Last Sacrifice: The Chase

A Door Can Be Opened Both Ways

Disclaimer: I don't own VA. Only the plot of this story, Athena, Jace, the evil Cult (unfortunately) and their slaves.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait guys! Hope this one is good enough. Thanks for the 130+ reviews! You guys are awesome. And thanks to Nicola and Chloe, you are now the bad dhampirs in this story. I just changed your names to sound more evilish. Enjoy xxx

"Cholen, Nicalo, tie them up." One of the Moroi ordered. 2 evil creepy looking dhampirs walked in with ropes in their hands, and I had a pretty good idea what they were going to do.

"Now, we know all of your names, life and loves, so there's no point in lying, " Another Moroi stated, "Since your our prisoners we thought you like to know our names." Yeah, that make us all feel heaps better.

"I'm Eromon, this is Vanique-" he pointed to the dhampir chick like he despised her greatly, "Kypher and Slayde." he said as he pointed at the other two Moroi.

Cholen and Nicalo came towards Christian first, "Don't struggle." Cholen said as she tied his hands around the back of the chair. Christian attempted to burn the rope away but Nicalo smiled cruelly, "Nice try fire boy." And so Christian gave up with a look of anger on his face. He stole glance at Lissa and smiled weakly.

I don't know why anyone wasn't trying to stop these lunatics. No one made an effort, it was like everyone gave up as soon as 'they' walked in. There is something about them...

Sooner or later we were all tied to our chairs. Kypher walked up to me, his white hair cropped short. "I'm Kypher, Ms Hathaway."

"Um...Nice to meet you Kypher?" I said, not fully understanding why I was talking to the people who are holding me and my friends prisoner. Thats my badass side talking I suppose.

"Stop flirting Kypher." snapped Vanique

"I'm not Vanique!" he retorted.

"Let him, I've read Rose's record, she won't touch him." Eromon drawled. He longed in the plane chair like he owned the plane.

"I hope so." Adrian muttered to himself, "For all your sakes."

"Hey shut it Ivashkov. We didn't ask for your opinion." Vanique said as she slapped Adrian across the face. Harsh.

Adrian had a satisfied look on his face, despite the big red welt that was showing up on his left cheek. "Thanks." He quickly healed his cheek whilst Vanique wasn't looking.

"Anytime." said Vanique as she walked up to Jace.

"Hey," I hissed to Athena, trying not to catch anyone else's attention, "Where are the guardians?" I asked her, looking around.

Athena nodded towards the back of the plane where all of them were slumped over each other. What a fat good of use they were. Just wait till we got back to court.

"Who are you," Jace grimaced, the pain in his hands proving to be too much for him. He could just untangle the rope with his mind, but that would be giving away his gift. And that could be our only advantage.

"Were the cult: so great it doesn't need a name, just a great big 'the'." Kypher said as he paced up and down the plane.

"And what do you do?" Adrian said, trying to move his hands.

"We carry on our plan- and kill anyone who tried to stop us." Vanique said, sitting on a spare chair and crossing her legs and inspecting her nails, like this was boring.

"And what have we done?" Lissa asked.

"What haven't you done." Eromon said, like it was obvious. And the thing is, it wasn't.

"Don't worry about explaining it. We'll just suck you dry, then leave this plane to arrive at where you were meant to land. Call it a present from us personally." Slayde told us.

Suck us dry. I knew what the bliss of a vampire bite felt like. Slayde, Kypher and Eromon cast a dangerous look towards us and their fangs gleamed.

Athena looked up from her seat, "Thing is, I thought the 1st rule about vampires was don't believe anything you read. But in this case..." she said sarcastically, referring to the whole 'suck your blood' comment. She obviously wasn't intimidated by the cult.

Adrian chuckled to himself but stopped immediately as Vanique walked slowly over to Athena with a snide look on her face. Athena smiled, "Hey, I like your hair. It's...horrible."

Vanique took out a knife, the blade sharp. Christian looked panicked. Jace tried to find a way to stop what he thought was about to happen.

"You might want to shut up little Moroi."

"Me. Little? Do you know who I am?" She asked her.

Eromon looked at Athena, "I'm guessing by your eyes, that your a Ivashkov right?"

"Yep." Athena replied proudly. "You wait till we get back to court. You'll wish you'd never been born."

Adrian put his feet up on the chair in front of him, relaxed.

"What are you doing?" I hissed angrily at him.

"Rose, calm down. Once they figure out who she really is, they'll be out of here."

"How can you be so sure?"

"I'm not."

Lissa watched as all of the cult swarmed around Athena. Vanique was brandishing a knife, threatening Athena. "I wouldn't do that. She's the Queen."

Athena looked at Lissa and scowled, "You ruined the whole affect Lissa." She sighed and looked up to the now shocked faces, "Yeah. What she said."

"What happened to Queen Tatiana?" asked a panicked Kypher.

I grinned, Us-1, The Random Cult-0. "Nathan Ivashkov killed her. Did you know her?" I asked, purposely trying to hurt whatever feelings they have.

