hey guys new chapie. want to dedicate this to my BFF Deny-Dee, you rock.

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-Anna

Chapter 9

"Um?"

"that old warehouse on the other side of town. That one that is abandoned 'cause it burned down, well most parts of it. Take some guys and go and prepare the place. I'll come by in 3 hours. There is something I have to do first." I said. He nodded and walked off.

Now to go see that father of mine.

OH THE JOY!

"So let me get this straight. HE was being blackmailed?" the queen asked.

We were sitting in her limo just outside of Montana.

So re-played our conversation.

You see, my meeting with Abe was a little… disturbing.

-Flashback-

When I got to my dad's massive mansion about 3 miles from the base I expected my dad to be in some very important meeting or busy with some illegal stuff.

But no. what do I get instead?

My father in bed with my MOTHER! Can you say super disgusting any louder? I mean what would you do if your dad is with your mother- who disappears just when she wants- in bed! Getting all hot and heavy, in nothing but there underwear! I would personally start screaming and running so far away from that place that they wouldn't be able to track me for at least 2 years, hey that sound so familiar. But no, I do the responsible Hathaway-way. Since they didn't see me enter the room I had the perfect advantage.

"Ughm!" I coughed.

"Sorry to break up this… 'Let-me-make-love-to-you-'cause-our-daughter-wouldn't-think-of-coming-here' moment." I said with a smirk. And I had the pleasure of seeing both of my parent's faces turn from shock to embarrassment in 2 seconds flat.

"Um…Rose, what a-are you d-doing h-here?" my mother stammered as she tried to grab her clothes from where they were dangling all over the room.

"oh nothing. I was just thinking of coming over and saying hi to my dad-AND MOM IN BED!" I yelled the last part.

"How in hell am I supposed to sleep tonight? After seeing this I'm surprised my voices isn't gone also!"

"Um, kiz, what did you want to talk about?"

"How did you know I wanted to talk to you?"

"Rose, I know you longer than that. And remember, I'm your father. I'm supposed to know these things." He answered.

"OK fine. But it's kinda… private."

My mom looked between us, catching my drift.

"Ok, I'll… see you later." She said as she left. I turned back to my now dressed father.

"So, what did you want to t-"

"Queen Tatiana." I cut him off, my face serious again. I silenced him with two words.

"What about the queen. She's dead, end of story." He shrugged.

"Abe, do you think I'm stupid?"

"What? NO, but what do you want to know? There's nothing to tell."

"Ok, let's try this again." I said as I walked out of the room and re-entered.

"Hi dad, how's it going? Good? Great. Look, I was in the area and though ' Hey, why don't I go see that wonderful dad of mine', and now that that's takin care of. What do you know of the queen's 'murder'?" I asked, sarcasm lacing each word.

"I-I." he couldn't get a word out. His face was shocked. And that's not something you see every day.

"Oh you know. The part where YOU blackmailed the queen, and then, there was another thing, oh yes, framed ME for the MURDER!" I yelled.

"I-I, look Rose, you don't know the whole story, i-"

"You, you what? What dad? You thought it was OK to let your own daughter get blamed for MURDERING THE QUEEN! Or you thought 'Hey, my daughters reputation was already so damaged why don't I take it a little further and put MURDERING THE QUEEN on the list!" I was by this point very calm, surprisingly.

"Now listen to me." He said with a serious face. "I did what I had to do to keep you save. All the things I did were to keep you save."

"Oh, so please enlighten me. Why were trying to keep me save by framing me?" I asked in a very calm but serious voice. I put my hands on my hips, looking down at him.

"Look, someone was threatening YOU. She said she'd kill you if I didn't do what she said." He pleaded.

"Wait, she?" I asked now clearly confused.

"Yes, she. She told me she'd kill you if I didn't make up something to get the queen out of the way and blamed you. I couldn't let anyone hurt you."

"So, why couldn't you get some of your mobster friends to kill her?" I asked matter-of-factly.

"Because she was too close to you for me to do anything."

"But who is she?"

He was silent for a moment, deciding if he should tell me or not.

"I, I can't tell you. If I do I'm not sure of you would do."

"Dad please? I have to find the person responsible for this whole mess." I pleaded.

"Her name is Natasha Ozera."

-End flashback-

"Yes. By Tasha Ozera."

"But why? What could she possibly gain by getting me 'killed'. And how did they get Victor to play the whole part of killing me?" she asked.

"I don't know. But I'm gonna find out."

-Abandoned mall-

"Wow, you guys did a good job." I said as I walked through the building.

The guys have put a bunch of ropes dangling down from the ceiling with dummies attached to it. Those were probable for the target practice.

In another shop/room there were a bunch of wires coming out from the walls, floor and ceiling. Ouch, wouldn't want to be caught in those.

In some of the hallways there were burned wood pillars stacked against the walls and some leaning against it. I couldn't see through everything, now how are they supposed to get through there if you can't even see through it?

"Thanx. There is still one part of the building that has to be booby-trapped, and we left it just for you." He said with a smirk.

I always have to make the finale trial 'cause mine are almost always impossible to get through.

"How long do we have before they get here?" I asked. My trial is always held in the last week of orientation.

"Um, 25 minutes." Wow, time flies when you're thinking about torturing people.

"Oh shit. We gotta get ready." I said as we ran to the entrance where my guys were waiting.

"OK, so there are only 156 guys coming. I want you all to go to the gates where you'll get your guys, there are about 35 or something close to it for each of us. Check if there here then give them the rules, how it's going to work and take them to the camp. Meet back there in about 3 hours." They all nodded in agreement then left. We had made a camp in one of the many surrounding forests where we would be for the next 2 weeks.

I walked to the back entrance of the mall where I was supposed to get my guys. We were all wearing our black gear. AKA black mask, black leather boots, black leather jacket and a black sports bra showing off my dragon tattoo.

All the new recruits were directed into smaller groups and were told to meet at a different entrance. I walked out the door and saw about 37 guys sitting in the parking lot. Some of them I remembered from court and the academy but my eyes landed on a certain guardian. Stan Alto.

I called the other guardians who were keeping an eye over them over. He gave me a clipboard with the names of the new recruits.

"Welcome everybody. My name is Isabelle. I will call out your name then when everybody's checked I will tell you the rules then we can go."

"Elliot Jenson"

"Here"

"Ashton Osment"

"Here"

And so on it went until I was at the last two names.

"Stan Alto." I said smiling at the page.

"Here." He said and I looked up and me his exited eyes.

"Eddison Castle."

"Here."

Fuck. Why did he have to be here?

"Good. Now, the rules are pretty simple. No weapons, unless we give it to you. The training will happen as follow.

Tomorrow morning at 05h00 you will have breakfast. Then from there we will give you the rules for the trail etc. any questions?"

When everybody stayed silent I smiled.

"Good, now if you would just follow me." I said as I walked through them and started walking into the forest.

They all followed obediently and we walked for a mile when we got to the camp. I saw all the others were already there and the new recruits. But 2 certain people caught my eye.

Dimitri Belikov and Alberta Petrov.

"Ok, who the fuck invited them?" I said to no one in particular.

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-Anna