I'm terrible, horrible, despicable, a blond! And any other name you can think of to call me! and I'm sorry! I'm sorry that I left you hanging! But this is an extra long chapter so I hope that you can forgive me:)
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UPPPPPPPDDDDDAAAAATTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!OR I SHALL KILL YOU IN UR SLEEP
Well better late then never right? And if you kill me you will never know the end to the story;)
DauntlessTrin
Hahahahaha this is funny because I just shaved the bottom of my head. Maybe my name has been Hans all along. lol NO. I am Trinity, queen of the skater punks and talking llamas. Ruler of the world of emos. I like that title. Dimitri is going to jump and land on top of Tasha and wipe her dumb makeup off to prove that she is not actually a strigoi. It would be cool if the people "attacking" them were Adrian and Sydney, and Sam and a bunch of his vegetarian strigoi friends. I refuse to answer the last question
Toodles (y)
P.S.
You didn't update at 1 in the morning this time! It is only 10 pm in California. If you updated early in the morning I wouldn't be able to read these chapters because my school started. UGH. I'm already being bullied. (_)
I fell your pain...:( so this chapter is for you!:)
Romitri
HAAAA! *Laughs*
I knew the spy was Hans! My suspisions were correct! *Tarzan call and dance*
PLEASSSEEEEEE UPLOAD SOOONNNNNNNNNNN!
I started reading the prev story today and have been reading ever since... (Non-Stop) ;) ;)
U got me hooked! :D
I wish i had Dimitri *drools and licks the screen*
Yeah he is yummy;)
The-cat-with-blue-eyes
I was quoted in the review on top of the chapter! Yeah! Life is complete! :D :D
I knew it wasn't Hans but it was that damn llama! Ok they are technically the same person but still!
Dimitri is going to be awesome and kick Tasha's butt as always because he is Dimitri :D
Well I hope that this also makes your day...or night or whatever:)
ambourgonje
Hi I love your stories. I started with ice princess last week. And have worked my way through just like old times, and blast from the past. I vowed to myself I would not read a stories of yours that is not finished, because of jour clifhangers. but i broke my promise with back to the future. So reward me with a quick update?
I knew it was Hans since the attack on the main swarm. Dimitri commented on the fact that he was surprised that Hans would rely on the tech Sydney made instead of his usual old school methods. Also the half of the conversation that they overheard. "thats why he is earning the big bucks" clearly was a reference to Hans. Also I knew he had to be complelled somehow. Because you would not make him evil. you could just not be so cruel.
I like what you did with Sam. I am a neurobiologist and have had a lot of dealings people with ASD. Both in a professional sence as well as personal and some things are spot on. (some a little less ;)) I do think the rigid mind of a person with ASD would shine through as they turn strigoi. interesting concept.
Ok first let me just say HAY! If you have read all of my story's then WERE ARE MY REVIEWS!
And secondly WOW! I think that you might be the most qualified person to ever read my story! I'm so happy that you liked it. But I must admit that I cheated a bit...you see I have autism and that's how I manage to get Sam right. I know not everything was spot on, but I like to think that I did a good job of it:)
VAGypsy
OMG...OMG...*removes hands from eyes* OMG NOOOOooooooooooo!
what the...i mean... *runs to hide in Llama fur in nonacceptance*
Ok that's it for now. Disclaimer...you've waited long enough already.
Codename Talking Llama! I knew that that skater punk that broke my phone was working for someone! He was probably in league with Tasha the entire time! I never did like that damn llama! Forget Hans, when all of this was over, I was going to shave that llama and make a new duster out of it's fur!
But just before I could make good on thet threat, or even make my grand entrance, the front door exploded open and in came a group of both Strigoi and guardians. Well this was going to be fun!
RPOV
My life seriously can't be this complicated! I thought to myself as I spun around to see who else could possibly show up and somehow make this mess even more confusing, while I turn around and see, no other but Sam busting in with a bunch of other Strigoi and Guardians that he seemed to be fighting along side- which was a bit strange. But what was stranger was that Ivan was with him! And not only that, he was actually fighting! I knew that as a Strigoi he hadn't minded getting his hands dirty, or bloody as the case may be. But I never thought that his knowledge of fighting would stick with him.
