I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE VAMPIRE ACADEMY I ONLY OWN THE PLOT!
I am not a professional author and therefore there maybe repeats of phrases, please be kind!
I'm also from Australia so my English may be different to yours and I will probably vary between American and Australian spelling!
Chapter 14: RPOV
I woke with my hands cuffed to the outside of a cell in what seemed to be a basement, from what I can see there are no windows and there's only one staircase leading up to a door. The only entry and exit. I huffed in frustration, still in my dress and no shoes, obviously I'm not going to the dance tonight. Oh, my goddess, where the fuck is Lissa? Panic starting to rise I try and break free of the cuffs, there's no use, they're heavy duty. Fuck. Focus Rose, I blanked like I was having a vision I was in Lissa's head, she must have just woken up as well because she was still a bit groggy.
"Ah, Princess Dragomir, how nice of you to finally come too" Lissa looked up and into the eyes of Kirova. I knew it was fucking weird that she was here at St Basils and not at St Vladimir's in Montana. What would she want with Lissa? As if on cue Kirova spoke again "I am so very sorry that you won't be making it to the dance this fine night my dear, it's such a shame, as you look stunning"
"People will notice that I'm not there" Lissa replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh Darling Vasilisa, that is all sorted, Ivan received a text from your phone saying how much you were mistaken, he was just your rebound after Christian and you were only using his status to better your chance for the throne, to make yourself look better in front of the monarchy. Guardian Belikov has been told that you are unwell, and that Rosemarie is staying in with you oh and Rose we can't forget about dear Rose she's been contained never-mind where"
"Why are you doing this" Lissa begged
"For the good of the Moroi"
"I really don't understand how kidnapping me can be good for the Moroi community" she retorted
"You will get answers, just not at this present time, I think it's time you took a little sleep" Kirova said as she put a sedative in her arm.
Pulling back into my own head , I tried again to get out of the cuffs, I cried in anguish and frustration. My mind racing trying to think how I could get out of this situation, and I could not think of a single fucking solution.
DPOV:
Already on duty for the dance I was standing at the perimeter of the hall, one of the students who works in the admin office under Headmistress Kirova came over over to me.
"Uh hi, G-Guardian Belikov sir" her cheeks turning pink "Headmistress Kirova asked me to to tell you that Princess Vasilisa is feeling unwell and Rosemarie is keeping her company for the night" she spoke fast and hurried off. Unease quickly rising in my chest, I tried to think why Headmistress Kirova would want to tell me that, I'm not guarding her solely right now. The more I thought of it, the more strange it got and I was beginning to feel on edge. Checking my watch I had 40 minutes until I was relieved for the night and I could investigate for myself, just seems so off considering how excited the Ladies were to go tonight. Ivan is also not here so maybe they are just hanging out in Lissa's room, Ivan asked me to stay a little while after my shift to 'mingle'. After a long and dreadful forty minutes, Guardian Emil had come to relieve my post. Before heading to find Lissa, Ivan and Rose I went to my room to change, throwing on a black long sleeved shirt, black cargo pants, my duster and black combat boots. I made my way to Lissa's dorm room. Rose taught me their secret knock so when I got there I tapped on the door, there was no answer, I tried again. Frustrated I next went to Rose's dorm and did the same, receiving no answer I called Ivan. "Dimka , I can't get a hold of Lissa, she sent me a weird break up text but I don't believe her, I went by her room and she wasn't there. I even checked Rose's room, what the heck is going on?"
"I wish I knew Ivan, where are you?"
"I'm in my room, Dimka I can't help but feel something is wrong"
"I'll be there soon, try not to worry" but before I even made it out of Rose's dorm building, I was knocked in the back of the head.
RPOV:
I had been sat there for what I would say is a very long time, having no watch and no clock I had no idea what time it actually was. Still having no luck with a solution to get out of this, I heard the door open, four guardians bringing down an unconscious Dimitri, they put him down in front of the cell next to mine, cuffed him and removed his weapons and phone. I knew none of these guardians, they must work privately for someone. Once the guardians or guards whatever they are left I tried to coax Dimitri awake.
"Dimitri, Dimitri" I whispered, but there was no use he was out cold. I waited another five minutes and I couldn't take it anymore. "DIMITRI" I yelled, he stirred, grunting like he was in pain. Rolling his head around.
