Disclaimer: 36 chapters later, I still don't own it... Dang...


Christian's POV:

I watched as everyone raced around my daughter. They had given Lissa something to help her sleep. She was getting in the way of the doctors. They had managed to stop the bleeding, but Roza still wasn't breathing. What had AJ been thinking?

"Christian?"

I turned and saw Adrian standing in the doorway of the waiting room. "Your highness."

"Ouch."

"MY DAUGHTER IS IN THERE DYING BECAUSE OF YOURS!!!!! SO DON'T EVEN."

Adrian nodded. "I know. I was just coming to tell you that if you plan to press charges against Alissa, I won't stop you."

I was shocked. "Adrian, I am mad, but I would never..."

"No. I'm not letting her get away with this anymore." With that he stormed out of the room.

I turned back towards the window and watched them work on my little girl. That was when I heard her voice. "Christian..."

I looked over at my aunt with tears in my eyes. "Aunt Tasha... I can't lose her."

She wrapped her arms around me. "You won't. Roza is strong."

"I want to keep them apart so much. The bond is too dangerous. I thought I had succeeded with Rose and Lissa, but obviously..."

"Obviously what?"

Rose's POV:

I looked at Christian with pure rage. "If it wasn't for that bond, your wife would be DEAD."

Tasha stepped towards me. "Rose... this isn't the time."

"No, I think it is the perfect time. Why does it seem my family and I can't do anything right?" I took a deep breath. "Did I want my daughter's life to turn out like this? No. I'm sure you all know that at this point, but Alissa has been able to do the one thing I never could. She shows her emotions." I ran a hand through my hair. "You know, it took my daughter becoming Strigoi to see what everyone else saw in her, but now. It seems like no one else can see it anymore. I am not going to force them apart. I am not going to hurt my daughter like my mother tried to hurt me." I started to walk away, but stopped. I turned back to Christian and gave him a small smile. "She is going to be fine. This IS Roza after all." I left the room and started to walk back to our room until I walked past the gardens and saw my husband sitting on a bench. I walked over to him. "Adrian?"

"Why her?"

I sat down next to him and wrapped my arms around him. "I was just wondering 'Why our family'?"

AJ's POV:

I sat curled up in the corner of my cell. The guards have been coming by and taunting me. Some of them had even thrown stakes at me. I didn't know what had happened. We were talking and then all of the sudden something took over me. I had to have killed her. I mean I had killed Berk so easily... and Roza wasn't even half his size. I hoped they gave me the death penalty. I deserved to be in hell with the rest of the Strigoi. I felt my little one move within me and I started cry. One more Hathaway generation was going to be messed up. This was NOT what I needed. I drifted into a dreamless sleep.

I woke up to the sounds of commotion in the hallway. I stood up and pressed myself against the wall. I didn't know what was coming, but it didn't sound good. A face appeared in front of my cell and I gasped. "Tatiana."

"Alissa, there isn't much time. You need to get out of here."

"What do you mean?"

"Roza died."

"What? No... That's impossible!"

"Alissa... look at me." Something about the tone of her voice made me look. "I am going to open this door. You are going to forget this life and your past and run. Run as far away as you can. I will find you. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Okay, good." She opened the door. "Go."

With that I took off from the small room wondering why I was ever here in the first place.

And that my friends, is the end. "What do you mean? The end? We have no resolution..."

Well, I can fix that. Coming Next Sunday, look for "Remembering Roza" The final part of the Alissa Markov saga.

I will add another chapter to this story Letting all you know when it is up, or comment and I will respond when I post Chapter one.

See you all soon!

Anni