"You never need to worry about that baby, you are the only one I will ever want to touch me like that. And just so you know one of the hidden rooms is actual in our bedroom and it locks from the inside and outside, that's where we can hide our toy chest."

We stopped in the middle of the sidewalk as I pulled her to me. "I love you so very much baby." Then I captured her lips in a hauntingly captivating passionate and hungry kiss. I ran my hands over her body restlessly, never being able to touch her enough, or to get her close enough to me to satisfy myself. Even when I am inside her, she was still not ever close enough.

(RPOV)

"Come on we need to get changed, remember we are going to New York in an hour." I reminded him.

"Hey Liss is everyone packed and ready to leave?"

"Everyone is ready but you and Dimitri."

"We are on our way; did you call Jeremy and tell him we needed him and Carl?"

"Yes, I talked to him yesterday he said they would have everything ready in time."

"Ok thanks we'll be ready soon."

"Liss says that everyone is packed and ready but us, so I guess we should hurry. Hang on I can't run in these shoes; I'll have to take them o…off!" I screamed the last word as Dimitri lifted me off the ground and threw me over his shoulder laughing at my scream. Then he took off running towards Lissa's.

"Comraaade, I could've run if you'd waited for me to take my shoes off." I laughed.

"Yes, but I wanted you in my arms, and what better excuse?" He laughed with me.

We were still laughing as Dimitri ran into Lissa's house with me on his shoulder. I heard everyone laugh at us when they saw us come running in and up the stairs.

After we packed, everyone left to board the plane. We were in the air about twenty minutes before Mase appeared to me.

"Hey Mase what's up? You look confused."

"Rosie, I just found out some information about you."

"Ok, what's that?"

"Brace yourself, because this is big."

"Mase you are starting to scare me, what is going on?"

"I found out what you are."

I was getting excited, "really?! What am I?"

"You are an ancient."

"Wait what?"

"You are what we all were thousands of years ago."

"So what does this mean?" I could see everyone looking from me to the, for them, empty space where Mason stood.

"It means you are a vampire."

"Uh yeah, Mase I kind of figured that out, what with the fangs and having to drink blood."

"No Rosie, you are not listening." He said in a sing song voice. "You are not a moroi, you definitely are not a strigoi, you are the original type of vampire."

"Ok, so I'm an ancient. What is the big deal?"

He sighed frustratedly, "Rosie, you don't have all your powers yet. Soon you will be able to change strigoi back to their former selves. And once returned they can never be re-turned, once they are damphire, moroi and human again there is no way for them to become strigoi again."

"NO WAY! Really?!"

He smiled at me indulgently, "yes way. But that is not all Rosie."

"You know; the only reason I let you get away with calling me Rosie, is that you are you. No one else would get away with that. Well except Eddie."

Grinning at me he laughed, "yeah I know. You love me." I laughed at that myself, because he knew I loved him. He was my big brother after all.

"Ok, so how do I change them back?" I was getting excited about this.

"Spirit users can do it with a stake charmed with spirit. But with you being an ancient, you don't even have to touch them. All you need is another ancient."

"But Mase, there is no one else like me." I said dejectedly.

"True, but there can be. You can make someone become like you, but there is a problem with that."

"What kind of problem?"

"The only person you can change, will be your soulmate." My eyes flew to Dimitri, then slowly back to Mason. "I can't do that to him Mason. Making him have to feed from someone would destroy him."

"But see that's the thing, you can't feed from a live feeder either. And there is a reason for that. No one's blood can truly satisfy your thirst but Dimitri's. In other words, the only living person you can feed from is Dimitri. Just as you are the only person he will be able to feed from."

"I will not turn him into a bloodwhore! Not for anything or anyone."

"Rosemarie Ivashkov, you listen to me!"

"NO! Mason, I will not do it."

Dimitri interrupted my argument with Mason. "Roza what's going on?"

"Nothing."

"Tell him the truth Rose." Mason fumed at me. I just shook my head.

