I OWN NOTHING!

I woke up in a nice warm room on a nice sofa. It wasn't the only thing I woke up too.

"Wakey, wakey, sleepy head." Mitch said as he sits on the coffee table.

Wait one minute, where the hell am I? I sit up, but close my eyes in pain as my head feels like I've been run over by a tuck.

"Mitch?" I asked, not so sure if this was a dream or reality.

But then he gives me a cheesy smile that told me that I was seeing him in person. "Yep Couz, the one, the only."

That's when I jumped at him and hugged him tightly. I really thought Camille had him, but knowing he was safe and unharmed, made me want to cry in happiness.

Which I did.

"Shh..." He whispered hugging me back and stoking my hair.

"I thought she had you..." I cried.

I felt him nod, "I know...I know."

We hugged while I cried. I didn't really care where we were, only that he was safe. But then...I killed someone. In cold blood. I knew it was in self defuse but it's still killing a soul.

"Rose." I broke the hug with Mitch to see James and Harris.

"James, Harris...I would say it's good to see you but I don't even know where we are." I said as I wiped my tears away.

They both chuckled. "Good to see you too Rose. Welcome to our home or as we like to call it, our HQ."

I looked around as they sat on the sofa opposite me and Mitch sat next to me. The place didn't look like a HQ area. It was a mansion. It looked like a Queen could live here.

"This is your HQ?" I asked in disbelief.

Everyone laughed at my reaction. "Yes it is." Harris said.

It was then when Mitch grabbed my hand and held it tight. I looked at him for a moment and saw he was a bit angry. I didn't know why until I looked at Harris...

I gasped and said, "You know..." Mitch looked at me and nodded. "Since when?"

He took a breath to cool himself down. "Since four hours ago." Whoa, he just found out that Harris is our godfather four hours ago and I've known since...

"How long have I been asleep?" I asked.

"For a day." James told me

"A day?"

James nodded.

"What about the academy, wouldn't they know that I'm missing by now?"

Harris sighed, "I got that covered, I told them me and you have gone out for a day but got stuck somewhere."

I nodded, but just to make sure I checked Lissa's emotions. She was worried. She only just found out that I was with Harris. She was also confused why I was with him. That's when I got sucked into her head.

She was in the headmistress's office alone, well not alone. The head bitch, Dimitri and Alberta were there too.

"Are you sure you don't know why Rose went off with Guardian West?" Questioned Alberta. What the heck was this?

Lissa shook her head, "No, I'm sorry, but why are you asking me this?"

Alberta sighed and looked to the head bitch. "We think that Rose and West may have...relationship." Right there and then I wanted to burst out laughing.

Seriously?

Yeah we have a relationship, a goddaughter and godfather relationship.

I thought to myself.

But Lissa took it seriously and gasped, "Why would Rose do that? Where are they? Why didn't you stop them from leaving?"

From the corner of Lissa's eye I saw Dimitri looking mad and sad. He was upset but also a bit jealous. But Lissa didn't know that though.

"We didn't know that they left until we got a call from West." Dimitri said as he growled Harris's name like it was a bad word.

"How did they get passed the gates?" I – Lissa asked.

"That's what we're trying to figure out." Alberta said. "Thank you for your help Princess, you may leave."

Lissa nodded and rose from her seat. "Let me know when you find them."

They all nodded and Lissa left the room. That's when I left her head.

I was back with Mitch, Harris and James and they were looking at me with amused faces.

"What?" I asked

Mitch laughed and said, "Well, at least we know that the academy has your safety at heart."

I was shocked, "How did you..." I trailed off as I remembered my fight with Camille and how Kara reached me.

"Also when you're on the third stage." James began, "You can commutate with other Shadow-Kiss people through the minds."

"Are you serious?" I asked.

They all nodded.

"Wow," I breathed and leaned back on the sofa while putting my head back.

There was a moment of silence.

