Hallo! Well I think that I should put a schedule or something to my updates because they are all over the place. So since school is up and I have a million things to do I'll be posting a new chapter every Sunday.

A special thanks to everyone that reviewed, favorite, alerted my stories. Really guys you rock!

Sooo…. I have thing left to say.

Rose: finally!

Me: hey it wasn't that long!

Enjoy!

Chapter 9

RPOV

Lissa was lying on a bed in the middle of the room, her blond hair spilling rather messy on the pillow. She looked pale even for a moroi and had dark circles under her eyes. I could see that her skin was covered by a layer of sweat indicating she had fever. I must have made a sound or something because her eyes suddenly snapped open and she looked directly at me. Her gaze was a bit unfocused but she was seeing me.

"Liss… honey what happened?" I asked her talking a tentative step closer. I waited to see if she cringed in fear but when she did nothing I took another step forward. Still no reaction. So I continued walking, one step at a time until I was next to her.

"I want water" she tried to move, but she seemed too weak to even try to pick the glass of water in the bedside table next to her. I quickly reached for the glass and I helped her drink.

"Lissa…please?" I begged her to tell me.

"I don't know, I had just hadn't been feeling well lately. I guess the flu is coming down on me or something." She tried to give me a weak smile.

"The flu? Lissa are you kidding me? You have something way worse than flu."

"No Rose, I'll be fine, you shouldn't be here, and they could catch you."

"I had to I had to talk to you. We think that you did something with spirit, something that made strigoi evil like receded or disappear or something."

"We?" Lissa asked.

"Yeah, that female strigoi on the warehouse, her name is Lila, and she is no longer a strigoi. She's a damphir again." I finished. I could tell that she was surprised by the news.

"What?" Lissa asked me perhaps thinking that she heard it wrong.

"You heard it. And I need your help to make me back again." But even as I said so I realized that that was easier said than done. Lissa looked really sick and she couldn't even reach a glass of water by herself how was she going to be able to turn me back? Then something hit me.

"Liss, how long exactly have you been like this?" Lissa looked like she didn't want to tell me but in the end decided to do it.

"I guess that I have been feeling weird since you woke up at the hospital." She said.

"What if the reason I'm not a complete strigoi is that you are somehow absorbing the darkness in me through the bond?" I was starting to feel panicked. My job was to keep Lissa safe, but in this case it was me who was hurting her.

"I think that that could be possible, Adrian said that my aura was getting darker and darker, but I thought that it was because of me missing you."

"Lissa I'm serious you have to stop what you are doing this can't be good for you."

"But Rose, if I stop you will become a full strigoi again." She tried to rise but failed. Sighing, she turned her head to me again.

"I can take it, I'll be just fine." She said.

"No Lissa I'm your guardian I have to take care of you not the other way around…"

"I don't fucking care about your stupid guardian rules!" Lissa shouted. I was shocked to see how angry she looked. "Dimitri was right, you only think of me without measuring the risks for you! You are not my servant Rose and neither are you or any damphir slaves of us moroi. You are my sister and I will do whatever the fuck I want to keep you safe!" she finished. I was simply dumbstruck. I had never heard Lissa (or other moroi) ever talk about this before like this. Damphir who became guardians never questioned why we did it. It was the right thing to do and that was enough. But I did admit that it was kind of touched that she had realized the hard work we all did for them. However that didn't mean I was going to let her kill herself to protect me.

"Sorry Lissa, I know you want to protect me but you are my sister and my charge and I won't let you do this." And before she could react I closed my eyes and found the bond that connected me with Lissa. When I looked at it closely I realized that there was fine trail of spirit coming through Lissa and into me. Likewise, there was a trail of darkness flowing back from me to her. I didn't exactly know what I was doing but I knew I had to do something, some kind of mental barrier between me and her. I imagined a wall forming and stopping spirit to flow. I could hear Lissa telling me to stop but I knew I couldn't. My head started to hurt as spirit stopped to flow into me, until finally, it stopped completely. Then all I saw was red.

Dun dun dun! Rose made spirit stop flowing, and I think you know what that means….

Did you like it? Hope you did, I personally liked the fact Lissa realized the weight hat being a guardian means.

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