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Chapter Ten

DPOV

All I know at his moment in time is that I sitting sprawled on the ground rocking my Roza in my arms. I can sense presence of many people around me, but nobody does anything.

The rain continues to fall and the noisy thunder cracks through the dark sky it occasionally brightens which each ripple and flash of light.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see a figure approaching me and my wife. I held Roza's body closer to mine. I knew she was truly dead in my heart but I still felt the urge to protect her body.

Out of nowhere a pale hand reached out towards me.

I pulled Roza closer to me gently pulling her body against mine. Her head was pressed against my chest almost as if she was snuggling into me.

The same pale hand reached for me again successfully touching my arm. I looked away from my Roza to see Doctor Olendzki. She was holding my wife's wrist.

She was crouched down beside the two of us. She stood up shaking her head. Tears freely flowed down my cheeks and I could seem them glistening in her eyes to. I was meant to be strong and tough. But here I was crying in the rain.

I looked back to my Roza I hoped that any minute she would pull herself up and say something sarcastic. Something Rose like, but instead…. I could her raise voices coming from behind me.

I saw another pair of hands being pressed against Roza. I looked up to see they belonged to the Queen. Her face was full of concentration. I could see droplets of water all over her face but I could not identify if they were sweat, tears or if they were droplets of water caused from the rain.

Queen Vasilisa fell back into a sitting position; her face was a frozen image of shock.

I lay my Roza onto the wet muddy ground and stand up. I looked round the group of people surrounding us.

I lean back down to Roza's side I scoop her up and pass her carefully to the Guardian standing with his arms outstretched.

Funnily it is the wide child from earlier the one who Roza put in his place.

I step away because I can't bare to be here any longer. I have no life because my soul mate is dead. She would never be around again to joke about me reading my western novels or commenting on my duster.

We would never grow old together. We just weren't meant to have a happy ending.

She was truly gone.

Forever.

LPOV

I paced the floor of my apartment at the academy. This was my second home. I spent a lot of time here helping and teaching spirit users. Being honest they also taught me a lot as well.

Christian also taught his defensive magic program with Mia.

Today I had so much information to process.

Rose was different. Colder and more mature. All I knew about her now was that she spent a lot of time with a Guardian named Luke.

There was something odd about him though, but something strangely familiar at the same time.

I feel so confused sitting in the apartment I remember we went from Mr Mazur's home in Turkey to here at the academy then I came straight to the apartment. I feel like something is missing in my memory.

The next thing I can remember is being on the floor sobbing and Rose telling me to get out her sight. But why?

This seems to happen all the time I do things then there are big gaps were I can't remember what happened.

A long time ago I came to the conclusion that it must be the spirit getting to me, but I know Rose takes it at least once a week.

I stop my pacing when I hear the front door slamming open I see Christian followed by many of my spirit user pupils.

I speak to Christian.

"Chris what is happening? Why are all my pupils here?"

He has a stressed worried look on his face.

"Lissa listen to me carefully there is going to be an attack very soon. Rose sent your pupils to watch your aura."

I could tell he was lying partially from his aura he was withholding something from me. But I trusted him enough not to push the matter.

I nodded and retreated to the living room were I sat on the seat. Then a brain wave came to me.

"Chris is Rose going to be involved in the fighting?"

At that exact moment I yawned and fell asleep on the sofa with my last thought being 'so tired'.

I woke up to the sound of gasps. I pulled my self into a sitting position and stretched like a cat.

I could hear sobbing noises coming from outside the apartment. I ran to the window to see a tall figure slumped over a body.

I jumped away from the window as I identified one of the two people. It was Rose.

I jumped again as a large rumble of thunder cracked through the sky like a Lioness roaring to protect her young.

I spun away from the window and ran straight out the door. I could hear the pounding feet of the Royal Guardians following me. Out the corner of my eyes I could see there attempts to grab be but they slid and fell on the muddy ground.

I didn't even pay attention to the bodies laying obscurely everywhere. All I could see in front of me was Rose, when I got within a few feet of distance. I could now see Dimitri cradling her pale fragile body.

This was wrong Rose was never a fragile person nor was she pale. She had her beautifully tanned coloured skin. She got that from her father. It caused her to further stand out from the crowd with her exquisite and unique look. And of course being the Badass she is.

