Okay...i'm pretty positive i'll get a lot of hate mail or something for this...but i won't be back home or posting chapters until friday :S

I have to go see my nan because she was just in a car crash and she probably isn't going to make it which is just a little depressing. It's probably better that i don't write anything while i feel like this or i might accidently kill Dimitri off, and i know you'd all hate me with a passion if i did that. Heck, i'd hate myself with a passion if i killed Dimitri off again.

When i do get back i'll try and get two or three chapters up as soon as i possibly can, hopefully being from friday morning to friday night. I'm positive that i'll be able to squeeze to chapters in for the day, not to sure about the third though.

If you have any suggestions or little parts you would like me to put in the story somewhere along the way, send me a PM or put a review up for this little author note thingo with the little roll you want played and i'll do my best to fit it in A.S.A.P, that will be my way of saying sorry to you all.

And Skylar, i've almost finished the first chapter of that Christmas story, i'm sorry it's taking so long but i've just been rushing everything along for the past few days, i'm not sure if its even fit to be called a story at the moment...

So yes, this is me telling you i'm very sorry that i will not be posting until friday.

And no, i won't be leaving this up. I'll replace it with the actual chapter 13 when it's finished and ready, and of course when i get home.

Truly sorry, Ashley.

I just decided then that i would give you what i had so far on chapter 13. i guess you can tell me what to keep and what to throw if you'd like, once again i'm sorry, bye.

xxx

ROSE POV

Today was my first day as an official guardian. And today was my first day as a teacher at Saint Vladimir's academy. And right now, I was about to try and control a class of junior novices that wanted to ask questions about what happened to me and why it took me so long to break out.

"I answered your questions, now do your work." I demanded, trying very hard to look like a responsible adult. God, I'll never bag-out guardians self-control again, this was hard work.

"And what if we don't want to?" Jesse asked. Lucky for this Jesse his last name wasn't Zelko's, or he'd be my combat partner for the lesson.

This Jesse was an overly muscular dhampire with dark brown hair, style into a messy mop-top sort of hair do. He had a few freckles and his teeth were very nice looking.

I smirked. Being a teacher might be a little fun after all. "Whoever doesn't start training right now will be running laps around the oval," they snorted, unimpressed by my threat. "With me chasing them with," I jogged over to the equipment shed, hoping that big black whacking stick was still there. And it was. "This." I grinned, turning around to face my now-working class of junior's. "Much better."

"Knock knock," a familiar female voice echoed through the hall.

"Mia!" I squealed, dropping the tough love act and rushing over to greet her. "What are you doing here? You graduated, didn't you?" I released her, remembering I was supposed to be all controlled and stuff.

"We're here to see Guardian Hathaway. Is this a bad time?" Lissa voice was joking, and she rushed over to me smiling.

"Your highness," I stayed in guardian mode and gave her a small bow. "How may I help you?"

Lissa got caught short. She sure as hell wasn't expecting that. "What the hell happened to you?" she asked, rubbing the back of her head.

I was fighting back a smile, but she noticed. "Okay, I'm a guardian now; I was trying to act like one, god. So you guys are just here to see me?" I asked.

"Yep," Adrian answered, strolling through the door grinning. "By the way, your class isn't working." He informed me.

I spun around glaring, back into guardian mode. "Are we going to work on our aerobic systems today?" I questioned and they all went back to work.

"God, would have hated being your student." Christian's voice was next.

"Christian? Sure the rest I understand, but what the hell are you doing here?" I asked a little sarcastically. Of course Christian would be where ever Lissa was.

He snorted. "I work here now." He grimaced a little. "I guess you haven't spoken to Alberta today then." He muttered.

"Why? Does she need to see me?" I snapped back into guardian mode again. It felt like I had a split personality.

"Yeah. Not now though. And they stopped working again," Christian informed me once again.

"That's twice I've had to threaten you now!" I stomped off towards them, the black whacking stick in hand. "Make it a third and you'll be running a marathon!" once again, they all jumped back into work. Walking back over to my little group of friends I sighed. "Sorry guys, I'll talk to you later. During lunch or something, but these kids aren't listening to me so I kind of can't be distracted."

"No problem," Adrian said, stepping a little closer. "They stopped again." He chuckled lightly as frustration flowed over my face. "That's our queue to leave," Adrian declared, pushing them all away towards the door. "Later Rose. I mean guardian Hathaway.

