.

"I'm sorry if I offended you or brought up something painful." Alistair whispered. Rose looked up and looked at him, confused tears still flowing down her cheeks.

"Why would you think that?" Rose asked. Alistair stood up, walked over to her, knelt down and wiped the tears from her cheek.

"You've been crying for the past twenty minutes. Emotional women are my weakness." Alistair said with a wink. Rose laughed and forced a smile on her face.

"I'm sorry, my mind just drifted off to a memory I thought I had buried." Rose said softly. Alistair nodded as he wiped the tears from her other cheek.

"I will not push you to share but I will offer my shoulder if you need it." Alistair offered. Rose looked into his eyes and saw genuine concern. She let out a sigh and wrapped her arms around his neck and cried harder.

"Thank you." Rose whispered. Alistair smiled weakly and slowly put his arms around her back and rubbed her back. Rose soaked his shirt with her tears. Alistair scooped her up into his arms and carried her back upstairs to her room and laid her down her bed. He knew all her crying would make her fall asleep. She held onto him though.

"Fine, I'll stay. But no trying to use your tears to seduce me now." Alistair said with a slight laugh as he laid down on the bed on his back. Rose curled up next to him and placed her head on his chest. She let out a soft chuckle.

"I'll try to restrain myself. I can't help it if you're just so easy of a target." Rose said as she looked up at him and winked. Alistair blushed and wrapped his arms around her. Rose sighed and nuzzled into his chest. He felt her relax and slowly calm down. Soon she was asleep in his arms and Alistair let out a quiet sigh.

"You are truly going to be the death of me, woman. But it would be a welcomed one." Alistair whispered and closed his eyes for what seemed to be a moment and drifted off to a sweet dream of his chocolate haired rogue.