Chapter 10

A/N Heeeeeeeeeeey! We now have 103 reviews! YAY! I can't believe that we finally have over one hundred reviews! Thanks to all my lovely reviewers I have been able to write. Now... I know that you are probably pissed off at me right now because I haven't updated in like, forever, but pls bear with me as I am in yr 10 and I have my exams coming up in about 5-6 weeks. YIKES! I don't know what to do, I mean, I have been studying like crazy and doing my assignments and stuff, but I still feel so dumb! I am soooooo bad at math, I mean, for my trial exams last term, for math out of 85 questions, I only got 37 correct! So now I feel really dumb =(!

Well anyway, I am so sorry for not writing and updating but my reason for that is listed above and I have also had major writers block!

This chapter is the best I can do at the moment, so please don't be mad at me. If you want better and longer chapters, I want you to review and give me suggestions. Ok?

Alright, enough with this chattering and on with the story.

Dedication: I dedicate this chap to the beautiful reviewer who suggested the plot

Disclaimer: I don't own VA, if I did, Rose would never have been with Dimitri. She would have been with Adrian from the beginning.

SPOV

I arrived at the hotel that Rose and I had planned to meet at. I saw this woman coming up to me with six other people.

She called out to me, "There is my favourite Vampire hating person!"

I was confused. I had never seen this person before, and she looked human, definitely not alchemist. Her neck was showing and I couldn't see any bite marks, so she wasn't a feeder. I didn't know how she possibly knew that vampires were real or that I worked with them.

"Do I know you?" I asked her.

She looked liked she had just realised something and she looked around.

Then she looked back at me, smiled, took her ring off and said, "Yes Sydney, you do know me."

She put the ring back on just as quickly as she had taken it off. I was shocked. When she had the ring off, she looked like Rose, but when she had it on, she had red hair, green eyes and her skin was creamy white.

I realised that the ring was changing her appearance, so I just shook my head.

I walked into the hotel with the rest of the group following me and I booked a room for myself. I went up the stairs, put my belongings in the room and went out to dinner with everyone.

When we go to the Italian restaurant, I noticed that there were eight people. Everyone had those rings on except for one of the girls. She had blond hair and her eyes looked purple after she took her sunglasses off. She also looked about twelve.

We got our table and ordered our entrees (the food before you eat the main meal, for those who don't know. Most commonly some garlic bread in Italian restaurants. Different restaurants and different kinds may vary, so DON'T blame me if you go into a Chinese restaurant and order garlic bread and they say that they don't have any). Rose asked me if I had the folders and I told her that I did, they were back in my room.

"So Rose, who is everyone here?" I asked.

She looked nervous, and looked around at everyone at the table, as if asking their permission to tell me. They all nodded their heads and she relaxed a bit.

Starting from the guy on my left, she said, "That's Abe, Kaycee, Lissa, Christian, Dimitri, Skylett and Adrian. Everyone except Skylett is wearing a ring that Lissa had infused with Spirit to change our appearance so that we don't get caught out."

I was confused. I had never heard of Kaycee or Skylett. Why were they with this group?

As if she was reading my mind, Rose gave me an explanation, "Kaycee was the one who literally broke me out of the Court prison and Skylett joined this group just recently."

"How old are you two?" I asked directly.

"I'm nineteen," Kaycee said.

"I just recently turned twelve," the blond girl told me.

I was shocked. Where were this girl's parents? Who was she? She didn't look like a dhampir, but she didn't look like a moroi or human either. I also knew that she couldn't be a strigoi because I had seen her in sunlight and she hadn't burnt up.

She looked at me and said, "Yes, I am twelve. And like everyone else that I have told, I know that you are wondering about where my parents are. Well, my mother was human and was killed and my father is a," she lowered her voice. "a strigoi. And I know that you must be thinking that my father was turned after I was born or after I was conceived at least." She was right, I was thinking that. "Well you're wrong. He has been a strigoi for over two decades. He was a strigoi before I was conceived and so that makes me a half-breed. The first half-strigoi and half-human." that was surprising. I had never heard of such a thing.

"So . . . is that why your eyes are purple? Is it because you are a hybrid between something that has never been before?" I asked. I regretted it as soon as I said it, but I didn't know why. I think maybe it was because it was too personal.

She didn't look angry or upset or anything, instead, she answered my question like it was nothing.

"Actually," she seemed at a loss for words. She suddenly poked her eyes with her fingers and seemed to be removing something. When she looked at me again, my heart stopped for a few beats. Her eyes were red. As red as a strigoi's eyes. My eyes widened and I wasn't breathing. She put the blue contact lenses back in and looked at me with a smug look.

"That's why my eyes are purple. When people see my red eyes who know about our world, they always instantly mistake me for a strigoi. I don't wear contacts all the time because they irritate my eyes. But when I am in a public place like this – and especially when there are guardian's looking for us – I need to wear them a lot."

I nodded, saying that I understood.

I looked over at Kaycee and asked, "So when did you join this crazy group?" even though I hate moroi, strigoi and dhampirs because they are all an abomination to God, my job centered on them and I was quickly learning that not all of them were bad. Take Rose for example. Besides, even though I am an alchemist and should completely hate these people and I am loyal to my family and God and whatnot, I do realise that no one gets to choose who they are born and raised as.

She looked at me and repeated what Rose told me, "I was the one who broke Rose out of the prison."

I had heard about how a strigoi had broken down the brick wall of Rose's prison, so I don't know how she could have broken Rose out . . . unless . . . she was a strigoi.

My eyes widened and I started to get up. Rose grabbed my arm and pulled me back down into my seat.

I sat down, but got myself into a position so that if need be, I could jump up and run.

"Sydney, Kaycee isn't a strigoi. She specialised in earth. Okay?" Rose said calmly.

I sat down completely and relaxed.

We decided to change the topic and we had a fun night.

The only question I had was, how were they going to react when they saw the folder and what was in them?

A/N: okay, I was re reading this chapter and realised a few mistakes... so I changed them and replaced the old chapter... im sorry for my mistake! =P