Gripping the stick so tight that my knuckles went white, I turned on the kids as horror dawned on all of their faces.

"Three," I said loud and clear, hitting to stick into my hand. "I'll give you ten seconds." I said glaring around at all of them. they stayed still, not moving. "One…"a few light bulbs clicked on. "Two…" another few light bulbs clicked on. "Three…" and they were off, running for the door. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, "Ten!" I roared, flying out after them. "When you finish ten laps you may return to the hall, if I hit you go sit in the middle of the oval for further punishment, or start your running again."

They all groaned in protest. This reminded me of when all the juniors were chasing after me and Nikki.

Nikki…

Where the hell was Nikki? Did she graduate? Crap, I totally forgot all about my own sister. What a loving relationship…geez! I was worse then my mother used to be!

The junior's started to slowdown and I started to speed up, managing to whack a few on my way past. I was heading for that Jesse kid; I was going to fry his ass on a BBQ if I caught him. He turned around at my approaching footsteps, his face lined with horror, and then took off like a jack-rabbit, not stopping to turn around once.

Once they finally finish all of their laps I followed the last one back to the gym. They were all groaning in protest and rubbing their arms, legs, butts, and whatever else I managed to whack. They all froze when I walked in with a muddled up face. I was trying so hard not to laugh at them, and it was so hard.

"Now, next lesson we're going to do what Guardian Hathaway appoints you to do, aren't we?" I asked in a scary-sweet voice. They all nodded in unision, grabbing their things and bailing out of the gym. When they were all gone I let out my laughter.

God. And I thought this was going to be a boring year. I wonder how Christian's going with his class…

CHRISTIAN POV

"push the fire don't put it out ya stupid kid," I grumbled, to a tall blonde Moroi boy who was attempting to blow the fire another tall blonde Moroi boy was holding in his hand around enough to burn the pile of papers I'd given them.

That was my deal with them. If they managed to team up and work together to burn their homework they wouldn't have any. So far, not one of them had come close to succeeding, and it was so hard to not laugh at them all.

The blonde guy snorted and glared up at me. "Why the hell don't you do it then sir?" he challenged me. Oh what an opening.

I smirked. "I specialized in fire, I'm not as poorly skilled as you and I'd be able to burn a strigoi without any help, and I wouldn't lose all of my energy. That's why I teach and you attempt to learn, so sit down and shut up." I ordered.

The other blonde boy, the one who specialized in fire, decided he didn't want to try anymore.

"If you specialized in fire, stop this." He flung a fire ball at my head, and I was quick to stop it before it caused anyone any damage. I then used the same spell I'd used on Ralf last year to make him fuck off and leave Lissa and Rose alone, and just like Ralf he fell to the ground patting himself down, screaming.

I chuckled a little then took the flame away. "Shut up ya big baby the fire isn't touching you. You use fire, you should have been able to divert that." He stood up and stopped screaming, his cheeks red with embarrassment. "Nice fire ball though, would've worked better without a warning." My first encouraging words of the day. Teaching wasn't so bad, but it wasn't all that fun either. Picking n the kids was fun though.

He flung another fire ball at me, almost immediately taking in my advice about no warning. I smirked as I stopped the fire ball again. "Nice try buddy,"

ROSE POV

On my way to the teacher lounge I bumped into Christian, who was smirking very widely and humming show tunes. Well, I guess that answered the whole 'I wonder how Christian's going with his class…' thing. He must have enjoyed tormenting kids as much as I did.

"How'd it go?" he asked me, chuckling at some recent memory of his.

I smiled. "Yeah it was alright. They wouldn't listen to me, so I grabbed the black whacking stick and chased them around the oval. How about you? How'd your class go?" I chuckled again at the look on Jesse's face when he heard me coming for him.

Christian laughed at my days work, with it not at it. "I got the fire and air users working together. I set out a heap of homework, and told them if they could burn their piles by the end of the lesson that they didn't have any homework."

I started laughing again at that. God, we were both going to be such cruel teachers. "What about the water and earth users?" I chuckled.

He smirked, looking a little sheepish. "I didn't exactly know how to attack with water, except for the whole suffocating thing, so I had them trying to lift the vase of water over their piles had to try to soak them without smashing the vase. And the earth users were out side digging holes to bury theirs in. I think I gave the earth users a little advantage."

