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Chapter 10: Mind games

"...Roza?"

My head shot up, and I began starring wildly at him. How was this even possible?!

I still looked like Lissa, and yet...I had total control of her body.

I tried to lift her left arm as if it was my own….. check.

I ran a hand through my hair. It was blonde and silky smooth, unlike my unruly curls...but I still felt the sensation….check.

I lifted my right hand and bit it as hard as I could….. "fucking hell! Guess that's a check".

Christian looked at me like I was completely insane.

"Rose….what the fuck are you doing?! How are you even….where the hell is Lissa?! "

A voice sounded in my head "right here, doofus."

"Woah…." I exclaimed. Did I just hear her in my ...no her head? Man this was confusing.

"What?" Sparky asked me, huh, guess I was the only one who could hear Lissa.

I checked out my new body. Wow. So this is what it feels like to be tall and skinny. Weird. I grabbed my boobs and ass, except there was hardly anything there. "Hey! I can hear everything you're thinking you know?"

Lissa yelled in my head. Shit, better keep a better hold of my thoughts.

I Wonder how strong Lissa is.

With that thought, I drew back my wrist, and punched the closest thing to me... which just so happened to be Dimitri.

"Fucking hell Comrade, chest of bloody steel. And Lissa, seriously, you need to desperately start working out, you punch like a little girl."

I held my wrist to me, several curse words escaping my mouth. Dimitri hadn't even flinched. Man, Lissa was weak. I think I just broke her hand.

"What the hell Rose?!" Christian yelled.

I looked up from the contorted mess that was Lissa's hand into Dimitri's eyes, his face was expressionless. I started to panic thinking he had gone into a state of shock.

"Comrade?" I asked him. I didn't really know what to say, this was pretty weird for me too.

He just continued staring, and then, once he appeared to recover from the shock, replied with a gruff voice, "Miss Hathaway?"

I rolled my eyes. God, how the hell was he still such an upright dick?

"Rose! You can't think that! He's your mentor!" Lissa's voice chastised me.

Pfft, if only she knew the half of it.

"Half of what?" She replied.

"For god's sakes, stop doing that!" I mentally shouted back.

"What the hell is even going on anyway Liss?".

"How the hell am I supposed to know! This is weird for me too, it's just like I can see through your eyes. Is this what it's like for you?"

I thought about it and replied. "I guess it sort of is in a way. Like I can see through your eyes, but I can't move or do anything. But this….this is something completely knew."

Christian cleared his throat and interrupted our thoughts.

"Rose, what the hell happened. Where's Lissa?! What if she….what if she doesn't come back?! What if you're stuck in her?! What if….OUCH! For god's sakes! What is it with everyone slapping me recently?!" Christian reeled, rubbing the sore red patch on his cheek.

"Get a grip of yourself Christian. God, pair of soft little girls the pair of you."

"Hey!" Christian and Lissa yelled, in perfect synchronisation.

"Relax Chris, I can still hear Lissa. She can see through my eyes, kinda like I do when I slip into her head."

"How the fuck did this happen? She's not stuck in there is she?" He groaned overdramatically.

"What sort of sick torture Is this? Lissa's smoking hot body, disguising Roses annoying as hell personality. It's like the good Lord is smiting me personally."

"You never know Chris" I winked at him "I might add a bit of spice to the bedroom".

That gave the response of extreme gagging noises from the pair off them, and I laughed heartily.

"Enough!"

All three of us stopped suddenly. I turned around to see Dimitri staring intensely at me. I guess he had recovered from his shock.

"Rose is missing, we have no time for this." His deep voice boomed. Not one of us dared to make a noise. Dimitri was scary as hell when he went all serious. Sexy, but scary as hell.

He took a step forward closer to me, and grabbed me by the shoulders. I could tell the fact that I looked like Lissa made him extremely uncomfortable, and as such, he treated me with hesitation and caution.

"We have no time for games. Yes this is new, and yes we don't know how or why it happened. Maybe we can figure that out later. But we must use this occurrence to our advantage, and found out where she is."

He looked into my eyes, and I, in turn, had no choice but to look at his. They were so beautiful, so dark and deep and soulful. Except now...now he had his guard up. And I had no idea what he feelings he was concealing behind his mask. Was he compunctious, for his kiss with Tasha? Or had he finally moved on, decided that I was too childish and hard work after all? Or, and my heart dared to hope at this last one, did he really care about me, and was truly concerned for my well-being and whereabouts?

My thoughts were interrupted by an unwelcome voice.

"...Rose...is there…..JESUS! I KNEW it!!! There's something going on between you and Belikov!!!! Eeeek! Oh my god! Wait…..why didn't you tell me this! I thought we told each other everything?!"

Ah shit. She was mad.

"Damn straight I'm mad Rose, I have every right to be!"

"Liss, we'll talk about this another time! This is too much to take in all at once!"

"But Rose, you're my best friend! Hell, you're my sister! How could you keep something as major as this from me?!"

"Lissa, I said not now!" I shouted mentally. God this was annoying.

Dimitri put his hands on either side of my face. Oblivious to the argument Lissa and I had just had.

"Roza, tell us where you are. I need you here" he must've noticed my reaction to hearing him say this, and I must confess, my heart did a little flutter at hearing him say he needed me, because he soon corrected himself, clearing his throat and adding " we need you here, to know that you're safe. It doesn't bode well for my reputation that my student has ran off". I rolled my eyes of course it was too good to be true. How stupid of me to think that just because I was missing, he'd come running to me, begging for my forgiveness.

"Don't pretend like you give a rat's ass Comrade. I'm sure you'll find another student you can mentor, after all, it's not like you've had any difficulty moving on so far". I gave a him a pointed look, and judging by the way he slightly flinched, I knew he got just what I meant.

