Hey look who came out of hiding!
HI all I'm known I've been gone for what a year wow
And I probably don't have a reason other than the fact I was not able to put myself into writing and if I can't do that I can't disappoint you with something I didn't work my ass off
But finally this chapter is finished and I promise this will not happen again
This disappearance also is a good thing I've improved well I hope
And I hope you continue reading even if last sacrifice came and left us
Enjoy!
Chapter 37: Another Threat
The footsteps I'd long to take when I knew that bastard was in his place and I was in mine
I walked to his cell stood there for a full minute without him looking up but he did face me
Didn't recognize me probably because of the guardian attire yea I had to ditch my good looking one
"Guardian when are you dammit going to let me out I did nothing wrong."
"We all know you did wrong stop denying it your doing no one favors." I said icily
"What how dare-Hathaway pleasant to see you, you must be my angel of death."
I scoffed "right I'm alive your going to rot here."
"I've heard the rumors you died and came back."
"Does it matter to you?" I growled
"No but you've always been an interesting subject Rosemarie."
"I'm not a science experiment I'm a person who's lived through a lot."
"So right, a whore, a guardian, a traitor, a hero, and a Girlfriend." He made the last one very specific
"Leave dimitri out of this."
He pretended to have fake shock "but my dear I thought you were with Ivashkov." He sounded so playful
These bars aren't going to save him!
"It doesn't matter what happens in my life you never will be involved."
"Oh on the conjure rose I'll never leave you alone.' He got up from his cot and walked to the edge directly in front were I was standing
I stood still trying to hide the shock in me
"You see you're too amazing."
I went back, breathing hard not knowing why
"No you bastard just stay away."
"Never my dear you will pay for what you did to me."
"You did it to yourself"
"But you exposed it no one would have figured it out if you hadn't gotten involved
"Right one of your victims might have spoken."
"This is why you should have been one that kept her mouth shut."
"I'm not like them." I growled
"You wanted me if I remembered."
"Then you must have bad memory I caught you with a royal then I followed you and learned most of your dirty secrets I just liked you to get the evidence."
'Beautiful and smart." He moaned, he seriously was drunk
"Your drunk, now stay away from me and my friends!" I growled
"Never." And he went back to his cot and sat with eyes just blank
Ok I didn't mean ignore me
"I will come after you none of your friends are safe belikov and the princess at the top of the list." He whispered in a deadly tone
He said nothing more
But for some reason I feared for my life
Screw him!
He can't do anything from a damn cell, I couldn't
But it's not my point
His part in my life was over nothing more
I opened the door to let me back to the main part of the cells
"Damn you to hell Anisim." I whispered and left
I could actually hear him chuckling
Jackass doesn't know the life of a criminal
Not trying to brag or anything
I left but more thoughts actually thought that I should be worried about what he was going to do
But then again it was natural instinct noting I should be worried about
I walked back into lissa's room her door was open so I went in expecting she'd be there
She wasn't here neither was Dimitri
I probably left them in the court Jail; I went into her head to make sure I was right
"Were do you think she is!" lissa gasped
Dimitri and Christian were at her side
"Proudly looking for food." Christian laughed
Wow he uses any chance to annoy me
"Carful ozera rose has ears." Dimitri said chuckling and looking at lissa
"Rose!" lissa growled
"Dimitri tell lissa not to be mad I'm in her room."
He did and Christian looked scared as shit
"Oh and tell Chris I wasn't looking for food I was looking for his personal things."
He did that too, I love Dimitri!
"Well rose glad to know where you are but how did you get into my room?" she asked
Weird I hadn't thought of that
"Dimitri did lissa leave the door open?" I asked
"No roza she locked being more secured now."
Oh shit
"What's wrong" he asked.
I began to scout her room to try to remember were everything was and if anything was added
"Just get lissa over here now!' I yelled worriedly I left her head to do a better search
The last thing I heard from Dimitri is "were coming and stay safe."
"Right what could happen if your 10 minutes away." I muttered
"Don't worry" I thought
They'll be here soon and everything will be alright
A knock on the door made me jump and I hesitated to open because it couldn't be lissa
But I ended up toughing up and opening it
It turned out just to be a moroi woman with a note for lissa from the council
"Guardian Hathaway." She said flustered I still didn't like this new found fame
Damn I feel like Christian now
"Can I do something for you?' I asked nicely but I still sounded pissed
She gulped, which means she afraid
I tried to show gentleness in my eyes because she sort of half smiled
"Please give this to the princess." She said
"Thank you." I answered but she was gone
Oh well
I was thinking of waiting to open it till lissa got here
But I was too tempted
I ripped the envelope open
And opened the card
"Hello dear princess vasalissa
Too my return that will soon come I shall come with great force to make the crown you now arrogantly possess and to take the trust of the people that is rightfully mine
Please do send my regards to guardian Hathaway and belikov
Playing with you three will be such a pleasure
King A Mstislav Szelsky
Ah….. Shit
Yea I should have waited for lissa
If only I had only waited a couple more seconds because they came pounding though the door
While I being the complete idiot I am
Didn't notice them because I was too fixed up on that damn letter
"Rose what's that? " Lissa asked
"Take a look for yourself.' I sad bitterly
She jumped for a second and took it Dimitri looked over her shoulder to read as well
There about to get clued in into all the horrors
"Holy shit rose who gave this to you." Lissa yelped
"Some moroi, why?"