"Anyone actually manage to dispatch their homework?" I asked, laughing once more. I wonder if we'd get in any sort of trouble for treating students so badly…

"Yeah, a pair of girl Moroi air and fire users aced their task within the first minute of me setting them the task. All the earth users passed, and half the water users. The others are going to be awake all night studying the laws of gravity for what they think is going to be a pop-quiz tomorrow." He grinned, looking playfully evil as he did so.

"Gravity? What's that got to do with magic?"

He laughed as we entered the lounge. "Absolutely nothing, it was just the most boring simple thing I could come up with. And there won't be a test tomorrow; I just wanted to mess with their heads."

I chuckled along with him. "At least my training session's taught them something."

He arched his eyebrow. "Oh yeah? What's that? How to run away from a crazy chick with a whacking stick?" he grinned tauntingly. "I think they pretty much mastered the, didn't they."

I tried to glare but I couldn't help but laugh again. "No actually, I think they're going to need a lot more practice. Not one of them are going to be able to sit down within the next four weeks." I scratched the back of my head, thinking back to last year, when everything was so normal. Back to those training exercises, both the skirmish and the spastic juniors. God I was going to miss that.

"Like I said, at least my lessons are educational." He chuckled, dropping his work bag on a chair next to mine while we headed over to the coffee machine.

"Bullshit. What'd you teach them? Listen to Mister Ozera or you'll spontaneously combust? Real educational." I was joking about the spontaneously combusting thing, but he looked sheepish when I said it. "You set a junior on fire? What the hell did he do?"

He shrugged. "Tried to attack me, and failed harshly." I glared at him. "I didn't burn him I swear, I used the same spell I used on Ralf, you know last year?" he smiled a little at last year. Guess he missed it too.

"Yeah, but still. Imagine how much your class must hate you if they're trying to attack you?" I said as I filled my cup with coffee. Sweet caffeine. I never would have drunk caffeine last year, but I needed it right now.

If you were wondering, yes my grandmother did pass on...god i wish i were Lissa Alina Rosa or Adrian, then i could have helped her /3. i don't know if that impacted the story, but if it did I'm sorry :S

Okay, here's the rest of chapter 13.

He glowered at me. "Shut up. It's only a matter of time before the novices turn on you with a stick, you may be able to take on strigoi, but lets see you deal with pissed off juniors." He grinned and I grimaced.

"Pissed off juniors…" I swallowed loudly. "I've dealt with juniors before," ravenous juniors, hungry to be the best in their exams. "Scary little critters, the make strigoi look like kittens." Not even exaggerating there. Scary critters…

He chuckled, chugging the rest of his coffee. "I should probably stop bitching about your teaching techniques," he muttered, chucking his cup in the sink provided.

I was going to ask why, but Alberta interrupted. "I trust Mister Ozera has filled you in on your extra training schedule's?" she asked.

I blinked, dropping my cup in the sink next to Christians. "No, what extra training schedule's?" I asked, eyeing off Christian, who was looking rather sheepish.

Alberta raised her eyebrows and peeked over at Christian, a grin playing up the corners of her lips. "You to scared to tell her?" she chuckled a little. "You'll be teaching Mister Ozera combat techniques. He must be fit to be called a guardian by the end of the year, or you repeat your duties, as will he." He grinned and stuck a hand up when I went to protest. "Yes Hathaway I know about the agreement you signed with Headmistress Kirova, I suggest you read items before you sign them in future." She waved and walked out the door to whatever class she had next.

I turned on Christian, glaring with murderous eyes. How the hell was I going to turn a Moroi into a guardian in just one year? Not possible. But I would make it possible. "You're gonna be sweating like a dog when I'm done with you, Christian." I patted him on the shoulder and headed off to my next class. Senior fitness. Oval then…maybe we could just play a soccer game…or a rugby game.

The instant I was in view of the oval they all ran into position, half scared looks on their faces. I couldn't help but laugh when I got closer and saw how afraid they all seemed to be. The juniors must have been talking. "We're going to play soccer." I grinned, tossing a ball to Jackson, one of the juniors I worked with in skirmish last year. Good old times…

"Hey Rose," Tamika waved and smiled as she hopped up to the front of the class, totally at ease and unafraid of any punishment I might apply. "Are you going to play with us?" she asked.