"Rose, Mitch...there's something we need to tell you." James said. By the tone of his voice I sat up right and raised both of my eyebrows. I looked to Mitch who looked confused as I was. We were both still holding each other's hands and I squeezed it for support. He squeezed it back.

"There is a reason why Camille wants...wanted you two dead." Harris started and then looked to James.

James sighed and looked down for a few seconds. When he looked back up he said, "Your both from the Hakim family."

Time froze and I stopped breathing.

Young Hakim was what Anna kept calling me. She told me it meant 'wise person' but now I know she was lying. All I could think was how?

But then it was Mitch who asked, "How?"

"Axel and Janine are both from the Hakim family bloodline, neither knew about all of the members being Shadow-Kissed or spirit users." I had a feeling that James wasn't telling the whole truth but instead of saying what was on my mind I said,

"I thought the Hakim bloodline ended." In the Hakim book it said that the family disappeared hurdard years ago and was thought to be dead.

James shook his head, "No, it was thought to have ended, but no. The Hakims were being hunted by the Strigoi a lot because of their blood. So many people of the family were killed; they had no choice but to go into hiding." He coughed for a second and then continued, "They changed their names to Hathaway and as the years went on, the family began to get small and they didn't know of their family's history. And that is why neither Axel nor Janine knew about it."

Again I had a feeling that James wasn't telling the whole truth.

There was silence again and I looked to Mitch, who looked surprised and shock as I did.

"So...what do we do now?" Mitch asked.

I added, "Anything else you have to tell us?" I asked.

Harris and James looked at each other and shook their heads.

"No...Nothing." Harris lied. I could tell he was lying as he didn't look at either me or Mitch in the eye. But like I did before, I kept silent.

Then suddenly I heard screaming and someone shouting "ROSE!"

I looked to my side and saw Kara jumping at me, and before I knew it I was on top of Mitch and Kara was on top of me giving me a bear hug. I felt really uncomfortable.

"Ohmigod! Rose, I was sooooo worried!" She shouted right in my ear.

Okay Kara...you can get off of me now...

She did as I told to do – as she is a mind reader – and got off of me. And I got off of Mitch.

Kara bit her lip, "Sorry."

I shook my head and stood. "It's fine." I looked behind Kara and saw Willow. I smiled, "Willow."

She smiled back and walked over to me, "I'm so glad you're safe." She wrapped her arms around me and gave me a hug. I returned it.

"It's so good to see you in person." She laughed as we broke the hug, "All of you." I said as I looked towards Kara and Mitch.

"Can we come in yet?" A voice called from the hallway.

"Who's that?" I asked.

Willow laughed, "There are some people who would like to meet you."

"Come on in!" Kara called.

Four people walked out. A Jamaican girl with curly black hair and amber eyes who looked younger than me came out; she was wearing a demi mini shirt with a light blue top. She smiled a friendly smile to me. Then there was a boy who also looked younger than me came out, he had black hair too but a little lighter than the girl's –almost brown – with blue eyes and he was wearing a green hoodie with dark blue jeans. The next person who walked in was also a boy, but looked the same age as me. He had sandy dirty blond hair with hazel eyes – he sort of looked like a Moroi – and he was wearing a white top with black jeans. The last person to come out was a girl, looked like the same age as me with fiery red hair and green piercing eyes with pale skin – a Moroi for sure – and she was wearing a black dress.

Kara smiled as she pointed at the Jamaican girl, "That's Lucy Park."

Lucy grinned, "Nice to meet ya." She sort of had a English accent, which surprised me.

Kara went onto the first boy who walked in. "That's Jonas Jenkins."

Jonas smirked and lifted up his chin, "Sup, but call me Jenkins."

Kara moved on to the second boy, "Zak Quinn." Zak just nodded to me. "And that," Kara said as she pointed to the red haired girl, "is Bianca Thorpe."

Bianca didn't even look at me as she turned around the other way.

I rubbed my neck and said, "Nice to meet you all."