"I'm going to call the front desk maybe we could…" Dimitri started
"Will someone tell me what the fuck is going on?"
"Rose just pay attention, this is bad, really really bad that we got this."
"Why isn't Anisim locked up?"
Lissa looked angered "well he was."
Time for me to fall on my but "WHAT! how could he have escaped I was right with him!"
Now it was there turn to fall on their buts "WHAT!" they yelled
I may have forgotten that I didn't tell them were I was going and who I was talking with
Ahh shit here come the lectures weirdly they were to keyed up on Anisim that they didn't bother scolding me
Guess it was that bad huh
"So what are we going to do?"
"Not we rose probably just the guardians."
"Well then were guardians.' I said pointing to me and him
"But they don't trust you enough still to go hunting for someone."
"Sure I'm so violent." I said sarcastically
"Rose stop joking around." Lissa scolded
"Fine mom." I said jolly
"How can so many death experiences still not affect you!" she yelled
I laughed "blame him" I pointed to Dimitri
Hey I couldn't take all the blame
She glared down at both of us and laughed
We all were caught up in the joke I think we forgot about Anisim, about the death threat
"well I think we should get you involved rose you do know stuff about Anisim.' Lissa said
That kind of made Dimitri growl guess the care free was over
"Oh crap I forgot rose find something in your boxes to wear!" she gasped
I looked at her confused
"What are you planning now liss?" I asked
"Before any off this crap happened I got a notice that there's going to be a council meeting about the attack."
"But wait wouldn't that mean-"
"Yea rose it involves you and the rest of us."
Someone bury me now "do I have to go?" I asked
Lissa glared "You're going not only for your own cause but because the moroi scare the ** shit out of me."
"Language lissa." I said
She then glared at me and began throwing stuff around like when me and Dimitri came in for the first time
"I would normally get this from Dimitri, rose" she muted
I think care free mode was back
We stayed and talked for a few more minutes about random subjects
Mostly lissa asking for advice what to wear
And then trying something on and then taking it off
Seriously liss!
After 20 long minutes for me and Dimitri, lissa finally found some elegant purple dress to wear I just had my old guardian outfit, as well as Dimitri
Oh life was coming to normal well it would if people would stop staring at me
We walked out of the moroi apartments and headed to the moroi courtroom
Lissa could not stop fidgeting I stopped instantly and faced her
"Rose why you stop we have to hurry."
"Not till you calm down we can't go in there like that."
"Like you're scared of them they can't do anything to you"
"And why can't they"
I sighed lissa was so dense sometimes because there afraid of you!"
Lissa stayed quiet and finally started walking "Fine"
I smiled softly and I felt Dimitri's hand on my shoulder
"Ready love?"
"When is rose Hathaway not ready?"
"When I do this." He said kissing me
Rose-0 Dimitri- 1
We finally walked into the building
And if the world hated me they clearly proved it here seeing that I was in the same room were my trial had been held
And pardon me for taking this long to notice it
But this time the tables were turned and some people owed me an apology
The design was different this time too
Unlike the two desks at the front facing the royal chairs they were now replaced by a set of chairs my guess where we were going to sit
My dad, mom, Adrian, Eddie, and Eliza were already there
Everything else was the same
But what caught my eye was the throne seats and how they only had 11 instead of 12
The Dragomir crest was no were to be found
I sighed
Suddenly a royal moroi came up to us a bowed
"Your accomplices are waiting please be seated." He said
He also made the word accomplices sound dirty
Remind me to punch him later
When we sat down
I looked back to the crowd seats to see it was packed
Was my life that interesting?
After minutes of silence and lissa squishing my hand
The royal council came in it also caused lissa to squish harder
The other victim she was squishing, Christian
They sat in there respected seats
"Rosemarie Hathaway come forward"
I did
"What you have done endangered moroi, you brought a threat to the royal court, and because of your acts we lost many lives, because of you we lost our queen." Prince Ivashkov said
But Princess Evette Ozera stopped him
I sure missed her sassiness
"But you saved us all saving more lives and saved our race we are indebted to you." She said
I gasped so did the whole room
"Your guardian status will be restored; Dimitri Belikov will be as well." I smiled
This wasn't so bad
"But Hathaway you will be sent far away from here."