And along side him was Eddie, Mikhail, all of the Dhampirs that Dimitri had told me about in his team. (Though I had never met any if them personally, it was hard to mistake Nick's teasing smile and Leo's excitement about the fight to come) ... and last of all...my mum and dad! Ugh I so did not need this to turn into a family reunion!
And if they were all here, and Hans was here, then where was Dimitri! I thought panicking. Surely if everyone else was here then the attack hadn't been a total loss, and Dimitri was better than half of them! He was just fine...I hoped.
Once everyone was in the room, they all kind of paused mid fight and took in their surroundings, all of the Strigoi stopping to look at Tasha as if waiting for further instructions, and all the Guardians wondering why the ring of other guardians surrounding Lissa and Christian didn't have their stakes raised. And then there was a bit of awkward silence when no one knew what to do.
But that didn't seem to stop Sam from blurting out.
"Sounds like someone's having a party in here," he said with a cheeky grin, then with an excited look added, "Is there chocolate?"
I couldn't help but laugh at that, trust Sam to make even a life and death battle sweet and innocent somehow.
But I turned back around when I heard Tasha's delighted laughter. Except I had the feeling that she wasn't laughing because of what Sam said.
"Oh what fun! And here I was worrying about not having a big enough audience for my moment of glory! But it seems like my new subjects are just lining up waiting for the chance to see me!" Tasha said and laughed again. I really think that she has well and truly gone off the deep end this time.
"Yeah sure just keep telling yourself that," I said looking over the new comers.
"Ok so no party," Sam said looking slightly disappointed that there wasn't going to be any chocolate (not that he could eat it anyway) and looked around.
"Hey, isn't he supposed to be on our side?" Sam asked pointing to Hans.
"Long story," I said rubbing the side of my head to stop the headache that I could feel building. "Just don't throw him your stake if he asked you to, he might just stab you in the back with it in his current frame of mind."
"Are you alright little girl?" my Dad asked not caring at all that I just called our Head Guardian a traitor to his face. Naaah my dad was too busy looking murderously at Tasha for anything else to matter. My mum was shocked to say the least, but hid it well and stayed silent. But was looking around like every Strigoi in the room was just waiting for the chance to jump her and the others. (which they probably were). I knew that she had to be hating the fact that there were two Moroi fighting along side her, and that this was now endangering the Queen, I wasn't too thrilled about that either to tell the truth. But it's not like we planned it to go this way!
"I'm fine dad, haven't even thrown a punch yet," I said putting my hands on my hips in a casual pose as I desperately tried to think of my next move. We were more or less even in numbers now but I still wasn't happy with this latest break through. Was Hans Tasha's only traitor? Or did she have other time bombs just waiting to be set off?
"Rose Hathaway not throwing a punch in the middle of a fight? Ha I'll believe that when I see it!" Eddie said with a smile, knowing what I was doing and playing along.
"Aaa you know, I like to play things out, see who would benefit most from my supreme awesomeness," I said with a smile and then turned to look at Ivan. The others I was expecting at some point, but not him.
"Ivan, it's nice to see you back in the game, I was wondering if married life had made you soft," I said as I slightly turned to get a batter look around me. Tasha had a few Strigoi around her, and there were a few around the room. But for the most part they were in front of me along with the Guardian reinforcements. All in all, not to bad.
"Well you know, I didn't want people to think that I lost my touch just because I wasn't a Strigoi anymore. You know I used to be quite a good fighter before I was turned, ask Dimka! He'll back me up," Ivan said looking confused that we were all making small talk in the middle of all of this but knowing better than to point it out and played along.
But I still had my suspicions about him. Dimitri had confided in me about how Ivan had been acting a little strange before he had left to find me, and though I had only been back for a short while I noticed something off about him too. But he was on our side for now and that was all that mattered.