"Ahh" he hissed in pain
"Dimitri, are you alright? What happened to you?"
"Rose?" He looked up as if not believing I was really there "I got clocked in the back of the head, what are you doing here?"
"I'm assuming, I'm here so I can't get to Lissa, they're kidnapping her and the only thing I know is that it's better for the Moroi community" I said mimicking Kirova's accent "At least you know how you got here, all I know is I passed out and woke up here like this" I noticed Dimitri eyeing my body. "We have to get out of here"
"I know Roza, I know" he said defeated
DPOV:
I couldn't help but trace every curve of her body with my eyes, so gorgeous, so perfect. I hate that I can't tell her how much of a beautiful, strong and a remarkable woman she is. She should be at the dance having fun with her friends, but still she is locked up here and not worried about herself, so committed to her duty and I know that even if it wasn't her 'duty' she would do everything in her power and more to keep Vasilisa safe, it's just who she is, it's ingrained in her being, it's one of the many reasons I'm in love with her. There is nothing anyone could say to me that would change the way I feel about Rose, her presence is powerful and the way she holds herself is mesmerising and I can tell people are intimidated by her, but she has compassion, empathy. She doesn't show this to everybody, and I've been blessed to have been able to see these sides of her. I have also seen her when she's mad and impatient, usually so composed. I can't even imagine all the pain she's been through. I need to get out of here to hunt down the bastard that has locked her up and kidnapped Vasilisa. No matter what, I will always help Rose. Damned with duty, they come first. But they do come first, I am to protect Vasilisa. They come first has been in-bedded in my brain for as long as I can remember, it's imbedded in every Dhampir's brain. It's just how it is, but if I could run away with Roza, there's no doubt that I would. It scares me that I think like this, no one has ever put a spark in my heart where I would or could consider leaving the vampire world, funny how I teach novices about always putting Moroi first but I'm constantly battling myself about my own duty. Although I will always put my duty first, I vow that I will never let someone hurt my Roza again or may they suffer at my hands. "We will get out of this Roza, we will get to Lissa and punish those that have had the misfortune of messing with her" I said ferociously, surprised at how I sounded she looked up at me.
"I know Dimitri, you always have my back" she smiled at me, and I couldn't help but smile in return.
"Roza, is there a way to get a couple of those pins out of your hair? Maybe you can try to pick the locks on your cuffs?"
"I'll try" she replied. After many attempts to get the pins out she got them out and they fell on the floor, she used her feet to move them to her hands, with me guiding her she unlocked one of the cuffs on her wrist. She quickly moved to unlock mine and the got the other one off. She grabbed my hand, and we ran towards the stairs that would lead us back towards the guardian buildings. Once we were outside, still holding hands we ran to mine and Ivan's house
"Dimka, where the hell have you been it's been 45 minutes… Rose, what… where's Lissa?"
"She doesn't know, she was knocked out by some sort of gas, they never even got out the dorms before Roza was locked in the guardians' cells" I stated, Roza let go off my hand and grabbed my shirt
"Dimitri" she spoke in a panicked voice "They're on the move, they're in a car. She just left the Academy" She gasped "Victor is in the passenger seat and Kirova is driving, we have to go"
As we all left running towards the carpark, I called Alberta and told her we need a car immediately and told her what was happening, she met with us and had Spiridon, Emil and Art with her. All of a sudden we hear loud footsteps from behind us, Christian came running with a bag.
"Rose, you need this" she looked at Christian confused "It's clothes, you can't go fighting people in your dress"
"Christian, thank you so much" She hugged him, I wasn't aware that they had a friendship, but the next line proved me wrong "You're coming with us, we don't know when we will need your skills, we don't know what we are facing and you could really help us"
"Fuck yeah, I'm in" Christian yelled
"Okay we need a plan" Roza said, we all stood in a circle making a game plan
"They don't know the full extent of our bond; I can watch through Lissa's eyes to see if I can see anything familiar to help find her" she stated. With that we set out in two cars. In the first car I was driving with Ivan in the passenger seat, Roza in the back with Alberta, in the other car was Arthur, Emil, Spiridon and Christian.