OK GUYS SO I HAVE MADE A DECISSION. I GOT SOME FEED BACK THAT THEY WANTED ME NOT TO HAVE THE FIGHT BETWEEN ROSE AND DIMITRI BUT RATHER ANOTHER PRANK AND TO KEEP THE STORY GOING. SO HERE IS WHAT I AM GOING TO DO. I AM GOING TO CHANGE THE CHAPTER WITH THE FIGHT AND MOVE THE STORY FORWARD FROM THERE. HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE UP SOON. BELOW IS A RECAP FOR YOU ON WHERE I AM BEGINNING FROM.

DPOV

"Rose, get your ass out here now." Alberta growled. Rose of course had been pushing her luck and every guardian wanted a piece of her. She emerged from the shadows in her black combat gear already in a fighting stance. She was so vicious for someone that small. Alberta kept her spot while the rest of us moved back slightly. This was between them, but I was going to do what I could to help.

"I knew you couldn't keep your mouth shut, which was a reckless thing to do, giving up your position. I thought Belikov taught you better." Alberta was trying to bait Rose and I knew it would work. If Rose had any weaknesses at all it was me. As with anything when Rose loved someone she was ready and willing to everything and anything in her power to protect that person. I could see Rose glance in my direction for an instant before returning her attention to Alberta.

"Yeah well, I'm sure he tried but I had other things on my mind." The way she said that implied the extent of our relationship to the rest of the guardians and they knew it. I couldn't help but laugh, she was not afraid to let her feelings for me show. She was not ashamed and neither was I. Maybe this could be an advantage. I knew that when I called her by her Russian name she lost focus so why not.

"Roza…" she cut me off before I could get anything else out.

"Don't even start that with me, you are trying to distract me. That's not fair." I smiled at her response, she was better than I thought. Just then the rest of the novices came up behind her. Shit! I thought Celeste was watching them. Well her we go. Rose attacked Alberta and the rest of the novices followed. They out numbered us but with our experience it was an even fight. Three junior novices came at me and I easily dodged most of their attack. I saw Rose grappling with Alberta and by that time a few of the guardians had been caught. It was time to leave and regroup. Alberta must have thought the same because at that moment she called retreat. My closest exit was behind me and with the novices not giving up it would take some time for me to get there. I saw Alberta captured and new that I really needed to move. I was backing my way to the doors when I suddenly backed into a warm being. A quick assessment of my surroundings found Rose no where in my immediate sight so I figured it was her. She confirmed my thoughts a moment later. She leaned into my back, her hands placed gently on my hips pushing herself up on her toes. I felt her breath on my neck and shuddered ever so slightly, I knew the other novices couldn't see it but I am sure she felt it.

"Hello Lover." She whispered in my ear. Shit.

The three novices that were in front of me were smiling and looking at both Rose and I in awe. It was a very uncommon thing for guardians to be together, actually nearly forbidden. I think sometimes it gave the younger ones hope that their lives wouldn't be without love as they had always been taught. I turned around to face my captor and smiled down at her.

"Привет моя любовь, мое красивое."(Hello my love, my beautiful). She smiled widely in response and I could see in her eyes that she wanted to disappear just the two of us.

"Привет." She whispered to me and stepped forward closing the gap between us. She still had her hands lightly on my hips as she pushed upward trying to reach my lips. She gave me a light kiss and said.

"You're mine now." With that she stepped back and the novices behind me moved in to bind my wrists and put a piece of tape over my mouth. They had managed to capture me, Alberta, Stan, and Celeste. We later found out that Rose had knocked out Celeste and that was why the novices had such an easy time getting free. They moved us from the gym to one of the novice dorms. While it was neutral territory it was where they would make their last stand. They tied myself and Alberta to a couple of chairs, Stan to a pole in the corner, that one even gave me a smile, and Celeste they had let her lie down on a couch because of her head. I could tell Rose was upset she hurt Celeste; I could see it in her eyes. I knew she wanted to say something but being their leader she felt she had to be strong and keep quiet. That didn't mean she couldn't talk to me.

Roza, Я знаю, что Вы плохо себя чувствуете о Селесте, в порядке. Я уверен, что Вы не подразумевали это. (I know you feel bad about Celeste, it is ok. I am sure you didn't mean it.) She turned and looked at me attitude on her face but her eyes gave her away.

"No, I didn't." was all she said. Mason and Eddie looked at her confused and she simply shrugged at them but didn't give any response. Most of the novices she had posted throughout the building, at windows, backdoors, and such but she, Eddie, and Mason remained with us. She wanted to talk to Celeste but they were making it impossible.

"Roza, скажите Мазону и Эдди идти чек передние двери и когда они делают Вы можете говорить с Селестой." (Roza, tell Mason and Eddie to go check the front doors and when they do you can talk to Celeste.) She nodded in response.

"Mason. Eddie. Go check the front doors and make sure nothing has been compromised." She was forceful in her delivery but not pushy.

"But Rose…" Mason tried to argue with her but she instead cut him off.

"Mason Now!" He quickly shut up headed towards the front doors with Eddie in tow. After they had disappeared she turned and looked at me. I nodded to her and said.