I grinned. Screw the tight-ass guardian shit, we were playing soccer and I was going to have some fun. "Hey Tam, yeah I guess. If there's not enough people." I took a few steps back. "Jackson, you're a captain and so are you Tamika, pick your players."

Once the teams were all selected the kids made a few rules and devised a plan. The games would go for half an hour, and I would play the winning team with a selected few from the losing team. I liked it. The teams weren't the right numbers, but no-one cared that we were only supposed to have nine players on a team and they each had eleven, it was just to have some fun. I came up with a few bonus rules for them, deciding that they were aloud to tackle other people, but only if they had the ball.

I was the umpire of course, and god was it amusing to watch them battle each other for goals. I felt sorry for the defense; they got picked on the most because they always temporarily had the ball. But the goalies…well…the clinic was going to be a little crowded during lunch. In the end of the first match Tamika's team lost, but only just by one point.

I sent them off for drinks, giving myself time to think about which four people off the losing team would be battling off Jackson's team with me. This should be interesting.

"Alright, I want Tamika, the redhead, the kid with the freckles, and Blondie over there."I waved the four of them over, earning a flower from 'the kid with the freckles' and 'Blondie over there'. "The rest of you start running laps, when you finish ten you can sit and watch. You won't lose next time, will you?" I grinned at them evilly and they all groaned, begging there laps.

Blondie chuckled. "Suckers!" she called out after them turning back to face me with a huge grin on her face that was quickly replaced with an old fear. "I-"

"Save it," I smirked at her. "Trust me, when this games over you'll be wishing that you were the one running laps." God I was gonna work that chick. "Okay so I need names."

"Amy." Blondie said, sighing and letting her face fall into a grimace as she toddled over to the field to await further instructions.

"I'm Jasper, and this is Mike." Freckle kid said, pointy at the redhead shortly after. They then followed Blondie, err…I mean Amy, over to the field.

Tamika on the other hand didn't budge. She just sat there staring at me like I was holding out on her. "What?" I finally asked, getting a little creped out. She hadn't blinked once…

"Is it true?" she blurted out.

"Is what true?" I mumbled, thinking of a number of questions that she could be referring to. I was pretty sure I knew what she was talking about though.

"That your now three quarters Moroi, and you can heal and use fire and stuff. Is it true?"

Bingo. I knew she'd go for that one. Either that or the rumors that had been going around that I'd murdered innocent Moroi to feed myself, trying to turn myself strigoi so I could get away. Not many people believed that little bit of bullshit though, so I was alright with it. "Yeah," I said, getting into position for the kick off.

She grinned. "Man that's awesome!" she chimed, taking her place beside me as a forward. "Does that mean you can have kids with a dhampire now?" she asked.

A little switch snapped n in my head. I was more Moroi then dhampire now…I could not only be with Dimitri with out causing shit, but I could have kids with him without starting a riot. Did I want kids though? "Um, I don't know. I guess so…save the questions for after we win, okay?"

She nodded, letting the subject drop.

I was a little disappointed that we didn't win, but it wasn't that bad. We tied, so there was no harm done. Amy on the other hand…well, she was completely pissed. She realized I wasn't kidding about the whole wishing she could run laps thing, and I was almost positive I'd made myself a little enemy.

I wonder if there'd ever been a case where students attacked a guardian for payback before… yes, there had. Field experience. All the seniors go nuts, smashing as many guardians as they possibly can.

I ran the class a little into lunch, because I made the winning team and my four little helpers run two laps of their own, just to make it fair.

It annoyed me a little when Christian showed up, looking ready to begin fighting someone. But that annoyance disappeared when I remembered that I got to torture him, too.

"Hey Rose," he waved, dropping a small black bag on the ground next to my own. "What are we starting with?" he grimaced when a look of pure evil flashed across my face.

"Laps. Fifteen, now." I commanded, point at the juniors that were just finishing up. I grinned. "And it's Guardian Hathaway when you're speaking to me now." I chuckled a little, seeing the desperate plea for help cross his features.

"You can't be serious." He scoffed, raising both his eyebrows. "That's torture."

"I'm training you the way my mentor trained me." I said, jabbing a finger in the direction he was supposed to be running now. "Speaking of mentor's…" I muttered as my eyes locked on too Dimitri's approaching figure.