He sighed, and I thought I could see a flicker off….regret...guilt? In his eyes.

He looked at me, seemingly piercing into my soul with those chocolate eyes, and I thought he was subtlety trying to convey his emotions to me without raising any suspicion on Christian's part.

"Rose, I… I do miss you. I need to know that you're safe. It's driving us all crazy that you just left us, not telling us your problems, so you felt the only option was to run away from them.

.Roza...I do care, and don't you dare try to tell me how I feel.

You have no idea how much I…."

"Eeek! Oh my God! He's gonna tell you he loves you! Oh my God, oh my God!!!!" Lissa squealed excitedly, much to my frustration.

"For god's sakes!!! You're kinda killing the moment here!" I shouted back. Only to realise, much to my embarrassment, that I said it aloud.

Dimitri looked shocked, and then slowly the look turned to one of confusion….

And with that, any smouldering tension we had had whilst our eyes locked and any words Dimitri found himself saying, lost in the moment, vanished.

He jumped back, and much to my disappointment, returned back to his stoic self.

"Godamnit Liss!" I yelled.

"Oops...sorry" she whispered sheepishly.

He took a moment to recover himself, and just like that, the caring, loving man that I adored disappeared.

He continued, but this time, his voice was much colder.

"Tell us where you are Miss Hathaway."

"God, how the hell can someone change just like that, it's like he's bipolar! What a cold bastard!" Lissa cried in my head.

"Tell me about it" I muttered.

"Rose, tell us now!" His voice sounded harsh and and frustrated, but it acted like a bucket of cold water splashed over me, because I quickly came out of my trance, and the memories of the kidnapping and the three strigoi came flooding back to me.

My eyes began to water, I didn't want to tell them, it was incredibly embarrassing that I had failed on the first day of being on the run. But it was either suck it up, or face bring Strigoi fodder.

"I...I...oh God! They've taken me! They've taken me! He's touching me, and I can't move, I can't escape. He's got his hands all over me. And there's more...they're taking me to more…" I began rambling incoherently. Desperately trying to relay everything at once, and as of such, my words came out in a mess.

"Rose, Roza! What do you mean?!" Dimitri shook my shoulders violently.

I could see the panic flash in his eyes, his voice thick with worry.

"Three strigoi….they kidnapped me….they fought me, and they shoved me in the back of a van. But they've blindfolded and gagged me, and I can't move. The leader…" I shuddered, a movement which did not escape Dimitri's observant eyes.

"What did he do Rose, did he touch you?! I swear to God!" He began shouting something in Russian, all trace of his guardian mask dissolved, and his concern, and love for me, took over.

"He's touching me, he's got his hands between my thighs, he said he was….he said he was going to have his fun with me….so that's how I ended up here...I wanted to escape it so badly...I wanted to be with you guys and feel safe. I didn't want to feel...didn't want to feel what he was going to do to me." I began choking up at that last part. And Dimitri actually wrapped his arms around me.

"Oh Roza...God help me when I get my hands on them…"

"Where are you going, do you know any information that could help us. Where did you end up when you ran away?"

His voice sounded strained, like he was struggling to keep his anger and emotion under control.

His arms shook as he held me. And I wished to god I could just stay there, enveloped in his strong arms, the smell of his cologne wrapping around me.

"Roza...it's important you tell us. I know it's hard for you, but we can't find you unless you give us some information to go off".

I swallowed hard, and reluctantly brought myself out of the comforting bubble I had allowed myself to pretend I was in for just a few seconds.

"I don't know where I was… I was at a Diner...something about red….. oh yes! "Red checkers" it was called, or something like that. And I just ran, and I ended up under a huge bridge. I don't know much more than that, because that's where they took me.

They said they were taking me to more. There's a huge group of them, all working together and they… " I was cut off, I could feel myself pulling away, back into my own body. My eyes widened, and I started screaming….

"NOOOOO!!!! Don't let them take me…..don't let them take me……. PLEASE….. PLEASE HELP ME!!!! DIMITRI!!! DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME!!"

But it was too late, I was ripped from them violently. The last image replaying in my mind….

...Dimitri's eyes watering with unshed tears, his beautiful face contorted in pure panic and pain, as he screamed for me to stay with him, begging over and over again.

I savoured that image, even though his face was one of misery and heartbreak, because I knew it was probably the last time I would ever see it again.

_xXx_

I was still blindfolded and gagged, but I noticed the voice next to me was that of a different strigoi…

"... So much difficulty keeping your hands to yourself."

The ex Moroi replied in a querulous voice:

"It was just a bit of fun, and besides, how was anyone going to know? You're both pathetic, following him so readily. A pair of fucking little dogs, trailing behind him everywhere.Surprising your leashes have aloud you to travel out so far. We should've had our fun with her whilst we could."

Huh, so I guess he didn't get that far with me, much to my relief. My body didn't feel any different, so I knew the other strigoi must've intercepted pretty early on.

The first strigoi, who was becoming more and more impatient growled at him, "The boss wants you to keep her in good condition. How else are we supposed to get a good price for her?"

Get a good price for her? Oh shit this wasn't looking good. It sounded like some sort of prostitution/ trafficking scheme.

And 'the boss'? That meant...he wasn't even the leader, there was another strigoi orchestrating all of this.

This was sounding worse and worse by the minute.

The other one scoffed, "Sure she's hot, but I doubt she's a virgin, she was practically gagging for it when I was on her earlier, the little slut won't be worth half as much as you think."

I felt anger rising up, replacing the fear I had. There was no way I was gonna go down without a fight in this place. I didn't even care if the only thing I managed was killing him.

Their conversation was interrupted by the strigoi driving. He came to a stop, and told us we'd arrived.

The van doors were yanked open.

Time to face the music.