As I walked to court, which was very close, I realized that I had no idea why John would want me to get over there now. The meeting wasn't until nine and it was barely eight o'clock, there had to be something wrong for him to admit that he needed his boss to handle it. I trusted John, really did, so I was worried.

I didn't want to have to face some big problem right now, I'd promised Kat that I would get home early and I was planning on keeping my promise. I would leave whatever was wrong in hands of someone else. But I also had the big problem of my daughter being a Spirit user, she had almost confirmed it this morning when she told me that she liked to do it. If she really was one, something that I was still trying to deny, then we were deep in trouble because with me working I wouldn't be able to act if something bad happened. Tasha would, probably, take her to Lissa or Adrian, who was spending some time over here at the Academy with my sister.

Speaking of which, I had to go and see her. I'd promised her to take some time to visit her today because I hadn't spent enough time with her and James. Adrian probably wouldn't be there, he always liked to spend some time with The Queen to catch up in stuff.

So I hurried to get to the conference room and when I went in everyone turned to look at me, as if they'd seen a ghost or hadn't expected me to see me so early. Either way, I went in and took my seat at the head of the table and motioned for everyone else to take a seat. When they did John was the first one to speak, he didn't look particularly giddy and in the mood to banter like he always did, instead he looked worried."Guardian Belikov," He began, looking at me in the eyes as if telling me something in secret but I had no idea what he was talking about, with all the problems in my head whatever problem they had here didn't matter to me. "We have a problem with the… assassins." That got my attention.

We'd been monitoring that gang of rogue guardians for quite a long time since we realized that they were hunting down the Strigoi instead of protecting Moroi. I had no idea who they were, or who was in command of that squad but I'd wanted to find out. Without any clue to who they were or where they'd come from, we'd been only monitoring their killings. So far they'd reduced the Strigoi populations considerably in Russia and Europe, and we had no idea why they were doing it. We also knew that they only went for big cities and from time to time, the small ones where the Strigoi killed more than they were supposed to.

It was reckless but at the same time brave to go and hunt down Strigoi with no purpose whatsoever, they could all get killed, changed, or wounded for the rest of their lives. But however they got so lucky and able to fight them they were stills being reckless. And for orders of the Queen we had to keep an eye on them, why? I didn't really know, nor did I care. I just wanted to get this over with as soon as possible.

"What's the problem now?" I asked, my voice tired and I rubbed my temples as that could help get rid of the headache that forming.

"They are coming to court today" My head shut up and I glared at him.

"What!" I stood up and smacked my hands on the table, which trembled under my weight and force that I hit it. Many flinched at my sudden outburst, but I had the right because why anyone didn't told me sooner about something like that? We'd been trying to get a hold of at least one of them so we could interrogate them but so far none of the guardians over there at Russia had had any luck with that, and now they were coming here? "Why didn't you tell me something sooner?"

"Because we didn't know either, till today." John answered, also upset.

He was the only one that dared to talk to me in the same way I talked to everyone else, he was also the only one that dared to tell me if I was going over the top with my temper. John didn't deserve to take the blame, I got it, but right now I wanted to hit something. Even though I was mad, my face remained blank. Only my eyes must have showed some of the anger building inside me, and my voice sounded as intimidating as if I were Strigoi."And what do they want?" I asked, he exchanged looks with some other guardians.

"Their leader wants to talk to you" I was so taken back that it must have showed in my face, because next thing I knew is that I'm taking my seat and thinking.

Why would he want to see me? There was no reason, because if they were coming here they must want something with the Queen, not me. Maybe he knew me? I hadn't heard anything about some friends in years, maybe one of them was the head of the squad. But whoever it was, he clearly wanted to talk to me about something important.

"Perfect" The sarcasm in my voice made me feel worse. This time it was no use to try to hold back the head ache, it was useless; the headache was already throbbing against my skull. "At what time are they going to be here?"John seemed surprised now, he must have thought that I would start yelling and asking too many questions, but I felt too tired to do anything but agree to talk to them. "But I will leave at six, not a minute later so you better go and find them now because if I want to leave early I'll have to finish other business." I stood up and gathered the many folders that were in front of me, not knowing what they were but sure that I had to be the one to read and sign all of it.

"I—I—fine. They said they were going to be here at midday, right here, and it might take a long time to sort things out." I nodded. "And those are some of the files that we have about some of the guards that have been fighting in Russia" I looked at him and arched my eyebrow, questioningly.

"How'd you get them?" I asked and once again he looked very uncomfortable at my question. Nonetheless, I was confused as how he got them and why he wouldn't tell me anything about it.

"Just look through them till you find the one that holds your attention, then you'll know who the leader is" By the time he finished I was already suspicious that he knew much more than he let me know, but because I didn't have the time to stay an

d chat, I simply sighed, tired, and walked out of the conference room.