"Hello guardian Hathaway." He nodded at me, remaining in guardian mode.

"Hey comrade, you teaching classes still?" I asked, turning towards Christian with a little smirk. We'll see how he likes dealing with Dimitri if he won't put up with me. This was the same training Dimitri put me through when he was teaching me.

"No, I just observe. As I will be observing your next class with the senior Moroi." He's bottom lip trembled a little, and I heard Christian chuckle.

"You guys don't have to pretend you aren't into each other, everybody knows. Cut the formal shit," he said, not bothering with any sort of courtesy.

I turned around at him, glaring. "If you don't start working your laps I'll be collecting that stick I used with the juniors first session." I threatened. He glared at me but started running, the instant his back was turned I spun around to Dimitri's waiting arms.

He sighed into my hair. "Roza…" he's arms were tight around my shoulders, making it difficult for me to pull back and kiss him.

"Dimka," he giggled a little, and then stopped, thinking about Tasha Ozera. Tasha Ozera who had tried to take Dimitri from me. God, I wish I could hate her so much, but I just couldn't she was to cool. "What do you mean class with the Moroi? My next session is free, I was going to catch up with Lissa, Mia, and Adrian and see if I could find out what happened to Nikki, and who Eddie got assigned to." I mumbled, falling back to my feet when I heard Christian laugh as he passed us. "Keep Running!" I called out to him.

Dimitri laughed a little. "Nikki and Eddie were both assigned too Lissa because you and I were gone. They're being reassigned to Mia now that we're back, but right now they're on their break. Apparently they're coming to visit you soon. And I will be observing the class that Lissa is assisting with, you'll be learning how to use your magic with Christian and Lissa, but first you have to attend some of the basic elemental control classes for fire specialists, and I'll be keeping watch on you." He grinned.

"Oh god." I grimaced. "How embarrassing, a guardian being taught in classes." I sighed. "Oh well, I'll get over it I guess." As if. I was gonna cop some crap for this…

"Don't worry," he said, smiling down at me warmly. "You'll be posted as any other guardian; you just have to pay attention to what's being said. If you can't keep up you'll be stuck in a chair with a pen and paper though, so try not to get distracted…"

"Like that's possible when you'll be in the same room as me," I muttered, already picturing myself sitting amongst the Moroi kids.

He grimaced. "You're right. I'll just stay out here and coach Christian then," he glanced over as Christian came to a halt beside us.

"There," he puffed, taking a swig out of his bottle. "Fifteen laps. What's next?"

"It's time for classes." Dimitri announced, releasing my body and snatching my hand. "Best you cool down and get to class Mister Ozera." Dimitri suggested, pulling me along side him.

"I'll meet you at the gym after school," I told Christian, waving goodbye. Turning back to Dimitri I linked my arm through his, leaning my head against his arm. "Do you think they'll let us share a room? Or will they force me into my own stubby little box?" living in the same room as Dimitri and not being surrounded by strigoi sounded pretty damn awesome.

He shrugged, draping an arm over my shoulders. "Guess we could ask. And if they say no who cares, guardians don't have curfews…" I felt his silent laughter rock through my body, sending waves of pure pleasure through me. Nothing made me feel better then knowing Dimitri was happy. Well, okay, the only thing that topped that was knowing that Dimitri was happy with me, and that no-one would ever take him away from me again.

Heck, they couldn't do anything to keep us apart now. I was old enough to stay with him now, and no-one could do anything about it. He'd gone strigoi, and I'd still gotten him back. I'd been kidnapped by strigoi, and he came and found me. I was scared of nothing more then losing him, but nothing could ever take him from me. If he got hurt, I could heal him. If he got stolen, I would find him. Heck, if he died I could bring him back, just like Lissa brought me back.

Nothing in this world was strong enough to take him from me.

"Roza what's wrong?" Dimitri's concerned voice rattled through my head as his fingers gently brushed away the falling tears. Shit, I didn't even realize I was crying.

"Oh," I sniffed, rubbing my eyes and blinking a few times. "I was just thinking about you and me." I smiled and blushed, a little embarrassed that my emotions just got the best of me.

He pursed his lips. "And that thought makes you cry?"

I laughed. "Tears of joy."