I could see a white coated figure shaking her head- it was Doctor Olendzki. When Doctors shook there head it was never a good thing in my experience anyway.

I ran the rest of the short distance to my best friends side stumbling slightly as I reached her. I immediately without pause or taking a breath lay my hands on her.

I pushed all my energy and spirit into her body; I could feel my magic flowing through the whole of my body and out of my hand but it felt like it was being repelled by some sort of shield.

I now knew truly that she was gone nothing anybody could do now would bring her back. At that moment I felt like I heard her voice in my head.

Lissa I am your best friend and you trust me. Do as I say, just this once at least. Remember the blanks that you feel in your mind, they are blocked by something. I give you my full forgiveness-not that you need it. None of the events that happened were your fault. It wasn't even you. Follow your heart by fighting the compulsion that blocks your memories.

As soon as I heard her voice, I closed my eyes and pictured her standing in front of me. I slowly started to feel bits of my mind shift, if that is even possible. It's like they were re-awakening-like an animal coming out of hibernation.

One word stood out from her wholes speech 'compulsion' this was the catalyst to speeding up the process of my missing memories. Now they were just flooding back.

I was walking out of the council meeting. I was the last person to leave-like always. As I left the empty room I was grabbed. My eyes were covered and my hands tied.

I now remember being scared. Definitely too scared to shout for help. I hear a room door click shut. The room is totally white; I know I am still in court but where in court I have no clue. My blind fold is removed and standing in front of me is Tasha.

Before I can register the fact that she is meant to be dead she is speaking.

"Lissa I am working on my plan to get rid of Rose. Just to clarify to you I want her dead. My plan would be so much easier if I could kill you but that would affect my nephew. Since he has told me on many occasions how much he loves you. I don't see how honestly. There is nothing special standing in front of me. So I can't kill you because then he would turn against me and then we would never rule the strigoi world together. Why am I telling you all this? Well…It's not like your going to remember."

She steps away from me and standing in the same position I see Robert staring into my eyes.

Viktor's brother.

I have many flashbacks that take the exact same form. The same event's apart from the speech that varies slightly each time but Robert always uses compulsion on me in the end.

I slowly open my eyes to see Dimitri lifting Rose's lifeless body carefully and placing her into the arms of a Guardian who is standing by his side.

He then turns and walks away towards his accommodation. I turn away from Rose's body to see Christian standing in the crowd, his eyes staring at me holding that cheeky glint in his eyes.

The one that has been missing for years.

I pull my self in to a standing position on the uneven ground. I walk towards Christian who is waiting for me with his hand outstretched. As soon as I am within reaching distance I cling on to his hand, I turn round one last time looking at Rose to see something dangling on her wrist it was the chokoti I had given her.

I smile to myself and send a message to her as a final goodbye.

Thank you Rose for all that you have done. You are my best friend and always will be. I love you Rose.

I walk with Christian towards our housing. As we reach the door to the house I swear I hear Rose chuckling. I then hear her voice again as clear as If the bond was 2-way. I also know truly in my heart it will be the last time I hear her voice.

Hey my old friend. I see you are mostly back to your old self. I am so glad. I just want to say cause I know you so well don't blame yourself remember all that happened had nothing to do with you and I love you- in a friendly way of course.

…Oh and one last thing I will always be close Lissa I promise you that.

And remember to keep Sparky in his place for me.

She said you would be around. How is that possible? She is dead. But one thing I know about Rose is that she has never lied to me she may have missed out details but she hasn't lied.

I walk into the house and close the door. Today is the first day in 6 years I have felt complete. But today I also lost a tiny part of myself. I lost my best friend, but in my heart she is still there.

I know that she will never be lost in my heart she was my first friend, my only best friend we were connected through a unique bond and we were an will always be sisters.

JPOV

Abe and I are standing in the Queen's home looking very out of place. We stand in silence mainly because we are on end waiting to see if the Queen will be attacked.

Then all of a sudden there is a lot of noise coming from the Royal Guards. I walk into the living room to see the Queen missing. I turn round to see Abe looking out the window.

I walk over to his side and see a group of huddled people. Within a minute of looking out the window I see the Queen squeezing her way through the crowd. Soon she is out of sight.

I don't know why but I have a maternal instinct that something is wrong. I feel like my stomach is knots. My heart seems to ache a little too.