He said that the file that would hold my attention the most would be the leader of those rogue guardians. I walked to one of the offices and began to look at the files, most of them I didn't know, but there was something in common with them, they were all from different parts of the world and had been well trained. It took me a long time to sort through all of them, hours actually because I'd been reading their life history and where they'd been trained. None of them held my attention for more time than it should have, most of them were man and some women. When it was almost twelve o'clock I got hold of one file that did hold my attention. I read the file first, skipping the name accidentally. The file said that she'd been trained in St. Vladimir's just a couple of years ago, maybe I'd seen her and couldn't remember. I kept on reading and as I read something inside my chest tightened, I couldn't breathe, and it felt like I was being stabbed in the heart.

Graduated from St. Vladimir's Academy, this particular graduate decided not to accept any Moroi as her charge and went away shortly after graduating. She graduated without taking the trials, but the headmistress gave her a high score from the other times she fought Strigoi. Having killed two Strigoi by herself and fighting in battle she was believed to be one of the best guardians of her generation. She had a mentor, Dimitri Belikov, who was assigned to her after she ran away with a Moroi for two years, he trained her during her last year at St. Vladimir's so she could reinforce her skills. There's no further information about her but she is believed to be very dangerous and lethal, we warn to be cautious with her.

Without even reading the name I already knew who they were talking about and that was like a punch to my gut. To confirm it and finally end the pain I looked at the name beneath the picture that had been safely tucked behind the papers.

Rosemarie , looking back at me with the most beautiful smile that I hadn't seen in years and with her bewitching eyes, was Rosemarie Hathaway. I took a deep breath and blinked several times, thinking that maybe I just hallucinating, that she wasn't the one we'd been trying to track the past five years without knowing it was her.

Because since she left, I'd tried with all I had to forget her, to remind my self that there was no use on thinking about her if she was never coming back and I would never go looking for her if she didn't want to be found. All these years I'd been trying to start all over with Tasha and my daughter, we were happy, I was happy without her. The lie that I'd been telling my self this whole time simply couldn't hold my self together anymore. I wasn't entirely happy, not without her, the one I fell in love with and swore to love the rest of my life. But I couldn't, wouldn't, do anything to get her back because she made very clear, with a letter nonetheless, that she wasn't capable of being with her own daughter. She wasn't capable of loving anyone, not even her daughter.

Girl and guy were speeding over 100mph on a motorcycle

Girl: Slow down, I'm scared!

Guy: No, this is fun.Girl: No, it's not. Please, I'm scared.

Guy: Then tell me you love me.

Girl: I love you, now slow down!

Guy: Now give me a big hug.

She gives him a big hug

Guy: Can you take off my helmet and put it on yourself, it's bothering me.In the newspaper the next day, a motorcycle had crashed into a building because of break failure. Two people were on it and only one survived. The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized his break wasn't working but he didn't want the girl to know. Instead he had her hug him and tell him one last time that she loved him. Then he had her put on his helmet so that she would live even if he died. Copy this onto your profile if you would do the same thing for someone you love

I read this and it made me cry, its so sad. I think this is a good example of sacrifice for your love. At church they even used this, which is odd. Anyhow, I have to remind you that, if you read between the lines, this is my SP story. Yes, it is. In SP Rose is with Adrian and Dimitri tells her that he doesn't love her anymore, that his love 'faded away', well it's the same in my story. Dimitri is with Tasha because Rose left him and his daughter, he thinks he's in love with Tasha when in reality he's actually still in love with Rose. Gratefulness can be confused with love.

So, I think someone asked me to write a SP story before it came out, I said I couldn't, well now I am. I didn't even think about it this way until Roza 24 put it that way. HA! I'm a bit slow. Anyways, I think I wasn't clear enough in something. Someone asked me if dimitri was in a coma? No, he isnt. He was at the beginning of AfterShadowKiss when they brought him alive from the caves, but since then he hasn't been in a coma. If you understood otherwise, or I led you to believe that in some way, no, he isn't in a come. Dimitri is currently living at court and is head of security. He's also Tasha's sanctuaned guardian.I have good news. I just decided to keep wiriting my story Lovely Rose With Thorns. After all the drama that I just caused, I've just been talked some sense by my aunt and I've decided to keep posting the story. Claudia seemed pretty amused by my dilemma but said, and I quote, "Stop bein a bitch and don't stop writing because that other bitch stole you're story" She's pretty convincing, isn't she? Not to mention sweet and ladylike. Ha! So, there won't be any more drama for now.

I will constantly monitor that girl's story and if she keeps copying my story I will stop writing.

So, just keep reviwing. I will update Lovely Rose With thorns soon.

I forgot to put a summary for this part: It's clearly not over. It's still part of the second part: Turning Point, but this is more like a subtittle or something.

Summary:

Rose is back, and with her are the memories that Dimitri had buried in his mind. She is the leader of the rogue hunters that have been hunting down and killing as many Strigoi as possible in Russia and Europe. She's back, but why? Is she after something, or someone? Will she try to win back Dimitri? What about Tasha? She might surprise us this time. And, most important of all, what about Kathryn? She doesn't know that the pretty woman who calls her dad Comrade and 'learned pretty good moves' from him is her real mother, will she figure it out?

Will Rose and Dimitri ever be together?