Lucy walked over to me, "You have no idea how long I waited to meet you, I've heard so many – "

She was cut off by Bianca.

"Don't treat her like a hero." She growled.

"Bianca." James warned.

"Well sorry for getting my option across." Bianca spat, "and she hasn't even thanked me for saving her life."

"What?" I asked.

"Oh! No one has told her." She stated and finally looked to me with a look that even Dimitri would be scared of. "Since I'm a psychic and all, I saw you death and told little James over there."

I flinched. I saw your death. If it wasn't for her, I would be dead.

"Thank you." I said.

She sorted, "You're not welcome." Then she walks away.

After a few moments of silence I break it by saying, "She's..."

"A bitch." Lucy finished off for me. "We know, she's always been like that."

I laughed, "So wait, are you all Shadow Children?" Everyone nodded, "Wow."

"Hey Rose, you hungry?" Willow asked.

Just then my stomach growled. "That's your answer." I said and we all laughed.

After getting something to eat, Harris told me it was time to go and tell the academy that we weren't having an affair. Of course I laughed and we started to leave. I found out that Kara's mother healed me from my injures, I told James to tell her thank you. Zak was pretty quiet, but I found out he was the same age as me, Kara, Willow and Mitch and was Mitch's best friend. Lucy and Jenkins were quite the opposite, they are 16 and very loud. But very nice.

Now I was leaving, I didn't want to leave, but I didn't want to leave Lissa either. Right now I was hugging Mitch goodbye.

"Look after yourself cousin." He told me, and then added, "Try not to get into any trouble."

I laughed as we broke apart. "I can't promise anything."

He laughed too, "God I'm going to miss you."

"We'll see each other again, remember what Harris said." I told him. Harris told us that now he was going to tell the academy who he was that he could take me anywhere and the academy won't have a second say about it.

He nodded. "I know...It's a good thing we can see each other in our dreams."

I smiled, "Yeah it is." I hugged him again and whispered, "Be safe."

"I will." He whispered and we broke apart.

"Ready to go?" Asked Harris by the door. I nodded and walked over to him. "Bye Mitch." I looked to Mitch who didn't reply. Harris sighed while opening the door and walking out.

"Don't be so hard on him Mitch; he's the only one we got." I told Mitch. He looked at me for a second and nodded. "Bye."

"Bye."

I walked out and closed the door behind me. I started walking towards Harris's car before I heard the door open and someone calling my name.

"Rose!" I turned around to see Willow running towards me with a black bag in her hand.

"Willow?" I asked as she got to me, "What's wrong?"

She chuckled and shook her head, "Nothing, I just wanted to give you this." She handed me the black bag.

I got out the box out of the black bag and opened the box. Inside were some dark blue Converses at ankle height.

I laughed and looked up to Willow. "Willow, my birthday isn't until three weeks away."

She smiled, "It's not for your birthday."

"Then what?"

"Because your my friend and you told me that you didn't own any Converses. So I got you some." She told me.

I sighed and smiled, "You shouldn't of Willow."

"But I wanted too."

I hugged her – with the box still in one hand – and said, "Thank you."

We broke apart, "Your welcome." Her face went into a frown suddenly. "Rose there's something you need to know."

I looked at her questionably. "What's up?"

"You know how I always keep telling you that me and Kara are only close friends?" I nodded, I actually started to wonder why Willow always called Kara her close friend as they acted more like best friends. "Well there's a reason for that." She pauses, "When I was brought back to life by Johnny, there was a pierce to pay. Since he was already weak at the time when he was healing me, he...he...he lost legs. The use of them anyway." Her eyes started to water. "And when I came here, I told Kara about it, and at the time, she was friends with Bianca and Kara told Bianca." I didn't like the sound of where this was going. "And Bianca told everyone and made fun of me. It wasn't until James put a stop to it when she finally stopped bullying me." Then she started crying.