"Well, now all were missing is Adrian and Sydney and we'd have a real party happening here," I said, hoping that they both had good enough sense to keep out of this! Not to mention Violet, I'm sure that she has had enough of Strigoi for the rest of her lifetime.
"Oh don't worry, I plan on making sure that all of your old acquaintances are met with a warm welcome," Tasha said apparently having enough of being left out of the conversation and bringing it back to her.
All of the Strigoi around us were getting on edge and looked like they were just about to attack, all it would take was one spark and we would have a full blown fight on our hands.
Just then a talking llama fell from the sky and landed in front of us...
Oops! That was Dimitri! Wow, if he ever finds out that I mistook him for a talking llama then I will never hear the end of it! Shhhhh don't tell!
Dimitri landed on his feet with his stake raised and looked around like someone was going to jump him...and in this crowd he wasn't to far off. I felt instant relief at his arrival and had to fight every instinct in my body not to run straight into his arms and kiss him until we were both breathless I was so glad that he was alive and unhurt. Stupid hormones.
And how the hell had he gotten up there? I wondered as I looked up at the small ventilation shaft that he must have crawled through to get here. Copy cat.
His eyes searched around the room taking in his surroundings before finally landing on me.
"Aaah Dimka! So nice of to show up! You made better time than I thought you would. Did you like my little surprise?" Tasha asked with an evil smirk.
Dimitri glanced her way for a second with his guardian mask up but anger leaked through. What happened while he was gone?
"Are you alright Roza?" he asked looking back to me his face and voice staying in guardian mode, but I would have to be blind not to see the love and worry in his eyes.
"Just peachy Comrade, nice entrance by the way, I give you an A+ in dramatic timing," I said with a cheeky smile. But then asked with a more serious tone. "What surprise?" I asked in a low voice not liking where this was going.
"I'll tell you later," he muttered to me before answering Tasha.
"It was original I'll give you that, but I've seen better special effects in Star Wars movies," Dimitri said not missing a beat.
"True it wasn't my best deception I'll admit, but under the circumstances and the time limit that I was under, I still think I deserve a pat on the back. I mean it's not every soon to be world leader that can change her whole plan in the blink of an eye and still come out on top," Tasha said in a sultry voice and I didn't miss the double meaning.
"Well sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of your plans are going to work and you're sure as hell not going to "come out on top" so why don't you just give up now and Lissa MIGHT be in a good enough mode to restore you if you ask really nicely before you get locked back in prison where you belong for the rest of your life!" I said mad as hell that she was still hitting on my man when I was right here!
"Sorry blood whore but that's not going to happen. You see, after all of this is over Dimka, will realize what he gave up when I asked him to be with me last time and he will forget all about you and beg me to take him back," she said looking at me like I was beneath dirt and not worthy to be in her presence.
"Don't talk about Roza like that! And I'm not sorry that I turned you down at all! It was the best decision that I could have made, because if I had said yes then I never would have had a chance to start a life with Roza!" Dimitri said moving into a protective stance in front of me. Normally I would have scoffed at that and stood beside him in a fighting stance of my own. But considering my current condition I think that a little bit of extra protection might be a good idea.
"Yes yes I understand that you think that you made the right decision back then, but now you realize that you were wrong. But I forgive you for having a fling with the little school girl! At least it's out of your system now and we can all move past that! And soon all of our dreams will come true and we can finally be together and rule the world as king and queen!" Tasha said with a look that I can only describe as part sick love and part obsession with Dimitri. I think that she really does love him in her own twisted way, which just makes me feel sad for her. Again DAMN hormones!
Dimitri looked a mix between sad and sick as well. "Y...you did all of this, just to be with me?" he asked looking afraid to hear the answer.
Tasha beamed at him, like he was finally catching onto what was happening and that it just made her day. "Yes! I did it all for that, I did it for us! And who knows, maybe we can still have children together! And if we can't, then I'm sure that there will be some orphans wondering around after I finish seizing Court, we can always adopt," Tasha said with a far off look, like she was imagining her future with Dimitri and liking what she saw.
