Disclaimer: I do not own nor claim Vampire Academy as my own, Vampire Academy belongs to Richelle Mead. I Ashleigh Wood claim this plot as mine and no one may copy any ideas from this story without my written permission.

Previously on gone forever...

He finally laughed at me, he could be serious all the time and he knew it. We were about half way home when the official voice from yesterday called Dimitri's name. I slide down off of his back and turned to face the man from yesterday, he had two big men but not as big as Dimitri next to him. That wasn't what held me attention, the fact that one of them was holding a pair of handcuffs did.

I looked up in panic at Dimitri but he nodded and told me not to make a scene. The official man stepped forward and said, "Dimitri Belikov I need you to come with us. This can either be handcuffed or not, your choice."

Present...

Dimitri's shoulders slumped down and without a single word he walked forward and stood next to him but I was having none of it. "What are the charges?" I shouted out hoping to seem all professional and mature, almost the complete opposite of how I felt inside. All I wanted to do was break down right here, while sitting on my knees holding the officials leg begging him not to take him away.

With a roll of the eyes the official said, "The royals are making a big fuss over how he had supposedly killed a royal or at least injured him really badly. So we are taking him in just to shut the royals up and when we found out what really happened we will let him know. In the meanwhile I suggest you contact a lawyer to oversee all of Belikov's legal stuff."

With that he grabbed Dimitris arm and pulled him away, Dimitri gave me a kiss and nodded at me. I knew what I had to do, turning and running the rest of the way home. Barging in and giving the guardians all heart attacks I rushed upstairs into Lissa's room. When I began to speak I realised that I was crying, Lissa had asked me what was wrong and I began to tell her while the tears ran down my face.

"They came and took him away; they took Dimitri away because they think he killed Jason. I have to call a lawyer and ask them to come down and take care of Dimitri's legal rights and stuff. Please I need to use your phone to call Abe so he can come and see to Dimitri." It was only now that I noticed Christian holding Dominic in the doorway, I had thrown myself on the bed.

Lissa passed me her phone and I typed in the number that I needed. After a few rings, he answered and said something in Turkish but it was too fast for me to catch. I told him that he had to come down to the court and it was urgent, for the desired affect I even added a couple of, 'daddy pleases' and 'daddy I need you to help me.'

When he agreed and told me that he would see me by tomorrow morning, I almost jumped out of my skin because I was happy that someone as scheming and conniving as Abe, but not as good as me, was going to help Dimitri. This emotion roller coaster was so taking its toll on me and I felt ready to pass out any second now and it was only halfway through the night.

Lissa chased Christian out of the room and she held me while I lay there like a vegetable not saying or doing anything other than the occasional words or yawn. I closed my eyes after a while and drifted off into a peaceful sleep not waking up until Lissa told me that Abe was here and worried at why I had called him so urgently yesterday.

I took a quick shower and dressed in a pair of my guardian uniform as Abe said it would make me look professional and remind them of who I was and what I was capable of. I did my hair in a bun and made sure that I looked smart and presentable, again not how I was feeling inside. There was a knock at my door and my mom stuck her head inside.

I took one look at her and was ready to breakdown again, this whole situation was getting out of control and I just wanted it to end. She hugged me and told me that it would all work out in the end and I knew it would but it just didn't feel like it was going to right now. We all said a few words to each other and we then made our way to the guardian's headquarters.

Once we go there, a little secretary got up and ran into the back when she caught sight of us and a little while later Hans and a couple of other people came through and escorted us through the building and down to the holding cells which I knew all too well. As we all stepped through Hans grabbed my mom's arm and told her that she could not go through as she had no connection to the prisoner.

I shot him a dirty look when he said prisoner but he didn't see it as he was leading my mom away. My dad called my name and I turned to face him and he moved his head showing me to move. I followed him but when I saw Dimitri I ran forward and hugged him through the bars. This was how it should have gone after he turned back from a strigoi.

