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A loud smashing noise woke me up. I had fallen asleep on the lounge chair; I knew that the boy had most likely woken up. It was still only day time here and I was only used to sleeping at this time. As if Jace had just planned what happened he unlocked the door and strolled in.

"Kid broke your window." He smirked.
"Figured. Don't you have your own house? And a girlfriend?" I snapped back at him.
I hadn't slept in a while and my window had just been broken I wasn't exactly in a good mood. The kid wouldn't get far, that seemed to subside some of the unease I was feeling.

He raised his hands as a sign of peace and sat down next to me. The kid appeared from down the tiny hall. When he saw us his body went stiff until he had properly surveyed us both.
"You broke my window." I said.
"It was a diversion. Where am I? Why am I here?" he asked in distress.

I sighed he was young and although I was tired, I took the last of his events into consideration.
"Great diversion, do you remember what happened?" I asked dryly.
I had to see if he could remember anything. If he couldn't his head may have suffered more damage than I thought.
"I was attacked by a strigoi, in an alley beside a club." He said.
His eyes glazed over as if he remembered everything that had happened.

I assessed all of his injuries "Well you won't be going anywhere soon. Considering how long it took you get out here, I'd say you're in a lot of pain."
I raised both eyebrows waiting for a repl. I still hadn't figured out how to raise the one eyebrow. Jace had stayed quiet this whole time waiting for his turn.
"You're here because you almost died. Where you are? Let's just say the middle of nowhere." I said answering his questions.

He hadn't asked just yet who we were but I could tell it was coming. I looked at Jace he had obviously come here to discuss something.
"You should go." I gave him a look; he didn't need to get caught. I could tell he was about to argue but he thought twice when he saw the fierce look on my face.
"Drop in later; no one's going out tonight." Jace said.
He had left the boy and I alone.

I looked at him "What's your name? How old are you? Which academy do you go to? And why were you trying to kill a strigoi?"
I gave him another one of my fierce looks; I had been practically grilling him. He looked at me as if he'd drop if he stood much longer, I patted the spot next to me one the lounge.
"Ahh I'm Jeremy sixteen, I go to St. Vladimir's," I cut him off from explaining
"St. Vladimir's?"

Well it made sense it was the closest local academy around.
"Yeah, and the reason I was out there was to kill the strigoi. No particular reason."
he started fidgeting with something and broke eye contact with me. He wasn't telling me everything and I knew I wasn't going to get everything out of him.
"Look. I need to re-bandage your wounds and sleep before you go back."
I looked at him to see if that was okay.

I had re-applied cream and bandages with only little trouble. But on the plus side, I had been occasionally re-bandaging it while he had been passed out so it was already on its way to recovery. Then I had left upstairs and passed out after leaving Jeremy downstairs with food and television. He promised to stay on account of he had no idea where he was and because he was too injured.

The smell of food woke me up feeling much better I checked the clock to find it was early night time. I crawled down the stairs with sleep in my eyes to see; a wounded teenage boy cooking pasta. It smelt so good I think I would drool. Great, everyone can cook but me. He turned around
"Oh, I hope you don't mind?" he said when he saw me. I waved it off
"Better to have someone use it." I let out a light, half-hearted laugh.

He served up and we started eating. Not long into the silence I caught him peering over his bowl "I still don't know who you are? You could be a secret dhampir angel?" he asked teasingly.
I coughed, choking a bit on the food I had just put in my mouth, well he was certainly feeling better.
"Ahh I'm Rose." I said quietly.
He frowned turning his head to the side waiting for more.
"Rose Hathaway." I sighed pushing the bowl away and leaning back into the chair.

His fork dropped into his bowl as he starred at me his expression agape and his body still.
"Holy shit! You're like a dhampir, guardian goddess!" he began to laugh hysterically I was beginning to think I gave him too many pain relief tablets.

That defiantly wasn't the reaction I thought I would get
"Umm, thank you?" It came out almost as a question.
"You know queen Vasilisa Dragomir is practically on the hunt for you."
He was beaming with joy like he had just discovered porn for the first time.

"I mean real goddess. You were the first young novice to actually successfully kill multiple strigoi. Then you graduated top of your class to straight away guard a queen. I mean you don't get that kind of status overnight. You're worshipped! Even by some moroi, dhampirs more so after rumours to graduate dhampirs younger. What was it like to be trained by guardian Belikov's? You know the both of you have a legend status; of course you're more impressive because you were younger and a female and all."
he let out a massive rant. I frowned at the last part.

"Whoa, rewind. Lissa is going through with sending out younger dhampir's?" I asked
"Wait, you knew that? Of course you did. Would you train me?"
He was giving me a headache.
"Focus."
"oh right, yeah that's why I was in the alley. She's sent a handful of novices out globally as a run-though." He explained.

I growled "Like guinea pigs." I stood up "I'm taking you home." I said standing up.
"Back to St. Vlad's?" He asked.
I gave a small sad smile, it was sad that he thought of the academy as his home.
"No, does your family live around here?"

Riding in the car was silent, it had seemed like his outburst was over.
"Don't worry I won't give you away. And thank you for looking after me, I really appreciate it and I'm sure my mum will to." He smiled over at me fondly, a light blush appearing on his face.
"Thank you, that means a lot. I need to stay hidden for now."
I smiled back and paid my attention back to the road.

He directed me through numerous neighbourhoods until we finally reached where his house would be. Like most often it was a sad little run-down neighbourhood. For being injured Jeremy practically jumped out of the car. He waited for me and we walked towards a small house. I waited down the bottom of the three stairs while Jeremy was at the porch. The door was pretty much open before he could properly knock and a frantic woman I'm guessing was his mother was lovingly yelling at him and squeezing him.