"I'm sorry Tasha," Dimitri said sounding disappointed in her, but also harsh, like he was hitting her with the words. I guess that he was as sick of Tasha messing with our lives as I was. "But we're not going to be together, we never were. I don't love you, I never did. I love Rose and nothing that you can do will ever change that. I don't know how many different ways that I can explain it to you but you need to get it through your thick reinforced Strigoi skull! I DONT WANT TO BE WITH YOU! Not in any way! So move on and get help!"
Tasha's face crinkled, like she was a child being told that she had done something wrong that she didn't understand.
"Wh...what do you mean we will never be together? Why not! I've given you everything! I've offered you marriage, children, power to change and rule the world! I even killed that no good father of yours because I knew how badly he treated you and your family! I was going to let them all come and live with us in the palace! They could have been treated like royalty! I've given you everything! How can you say that you don't want to be with me after everything I've done for you!" Tasha was screaming by the end, a truly outrageous look in her eyes and she was really loosing it now, and I was worried for our lives. When someone gets that mad, nothing good can ever come of it.
Dimitri face softened and he looked truly sad at what his friend had become. "I never wanted any of those things Tasha. It's nice that you wanted to give them to me, and I'm happy to have such a loyal friend. But you can't control love, you can't just say that you've given me the most so that means that I have to love you. It just doesn't work like that. I'm sorry."
And then I saw in in her face, she snapped. "You're going to give up being a king, ruling alongside me, having everything that you could ever want at your fingertips! You're giving it all up for some knocked up blood whore that is carrying who knows who's bastard child?!" Tasha screamed out before literally letting loose an ear piercing shriek that had everyone in the room covering their ears.
"KILL THEM ALL!"
And now for the fight scene!
Just then the room erupted in fighting and screams. A flood of Strigoi that had been lying in wait poured out of the tunnels and flanked Tasha on both sides before running out and attacking the first Guardian that they saw. I gripped my stake tightly and moved forward to give Dimitri one quick hard kiss that told him that I loved him and to be safe before I went back to back with him and got in to a fighting stance just like I had done a hundred times before and was ready to fight.
I looked over to make sure that Lissa was safe and noticed with relief that the Guardians surrounding her and Christian had apparently decided that it wasn't worth doing nothing and hoped that Hans wouldn't follow through on his compulsion induced threat to hurt their loved ones and were fighting every Strigoi that came their way.
I looked back in front of me just in time to stake a newly made Strigoi that didn't know better than to get near me when I was armed. I had to be more careful, I told myself as I focused in the fight happening in front of me. After all, I was fighting for two now.
Dimitri apparently noticed what the other Guardians were doing and slowly moved us as we fought over to the big defensive circle that the Guardians had formed. We were highly outnumbered and it was easier to defend ourselves when we didn't have to watch our backs.
I heard a grunt of pain that had my heart racing as I looked over and saw my father double over in pain from a Strigoi punch. I was about to run over to him and stake the crap out of the Strigoi that had done that...but my mother beat me to it. She was in front of Abe in a heart beat and killing the Strigoi and covering Dad from any other threats at the same time. My dad then turned around as another Strigoi that was coming at my mum when she was distracted and hit him over the head with a stake and moved to the side while my mum staked him to finish him off.
Wow, I never knew that they were such a good team.
I went back to my own fight and for the next...I don't know how long, just focused on staking and killing Strigoi. I was in auto pilot and was cutting through them at a nice pace if I do say so myself. But there were still so many of them left that it shocked me and took me a moment to realize that Tasha had signaled them to stop.
I looked at her in bewilderment until I realized what she was going to do. Gloat.
"Dimka, you and your friends have fought well, and I understand that you might be a little shocked at all of the changes that are happening to you, so I'm going to give you a second chance to be with me," Tasha said in a sugary sweet voice, like she was a loving faerie godmother that was going to make everything better.