I feel something tugging at my hand I see Abe pulling me towards the door. Once we are outside we are faced with piles of dead strigoi bodies. It doesn't affect either of us.

As we approach the huddled group who are standing in silence, our presence causes the group to part. And there in the middle in the arms of a Guardian is my daughter.

I look to see Lissa walking away. She has a small smile on her face. I knew she would have tried everything for Rose. But I just can't take the news of my only daughter being dead. I look round to see if Belikov is anywhere in sight but he is gone. Poor boy if only he knew that Rose loved him back.

Then I am hit with a thought.

"Protection. Safety. Time"

I must have mumbled it as it seems to caught Abe's attention. This was what Rose had asked me to tell her father earlier on.

As I look at Abe my lover, husband and father of our only child I realise that she is so very sneaky like him.

Abe looks me in the eyes and I see something that catches me off balance. My husband the supposed Mobster has a slight reservation in his eyes, the hope that his daughter is safe and is just better at plotting and scheming than her old man.

But then as I study his eyes more in depth I see a horrified and upset look. His face is still serious but his eyes definitely show those two emotions.

The look in his eyes just piles on to my fears. Abe never looks worried. He looks many things but worried is just not one of them.

I know he trust our daughter but something isn't right.

We knew she had a mission to fulfil. Maybe….. just maybe she has faked her own death. It wouldn't be the first time, but this time there wear no signs of a set-up.

This was confirmed by the look in my husband's eyes, they showed this definitely wasn't part of the plan. And that thought causes me to shudder as the feeling of loss and dread returns, almost suffocating me in its wake.

I continued to stare at my daughters limp body. Her body had splodges of mud and was covered in blood.

She had a stake sticking out of her chest. Her hand was across her chest. Something caught my eye it was a gold ring. It reminded me of a wedding band.

As I looked at her body I saw it was on her left hand.

I was brought out of my inner thoughts by Abe pulling me towards the Guardian accommodation. Why would… he was going to look for signs of Rose being absolutely fine.

I felt totally disorientated I couldn't think properly because it could lead to the pain of loosing my daughter, whom I had gotten so closed to over the past 5 years. She had a proper family for once. Something both of us had wanted but life just wouldn't allow it.

I hear a loud thumping noise I look to see Abe pounding on a door. The door swings open and there standing is Belikov. He has a tear stained face, his short hair is sticking out in all directions.

Being a mother I know what I have to do. I walk over to him and grab his t-shirt pulling him towards me. He flinches slightly. But I ignore his movement. Once he is leaning closer to me I wrap my arms around him and hug him as tight as possible.

He wraps his arms immediately around my small frame and hugs me back. The poor boy just needs some comfort from a mother figure and well in that moment I needed to be a mother.

I could feel his tall body shaking as the wets tears ran down my neck. At this point I couldn't tell if they were his or my own.

APOV

I stood pounding on the door of where Rose has been staying. There was no answer. I didn't expect Rose to open the door but I expected to immediately sense her.

I know it sounds stupid but when my daughter is around the atmosphere feels different there seems to be some sort of energy in it.

This is so unlike me right now I am tough and well scary. I don't talk to myself in my head like Rose and Janine they think I don't know when they are doing it. But I do.

They call it 'mental rants' and I know I am now doing it. The door I am pounding on suddenly swings open. I see that Belikov is standing there with his head hanging low but I don't hang around.

I walk straight to the bathroom. Throwing open the door in the process. It slams against the wall I guess all the training sessions Rose has been doing with me have being paying off.

Think Abe think if I were Jill where would I hide a package?

Which contains money and I.D mostly. I feel so annoyed why would Rose venture of the plan? She knew that if she was going to fake her death she would.

Tell me first.

We would discuss other options.

She would tell me what she had planned.

And she would leave me at least one sign of it being planned- even if we had discussed and planned it together.

Had she done any of these things?

No.

And that was what worried me that there were no signs; the whole thing looked way too real for her to have planned it she had a bloody stake sticking out of her heart for god sake.

How could you fake that?

I rested my hands on my knees. Wait I'm sitting on the toilet.

Hmm what about the cistern… but why would she put it in with all that water? Then the answer came to me because I told Jill the package was waterproof so she wanted to test me.

I shall be having words with her later.

I stand up and pull the cistern top off and there floating is the package. I pull it out. I don't bother placing the cistern back. I just exit the bathroom.