I explained that Abe was going to be his lawyer and that Abe was going to plead his case, even if he was innocent he would still a lawyer if this went to court. I sat there with him as long as we could but the visiting hours and Hans eventually spilt us up. Once Abe and I had gotten back to Lissa's house, I told Abe that I knew where I was held, the house in Montana.

He nodded and got straight onto the phone with someone and then he hung up telling me that we were flying to the academy. I was surprised that, that was done so fast but this was Abe we were talking about. He could get things done because of his name and money. Ten minutes later we were getting onto a plane that was going to land in Saint Vlad's.

This was all happening so fast but we needed to get the information for Dimitri as soon as possible. Once the plane was in the air, my dad and I sat down and I told him everything I knew about Jason and Blake, everything from his wife whose name is Britney, to him trying to ruin Dimitri's life. My dad gave me a look that basically said I-told-you-that-he-was-bad-news, even if he didn't say anything like that.

I ignored him and continued writing down everything I knew about them. Abe looked down and smiled at what he saw. "What's wrong?" I looked down at what I had written to see if I had written something that was wrong or sounded stupid but I found nothing at fault. Looking up he gave me a knowing smile, which creped the hell out of me.

"Not only did you get my hair, my skin, my eyes but you also inherited my wonderful handwriting." He said while still smiling, I laughed at him. Only he would think of something like that and that was something else I had inherited.

My dad read what I had written and pointed something out, "here you said that they had gone to school together and a girl left him for Belikov. Well that to me seems like a real breakthrough. We can play on the fact that Jason had motive to target one of Dimitri's future girlfriends."

To me it didn't seem like such a big thing but I guess it's different for a guy, or maybe just Jason but I guess people can be mad about one person, even if they are married now to someone else, that they would do something this drastic to get back at them.

My dad told me to stay here while he went out to go and check on stuff and do stuff that Abe Mazur needs to do, which is generally illegal. As soon as he told me to stay here I knew that I wasn't going to, whenever people say that something always happens that makes them leave or go against something someone has said.

I was going to do my best to try and listen to him but I knew my rebellious side was going to come out and I was going to have the sudden urge to go out and do something. My dad gave me a knowing look and told me he was going to go and check something and that I should take his phone as he needed to contact me depending on what he finds.

Once my dad left I settled down and tried to watch TV but I couldn't get into it. I wondered where Lissa was as she was supposed to be on maternity leave but a nanny was upstairs watching the baby. I know my dad told me to stay here, and I knew that I should have respected Lissa's privacy but this could mean life or death to Lissa, her baby and who knows who else.

I was going to the jail, guardian head quarters, and was going to confront Adele about everything. I walked out of the house and down to where my destination was, nodding to the guards at the front desk I head over to where I could go in and sees a prisoner, I signed in saying I was going to visit Dimitri but I wasn't visiting him.

I walked down the stairs quietly as I could, I walked past Dimitri's cell silently waving and signalling for him to be quiet, without any questions he complied by nodding his head.

I walked around the corner to where Adele's cell was but stopped when I heard voices. They belonged to Adele and Lissa. Adele was speaking in a slow coxing voice and when I felt myself become lulled by it I shook it off and realised she was using compulsion.

Turning around I signalled for one of the guards to come here quietly and he did, I met him halfway, coincidently in front of Dimitri's cell he came forward to hear what we were saying. I told the guard what was happening around the corner.

He suggested that we go and get Lissa, he call her Queen, and take her out of here as soon as possible. We agreed but we had to keep her somewhere form which she cannot leave until it is safe. Dimitri told us of the bunker that was under the royal residence in case of emergencies. It had one exit and entrance that could easily be guarded.

On three the guard and I were going to run around the corner and grab Lissa. He counted down, "One, two three, go!" we sprinted around the corner, I went for Lissa and he went for Adele grabbing her face and pushing her backwards. Lissa screamed in fright and only after me dragging her around the corner did she snap out of the compulsion, but as Adele had not finished the job she remembered everything that Adele said and I knew this by the look on her face.