"If you surrender to me right now then I will spear all of your friends here. I'll even let the blood whore live, you can visit her and her bastard child in a pretty little cell that I will make nice and cosy for them. You can see them once a week for a few hours if you keep in my good favour. None of your friends have to die, this doesn't have to end in blood shed. Decide now Dimka, and make the right choice. Otherwise I will just kill them all now and compel you to be with me," Tasha said finishing in a cold Strigoi voice that I knew so well.
I looked to Dimitri. He was deep in thought, probably trying to find a way to save everybody that didn't involve us being a source of food and him being married off to Tasha. He looked over to me and I could see that he was desperate to find a way to save me and our child. Agreeing to Tasha's demands may keep us alive, but wouldn't give us anything close to a life.
He was in agony, and I honestly thought that he was going to agree just to save me.
"No," I whispered. I couldn't let him go through with this, not only would it be a pathetic excuse for living, but Tasha would be the new queen of our world!
"I can't let you die," he barely managed to croak out past the pain I could see in his eyes.
"If Tasha wins then we will all die anyway," I whispered back, if we didn't fight then not only would Tasha be the queen of our world, but the Strigoi would soon take over the human world and there would be nothing to stop them. We had to fight, it was the only way.
And he knew it.
He looked back to Tasha with sadness and determination in his eyes. "No Tasha, we won't surrender, if we're all that stands between you taking over the world then we will fight to the last man and woman to stop you."
He said strongly as he grabbed my hand. I knew that he was willing to do almost anything to save me and our child, even give up his own freedom. But if we didn't stop Tasha now then there would be nowhere in the world that our child could be safe.
"No. NO! This is your last chance! Surrender or they all die!" Tasha shrieked at the top of her lungs.
"We're going to fight and we're going to win!" Dimitri said strongly not moving an inch.
Tasha was almost shaking with rage at this point and her movements were jerky as she pointed a finger at us.
"KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!" she shouted and we all prepared ourselves for the fight of our lives...
Or we would have, if we weren't all watching in shock and amazement as in the next second Hans had grabbed a still shaking with rage Tasha by her shoulder, spun her around and shoved his stake into her heart.
"Long live the queen bitch!" I heard him say as the light went out of Tasha's eyes and she sunk to the floor.
Hans POV
I stood in the tunnel underneath Court waiting. I had half of my men with me and Dimitri had the other half. Once we were both in position, we would strike and put an end to all of this right now.
I was a soldier and loyal to the bone, always following my orders and living up to my superiors' expectations. And now was no different. I would fight, and I would win and I wasn't going to let anyone stop that from happening.
I crept up closer to the mouth of the tunnel so that I could hear the conversation that was going on, waiting for the right moment to strike.
"Yeah sounds like a blast," I heard Guardian Hathaway say with sarcasm. Does that girl have any other setting besides sarcasm and smart mouth? I wondered with a slight grin. Oh well, if that's the price of having a Guardian as skilled and deadly as her then I would happily pay it ten times over.
"Hey you know that the silver things in your hands aren't just fashion accessories right? Why aren't you attacking the crazy Strigoi hell bent on world domination?"
Hathaway asked and I froze, something wasn't right here.
"Because if they kill me there will be no one left to call of the attack," Tasha said.
And then just like that a glassy film came over my eyes. Suddenly the mission no longer mattered. My loyalty to the Queen and Court no longer mattered. The only thing that mattered right now was doing my mistress's bidding.
"Well that's still no reason to let you just stand there looking bitchy, attack her and make her stop the attack!" I heard Guardian Hathaway shouting in the distance.
Almost time. My mistress was very clear about when she wanted me to reveal myself in her mastermind plan.
"Come on what's with you? Why aren't you attacking!?" she asked again sounding frustrated and confused.
Now!
"They're not attacking because they know that if they attack, I will kill the person that's most dear to them," I said finally walking completely out of the tunnel and walking over to stand next to my mistress.
"No," I heard guardian Hathaway say but it was in the distance. Everything was in the distance. It was like I was surrounded in fog and couldn't see more than a few feet in front of me.
"What the hell!?" I heard Guardian Hathaway say before the Queen shouted something. This kept on for some time; Guardian Hathaway kept saying things that I knew that I related with, that I knew were important deep down somewhere but somehow couldn't find.