"Oh Willow." I hugged her again. She cried into my shoulder for a minute before I putted away, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because it wasn't important," Willow wiped her tears away, "Kara and Bianca weren't friends anymore after that and Kara and me became friends. Even though we act like best friends, I still don't forget what she did."

"Of course you wouldn't," I bit my lip, "But sometimes to move on, you got to forgive."

Before Willow could reply, "Rose! Time to go!" Harris called.

"Coming!" I called back and looked back to Willow. "Just think about it, kay?"

She nodded, "Bye"

"Bye."

Then I walked towards the car and got in.

Most of the journey was quiet. We listened to the radio for a while.

"So...will you be staying at the academy for a while?" I asked.

"Hopefully, if they let me." He told me.

"They will." He turned to me, "I'll make sure of that."

He laughs, "I thought I was supposed to be the godparent."

I nodded slowly. "Well, you weren't always around." I mumbled.

"Rose," He started, "there was a reason I wasn't always around."

"And what's that?"

"To keep you safe." He made it sound like it was the most simplest thing in the world.

"Safe from what?" I asked.

He sighed, "I can't tell you," When I was about to say something, he says, "All answers will be answered in time Rose, you just got to wait."

Instead of arguing, I said, "Fine, I'll wait, Uncle Harris."

We both smiled at each other and the silence came back. But a good silence.

After an hour later, we arrived at the academy and the Guardians at the gate told us that the head bitch wanted to see us.

We quickly parked the car and went to head bitch's office. I could tell through the bond that Lissa was there, waiting to see me to see if I was alright.

When we got there, Alberta was standing behind the head bitch and Dimitri was standing behind Lissa, both with guardian masks on.

"Miss Hathaway, Guardian West, where were you." Both me and Harris were standing in front of the bitch's desk. As Harris was going to say something, she cut him off. "Actually, I don't want to know where you were or what you were up to. But I want you to know that your relationship ends now!" If this wasn't funny, I actually thought that bitch would be scary.

That's why I burst out laughing.

Everyone, apart from Harris, looked at me like I lost the plot.

"And what is so funny Miss Hathaway?" questioned head bitch.

I stopped laughing with a smile. "The funny thing is that you all actually think there's something going on between me and Un – Harris." I almost slipped when I almost said Uncle Harris.

The bitch raised an eyebrow, "Oh, then why did you take you off campus without permission?"

I looked at Harris for permission to tell them. He nodded and turned back to head bitch, "Because he doesn't need permission." I took a deep breath, "as he is my Godfather."

I swear her jaw almost hit the ground.

"You're Godfather?" I heard Lissa whisper, I turned to her and she looked at me with shock on her face.

"Is this true Guardian West?" Asked Alberta.

Harris nodded.

"But how? Ms Hathaway never told us that Miss Hathaway had a Godfather."

"That's because she doesn't know." I looked to Harris who was wearing his guardian mask. "I was assigned Rose's Godfather by her father."

My father?

"What?" I asked as I turned directly to Harris, who had his eyes closed and regretting what he said. "My father?" I shouted.

"Miss Hathaway – " The bitch started, but I put up a hand to stop her, without taking my eyes off of Harris.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

He opened his eyes, "You never asked."

"Yeah because I've only known for a day!"

"Rose I – " He started.

"No, I don't want your excuses." I said as I pushed passed him and heading for the door.

As I was, the door opened. And a woman came in with her long raven black hair up in a pony tail and her dark chocolate brown eyes met my eyes.

I paused in my tracks. I knew her face...her hair...her eyes.

It couldn't be!

But it was...

"Hi," She said with a smirk on her face, "I'm Emma Newcastle, your new teacher."

Emma...

DUH DUH DUH! A bit of a cliff-hanger there hey. Just in case you don't remember, Emma was in the woods with Camille when Rose was ears dropping. So what do you think so far? Why is Emma at the academy? Like I said in the last chapter I won't be updating for a week, but the next chapter will be on Character Profiles. Hope you enjoyed :D