"It's alright go ahead. She won't do anything, you are safe." I turned my head and looked at Celeste she had sat up by this time and was watching the interaction between Rose and me. I nodded at Celeste hoping she would understand and when she nodded in return I knew it was safe. She turned to see Rose walking up to her, guilt written all over Roses face.

"Celeste, I am really sorry for knocking you out before. I only meant to stun you; I guess I just misjudged it. Are you alright?" I could tell Rose was upset, she was not looking at Celeste directly and she was playing with her hands. Celeste fortunately saw the same thing.

"Rose, don't worry about it at all. We all knew the risks of going up against you when we started. I am fine." She gave a smile to Rose and I saw Rose relax and the guilt wash away. She smiled in return and then turned in my direction. I smiled at her and she nodded her thanks to me. She then turned and walked towards one of the windows on the south side of the room. Alberta leaned over to me and whispered.

"Nice work Belikov. I told you she would be fine as long as you are around." She smiled at me and I nodded thanks to her in return. "Now how are we going to get out of here?" She asked me but all I could do was shrug.

I needed to come up with a plan and fast. Since Celeste was still free she was going to be our best bet. I tried to get her attention without tipping off Rose who was still watching out the window. She seemed to be off in another world, I wondered if she was in Lissa's head so I called to her.

"Rose." Nothing, she didn't respond or even flinch. I called again. "Roza answer me." Still nothing; I called over to Celeste. "Get me free quickly, something isn't right." She ran over to me and freed me of my bindings a fast as she could, once free I moved over to Rose coming up behind her. I gently touched her shoulder and when she still didn't respond I turned her around to face me. Her eyes were open but they were glazed over, she was defiantly in Lissa's head whether it was a good thing or bad I still wasn't sure. Her eyes were moving back and forth so she was seeing whatever Lissa was. I placed both of my hands on her shoulders and shook her gently.

"Rose, what is happening? Come on come out of it. Come back to me." She still didn't respond her only sound was a soft moan. Finally I saw her begin to come back to me, I could tell she was fighting to get out of Lissa's head, her face was becoming more animated second be second. She started to move little by little and then I saw her focus again.

"Rose what is going on? Is Lissa ok?" Rose looked at me confused for a second trying to get her bearings and then she groaned.

"Dammit, why can't they keep their hands off each other for one night, seriously?" She dropped her head for a second and I couldn't help but laugh. She had told me about her connection with Lissa and that when the emotions were strong she would get pulled in without warning.

"Are you ok?" I asked her again, she nodded in response and then looked up at me confused.

"What are you doing untied?" she was getting angry and I needed to defuse the moment and quickly. Lissa's spirit had a way of doing that to her.

"Roza, you wouldn't answer me when I called, I was worried. Celeste let me out so I could get to you." I watched as she relaxed from her tense stance and the anger dissipates.

"Ok, well…" whatever she was about to say was cut off by a loud crashing noise from the front doors. At the same time the lights went out completely. I immediately became protective of her and grabbed her around the waist and moved us both to the wall and into deeper shadows. We were both accessing the situation when I heard Mason yell.

"Rose, the guardians have gotten in. We need to move the captives now!" he came running into room looking for us both. What he didn't know was that I was free and Celeste had also freed Alberta while I had been talking to Rose. Alberta came up behind Mason and grabbed him. He yelped like a little girl and both Rose and I laughed softly at that. Rose then called out.

"Seriously come up with your own ideas guys." She was naturally referring to killing the lights and trying to ambush the others. I laughed again and held her tighter.

"It seems the tables have turned yet again Roza." I felt her body tense in my arms.

"Well then what are you going to do." Her voice was a little scared but I knew she trusted me. I laughed again and released her. She turned and looked at me with the most confused look on her face.

"Run" was all I said and then I could see it dawn on her. I wanted to chase and she needed to move quickly. She smiled and then turned and ran.

RPOV

I ran as fast as I could out the front of the dorms and onto the quad. I hadn't gotten very far when a guardian, Yuri, stepped out in front of me. I jumped to the side dodging his arms trying to move around him. I hadn't gotten any more than ten feet when another guardian came out. I went to turn around and found and I was surrounded by guardians. I went after the closest guardian I could only to have Dimitri's voice stop me in my tracks.

"Rose stop!" I halted and like a five year old stomped my foot and clenched my fists. The guardian I was about to attacked merely laughed and said to Dimitri.

"Oh come on, let me take her."

"No, she's mine." Was his only response; I turned to him with a grin.

"Possessive are we?" I asked and got a chuckle from most of the people around us. He smiled and responded, "You have no idea."

"Alright, let's do it this way." Alberta chimed in, "Rose since you are the only novice still free and the sun is just about to come up you will decide the outcome of this war."

"Thanks guys." I called to the novices who were behind Alberta and the rest of the guardians'. Many gave me sheepish looks and a few merely shrugged like it was to be expected. I rolled my eyes.

"You and you alone will have one chance to capture Guardian Belikov. If you can do that the novices will win, if not…." Alberta said with a smile.

A smile came across my lips, "Oh this will be easy."