"Oh you would be surprised at what he's now capable of," my mistress said. I could hear her very clearly, I had to incase she had orders that I had to follow out.
"Really Rosemarie I thought that you were smarter than this, but I guess that I really shouldn't have. Hans is my spy. He's always been. In fact he's the one that helped me escape prison in the first place. Didn't you?" My mistress said smiling at me and my heart rate sped up, she was praising my work. I had pleased her!
"Yes. I gave the guards on shift faulty glasses that were weaker than the others. Once Tasha turned on her compulsion, she was able to make them take the glasses off completely and break out of her cell. I made the guard change at that time so there was less guards than there should have been so she could get out faster. I told her where a car would be easy to acquire and she was off," I said explaining everything that I had done.
"And that's not all!" My mistress said as she went further into detail about how I had served her with hiding the tunnels.
"Really I don't know how I could have done it without Hans. He has been such a good spy. He was also good enough to keep me up to date on everything that has been going on back at Court! It was so easy to stay one step ahead of everyone when the Head Guardian was feeding me every bit of information that passed through his hands. And believe me, quite a lot of things do."
YES. I had done well. I had completed my mission. My mistress was pleased with me, I thought with satisfaction. But made sure to keep my Guardian mask up, I was a professional after all. Now that I had succeeded in doing my job, I felt myself relax in the slightest bit. Like a heavy burden was being lifted off of my shoulders. And oddly enough like my head was clearing...
"Why?" I was asked, but it was by Hathaway and not my mistress so I didn't bother answering.
"Because he had no choice. You see I can be very persuasive," my mistress said.
What? Of course I had a choice. I chose to serve my mistress with my full ability, she didn't persuade me...had she? But apparently my mistress wasn't done speaking yet. I quickly started listening in case she wanted me to explain anything else.
"-aah yes now I remember. I was telling you how I could be very persuasive. Because Hans might be my spy, but he's not a traitor. Because as far as he's aware, he hasn't don't anything wrong!"
WHAT?! Traitor? How could I be a traitor? I had done everything that my mistress had asked for me! I always had! Ever since...huh when had I sworn my loyalty to her?
"Well I've been in prison here for what, two years? And in that time I've spent quite a bit of quality time with Hans here," Tasha said patting my cheek affectionately.
I didn't move. I couldn't. If what I thought had happened had really happened then not only was I the spy and the traitor that everyone bad been looking for, but I was the biggest traitor of our entire race!
"- see compulsion used over a long time and in a certain way can have a very interesting effect on the body. So over the last two years for a little bit every day, I've been implanting instructions into Hans's mind, over and over again. Until the compulsion went so deep that he couldn't tell my compulsion from his own thoughts."
WHAT! I've been under compulsion for two years! This was even worse then I had thought! How had I never noticed that! I tried to shake my head but found that I couldn't move my body properly. When had it started seeming like a good idea to give my loyalty and service to a prisoner?! And how come no one else had ever noticed before it!
I started listening again as my misst- as Tasha explained everything that I had done for her, every way that I had undermined and betrayed my people and the Court that I had swarm to protect with my entire life. Everything was getting fuzzy again. And it was getting hard to focus. All I could think about was that I had been nothing but a mindless puppet for the last two years.
And as I thought that, I started remembering! Remembering all the times that I had given Tasha classified information, all the ways that I had weakened our defences so that Tasha could escape when she wanted. All the times that I contacted her and given her our plans so that she could work around them. How I had sabotaged the Strigoi tracker and let the minor swarm go free...everything.
"Yes, my spy Head Guardian Hans. Codename Talking Llama," Tasha said with a smirk and I froze.
And that just added insult to injury! I thought in a voice that sounded surprisingly like Guardian Hathaway's...when suddenly the doors of the Thrown room exploded open and in came more Guardians and Strigoi.
Bring it on! I thought not caring anymore. There's no way that this could possibly get any worse. And from that moment on, it was like I was lost again. I saw everything that was happening in front of me, but it was like it was happening on TV and I couldn't do anything to stop it.