"WHAT!" I yelled
"You cannot continue to endanger."
"Who says I'm the one doing it." I responded
"I beg your pardon."
" the laws you pass, the way you act, the things you do benefit you, your power, money, and status they make you look grand but in the real world to people who get affected and see you close by your just as evil as strigoi except worse."
Everyone gasped in the room no one had gone that far
Some of the royals looked ashamed others did not
"You cannot speak to us in such a manner."
I smirinked "I just did"
I can see ivashkov's face turning red
"You blood whore you cause nothing but problems we should have finished our plan of executing you!"
"Plan" I gasped
The ivashkov's eyes widened "well yes lets carry on" nonchalantly
"Wait you had something to do with Tatiana's death." I added
Everyone looked curious but the royals face looked terrified
Even more when
He laughed, yup he's lost it
"Of course who do you think let him in."
"Bloody bastard." I muttered
"And your next my part might have failed but we'll get you eventually."
And he was escorted out by guardians
"The wards are the only thing keeping you from us."
"Keeping me?" I muttered whoever was after me wanted me out of the wards to the job themselves or wanted the job done here
I was right too much corruption
The court started screaming like there was a strigoi attack right now
"Enough" the lazar royal said calming everyone
'Hathaway clearly is a target so till further notice"
"You can stay at the royal court and are cleared of all charges!" Evette said happily
Most people cheered
I smiled and hugged my friends
I was free
"And we do have something for you"
"Yes?" I said turning around
A moroi brought forward a key
"This is your room key all your stuff will be already there and all of your Costs will be paid by us."
"What" some people yelled
"Well there needs to be an apology for what we done" One of the royals said
"And a reward for fighting for us please accept our apology."
I nodded "thank you" hey maybe not so corrupt
"I'm there are some people out there who want to help the world."
"Thank you but we also have an offer for vasalisa Dragomir."
"Yes?" lissa said walking forward
"As you know we need a new queen."
"Yes" she squeaked
"And the royal court had decided it shall be you."
"WHAT!" the whole court yelled me among them
"I can't I'm just 18"
"And a perfect candidate we need a fresh mind with new ideas leading us someone from the coming generation"
This was insane even without Tatiana my words are used against me
"I… I"
What is she going to say?
Wait hell i can hear her mind seriously I'm stupid sometimes
"I can't rule"
"NoI'mtooyoung"
"I'll disappoint my family"
"I'll lose everything"
"I don't want to"
"I don't want to"
"But what will they say if I reject"
"No I have to there superior"
"Who cares if they're going to use me for a puppet?"
"Lissa!" I said snapping out of the conversation I gave her one of my confident glares
She got the message
"I decline I will not lose what I value most"
That hit the core
What a night after lissa declined the court was a blur
Reaching my new room I looked for something to sleep in and laid there for minute
The world wasn't done yet it wasn't done
For both me and lissa
Eliza POV
Rose this Rose that rose can be with Dimitri
And I thought this was the royal court
Why does everything have to do with rose?
Yea she found me made me royal and everything
But when are people going to ask
Who is Eliza?
Why didn't we find Eliza?
"What a poor girl living among those non royals" I heard some say
I found some royals talking
"Yea imagine she'll be hogging our spotlight"
Yea!
"Wouldn't take much if a damphir can do it so can we."
What!
"Yea we can just scare her or something."
"She sure can't handle the real world"
That real comment hurt me I'll show them
Me Eliza Dragomir a new person and no one over shadows me
I'm going to be on top
On top of rose
I imagined a claw scraping rose's terrified face of
And lissa and the same image came up
As I began to walk confidently to my room showing my proudness and bumped into someone
So much for the royal walk
'Eliza?"
"Lissa?"
"God it sound weird when we say it together"
I smiled
"I thought you were with rose."
"I was but….."
"But?" please tell me the royals changed their mind
"She needs her rest" damn
"Well ok hey sis can I ask you something"
"sure." She said awkwardly probably because I used the word sis
I took a breath "are you ok with rose and dimitri relationship"
"What!" she jumped
"Well?"
'Yes."
I gasped
"You caught me Eliza I just can't stand….."
My eyes were glued to her
"That she didn't tell me sooner!"
I grumbled
"Ok thanks"
"Why did you ask?"
"Oh you know I just wanna get to know you" and I walked off
What she didn't hear was
"I wanna get to know how to hand you off to your enemies."
See how much better it is if I put my heart into my work
I don't care if it's just fanfiction
Anyway next chapter coming when I can catch up with my school work and when I stop getting obsessed with childhood shows
I mean come on the good old days were great
Well it's time for my usually bye
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Since there are more original stories coming
And do you think it's too late for a Halloween story?
~Mari Roza