Sitting on the bed I see Janine hugging Dimitri. Poor boy I can hear him sobbing. I see his left hand he is wearing a gold band. Poor Rose it would have broken her heart to see him married. I am surprised I never heard from the Belikov's.

Why do I keep having these mental rants I have got to stop with them. I walk over to the bed and unzip the bag I empty its contents on to it. I sort everything into piles. I slowly raise my head to look at Janine.

I can't bear to look her in the eyes but I have to. All I can see in her eyes is pain. She knows me so well that she can tell from the way I am reacting that Rose is gone.

I continue to look at her. Then she speaks.

"A….. Abe is anything gone."

I shake my head.

The tears are run down her face and mine she stands up and walks round to my side. She throws her arms round me like a smile child. I immediately return the embrace.

We must have been standing there for a few moments before there is a knock on the door Luke walks in without being invited. He is holding two black bags.

He looks me in the eyes and speaks in his Guardian voice.

"Mr Mazur these are Rose's bags they were found out on the field."

He places the bags down and leaves. How weird. I say this because he is Rose's best friend and Rose never leaves her gear lying around.

I see Dimitri stand up and walk over to the bags. He turns to look me and I nod. He brings the bags over to the bed. I release Janine from our embrace.

We all crowd round the bag. I pull it over and empty everything out. It is mostly bullets and darts. But once I get to the bottom there is an envelope addressed to Dimitri.

I hand it over to him and he opens it. I continue with my search. But find nothing.

I look up seeing Janine standing at the door. I guess she wants to leave we open the door to walk out. But Dimitri speaks for the first time.

"Sir?"

I turn round to look at him.

"Please call me Abe."

"Ok… I don't mean to be rude but Rose never left the bags out on the field."

Why would he say this Luke wouldn't lie?

"I know you may think I am lying but I am telling the truth I was with Rose. We were side by side while fighting and right before the wards broke she threw the bags to the side door. Where somebody came out and grabbed them. I promise I am not lying because I love Roza so dearly."

Wait he loves Rose. Ok why would he marry someone else? I knew I was right in a way Rose would never leave her bags lying around since that time she left it out in one of her first battles in Turkey and got shot by one of her own guns.

DPOV

He looked like he didn't believe me but I was telling the truth. I saw it with my own eyes. There was something off about that Luke. I know Roza trusted him but something wasn't right.

Abe had that same look as Janine and Roza when they are having a conversation or rant with themselves inside their head.

He looks at Janine who is showing no expression but looks very pale. Then he looks me in the eyes. He is showing that same glare Roza does but is seems scarier on this Mobster.

"Ok I have no reason not to believe you. But let me ask you one question."

What could he want to ask me? I know I shouldn't be reacting like this but he scares me and I know I shouldn't admit it but I can feel my legs shaking a little bit. His eyebrow raises it is like he can sense my fear.

Like he is some sort of animal. Shit I shouldn't call him an animal. I see him smirk slightly. He must know what I am thinking. But how is that possible?

"Dimitri I do not know what you are thinking to let you know. It's just you have the same expression as Rose and Janine when they are having one of their 'mental rants'. My question is why did you marry someone else if you love Rose?"

I take a deep breath ready to tell the Mobster that I actually married his daughter. But Janine steps forward smiling she rests her hand on Abe's shoulder and speaks.

"Abe he married Rose. She is wearing the same wedding band as him."

Abe breaths in sharply. He walks towards me. Slow steps like he is testing me. At this present moment I really want to run out the room screaming. Like a girl.

But I stand my ground. Just hoping he won't kill me. Because first I have to hunt down Tasha, even though in the letter Roza told me not to hunt down Tasha but to go see my family in Russia. And to exclaim her point she has given me a plane ticket for 2 hours time.

I feel warm arms around me I look down to see Abe hugging me in a fatherly way. He lets go of me and walks to the door. Janine automatically takes his hand. As he is halfway out of the door he speaks.

"Go to Russia Dimitri Rose wanted you to. I will sort everything here. Don't rush to come back. I and Janine will see you in Russia and if you want you can come and stay with us in Turkey for a while; we shall meet you in Russia. Oh and welcome to the family Son."

He smiles briefly and he is gone.

Wait did he just call me son? Wow I am now son-in-law to a mobster.