"Sounds like someone's having a party in here. Is there chocolate?" said Sam. Well at least Tasha hadn't killed him yet for helping us.
"Hey, isn't he supposed to be in our side?"
"Long story. Just don't throw him your stake if he asks you to, he might just stab you in the back with it in his current frame if mind."
"Rose Hathaway not throwing a punch in the middle of a fight? Ha I'll believe that when I see it!"
"Well you know, I didn't want people to think that I lost my touch just because I wasn't a Strigoi anymore. You know I used to be quite a good fighter before I was turned, ask Dimka! He'll back me up."
And as if Ivan's words had summoned him Dimitri fell from the roof and landed in front of us.
I thought that I had fixed that security flaw...
"Aaah Dimka! So nice of you to show up! You made better time then I thought you would. Did you like my little surprise?" Tasha asked with smirk. I was waking up a bit more and starting to understand what had happened and what was happening around me.
"Just peachy Comrade, nice entrance by the way, I give you an A+ in dramatic timing. What surprise?" I heard Guardian Hathaway ask and my mind flashed back to the holograms that had been set up for us. I actually hadn't been told about that one, it must have been a last minute change of plans from when I told Tasha about Rose coming back to Court and being pregnant.
"It was original I'll give you that, but I've seen better special effects in Star Wars movies."
"True it wasn't my best deception I'll admit, but under the circumstances and the time limit that I was under, I still think I deserve a pat on the back, I mean it's not every soon to be world leader that can change her whole plan in the blink of an eye and still come out on top," Tasha said in a sultry voice and even I could hear the double meaning. Guardian Hathaway was NOT going to like that...
"Well sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of your plans are going to work and you're sure as hell not going to "come out on top" so why don't you just give up now and Lissa MIGHT be in a good enough mood to restore you if you ask really nicely before you get locked back in prison where you belong for the rest of your life!"Saw that one coming...
"Sorry blood whore but that's not going to happen. You see after all of this is over Dimka will realize what he gave up when I asked him to be with me last time and he will forget all about you and beg me to take him back."
"Don't talk about Roza like that!"
And on it went! Honestly when I took over being Head Guardian the last thing that I thought that I would have to deal with would be lovers quarrels! But then again not many people are as crazy as Tasha. I listened as she went into vivid detail about what she had done and how everything was going to be perfect after she took over our world. I guess we all underestimated exactly how obsessed she was with Dimitri.
"Y...you did all of this, just to be with me?" he asked looking afraid to hear the answer.
Tasha beamed at him, and that was a look that you really didn't want to get from a Strigoi. "Yes! I did it all for that, I did it for us! And who knows, maybe we can still have children together! And if we can't then I'm sure that there will be some orphans wondering around after I finish seizing court, we can always adopt," Tasha said waving her hand as if she wasn't going to be the one that was causing all of those orphans to lose their parents.
"I'm sorry Tasha, but we're not going to be together, we never were. I don't love you, I never did. I love Rose and nothing that you can do will ever change that. I don't know how many different way that I can explain it to you but you need to get it through your thick reinforced Strigoi skull! I DONT WANT TO BE WITH YOU! Not in any way! So move on and get help!"
I would have cringed if I had the ability to do so. My mind was slowly clearing but my body still felt like it was tried down by weights. And I really didn't want to be anywhere near Tasha right now, because now that my memory was coming back, and I wasn't thinking of her like my Devine mistress I was remembering exactly how unstable she could be when Guardian Belikov was concerned.
Tasha's face crinkled, and I knew that a break down was about to happen.
"Wh...what do you mean we will never be together? Why not! I've given you everything! I've offered you marriage, children, power to change and rule the world! I even killed that no good father of yours because I knew how badly he treated you and your family! I was going to let them all come and live with us in the palace! They could have been treated like royalty! I've given you everything! How can you say that you don't want to be with me after everything I've done for you!"
And there's the break down!
