Well hello there! Ok so thank you to VampireBookAddict and X-XWilted-RosesX-X for encouraging me to continue and hopefully there are others who will still read this. As to what I said about going back and reposting chapters… yeah, that isn't going to work out at the moment so well the mistakes will just have to stay mistakes for a while. I am hoping that this is up to scratch with the last work but I haven't written vampire academy in a long time (excluding my other story that I forgot about- btw may or may not update that soon) and it has been a very long time since I have written in Roses POV so I am hoping that it has the emotion and image that the others had. But please Review and tell me what you think of this fic and chapter. Thanks guys

Disclaimer:

Rose: You couldn't own us because you are too lazy to really use us

Me: Sorry I was lacking inspiration for a while

Rose: *Humph* Well that's not my fault now is it?

Me: I do not own any of these characters or places because they all belong to Richelle Mead who wrote 2 books in the time span it has taken me to write 12 chapters… XD

12

There he was, the man that I had been chasing. His skin was lighter and his hair was coming out of the secure pony tail and yet he still looked just like the man I had fallen for, except for the blazing red eyes that stared desolately into mine. There was a brief feeling of joy before being snatched away by grief. He wasn't the man that trained me, he was evil now, one of the enemy. And yet I could still not imagine me killing him. I had promised it to him unconsciously and yet I couldn't come through with it. He was the reason for my existence, but he was dead all the same. The confusion of seeing him again added to nausea and the swirling darkness creating an suffocating feeling.. I couldn't breath, drowning in my problems and I had the feeling he knew it.

Here we were, two lovers, standing in two different sides, enemy verse enemy. He was shocked when he saw me but it was quickly concealed with vengeance. I had never thought I would see the look on his face directed at me and for the first time during the battle a terrified feeling broke through the darkness just for a second before being smothered into the black storm.

"Rose" he acknowledged me with a small smile that made him look sinister. Just one word made my heart stutter a beat.

Everyone looked at me, either with jealousy from other strigoi or disbelief from those at the academy. Lissa came to stand beside me and tried to present a united front, but her presence just pissed me off.

"Don't listen to him Rose, he isn't one of us anymore." She spoke as I imagine to calm me, but she only further angered me. The darkness that radiated off me recognized her as the person I was giving myself up for and all the dark feelings attached to that problem came front and centre in my head.

I could feel her disgust for the army that was in front of us but it was unfair that she included Dimitri in that group. It wasn't his fault he was there, all because I couldn't kill him or the only answers I got to save him were misleading. And what does she mean he was not one of us, what the hell is us anyway? I hadn't been here for months because I was going through hell trying to find the piece of me that was missing. But she didn't care, because she was the future queen. No one cared what happened to me as a person, just why I wasn't here to protect the moroi. I could feel the darkness sink into my soul and instead of the angry feeling, all I could feel past the barrier was power. And it would be all mine if I simply let it come to me. I could save people by giving up my body and life to the darkness. And that's when it hit me. I knew exactly how to save Dimitri and exactly what it would cost.

My expression became more determined as I turned to the enemy and smiled as a pulled out my stake, with everyone having confused looks stuck to their faces. I took one step forward and I let the barrier to the darkness break. The power that rushed through my veins was exhilarating and it was almost like I was high on some drug. I hadn't felt this strong ever, not even in the accident with mason. It must have been noticeable because there were two gasps that echoed throughout the field. And then almost like a glass being shattered, the silence broke and the two sides melded into one giant battle.

The strigoi rushed forward first taking out everyone in their way. It seemed I was the number one target to kill so I had at least twenty on me trying to take a bite. The skills I had learned in the last couple of months had shone through and the power that I now wielded forced me forward taking me deeper into the war. I was hitting and stake left right and centre and boy did it feel good.

Somewhere in the background there was a scream of my name that sounded like Adrian that was telling me to stop but the force that now held me just brushed it off. I was half way through the strigoi that were piling up dead, when they backed off. They backed off just far enough to see the one person who was challenging me because this person was the one who I was waiting for, today and forever. But the urge to save him was growing weaker while the need to kill him grew stronger.

Dimitri faced me and looked at me as if it was the first time he had really seen me. The battle was still going on full swing but it had seemed as if time had frozen and it was only me and him.

He started walking around the circle trying to get to me and I would match him every step of the way as if we were just in practice. "Rose, your battle skills are truly remarkable. You would be very valued amongst us and we could be together forever." He said in a sweet voice. It almost made me want to go to him and let myself be succumbed.

"No thanks comrade, I'm fine being alive." I said back always keeping an eye on his body language. But he was still in tune with me and picked out the lie.

He smiled a little at the nickname but continued "I don't believe you. You don't look like the happy Rose I Left." He emphasized the last word as if it was his choice of what he became. The meaning broke through the daze to kill for just a moment which allowed me to remember my plan.

I smiled sadly at him as I replied, "You are right but right now it's not about my happiness." It's about yours I mentally finished. He smiled back and it seemed like time caught up with us when the noise from the battle reached our ears, reminding us that our own battle had just begun.

And then Dimitri lunged at me.