Dimitri's hand cupped my cheek and turned my face to him. "Roza, I love you with all my heart and soul. Please milaya, tell me what Mason said."

(DPOV)

I knew whatever Mason had told her was big. I also knew it had something to do with me and blood. More accurately her feeding from me.

I watched the internal battle, she was fighting, in her eyes. Resigning herself she began, "he said that spirit users can change strigoi back to their former selves, by using a stake charmed with spirit. And once the person was restored, they could never be re-turned."

"That's wonderful Roza." But I knew that wasn't all, "what else did he say Roza?"

"Apparently, I am an ancient; not moroi, not strigoi, not anything else. I am an ancient vampire." Again, she stopped.

I gently nudged her, verbally, "and?"

"No Dimitri, the rest doesn't matter."

Suddenly Adrian jumped up, "yes Rosie, the rest is massive."

"Mason get out of Adrian, the rest is not needed to be known."

"Rosie, either you tell them or I do, which will it be?!"

"No Mason! The rest is between you, me and God."

Mason in Adrian's body came and kneeled by my Roza's side, laying a hand on her knee he said, "little sister, this has worldwide reaching implications. Millions and millions and millions of people can be saved; as queen, you know what you need to do." Her tears were flowing freely now. "Are you really willing to let all those people die and allow others to live as strigoi?"

"Mason, please don't make me make that choice." She begged.

(RPOV)

"I'm not Rosie, but you know what needs to be done. If this had of happened before Spokane, then Spokane never would have happened." I was sobbing heavily now. Dimitri brought me into his embrace, while running his hand up and down my hair in a soothing calming gesture.

"Milaya, please trust in me."

"I do trust you, but I don't want to hurt you. I love you so much." I sobbed into his chest.

"Baby, please tell me what is going on."

"I-I can return strigoi to their former selves, without touching them."

(DPOV)

"That's great Roza." But I could tell that wasn't all, she still hadn't told me what it was that concerned me and drinking my blood. "Tell me all of it, please Roza." I begged of her.

"The only way to make that happen, it to make someone like me."

"Ok, make me like you, and we can save all of those people."

She laughed, "you would volunteer, just like that. Without even knowing everything, wouldn't you?" She asked me seriously.

"Milaya, I told you once, a long time ago, and I will tell you again. I will do and be whatever you needed me to be."

"But Dimitri, if I do that, you will have to feed."

"Sweetheart, I can feed from a bag just as well as you can." She started shaking her head at me.

"The only reason I have to feed from a bag is because, I can't feed from a live feeder. But…but if I change you then we can only feed from each other." Now I understood why she was so worried and scared. (*)

I smiled broadly, "so what you are saying, is that you can't have your beautiful lips on anyone but me?" I asked seductively. Causing her to laugh.

Biting her bottom lips, she grinned her erotically seductive man eater smile at me, "yes." She said with a twinkle in her eyes.

Returning her smile with one of my own I asked, "now, how in the hell, would I ever be able to say no to that?" Leaning in I captured her lips hungrily. With my hand, still on her back I felt her moan, which just caused me to do the same. We kissed for a long time, and the longer we kissed the hungrier we became for each other. Finally, we pulled away. Looking at Adrian/Mason I asked, "how do we do this?"

"You have to feed from each other. First Rosie has to feed from you, but just a little. Then she will have to open her wrist and let you feed from her. While you feed from her, your fangs will grow in, and when they do…well let's just say you should do this when you are alone. As in somewhere very private, if you get my meaning. And during your change you have to look into her eyes, and only her eyes. If either of you look at anyone else, you will both turn into strigoi…forever. No one will ever be able to change you back, charmed stake or not. And if you become strigoi, then you will annihilate the moroi and damphir worldwide. Then use the humans as feeders, all the humans."

We let all this new information sink in before saying anything else. "Why would we need to do it in private?" She asked, although I think she and everyone else had or was figuring that out.