He smiled. "What were you thinking about exactly?" he asked, curiosity evident in his tone.

"About how no matter who or what tries to take you from me I'll always get you back." No need to go into mushy details, I think he got the picture.

Pushing through the doors of the class room I wiggled out of his grasp, molding my features into a mask of discipline as I took my place at the back of the room, posted against the wall. Dimitri seemed impressed at how quickly I changed my mood, which almost caused me to crack and grin. He saw that, and I saw the corner of his lips tremble slightly upward.

And then Christian walked in, glaring straight at me with a murderous revenge seeking aura. He smirked a little, and I grimaced. He was going to rat me out to the class, wasn't he? We'll see how long he lives after that.

"Sit down and shut up," he commanded to the class and everything instantly became still and quiet. Guess the class with the kid he set on fire were talking too. "Today we'll be working on the basics. I can tell you now that if you can't control your fire the strigoi are going to walk all over you." He dropped a pile of books on the end of his desk, peering around the classroom. "Alright, let's say you can control a fire. I'm willing too let you off this lesson if you can prove it." He smacked the pile in front of him, smirking. "If you put a flame around the book with out turning it to ash you don't have to do any theory and I'll cut you straight through to the prac. And if you try and fail, you owe the school a new text book. Anyone game to try?" he grinned, looking around to class room at a bunch of cowering Moroi. I wanted to stand up and try my own, but I'd blow my cover if I did that. "No-one? What a shame. Alright, come get your books."

The lesson went on and it was boring as hell. One girl did speak up and try the flame around the book thing, but she screwed up and turned the book into a puff of ash and a lot of smelly gray smoke. Christian didn't look at me during the rest of the lesson, for which I was grateful. Yes he was a cruel teacher, but his methods seemed to work. Whenever he read something out he would demonstrate. By the end of the lesson he had half the class controlling flames and surrounding their text books, happily getting out of any homework Christian would have assigned.

"So," Dimitri said once the room was empty. "What's your next class?" he dropped an arm over my shoulder like he had earlier, and I snuggled in closer to him.

"Um…I don't know actually. Something in the gym, combat I think." First day and I'm already screwing up my time table. Some responsible organized guardian I turned out to be.

He frowned. "Guess I've got another one of Christian's classes to watch." He sighed and released me, taking both my hands in his. "I'll see you later, hopefully. I'll ask Alberta about your room, I'm sure I'll be able to get her to stuff us in the same room." He smiled and bent down to kiss me. When he went to pull back I swung an arm around his neck and pulled him back. No way was I letting him get away that early.

A few minutes passed, and we parted only because a few giggling Moroi girls were about to take photo's of us. One of them got us with a flash camera and took off running before we could see who she was.

Getting to the gym, a found a class of junior Moroi waiting for me. "Moroi?" I asked, dropping my bag next to the small wooden desk in the gym. "I'm teaching Moroi combat lessons?" I pushed backwards onto the desk, sitting up on the edge. "Or am I in the wrong room?" it seemed possible.

The class had a little laugh, and I saw a girl holding a phone and showing her friends something. Aw crap… "You."I flung myself at her, stopping inches in front of her and snatching her phone. I grimaced. "Pervert." I muttered, looking at the picture of me and Dimitri with locked lips. "Confiscated. We'll talk punishments after class." I glared her down and chucked her phone onto my bag.

"Whata' ya know. You did show up, thought you and Belikov would be locked up in a room somewhere." Christian was just exiting the equipment room, carrying bags of gloves that were similar to boxing mitts but not as effective for ensuring less bruising.

"Shut ya face lover boy, just cause Lissa's got shit to do now don't mean you gotta' come up here bein' all jealous like." My voice, tone, and the little click I did during that sentence made me want to crack up laughing. I sounded like a wannabe gangsta chick.

"Did you turn black in the ten minutes you were gone?" Christian asked, dropping the bags on the floor.

There were come collective snickers and giggles throughout the class. "God, you're so racist Christian. If I were black I'd flog you. But since I'm Rose, I'll wait until our training sessions later before I torment you." I smiled a sarcastic smile and he glowered at me.

"These are all air and earth users, both senior and juniors. There's a few other guardian's coming to help you out, and what you have to do is fight them off. Don't actually kill them or anything Rose, remember they're Moroi, not novices, so don't go knocking them all out." He smirked at me, and I chuckled.