Dimitri face softened a bit and I hoped that he was going to be a bit gentler this time, because Tasha wasn't above setting off more bombs to kill everyone here. Even if that meant killing herself in the process. She was a very firm believer in 'if I can't have him them no one can'.
"I never wanted any of those things Tasha. It's nice that you wanted to give them to me, and I'm happy to have such a loyal friend. But you can't control love, you can't just say that you've given me the most so that means that I have to love you. It just doesn't work like that. I'm sorry."
And then she snapped. "You're going to give up being a king, ruling alongside me, having everything that you could ever want at your fingertips! You're giving it all up for some knocked up blood whore that is carrying who knows who's bastard child?!" Tasha screamed out before literally letting loose an ear piercing shriek that had everyone in the room covering their ears.
"KILL THEM ALL!"
And all around me fighting started and the Strigoi back up that had been waiting in the tunnels ran out and flanked Tasha on both sides before running out and attacking the first guardian that they saw.
I tried moving, tried pulling myself out of Tasha's controls. I was me again and I waned nothing more then to grab my stake and kill Tasha myself. I could feel the last of her compulsion wearing off. I had completed my mission. I had given her all of the information that I had, I had told her our plans, I had sabotaged Courts plans, I had slowed Court down as much as possible...I had done it all! Everything that Tasha had wanted me to do. So now it was over. I was free, but my body apparently hadn't gotten the message yet.
I looked around and saw that the Guardians were holding their own for now and had started forming a protective circle around the Queen to keep her safe and watch their own backs. I looked at Tasha to see if she had noticed a diffidence in my behavior, but she was so busy looking at Dimitri that she didn't even notice. I was making good progress in my movements and had actually managed to grab my stake. But I couldn't use it just yet. I was only going to get one chance at this so I had to make it count.
But just when I was really getting the hand of moving on my own again Tasha signaled the swarm to stop attacking. I looked at her questioningly until I realized what she has stopped the attack for.
She wanted to give Dimitri another chance to chose her. She may play it off as nothing, but it had really cut her deep that he had chosen Guardian Hathaway over her, and though she certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over doing so, Tasha didn't want to have to compel Guardian Belikov into loving her. She was to prideful. She would do it if she had to. But she wanted him to chose her on his own...or rather chose her out of force.
"Dimka, you and your friends have fought well, and I understand that you might be a little shocked at all of the changes that are happening to you, so I'm going to give you a second chance to be with me," Tasha said in a sugary sweet voice. Huh how had I fallen for that? Blame the compulsion!
"If you surrender to me right now then I will spear all of your friends here. I'll even let the blood whore live, you can visit her and her bastard child in a pretty little cell that I will make nice and cosy for them. You can see them once a week for a few hours if you keep in my good favor. None of your friends have to die, this doesn't have to end in blood shed. Decide now Dimka, and make the right choice. Otherwise I will just kill them all now and compel you to be with me."
This was my chance! She was only focusing on Dimitri! If I could just move quickly enough...
I could hear a mumbled conversation happening between Rose and Dimitri and I just prayed that they kept it going long enough...
Finally Dimitri looked up at Tasha and said strongly. "No Tasha, we won't surrender, if were all that stands between you taking over the world then we will fight to the last man and woman to stop you."
Good man.
"No. NO! This is your last chance! Surrender or they all die!" Tasha shrieked at the top of her lungs.
"We're going to fight and we're going to win!" Dimitri said strongly, not moving an inch.
Tasha was almost shaking with rage at this point and I knew that I wasn't going to get a better chance. Her control on me was gone and she was so distracted that she didn't even notice.
"KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!" she shirked and I moved! I reached out as fast as possible, grabbed her shoulder and turned her towards me and shoved my stake into her heart.
"Long live the queen bitch!" I said as the light went out of Tasha's eyes and she sunk to the floor.
Good? Well I hope so:) I was actually going to end it at RPOV but my beta suggested that I add Hans to explain what had just happened and as an apology for disappearing for two weeks!
One more chapter and it's all finished! So make this a good one and review!:) or just get mad at me for leaving you all hanging for so long...;)
