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Rose's POV

Usually in moments such as this people always describe things happening in slow motion, and they can remember every precise detail due to adrenaline, but in this case that wasn't true. Everything seemed to pass in a blur. I remembered Dimitri's red-ringed eyes as he lunged at Andreev. I remembered preparing myself to help Andreev. I remembered Andreev diving to the ground, and then I heard gunfire.

Everything went in slow motion after that.

Three shots were fired.

I covered my ears to block out the sound.

I felt myself scream as Dimitri fell to the ground.

And then suddenly I was at his side.

His eyes locked on mine and I watched as the red slowly faded away. He gave me a small smile, and I could feel tears streaming down my face.

"Tranquillizers," He whispered. I could almost feel his laugh. My tears instantly stopped as I found a dart lodged into the side of his stomach. Not bullets, darts. I breathed a sigh of relief. Two more were lodged in him, one in his leg and the other on his hip.

He gathered my hand in his and squeezed it.

Looking into his eyes, I could see that all his anger was completely gone. I guess the drugs were helping a lot. I was still trying to calm myself down. I had believed they'd shot him. Of course they wouldn't though! Maybe they weren't as bad as I had thought.

I held his hand tightly, like I was gripping on for my life.

His eyes never left mine, although they eventually started to droop. The drugs were knocking him out.

"I lied." He whispered as he felt into unconsciousness.

His words floated through my head again, love fades, mine has. He lied. I felt a small smile tug on my lips.

Andreev's POV

I waited until the Guardian, Dimitri, was unconscious before approaching Rose. I could see she didn't want to be disturbed, especially when he was awake. I knew I needed to talk to Rose. No one else could have seen his eyes, everyone, besides Rose and I, were too far away, but I'd only ever seen eyes like that on Strigoi. Rose seemed so terrified when she saw them, and I didn't think that was a coincidence.

I walked over to her and knelt by her side, "He'll wake up in a few hours."

She nodded, "Where are you going to take him?"

I waved over the medics. They were carrying a stretcher to make it easier to transport him.

"We need to take him to the security building. There are rooms there which act as cells." I replied. The rooms were simple and small, with a bed and a toilet, and with one wall entirely made of thick, unbreakable glass. That way we could see what prisoners were doing.

"Okay," She took a deep breath, "Can I go with him?"

It would be against our protocol to let her inside a cell. Those were reserved for trespassers and people who could be a threat to us. He could have discovered us and revealed the existence of a secret organization. I had to make sure he didn't leave until he'd signed the appropriate documentation. After that he'd be bound by law.

"When he wakes up, I'll let you in to talk to him," I sighed. Tori and the Guards would kill me for agreeing, but I couldn't say no. They clearly needed to talk, and I couldn't stand in the way of that.

The medics began to carry Dimitri away. Rose slowly stood.

"Do you remember him?" She asked.

My face portrayed my confusion.

"Dimitri Belikov," She said, "You went to school together."

I felt my brows furrow in confusion. I remembered the name, but the man I saw definitely didn't resemble the boy I had known from the Academy.

I felt myself begin to laugh and Rose glanced at me in confusion. She had a small smile on her face.

"Little Dimmy looks all grown up," I grinned.

Lissa's POV

Christian was gone when I woke up. He left a note behind explaining his absence, although I didn't expect him to stay with me forever. I knew he needed to eat, shower and feed. For most of the morning I just laid on the uncomfortable prison bed and thought. Nothing specific, just random thoughts; it helped to distract me from the situation I was in.

I knew my trial was coming up, but I didn't know exactly when it was going to be. I'd lost track of my days after being in here. I barely even knew what time of day it was, and if it wasn't for the guards and Christian I'd lose track of the outside world all together.

One guard was always nice and he gave me a newspaper each day so I could catch up on things. I hated seeing articles about myself though. They made me feel ashamed. Most of them labeled me as a privileged Royal who didn't think of the consequences of my actions. Many believed I'd aided Dimitri's escape because my sheltered upbringing had led me to believe that I was incapable of being punished. I believed my trial and sentence would be increased due to the societal belief that Royal Moroi's would protect the other Royals, and therefore would not punish them fairly.

I didn't even want to think how severe the punishment would be for helping a criminal escape. They'd labeled Dimitri as an extremely high risk to our society. They believed he was in the process of being re-awakened. I thought their theory was crazy. I'd heard a few guards discussing my case once. They'd been saying that a group of people believed Dimitri had compelled me to help him. It was crazy what people could invent in their minds. He was completely Dhampir now, and that meant he had no ability to compel people anymore.

A guard suddenly approached the bars.

"Vasilisa," He called, "Your lawyer is here to see you." He gave me a small smile. He was one of the nice guards. He unlocked the cell and led me out. We went through the familiar route to the room where I had been taken last time I had to meet Miss Peterson. I dreaded seeing her again.

"Good luck," He grinned as he opened the door for me. I thanked him and entered.

I was shocked to see that in Miss Peterson's place was Ibrahim Mazur, Rose's father.

"Hello Miss Dragomir," He gave me a small smile and gestured to the seat across from him, "We have a lot to discuss, please sit." I reluctantly complied. Truthfully he was intimidating, and I had no idea why he was here.

He was scanning pages of documents intently, and I knew they were about me and what had happened.

"It looks like you've gotten yourself in quite the dilemma," He sighed.

"Do you think you'll be able to help?" I asked, my voice sounded small to my own ears. I didn't think anyone in the world would be able to fix this.

"I can try," He replied, meeting my gaze.

I'm having a ton of blonde moments writing this chapter! I forgot what the tranquillizer darts were called! Like seriously! My mind can't think of words hahaha, so if there are a lot of mistakes I'm sorry!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter; I know how the trials going to go, and I have a plan for every other character too! So revieeeeew! Let me know what you think so far! :D