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Rose's Point of View

I don't know how long I was out for, but when I woke up, nothing made sense. It was pitch black around me, making it difficult for me to make out my surroundings. I blinked a few times as my eyes adjusted. I could barely make out the outline of the room. I saw two shadows in the corner of the prison and I couldn't help the gasp that escaped me. I wasn't alone.

"Oh, so he's awake," an all too familiar voice said.

"Yeah. I was really worried that they killed him. I couldn't even hear him breath when we were in the van," another way too familiar voice said .

Their voices sounded odd and it took me a while to figure out why. When I talked to them at school, their voices were filled with humor. Now, their voices were grim. Grim and scared.

I closed my eyes praying it was a dream. No luck. "Mase? Eddie?" I asked, fear causing my voice to waver and become lower . I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to mentally prepare myself for what was to come. I thanked the God I wasn't sure I believed in, that it was too dark for them to see my figure.

"Robert?" Mason asked sounding horrified.

"How did you get roped into this?" Eddie asked shocked.

"I don't know," I sighed . "I was just going on a run and I got attacked." Then something he said dawned on me. "Did you say we were in a van?"

"Yes," Eddie answered. "I think we're still within the city boundaries though. We were only in the car for a couple of minutes ."

I let out a sigh of relief. We still had a chance . We could still get out of this.

"How long was I out for?" I asked curiously. My head was throbbing.

"A couple of hours," Mason told me. "They must have hit you pretty hard."

"Soooo," I said after a moment of silence. "What's the plan?"

"Don't die?" Mason asked jokingly.

I had to suppress my eye roll. "Gee, thanks Captain Obvious," I told him sarcastically.

"You're welcome Sergeant Sarcasm," Mason retorted.

"No but seriously," I said, my voice now free from humor.

"Why don't you tell us?" Eddie asked. "We're chained to the wall ."

I stared in his direction confused. "I'm not," I told him surprised. "I'm just tied to my chair." I could easily undo my knots.

"Can you break the rope?" Mason asked hopefully.

"I can't break it," I told him. "But it should only take a couple of minutes to undo the knot."

"Why didn't you do that already?" Mason asked me incredulously .

"Because I wanted to see if you two geniuses had a plan first," I retorted, slightly insulted.

"Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean to insult you," Mason said immediately.

I instantly felt bad. I was about to apologize when the door opened.

Two strioig entered, pulling something that forced any rational thought from my mind. Ther entrance caused a ray of light to enter the room. Just enough light to illuminate who they were holding. They were holding two moroi girls who looked to be about twelve or thirteen. One girl had strawberry blonde hair and doll-like features. The other girl was very tall and had curly brown hair that stuck out everywhere. This was not good. Now there were moroi involved.

The strigoi crossed the room and tied the girl to an empty seat. She was tied up like me, not chained to the wall like Eddie and Mason . "What the hell are you doing?" I asked the strigoi, trying to sound braver than I felt.

They turned to face me and the difference between them was drastic. The female Strigoi had to be several decades younger than the male strigoi. I recognized the male strigoi. He was the one who had attacked me.

The male strigoi chuckled. "Dear, dear, a wild one we have here," he told me. I glared at him. "If you must know, I thought we could make this a fun, little game. But we don't quite have all the pieces."

"Pieces?" I asked confused.

"I think another moroi will be the perfect thing, don't you?" He asked, his voice cold and evil.

I didn't know what his game was, but I knew it wasn't going to be good. "Go to hell," I spat at him.

"Isaiah, just let me kill her," the female strigoi begged. I held my breath when she called me a her, praying that Mason and Eddie didn't notice.

"Elena, be patient," Isaiah warned. "I may have use for her yet."

With that the strigoi left the room. Thankfully, Eddie and Mason were too preoccupied to notice that the strigoi had called me a girl.

The room was silent, all of us consumed by our own thoughts. I tried to check in on Lissa, but I had never intentionally forced myself into her head before. Usually it just happened.

I closed my eyes and concentrated. I tried to feel the bond. After a couple of tries, I almost gave up. Maybe I can't enter her head unless she's in danger.

I took a deep breath, ready to try one last time. I closed my eyes and opened my mind, willing every cell in my body to find Lissa. It worked. I was in her head.

"Where'd Belikov go?" Christian asked me… I mean Lissa.

"He went to find Rose," Lissa whispered to him. I could hear the confusion swirling around in her head. She didn't know why I left in the first place.

"Where's Rose?" Christian asked confused.

"Rose got really angry and she left," Lissa told him. The tears were starting to stream out of her eyes. I wanted nothing more than to be there to comfort her right now. "He thinks she got abducted by strigoi ." I could see it as she processed what Dimitri had told her. I almost groaned. Dimitri really could have left out the part about how death was a possibility. He scared Lissa more than she needed to be.

To my surprise Christian fell to his knees where he was previously standing. "This is all my fault," he said sadly.

"You're fault?" Lissa asked confused.

"I'm the reason she was so mad," Christian whispered. "I never told her about my parents and Aunt Tasha, because I was afraid that she would hate me for it. When she asked me about it, I was an idiot. I didn't want to admit I did something wrong. It's all my fault ."

"It's not your fault Christian. Dimitri told me that he said something stupid," Lissa told him immediately. She took a step towards him. In that instance, he got to his feet and took a step back.

"It is, and I'm going to fix this," he said determinedly .

He began to pull on his shoes.

"Where are you going?" Lissa asked, anxiously.

"I'm going to find Belikov. Then me and Belikov are going to find Rose. I think we owe her an apology," Christian told her.

I watched Christian walk out the door. I forced myself out of Lissa's head. "Shit," I said when I got back to my own head. This was not good.