"It doesn't matter." Eromon said shifting uncomfortably, distant- like his whole entire plan was screwed. "But what does is.." he looked at Vanique who was still holding the knife. "Is why the hell are you trying to kill the Queen!" he exclaimed running towards her and grabbing the knife.

"Sorry. I didn't know." Vanique sulked. "Wipe her. Then we can leave."

"What!" Athena exclaimed, struggling to get the ropes loose.

"10 minute block." Slayde said, ignoring Athena, taking a device form his pocket and putting it on her head. "5,4,3,2,1-" Athena's eyes rolled back into her head. He swiftly took the device away and put it back into his coat pocket.

Jace had a worried look in his face. 10 minutes back she had never met him. Poor guy. They all stormed out with out a word, and for some great timing the plane started up.

I could feel the ropes around my wrist burning away, "Thanks Christian." I flexed my hands and waited until Adrian's burned away.

Adrian hugged me close, "Little Dhampir." he murmured. "Exciting enough?"

Jace was next to Athena, her eyes still rolled back. "Athena, you have to remember. Its never been more important. I watched them perform the swipe. It's not 10 minutes, it's a whole 10 days. And it's permanent unless you help me."

What! 10 days. She would've never met me, Lissa or even Christian. She would've never become Queen, and never hacked into those records. Quickly, we all huddled around her. Jace seemed to know what he was doing. "What are you going to do?" Lissa asked Jace.

His face was grim. "If she doesn't remember, she never will again. We won't exist in her mind, and we never can. Adrian will be. But us," he looked at Christian, Lissa and I. "We will be practically invisible, never really there. We will never get her to remember us again."

"Isn't this a bit like Harry Potter?" Adrian remarked.

"I don't get Harry Potter. If he's so magical: why can't he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage guy shouldn't need a broomstick to cling onto." I said.

Lissa and Adrian laughed, and stopped when they saw Jace's face full of seriousness.

"Not now!" Jace snapped, "I'm going to enter her mind and dig up the memories and drive them back to where they are supposed to be."

Lissa had a look of amazement on her face, "You can do that?"

"I hope so." He cupped Athena's face and brought her forehead to his. He closed his eyes, and looked really concentrated.

We were all silent. Waiting for the result of what we now called, Jace's Mind Digging. He kept his eyes closed for what it felt like eternity.

After a minute or 2, Athena slumped in Jace's arms. He caught her swiftly and pulled her onto his lap.

"Will she be okay?" Christian asked anxiously, knowing that Jace had Athena now. And he had Lissa. I hope that was enough for him.

Jace put Athena down on the chair slowly, "Yeah, give her 5 minutes or so for the memories to settle in, she should be fine."

Lissa went to go and heal the rest of the guardians that lay unconscious behind us. The plane we were in was heading back for court. None of us felt like sleeping after what we had just been through.

"So," Lissa said, breaking the silence, "What did you think they wanted?"

Jace looked up from Athena, "I read their minds, they wanted to know why 3 of us were spirit users."

"And why is that so surprising." Christian asked him.

"Because, something about 'their leader' told them that Spirit was non-existent."

"And why didn't they wipe our minds?" I asked confused on why they'd leave us with their names.

"Do you think anyone at Court will believe us." Adrian said, he mimicked us talking to the court about our trip. "Oh we were on the plane back from The Alchemists HQ, when we were hijacked by a cult, that wanted to suck our blood, and put a 10 days mind wipe on Athena so she'd forget that they threatened to kill her with a knife. How do you think that'll go down?"

I brushed my hair from my face, imaging what the Council will think of that "Not well."

"Exactly." He sighed, "How the hell are we going to introduce Jace to everyone?"

"Yeah Lissa, you can't just go; this is Jace, my half-brother. He is the result of my dad and his very well paid mistress." Jace reminded her.

"We'll think of something." was all Lissa said as she cuddled in Christian's arms, trying to forget about it.

Jace nodded silently and looked back to Athena in his arms, "Hey Athena," he whispered as her eyes flickered open.

She slowly opened her eyes. "What happened?" she groaned, stretching her arms. "Oh my god Jace." she sat up. "Your poor child, how could you live like you did?-"

"What!" he exclaimed. "Oh no, you didn't did you." he hit his head with his fist.

" I knew this could happen."

"Your mother is-" she to tell us. Lissa leant in eagerly,

"Shut up!" he ordered as he pressed his lips to hers. Adrian raised an eyebrow and Lissa grinned smugly. Christian looked pained, he couldn't take this anymore.

I don't know if it was to shut her up, or if it was out of lust. Either way it looked like Athena enjoyed it. He pulled away and stood up briskly, "Not a word until the times right Athena."

Athena smiled at his kiss, "Oh don't worry about that Jace. Its a secret that only you can tell. Because, it's huge."

"How did you know?" Adrian asked. He nodded to himself, realizing what happened. "When he looked in your mind, you looked through his?"

"I didn't mean to. A door can be opened both ways. He knows he knows everything about me, and I the same with him."

Christian looked up to Jace, "You are one lucky guy."

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