I wonder what his job actually is. One day I might pluck up the courage to ask him.

From the tone in his voice I know I need to go to Russia it was a command not an option and to be honest I need to get away from this place.

It killed two birds with one stone.

So I go and get my large travelling rucksack from the side of the room it's mostly packed because I never took anything from it.

All I have to do is add the gear Roza gave me.

Which isn't a lot of stuff so it doesn't take long. But before I leave I see Roza's small backpack in the corner I walk over to it and unzip it, inside its empty. It must have just had her clothes in it.

I grab the leather jacket she gave me. I put it on and quickly place my plane ticket inside the pocket along with my passport.

I quickly flick my eyes round the room to see something on the cabinet at the side of the bed. I walk over to it and there lying are 2 photos. One of Roza smiling on her own. In her leathers the picture looks recent. The other photo is of her and me before I was turned.

Both standing smiling. It is a rare sight as we were both showing our true emotions and nobody even suspected anything. I grab the photos and put them in my pocket with my ticket and passport.

I grab my bag and throw it over one shoulder. I look at the room once more. If I stare at the bed long enough I can see the outline of her body on the mattress.

Well I guess it's time to go. I make my way out of the building to see a car at the front gate. As I approach it I see Lissa and Christian standing at the side of it.

Lissa hugs me while Christian opens the car door. They don't say anything but wave as soon as I am in the car.

It takes just over an hour and a half to get to the airport. I thank the driver when I get out. I walk in to the airport.

Then the next thing I do is walk over to the very short queue that leads to the check in desk. I hand my passport over to the young girl at the desk. She checks my luggage and weighs it but thankfully she allows me to put it in stowaway because it weighs practically nothing.

Which means it will be quicker to get out of the Airport in Siberia. I walk up to the departing lounge. It takes me about 10 minutes to get there. When I get to the departing lounge there is nobody in the queue so I hand over my ticket and before I know it I am on the plane sitting in seat 12B luckily my Roza has booked me in 1st class so I actually have room to stretch my legs out.

There is an empty seat beside me-12A. Nothing that I have to worry about though so I put my luggage up in storage and re-sit down in my seat. Knowing that I will see my family soon eases a tiny smudging of the pain of loosing my Roza.

Normally I would watch everyone walk onto the plane but today I am oblivious to everything. Until I see a Dhampir walking down the aisle of the plane. She is on crutches and looks in severe pain. She looks at her ticket, then the seat then at me in one fluid motion. She gasps slightly but recovers. By quickly placing her Guardian mask

She pulls her rucksack of her shoulder and struggles to put it in storage. So I stand up ducking so I don't hit my head and take her bag I put the rucksack in beside mine.

I sit back down and she continues to stare at me her green eyes just about burning a hole in my forehead. Then she speaks.

"Excuse me but do you mind if I can get into my seat."

I look at her and stand up her accent is definitely Russian. She is about 5ft8, green eyes and black hair that is in a bob. She is wearing a baggy black hoodie and a pair of shorts. Her face is slightly bruised and she has black and purplish bruising coming out of the cast on her right leg. If I didn't know better I would say she is also hiding some serious wounds under her hoodie.

She sits down in her seat looking greatly in pain. I sit in mine. My hand automatically reaches inside my pocket I bring out the photo of my Roza. It feels slightly bumpy on the back so I turn it over. It says

'Dear Comrade thought you might like this picture. Since I am your wife and you deserve something sexy to look at.

Love you Mr Belikov.'

P.S I promise I will always be close by. Xox xx

I sigh knowing she will never be close by again.

The captain speaking over the tanoid interrupts my thoughts. I listen to his speech which takes forever as it is translated into several other languages telling that us we are but to take off and to put our seatbelts on. And that we will be landing in Siberia in 12 hours.

Before falling asleep I think about how I have wished that ever since I first met Roza that I would take her to meet my family.

I know she has met and lived with them but I wanted to go as couple. As a real family just me and her.

As my body starts to slip into the blackness of sleep I imagine my Roza is sitting in seat 12A.

I must have a very good imagination because when I breathe in I inhale her scent. Her beautiful unique scent of strawberries and vanilla a perfect blend of sweetness with a twist. Just like her personality.

The scent eases me into a calm nightmare less sleep. I feel something lean against me but I am too tired to wonder what it is.

I just wish it was Roza Belikov.

My wife.