He yelped when she squeezed him to hard, she looked at him in bewilderment for a split second before starting to assess her son. I looked at them with longing. It made me want to have someone loving in my life, it made me want to have a mother that would be that worried for me when I went missing for a couple of days. Hell, I even wanted a mother that would grumble at me for being so stupid.

My day dreams were cut short when Jeremy introducing me. The woman leapt at me and hugged me just like she had done with Jeremy.
"Thank you so much! You saved my little boy." She said pulling me at arm's length. Jeremy groaned, clearly embarrassed.
"Mum, stop."

She ushered me into the house "come in, come please." She spoke "I'm Anna."
her house may have been small but I hadn't seen any other kids, I didn't exactly want to be rude and ask so I left it. They both guided me into the kitchen and I think Jeremy was glad to finally be able to sit down.
"Would you like anything Rose?" Anna asked.
I over at her and smiled politely
"No thank you. I don't want to intrude, so I'll probably go soon"

She stopped fidgeting with something at the bench "oh nonsense, it's getting late dangerous to be out this time. You're very welcome to stay after all you saved my youngest boy!" he said going over and squeezing his cheeks. Well that explained the empty house; she had already had other children. My guess was that they were either already guardians or having families of their own.

She began to get distracted again "You know I told you not to go out, you worry me so much. I just wish there was something I could do to stop the queen from sending you out." She was still squeezing his cheeks but I could tell she was getting a little bit emotional as well.
"Mum, when I told you this was Rose. I meant Rose Hathaway! I'm sure it's not dangerous for her!" Jeremy spoke up.
"Well, it's always dangerous. No matter who you are danger will still find you." I spoke up. For second I reminded myself of Dimitri's Zen lessons in gym. Jeremy didn't bother pushing his mothers' doting hands away although I could tell he wanted to.

That was until she froze and looked over at me. I braced myself for some sort of negative reaction but it didn't come. She actually looked at me with hope "The queen has been searching for you my dear." She walked across to the other side of the table where I was seated.
"You could help us all! Please I don't want my baby going out and trying to kill strigoi." He gently grabbed my hand that had been resting on the table.

I looked into her sad eyes, then over at Jeremy who had stopped paying attention. I really wanted to do something. I couldn't stand here and let nothing happen. Obviously Anna had seen something in me that even I hadn't seen myself; mothers seemed to have that gift that gift and knowing exactly what to say, when. Well the mothers that were dedicated to being mothers in the first place.

I sighed I couldn't believe Lissa would do this, tearing apart dhampir families to have her moroi ones "I'll need some help. I'm not exactly up to date with the moroi royal system." I said. I was at the point where I refused to hide; I would bring my underground organization public. Her eyes lit up like a young child's.
"Before anything, I need you to know this might not all work out."
"Yes, yes I understand." There were actually tears forming in her eyes as she went to join Jeremy and hug him again. He was gentle with her and hugged her back.

I starred at them both for a little bit, I suddenly felt the longing for a family I had never felt before. I shook the idea out of my head
"Jeremy, why did they send you out so young? And has everyone been notified of this?" I needed to get a couple of answers before setting off on business.
"It was said only to the novice's selected and their immediate family. We were all told, by the queens reasoning if you could do it at seventeen she would try us at sixteen." He answered.

I felt like crying, Lissa had known how much that had affected me she'd known that it was a big deal and not a lot of dhampir's alike would be able to do such a task. So I didn't understand why she was sending these dhampir's out so young. Was it just to punish me? She knew I would never stand for it. I had to keep myself from crying I had to stay strong in front of Anna and Jeremy.
"That's wrong. I'm sorry to just rush out but I have plans' of action to make and people to see." I said
"At this time of night?" Anna chimed in. I gave her a warm smile
"Yes, the people that are awake this time are the ones that I'll need to be doing business with. Thank you so much for your hospitality."

I thanked her and even hugged her back a little. She demanded that I come back to visit sometime soon. Jeremy and I were standing on the porch.
"Sorry about my mum. She can be a little crazy." He apologized.
I just smiled at him
"She just loves you. I wish I had that as a kid."
"Maybe that's why you're such a badass." He smirked at me "how old are you now anyway?" he said scratching the back of his neck.

I let out a light delighted sincere laugh "Too old for you. Besides you're my number one fan and you don't know?" I teased him and even decided to give him a glimpse of the man eater smile I saw him immediately blush a little.
"Well, I thought maybe twenty one? Thinking about the year your graduated you would have been eighteen." He asked after he had recovered.
"Ding, ding, ding. Hit the nail right on the head." I walked down the stairs and stopped again looking back.
"Look, please stay home until you're injuries have fully healed then I'll drive you back to St. Vlad's. And to answer your training question, we'll see first shall we?"
"I won't be doing much until I've fully healed. Training, I'd like that a lot." He said.

I waved off as I walked to my car and drove off. The car ride home I thought about everything. I had already started forming a plan that I wished would work. But I would have to go home first, and resume this tomorrow. For now I just couldn't wait to go back to my cosy cabin in the middle of nowhere. With that thought I sped up leaving the city behind and racing up the mountains.

Did I have you fooled? Jeremy and his mum are kind of like a loving stepping stone in this story, you all seemed so sure he was a massive part. Which he might be if you think that he and his mum have caused Rose to take action? Hope you enjoyed, again the feedback I've been getting is amazing! Thank you all so much!