She burst into tears and threw herself at me, sobbing and streaming tears. I continued to pull her out of the basement and through the Lobby, with a harem of anxious guards following us. When we reached a park a safe distance away from the jail, far away from where Adele could reach her I sat her down on a bench.

With the other guards listening she told us what Adele wanted her to do and it was gruesome. She spoke of killing people with her bare hands, staving her child, ignoring it and hurting it. She said Adele asked her to kill me with a magic overload or at least drive me mad so that I would have to stay in a mental hospital.

I now understood why she had ignored her son last night; it was all coming clear now. Everything that Lissa had said to me that made me sad, upset, angry, confused and even hurt was all because of Adele.

I remembered things she said to me, "Rose" she scolded, "she was here for us when you weren't. When you were gone she helped us get through everything." She stopped when she saw me pale or when she realised what she had said.

And even the thing she had said the other day, "Rose you should just get over yourself, you are not the first and certainly not the last person to ever get kidnapped and raped. Just be happy you survived and are not pregnant. You're so selfish and only ever think about yourself, no one around Rosemarie matters."

I had just brushed it off and tried to ignore it but it hurt me, it hurt me because she didn't know what happened, I had vaguely mentioned something about the raping but not in detail. I smiled at her and went and sat outside on the deck where Dimitri followed me and sat down quietly knowing that I just needed time with my thoughts.

I had stopped having bad dreams but that didn't mean that I still wasn't haunted by the memories, yes I had a long time to accept the fact that I had been raped but it didn't mean that I liked the memory and not by a long shot. I shivered both from the memories and the cold and felt Dimitri put his arm around me. I lay my head on his shoulder and just thought about everything neither of us saying anything, the peace and quiet along with each other's presences said more than any words could.

I wanted to bitch slap myself in the face, I sounded like one of the horrible Romantic stories that I had complained to Dimitri about and he I was sounding like a Mills and Boons story. The only thing that would have made it sound any worse was if we had made love under the moonlight and stars and expressed our love for each other, in fact that doesn't actually seem like a bad idea now but I could do without the whole romantic, endless undying love commentary that came with it.

Shaking my head I scolded myself for thing about that now, it was very irrelevant at this moment in time with my sobbing friend who had calmed down quite a bit but still had a long way to go. I told her that we were to sort this out, I asked her for her phone and called the only person I knew who would be able to handle a situation like this. Sonya Karp or Tanner, I didn't know if they were married or not.

She answered her phone on the first ring, "Hello Sonya Tanner speaking, how may I help you?" I smiled at the sound of my ex-teachers voice, "Hey Son, can I ask a huge favour. Umm Lissa has just be compelled by a freaky spirit wielding crazy ass bitch and she was told to do horrible gruesome and nasty stuff and I need you, do to your knowledge and experience with spirit to come and help her. Oh and by the way the is Rose speaking." I added my name at the end in case she was confused.

She wasn't and told me to take her somewhere, where she can be easily guarded and even subdued and I told her we were taking her to the bunker where she could be looked in. I gave Lissa a sad smile when I said this because she began to sob.

I heard a phone start to ring and my pocket began to vibrate. It was the phone Abe gave to me, I flipped it open and pressed it to my ear, my dad began to speak before I could, and he said "Rose I have some news for you. Jason is very much alive and is here at the court."

So guys, if I have any readers left, I have sorted out my problems and am now able to update again.

Someone asked me what problems I had that have taken me so long to update; first of all my aunt died a little while ago this is the same aunt I lived my mom and I lived with, secondly we had to tell everyone what had happened every single one of her 729 contacts on her phone and not to mention the 73 contacts on bbm. Then we had to clean out the house, and throw away some her stuff.

I also have emotional stress from this ordeal considering I had to call my mom who was in England, my aunt's mother and my aunts ex husband and thirteen year old son and tell them what happened.

So that is why I took so long to update and without sounding horrible I think I deserved the time off.

Anyways to everyone else thanx for waiting for me to update I really appreciate it.

Love Ash