"I'll do my best…can't make any guarantee's."I strutted up to his side and turned to face the class, switching into my awesome guardian mode. "Do not hesitate to attack me. If you aren't attacking me with the intent of killing me, you'll get your ass handed to you. Understand?" they all nodded as the door opened and a dozen or so guardians piled in, none of which were Dimitri. Damn.

"Those are your helpers Rose, they already know what to do." Christian nodded towards them like it wasn't already totally obvious.

I snorted. "Oh thank-you Mister Ozera, I never would have worked that out if you hadn't of pointed it out. I am forever in your dept."

He playfully punched my arm. What the hell? "Shut up, I was just trying to help." Again… what the hell?

"You're a bit of a freak some times Christian, did you know that?" I arched an eyebrow, a rather awesome skill I learnt from Dimitri.

He glowered again and sighed, tossing me a pair of combat mitts. "Shut up and go scare some kids." He muttered, walking over to the little wooden desk with an overly pissed-off look on his face.

What's up his ass?

CHRISTIAN POV

"Those are your helpers Rose, they already know what to do." I nodded myhead over in the direction of the new arrival guardians.

She snorted. "Oh thank-you Mister Ozera, I never would have worked that out if you hadn't of pointed it out. I am forever in your dept." her voice was overly sarcastic.

I smirked and playfully punched her arm. "Shut up, I was just trying to help." I'd forgotten how much I liked fighting with Rose. Even know she pissed me off a lot, she was still an awesome friend when she wasn't being a bitch.

"You're a bit of a freak some times Christian, did you know that?" She arched an eyebrow, and stared at me like a had mental problems.

I glowered again and sighed, tossing her a pair of combat mitts. "Shut up and go scare some kids." I muttered, walking over to the little wooden desk that our bags were sitting next too. As I was saying, when she's not being a bitch.

I sat and watched as her and the guardians walked out over to the oval so that the earth users would have something to attack with, but I didn't follow. I just sat there, pissed off and…I don't know what that other emotion was. Hurt? Guilt? Jealousy? What the fuck would be hurting me? Or what was making me feel guilty and jealous?

Rose?

But why? She's always bitchy, so it wasn't hurt, that's for sure. Guilt? But what did I do that I don't always do that would make me feel any sort of guilty? But then that left jealousy…that's it. I was jealous. Question is, why?

What in this world would make me jealous of Rose? Sure, we used to have little jealousy issues over how we both had to share Lissa, but that had long passed. Maybe because she was famous and strong…no way. Soon enough I'd be just as strong and…okay, maybe not as strong but you get the point.

Why was I jealous of Rose?

Maybe it wasn't Rose…it involved Rose, yes, but it wasn't exactly Rose I was jealous of. It was someone close to her…Lissa? Nope.

I sighed loudly, frowning and giving up on my jealousy issues for a moment I walked out to watch them practice and do my job.

I looked at all of them, searching for someone. I stopped my frenzied search when I locked onto Rose. She was currently being piled in rocks while having air whipped at her face, causing her hair to fly out behind her head like the waves in an ocean, getting large then curling over and crashing into the sea again. She jumped out of the rocks and dirt to be flung through the air by another lash of air, crashing down into the grass on her hands and knee's. I flinched, almost feeling the pain of impact through the stance she took up next, wobbly and tired.

They were hurting her bad. Probably trying to get revenge for all the shit se put them through. She started running forward, gritting her teeth, her eyes locked on the two Moroi senior boys standing ahead of her. She didn't noticed the huge lump of dirt that another Moroi boy from another group was currently hurling at her, so when it smashed into her she took the blow hard, crashing to the ground looking battered and broken.

She could have just stayed down like the other two defeated guardians, but she got back up, glaring at the Moroi kid who sneak attacked her. She was on guard now, scanning the area while flinging herself at the little shit that smashed her with earth. When she made contact with the boy, he hit the ground hard, groaning out in pain and calling out 'mercy' in a winded voice.

Just as I started laughing I noticed all the other guardians were now on the ground, waiting for the exercise to end. And their Moroi were all forming a circle around Rose, angry and pissed off looks on their faces. The air users pushed her too the ground while the earth users gathered dirk and then piled it all on her in a hill that would have to have been at least a meter or two high.

They were going to kill her.